BARITONE | BASS
Florian Boesch
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
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- Press enquiries & artist material | Clara Riefellner
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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. Together with 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, the Theater an der Wien and 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, 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.
An equally compelling performer on the opera stage, Florian Boesch has starred in celebrated Claus Guth productions, be it in Handel’s Saul and Orlando or Schubert’s Lazarus at Theater an der Wien. He celebrated further success 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 milestones in 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, 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 appeared again in Claus Guth's production of Handel's Saul at the Semperoper Dresden and made 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 appeared at the Nederlandse Opera with a new production of Handel's Semele under Emmanuelle Haïm, where he returns in autumn 2026 for a staged production of Bach’s St John Passion. A further highlight of the 2026–2027 season includes a new production of Bluebeard’s Castle at the Vienna State Opera.
Among the most important concerts of the upcoming season are Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny under HK Gruber, Handel’s Messiah under Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Paris and under Erwin Ortner at Vienna’s Musikverein, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius under Vasily Petrenko in Copenhagen, Britten’s War Requiem with Lorenzo Viotti in Lisbon, and Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble under Thomas Hengelbrock. Three hundred years after the work’s premiere, Florian Boesch sings the role of Jesus in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Concentus Musicus under Stefan Gottfried and with Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe. On the recital stage he performs at the Vienna Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall, and in Innsbruck, Zurich, Cáceres, and Madrid.
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 lieder in an orchestrated version with Concentus Musicus Stefan Gottfried. Boesch’s recordings of Schumann and Mahler lieder also won him a BBC Music Magazine Award. In May 2023 a new album featuring Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Kerner Lieder followed by songs by Brahms and Wolf in 2025 – both released on the Linn Records label.
Florian Boesch received his initial vocal training from KS Ruthilde Boesch, after which came his studies in Lied and Oratorio with KS Robert Holl in Vienna. He has been Professor of Lied and Oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 2015.
2026 | 2027
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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
CALENDAR
Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin op. 25, D 795
Florian Boesch, baritone
Musicbanda Franui
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie
Béla Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle
EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGÖDIE
Dmitry Golovnin, Guido Bardi, Prince of Florence
Christopher Maltman, Simone, a merchant
Asmik Grigorian, Bianca, his wife
BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
Florian Boesch, Duke Bluebeard
Asmik Grigorian, Judith
Alain Altinoglu, musical direction
Vasily Barkhatov, direction
Christian Schmidt, staging
Stefanie Seitz, costumes
Alexander Sivaev, lighting
Roland Horvath, video
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie
Béla Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle
EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGÖDIE
Dmitry Golovnin, Guido Bardi, Prince of Florence
Christopher Maltman, Simone, a merchant
Asmik Grigorian, Bianca, his wife
BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
Florian Boesch, Duke Bluebeard
Asmik Grigorian, Judith
Alain Altinoglu, musical direction
Vasily Barkhatov, direction
Christian Schmidt, staging
Stefanie Seitz, costumes
Alexander Sivaev, lighting
Roland Horvath, video
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie
Béla Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle
EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGÖDIE
Dmitry Golovnin, Guido Bardi, Prince of Florence
Christopher Maltman, Simone, a merchant
Asmik Grigorian, Bianca, his wife
BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
Florian Boesch, Duke Bluebeard
Asmik Grigorian, Judith
Alain Altinoglu, musical direction
Vasily Barkhatov, direction
Christian Schmidt, staging
Stefanie Seitz, costumes
Alexander Sivaev, lighting
Roland Horvath, video
‘The Great Schubert Affair, or: The Song Contest in Which Franz Schubert Wins’
Anja Mittermüller, mezzo-soprano
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Florian Boesch, bass-baritone
Karl Markovics, vocals
Oliver Welter, vocals
Clara Frühstück, piano
Daniel Heide, piano
Die Strottern
Anna Mabo & die Buben
The Erlkings
Musicbanda Franui
CONTACT
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
- und Press enquiries & artist material | Clara Riefellner
- +43 (0)5 06 80-013
- riefellner@machreich-artists.com
