Frédérique Friess

French soprano Frédérique Friess took her first singing lessons at the National Conservatory of her hometown, Strasbourg in France, alongside to her studies for German language and literature. While finishing her language studies in Berlin thanks to a scholarship, she was admitted to the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, where she entered Prof. Luisa Bosabalian’s singing class and later Prof. Dunja Vejzocic’s. She also studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Lied with Prof. Hartmut Höll and Mitsuko Shirai and at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, where she learns from Prof. Rita Orlandi-Malaspina. After her permanent engagements for several years at the opera houses of Hamburg, Mannheim and Passau, where she sang roles of her young soprano repertoire and under the