Hildegard Laurich

Hildegard Laurich (15 January 1941 – 11 February 2009),

She sang mostly in concert, particularly in works of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1974 she sang the alto part in Bach's St Matthew Passion in the Konstantinbasilika of Trier with Gertraud Stoklassa, Kurt Huber, Siegmund Nimsgern, William Reimer, the Trierer Bachchor, the Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Saarbrücken, conducted by Ekkehard Schneck.

She appeared at the Handel Festival Göttingen in 1969 and 1971, at the Toledo Festival of 1970 in Spain, and at the German Bach Festival. On the opera stage she appeared as a guest in Classical and Baroque operas, among others at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, at the opera houses of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, and in German theatres. She recorded Bruckner's Requiem, cantatas of Georg Frideric Handel, works of Heinrich Schütz, and Romeo und Julia of Heinrich Sutermeister. In 1981 she was one of the soloists for a recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 8, with Michael Gielen conducting the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester.