Marc Olivier Oetterli

From 2008 Marc Olivier Oetterli appeared as a soloist in the State Opera Rousse's Solothurn seasons, in casts that also held Petya Tsoneva, Noemi Nadelmann, Jörg Schneider and Plamen Beykov. Oetterli was born in Geneva and grew up in Solothurn, where he had his first piano lessons and sang with the choirboys of the St Ursen cathedral. He finished his studies at the Hochschule der Kuenste in Bern with Prof. Jakob Staempfli in 1996, then worked with Margreet Honig, Alexandrina Milcheva, Jan-Hendrik Rootering and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and from 2010 with Miriam Jaskierowicz-Arman. A bass-baritone, he has sung Papageno, Leporello, Don Alfonso, Figaro, Don Pasquale, Klingsor and Fasolt, and Prospero in Berio's Un re in ascolto. He recorded Tchaikovsky's Iolanta for Oehms Classics, a set that took an International Classical Music Award in 2016, Die Zauberfloete for Farao Classics and Porpora's Christmas Oratorio for Sony Classical. He conducts as well as sings.