{"id":11227,"date":"2025-09-05T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=11227"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:22:59","slug":"ilia-staple-as-esmeralda-at-the-vienna-state-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/ilia-staple-as-esmeralda-at-the-vienna-state-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Staple as Esmeralda at the Vienna State Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark her role debut as the Fiakermilli in Richard Strauss\u2019s\u00a0<em>Arabella<\/em>\u00a0under Christian Thielemann, the magazine\u00a0<em>Die B\u00fchne<\/em>\u00a0published an in-depth portrait of the Austrian coloratura soprano\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/ilia-staple\/\"><strong>Ilia Staple<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0entitled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buehne-magazin.com\/a\/ilia-staple-schmaeh-trifft-stimme\"><em>\u201cSchm\u00e4h trifft Stimme\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(&#8220;Viennese Wit Meets Voice&#8221;), describing her as \u201cunpretentious, sensitive, convincing.\u201d She opens the new season at the Vienna State Opera as Papagena in the revival of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiener-staatsoper.at\/kalender\/detail\/die-zauberfloete\/\"><em>The Magic Flute<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and, immediately thereafter, as Esmeralda in the new production of Smetana\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiener-staatsoper.at\/kalender\/detail\/die-verkaufte-braut\/\"><em>The Bartered Bride<\/em><\/a>, staged by Dirk Schmeding and conducted by Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hanus.<\/p>\n<h2>Wiener Staatsoper<\/h2>\n<p>Wolfgang Amad\u00e9 Mozart:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiener-staatsoper.at\/kalender\/detail\/die-zauberfloete\/\"><em>The Magic Flute<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/ilia-staple\/\">Ilia Staple<\/a>: Papagena<br \/>\n<strong>Sep 3, 5, 9, 12, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Wiener Staatsoper<\/h2>\n<p>Bed\u0159ich Smetana:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiener-staatsoper.at\/kalender\/detail\/die-verkaufte-braut\/\"><em>The Bartered Bride<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/ilia-staple\/\">Ilia Staple<\/a>: Esmeralda<br \/>\n<strong>Sep 28, 2025 (premiere); Oct 2, 5, 8, 11, 13, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark her role debut as the Fiakermilli in Richard Strauss\u2019s\u00a0Arabella\u00a0under Christian Thielemann, the magazine\u00a0Die B\u00fchne\u00a0published an in-depth portrait of\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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"class_list":["post-11227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-september-2025-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227","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=11227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11228,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227\/revisions\/11228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}