During HGO's 2026-27 season, Bo Skovhus performs as Herr von Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier. Previously for the company, he performed the title roles of Billy Budd (1998), Don Giovanni (1999), Eugene Onegin (2002), and as Count Danilo in The Merry Widow (2003). Born in Ikast, Denmark, Skovhus studied at the Conservatory in Aarhus, the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen, and in New York. His career began in 1988 at the Volksoper in Vienna with a brilliant Don Giovanni. In 1997, he was awarded the title of Austrian Kammersänger. In 2019, he gave highly acclaimed performances as the lead in Krenek’s Karl V. at the Bavarian State Opera Munich. Other milestones of the recent past include successes as Kusmitsch Kowaljow in Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Hamburg State Opera in 2019; as Titus in the 2018 world premiere of Michael Jarrell’s Berenice at Opéra national de Paris, conducted by Philippe Jordan; as Wozzeck at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2017; and as the title role in Aribert Reimann’s Lear at the Paris Opera in 2016 and at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2019, both conducted by Fabio Luisi. Among recent highlights, this summer Skovhus sang the role of Werner Albrecht in Georg Friedrich Haas and Händl Klaus’s Bluthaus at Bavarian State Opera’s new Ja, Mai festival. Besides performing in the major opera houses in Europe, America, and Japan, Skovhus devotes himself intensively to lied singing. As a concert singer he has appeared with outstanding orchestras throughout Europe, the U.S., and Japan. His extensive repertoire focuses on works of Gustav Mahler and of Scandinavian composers, as well as pieces such as Frank Martin’s Six Monologues from Everyman and Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony. Many of his performances have been released on recordings, and he has also released a series of recital albums.