Brigitte Fassbaender, born July 3, 1939 in Berlin, is a German mezzo-soprano,
opera director, and arts administrator. Trained by her father, Kammersänger
Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, she debuted at the Bavarian State Opera in 1961 and
performed across major international opera houses, including the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, La Scala, and the Metropolitan Opera, with Octavian in
Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier as her signature role. Her extensive
discography includes recordings of operas such as Così fan tutte (1975) and
Werther (1977), and she was the first female singe...