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Haitham Assem Tantawy

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Haitham Assem Tantawy, born in Cairo, is an opera and music theatre director, acting coach and performer. After an early musical education in piano and music theory (The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music), he received his Master of Arts degree in Performance Practices and Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama - University of London (2013). He then attended intensive physical and actor training programs in Poland, as well as in Italy at The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. As an actor/singer/dancer he performed with the internationally acclaimed and award-winning company Song of the Goat Theatre in Poland, participating in productions of Crazy God (based on Shakespeare's Hamlet) at Teatr Polski, and Portraits of Cherry Orchard (based on Chekhov’s play) at Teatr Dramatyczny. Since 2014, Tantawy has been working as an acting coach and guest lecturer at various theatre academies and schools in Germany, Poland and Egypt. In 2015 he founded his independent Music-theatre company in Berlin, SINAI Orchestral Theater, producing and directing musical theatre whilst offering educational programs and regular workshops for performing artists. The company’s latest production YUSUF’S (2016), premiered at the Villa Elisabeth Berlin, was generously funded by Germany's Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs and the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media. In 2019, Tantawy was assistant director and movement collaborator to Laurence Dale on Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at the Oldenburg State Theatre. For the SPIELTRIEBE Festival at Theater Osnabrück, Tantawy co-wrote the libretto and directed the world premiere of Das Ebenbild; a chamber opera by Kyungjin Lim as double bill with Der Alte Traum by Tingting Pang, premiered at the DUNI factory hall in Osnabrück. He recently collaborated with the Nederlandse Reisopera as a movement director for Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia directed by Dale. Since October 2019, Tantawy has been enrolled for a Master's degree in Opera Directing at the Karlsruhe University of Music. As part of a master class conducted by Peter Konwitschny, he staged the third act from Puccini's La Bohème. Tantawy is a scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner- Scholarship Foundation (Bayreuth Festival 2021), as well as the Mozart Laboratory in the Mozart Festival Würzburg 2020.

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The Barber of Seville

Das Ebenbild

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