His performance following Emmanuel Macron’s victory speech was astonishing. Discover Farrah El Dibany, the singer who sang La Marseillaise on Sunday evening.
Lyrical victory for Emmanuel Macron. A parade accompanied by children against a background of a hymn to joy, an emotional speech with the Eiffel Tower in the background, and a very lively Marseillaise… It’s Farrah El Dibany, mezzo soprano of the Opéra de Paris, who interpreted the national anthem at short notice, following the speech of the re-elected president on Sunday evening.
At the Champ-de-Mars, La Marseillaise sung by the mezzo soprano Farrah El Dibany, alongside Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron @Paris Match pic.twitter.com/OGZjE2pMf4
— Emilie Cabot (@emiliecabot) April 24, 2022
Born in Alexandria, the 33-year-old Egyptian singer entered the Center for the Arts at the Library of Alexandria in 2005 before joining the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin in 2010, from which she graduated in 2014. Her performance noticed for the title role in the adaptation of Carmen by Bizet at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin in 2015. As explained by France Musique during an interview in 2019, the Egyptian is forced to adapt to Western opera his voice naturally influenced by his oriental culture: “When you sing opera, you have to attack the note and not come from below. For oriental music and even pop music on the other hand, we often start below and we do like a reverse portamento. It wasn’t easy to change that cause it comes naturally to me […] When I sing with a lot of emotion it comes back from time to time, but slightly. »
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First Egyptian and Arab opera singer to join the Paris Opera Academy
In September 2016, Farrah El Dibany joined the Paris Opera Academy, where she was the first Egyptian and Arab opera singer to join the prestigious institution. In 2021, she is invited by the Arab World Institute to perform the great works of singers Asmahan, Fayrouz or Dalida as part of the exhibition “Divas, from Oum Kalthoum to Dalida”.
Last November, Farrah El Dibany, very committed to the United Nations institutions, sang for the 75th anniversary of UNESCO:
Last week, we celebrated our 75th anniversary with an unforgettable ceremony!
On this occasion, the Egyptian opera singer #FarrahElDibany performed a classic on stage: “Wehyat albi we afraho”.
Review here https://t.co/CDngdtX4ao #unescoGC pic.twitter.com/h9yBEt5ad0
— UNESCO in French (@UNESCO_fr) November 20, 2021
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