{"id":11400,"date":"2025-12-03T15:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:08:21","slug":"thomas-essl-as-peter-the-broom-maker-in-chemnitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/thomas-essl-as-peter-the-broom-maker-in-chemnitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Essl as Peter, the broom-maker, in Chemnitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>With his Tonio in Leoncavallo\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/der-bajazzo\/14670\"><em>Pagliacci<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/thomas-essl\/\"><strong>Thomas Essl<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was rightly celebrated in November. As one review put it: \u201cIn the magnificently shaped Prologue to the opera, baritone\u00a0<strong>Thomas Essl<\/strong>\u00a0let his voice, endowed with both darkness and an impressive upper range, flow seemingly effortlessly. With careful balance and great sensitivity, Essl used nuanced singing and fully-committed acting to draw the difficult character traits of his Tonio portrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December, again at Oper Chemnitz, he can be heard as Giorgio Germont in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/la-traviata\"><em>La traviata<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and, in the revival of Humperdinck\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/haensel-und-gretel\/14841\"><em>H\u00e4nsel und Gretel<\/em><\/a>, as Peter, the broom-maker.<\/p>\n<h2>Theater Chemnitz<\/h2>\n<p>Engelbert Humperdinck:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/haensel-und-gretel\/10739\"><em>H\u00e4nsel und Gretel<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/thomas-essl\/\">Thomas Essl<\/a>: Peter Besenbinder<br \/>\n<strong>Dec 17, 21, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Verdi:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/la-traviata\"><em>La traviata<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/artists\/thomas-essl\/\">Thomas Essl<\/a>: Giorgio Germont<br \/>\n<strong>Dec 19, 2025; Jan 11, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"asterism\">\u2042<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his Tonio in Leoncavallo\u2019s\u00a0Pagliacci,\u00a0Thomas Essl\u00a0was rightly celebrated in November. As one review put it: \u201cIn the magnificently shaped Prologue\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":[213],"class_list":["post-11400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400","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=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}