Gala El Hadidi	Audio of 2009 Concert Audition
Mezzo Soprano	Audio of 2010 Concert Audition
New England Finalist, 2010 New England Encouragement Award, 2010

Mezzo-soprano Gala El Hadidi joined the Cairo Opera Company in 2001 at the age of 18. She is currently studying for the M.M. Degree at Yale University under Doris Yarick-Cross. She graduated from the American University in Cairo with a B.A. in Philosophy in 2005 and an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature in June 2007. Her Thesis is titled: “Carmen: Debating the Femme Fatale.” She has won several prizes in French and German competitions such as “Jugend musiziert.” El Hadidi received a scholarship to attend the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart/Germany in September 2005.

With the Cairo Opera Company she appeared in the following roles: Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Baba/Flora in The Medium, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, Lola in Cavalleria rusticana, Jenny/Lucy in The Threepenny Opera, Sacerdotessa in Aïda, Third Genie/Boy in Die Zauberflöte, Marianna in Il Signor Bruschino, Ernestina in La occasionefa il ladro, Clarina in La cambiale di matrimonio. Throughout the last 7 years, she gave several concerts in Rome & Venice (Italy); Stuttgart & Leipzig (Germany); Helsinki & Savonlinna (Finland); Istanbul (Turkey); Rabat, Casablanca & Essaouira (Morocco); Algiers & Constantine (Algeria), as well as in Cairo & Alexandria ( Egypt). She participated in many International festivals such as: Stuttgart’s International Summer Festival 2004; Festival de Tres Culturas in Morocco in 2005; Festival des Alizes in Morocco in 2005; Europäische Musik Festival in Stuttgart in 2005; Der Internationale Musik Sommer in Stuttgart in 2006 and recently the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland in 2007 and 2008. In May 2009 Ms. Hadidi sang at the Conservatory Project at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. She was a National Council New England Regional Finalist in 2009.

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