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Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender

  • German opera singer. His yielding, technically unimpeachable baritone voice was particularly appreciated in Mozart's operas and characters, especially Figaro and Papageno.
  • His daughter, Brigitte Fassbaender, is also a retired opera singer (mezzosoprano).
  • Operatic baritone. Performed in public from 1922 and became one of the most important stars of the Stuttgart State Opera, as well as having a long residency at the Berliner Staatsoper (1930-1948). He appeared in several films and taught (from 1954) at the Music Conservatory of Nuremberg.
  • The singer and actor Willi Domgraf Fassbaender became well-known over the border as a inspired singer.
  • After the war he didn't appear in movies but he continued his opera career smoothly. He sang among others at the Viennese state opera. Besides he also worked as an opera singer trainer at the conservatory of Nuremberg from 1954.
  • After an excursion to the German opera of Berlin he changed to the opera house Düsseldorf where he could impersonate a multitude of roles.
  • He went to the state opera of Stuttgart in 1927 where he became one of the most popular singers. On initiative of his colleague Richard Tauber he came back to Berlin where he soon was respectful called "the Italian baritone". It didn't last very long till the German film, which experienced the heydays of musical movies, knocked at Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender's door.
  • He studied voice by Julius Stückgold in Aachen. It followed first appearances in concerts before he made his debut as an opera singer in "Le Nozze di Figaro" in 1922.

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