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[[Wendy Fine]] (1943-) is an opera singer.

== Biography ==

Wendy Fine was born on 19 December 1943 in Durban. She studied in South Africa and at the
Vienna Music Academy with Maria Hittorff and Erik Werba and made her debut at the
Stadttheater Bern as Madame Butterfly. She has sung at Covent Garden from 1971 to 1977 as
Musetta, Gutrune, Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi and Jenůfa and at La Scala in 1977 as Berg’s Marie.
As opera singer she appeared in major European cities such as Lisbon, Vienna, and Geneva. She
also sang at the Bayreuth Festival in 1971.

Her roles include Nedda, Micaëla, Marguerite, Mimì, Desdemona, Fiordiligi, Pamina. She also sang in lesser known and contemporary operas such as Szokolay’s ''[[Hamlet]]'' and Martinů’s ''[[The Miracles of Our Lady]]''.

==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

== Sources ==

[[Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow]][http://classicsa.co.za/site/listings/view/classicsa_sabina_mossolow_soprano/?s=musicians&f=ind&m=2&ms=1]. 2003. ''The career of South African soprano [[Nellie du Toit]], born 1929''. Unpublished Masters thesis. [[University of Stellenbosch]].[http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/16394]

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