Christian Boesch [SEP] voice type
Christian Boesch
Christian Boesch (born 27 July 1941 in Vienna) is an internationally acclaimed Austrian operatic baritone. He is the son of the soprano Ruthilde Boesch, and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, from 1959 to 1964. He was the pupil of Alfred Jerger, and made his official debut at the Stadttheater, Bern, in 1966. He joined the Vienna Volksoper in 1975.
It was in 1978 when Boesch came to prominence, as Papageno in "Die Zauberflöte", at the
included Edita Gruberová, Eva Lind, Genia Kühmeier, her son Christian Boesch and her grandson .
From her first marriage to A. E. Boesch, Ruthilde Boesch had two sons, Wolfgang Boesch (born 1939), a writer, and Christian Boesch who became a singer.
She died in Vienna and is buried at the (group 6, row 4, Nr. 4).
Awards.
- Austrian Kammersängerin (1968)
- Ehrenring of the Vienna State Opera
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art