Born in Vienna, Austria on June 13, 1929, Kurt Equiluz was an opera tenor best
known as one of the leading Bach interpreters of the modern era. He began his
music career as an alto soloist with the Vienna Boys Choir before studying
singing, harp, and music theory at the Austrian State Academy for Music and Art
in Vienna. Beginning in 1945, he began singing with the mixed choir Wiener
Singakademie and then sang with the Vienna State Opera beginning in 1957. Kurt
Equiluz’s first major role as a soloist was in a 1957 production of Mozart’s Die
Entführung aus dem Serail. He continued...