Hedwig Fassbender
Hedwig Fassbender had sung a number of different rÃŽles before finally undertaking her triumphant first Isolde in 2001. Initially trained as a pianist, she went on to study voice in Munich with Ernst Haefliger. She was a member of the opera companies in Freiburg and Basel, and sang the most important rÃŽles of the lyric mezzo-soprano-repertoire, including Cherubino, Octavian, Rosina, Dorabella, Idamantes at the Hamburg Staatsoper, Marguerite in La damnation de Faust in Amsterdam, Nicklausse in Les contes dÂHoffmann in Barcelona, at the Bastille in Paris, in Vienna, Basel and Lyon. Isolde, her first dramatic soprano rÃŽle, was followed by Marie in Wozzeck, the Marschallin in Lyon and, among Wagnerian rÃŽles, Sieglinde in LiÚge, followed by Kundry and BrÃŒnnhilde.
