European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Troupe actors get together for a pre show strategy  members Heather Fritz left and Beckie Vioget into the act at Hahn a. Tonight a suite smelter before a recent show ill Hahn. Quot to have 10 to 1 2 who participate at one time or  at one performance at the vog Elvieh recreation Center in Kaiserslautern the format s flexibility paid off when several cast members in route got lost. The show went on As the few children who d made it there improvised around the missing. Quot if to t an get at least four people to show up we go on a said Sandy Sample 27, another in the troupe. Sample who s married to smelter is i Lahn s transition assistance manager. The recent Hahn show marked the urst time that Newt omers airman 1st class David White 21, and senior airman Scott Horn 22, performed with the troupe. Horn said that he d been lured to his first practice with the group by being asked it lie wanted to go juggling. Last time i was onstage i was graduating from High is Hool a said 1 Lorn pacing Bat Slage before the show. Quot i m about As Lull of nervous Energy As you it an  Albert s children have Perto med at various . Installations in Cie Many including vog Elvieh i Lindsey air station in Wiesbaden and bad Kreung h. 1 hey Hope to step up then tour schedule again and get in it ire peril Armant is Belore the air fort e splits them up by dispute lung them to Dit Terent Points around the world there s Ali adv Oneal shoot Wuistein design at Osan and South Korea i rented by one of Albert s Hildren s founding fathers. And two of the current members Are packing up the concept of portable theater to unleash at Raf Lakenheath England when they Art transferred there later this year. Quot this is the perfect i creative thing for a military person a smelter said. Quot i love scripted theater but i Don t have the time to put into it. This is very flexible. 1 he show can still go  and it s about As Lemot Ratic As theater gets. Quot you c an t have one person be the whole show a Dessent said. Quot one person t Annot carry a  added airman 1st c lass loin Geoghegan 21, Quot everyone brings their own Type of t Omerly to  eighty pert ent of tin Gale ret seipts trom the i Lahn show went into Albert s children s coffers but the group in t getting Rit h. The Money goes Bat k into the prot Lut t to shirts that serve As t costumes  buttons and Gas to get to their gigs but the real payroll is when a nil Lent is keep i Oming Bat k Lor More Oll the Ivull Burn Tir. Besides says Sample at Ling out silly punt h lines and molding one s body into impossible Post s is ust a awful lot of i in a Quot i Lovell it a said while alter his debut Perlor Muni e. Quot i m going to make a tool of Mysell. But that s what i m Here for Quot Albert s children Aid perform on Solu Tjay at Ruchel air station Germany future  will be Lister it stripes Magazine s monthly in the wings schedule opera in arabic a resounding Success by Dalia Baugh the associated press i rights dim. Curtains Rise. The orchestra strikes up the familiar is me Olmo Art s the marriage of Figaro. I Siguro anti his Fiancee Suanna Start to sing. In arabic. Grand opera in arabic Why not they ask in Cairo Egypt. Italian operas have been translated for decades into English French russian anti German. Many View opera As an elitist Art and translation into the language of a Toul re allows the common Man to understand and enjoy it supporters argue. Quot the great operas Art Superb Masle Piet is unique like the pyramids. You cannot improve on them a said Raoul Aztlan out of 1 go pts Slop operatic baritones Quot Dut you need to expose people to them. Translation makes them More  Zaidan has performed Figaro a italian i English and most Lien lev. Twice in arabic at Cairo s new opera 1 Louse. To Ait s / i i re n and m arabic is next. Zaidan is scheduled to Philorm it next month Quot i had the Surprise of my Lile a Zaidan said. "1 11isi Ovet etl my own language was flexible an operatic  Middle Eastern Musit especially Egypt inn Lelies heavily on Lulles strings and Drums to at i oni Pany the singsong nasal and i Hiaty Quality of the arabic language Dut arum t an Deal with opera to High notes paved five times each Day As Muezzin i All muslims to  in a halt Sung half chanted ritual. Or. Aly sat Lek an egyptian anaesthetist living in saudi Aiu Hiu. Has adopted As his personal Odyssey the translation into arabic of Wolfgang amadeus Mozart s 2l Odd Obeius. It look him 1 2 to 1 it months to translate eat h of Mozart s Thiee Gina test i he a i image it >1 i Figaro. / to Giovanni and cosi Ian Lute. At his own expense he had the operas recorded on i  t list s in Poland and started marketing them Dut Only in Europe bet Ause sat Lek could t find an egyptian distributor. Opera won t sell they said. Still Sadek reported a Gratifying aut Lient e response to last Man h s lust performance of his Figaro at Cairo s japanese built opera House. Sadek said that most arabs have never heard Mozart s operas Quot when i translate them into arabic people it an sit Tor three bouts listening to the Musit of Mozart and understanding w hat is happening he said. Opera in Egypt was relatively popular among aim a Small Elm ated Middle and upper t lasses after tilt ii genl Pera i Louse it opened w 1111 Aida in 1 d >1 As part of the festivities i christening the Suez anal. In the 1 Dos la Traviata and the operetta the Meny la i no Weie performed in arabic with limited Sut i Ess. Dut fire destroyed the Theu Toi in 0 71, and grand opera almost disappeared imm i egyptian stages i he number of operatic Perto main is has been limited even Sun e the Odd inauguration of the Cairo of Tui action and Alluie enter the new opera House. Or. Tarek Ali 1 Lassan a men Al do Tor artist and the t enter s former director said of the Many Bairie is existing Between opera and the egyptian audience language is the main one. Quot if they can understand the apparent is reaming will sound Nal uial and not something to laugh about a i Lassan said. Quot i had seen several translations of operas to arabic. I hey were hopeless Dut i i. Sadek dually came up with a vocally feasible  Mozart operas have Many Rei i alive pails with won is heard t Neaily Over the Musit. If in some Arias the Vamds Aie Indi slim to it is the same As opera in other languages. Quot i Supei t that after bridging the alienation of the a peas by hearing it in your it it in language then you will go hut k and Enoy it in is m i Ginny language a sat Lek said. Quot i see the translation As it implement air to the Pri k Ess of knowing the t Lassu Al jewels. Quot Nevern Allouba the is Irani i win i Sang Suzanna m i a an it a i the let Orting studio and on stage Agues that i he i an Lai urn helps Budge Aop a Pera is a Musit Al Art that did not Mig male in i Gyp it is Diton nil to ask an Ordinary Alieni e to listen to Musit that is not Lamilia to them and in a language they Don t und Eisland she said Quot singing in arabic needed Spet in Voik imm Allol us we had to make the Ara bit letters i Mil ply or \ Leld to the Ope i a in let unique Many Ai a in letters i one trom the Throat and this is a Gums opera to let Hiques Dut then we got used to it it bet line Eay baritone Zaidan said that like italian arum has Only pure m simple vowels without diphthongs mixtures of two or Thiee vowels with Quot intelligent up Lii action Quot he said they t an in made to oven one i miso nails formed at the hut k of the Throat. January 10, 1j stripes Magazine