Theatre contract renewalsEvery autumn brings the same anxiety for singers on ensemble contracts at German theatres. Under the Normalvertrag Bühne collective agreement,…
Wolfgang Stefan SchwaigerBaritone Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger on the concert platform and opera stageFollowing his varied appearances marking the reopening of Cologne’s opera house, baritone Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger returns to the concert platform…
Thomas EsslBaritone Thomas Essl as Count di Luna in Il trovatoreFollowing the revival of Ludger Vollmer’s Rummelplatz, baritone Thomas Essl makes another major role debut in Chemnitz: Count di Luna…
Katharina RuckgaberSoprano Katharina Ruckgaber sings for Stiftung Gute-TatWhile rehearsing for the premiere of The Merry Wives of Windsor at Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Katharina Ruckgaber makes a brief trip…
Nora SourouzianMezzo-soprano Nora Sourouzian as Carmen in GenevaFollowing her appearances as Giulietta and the Voice of the Mother in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann at Oper Graz,…
Oliver SailerBass Oliver Sailer returns as Don Quichotte in InnsbruckOliver Sailer returns to the title role in Jules Massenet’s Don Quichotte at the Tiroler Landestheater. The opera portrays the…
Wolfgang ReschBaritone Wolfgang Resch in the world premiere of Trennt euch!An established specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, Austrian baritone Wolfgang Resch has just appeared in William Walton’s one-act opera…
Philipp KapellerTenor Philipp Kapeller under HK Gruber at the Gewandhaus zu LeipzigAlmost a century after the premiere of Brecht and Weill’s opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Leipzig, the…
Johannes WildnerConductor Johannes Wildner and Ilia Staple with the Vienna Johann Strauss OrchestraHaving just returned from China after a concert performance of Turandot with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Wildner conducts the…
