Wolfgang Resch

Austrian baritone Wolfgang Resch began the 2024/25 season with a major success as Lui in Pascal Dusapin’s opera Passion at Neue Oper Wien. As noted by Wiener Klassikradio: “Wolfgang Resch sings with a voice reminiscent of the young Neil Shicoff.” In 2025, he made a highly successful first foray into the tenor repertoire, singing the role of Edwin in Kálmán’s Die Csárdásfürstin at the Classionata Festival in Solothurn. He returned to his great passion for art song in Munich, performing Schubert’s Winterreise. Upcoming engagements include the role of Ali Baba in a reimagined version of Johann Strauss’ operetta Indigo as part of the “Johann Strauss 2025” festival in Vienna, as well as Papageno at Theater Biel-Solothurn.

In the previous season, he appeared in Wim Henderickx’s opera The Convert – Whom to Pray To? at Stadttheater Bielefeld, and at Sommeroper Selzach in Switzerland under Kaspar Zehnder as Dancaïro in Bizet’s Carmen.

Wolfgang Resch has already demonstrated great versatility and breadth of repertoire, ranging from Baroque to contemporary music, from opera and operetta to lieder. In recent years, he has performed roles such as Orsanes in Reinhard Keiser’s Croesus in Paris, Cindor in Rameau’s Zaïs at Theater Biel-Solothurn, and in Rameau’s Platée at Schloss Waldegg. His lively portrayal of Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute has been seen at Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, Theater Bern, Oper Burg Gars, and the Murten Classics Festival. He has also appeared as Dandini (La Cenerentola), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), Frédéric (Lakmé), Falke in Die Fledermaus, and Danilo in The Merry Widow at numerous theatres and festivals.

He is particularly enthusiastic about contemporary music. At Neue Oper Wien in Vienna and Budapest, he appeared as Sven Hedman and as the Pastor in Johannes Kalitzke’s Captain Nemo’s Library, as Bruno in Jörg Widmann’s Das Gesicht im Spiegel, Joe Pitt in Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America, and Victor in J. M. Staud’s Die Antilope. At Theater Biel-Solothurn, he was cast as Eduard Rainer in the world premiere of Fabian Müller’s opera Eiger, as Hans Scholl in Weiße Rose, and at Bühnen Bern as Piet in the premiere of Humanoid by Leonard Evers.

In summer 2014, Wolfgang Resch made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as a member of the Young Singers Project in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon, directed by Luc Bondy. From 2013 to 2016, he was a member of the ensemble at Bühnen Bern.

Concerts and recitals have taken him to the Lied Festival in Zeist and the Ruhr Piano Festival with Sophie Rennert and Graham Johnson, and with the European Union Youth Orchestra to London, Liverpool, and Reykjavík, as well as to Grafenegg and the Vienna Musikverein.

Wolfgang Resch received his first vocal training as a boy soloist with the Wiltener Sängerknaben in Innsbruck. He later studied with Karlheinz Hanser, Ralf Döring, and Charles Spencer, and took part in masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Hampson, and Helmut Deutsch.

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