The first Egyptian opera singer to have studied and performed at La Scala in Milan, this gifted soprano sings in six languages. Her artistic fusion, the fruit of classical Arab and European music, is rekindling the links between East and West.
In France, the media have dubbed her ‘the diva from Cairo’ and see her as ‘the new Maria Callas’. Fatma Saïd, born in Egypt in 1991, is a lyric singer of disconcerting vocal virtuosity, acclaimed for her refined and passionate interpretations on the most prestigious stages: Milan’s La Scala, London’s Royal Albert Hall and Shanghai’s Shangyin Opera House.
Opera makes me live a lot of different lives. Sometimes I’m a slave, sometimes a princess, but I also have a real life to live “The problem if it’s your life is that if it doesn’t work out, you think you’ve failed. I see it as a job, a passion. Opera makes me live a lot of different lives. Sometimes I’m a slave, sometimes a princess, but I also have a real life to live,” says the artist, who now lives in London.
Lyric opera, jazz, Argentine tango: Fatma Saïd knows how to do it all, with subtlety and originality. This unconditional fan of the great Mohamed Abdel Wahab, an Egyptian singer and composer known throughout the Arab world, is also engaged in the world, just like her father.A supporter of the Arab Spring, she represented Egypt on Human Rights Day in 2014 at the United Nations in Geneva, and at campaigns for music education for young people in her native country.
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