Wolfgang Resch

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Wolfgang Resch (born 1990 in Hall in Tirol ) is an Austrian opera singer ( baritone ).

life and work

Resch received his first vocal training with the Wilten Boys' Choir in Innsbruck. As a soloist, he was able to gain first stage experience as a boy in Mozart's Magic Flute at the age of seven . While still at school, Wolfgang Resch studied at the Tyrolean State Conservatory with Karlheinz Hanser, before continuing his studies in 2008 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Ralf Döring and Charles Spencer . He attended master classes a. a. at KS Brigitte Fassband.

Together with the pianist Sascha El Mouissi , Wolfgang Resch devotes himself intensively to song singing. Concerts and recitals led the artist a. a. to London , Liverpool , Reykjavík and Istanbul to the Istanbul Music Festival.

Resch made his operatic debut in 2009 as Papageno at Daegu City Hall in Korea. In addition to engagements as a corporal in Donizetti's La fille du régiment at the Klosterneuburg Opera Festival and as Ananias in Britten's church opera The Burning Fiery Furnace at the Retz Festival, he performed as part of his studies a. a. as Conte Perruchetto in Haydn's La fedeltà premiata and as Conte Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in the Schönbrunn Palace Theater .

In 2014 he was accepted into the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival and made his debut as Second Nazi in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's Charlotte Salomon at the Felsenreitschule .

From 2013 to 2016 Wolfgang Resch belonged to the ensemble of Konzert Theater Bern , where he worked as Ottokar (Weber: Der Freischütz ), Harlequin (Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos ) , Papageno (Mozart: The Magic Flute ) and Dandini (Rossini: La Cenerentola ) , Eddy (Turnage: Greek ), Silvano (Verdi: Un ballo in maschera ) and Don Parmenione (Rossini: L'occasione fa il ladro ).

In the 2016/17 season, Wolfgang Resch will debut at the Baden stage as Leopold Kupelwieser (Berté: Das Dreimäderlhaus ) and at the Biel Solothurn Theater Orchestra and at the Armel Opera Festival in Budapest as Hans Scholl (Zimmermann: Weisse Rose ).

Awards

  • First prize winner of the song competition of the Petyrek Lang Foundation
  • Prize winner of the international Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský singing competition in Trnava / Slovakia
  • Winner of the music competition Gradus ad Parnassum 2011
  • Finalist and winner of the 8th International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Resch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall in Tirol