DR. RAOUF ZAIDAN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
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Applied Voice, Musical
Theatre, Music Appreciation
Born in Egypt, Raouf Zaidan started piano lessons as a boy and singing while getting his first degree in political science. He moved to London in 1975 to study at Trinity College of Music and the Royal College of Music Opera School. He joined the Cairo Opera Company in 1982. After spending the summer of 1983 in Michigan at the National Music Camp, Interlochen, he was awarded a teaching assistantship at North Texas State University where he completed his masters degree in 1987. A new opera house in Cairo was inaugurated in 1988 and Zaidan hastened back to be part of this exciting event. He established a large new chorus at the opera house and was part of a project to translate, record and perform Mozart operas into Arabic. He has performed the roles of Figaro and the Count (The Marriage of Figaro), Guglielmo and Don Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte), Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Papageno (Magic Flute). Other roles he has performed are Marcello (La Bohème), Ping (Turandot), Athanaël (Thaïs), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Malatesta (Don Pasquale) and many of the Gilbert & Sullivan patter roles. |
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Raouf Zaidan returned to the USA to earn his Doctoral Degree in vocal performance and pedagogy from The University of Colorado at Boulder in 1995. Back in Cairo he taught at the American University, his private studio and continued a busy performing schedule in Europe, the middle and far East. He moved to Colorado in 2002 to teach singing at the Rocky Mountain Center for musical arts while directing the Lafayette Community Chorus and performing in the Metro Denver area. In 2006 he was the featured patter baritone in the Colorado Light Opera's productions of Iolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance and he performed Bach's Coffee Cantata with the Colorado Music Festival. He sang Mozart opera arias and duets at the El Bustan International Festival in Beirut and repeated the program in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in May this year. In August he performed the role of Sir Roderic Murgatroyd in the Festival production of Ruddigore at the Buxton Opera House in England. He will be featured in August in South Dakota's presentation of Mozart's The Impressario and a full production of Don Giovanni in Dubai in March 2008. |
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