The Austrian baritone Wolfgang Resch is currently appearing as Papageno in a widely acclaimed production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Theater Biel-Solothurn.
He began the 2024–25 season with a resounding success as Lui in Pascal Dusapin’s opera Passion at Neue Oper Wien. Vienna’s classical radio praised his performance, writing: “Wolfgang Resch sings with a voice reminiscent of a young Neil Shicoff.” He then made his first very successful foray into tenor repertoire, singing the role of Edwin in Kálmán’s The Csárdás Princess at the Classionata Festival in Solothurn. With Schubert’s Winterreise, he returned to his great passion, art song, in a recital in Munich. He then performed the role of Ali Baba in a newly adapted version of Johann Strauss’s operetta Indigo as part of the Johann Strauss 2025 Festival in Vienna.
In the 2023–24 season, he impressed audiences in Wim Henderickx’s opera The Convert – Pray to Whom? at Stadttheater Bielefeld, and as Dancaïro in Bizet’s Carmen at the Sommeroper Selzach in Switzerland under the baton of Kaspar Zehnder.
Resch has consistently demonstrated his great versatility and wide-ranging repertoire, spanning from baroque to contemporary music, from opera to operetta to art song.
In recent years, he has appeared as Orsanès in Reinhard Keiser’s Croesus in Paris, as Cindor in Rameau’s Zaïs at Theater Biel-Solothurn, and in Rameau’s Platée at Schloss Waldegg. Audiences have enjoyed his spirited portrayal of Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, Theater Bern, Oper Burg Gars, and the Murten Classics Festival. He has also sung roles such as Dandini (La Cenerentola), Harlekin (Ariadne on Naxos), Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), Frédéric (Lakmé), Falke (The Bat), and Danilo (The Merry Widow) at numerous theaters and festivals.
Resch is passionately devoted to contemporary music. At Neue Oper Wien in Vienna and Budapest, he appeared as Sven Hedman and as the Pastor in Johannes Kalitzke’s Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek, as Bruno in Jörg Widmann’s Das Gesicht im Spiegel, Joe Pitt in Peter Eötvös’s Angels in America, and Victor in J. M. Staud’s Die Antilope. At Theater Biel-Solothurn, he sang Eduard Rainer in the world premiere of Fabian Müller’s Eiger and Hans Scholl in White Rose. At Bühnen Bern, he appeared as Piet in the world premiere of Leonard Evers’s opera Humanoid.
In the summer of 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 in a production by Luc Bondy.
From 2013 to 2016, Resch was a member of the ensemble at Bühnen Bern.
Concert appearances and song recitals have taken him, among others, to the Lied Festival in Zeist and the Ruhr Piano Festival (with Sophie Rennert and Graham Johnson), to London, Liverpool, and Reykjavík with the European Union Youth Orchestra, as well as to Grafenegg and Vienna’s 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 attended masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Hampson, and Helmut Deutsch.
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