Christian Boesch

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Christian Boesch (born July 27, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian opera singer (baritone).

Life

Christian Boesch is the son of the soprano and chamber singer Ruthilde Boesch , who also taught him singing, and of AE Boesch. His brother is the writer Wolfgang Boesch . Christian Boesch studied from 1959 to 1964 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Kammersänger Alfred Jerger and later in Milan and Trieste . Later he also studied theater studies and German at the University of Vienna ( Dr. phil. 1985). His singing career took him to Bern, Vienna, Saarbrücken, Kiel and back to Vienna. Boesch was best known for the role of Papageno from the Magic Flute at the Salzburg Festival . He has also performed at many other European opera houses. His performances with the Tölzer Boys Choir were particularly popular .

A particular concern of his was to bring opera closer to children. The Magic Flute for children was one of his projects that he performed across Europe. The Magic Flute for children reached around 450,000 children: “It was sold out 120 times in Cologne, each time in front of 1,000 children. A television movie was made that also ran on Channel 13 in the US. Millions of children have experienced it - and if there were only a few who stayed, the company made sense ”. In 1985, the then could ORF - program director Ernst Wolfram Marboe , who also directed, Christian Boesch persuade the lead role in the interactive television Singspiel , free after Ferdinand Raimund , under the name "Simsalabim Bam Bum or the barometer makers on the Magic Island " to take over a co-production by ZDF and ORF.

In 1986 Boesch emigrated to Chile , according to his own account from an overreaction to the Chernobyl disaster . Since then he has been running an organic farm in the country he knew from previous performances. He also founded a music school in his new home.

Christian Boesch is the father of seven children, including the bass-baritone Florian Boesch .

Awards

Works

  • So fan tutte. A reflection of Mozart's unresolved fate. Analysis and documentation from the perspective of a Mozart singer. Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1984, OBV .
  • Papageno as a mediator, adaptation and arrangement of well-known works of the repertoire. In: Isolde Schmid-Reiter (ed.): Children's opera. Aesthetic challenge and educational obligation. Köthen 2004, pp. 66-70.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The magic flute for children. Stuttgart 2006.
  • I am the best ghost in the world. Papageno tells the story of the Magic Flute. Vienna 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boesch, 2004, p. 68.
  2. ↑ a b BB / GDe: Boesch, family . In: musiklexikon.ac.at , May 6, 2013, accessed on August 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Boesch, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna