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Robin Fisher, lyric coloratura soprano, has performed to critical acclaim in such cities as Paris, Vienna, Prague, Hamburg, Chicago and Dallas. Press comments remark on her "amazingly precise coloratura, melting diminuendi, splendid high notes and delightful musicality" (Opernwelt) and her "mature timbre and total self-assurance. an extremely exciting singer-actress"(Westdeutsche Zeitung).

Following her professional operatic debut in 1988 at the Salzburg Festival, she signed a solo contract with one of Germany's leading regional opera companies, the Wuppertal Opera. During her tenure there, she sang over 250 performances of such leading roles as Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Norina (Don Pasquale), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Despina (Cosí fan tutte), and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte). She has been a guest performer with the Operá de Paris, the Smetana Opera in Prague and the Wiesbaden State Opera.

In concert, she has been featured in such works as Mozart's C-minor Mass and Requiem, Haydn's Creation, Handel's Messiah, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang Symphony, Bach's Christmas Oratorio and solo cantatas, and Schubert's masses with such ensembles as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Wuppertal Symphony, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Fort Worth Early Music ensemble. Most recently she has performed the North American premiere of works by Spanish composer Francisco Courcelle with the Orchestra of New Spain.

Ms. Fisher's many recital appearances in both Europe and the United States attest to her love for the art song. A compact disc recording of sacred American art songs in collaboration with Dalton Baldwin is forthcoming in January 2003. National Public Radio recently broadcast an interview and concert excerpts from her lecture-recital series "Poetry and Music in the American Art Song." Austrian Radio recorded her world premiere performance of several avant-garde works from the Styrian Fall Festival. Swiss Radio invited Ms. Fisher to record Mozart lieder accompanied by fortepiano for broadcast during a Mozart festival.

Ms. Fisher won both the prestigious Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship and a Rotary Foundation Award to pursue studies in Europe, and received the coveted Artist's Diploma cum laude, from the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. She began her vocal studies at San José State University in California and went on to graduate cum laude from Smith College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She recently completed her doctoral studies at The University of Texas at Austin and taught at Baylor University for nine years. Ms. Fisher is currently Professor of Voice at California State University, Sacramento.