Following his varied appearances marking the reopening of Cologne’s opera house, baritone Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger returns to the concert platform in November. He first sings the bass part in Handel’s Messiah, in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s arrangement, with the Neues Bach-Collegium NRW and the Essener Bachchor. A week later, he performs Johannes Brahms’s A German Requiem with the Konzertchor Bergisch Gladbach. Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger then takes to the stage as Schlemihl in Oper Köln’s new production of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
Essener Bachchor
Georg Friedrich Händel: Messiah
Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger, bass
Nov 8
Konzertchor Bergisch Gladbach
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem
Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger, baritone
Nov 14
Oper Köln
Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger: Schlemihl
Nov 28 (premiere); Dec 2, 4, 10, 17, 19, 22, 26, 31; Jan 3; Feb 14; Mar 27
