Austrian baritone Wolfgang Resch began the 2024-25 season with a huge success as Lui in Pascal Dusapin’s opera Passion at the Neue Oper Wien. The review in the Wiener Klassikradio said ‘Wolfgang Resch sings with a voice reminiscent of the young Neil Shicoff’. In 2025, he made his first very successful foray into the tenor repertoire and sang the role of Edwin in Kalman’s The Czardas Princess at the Classionata Festival in Solothurn. With Schubert’s Winterreise, he returned to his great passion, lieder singing, in Munich. He is currently singing the role of Ali Baba in an adapted version of Johann Strauss’ operetta Indigo as part of the Johann Strauss 2025 festival in Vienna. He will soon be back on stage as Papageno at the Biel-Solothurn Theatre.
Last season, he performed convincingly in Wim Henderickx’s opera The Convert – Beten zu wem? at the Stadttheater Bielefeld and at the Selzach Summer Opera in Switzerland under Kaspar Zehnder as Dancaïro in Bizet’s Carmen.
He has already demonstrated his great versatility and breadth of repertoire from baroque to contemporary music, from opera to operetta to lieder.
In recent years, he has appeared as Orsanes in Reinhard Keiser’s opera Croesus in Paris, as Cindor in Rameau’s Zaïs at the Biel-Solothurn Theatre and in Rameau’s Platée at Waldegg Castle. Wolfgang Resch has already appeared as the playful Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck, at the Bern Theatre, at the Gars Castle Opera and at the Murten Classics Festival. He has appeared as Dandini (La Cenerentola), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), Frédéric (Lakmé), Falke in The Bat and Danilo (The Merry Widow) at numerous theatres and festivals.
He dedicates himself to contemporary music with great enthusiasm. He has attracted attention at the Neue Oper Wien in Vienna and Budapest 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’ opera Angels in America and Victor in J.M. Staud’s Die Antilope. At the Biel-Solothurn Theatre he was engaged as Eduard Rainer in the world premiere of Fabian Müller’s opera Eiger, as Hans Scholl (Weiße Rose) and at the Bühnen Bern as Piet in the world premiere of Leonard Evers’ opera Humanoid.
In summer 2014 Wolfgang Resch made his debut as a member of the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon, directed by Luc Bondy.
Wolfgang Resch was a member of the Bühnen Bern ensemble from 2013-2016.
Concerts and recitals have taken Wolfgang Resch together with Sophie Rennert and Graham Johnson to the Lied Festival in Zeist or the Ruhr Piano Festival, 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 Wilten Boys’ Choir in Innsbruck. He later studied with Karlheinz Hanser, Ralf Döring and Charles Spencer. He attended masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Hampson and Helmut Deutsch, among others.
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