{"id":21339,"date":"2025-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/21339\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:16:32","slug":"emir-of-qatar-visits-royal-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/21339\/","title":{"rendered":"Emir of Qatar visits Royal Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gco.gov.qa\/en\/about-qatar\/his-highness-the-amir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar<\/a>, visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/rohmuscat.org.om\/en\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Opera House Muscat<\/a> as part of his official visit to the Sultanate of Oman.<\/p>\n<p>The Emir toured the opera house and received a brief overview of its sections, facilities, the nature of performances it hosts, its seasonal schedule, and its year-round programme.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=2014728513  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71068\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/moi419152385.jpg\" alt=\"Emir of Qatar visits Royal Opera House Muscat\" width=\"900\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During his tour, the Emir observed the architectural richness of the Opera House, where Omani cultural heritage is blended with architectural influences from various continents.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the visit, the Royal Opera House Muscat presented a musical performance featuring traditional chant, the Steel Band, and the First Band of the Royal Guard of Oman.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=349294561  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71066\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/6799fbbc2dd8f-800x486-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Emir of Qatar visits Royal Opera House Muscat\" width=\"900\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of his visit, the Emir wrote a message in the guestbook, expressing his pleasure in visiting the Opera House. He described it as a bridge for cultural, civilisational, and artistic exchange with countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1385092871  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/6799fbbc3dcce-800x487-1.jpeg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71064\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Emir of Qatar visits Royal Opera House Muscat\" width=\"900\" height=\"547\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Emir was accompanied during the visit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Sayyid Badr Albusaidi<\/span>, Foreign Minister<\/a> and Head of the Mission of Honour, members of the Board of Directors of the Royal Opera House Muscat, and the Emir&#8217;s official delegation.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text,\u00a0click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/\u0623\u0645\u064a\u0631\u064f-\u062f\u0648\u0644\u0629-\u0642\u0637\u0631-\u064a\u0632\u0648\u0631-\u062f\u0627\u0631-\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0628\u0631\u0627-\u0627\u0644\u0633\u064f\u0651\u0644\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emir toured the Opera House and enjoyed a special musical performance featuring musicians from the Royal Guard of Oman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-21339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-qatar-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33194,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions\/33194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}