Ruthilde Boesch

After her school years she studied singing at the Wiener Musikakademie with Fritzi Lahr-Goldschmied, Alfred Jerger and Judith Hellwig, among others.

[3] She was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1947, where she made her debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.

[4] She also appeared as Chloe in Pique Dame, Olympia in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, and Luciete in I quatro rusteghi, among others.

Numerous concerts and guest performances took her to Europe, the U.S., the Middle East, Australia, South and North America.

[1] She made five world tours of recitals with her second husband, the State Opera conductor Wilhelm Loibner, who was her accompanist.