{"id":11933,"date":"2026-09-12T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:01:02","slug":"thomas-essl-sings-operetta-at-chemnitz-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/thomas-essl-sings-operetta-at-chemnitz-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Essl sings operetta at Chemnitz Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of major role debuts in the dramatic repertoire\u2014<em>Wozzeck, Don Giovanni<\/em>, the four villains in\u00a0<em>The Tales of Hoffmann<\/em>, Peter Besenbinder in\u00a0<em>Hansel and Gretel<\/em>, and Father Germont in\u00a0<em>La traviata<\/em>, to name but a few\u2014Austrian baritone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/artists\/thomas-essl\/\"><strong>Thomas Essl<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is returning to his comic talents. At Chemnitz Opera, he takes on the role of Professor W\u00fcrmchen in the semi-staged performance of Carl Zeller\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/der-vogelhaendler\/10862\"><em>Der Vogelh\u00e4ndler<\/em><\/a>. Together with his colleague S\u00fcffle, he will perform the very well-known duet \u201cIch bin der Prodekan\u201d, among other numbers.<\/p>\n<h2>Theater Chemnitz<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/der-vogelhaendler\/10862\">Carl Zeller:\u00a0<em>Der Vogelh\u00e4ndler<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/artists\/thomas-essl\/\">Thomas Essl<\/a>: W\u00fcrmchen, Professor<br \/>\n<strong>Sep 5 (Premiere), 13; Oct 25<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of major role debuts in the dramatic repertoire\u2014Wozzeck, Don Giovanni, the four villains in\u00a0The Tales of Hoffmann,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"class_list":["post-11933","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\/11933","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=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11934,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions\/11934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}