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Egyptian soprano Fatma Said was born in 1991. The daughter of politician Ahmed Hassan Said, leader of the Party of Free Egyptians, Fatma Said took her first singing lessons at the age of 14 with soprano Neveen Allouba. Said received her Bachelor of Music from the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin in 2013 and was awarded a scholarship to Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, becoming the first Egyptian soprano to perform on that iconic stage. She made her opera debut in Mozart's The Magic Flute in 2014, then in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. His career continued in major European venues in Naples, Leipzig and Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. In 2016, she was the first opera singer to receive the Creativity Award in Egypt. She performed in Mozart's Requiem during the BBC Proms of 2019 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. This was followed by an invitation to the Paris Concert, on the occasion of the National Day, July 14, 2020. Three months later, she released her first album, El Nour, which included works by Ravel, Bizet, and Berlioz plus traditional Spanish and Arabic melodies.
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