Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender [SEP] voice type
Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender
Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (19 February 1897, Aachen - 13 February 1978, Nuremberg) was a German operatic baritone, particularly associated with Mozart and Verdi roles. He is considered to have been one of the best lyric baritones of the inter-war period.
Life and career.
Domgraf-Fassbaender studied first in Berlin with Jacques Stuckgold and Paul Bruns, and later in Milan with the prominent Italian dramatic tenor Giuseppe Borgatti (who also taught the English tenor Heddle Nash). His stage
Naxos Records 8.110863.
- Mozart's "Così fan tutte", with Ina Souez (Fiordiligi), Luise Helletsgruber (Dorabella), Irene Eisinger (Despina), Heddle Nash (Ferrando), Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (Guglielmo), John Brownlee (Alfonso). Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, conductor Fritz Busch. First complete studio recording of this opera, 1936. His Master's Voice, later also Naxos Records 8.110280-81. (Remastered Version, 2004)
- Mozart's "Don Giovanni", with