Soprano Fabienne Valentine Exler began her singing lessons at the age of ten. She won second prize in
the 2008 Jugend musiziert Kleve regional competition and first prize in the selection competition of
the DTKV Köln-Aachen in December 2011. An internship took her to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in
2011, which strengthened her resolve to study singing. From 2012 she took singing lessons with
soprano Heike Gierhardt to advance further in her studies. In 2014 she began studying classical
singing at the Maastricht Conservatory in Yvonne Schiffelers' class. She graduated with the Bachelor
of Music in 2018. From November 2020 she studied at the Münster Conservatory in the Master of
Music department with a major in singing/opera in the class of Prof. Annette Koch. She successfully
completed her master's degree and certificate year in 2023. In 2024, she was invited to the Bayreuth
Festival as a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Münster.

Fabienne loves opera and operetta; she also has a fondness for art songs and is actively involved in
church music. In 2025, she gave her first international recital in Switzerland. Most recently, she sang
the role of Diane in J. Offenbach’s ,Orpheus in the Underworld‘ at the Neue Operette Düsseldorf, and
the role of Ottavia in C. Monteverdi’s ,L’incoronazione di Poppea‘ at the Berlin Opera Academy. Her
repertoire includes et al. the 1st girl of the second group in the flower girl scene from R. Wagner's
,Parsifal’ (Conservatorium Maastricht), the Kurfürstin in ‚Der Vogelhändler’ by C. A. Zeller (Hfm
Münster), Rosalinde in ,Die Fledermaus’ by J. Strauss (Hfm Münster), Pamina and the 1st Dame in
,Die Zauberflöte‘ by W.A. Mozart (Hfm Münster), Micaëla in ,Carmen’ by G. Bizet and Contessa di
Almaviva in ,Le Nozze di Figaro’ by W.A. Mozart.