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Dubai Opera is set to open it's doors with the inaugural concert on August 31.

The Opera is Dubai's latest bid to make a lasting contribution to the performing arts and events sector.

A 2,000-seat multi-format venue for opera is set to promote the arts, culture and events scene of Dubai by ensuring global exchange and promoting local talent as well as serve as a vibrant events venue, The Opera District will also feature luxury hotels, elegantly designed residential and serviced apartments, a retail plaza, waterfront promenades, recreational spaces and parks.

Dubai Opera will feature state-of-the-art audio-visual technology and support systems to ensure an unmatched events experience.

Entered from Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, Downtown Dubai’s main thoroughfare, The Opera District faces Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, Burj Park, and The Dubai Fountain. Complete with a sky garden and rooftop restaurant, Dubai Opera will be the centerpiece of this wider development.

The purpose-built concert venue’s first season, which runs until the end of 2016, will also include Catalan tenor Jose Carreras, who will bring his final tour, A Life in Music, to the UAE.

Dubai's heritage will get a fitting tribute by way of a three-act opera called The Pearl Fishers, by French composer Georges Bizet.

The opera, which was first performed back in 1863, narrates the story of two men whose friendship is put to the test as they fall in love with the same woman.

The award winning comedy, ‘The Barber of Seville’, will also feature, along with ‘Opera without Words’, an evening of Italian Opera’s greatest overtures and interludes performed by the group Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi and conducted by Francesco Quattrocchi.

Romance will come alive with ‘Giselle’, a ballet piece staged by The Russian State Ballet and the Orchestra of Siberia; first performed in 1841, the ballet stages the tragic love story of a peasant girl who dies of a broken heart after discovering her lover is betrothed to another.

Lovers of classical music will enjoy the ‘Mozart Gala’ and ‘Postcards from Vienna’ by the acclaimed Vienna Concert Verein.

Italian violinist and conductor Fabio Biondia will lead the Europa Galante orchestra for a take on Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’.

Meanwhile, Flamenco superstar Sara Baras will arrive with her new show ‘Voces, Suite Flamenca’, which pays tribute to six legends of the dance form.

The Russian State Ballet and Orchestra of Siberia will team up to bring the family ballet ‘Coppelia’, while the Imperial Ice Stars will bring ‘The Nutcracker on Ice’.

Also, if you fancy seeing the ‘most dangerous show’ the city has ever seen, featuring illusionists on stage, then do not miss out on ‘Impossible’.

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