Amira Selim

Amira Selim (born in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian soprano and opera singer, based in France.
Life.
Selim was born in Cairo, the daughter of pianist Marcelle Matta and painter Ahmed Fouad Selim. After studying piano, ballet and painting, she started voice training and Italian repertoire in Italy with soprano Gabriella Ravazzi in 1993 and graduated from the Cairo Conservatoire in 1999. In October 2001, she received a scholarship from the French Government to study with soprano Caroline Dumas at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she obtained the "Diplôme supérieur de concertiste" in 2004.
In 2002, she was the first prize winner at the international competition of Orvieto, Italy. Selim started her career as a member and soloist at the Cairo Opera company in 1997 with her first leading role in Rossini’s Opera "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" in 1998, it was followed by a number of other productions. After moving to France, she continued to feature in Egyptian Opera's as well as French, Italian and German companies.
On April 3rd 2021, she participated in the Pharaohs’ Golden Parade, an event during which 22 mummies of Ancient Egyptian kings & queens were moved from the Egyptian Museum to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo. In her performance, she sang "A Reverence for Isis" in the Ancient Egyptian Language, which was taken from inscriptions on the walls on Deir el-Shelwit in Luxor.