Brigitte Fassbaender

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Brigitte Fassbaender
Légion d'honneur

Brigitte Fassbaender (German:

Vienna Staatsoper
.

Career

Fassbaender was born in Berlin, the daughter of screen actress Sabine Peters and baritone Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. The family settled in Nuremberg after World War II. She spent her early career in Munich.

Fassbaender studied singing with her father, at the Nuremberg Conservatory. She joined the

Royal Opera, London and made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1974. Fassbaender's first love was not music, but theatre. "I was obsessed by the theatre and wanted to be an actress like my mother."[1]

In addition to her operatic work, Fassbaender has performed in the concert hall as a

Lieder singer and in films, singing the role of Prince Orlofsky in the 1984 film production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Her recordings range from operas,[2] vocal works with orchestra,[3] to Lieder, including Schubert's Winterreise and Schwanengesang, oratorios such as Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Handel's Messiah, and also speaking roles after her retirement from singing.[4] She has appeared in numerous televised opera productions now available on DVD, such as her signature roles Octavian and Orlofsky, both conducted by her frequent collaborator Carlos Kleiber.[citation needed
]

Fassbaender has also taught masterclasses. In 2010, she wrote the book and texts for two successful musicals - Lulu - das Musical and Shylock!, based on

Opera director at the Staatstheater Braunschweig for two years from 1995 to 1997. In 1999, she became intendant (managing director) of the Tiroler Landestheater (Tyrolean State Theatre) in Innsbruck, a position she held until 2012.[5] More recently, she has been director of the annual Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.[citation needed
]

In 2006, she was awarded the

Légion d'honneur.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Fassbaender, Brigitte." Current Biography Yearbook. The H. W. Wilson Company. 1994. p. 1973.
  2. ^ Andrew Clements (16 January 2009). "Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier; Watson/Fassbaender/Popp/Ridderbusch/Kusche/Bavarian State Opera/Kleiber". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  3. ^ Andrew Clements (21 July 2011). "Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  4. ^ Tim Ashley (9 October 2014). "Strauss: Intermezzo CD review – darker than ever before". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  5. ^ Daniel Ender (11 February 2014). "Junge Sänger kommen mit den Noten auf dem iPad". Der Standard. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Fassbaender wurde "Ritter der Ehrenlegion"". ORF (Tirol). 24 January 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2015.

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