BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Cairo-conceived Fatma Said was the main Egyptian soprano to sing at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan and from 2016-2018 participated in BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists ----

---- Western old style music was acquainted with Egypt, and, in the eighteenth century, instruments, for example, the piano and violin were continuously received by Egyptians. Drama likewise turned out to be progressively well known during the eighteenth century, and Giuseppe Verdi's Egyptian-themed Aida was debuted in Cairo on December 24, 1871. ----

---- Since the finish of World War I, a portion of the Middle East's greatest melodic stars have been Egyptian. Contemporary Egyptian music follows its beginnings to the innovative work of Abdu-l Hamuli, Almaz and Mahmud Osman, who were completely belittled by the Ottoman Khedive Ismail, and who affected the later work of the twentieth century's most significant Egyptian authors: Sayed Darwish, Umm Kulthum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Abdel Halim Hafez, and Zakariya Ahmed. A large portion of these stars, including Umm Kulthum and Nagat El-Saghira, were important for the conventional Egyptian music. A few, as Abd el-Halim Hafez, were related with the Egyptian patriot development from 1952 onward.[citation needed] ----

----