On September 22, Swiss baritone Alexandre Beuchat will make his debute on the stage of the Latvian National Opera, singing the role of Danilo Danilovitch in Franz Lehár's operetta Die lustige Witwe. 

Alexandre Beuchat graduated from the Lucerne University with Master of Arts in Performance under Barbara Locher. His musical education is supplemented by violin studies, lessons with Wicus Slabbert and Edith Lienbacher, as well as masterclasses with Margreet Honig, John Norris and Ton Koopman. In season 2015/2016 singer belonged to the Ensemble of Luzern Theater, where he sang the role of Mr. Gedge in Albert Herring (Britten), Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) and Antonio in Il Viaggio a Reims (Rossini). Since September 2016 he is a permanent member of the ensemble at the Volksoper in Vienna. During the season 2021/2022 he has sung the roles of Count Almaviva in le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Danilo in Die lustige Witwe (Lehár), Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) and Ping in Turandot (Puccini). In September 2018 Bauchat made his house debute at the Wiener Staatsoper singing Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata (Verdi). He has gained concert experience as a soloist in numerous sacred music projects (including works by Bach, Handel, Schütz, Orff, Monteverdi and Haydn) and in various recitals (including cycles by Mahler, Schumann, Schubert and Vaughan Williams).

The premiere of the operetta Die lustige Witwe is planned for September 22, 2022; following performances on September 24 and 25 and October 14 and 16. The new production of the operetta is being staged in our opera house under the direction of the musical director and conductor Thomas Rösner and the stage director Uwe Eric Laufenberg.

More about the new production and tickets are available HERE.