Mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis studied singing at the Conservatory in her hometown of Fribourg in Switzerland, before moving to the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. At the beginning of her career, she was a member of the ensemble at the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck under the direction of Brigitte Fassbaender and has since appeared regularly at the most renowned theatres and opera houses.
Recent appearances include Anima in Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo under René Jacobs at the Berlin State Opera and The Fairy Queen in a production by Mariame Clément conducted by Christophe Rousset at the Theater an der Wien. Her highlight of the 2017/18 season was her debut at La Scala, Milan, in Schubert’s Fierrabras under Daniel Harding. She also appeared in the title role in La Belle Hélène at the Theater St Gallen and as Dido (Dido and Aeneas) in a production by Sasha Waltz and Guests at the Berlin State Opera and at the Teatro Real, Madrid.
During the 2020/21 season she appeared as Dido in a new production at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, coproduced with the Opéra de Lille and the Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm.
Recent appearances on the concert podium include the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Jonathan Nott, Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly, the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg and Ivor Bolton and the New Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan and Ingo Metzmacher, as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Roger Norrington.
Marie-Claude Chappuis gives regular recitals with lutenist Luca Pianca and with pianists Malcolm Martineau, Cédric Pescia and Christian Chamorel.
Her extensive discography includes the Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Riccardo Chailly, Annio (La clemenza di Tito) with René Jacobs, which was nominated for a Grammy, Telemann’s Brockes Passion and the Mozart Requiem with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and René Jacobs, as well as a solo album with lutenist Luca Pianca (Sous l’empire d’Amour, 2017) and a recording of Swiss folksongs (Au cœur des Alpes, 2018).
