Hala Khalil's Qas we Lazq (Cut and Paste) and Khaled Marie's Taymour we Shafiqa (Taymour and Shafiqa) may be this summer's most notable offerings, but Mohamed El-Assyouti and Hani Mustafa find them a little too TV for comfort

Rania Khallaf found Kamilya Jubran with Werner Hasler simply marvellous

Amal Choucri Catta with yet another of the opera's guiding lights

By Mursi Saad El-Din