Fakhereh Saba

Fakhereh Saba (Persian: فاخره صبا), (1920–2007) was the first female opera singer in Iran.[1]

Saba was born in 1920, the daughter of a cousin of the Iranian musician Abolhasan Saba.[1] She started her primary and musical education in Iran, and continued her higher education in France. She went to France in April 1947 and was accepted as one of the 20 students at the Conservatoire de Paris.[2] A soprano, she performed the part of Suzuki in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly in the 1960s.[3] She had a lot of notable students including Mansoureh Ghasri, Mohhamad Nouri and many others.[4] Saba and her husband, Alireza Afzalipour, were founders of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman and Kerman University of Medical Sciences.[1][5] She died in 2007.

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  1. ^ a b c "دانشگاه شهيد باهنر کرمان > درباره دانشگاه > زندگينامه بانو فاخره صبا". Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
  2. ^ "Women of Music" (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  3. ^ Azizi, Arash (2020). The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, The U.S., and Iran's Global Ambitions. London, U.K.: Oneworld Publications. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-78607-944-2. Afzalipoor had married Saba, a beautiful soprano who was at the forefront in Iran of the opera world, then a glamorous Western import. In the 1960s, Saba enchanted Tehrani audiences with her performance as Suzuki the maid in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, an oriental tale, told by an Italian, reverberatin in another corner of the orient.
  4. ^ "فاخره صبا خوانندهء هنرمند ایرانی – گفتگوی هارمونیک Harmony Talk". harmonytalk.com. 27 August 2011.
  5. ^ "دانشگاه شهيد باهنر کرمان > درباره دانشگاه > تاريخچه". Archived from the original on 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2012-05-28.


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