{"id":12015,"date":"2026-10-27T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:01:54","slug":"thomas-essl-as-count-di-luna-in-il-trovatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/thomas-essl-as-count-di-luna-in-il-trovatore\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Essl as Count di Luna in <em>Il trovatore<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the revival of Ludger Vollmer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/rummelplatz\"><em>Rummelplatz<\/em><\/a>, baritone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/kuenstlerdetails\/1817\"><strong>Thomas Essl<\/strong><\/a> makes another major role debut in Chemnitz: Count di Luna in Verdi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/il-trovatore\"><em>Il trovatore<\/em><\/a>. Count di Luna and the troubadour Manrico are both political opponents and rivals for Leonora\u2019s love, and their conflict drives them to extremes. Jacopo Spirei directs the new production. Kens Lui, First Kapellmeister at Oper Chemnitz, takes charge of the musical direction.<\/p>\n<h2>Theater Chemnitz, Opernhaus<\/h2>\n<p>Giuseppe Verdi: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/detailseite\/il-trovatore\"><em>Il trovatore<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theater-chemnitz.de\/spielplan\/kuenstlerdetails\/1817\">Thomas Essl<\/a>: Count di Luna<br \/>\n<strong>Nov 21 (premiere); Dec 20; Feb 14; Apr 17<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the revival of Ludger Vollmer\u2019s Rummelplatz, baritone Thomas Essl makes another major role debut in Chemnitz: Count di Luna\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-november-2026-en"],"acf":{"linked_artists":[9401],"premiere_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","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=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12038,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions\/12038"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}