Nabila Erian

Nabila M. Erian (Arabic: نبيلة عريان, born 1941) is a professor of vocal sciences at the Cairo Conservatoire, Academy of Arts.

Erian obtained her PhD entitled Coptic Music: An Egyptian Tradition in 1986 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

In 2017, Erian delivered the introductory keynote speech at the La Traviata Met Live transmission at the American University in Cairo.

Erian sang in Arabic for many Egyptian composers including Abu Bakr Khairat, Aziz El-Shawan, Hasan Rashid and Gamal Abdel Rehim among others.

She sang the first ever Arabic Opera Anas el-Wugood (أنس الوجود) composed by Aziz El-Shawan based on the One Thousand and One Nights stories in 1994.