Mezzo-Soprano Farrah El-Dibany is the first Egyptian and Arab to receive “Prix Lyrique 2019 de l’AROP” Award by the Paris Opera House.
Dibany became the first Egyptian resident of the Paris Opera House when she joined the Paris Academy in September 2016.
“Prix Lyrique de l’AROP is awarded annually to a female and a male Uprising Opera Singers. The award ceremony was held at Opera Garnier where Dibany sang an extract from Carmen, by Bizet in the presence of Egyptian Ambassador to France Ehab Badawy and his wife, as well as French dignitaries, including CEO of BNP PARIBAS.
In 2018, she was awarded the “Wagner Stiftung” Prize and performed for the occasion at the Komische Oper in Berlin and at the Bayreuth Festival.
She also performs at the Paris Opera Academy where her roles include Kate Julian in Owen Wingrave and the Little Miss in Philippe Boesmans’ Reigen.
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Singing the titlerole of Bizet's Opera Carmen[/caption]
In 2015, she was also named Best Young Opera Talent by Opernwelt magazine. She reprised the role in Rheinsberg after winning a prize at the 2017 Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival.
In 2014, she appeared as Ramiro in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera and Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Radialsystem V in Berlin.
One year earlier, she was awarded 3rd Prize at the International Giulio Perotti Singing Competition in 2013. She sang the role of Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the Cairo Opera.
Dibany was born in Alexandria where she entered the Arts Centre of the Library of Alexandria.
Later on, she obtained a Master’s degree at the Berlin University of the Arts and a Bachelor’s degree in architecture at Berlin’s Technische Universität.
The Egyptian Mezzosoprano started piano lessons at the age of ten. When she was fourteen, she started voice lessons with Dr. Neveen Allouba, who is a staff member of the Cairo Conservatoire and Founder of the Singing Department of the College for Specified Studies, University of Alexandria, and Adjunct Professor of Voice at the American University in Cairo.
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