Austrian baritone Florian Boesch is counted as one of today’s foremost Lieder interpreters with appearances throughout Europe, the USA (Carnegie Hall) and Canada. He was featured as artist in residence at the Vienna Konzerthaus and at the Wigmore Hall in London.

Florian Boesch is also a frequent guest on the concert platform, where he has worked with eminent conductors including Giovanni Antonini, Ivor Bolton, Teodor Currentzis, Iván Fischer, Adam Fischer, Sir Roger Norrington, Philippe Herreweghe, Sir Simon Rattle, Ivor Bolton, Pablo Heras-Casado, Robin Ticciati and Valery Gergiev. He enjoyed a particularly close collaboration with Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

On the opera stage Florian Boesch compels as a great singer-actor, most recently in a new production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Handel’s Saul at the Theater an der Wien. Major productions of his career also include Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, a scenic version of Schubert‘s Lazarus and Händel’s Messiah at the Theater an der Wien and Méphistophélès in Berlioz‘ La Damnation de Faust at the States Opera in Berlin. The 2022/2023 season marks Florian Boesch’s debut at the Vienna State Opera with a Mahler project entitled Von der Liebe Tod (leading Team Calixto Bieito & Lorenzo Viotti).  He will also appear in a staged production of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin with Nikolaus Habjan and Musicbanda Franui at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden.

Florian Boesch received his initial vocal trainings from KS Ruthilde Boesch and later studied Lied and oratorio with KS Robert Holl in Vienna. Florian Boesch is holding a professorship at the University of Music and Drama in Vienna.