In 1989 Sheida Gharachedaghi wrote an opera based on the English translation of
Ahmad Shamlu's The Fairies. The opera premiered at Metropolitan Convention Centre in
Toronto in 1989.[3] The CD of 1989 - live performance of this opera released in Europe in July 2020, on the 20th anniversary of Shamlu's death. The opera had not been published in Iran due to the ban of solo-women singing.[4]The Fairies is the first Persian (Iranian) opera with an English libretto. The British journal Opera cited it as a "distinctly pre-modernist piece..." which "has so little to do with the tradition of Persian music."[5]
Selected compositions
Instrumental
In Memory of Forough Farrokhzad (for piano solo)
Duo (for flute and piano)
Chahargah (for clarinet and piano)
Dialogue (for cello and piano)
Voice and orchestra
Voice of the Poet: Baba-Taher (11th-century Persian poetry for voice and orchestra; performed by
Pari Zanganeh and
IIDCYA Orchestra in 1974)[6]
Opera
The Fairies (an English opera setting of the Persian poetry by
Ahmad Shamlu; premiered in Toronto in 1989, released in 2020)
Music for children
Cheshm, Cheshm, Do Abru [Eye, Eye, Two Eyebrows], IIDCYA, Tehran, 1975. (Vinyl)
Books
The Window to the Garden (Short Pieces for Piano). Farabi Publications, Montreal, 1990.