Kareem Roustom

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“My response to Monteverdi was to use the same text that he used - Tasso’s poem Jerusalem Liberated. I chose specific lines that, in a new context and sung in Arabic, could express new meanings. By giving Clorinda this text in Arabic I feel that we are empowering her and freeing her to be her true self. The other text that Dima Orsho sings is a 1000-year-old poem which the Baghdadi poet Al-Abiwardi wrote after the Crusaders had sacked Jerusalem. Al-Abiwardi excoriates the Baghdad leadership that idly sat by while the Crusaders took Jerusalem. It is quite striking how relevant this poem is today.” „Meine Antwort an Monteverdi war, denselben Text zu verwenden, den er verwendet hat - Tassos Epos Das befreite... ~ de.wikipedia.org