{"id":11098,"date":"2025-06-09T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=11098"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:38:15","slug":"wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger-in-an-operetta-rarity-in-cologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger-in-an-operetta-rarity-in-cologne\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger in an Operetta Rarity in Cologne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the operetta\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oper.koeln\/de\/produktionen\/eine-frau-von-format\/1007\"><em>Eine Frau von Format<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<em>(A Woman of Character)<\/em>, composer Michael Krasznay-Krausz\u2014who studied under Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly\u2014achieved a sensational success at the Theater des Westens in Berlin in 1927. The work turns gender stereotypes and cultural prejudices upside down and playfully subverts them. Not long after its premiere, the work disappeared in the turmoil of dictatorship and Second World War. Now, it returns to the stage at the Cologne Opera; alongside Annette Dasch, who surprises audiences as the Turkish ambassador, Austrian baritone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger\/\"><strong>Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0takes on the role of the Hungarian ambassador, Count G\u00e9za von T\u00f6k\u00f6li.<\/p>\n<h2>Cologne Opera<\/h2>\n<p>Michael Krasznay-Krausz:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oper.koeln\/de\/produktionen\/eine-frau-von-format\/1007\"><em>A Woman of Character<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger\/\">Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger<\/a>: Count G\u00e9za von T\u00f6k\u00f6li<br \/>\n<strong>May 11, 2025 (Premiere), 16, 17, 23, 25, 27, 29; June 1, 4, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the operetta\u00a0Eine Frau von Format\u00a0(A Woman of Character), composer Michael Krasznay-Krausz\u2014who studied under Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly\u2014achieved a sensational success at\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"class_list":["post-11098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11099,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions\/11099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}