BARITONE | BASS
Florian Boesch
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
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- machreich@machreich-artists.com
GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
Austrian baritone Florian Boesch is hailed as one of today’s foremost Lieder interpreters, appearing regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall, the Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Konzerthaus in Dortmund, Philharmonie Luxemburg, Philharmonie Cologne, deDoelen Rotterdam, the Edinburgh, Schwetzingen and Salzburg Festivals. Accompanied by Malcolm Martineau, he performed all three Schubert cycles in Glasgow and across Australia (Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne). Florian Boesch has been an artist in residence at the Wigmore Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and Theater an der Wien. In the 2021/2022 season, he demonstrated his artistic versatility as artist in residence at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
A frequent guest on the concert platform, Florian Boesch has worked with leading orchestras such as the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dredsden, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Bamberg Symphoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, under renowned conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, Ivor Bolton, Teodor Currentzis, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Iván Fischer, Stefan Gottfried, Philippe Herreweghe, Pablo Heras-Casado, Vladimir Jurowski, Mariss Jansons, Sir Roger Norrington, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Sir Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati und Franz Welser-Möst.
He worked particularly closely with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with whom his final projects were Handel’s Messiah and Saul at the Wiener Musikverein and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the 2014 Styriarte festival. At the Salzburg Festival, they performed together in Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons.
Highlights of the current season include Weil's Seven Deadly Sins with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, Mahler Lieder with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorenzo Viotti, Haydn's Creation under the direction of Adam Fischer in Graz, concerts with Bach & Handel, as well as Brahms' Requiem with the Concentus Musicus under Stefan Gottfried in Grafenegg and Vienna, Bach's St Matthew Passion with Philippe Herreweghe on tour, Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht with Andrés Orozco-Estrada in Spain, and Britten's War Requiem with Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla in Paris. He also gives recitals at the Edinburgh Festival, the Schubertiada in Vilabertran, the Amsterdam Muziekgebouw and London's Wigmore Hall. He can be heard performing Schubert's Schöne Müllerin together with the Ensemble Franui at the Salzburg Festival and the Wiener Konzerthaus.
An equally compelling performer on the opera stage, Florian Boesch’s most recent productions included Handel’s Saul and Orlando conceived by Claus Guth at the Theater an der Wien. He has offered further acclaimed interpretations in staged versions of Schubert’s Lazarus and Handel’s Messiah, and as Jonathan Peachum in Kurt Weill’s Dreigroschenoper, in Purcell’s Fairy Queen, Alban Berg’s Wozzeck and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Theater an der Wien, while taking to the Berlin State Opera as Méphistophélès in Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust at the Schillertheater under Sir Simon Rattle. Major productions of his career include Alban Berg’s Wozzeck in Cologne and Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Salzburg Festival.
The 2022/2023 season marked Florian Boesch’s debut at the Vienna State Opera with a Mahler project entitled Von der Liebe Tod (leading team Calixto Bieito & Lorenzo Viotti), while in May 2023, he appeared in a staged production of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Nikolaus Habjan and Musicbanda Franui at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, which they took to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, to the Bregenz Festival, Graz Opera, the Gmunden Salzkammergut Festival and the MusikTheater an der Wien. In June 2025, he can be seen again in Claus Guth's production of Handel's Saul at the Semperoper Dresden and will make his debut as Bluebeard in a new production of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle at the Tyrol Festival in Erl, followed by a revival of the same production at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In January 2026, he will return to the Nederlandse Opera with a new production of Handel's Semele under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm.
Florian Boesch’s recordings have been celebrated among the international press, receiving numerous awards along the way, including an Edison Klassiek Award in 2012. Die schöne Müllerin was nominated for a 2015 Grammy in the category Best Classical Vocal Solo. In early September 2017, Hyperion released a new recording of Schubert’s Winterreise with Roger Vignoles at the piano; in autumn 2018 followed a recording of Schubert songs in an orchestrated version with Concentus Musicus Vienna under the baton of Stefan Gottfried. Boesch’s recordings of Schumann and Mahler songs also won him a BBC Music Magazine Award. In May 2023 a new album featuring Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Kerner Lieder was released by Linn records.
Florian Boesch received his initial vocal training from Ruthilde Boesch, after which came his studies in Lied and oratorio with Robert Holl in Vienna. Florian Boesch has been Professor of Lied and Oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since autumn 2015.
2025 | 2026
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DISCOGRAPHY
Brahms & Wolf: Lieder
Florian Boesch, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano
Label: Linn Records | July 2025
Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Magdalena Kozena, Andrew Staples, Alessandro Fisher, Florian Boesch, London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Label: LSOLive, DDD | 2025
Schumann: Dichterliebe and Kerner Lieder
Piano: Malcolm Martineau
Label: Linn Records | 2023
Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo
Georg Nigl, Cyril Auvity, Anett Fritsch, Daniel Schmutzhard, Florian Boesch
Il Giardino Armonico, Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Conductor: Giovanni Antonini
Stage Director: Robert Carsen
Label: Naxos | 2023
CALENDAR
Georg Friedrich Händel: Saul
Florian Boesch, Saul
Jake Arditti, David
Jasmin Delfs, Merab
Mary Bevan, Michal
James Ley, Jonathan
Tansel Akzeybek, Abner • High Priest • Doeg
Jake Ingbar, Witch of Endor
Leo Hussain, Musical Direction
Claus Guth, Stage Director
Christian Schmidt, Stage & Costumes
Bernd Purkrabek, Light
Arian Andiel, Video
Ramses Sigl, Choreographer
Juana Restrepo, Scenic Production
Jan Hoffmann, Choir
Yvonne Gebauer, Benedikt Stampfli, Dramaturge
Joseph Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Hob.XXI:2
Emöke Baráth, Soprano
Mauro Peter, Tenor
Florian Boesch, Bassbaritone
Danish Chamber Orchestra
Arnold Schönberg Choir
Adam Fischer, Conductor
Josef Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E flat major (‘Mit dem Paukenwirbel’)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A German war song, KV 539, ‘I would like to be the emperor’
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Per questa bella mano. Aria for bass, obbligato double bass and orchestra, KV 612
Joseph Haydn: Missa in tempore belli, Hob. XXII: 9 in C major
Chen Reiss, soprano
Michaela Selinger, mezzo-soprano
Jan Petryka, Tenor
Florian Boesch, bass
Ján Krigovský, double bass
Orchester Wiener Akademie
Vienna Boys' Choir
Chorus Viennensis
Martin Haselböck, Conductor
Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin op. 25, D 795
Florian Boesch, bass-baritone
Nikolaus Habjan, puppeteer & director
Musicbanda Franui
Florian Boesch, Bassbaritione
Malcolm Martineau, Piano
Selected songs by Robert Schumann after texts by Heine
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSCONTACT
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
