Ratiba El-Hefny | |
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| Birth name | Ratiba El-Hefny |
| Born | 2 December 1931 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Died | 16 September 2013 (aged 81) Cairo, Egypt |
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Ratiba Hefny (Arabic: رتيبة الحفني; 2 December 1931 – 16 September 2013) was an Egyptian international Opera singer (soprano) who performed in more than 500 opera performances.[1] She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Arabic Music in Cairo, and became the director of the Cairo Opera House in 1988.
She grew up in a musical family, her father Mahmoud El Hefny had written more than 45 books on music, and her grandmother, who also was a German opera singer. El-Hefny started playing the piano at the age of five.
El-Hefny gave her singing voice to Snow White in Disney's 1975 Arabic edition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.[2]