Tyrolean baritone Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger has been a member of the Cologne Opera ensemble since 2016, where he sings roles such as the Hoopoe in Braunfels’ “Die Vögel”, Dandini in “La Cenerentola”, Papageno in “Die Zauberflöte”, Der Heger in “Rusalka” and Figaro in Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia”. In the current season he can also be seen as the baritone soloist in the Brahms Requiem at the Opera Vlaanderen. He also frequently sings recitals, including “Die schöne Müllerin” with Barbara Moser at the piano and concerts of oratorios and orchestral songs.

In recent years, the young baritone has made guest appearances as Giove in “La Calisto” at the Teatro Real in Madrid, as Maximilian in Bernstein’s “Candide” at the Hanover State Opera, as Marullo in Verdi’s “Rigoletto”, as Moralès in Bizet’s “Carmen” and with Ravel’s Don Chichotte Lieder in an orchestral concert at the Bregenz Festival in Austria and as Figaro in “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.

At the Cologne Opera, where Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger was already a member of the Opera Studio from 2014-16, he developed a broad repertoire: Count Dominik in Arabella by Richard Strauss, the title role in Purcell’s “King Arthur” in a version for children, Freddy in “My Fair Lady”, Ping in “Turandot”, Schaunard in “La bohème”, Hans Scholl in “The White Rose”, Falke in “Die Fledermaus”, Ned Keene in “Peter Grimes”, Lescaut in Massenet’s “Manon”, Valentin in Gounod’s Faust, or Frank /Fritz in the live streamed performance of Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt”.