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| The outstanding young Danish baritone Bo Skovhus has been winning acclaim on the international opera, concert and recital circuit ever since his sensational, last-minute debut in the title role of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' at the Vienna Volksoper in 1988. After singing the Count in the San Francisco Opera's 'Le nozze di Figaro' and Danilo in 'Die lustige Witwe' in Paris, Skovhus began 1998 starring in new productions of Britten's 'Billy Budd' at the Houston Grand Opera and Strauss' 'Die schweigsame Frau' at the Vienna State Opera, and as soloist in a concert tour of Switzerland with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. During the 1998-99 season he will make his Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of 'Die Fledermaus'. The singer's exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical continues to highlight an essential aspect of his artistry, his commitment to lieder singing. For the label\nSkovhus has already recorded a well-received disc of Eichendorff lieder by Wolf and Korngold and The \nHeart of the Poet, featuring Lieder of Robert and Clara Schumann; as well as two of Schubert's song cycles, 'Schwanengesang' and 'Die schöne Müllerin' , all with pianist Helmut Deutsch. Skovhus devotes a large part of his time to recitals, and his New York recital at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in the winter of 1997 reconfirmed his reputation as one of the premier lieder Singers of his generation. His upcoming recital engagements include the Brucknerhaus in Linz, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Feldkirch and the Hamburg State Opera, in addition to a brief tour of the United States. He has appeared at many major music festivals, including Bad Kissingen, Edinburgh, Verbier, Bergen, Ravinia, Tanglewood, the Schubertiade Feldkirch, the Salzburg Pfingst Konzerte and the Vienna Festwochen. In addition, Skovhus has performed in London, Hamburg, Berlin,\nFrankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna, Graz, Paris, Basel,\nCopenhagen, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Amsterdam. \nViennese audiences "adopted" Skovhus as one of their favorites after his spectacular 1988 operatic debut there, and he appears there frequently, both at the Vienna Volksoper and at the Vienna State Opera. In addition to 'Die schweigsame Frau', Vienna State Opera audiences in\nthe spring of 1998 heard Skovhus as the Count in 'Le nozze di Figaro' and in the title role of 'Don Giovanni'. Future engagements with the company include Danilo in 'Die lustige Witwe' and the title role in 'Billy Budd'. He will also sing a concert performance of Britten's 'The Rape of\nLucretia' at the Concertgebouw, followed by the title role in a new production of 'Wozzeck' at the Hamburg State Opera. He is also scheduled to return to Houston in the title role of 'Don Giovanni' and to Hamburg in further 'Wozzeck' performances, and to appear in concert performances of 'Eugene Onegin' with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In opera Skovhus has sung the title role in 'Don Giovanni' at the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Schönbrunn Festival, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the 1995 Edinburgh Festival and the Hamburg State Opera. His other Mozart roles include the Count in 'Le nozze di Figaro' in the Bavarian State Opera production at the 1994 Vienna Festival with Claudio Abbado conducting, as well as Guglielmo in 'Così fan tutte' in new productions at the Hamburg State Opera and, under Riccardo Muti's direction, in Vienna and at the Ravenna Festival. Skovhus has sung Olivier in Strauss' 'Capriccio' in Catania and at the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. In the title role in Ambroise Thomas' 'Hamlet', he has appeared in both concert and stage productions at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Volksoper and the Royal Opera Copenhagen. He has also sung the title roles in new productions of 'Billy Budd' and 'Eugene Onegin' in Cologne; Wolfram in Tannhäuser at the Vienna State Opera; Graf von Eberbach in 'Der Wildschütz' in a new production at the Hamburg State Opera; Peter I in 'Zar und Zimmerman' and Eisenstein in 'Die Fledermaus' in new productions in Vienna and Hamburg; Dallapiccola's 'Il prigoniero' at the 1995 Bregenz Festival; and Raimond in Ottmar Schoeck's 'Venus' at the Internationale Musikfestwochen in Lucerne. In concert Skovhus has sung Orff's Carmina Burana in Vienna, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Zubin Mehta, as well as with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa; Mahler's 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen' in Copenhagen and Zurich; Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht under Christoph von Dohnanyi at the 1992 Salzburg Festival; Britten's 'War Requiem' with conductors John Eliot Gardiner and Armin Jordan; Brahms' 'Ein deutsches Requiem' at the Vienna Musikverein and the 1996 Tanglewood Festival; Schumann's 'Scenes from Faust' at the 1994 Edinburgh Festival and the 1996 Ravinia Festival; Zemlinsky's 'Lyrische Symphonie' in Hamburg and Zurich; Mahler's 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' in Paris and at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival; Hindemith's Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch; Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' in Munich; and Mahler's 'Frühe Lieder', as orchestrated by Luciano Berio, at La Scala. Born in Ikast, Denmark, Bo Skovhus studied at the Music College of Aarhus, at the Royal Academy for Opera of Copenhagen and in New York. |
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