Sheida Gharachedaghi

Sheida Gharachedaghi (Persian: شیدا قرچه‌داغی) is a Persian-Canadian[1] composer and music educator, based in Montreal.

[2] Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran Gharachedaghi moved to Germany and later settled in Canada.

In 1989 Sheida Gharachedaghi wrote an opera based on the English translation of Ahmad Shamlu's The Fairies.

[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 British journal Opera cited it as a "distinctly pre-modernist piece..." which "has so little to do with the tradition of Persian music.