Florian Boesch

Boesch was born in Saarbrücken, West Germany, and is the son of Christian Boesch.[1] He took his first singing lessons from his grandmother, Kammersängerin Ruthilde Boesch, and later studied lied and oratorio at the Musikhochschule Wien with Robert Holl from 1997.[2][3]

He made his debut with a recital in the Vienna Musikverein.[4] In 2002, he first appeared at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg.[5] At the end of 2003, he appeared as Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Opernhaus Zürich, and subsequently sang at the Volksoper Wien, at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Bregenz Festival, the Styriarte Graz, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Theater an der Wien, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Los Angeles Opera and in Tokyo.[6]

Boesch gave recitals at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall in London, the Edinburgh Festival, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and in North America.[7] As a concert singer, he has appeared several times with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, including on a tour of Japan, in Vienna, with the Berlin Philharmonie and in Salzburg. He sang the bass solos in Schumann's Paradise and the Peri with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle, in Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, in Kurt Weill's Berliner Requiem with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and in Mendelssohn's Elijah, conducted by both Paul McCreesh and Ivor Bolton.[8]