Régine Crespin has been played on NTS shows including The Opera Show, with Der Rosenkavalier first played on 21 February 2017.

Régine Crespin (23 February 1927 – 5 July 2007) was a French operatic dramatic soprano, later a mezzo-soprano, who excelled in both the French and German repertoire.

Crespin was born in Marseille. Her childhood was affected both by growing up during World War II and her mother's alcoholism.[1]

She began taking singing lessons at the age of sixteen. After failing to pass her Baccalauréat but doing well in a singing competition, she went to Paris and studied at the Conservatoire.[2]

She made her début in 1950 in…