{"id":11343,"date":"2025-10-16T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=11343"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:51:48","slug":"wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger-as-lescaut-at-oper-koeln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger-as-lescaut-at-oper-koeln\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger as Lescaut at Oper K\u00f6ln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian baritone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger\/\"><strong>Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has already appeared as Manon\u2019s brother Lescaut: to wit, in Massenet\u2019s\u00a0<em>Manon<\/em>, in which Lescaut is ordered by their father to escort her into a convent to protect her from \u201cunsuitable affairs.\u201d That opera, like Puccini\u2019s, is based on Abb\u00e9 Pr\u00e9vost\u2019s novel\u00a0<em>L&#8217;Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut<\/em>. This time Schwaiger sings Lescaut in Puccini\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oper.koeln\/de\/produktionen\/manon-lescaut\/1161\"><em>Manon Lescaut<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in the first production conducted by Cologne\u2019s new GMD Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada at his new musical home. The production is directed by Carlos Wagner.<\/p>\n<h2>Oper K\u00f6ln<\/h2>\n<p>Giacomo Puccini:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oper.koeln\/de\/produktionen\/manon-lescaut\/1161\"><em>Manon Lescaut<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger\/\">Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger<\/a>: Lescaut<br \/>\n<strong>Oct 2, 5, 8, 12, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian baritone\u00a0Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger\u00a0has already appeared as Manon\u2019s brother Lescaut: to wit, in Massenet\u2019s\u00a0Manon, in which Lescaut is ordered\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":[209],"class_list":["post-11343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oktober-2025-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343","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=11343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11344,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions\/11344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}