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Dar Al Assad for Culture & Arts
 Location
& Aims:
The Opera is located in a lively area in
Damascus; Umayyad Square, on Shukri
al-Kuatli St. It holds the High Institute
for Music and Theater Arts, that is annually
graduating a staff of actors and musicians.
Dar Al Assad for Culture & Arts aim at
performing the following functions:
- To spread, develop and enhance music
and theater cultures, and revive the
cultural, public, and artistic national
heritage.
- To inform the society of Arab as
well as international arts of music and
theatre, and promote the public sense of
artistic appreciation.
- To encourage national creativeness
on artistic, social and cultural levels.
- To upgrade arts of music, theater,
and artistic dance, participate to
spreading them to the public, and inform
society of the best products in this
field.
 Location
& Aims:
Dar Al Assad for Culture & Arts was
inaugurated by President Bashar Al Assad and
First Lady Mrs. Asma' Al Assad with presence
of the Malaysian King Seri Paduka Baginda
Yang di-pertuan Agong XII and Queen Seri
Paduka Baginda Raja Permaisuri Agong. A
crowd of ministers, diplomats, artists,
media persons and figures of culture, also
attended the ceremony.
Inauguration activities took place between
the 7th of May and the 3rd of June 2004 and
included a dancing performance entitled "A
Starry Night" by ENANA Dance Theatre Group
on the open-air theatre. Moreover, the Opera
Theater hosted first concerts presented by
The National Orchestra of Arabic Music with
the Arab Choir, and the National Symphony
Orchestra with the full Coral.
Programming
system at Dar Al-Assad for Culture & Arts:
Programming system in Dar Al-Assad for
Culture & Arts is a quarterly one based on
the following:
1. Business year is divided into three
quarters:
- Fall (September, October, and
November)
- Winter (December, January, and
February)
- Spring (March, April, May, and June)
Dar Al-Assad for Culture & Arts holds its
activities during July and August to perform
maintenance, service, cleaning and
development of equipment and premises, as
well as to have some summer vacation.
2. Programming of the quarter takes place
during the first two months of the previous
quarter. Program of the quarter is issued
one month before.
Tickets are sold in Dar Al-Assad for
Culture & Arts as following:
- Opera Theatre:
First class: 200 SP
Second class: 150 SP
Third class: 100 SP
- Drama Theatre:
First Class: 200 SP
Second Class: 150 SP
- Multi-Purpose Hall:
First Class: 200 SP
Second Class: 150 SP
- Tickets are sold exclusively at Dar
Al-Assad' box office from Sunday to
Thursday: - From 9:30 am till 14:30 pm.
- From 18:00 pm till 19.30 pm.
- The current tariff is subject to change
upon issuance of the new legislation of the
General Association of Dar Al-Assad for
Culture & Arts.
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