Brigitte Fassbaender

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Brigitte Fassbaender (born 3 July 1939 in Berlin) is a mezzo-soprano opera singer, a stage director and from 1999 to 2012, Intendant of the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, Austria. She holds the title Kammersängerin from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna Staatsoper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Fassbaender Brigitte Fassbaender was the daughter of screen actress Sabine Peters and the celebrated German baritone, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. Growing up in Germany, Brigitte's first love was not music, but theatre. She longed to become an actress like her mother, and it wasn’t until the family settled in Nuremberg after World War II that she began to secretly experiment with her voice. When she felt confident enough, she made a tape of arias and lieder and sent them to her father, who was then the head of the opera department at the Nuremberg Conservatory. Domgraf-Fassbaender promptly took his daughter on as a pupil, and she studied at the conservatory as a mezzo-soprano from 1958 to 1961. In April 1961, Domgraf-Fassbaender heard that the Bavarian State Opera in Munich was looking for a young mezzo-soprano, he recommended his daughter, who joined the company shortly after. She made her debut in Munich as the Page in Wagner's Lohengrin, which led to other small roles in various operas. Later in 1961, she made what she considers to be her real debut, as Nicklausse in Offenbach’s Les Contes d'Hoffmann. During the next twelve years, Fassbaender learned th

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The Brigitte Fassbaender Edition

The Very Best Of Brigitte Fassbaender

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Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33, Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 & andere Lieder

Famous Opera Arias

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Greatest Hits: Schubert

Schubert: Winterreise

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The Ultimate Lullaby Album

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Verdi: Il Trovatore

Lieder Vol.1 [Brahms/Dvorák/Schumann/Liszt/Tschaikowsky]

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Franz Liszt: Vergiftet sind meine Lieder S.289

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Lieder Vol.2 [Schubert & Wolf]

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Lieder Von Johannes Brahms

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