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. 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.