Cairo Opera House to Commemorate Warda's Death Anniv. on May 24

Cairo Opera House will commemorate the 11th anniversary of the late Arab singer Warda, also known as The ”Princess of Arab Singing”, on Wednesday, May 24.

Under the direction of Maestro Ahmed Amer, the outstanding Nuira band will perform a selection of Warda's remarkable songs and iconic pieces from her extensive repertoire, reminding people of the legacy and spirit of the late singer.

This includes pieces like "Hekaity ma'a' Zaman", "Fe Youm we Leila", "Akdab Alik", and "Lailina".

Warda who is widely regarded as one of Arab’s greatest singers of all time alongside Umm Kalthoum and Fayrouz, passed away in 2012, leaving a gaping hole in the Egyptian music industry.

Born in France in 1939 to an Algerian father called Fatouki and a Lebanese mother named Yamout, she began her showbiz career as a young singer at the Tam-Tam, a cabaret owned by her father Located on rue Saint-Séverin, in the Latin Quarter in Paris.

Throughout her long-standing career, Warda featured in many remarkable Arab films, such as ‘Amirat Al Arab’, and ‘Hekayti maa al-Zaman’, starring Rushdi Abaza and Samir Sabri, and also performed several concerts across the world.

Her breakthrough came with “Al-Watan Al-Akbar” (the greater homeland) performance, a pan-Arabist song composed by the late Egypt’s iconic star Mohammed Abdel Wahab. Following her overwhelming success with Abdel Wahab and other Egyptian musicians, she decided to stay in Cairo for the rest of her life.