Chappuis with St. Thomas Boys Choir and Bach in East Asia
The Swiss mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis will be performing with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Thomaner Children's Choir in March 2016.
Asian tour: In Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Kawasaki and Seoul she sings the alto part in Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
For the Swiss singer, it is "a great honor and privilege to be invited by one of the most important orchestras in the world for this international tour," writes her secretariat. She will perform the arias and recitatives for alto in the Passion at the concerts. Following the tour, the work will then be performed on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, as is tradition.
Born in Fribourg, mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis studied in her home town with Tiny Westendorp, at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Breda Zakotnik and with Margreet Honig. From 1999 to 2003, she was a member of the ensemble at the Landestheater in Innsbruck under the direction of Brigitte Fassbaender. In 2001, she founded the Festival du Lied in Fribourg, of which she is the artistic director.
