An Egyptian opera singer, born in the name of Farah Al-Dibani 33 years ago in Alexandria, is the one who performed yesterday evening, Sunday evening, the French President’s victory ceremony Emmanuel Macron In the elections for a second term, where she sang the French national anthem La Marseillaise, and at the end of it Macron approached and placed a kiss on her hand and thanked her, according to what we see in the video presented below.
Al-Dibani, who received a Bachelor of Arts from the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, is the first foreign “soprano” to celebrate someone’s victory in the French presidency, according to what Al-Arabiya.net read about her in a few lines on the website of the local newspaper Libération. She is also the first foreigner to perform in a presidential ceremony the anthem “La Marseille”, which is known as one of the oldest in the world. It was written and adopted in 1795 in the glory of the French Revolution.
And they wrote in some French media about Farrah El Dibany, according to what they published her first name, that since 2016 she joined the Opera Academy in Paris, and after 3 years she won her famous award for operatic singing as the first Egyptian singer to receive it. As for agencies, we find in the record of Al-Dibani, who sang the role of Cornelia in Handel’s opera “Julius Caesar” at the Cairo Opera House, many achievements.
“Best Young Operatic Talent”
In 2013, she won the third prize from the “Guillou Perotti” international competition for operatic singing, and a year later appeared as Ramiro in Mozart’s “Garden Girl” opera, as well as as “Dido” in Henry Purcell’s “Didon and Enni”, and as the title role in the opera “Carmen”. Georges Bizet, so the German magazine “Opera World” described her as the best young operatic talent.
Al-Dibani grew up in a musical family environment, and she was accustomed since her childhood to listening to the music that her parents loved, which is classical music, while her grandfather was a pianist, whom she began to learn since she was 7 years old, and at the age of 14 she began receiving vocal training with the famous Egyptian opera singer, Nevin Allouba. Therefore, the effort resulted in the emergence of an Arab opera star of the first degree.