''Anas el-Wugood'' is an

opera in Arabic The history of opera in the Arabic-speaking world is generally viewed to have started from the premiere of Verdi's ''Aida'' in Cairo at the Khedivial Opera House in 1871, though Verdi's opera was sung in Italian. Western operas sung in Arabic Rati ...

by the Egyptian composer

Aziz El-Shawan Aziz El-Shawan (b. Cairo, May 6, 1916; d. Cairo, May 14, 1993) was one of the most prominent Egyptian composers of the twentieth century. He completed his primary and secondary education at the St. Joseph – La Salle College in Khoronfish, Cairo ...

. It was written in 1970 but not premiered until 1995. The plot is based on a character from the

Arabian Nights ''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...

, Uns el Wujud "Delight of the World," who was beloved by the fair Zahar el-Waard "Flower of the Rose".Egypt: descriptive, historical and picturesque: 2

Georg Ebers Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, 1 March 1837 – Tutzing, Bavaria, 7 August 1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. He is best known for his purchase of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest Egyptian medical documents in the world. Life Geo ...

1884 "natives call it Anas el-Wugood, and Anas el-Wugood was beloved by the fair Zahar el- Ward (Flower of the Rose). ... The castle here meant is the Temple of Isis ; and in the story of Anas el-Wugood it is related that the young hero of ..."

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Arabic-language operas 1995 operas 1970 operas {{opera-stub