Egyptian soprano Fatma Said is one of the six musicians picked by BBC Radio 3 for the New Generation Artists scheme. New Generation Artists is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 to nurture young musical talent, launched in 1999. According to her profile on BBC Music, Fatma, a Cairo native, had her first singing lesson at the age of 14, joining the Vocal Studio of Dr. Neveen Allouba at the Cairo Opera House before moving to Berlin, where she studied opera singing. She has performed on stages all over the world, winning international opera competitions including the 2016 Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, which brought us this clip of her beautifully singing Je veux vivre, from Roméo et Juliette at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland (runtime 03:49).