The voice for opera and concert

Claudia Appiani discovered her love for music and especially for singing when she was a child. At the age of 15 she took first singing-lessons from her father Armando Appiani, an internationally well-known sing- ing-teacher and opera-singer, in Frankfurt/Main.

After the A-level examination she studied English and French at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univer- sität in Frankfurt before she deci- ded to start a professional singing- training.

At the Scuola del Belcanto, an opera- and singing-school in Bad Homburg which is officially recognized by the Ministry of Science and Art, she was trained to be an opera- and concert- singer.

Besides of this she attended master- courses in Zurich and took part in inter- national opera-workshops.

In addition to the singing-technique her studies also included the subjects speech training, drama, theory, piano lessons, body-training and singing- pedagogics.

At first Claudia Appiani was trained as a mezzo-soprano but her voice developed into a dramatic soprano and so she is able to sing a widespread classical repertoire.

The priority of her repertoire is to be found in the dramatic soprano roles of the Italian opera but she also likes to sing operas of French and German-language composers and her distincted chestvoice register allows her the successful excursion to the musical-genre, too.

Besides of her engagements as a singer Claudia Appiani works as a singing-teacher. Since 1999 she is the headmistress of the opera- and singing-school Scuola del Belcanto in Oberursel (near Frankfurt a.M.), Germany.