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Alice Stacpoole

Alice Stacpoole

Assistant Artist Manager

Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Fatma

At the age of 14 Fatma Said embarked on a musical journey that would take her from her home in Cairo to the Academy of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and ultimately to the world’s most prestigious concert and opera stages. As an exclusive Warner Recording Artist she released her debut album El Nour in 2020 to much critical acclaim, winning numerous awards including the Gramophone Classical Music Award for Best Song Album, the BBC Music Magazine’s Vocal Award as well as Germany’s Opus Klassik.

Recent highlights include her residency with the Konzerthaus Berlin last season where she presented a range of colourful programmes including the release concert of her second Album Kaleidoscope in September 2022, a gala concert at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, as well as performances with Giovanni Antonini, Iván Fischer and Alondra de la Parra. Being a passionate Lied singer, Fatma also returned to give a recital at the Schubertiade in Hohenems, and made her debuts at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Celebrity Series in Boston.

Fatma is thrilled to embark on an exciting 2024/25 season. She will collaborate with Askonas Holt's touring department for performances across the Middle East and major European cities. Highlights include appearances with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, and WDR Sinfonieorchester and she will ring in the New Year with a gala performance for the ZDF with Staatskapelle Dresden. Continuing her successful partnership with Malcom Martineau and Sabine Meyer, Fatma will perform as part of a trio at Wigmore Hall and Schloss Elmau, and present solo recitals at the Schubertiade festival in Austria and Kammermusik Basel. A passionate Lied singer, Fatma eagerly anticipates the release of a German song album with Warner Classics in the new year.

Fatma is based in London, United Kingdom, Berlin, Germany

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Representation

Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Bahrain Opera Festival, Dubai Opera
Middle East Tour
Oct 2024
Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin
Giovanni Antonini conducts Mozart and Haydn with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Dec 2024
Semperoper, Dresden
New Year's Eve Concert of the Staatskapelle Dresden

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Fatma Said with her hand covering half of her face, looking at the camera against a black background

Projects

Fatma Said

Askonas Holt are delighted to present a European tour of Fatma Said's new album, released on Warner Classics in Spring 2025. Following the release of her previous albums, Kaleidoscope and El Nour, Egyptian-soprano Fatma Said is rapidly solidifying her star status on the opera and recital scene. As Artist in Residence at the Konzerthaus Berlin and a frequent face on stages across the world, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and Carnegie Hall in her 22/23 season.

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  • Fatma Said with her hand covering half of her face, looking at the camera against a black background

    Projects

    Fatma Said

    Askonas Holt are delighted to present a European tour of Fatma Said's new album, released on Warner Classics in Spring 2025. Following the release of her previous albums, Kaleidoscope and El Nour, Egyptian-soprano Fatma Said is rapidly solidifying her star status on the opera and recital scene. As Artist in Residence at the Konzerthaus Berlin and a frequent face on stages across the world, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and Carnegie Hall in her 22/23 season.

    Learn about this project

News

Press

  • Through The Noise

    Lafayette, London
    Sep 2023
    • ‘This concert is going to have a lot of French music and also French film music, which I especially love’. One of the most highly internationally acclaimed young concert and opera artists of our time gives us a clue about her programme for an upcoming event on 17 September – but Egyptian soprano Fatma Said will not be performing it in a concert hall. She will be appearing at the Lafayette auditorium in London’s Kings Cross which bills its entertainments as ‘Live music, street food and drinks – all under one roof’. It will be her second appearance at one of the groundbreaking events organised by through the noise – the radical brainchild of co-founders and directors Jack Bazalgette and Jack Crozier in which greatly in-demand young classical artists come to crowd-funded venues and clubs to perform as part of evenings that also include sets of jazz, afro-beat and funk. The virtuoso Fatma Said triumphed with the audience for her first through the noise event at the Oslo Hackney earlier this year, singing music she had recorded last year for her enormously successful Warner Classics album Kaleidoscope. For Fatma Said this has been a profoundly rewarding discovery that reverberates with her strongly-felt ideals. She had already been highly extolled in an eclectic range of musical genres, and yet, as she explains, the invitation from through the noise was something appealingly new. ‘They told me, “Just do what you want.” Now nowhere else says that to me! That I could be 100% free in what I wanted to say was the first attraction when I was offered this possibility. But then what surprised me and what I didn’t see coming was the whole setting and the wonderful interaction with the audience. First of all, there are no chairs – everyone is standing all the time – so the atmosphere is like it is at a pop concert where the audience always stands informally, and I love that. I would say the average age group is between around 18 and 40, and these are not people who go to opera houses and concert halls, so the fact that I could perform in front of them meant a lot to me. For classical music’s future I think it is really important that an initiative like through the noise should take place more and more because it gives the opportunity for the artist to go to the places where young people are – and that is how we can nurture this generation’s love of classical music. If we don’t reach out to them, they will have zero interest in coming to our concerts – but if we go to them in their places instead of trying to devise ways of bringing them to our concerts, then they are going to become our new audience later on.