Mar 11, 2021
Farrah El Dibany is an opera singer, born in Alexandria, Egypt. El Dibany joined the Arts Centre of the Library of Alexandria in 2005 and then in 2010, the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. She is the first Egyptian to win the Prix Lyrique de l’AROP, which is the best opera singer award awarded by the Paris Opera house. In 2016, she joined the Paris Opera troupe, becoming the first Egyptian national to ever join the prestigious academy. She won a number of other awards, including a prize at the 2017 Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival and the Wagner Stiftung Prize in 2018. Now, the Egyptian mezzo-soprano is a jury member for the German music competition ‘Jugend Musiziert,’ for the national round of the Eastern Mediterranean region.