Le Parisien Sheds Light on Egyptian Singer Farrah Al-Dibany

The French daily newspaper Le Parisien published a report about Egyptian singer Farrah Al-Dibany, saying "Who is the singer that Macron invited to sing the national anthem?".

Farrah Al-Dibany, a 33-year-old mezzo-soprano, is the first Egyptian and Arab opera singer to join the Paris Opera Academy, as she joined in September 2016. She now embodies the openness to the world defended by Emmanuel Macron.

Al-Dibany was born in 1989 in Alexandria to a family of music lovers. She joined the Arts Center in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2005, and won the first prize in the singing competition of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture in 2007, then the second prize in the Jungend Musiziert competition in 2008.

In 2010, she joined the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. 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.

In 2013, she was awarded 3rd Prize at the International Giulio Perotti Singing Competition; she sang the role of Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the Cairo Opera.

In 2021, the mezzo-soprano was invited to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of UNESCO.  French Embassy in Egypt immediately highlighted Al-Dibany's performance.