Asala Nasri at a concert in Kuwait, March 17, 2022 (AFP)
Saturday night ended the 58th session For the Carthage International Festival Which started on July 18 last year with a concert performed by the Syrian artist Asala Nasri among a large audience of more than 8,000 spectators, despite the heavy rain that fell on the main -city, Tunis, causing some to expect the closing ceremony to be cancelled. When she went up to the old theater of Carthage, Assala Nasri received a warm welcome from the audience present, and she responded by saying, “My participation was in a concert at the Theater of Carthage in 2006 was a milestone in my artistic career, and here I return to you today with the same passion and love. ” Then the concert started with the song “ More.
The announcement by Tunisian television that it would be broadcasting the ceremony live, together with several Arab channels, did not stop the audience from attending in amazement, and they interacted with what Asala Nasri has presented in a way that affected her, she said, addressing the audience, “Thank you and your presence,” describing it as an “educated audience.” Among the programming of the 58th session of the Carthage International Festival were 24 shows, distributed among 7 Tunisian nights, the most important of which was the opening evening, when the Tunisian artist was honored . Lotfi Bouchnak With a show directed by his son Abdel Hamid, entitled “Live to My Songs”, the Tunisian shows followed, namely the operatic show “Carmen”, the show of the artist Ziad Gharsa, the theater show “Big Boss” by the artist Wajeha Jendoubi, the exhibition “Nubat Gharam” by Muhammad Ali Kamoun, and the exhibition by the artist Najat Attia, and the exhibition “Rhymes in Memory”.
As for the 6 Arabic shows, the artists produced them Wael Kfoury From Lebanon, Hamza Namira from Egypt, Amal Maher from Egypt, Ayman Boudchar from Morocco, and Kazem Al-Saher from Iraq, before the closing performance, which was performed by Assala Nasri. The number of international shows in the 58th edition of the festival reached 5, the most important of which was the evening of flamenco from Spain, the evening with the group The Wailers from Jamaica, and the circus show on ice from Britain, a show that surprised him. Carthage audience, prompting festival management to program a second performance immediately after the first.
