Tiroler Landestheater

About this audio guide

This guide to the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck follows mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender, who sang beside conductor Carlos Kleiber and debuted in London and New York before walking away from singing at what many called her peak. It traces her decision to take over this eight-hundred-seat house in nineteen ninety-nine, standing on ground the architect Christoph Gumpp first built up in the sixteen fifties. You will hear what she chose to stage once in charge, and why a voice that could fill the world's biggest opera houses settled for the Alps.