The Tyrolean baritone Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger is performing this season at Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp and Ghent as Don Giovanni in a new production by Tom Goossens, musically conducted by Francesco Corti. At Oper Köln, he appears this season as Lescaut in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and as Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the new General Music Director. In addition, the roles of Ping and Mandarino in Puccini’s Turandot are on his schedule. At the same time, he continues to devote himself to song recitals and concert performances, which form an important focus of his artistic work. In early January, he will also take a short parental leave for the birth of his first daughter—a personally special moment in the midst of a versatile season.

Since 2016, he has been a member of the Oper Köln ensemble, where he has appeared on stage as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), and Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Guest engagements have also taken him to roles such as Thoas in Iphigénie en Tauride at Opera Vlaanderen and Belcore in L’elisir d’amore at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. He regularly gives song recitals and concerts with orchestral songs or oratorios, highlighting his versatility and passion for singing.

His past guest appearances include Giove in Cavalli’s La Calisto at the Teatro Real Madrid, Maximilian in Bernstein’s Candide at the Staatsoper Hannover, Marullo in Rigoletto, Moralès in Carmen, as well as Ravel’s Don Chichotte songs at the Bregenz Festival. At the Staatstheater Darmstadt, he was also seen as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia.