Ratiba El-Hefny

Ratiba El-Hefny
Birth name Ratiba El-Hefny
Born 1931
Cairo
Died 16 September 2013
Occupation(s) Opera singer
Labels

Dean of the higher Arab Music Institute Cairo,

Director of the Cairo Opera House in 1988

Ratiba Hefny (Arabic رتيبة الحفنى ) (born 1931 in Cairo, Egypt, died 16 September 2013) was an Egyptian and an international Opera singer (Soprano) who has performed in more than 500 opera performances.[1] She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Arabic Music in Cairo. She became the director of the Cairo Opera House in 1988.

She grew up in a musical family, her father Mohamed Ahmed El-Hefny has written more than 45 books on music, and her grandmother to her mother was of a German origin, who also was a German opera singer. Ratiba started playing the piano at the age of five.

She also gave her singing voice to Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Education

Career

Achievements

The scientific literature

it has many of the works, including:

Awards and honors

Egypt State Incentive Prize in Arts and Letters of the Supreme Council of Culture, in 2004.

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