{"id":4132,"date":"2023-11-15T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2023-11-15T08:10:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:10:07","slug":"sufi-opera-singer-saira-peter-calls-on-minister-for-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=4132","title":{"rendered":"Sufi Opera Singer Saira Peter calls on Minister for Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" data-id=\"4133\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231115-WA0057-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231115-WA0057-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231115-WA0057-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231115-WA0057-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231115-WA0057-1536x717.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231115-WA0057.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD : Saira Peter, a British-Pakistani soprano and Sufi Opera Singer called on Jamal Shah, Interim Federal Minister for National Heritage and Culture Jamal Shah here at Division<br>Saira Peter was also accompanied by her official Manager Zafar Francis and husband Stephen Smith who is also the Ethnomusicologist and pianist\/ Harmonium player.<br>Director General Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) Muhammad Ayub Jamali was also present in the meeting.<br>During meeting, they discussed mutual interest issues pertaining to music industry and proposed Solo-concert of Saira Peter being organized at PNCA.<br>The minister also presented her a shield on the occasion.<br>Saira Peter is currently working with a team of British artists to develop the world\u2019s first full-scale \u201cSufi Opera\u201d, a musical stage drama based on the story of Umar Marvi, one of Latif\u2019s \u201cseven heroines\u201d of Sindh. It is set to be staged in London upon completion and Peter will take the role of &#8220;Marvi&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : Saira Peter, a British-Pakistani soprano and Sufi Opera Singer called on Jamal Shah, Interim Federal Minister for National Heritage and Culture Jamal Shah here at DivisionSaira Peter was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}