If you missed the opening event of the Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre yesterday, you can now watch it on YouTube. It’s 2 hours long and features dancing, comedy and music including a performance by Andrea Bocelli.
Sadly it’s not in HD and the aspect ratio of the video is squished hence why Bocelli looks really skinny in the picture above (come on KTV, get your act together). If you want to skip to the Andrea Bocelli part, his performance starts at the 1 hour 43 minute mark. [YouTube]
27 replies on “Watch Yesterdays Opening of the Cultural Centre”
LOL! I watched bits of it last night and my first thought was damn Boccelli’s lost some serious weight!!!
Yesterday’s opening wasn’t open to the public right? It was just aristocrats and public/political figures.
Kinda funny/sad seeing many of the seats empty
The official opening is 1/12/2016. Yesterday was the soft opening.
Quite an extravagant soft opening if you ask me
It’s a soft opening, nonetheless.
I think it’s mighty cool that they got the world’s greatest tenor to perform at the opening.
It shouldn’t have been open to the public. I agree with their decision. We honestly don’t deserve nice things.
I get your point and I slightly agree, but they could have at least made it applicable or something, the audience size was an insult to the performances.
I see well behaved audiences at many nccal events and their stuff is open to all.
I’m sorry but Andrea Bocelli >>>>>> Everything Else Going On In Kuwait
I didn’t belittle him lol
I think u would definitely agree that he deserves a better audience than that
Meh.
Don’t think he cares. He’s never struck me as a diva. I think he was more than happy to perform in a country he’s never visited before.
And it’s about quality, not quantity.I’m sorry but sometimes when it comes to free events in Kuwait, you tend to usually get the worst offenders i.e. people who think its perfectly fine to bring their shrieking minions to a Debussy ballet.
Yes yes all true… But still I mean at least allow good natured people ye opportunity to come. This just ridiculous.
And how are you supposed to distinguish who’s “good natured” and who’s not?
That’s fallacious.
You can provide tickets to certain people who know about these kind of things at least, and put policies such as no kids etc…
What I mean is that they could have definelty allowed more people to come without any issues at all. People who would appreciate what they are seeing way more than those who are there
I’m sticking to the script. We do not deserve nice things. We don’t.
Free events here a lot of times attract the worst offenders – people who’ve got BO, people who dress poorly, people who speak very loudly on their phones for 45 minutes while Bocelli is singing.
I went to a lot of free events back in the States, people knew how to behave themselves and what the correct protocols were.
I’m not saying this is the States, or Kuwait should be like them. There’s just very little social integration here so you get a lot of people from different countries who still act like they live in their countries/communities, and not Kuwait.
I’ve been to concerts here of Bollywood singers Shreya Ghoshal and Arijit Singh and paid KD 40 for Gold tickets (the most expensive tickets available). When they opened the doors to let the people in, people were pushing and shoving me and each other like we were in a fucking internment camp.
It’d be great to live in a society where knew how to behave though.
Well I can’t add much to what I already said, oh well š It’s done now anyways…
It says something about the poor state of the arts in Kuwait (and the attitude that money can fix *anything*) that they bring in an Italian tenor to open a cultural center in Kuwait. I’m hoping that from here on out, there’ll be a focus on local and regional art.
All we’ve had is local and regional art! i hope this changes and we now get proper shows from the US and Europe.
Other than the money, why would an act from the U.S. or Europe want to come to Kuwait? Remember Akon’s big show? https://gulfnews.com/life-style/music/akon-concert-in-kuwait-cancelled-1.1489870
For the same reason an act performs anywhere else in the world… for money. That’s their job, to perform for money.
So Bocelli, whose net worth is estimated at $40 million, just came here to sing for the money. Got it.
Yeah that’s exactly why he came, he came to sing and get paid. How do you think he made 40 mil? Sitting at home playing video games?
Go watch the video, 90% of the acts were local
Don’t generalize.If you’re an uncivilised goon who doesn’t deserve nice things then that’s on you.
Yeah exactly what I thought was gonna happen. They had it in the middle of a monday during work hours and they gave the tickets mostly to people who are not necessarily interested in this. Plus the invite itself didn’t say who was coming, the people I know who went got tickets from people who thought it was gonna be some standard boring opening.
Exactly!
I mean why don’t they just put extrmeley high prices that way only hard core opera aficionados will go. Trust me they will be good mannered.
I wouldn’t have went tbh but I know many close friends and family who are very upset that they even didn’t have the chance to go.
Oh my god the sulking.
The fountain and park area will be open to the public starting from next week.
In the next 2-3 days, keep an eye out for the event schedule on their website.
https://jacc-kw.com/