Bo Skovhus

Bo ( buoy ) Skovhus (born 22 May 1962 Ikast, Denmark ) is a Danish baritone.

Skovhus studied at the Music Institute of Aarhus, at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen and New York. His singing career began in 1988 at the Vienna Volksoper. Vienna is still the center of his artistic activity. For over 10 years there is a close connection with the State Opera, where he performs regularly as a guest. Both the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus he is engaged time and again for recitals and concerts. 1997 the artist the title of Austrian chamber singer was awarded.

Skovhus occurs at the major opera houses and with the leading orchestras in Europe, America and Japan. He also devotes much of his time singing the song. He is one of the most important artists of his generation and is invited by all the major festivals and concert halls around the world again and again.

His operatic repertoire includes such roles as Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Olivier and Count in Capriccio, the barber in The Silent Woman, Wozzeck, Hamlet, Billy Budd and Eugene Onegin, Jelezki, in The Queen of Spades Danilo in the Merry Widow, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Kurvenal in Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal, Amfortas, Rodrigue in the French version of Don Carlos and Frank and Fritz / Pierrot in Die tote Stadt. In 2010 he sang the title role of Colonel Chabert at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( as a concert performance ).

The focal points of its extensive concert repertoire are Lyric Symphony with the works of Gustav Mahler, the Scandinavian composers as well as Frank Martin Everyman monologues and Zemlinsky.

Honors and Awards

1997 the artist the title of Austrian chamber singer (Ks ) was awarded.

In 1998 he received the Viennese Musical Clock

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