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Fatma Said

soprano
Biography

Egyptian soprano Fatma Saïd’s list of accolades for El Nour, her 2020 debut album with Warner Classics, included BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer of the Year and Vocal Award, Opus Klassik’s 2021 Young Artist of the Year, and the Gramophone Award for Song. Her 2021/22 season began with a gala concert in Istanbul with Rolando Villazón, to be followed by recitals at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, deSingel Antwerp and DeutschlandFunk Cologne. Her season also includes concerts with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin and Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, and a debut at the Opéra de Rouen as Pamina. Previously a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Saïd also regularly represents her home country as an ambassador for culture and education, and in 2016 became the first opera singer ever to be awarded Egypt’s Creativity Award.