Bo Skovhus
A rising baritone star in the operatic scene of the 1990s, Boje Skovhus studied at the Aarhus Music College and the Royal Academy for Opera of Copenhagen and then went to New York for further training. After acquiring some professional experience on various stages, he had a breakout appearance at the Vienna Volksoper when he substituted at the last minute as Mozart's Don Giovanni. Since then he has enjoyed a rapidly developing career on the world's greatest opera stages.
He has been virtually adopted by the Viennese, who saw him rocket to fame on one of their stages, and regularly sings at the Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera. He regularly sings the other Mozart-Da Ponte baritone roles besides Don Giovanni, namely, the Count in Le nozze di Figaro and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte.
His good looks and a star quality make him an ideal choice for that minority of operas where the baritone part is the main or title role. Thus, he has spurred a revival of Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna Volksoper, and Royal Opera Copenhagen, as well as the little known baritone version of Massenet's Werther. He also has made a specialty of Britten's Billy Budd and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, including arias or scenes from them on his first opera disc under his exclusive artist contract with the Sony Classics label. Other leading baritone parts in his repertory are Berg's Wozzeck, Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero, Peter I in Zar und Zimmerman, Tarquinius in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, and Raimond in Othmar Schoeck's Venus.
Skovhus also frequently appears on the recital stage and has recorded creatively chosen recital discs. These include selections of lied settings by Hugo Wolf and Erich Wolfgang Korngold of poems by Eichendorff, a selection of songs by Robert and Clara Schumann called The Heart of the Poet, and the two great Schubert song cycles Schwanengesang and Die schöne Müllerin. His favored accompanist is pianist Helmut Deutsch. After his 1997 New York recital at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center he was acclaimed as one of the great lieder singers of his generation.
He has appeared on many of the world's great opera stages, including the Metropolitan in New York (debuting in the 1998-1999 season in Die Fledermaus), the Hamburg State Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra de Paris, Royal Opera Copenhagen, and the Bavarian State Opera.
He appears at major music festivals. Among them are Ravinia, Tanglewood, Edinburgh, the Vienna Festwochen, and the Feldkirch Schubertiade. On the orchestral concert stage, he has sung in Orff's Carmina Burana, Britten's War Requiem, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Brahms' Ein deutsche Requiem, and Schumann's Scenes from Faust.
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Discographie
21 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (Live at House Of Mozart, Salzburg Festival, 2006)
Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus, Ildebrando d' Arcangelo, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 4 juin 2007
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - Highlights
Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus, Ildebrando d' Arcangelo, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 4 juin 2007
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Great Opera
Opéra - Paru chez Naxos le 1 mai 2012
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Mozart, W.A.: Le Nozze di Figaro
Sylvia McNair, Cheryl Studer, Bo Skovhus, Cecilia Bartoli, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 1994
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Triumphlied - Ave Maria - Nänie - Schicksalslied
Bo Skovhus, Danish National Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 janv. 2004
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Brahms: Triumphlied, Ave Maria, Schicksalslied & Nänie
Gerd Albrecht, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Bo Skovhus, Danish National Symphony Choir
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 janv. 2004
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Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957
Classique - Paru chez CapriccioNR le 4 août 2017
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Don Giovanni (Highlights)
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 18 avr. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Leise flehen meine Lieder
Classique - Paru chez Sony Classical le 15 janv. 2009
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)
Gerd Albrecht, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Inger Dam-Jensen, Bo Skovhus, Danish National Symphony Choir
Messes, Passions, Requiems - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 2003
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Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Classique - Paru chez CapriccioNR le 6 oct. 2017
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Sunleif Rasmussen: Symphony No. 2 "The Earth Anew"
Cyndia Sieden, Bo Skovhus, Akademiska Sångföreningen, Sallskapet Muntra Musikanter, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Classique - Paru chez Dacapo le 11 nov. 2016
5 de Diapason16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Songs By The Sea - A Scandinavian Journey
Bo Skovhus, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt
Mélodies & Lieder - Paru chez Chandos le 1 sept. 2004
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Classic Selection: Gustav Mahler Lieder
Classique - Paru chez Preiser Records le 5 avr. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Un requiem allemand
Inger Dam-Jensen, Bo Skovhus, Danish National Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht
Musique vocale sacrée - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795
Classique - Paru chez CapriccioNR le 7 avr. 2017
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Klenau: Die Weise Von Liebe Und Tod
Hana Skarkoba, Bo Skovhus, Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann
Classique - Paru chez Dacapo le 28 juin 2007
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Nacht der Träume
WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Stefan Blunier, Juraj Cizmarovic, Bo Skovhus
Classique - Paru chez Delta le 14 nov. 2011
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WOLF, H.: Italienisches Liederbuch (Isokoski, Skovhus)
Soile Isokoski, Bo Skovhus, Marita Viitasalo
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Ondine le 1 janv. 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo