On 14 December, Egypt lost one of its all-time iconic opera figures, tenor Hassan Kamy. Mr Kamy died at 82. He was also famous as an actor and a skilled businessman. Kamy descended from the Alawite family that ruled Egypt as monarchs from 1805 till 1953. He was born in Cairo on 2 November 1936, … Continue reading Hassan Kamy (1936 – 2018): Egypt’s iconic tenor passes away