Fairouz من هي






الفنانة السيدة فيروز
ولدت السيدة الفنانة فيروز في 21 نوفمبر 1935، ولدت في بلدة دبية في محافظة جبل لبنان، اشتهرت الفنانة فيروز من صغرها بالغناء في الحي وبين أفراد عائلتها، بدأت عملها الفني كمغنية كورس في الإذاعة اللبنانية، وكانت الانطلاقة الحقيقية للفنانة فيروز عام 1952 عندما بدأت بالغناء لعاصي الرحباني.
في 1955 تزوجت بعاصي وأنجبت معه أربعة أبناء وقد قدم الأخوين الرحباني مع فيروز المئات من الأغاني التي أحدثت ثورة في الأغنية العربية، وذلك لتميزها بقصر المدة وقوة المعنى على عكس الأغاني العربية السائدة في ذلك الحين والتي كانت تمتاز بالطول، كما إنها كانت بسيطة التعبير وفي عمق الفكرة الموسيقية وتنوع المواضيع، حيث غنت للحب والأطفال، وللقدس لتمسكها بالقضية الفلسطينية، وللحزن والفرح والوطن والأم، وقدم عدد كبير من هذه الأغاني ضمن مجموعة مسرحيات من تأليف وتلحين الأخوين رحباني وصل عددها إلى خمس عشرة مسرحية تنوعت مواضيعها بين نقد الحاكم والشعب وتمجيد البطولة والحب بشتى أنواعه.

فيروز (مغنية)

من ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة

فيروز
فيروز في سنة 2001
فيروز في سنة 2001
معلومات عامة
الاسم عند الولادة نهاد رزق وديع حداد
تاريخ الولادة 21 نوفمبر 1935 (1935-11-21) (العمر 75)
مكان الولادة الدبية، قضاء الشوف، محافظة جبل لبنان، Flag of Lebanon.svg لبنان
النوع موسيقى عربية
المهنة مغنية
نوع الصوت Mezzo Soprano
سنوات النشاط 1952 -
شركة الإنتاج فيرجن وشركة إيمي
تأثيرات أم كلثوم
نهاد وديع حداد المشهورة باسم فيروز (21 نوفمبر 1935 -)، مغنية لبنانية. شكلت مع زوجها الراحل عاصي الرحباني وأخوه منصور الرحباني المعروفين بالأخوين رحباني ثورة في عالم الموسيقى والغناء العربي.

محتويات

 نبذة

ولدت فيروز في حارة زقاق البلاط في مدينة بيروت في لبنان لعائلة فقيرة الحال. والدها وديع حداد سرياني الأصل[1] كان قد هاجر من مدينة ماردين الواقعة في تركيا حاليا، كان يعمل في مطبعة لوجور. ووالدتها مارونية تدعى ليزا البستاني توفيت في نفس اليوم الذي سجلت فيه فيروز أغنية "يا جارة الوادي". اشتهرت منذ صغرها بغنائها بين أفراد العائلة وفي تجمعات الحي. بدأت عملها الفني في عام 1940 كمغنية كورس في الإذاعة اللبنانية عندما إكتشف صوتها الموسيقي محمد فليفل وضمها لفريقه الذي كان ينشد الأغاني الوطنية. وألف لها حليم الرومي مدير الإذاعة اللبنانة أول اغانيها ومن ثم عرفها على عاصي الرحباني الذي أطلقها في عالم النجومية [2].
وكانت انطلاقتها الجدية عام 1952 عندما بدأت الغناء لعاصي الرحباني، وكانت الأغاني التي غنتها في ذلك الوقت تملأ كافة القنوات الإذاعية، وبدأت شهرتها في العالم العربي منذ ذلك الوقت. كانت أغلب أغانيها آنذاك للأخوين عاصي ومنصور الرحباني الذين يشار لهما دائما بالأخوين رحباني.
وفي 1955 تزوجت من عاصي، وأنجبت منه زياد عام 1956 ثم هالي عام 1958 وهو مقعد، ثم ليال عام 1960 (والتي توفيت بعام 1988) وأخيراً ريما عام 1965.
قدم الأخوين رحباني معها المئات من الأغاني التي أحدثت ثورة في الموسيقى العربية وذلك لتميزها بقصر المدة وقوة المعنى على عكس الأغاني العربية السائدة في ذلك الحين والتي كانت تمتاز بالطول، كما إنها كانت بسيطة التعبير وفي عمق الفكرة الموسيقية وتنوع المواضيع، حيث غنت الحب والأطفال، وللقدس لتمسكها بالقضية الفلسطينية، وللحزن والفرح والوطن والأم، وقدم عدد كبير من هذه الأغاني ضمن مجموعة مسرحيات من تأليف وتلحين الأخوين رحباني وصل عددها إلى خمس عشرة مسرحية تنوعت مواضيعها بين نقد الحاكم والشعب وتمجيد البطولة والحب بشتى أنواعه.
وقد غنت لعديد من الشعراء والملحنين ومنهم ميخائيل نعيمة بقصيدة تناثري، كما إنها غنت أمام العديد من الملوك والرؤساء وفي أغلب المهرجانات الكبرى في العالم العربي. وأطلق عليها عدة ألقاب منها "سفيرتنا إلى النجوم" الذي أطلقه عليها الشاعر سعيد عقل للدلالة على رقي صوتها وتميزه.
بعد وفاة زوجها عاصي عام 1986 خاضت تجارب عديدة مع مجموعة ملحنين ومؤلفين من أبرزهم فلمون وهبة وزكي ناصيف، لكنها عملت بشكل رئيسي مع ابنها زياد الذي قدم لها مجموعة كبيرة من الأغاني أبرزت موهبته وقدرته على خلق نمط موسيقي خاص به يستقي من الموسيقى العربية والموسيقى العالمية.
وقد أصدرت خلال هذه المرحلة العديد من الألبومات من أبرزها "كيفك انت"، "فيروز في بيت الدين 2000" والذي كان تسجيلاً حياً من مجموعة حفلات أقامتها فيروز بمصاحبة ابنها زياد وأوركسترا تضم عازفين أرمن وسوريين ولبنانيين، وكانت البداية لسلسلة حفلات حظيت بنجاح منقطع النظير لما قدمته من جديد على صعيد التوزيع الموسيقي والتنوع في الأغاني بين القديمة والحديثة، ألبوم ايه في امل2010 كان آخر ما قدمته من ألبومات عديدة.

الحفلات

قدمت حفلاتها في العديد من الدول قلما توجد فنانة قامت بمثلها. الدول التي قدمت حفلاتها فيها (هذا لا يتضمن المسرحيات إلا إذا ذكر عكس ذلك):

 المسرحيات الغنائية

السكتشات

وكانت تقام مسرحياتها في عدة أماكن منها: كازينو لبنان ومهرجانات بعلبك الدولية ومهرجان دمشق الدولي ومهرجان صيدا ومسرح قصر البيكاديلي في بيروت والمدرج الروماني بالأردن.

 الأفلام والبرامج المتلفزة

كما أنها عملت برنامج تليفزيوني غنائي بعنوان الإسوارة بعام 1963.

 فيروز والقصائد

على الرغم من قلة عدد القصائد التي غنتها فيروز نسبة إلى إجمالي أغانيها، إلاّ أن القصائد تعتبر من أجمل أغانيها، مثل خذني بعينيك، والآن الآن وليس غدا، وتناثري وسكن الليل، وزهرة المدائن، وأناجيك في سر، وأعطني الناي وغني، واحب من الأسماء,ولما بدا يتثنى. لكن هذه الأغاني لا تذاع كثيراً في التلفيزيون ربما لأن بعضها غير مصور.
وقامت العظيمة فيروز في حياتها بتقديم عدد من الاغانى وعددها إلى الآن في يوم 5 أكتوبر لعام 2010. 729 اغنية ومن الأشهر على الإطلاق باكتب اسمك ياحبيبي ياسهر الليالي أنا لحبيبي نسم علينا الهوي القدس

 الألبومات الغنائية

  • القدس في البال - 8 اغنية
  • الليل والقنديل - 21 اغنية
  • المحطة - 9 اغنية
  • إلى عاصي - 17 اغنية
  • الاسوارة - 1 اغنية
  • الاغاني الخالدة - 15 اغنية
  • الجمعة الحزينة - 10 اغنية
  • الشخص - 18 اغنية
  • انا وسهرانة - 15 اغنية
  • اناشيد - 4 اغنية
  • اندلسيات - 15 اغنية
  • ايام فخر الدين - 6 اغنية
  • احلى ما غنت فيروز - 14 اغنية
  • اسهار - 8 اغنية
  • اغاني الميلاد - 13 اغنية
  • بليل وشتي - 4 اغنية
  • بنت الحارس - 22 اغنية
  • بياع الخواتم - 39 اغنية
  • تراتيل الميلاد - 9 اغنية
  • تغني فيلمون وهبي - 12 اغنية
  • تغني زكي ناصيف - 9 اغنية
  • جبال الصوان - 28 اغنية
  • جسر القمر - 17 اغنية
  • دبكات 1 - 13 اغنية
  • دبكات 2 - 16 اغنية
  • راجعون - 10 اغنية
  • سفيرة العرب - 7 اغنية
  • سهرة مع فيروز - 7 اغنية
  • سهرة الحب - 6 اغنية
  • شط إسكندرية - 11 اغنية
  • صح النوم - 7 اغنية
  • عودة العسكر البعلبكية - 12 اغنية
  • عودة العسكر البعلبكية 2 - 12 اغنية
  • في الأولمبيا بباريس - 23 اغنية
  • في الروايال فستفال هول لندن 1986 - 11 اغنية
  • في بيت دين - 17 اغنية
  • في بترا - 2 اغنية
  • فيروز - 10 اغنية
  • فيروز والذكريات - 16 اغنية
  • قصيدة حب - 2 اغنية
  • قصائد - 8 اغنية
  • كيفك انت - 11 اغنية
  • لولو - 11 اغنية
  • لبنان الحقيقي جايني - 9 اغنية
  • ميس الريم - 12 اغنية
  • مش كاين هيك تكون - 9 اغنية
  • مشوار - 16 اغنية
  • معكم - 7 اغنية
  • معرفتي فيك - 10 اغنية
  • معرض دمشق الدولي 1960 - 20 اغنية
  • ناس من ورق - 9 اغنية
  • ناطورة المفاتيح - 2 اغنية
  • هموم الحب - 12 اغنية
  • هالة والملك - 2 اغنية
  • و لا كيف - 9 اغنية
  • وحدن - 5 اغنية
  • يا ترى نسينا - 16 اغنية
  • يا رايح - 8 اغنية
  • يسعد صباحك - 11 اغنية
  • يعيش يعيش - 14 اغنية
  • ايه في أمل - 12 اغنية

  مواقف فيروز والحياة السياسية

تكاد تكون فيروز هي الوحيدة من المغنين العرب الكبار التي لم تذكر الرؤساء والملوك في أغانيها الوطنية، وهذا جعلها على مسافة واحدة من معظم التيارات السياسية، كما ضمن لأغانيها الوطنية عمراً أطول من الأغاني الوطنية لكثير من المغنين الآخرين. مع ذلك لم تسلم مواقف فيروز السياسية من نقد بعض المجموعات، فمثلاً تعرضت للنقد من جماعات معادية لسوريا عندما غنت فيروز فيها عام 2008. وشغلت فيروز الصحافة الفنية عام 2010 عندما أشيع أن ورثة عاصي الرحباني منعوها من الغناء بقرار قضائي إلا أن الخبر لم يكن صحيحا. وأطلقت العديد من الأغاني الجديدة لزياد الرحباني في مسرح البيال في بيروت عام 2010[3]. وتصدرت أغانيها الجديدة مبيعات الالبومات بشكل ملفت[4].

معرض الصور


  • فيروز سنة 1946
  • حفل زفاف فيروز وعاصي
  • فيروز مع والدتها ليزا البستاني
  • فيروز رسم حنا عصفور
  • فيروز الشابة
  • فيروز ونصري شمس الدين

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مراجع

  1. ^ "سبعون" البنت السريانية التي جاءت من ماردين، سمير عطاالله، جريدة النهار، 30 نوفمبر 2005.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ إيه.. في أمل.. فيروز الأمل، جريدة الوطن السورية، 24 أكتوبر 2010
  4. ^ فيروز تتصدر مبيعات الألبومات في الخليج ولبنان، موقع ايلاف، 23 أكتوبر 2010

  وصلات خارجية



Fairuz

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Fairuz

In concert (Beiteddine), 2001.
Background information
Birth name Nouhad Haddad[1]
Born November 21, 1935 (1935-11-21) (age 75)
Origin Lebanon
Genres Arabic music, Lebanese music
Occupations Singer
Instruments Vocals
Years active 1950–present
Labels EMI, Virgin,Voix de l'Orient, Fayrouz Productions
Associated acts Nasri Shamseddine
Wadih el Safi
Website http://www.fairouz.com
Nouhad Wadi Haddad (Arabic: نهاد حداد) (born November 21, 1935), famously known as Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز, also spelled Fairouz or Fayrouz) is a Lebanese singer who is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time.[2][3] Her songs are constantly heard throughout the region, and still spark Lebanese national pride.[4][5]
She was born in Jabal al Arz (Cedar Mountain) to a Syriac Catholic father and a Maronite mother,[6][7] and converted to Greek Orthodoxy when she married Assi Rahbani, one of the two brothers who helped shaping her singing career. She is also the mother of the Lebanese singer and composer Ziad Rahbani and the Lebanese director and photographer Rima Rahbani.
She was first noticed at the International Festival of Baalbek, where she performed many of her songs. She became famous after appearing on the "Lebanese Nights" part of the festival for many successive years. Fairuz is commonly known as "Ambassador to the Stars" and "Neighbor to the Moon".

Contents

Biography

1935-1950s - The early years


Fairuz (Nouhad Haddad) with her mother Liza al-Boustani, crossing Martyrs' Square, Beirut in Beirut, 1945.
See Timeline of Fairuz. Nihad Haddad, later known as Fairuz, was born on 21 November 1935 in 'Jabal al Arz', Lebanon into a Syriac Christian family, originally from Mardin.[6] The family later moved into a home in cobblestone alley called 'Zuqaq el Blatt' in Beirut. Living in a single room of a typical Lebanese stone house facing Beirut's Patriarchate school, they shared a kitchen with the neighbours. Her father Wadīʿ worked as a typesetter in a nearby print shop[8] and Lisa, her mother, stayed home and took care of her four children, Nouhad, Youssef, Hoda and Amal.
Nouhad was a shy child and did not have many friends at school. However, she was very attached to her grandmother who lived in Debbieh (Shuf area), where Nouhad used to spend her summer holidays. Nouhad seemed to enjoy the rural village life. During the day, Nouhad would help her grandmother with house chores and fetch fresh water from a nearby water spring. She would sing all the way to the spring and back. In the evening, Nouhad would sit by the candle light with her grandmother, who would tell her stories.

Fairuz in 1946.
By the age of ten, Nouhad was already known at school for her unusual singing voice. She would sing regularly during school shows and on holidays. This was how she came to the attention of Mohammed Fleyfel, a well known musician and a teacher at the Lebanese Conservatory, who happened to attend one of the school's shows in February 1950. Impressed by her voice and performance, he advised her to enroll in the conservatory, which she did. At first, Nouhad's conservative father was reluctant to send her to the conservatory; however, he eventually allowed her to go on condition that her brother accompany her. That having been said, Nouhad's family as a whole encouraged her in her musical career.
Mohammed Fleyfel took a close interest in Nouhad's talent. Among other things, he taught her to recite verses from the Koran (in the Recitative style known as Tajweed). On one occasion, Nouhad was heard singing by Halim el Roumi, head of the Lebanese Radio Station and a prominent musician in his own right (also the father of the famous Lebanese singer Majida Roumi). Roumi was impressed by her voice and noticed that it had a rare flexibility that allowed her to sing both Arabic and Western modes admirably. At Nouhad's request, El Roumi appointed her as a chorus singer at the radio station in Beirut and went on to compose several songs for her. He chose for her the stage name Fairuz, which is the Arabic word for turquoise.

Fairuz and Assi Rahbani on their wedding day surrounded by members of their families, 1955.
A short while later, Fairuz was introduced to the Rahbani brothers, Assi and Mansour, who also worked at the radio station as musicians. The chemistry was instant, and soon after, Assi started to compose songs for Fairouz, one of which was 'Itab (the third song he composed for her), which was an immediate smash hit in all of the Arab world, establishing Fairuz as one of the most prominent Arab singers on the Arabic music scene. Assi and Fairuz were married on 23 January 1955, and Fairuz then converted to Greek Orthodoxy (Assi's sect).
Fairuz and Assi had four children: Ziad, a musician and a composer, Layal (died in 1987 of a brain stroke), Hali (paralysed since early childhood after meningitis) and Rima, a photographer and film director.
Fairuz's first large-scale concert took place in 1957 as part of the Baalbeck International Festival,which took place under the patronage of then President of Lebanon Camille Chamoun, and where she performed alongside the British prima ballerina Beryl Goldwyn and the Ballet Rambert. Fairuz was paid one Lebanese pound for that show. Musical operettas and concerts followed for many years, eventually establishing Fairuz as one of the most popular singers in Lebanon and throughout the Arab world.

1960s - The establishment of a new star

As the 1960s wore on, Fairuz became known as the "First Lady of Lebanese singing", as Halim Roumi dubbed her. During this period the Rahbani brothers wrote and composed for her hundreds of famous songs, most of their operettas, and 3 motion pictures.
In 1969, Fairuz's songs were banned from the radio stations in Lebanon for six months because she refused to sing at a private concert in honour of Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. The incident only served to increase her popularity. Fairuz made it clear then and since that while always willing to sing to her public and to various countries and regions, she would never sing to any individual.

1970s - International fame and the Lebanese Civil War

In 1971, Fairuz's fame became international after her major North American tour, which was received with much excitement by the Arab-American and American community and yielded very positive reviews of the concerts.
On September 22, 1972, Assi suffered a brain hemorrhage and was rushed to the hospital. Fans crowded outside the hospital praying for him and lighting candles. After three surgeries, Assi's brain hemorrhage was halted. Ziad Rahbani, the eldest son of Fairuz and Assi, at age 16, gave his mother the music of one of his unreleased songs "Akhadou el Helween" (that he had composed to be sung by Marwan Mahfouz in "Sahriyyi" Ziad's first play) and his uncle Mansour Rahbani re-wrote new lyrics for it to be called "Saalouni n'Nass" (The People Asked Me) which talked about Fayrouz being on stage for the first time without Assi. Three months after suffering the hemorrhage, Assi attended the premiere performance of that musical "Al Mahatta" in Piccadilly Theatre on Hamra Street. Elias Rahbani, Assi's younger brother, took over the orchestration and musical arrangement for the performance.
Within a year, Assi had returned to composing and writing with his brother. They continued to produce musicals, which became increasingly political in nature. After the Lebanese Civil War erupted, the brothers continued to use political satire and sharp criticism in their plays. In 1977, their musical "Petra" was shown in both the Muslim western and Christian eastern portions of Beirut.
In 1978, the trio toured Europe and the Persian Gulf nations, including a concert at the Paris Olympia. As a result of this busy schedule, Assi’s medical and mental health began to deteriorate. Fairuz and the brothers agreed to end their professional and personal relationship in 1979. Fairuz began to work with a production team helmed by her son, Ziad Rahbani, and Assi and Mansour composed for other artists such as Ronza.
During the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), Fairuz never left Lebanon to live abroad and did not hold any concerts there with the exception of the stage performance of the operetta "Petra", which was performed in both the Western and Eastern parts of the then-divided Beirut in 1978. However, during that time period, Fairuz held many very successful and record-breaking concerts and tours in numerous countries around the world.
She made her first European TV appearance on French TV on May 24, 1975, in a "Carpentier special show" called "Numero 1" dedicated to French star Mireille Mathieu. She sang one of her big hits "Habbaytak Bissayf" and was thanked and embraced after performing it by Mireille Mathieu.

1980s - A new production team

After the artistic divorce between Fairouz and the Rahbani Brothers in 1979, Fairuz carried on with her son, composer Ziad Rahbani, his friend the lyricist Joseph Harb, and composer Philemon Wehbe.
Fairuz made a second and final European Television appearance on French TV on the 13 October 1988 in a show called Du côté de chez Fred. Fairuz, who had scheduled a concert at the POPB of Paris Bercy concert hall three days later on 16 October, was the main guest of French TV presenter Frédéric Mitterrand, today France's Minister of Culture (2009). The program features footage of her rehearsals for her concert at Bercy in addition to the ceremony featuring then French Minister of Culture Jack Lang awarding Fairuz the medal of "Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres". It also includes a video montage of her previous movies and concerts. In that show, Fairuz also sang the three songs "Ya hourrié", "Yara" and "Zaali tawwal".

1990s–present
Excerpt from the cantata "Ihtarif El-Huzn Wal Intizar"
A music sample of Fairuz's voice; recorded for the Jordanian radio station (1969)
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In the 1990s, Fairuz produced six albums (two Philemon Wehbe tributes with unreleased tracks included, a Zaki Nassif album, three Ziad Rahbani albums, and a tribute album to Assi Rahbani orchestrated by Ziad) and held a number of large-scale concerts, most notably the historic concert held at Beirut's Martyr's Square in September, 1994 to launch the rebirth of the downtown district that was ravaged by the civil war. She appeared at the Baalbeck International Festival in 1998 after 25 years of self imposed absence where she performed the highlights of three very successful plays that were presented in the 1960s and 1970s.
She also performed a concert at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Arena in 1999 which was attended by over 16,000 spectators, mostly Arabs. Ever since, Fairuz has held sold out concerts at the Beiteddine International Festival (Lebanon) from 2000 to 2003, Kuwait (2001), Paris (2002), the United States (2003), Amman (2004), Montreal (2005), Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Baalbeck, BIEL (2006), Athens,[9] Amman (2007) Damascus, and Bahrain (2008).
Fairuz now works exclusively with her composer son Ziad. Her first album in the new millenium "Wala Keef", was released in 2002.
Her 2008 performance in Damascus caused considerable controversy in Lebanon, given the tense relationship between Lebanon and Syria. Several members of parliament publicly asked her to cancel the concert.[10] She went to Syria where she was received by a crowd of 7000 fans, screaming her name at the borders, as her car passed into Syrian grounds. Mosques and prayers on radio were all held back as Fairouz's songs played day and night through almost every media outlet in the Syrian nation. Radio channels, TV channels, the Syrian satellite broadcasters, restaurants and cafes, and newspapers were all focused on Fairouz's legendary return after 20 years absence. However big this controversy was, it seems it has not affected her popularity in Lebanon as she held the Orthodox Good Friday Prayer Mass in West Beirut as hundreds and hundreds crowded the church premises.
Fairuz's new album titled "Eh... Fi Amal" was released on the 7th of October 2010, produced by Fairuz productions and written entirely by Ziad Rahbani. Two concerts took place at BIEL Center in Beirut, Lebanon on the 7th and 8 October. Fairouz’s last appearance in Beirut was in December 2006 during the re-make of the play “Sah El Nom” by the Rahbani brothers.

Live concerts

Fairuz has performed once or more in each of many countries around the globe including Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, France, The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Greece, Canada, The United States of America, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and her native Lebanon.
Fairuz has performed in many venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1962, the New York Carnegie Hall in 1971, the London Palladium in 1978, L'Olympia de Paris in 1979, London's Royal Festival Hall in 1986, the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles (1971, 1981, and 2003), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. (1981 and 1987) among many others (for the complete concert chronology, see Fairuz Concerts).
Fairuz has yielded record-breaking performances in almost every concert she has held around the world. Fairuz, Assi, and Mansour have become the most famous and dominant music production phenomenon in the Arab world, and their music has spread beyond the Arab world to Europe, the Americas, and Australia.
Of Fairuz's numerous concerts, few are officially released. They are the Damascus 1960, Olympia 1979 concert (audio and video released in the 80's), USA tour 1981, Jarash 1983, Royal Festival Hall London 1986, USA tour 1987, Baalbek 1998 (Video), Las Vegas 1999 concert (on DVD with make over and rehearsals), Beiteddine 2000 and Dubai 2001 (on DVD, it includes parts from concerts in 1997 and 2002 as well as rehearsals from 2001 and 2002 concerts, released May 2008). Pirated versions of other concerts exist: Kuwait 1966, Syria and Egypt 1976, Olympia 1979, Australia 1984, Syria 1985, Bahrain 1987, France 1988, Kuwait1989, Cairo 1989, London 1994, Beirut 1994, and parts of the four Beiteddine concerts (2000–2003), Parts of Dubai concerts (1990–2006), Paris 2002, Amman 2004, Canada 2005, parts of the play Sah Ennawm which was performed in Beirut (2006), Athens 2007 and Bahrain 2008.
Fairuz is known as the Jewel of Lebanon

Theatrical works

Musical plays or operettas were the cornerstone works of the Rahbani Trio, Fairuz, Assi and Mansour. The Rahbani Brothers produced 25 popular musical plays (20 with Fairuz) over a period of more than 30 years. They were possibly the first to produce world-class Arabic musical theatre.
The musicals combined storyline, lyrics and dialogue, musical composition varying widely from Lebanese folkloric and rhythmic modes to classical, westernized, and oriental songs, orchestration, and the voice and acting of Fairuz. She played the lead roles alongside singers/actors Nasri Shamseddine, Wadih El Safi, Antoine Kerbaje, Elie Shouayri (Chouayri), Hoda (Fairuz's younger sister), William Haswani, Raja Badr, Siham Chammas (Shammas), Georgette Sayegh and many others.
The Rahbani plays expressed patriotism, unrequited love and nostalgia for village life, comedy, drama, philosophy, and contemporary politics. The songs performed by Fairuz as part of the plays have become immensely popular among the Lebanese and Arabs around the world.
The Fairuz-Rahbani collaboration produced the following musicals (in chronological order):
  • Ayyam al Hassad (Days of Harvest - 1957)
  • Al 'Urs fi l’Qarya (The Wedding in the Village - 1959)
  • Al Ba'albakiya (The Girl from Baalbek) - 1961)
  • Jisr el Amar] (Bridge of the Moon - 1962)
  • Awdet el 'Askar (The Return of the Soldiers - 1962)
  • Al Layl wal Qandil] (The Night and the Lantern - 1963)
  • Biyya'el Khawatem (Ring Salesman - 1964)
  • Ayyam Fakhreddine (The Days of Fakhreddine - 1966)
  • Hala wal Malik (Hala and the King - 1967)
  • Ach Chakhs (The Person - 1968-1969)
  • Jibal Al Sawwan (Sawwan Mountains - 1969)
  • Ya'ich Ya'ich (Long Live, Long Live - 1970)
  • Sah Ennawm (Did you sleep well? - 1970-1971 - 2006-2008)
  • Nass min Wara' (People Made out of Paper - 1971-1972)
  • Natourit al Mafatih (The Guardian of the Keys - 1972)
  • Al Mahatta (The Station - 1973)
  • Loulou - 1974
  • Mais el Reem (The Deer's Meadow - 1975)
  • Petra - 1977-1978
  • Elissa - 1979 (Never performed due to the separation of Fairuz and Assi)
  • Habayeb Zaman - 1979 (Never performed due to the separation of Fairuz and Assi)
Most of the musical plays were recorded and video-taped. Eighteen of them have been officially released on audio CD, two on DVD (Mais el Reem and Loulou). A pirated version of Petra and one pirated live version of Mais el Reem in black and white exist. Ayyam al Hassad (Days of Harvest) was never recorded and Al 'Urs fi l’Qarya (The Marriage in the Village) has not yet been released (yet a pirated audio record is available).

Discography

Main article: Fairuz discography
Fairuz possesses a large repertoire of around 1500 songs out of which nearly just 800 have been released. She has also been offered prestigious awards and titles over the years (see Fairuz Awards and Recognitions).
Around 1985 Fairuz CDs, vinyls and cassettes have been officially released so far. Most of the songs that are featured on these albums were composed by the Rahbani brothers. Also featured are songs by Philemon Wehbe, Ziad Rahbani, Zaki Nassif, Mohamed Abd El Wahab, Najib Hankash and Mohamed Mohsen.
Many of Fairuz's numerous unreleased works date back to the 1950s and 1960s and were composed by the Rahbani Brothers (certain unreleased songs, the oldest of all, are by Halim el Roumi). A Fairuz album composed by Egyptian musician Riad Al Sunbati (who has worked with Umm Kulthum) was produced in 1980, but is unlikely to be released. There are also fifteen unreleased songs composed by Philemon Wehbe and 24 unreleased songs composed by Ziad Rahbani in the 80's.
Fairuz has also released an album on Folkways Records, entitled Lebanon: The Baalbek Folk Festival.

References

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