Florian Boesch
Florian Boesch (born on May 17, 1971 in Saarbrücken ) is an Austrian opera singer ( bass baritone ), who is also known as a song interpreter .
Life
Florian Boesch, son of Christian Boesch , took his first singing lessons from his grandmother, Kammersängerin Ruthilde Boesch , and from 1997 studied song and oratorio with Robert Holl at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . In 2002 he made his debut with a recital at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg , at the end of 2003 as Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Zurich Opera House and subsequently sang at the Vienna Volksoper , Stuttgart State Opera , Bregenz Festival , Styriarte Graz, and Hamburg State Opera , at the Theater an der Wien , at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow , at the LA Opera in Los Angeles and in Tokyo.
Boesch gave recitals a. a. in the Wiener Musikverein and in the Wiener Konzerthaus , in the Wigmore Hall London , in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam , at the Edinburgh Festival , in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg , at the Schwetzinger Festspiele , in the Philharmonie Luxembourg and in North America.
As a concert singer he has performed several times under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt , including on a tour of Japan , in Vienna, the Berlin Philharmonic and in Salzburg. He sang the bass solos in Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri (under Simon Rattle with the Vienna Philharmonic ), in the St. Matthew and St. John Passions (in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam), in Weill's Berlin Requiem (with the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France ) and in Mendelssohn's Elias (under Paul McCreesh and Ivor Bolton ).
He has been associated with the Salzburg Festival since 2002. He made his debut there as Tiridate in Handel's Radamisto (in the Felsenreitschule ), sang Police Commissioner in Rosenkavalier (in the Großer Festspielhaus ) in 2004 , Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro under Nikolaus Harnoncourt in 2006 (on the occasion of the inauguration of the House for Mozart ) and Guglielmo in 2009 in Così fan tutte . In 2012 and 2013 he was represented at the Ouverture spirituelle in Salzburg: 2012 as a bass soloist in Mozart's Missa longa in C major (KV 262) in the Salzburg Cathedral , in 2013 in Haydn's Creation and in the Seasons , as well as in Mozart's C minor Mass in the collegiate church of St. Peter with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela under Gustavo Dudamel .
At the Theater an der Wien he sang in Handel's Messiah in spring 2009 and in Schubert's Lazarus in autumn 2013 - each in staged versions by Claus Guth . In January 2013 he could be seen and heard in this house as Tiridate in Handel's Radamisto under René Jacobs with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra . In 2011 Boesch made his role debut as Wozzeck at the Cologne Opera .
records
To Boesch's better-known recordings include Schubert's Winterreise with Malcolm Martineau at the piano, Bach - Cantatas under Martin Haselböck , the St. Matthew Passion under Sir Roger Norrington and Dvorak's Stabat Mater under Philippe Herreweghe .
Awards
- 2014: Austrian Music Theater Prize - Golden Schikaneder in the category best male supporting role for his role in Radamisto at the Theater an der Wien
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara Boisits, Georg Demcisin: Boesch, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- ↑ Awarding of the 2nd Austrian Music Theater Prize on June 17, 2014 . Retrieved April 4, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boesch, Florian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (bass baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th May 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |