The
Twelve Dreams of the Sun
Over 1000
performers and musicians will join Jean-Michel Jarre on the 20,000 square
meter stage in presenting the 12 Dreams of the Sun.
An electronic
opera featuring an extraordinary display of visual and audio effects including
laser lights, fireworks, and stage displays in a unique blend of Oriental
and Western music, songs and choreographed dances. One of the highlights
of the Opera will be at the moment of the new millennium's first sunrise
in the Western Hemisphere when the big Cheops pyramid will suddenly
be lit up with a golden peak atop sending a golden ray of light to signal
the birth of the new millennium. The plateau of Giza has given Jean
Michel Jarre his largest stage on which he performs his most ambitious
composition as the twelve dreams of the sun takes the audience on a journey
to different worlds and places across the path of human civilization.From
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Millennia
Night in the Desert
Egypt’s celebrations
for the onset of the new Millennium will be held at the Giza Pyramids,
in an experience of Egypt's both ancient and modern civilisations.
Jean Michel
Jarre has been invited to perform a unique multi-media opera concert for
the Millennium, which will have three distinct parts.
The twelve
dreams will be centered around such titles as World Peace, Resurrection
and Pharaoh Kings and Jarre is promising a dazzling evening filled with
music, cinematography and a lot of surprises. The French musician will
be present on the central-stage during the night performing and directing
the three act concert-spectacle.
At the stroke
of midnight during the track C'est La Vie, no fireworks will be used, to
differentiate the show from most of the world's other celebrations.
Jean Michel
Jarre is collaborating with French theatre's talented Philippe Genty for
the scenography and theatrical staging. Over 1000 artistes, musicians and
performers along with giant animated figures, mobile scenic elements will
appear at sunset from the sand, to disappear at sunrise.
The opera will
be called 'The Twelve Dreams of the Sun', Jarre announced. The composer
said he had turned down several offers for the millennium for the privilege
of performing on the Giza plateau, home to the last of the seven wonders
of the world.
The pyramids
are a reflection of mankind and eternity, said Jarre, who earned international
fame after he performed in Beijing and Shanghai in 1981. The latest visual
technology along with special laser treatments will be accompanied by a
one-of-a-kind musical show, in an artistic presentation of different historical
and cultural layers that constitute the Egyptian civilisation.
A reanimation
of major historical eras and their related archaeological accomplishments
will be offered to the viewers all over the world via satellite. The voice
of Um Kalthoum, the late song diva of Egypt, will enchant the guests at
the Giza Plateau, while a gold capping will be placed on the top of the
Pyramids of Micerinus. To top it off, a helicopter will be used to place
a golden capstone on Cheops' Great pyramid, the largest of the three at
Giza.
The pyramids
are a reflection of mankind and eternity," said Jarre, who earned international
fame after he performed in Beijing and Shanghai in 1981.
Hosni said
the opera would coincide with the "unveiling of a golden cap for the Great
Pyramid, Khufu (Cheops), set to be kept in place for one year".
"We cannot
rebuild the pyramids stone by stone so we have chosen a symbolic event
like the ancient Egyptians did when they used to cap the obelisks and like
what the French did at the Place de la Concorde," Hosni added.
In May France
capped with gold an Egyptian obelisk during a visit to Paris by President
Hosni Mubarak. The Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities,
Gaballah Ali Gaballah, told the news conference that a special committee
of architects, archaeologists and artisans will be set up soon to examine
what material should be used in making the golden cap, how it should be
built, how it should be placed atop Khufu and how long it should stay there.
"Many things
should be taken into consideration to ensure that no damage is caused,
Gaballah stressed".
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