Fanchette Verhunc

Growing up, she took lessons from Professor Josef Gänsbacher and Felice Mancio and took to the stage.

After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory, she was first engaged for a short time at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, then came to Posen to work through her repertoire from there, and from here, after a year's work, went to the Breslau City Theater.She was also invited to participate in the Bayreuth Festival in 1901, where she was assigned "Freia," "Ortlinde," and the "First Squire" in Parsifal.

[citation needed] In 1938 she lived in Frankfurt, but returned in 1944 to her Slovenian homeland.

[citation needed] She was married to the tenor Adalbert Holzapfel and after the divorce the life partner of the conductor Julius Prüwer.

[citation needed] Verhunc died in Golnik, Carniola, at the age of 70.