{"id":11910,"date":"2026-09-12T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:37:15","slug":"wolfgang-schwaiger-at-the-reopening-of-cologne-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/wolfgang-schwaiger-at-the-reopening-of-cologne-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Schwaiger at the reopening of Cologne Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of renovation and temporary premises, Cologne Opera is reopening its home venue on Offenbachplatz with a major celebration spanning several days. As part of the first official concert in the opera house, baritone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/artists\/wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger\/\"><strong>Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will sing excerpts from\u00a0<em>The Barber of Seville<\/em>\u00a0together with the carnival band Kasalla. At the gala with Diana Damrau, held a few days later as part of the official celebrations, he will sing the Champagne Aria from\u00a0<em>Don Giovanni<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Cologne Opera<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/artists\/wolfgang-stefan-schwaiger\/\">Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger<\/a>, baritone<br \/>\n<strong>Sep 20<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/buehnen.koeln\/programm-am-sonntag\">Opening festival<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sep 24<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oper.koeln\/produktion\/festakt-der-buehnen\">Gala ceremony<\/a>\u00a0and inaugural concert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of renovation and temporary premises, Cologne Opera is reopening its home venue on Offenbachplatz with a major\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september-2026-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11911,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions\/11911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}