… on Zurich Opera House he performed, amongst others, at the Salzburg Festival,at the Hamburg State Opera, on Bolshoi Theatre, Moscowat the Dutch Opera, on Teatro Real in Madridat the Berlin State Opera and at the Vienna State Opera on. In the MusikTheater an der Wien Florian Boesch has enjoyed particular success, most recently in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, in Handel’s Saul, Handel’s Orlando or Bergs’ Wozzeck. His debut as Duke Bluebeard in a new production of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle directed by Claus Guth at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, a role he played at the Florence Music Festival resumes in Florence. In January 2026, he returned with a new production of Handel’s Semele under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm, to the Dutch Opera Back.

 
He has worked with all the major orchestras, including the The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras and the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Teodor Currentzis, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Iván Fischer, Philippe Herreweghe, Pablo Heras-Casado, Vladimir Jurowski, Mariss Jansons, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Simon Rattle and Lorenzo Viotti. Highlights of the current season include Haydn’s Creation conducted by Adam Fischer in Graz, concerts featuring Bach and Handel, as well as Brahms’ Requiem with the Concentus Musicus under Stefan Gottfried in Vienna, Bach’s St Matthew Passion On tour with Philippe Herreweghe, Mendelssohn’s Walpurgis Night with Andrés Orozco-Estrada in Spain, or Britten’s War Requiem with Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla in Paris. He also gives recitals at the Edinburgh Festival, in which Schubertiada in Vilabertran, in the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam and the Wigmore Hall, London. With the Musicbanda Franui He most recently enjoyed great success with an orchestral version of Schubert’s The beautiful miller's wife in the Brucknerhaus, Linz and in the Salzburg Festival,. A staged version of this production, directed by Nikolaus Habjan, was performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, in the The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, with the Bregenz Festival, in Gmunden and in the Vienna Concert Hall to be seen.

 
Florian Boesch enjoyed a close working relationship with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Their last joint projects were Handel’s The Messiah and Saul in the Vienna Musikverein and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the styriarte festival 2014. At the Salzburg Festival, they played together in Haydn’s The creation and The seasons.

 
His recordings have been acclaimed by the international press and have won numerous awards; The beautiful miller's wife was nominated for a Grammy, and his track on Linn Records The recording of Schumann and Mahler lieder that was released was awarded the BBC Music Magazine Award outstanding. Florian Boesch received his first singing lessons from KS Ruthilde Boesch. Whilst studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna He attended the Lied and Oratorio class taught by KS Robert Holl. Since 2017, Florian Boesch has held a professorship in Lied and Oratorio at the Vienna University of Music for a moment.