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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.
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Fatma Said sings "I Could Have Danced All Night" (My Fair Lady)
Fatma Said sings the exhilarating melody "I Could Have Danced All Night", a shining moment of the heroine from the beloved Broadway musical My Fair Lady. 🌟 Listen to the full song now on digital platforms: https://w.lnk.to/kalFA Recorded with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and conductor Sascha Goetzel for Fatma's upcoming album, Kaleidoscope. Out September 2nd! Credit: Fatma Said
PlayingFatma Said sings Ad Ay Sa’ab قد أى صعب (Villoldos: "El Choclo")
New single! 🌟 This Arabic version of Villoldos's tango-style "El Choclo" was written specially for Fatma Said فاطمة سعيد by Egyptian songwriter TAMER HUSSIEN for her upcoming album, Kaleidoscope. Fatma describes the music as "very expressive and determined", which she finds fitting of "strong and independent Arab women who are proving day after day how powerful their voices are." Ad Ay Sa’ab قد أى صعب is recorded with the Quinteto Ángel. فاطمة سعيد تطلق أحدث أغانيها «قد أى صعب» من ألبوم كلايدوسكوپ والمنتظر صدوره فى ٢ سبتمبر المقبل الأغنية مستوحاه من ألحان أغنية أرجنتينية تحت اسم "الشوكلو" من ألحان أنخل فيلولدو و تم تسجيلها مع فرقة "كوينتتو أنخل" الموسيقية وتعاونت "فاطمة سعيد" لأول مرة مع الشاعر الغنائي تامر حسين، لاختيار كلمات تعبر عن الإحساس بالعزيمة والإنتصار وعزة النفس الأغنية موجهة لفتيات وسيدات مصر والعالم العربي المكافحات واللاتي يواجهن تحديات الحياة على المستوي الشخصى و النفسي و المهني Credit: Fatma Said
PlayingFatma Said on NDR Das! Singing and playing Aatini Al Naya Wa Ghanni
NDR Das! With Hinnerk Baumgarten Credit: Fatma Said
PlayingFatma Said - Abdelwahab / Arr. Whitbourn: La mosh ana-l-abki لأ مش أنا اللي أبكي (Live in Berlin)
أغنية: «لأ مش أنا اللي أبكي» من الحان: محمد عبدالوهاب كلمات: حسين السيد توزيع: چايمز ويتبورن غناء: فاطمة سعيد قيادة الأوركسترا: ألوندرا دي لا بارا أوركسترا : كونسرت هاوس برلين كونسرت هاوس برلين Song title: la mosh ana-l-abki Composer: Mohamed Abdelwahab Lyrics: Hussein El Sayed Arrangement: James Whitbourn Sung by: Fatma Said Conductor: Alondra de la Parra Orchestra: Konzerthaus Berlin Venue: live at Konzerthaus Berlin Credit: Fatma Said
PlayingFatma Said sings "Aatini Al Naya Wa Ghanni" at the OPUS KLASSIK 2021 Gala
Egyptian soprano Fatma Said performs "Aatini Al Naya Wa Ghanni" (Give me the flute and sing), which features the poetry of Gibran Khalil Gibran, live at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Discover her recording of this song on her debut album, El Nour النور: http://w.lnk.to/elnLY Nay-flute: Rageed William Piano: Tim Allhoff Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin Conductor: Cornelius Meister Arrangement by Tim Allhoff Filmed at the OPUS KLASSIK gala on the 10th of October 2021 in Berlin. Credit: Warner Classics
PlayingFatma Said sings Yo Soy María (Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires)
Soprano Fatma Said sings as the radiant María from Astor Piazzolla's tango opera María de Buenos Aires in this selection from her album Kaleidoscope. Discover here: https://w.lnk.to/kalLY "There’s a reason – in fact many reasons – why Piazzolla chose the tango, his own natural mode of expression, to evoke the passion and truth behind a real love story: whatever the situation, the tango is always the release, an expression of the freedom a couple have often been denied in their lives. Tango leaves a lot of space for a woman to express herself – it’s a situation where a woman is not dependent on a man, and where she knows herself, her core – physically but also internally." – Fatma Said She has recorded this piece with the Quinteto Ángel, Heinrich Köbberling on drums and percussion, and Philip Krause on percussion. Dancers: Fatma Said, Alejandro Angelica Video Director: James Bort Assistant Video Director: Adrien Bernard Devillette Fashion Stylist: Aurore Donguy Hair & Makeup: Ilka Jänicke Special thanks to Konzerthaus Berlin. Credit: Warner Classics
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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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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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Through The Noise
Lafayette, LondonSep 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.
- Classical Music
- 21 August 2023