Bo Skovhus Baritone
Season 24/25 Artist

Biography

Bo Skovhus studied at the Aarhus Academy of Music, the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen and in New York. His major engagements include Reimann's Lear at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Sixtus Beckmesser (The Master Singers of Nuremberg) at the Budapest Wagner Festival, and Mandryka (Arabella) in Dresden and at the Vienna State Opera.

He has sung the title role in Wozzeck at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, in Boston, at Carnegie Hall and at the Verbier Festival, Dr. Schön (Lulu) at the Staatsoper Staunton and the title role in Lieder. Schön (Lulu) at the Vienna State Opera, the Theater an der Wien and in Brussels, Šiškov (From the House of the Dead) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Jean-Charles (Henze's Le Radeau de la Méduse) in Amsterdam, the title roles in Karl V at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Eugene Onegin at the Hamburg State Opera.

He has sung Ryuji (Henze's The Sea Betrayed) at the Vienna State Opera, Eisenstein (The Bat) at the Hamburg State Opera, Jaroslav Prus (The Makropoulos Affair) at the Berlin State Opera, the Father (The House of Crime) at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, Platon Kouzmich Kovalev (The Nose) at the Dresden Semperoper and the Count (Capriccio) at the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals. In addition to his operatic engagements, Bo Skovhus devotes much of his time to song recitals and concerts. He has been awarded the titles of Austrian and Bavarian Chamber Singer.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Capriccio (Olivier), 1993; The Merry Widow (Count Danilo), 1997, 2012; Don Giovanni (title role), 2000; Billy Budd (title role), 2001; The Marriage of Figaro (Count Almaviva), 2002; War and Peace (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky), 2005; Capriccio (Der Graf), 2012; Lear (title role), 2016, 2019; The Master Singers of Nuremberg (Sixtus Beckmesser), 2016; Berenice (Titus), 2018.

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