Conductors are the most conservative people I know

Brigitte Fassbaender in conversation with Opernwelt

As Octavian © Bayerische Staatsoper

This is a compilation of three shortened interviews from 2009, 2014 and 2022.

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From Hänsel to Cherubino and Orlofsky in "Die Fledermaus", you have never missed a trouser role. What the Marschallin was for Schwarzkopf, became for you Octavian, the "young gentleman from a great house", which you sang for the first time in…