About Us

Born in the village of Shweir in Mount Lebanon. They both started to study music at an early age, during which time they met Professor Hagop Arslanian. Under his tutelage, they learned music composition and orchestration.  They became skilled in musical comedies by using older scripts that they would re-create and re-choreograph.  From 1990 to 1999, they re-created no less than seven musical comedies.
In 1997, they founded “The Artistic Group”, geared for musical theatrical performances and including a choir and many dancers. The Group performed numerous plays in front of live audiences.
 

They progressed to writing and composing their own music and they produced their first Musical “Che Guevara” which was performed for two months at the BIEL Beirut, in 2006.
“Che Guevara” is a musical theatrical play, presenting the story of “Che Guevara” from the period preceding the Cuban revolution in 1954, until the death of “Che” in Bolivia in 1967, based on true events, and after 2 years of research and information gathering.
This production was interpreted by Ammar Chalak, Carmen Lebbos, Pierre Dagher, Nabil AbouMrad, Pierre Jamajian, Boutros Farah, Elia Francis, Alain Aily, Joseph Sassine, Joseph Salameh and around 25 actors and singers, 20 figurants and 16 dancers, with the participation of Cuban and Lebanese musicians, and professional choir singers.
The technical team consisted of Henry and Liliane Keyrouz for the set design and execution, Felix Haroutiunian for the choreography, Diane Ferjane for the costume design and execution, Said Malikan for the make-up of the historic roles and Mounir Maasri as artistic advisor.
This musical was well received internationally; producers from New York City filmed parts of it and interviewed members of the Group. These out-takes were used and interpreted as representative of the Middle-Eastern culture in the well-known film “Personal Che”, which rendered Lebanon one of seven states in the world that were chosen to host a significant show on the subject of the life of Che Guevara.
 

They wrote, composed and directed the musical theatrical play “From the days of Saladin” that was performed in the opening of Baalbeck International Festival 2011. This musical play is normally classified as both contemporary and historic.
What is particularly noteworthy about this production is that it is a Lebanese musical play based on an entire live performance, with an orchestra composed of 45 first-class musicians led by Maestro Harout Fazlian, (Conductor of the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra) and the choir of the Antonine Fathers University,composed of 36 professional Opera singers under the direction of Father Toufic Maatouk.
This production was interpreted and sung by Assi el Hallani, Carine Ramia, Antoine Kerbaje, Carmen Lebbos, Nabil Abou Mrad, Ghassan Attieh, Joseph Assaf, Boutros Farah, Khaled el Sayed, Sabeh Baaklini, Roger Sakr, Alain Aily, Marie Helou and more than 150 singers, actors, dancers, technicians and consultants were included. The sets were designed by Rami Sabbagh and executed by Georges and Joseph Khawand; the dances choreographed by François Rahme and the costumes designed by Faten Mechref, who stems from the Caracalla Research Center. The make-up for the historic roles in this production was created by the worldwide expert in theatrical make-up, Said Malikan.
Lights and Sound are considered among the most difficult tasks in this production, especially that it was presented Live. That's why they necessitated the works of sound engineer Chadi Saad and lights designer Milad Massaad, both experts in their fields. Fida Zalloum Co. produces furnished sound equipment and the company of Roger Bakhos furnished the lights.

In 2014, they wrote, composed, directed and produced the musical theatrical play “ The 19th Concession” at the Palace of Congresses - Dbayeh - starring Youssef Al-Khal, Carine Ramia, Nabil Abu Murad, Khaled Al-Sayed, Nazih Youssef, Assaad Haddad, Jessy Abdo, Abdo Shaheen, Zahir Qais and a group of participants. And this play was classified as a futuristic musical, because its events take place after about 20 to 30 years from today and it is a new type of Lebanese theater. This play has achieved great success and created a national popular situation and the start of a serious project to abolish sectarianism, cultivating the idea of ​​coexistence, believing in Lebanon's sublime message of its multi-denominationalism, and mutual respect between all its citizens, regardless of their religious and sectarian affiliations.

In 2017, the role of the media came as a basic issue for treatment, and the two brothers wrote, composed, directed and produced the musical "The 6thof May Movement" at the Palace of Congresses - Dbayeh - starring Youssef Al-Khal, Carine Ramia, Tony Muhanna, Pierrette Al-Qatrib, and an elite group of participants. This Musical was performed for two consecutive seasons, and presented serious solutions to transform the media from a weapon that can destroy homelands to a successful means of liberating the people who are reeling from exploitation and corruption.

From 2009 to date, the brothers Sabbagh have contributed, with the help of the people of their hometown of Shweir and those of Ain as Sindiana, to the unification of the celebration of the Easter holiday between Catholics, Maronites and Orthodox Christians. As a result, the project of a multi-secular church belonging to no single rite, came to be and crowned the efforts of the brothers Sabbagh. This is a First for the re-unification of the Church.

Their theater is distinguished by the realism of the treatment and musical composition, which is closely related to the path of theatrical work, which always seeks to serve their human principles and keeps them away from the way in which the goal is limited to entertaining the viewer instead of encouraging him to think.