Kurt Equiluz [SEP] voice type
Kurt Equiluz
Kurt Equiluz (born 13 June 1929 in Vienna) is an Austrian classical tenor in opera and concert, known for recording works of Johann Sebastian Bach with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Helmuth Rilling, a member of the Vienna State Opera as a tenor buffo from 1957 until 1983.
Career.
Kurt Equiluz was an alto soloist of the Wiener Sängerknaben. At the Austrian State Academy for Music and Art in Vienna he studied music theory, harp and singing with Adolf Vogel. He was a member of the Wiener Akademie
comic bass parts, such as the title role in Massenet's "Don Quichotte", Don Basile in Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Geronimo in Cimarosa's "Il matrimonio segreto", and Prince Gremin in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin".
Villisech performed in 1965 the bass arias in the pioneering recording of Nikolaus Harnoncourt of Bach's "St John Passion", with Kurt Equiluz as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the vox Christi (voice of Christ). In the Harnoncourt recordings of Monteverdi