Turkish composer and musician Can Atilla, one of the biggest names in New Age Turkish music, has announced that he will re-arrange the “Karbala” ballet as a suite album that will be released in the upcoming months. Atilla claims to have made a variety of variations, and improvements, on the famous work, which made its world premiere in March at the İzmir State Opera and Ballet. Similar to the work he did on Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet “The Nutcracker Suite,” Atilla claims to have given “Karbala” a new artistic perspective, while preserving its impact with shortened technical music.

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The thirteenth-century occulist Muhammad Ibn Daniyal, said to have occasionally blinded his patients, is remembered both for his tragic optometry and for his comedic shadow puppet plays. A refugee from Mosul, Ibn Daniyal once entertained Sultans and urchins alike in the streets and salons of medieval Cairo. Perhaps he was better at summoning the shadows than the light. His Tayf al-Khayāl trilogy (“The Shadow Spirit”) is known as the only work of Arabic drama to have survived from the pre-modern period in its entirety.

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