| The choir has appeared many times at major international, national and regional events (World Championsship of Ski 2001, Congress of 1.000 Cities for Europe, 2001), and broadcast on TV and radio (MDR, ORF, ZDF).
Past highlights include a two-month visit to Japan in 1982. Other countries in which the Abbey of Wilten Boys' Choir has been invited to perform include Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy and Switzerland. In opera the choir has appeared in Innsbruck and Bolzano with The Magic Flute from Mozart, Carmen, The Cavalier of the Rose, The Cunning Little Vixen, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Turandot. The practice of a mixed choir where treble and alto is sung by the boys, tenor and bass by those whose voices have broken, has the tremendous advantage that works by the old masters can be sung in the original: Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245, Haydn's Missa Cellensis Hob XXII:8 and Creation Hob XXI:2, Mozart's Masses KV 257 and 337 (certain available on CD).
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