Talking point | Music
Why go to the opera?
Opera: outmoded and out of touch or timeless and eternal? We ask the soprano singer Fatma Said
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Fatma Said
06/01/2023
Fatma Said, born in Cairo in 1991, is a soprano and most recently released the album “Kaileidoscope”
Photo: James Bort
Opera still has the power to reflect contemporary narrative back at us. Think of the movies that are eighty years old which people still watch today. But I think we do have to become more relevant for younger people, to think outside the box.
Why shouldn't I, as an opera singer, work with a house musician? I recently performed in a club in London in front of the youngest audience I've ever had. Those are exactly the people I want to reach and who might visit the opera in ten years' time.