The French Ambassador to Cairo will grant the renewed Egyptian soprano, Neveen Allouba, France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in the grade of Chevalier (Knight).
Allouba will be awarded for her breakthrough achievement in the Egyptian music scene, along with many aspects of the country’s cultural scene.
Working for the Cairo Opera Company, she has performed in countless operas. She has taught numerous young singers and both founded and directed many successful creative endeavors of the Fabrica musical theatre company.
Allouba had dreams of becoming an actress but was not supported by her family. Instead, she turned to playing piano and singing, graduating from the Cairo Conservatory in 1978.
She was granted scholarships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (West German Cultural Exchange) and the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation to study opera performance and vocal pedagogy at the Hannover Hochschule fur Music and Theatre where she deepened her singing techniques and eventually obtained a doctorate in 1988.
