Bo Skovhus is acclaimed in opera houses for his theatrical and vocal skills in the great baritone roles (Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin, Billy Budd...) whilst also, in parallel, following a career as a ...

We don't hear Bo Skovhus in the UK as much as we should. One of today's great singers, the handsome Danish baritone is both a star and something of a sex symbol on the European mainland, although his ...

The art of singing is in some ways the art of drawing one’s listeners into another world, a world created by a composer and an author, and brought to life by the artist. The world of an opera is ...

Hugo Wolf's "Italian Songbook," a collection of 46 songs based on Italian folk poetry, hovers somewhere between a simple compendium and a carefully shaped dramatic structure. Do its thematic ...

With the backdrop of a blue-sky Sydney winter afternoon, Danish baritone Bo Skovhus had his work cut out putting across Schubert’s great metaphor in his last Winterreise. Winter, in this work, is a ...

Bo Skovhus is a rather distracting presence. The handsome, muscular Danish baritone, stretched on a sofa in a London hotel, has the feral magnetism of the young Marlon Brando. The doors have been shut ...

If you want to be an opera singer, you’d better exercise more than your vocal cords. Ask Bo Skovhus, a celebrated Danish baritone now appearing through Jan. 17 in the Metropolitan Opera’s “Merry Widow ...

Now, with vocal resources depleted, Skovhus certainly couldn’t be accused of that. Here he is somewhat reticent, unwilling or, one suspects, unable to fill out his tone, which remains dry throughout ...

Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and baritone Bo Skovhus have a nickname for Houston Grand Opera's The Merry Widow --"Dead Man Waltzing." The duo originally was engaged to sing this season in Jake Heggie's ...

I resist using the word ‘cycle’, and the disc’s cover is in fact misleading. ‘Die Taubenpost’ is here positioned among the five Seidl settings that come first; then come the Heine settings, followed ...

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