TEHRAN -- The director of the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry Music Office, Mohammad-Hossein Homafar, and members of the Music House Board visited veteran composer Hossein Dehlavi at his home in Tehran on Sunday night to inform the maestro that his opera “Mani and Mana” will be published.

Homafar expressed hope that Dehlavi’s health would improve and said that the Music Office has many programs for releasing and publishing high-quality musical works, including the opera “Mani and Mana”.

He explained that the Music Office would be paying all the expenses to publish the work and asked the composer to prepare the score.

Music Office Board member Kambiz Roshanravan said that the Iranian Artists Fund has announced that it is prepared to cover the cost of Dehlavi’s medical treatment up to 100 million rials.

Music Office spokesman Mohammad Sarir noted that despite the high cost of arranging a performance of the opera, which is about 2.5 billion rials, the opera can be staged in Iran, and asked Homafar to cooperate with cultural officials.

Dehlavi and his wife called on cultural officials to pay more attention to artists and thanked their guests for visiting them.