Internationally renowned Egyptian soprano Fatma Said has announced a major concert in Egypt that will take place at the Grand ...

For many decades Egypt was at the heart of Arabic music, and a pioneer of Western classical music practices in the Arab world. Egypt’s Golden Age (1950s-1970s) was known for setting trends and ...

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, Exodus and Moses ...

Camille Saint-Saëns wrote his Fifth Piano Concerto in Luxor to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his debut. It's been known as the "Egyptian" ever since. We'll enjoy it tonight.

An imposing basalt sarcophagus from about 600 B.C. gets pride of place in one gallery of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s illuminating new exhibition “Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World.” The ...