Switzerland, by TaG ensemble. Among composers of art song in Arabic, Hiba Al Kawas has not composed a full opera in Arabic, but her cycle of five instrumental and three song pieces Rou'ia Fi Maa received its première at the Opéra Bastille in Paris in 2007. In July 2009, Daniel Barenboim's Youth Orchestra in Ramallah produced the opera The Sultana of Cadiz (later renamed to Die arabische Prinzessin), based on a pasticcio of music by Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga to a new libretto by Paula Fünfeck after an Arabic fairy tale at Ramallah's Cultural Palace. The opera was commissioned and conducted by Anne-Sophie Brüning of the Barenboim-Said Foundation. Lebanese composer Iyad Kanaan (1971) composed an opera in three acts entitled Qadmus to an Arabic libretto by Said Akl. Opera houses and venues The new Cairo Opera House (1988), Damascus Opera House (2004), Dubai Opera (2016), and the Qatar Opera House are multipurpose arts venues. In April 2010, Reuters reported that China will spend $40 million to build a 1,400-seat opera house in Algiers. References Arabic Arabic music