“All of life is a stage – an exciting, perilous adventure that demands your whole concentration. I’m at home in each of the performing arts, whether opera, theatre, operetta, musical, song recital, film, or performance.“ Paul Schweinester

Opera and Operetta

Internationally acclaimed Austrian tenor Paul Schweinester is at home in all areas of classical music. The corona pandemic has thrust the European cultural scene into a difficult period, but the season 2022 is full of exciting projects for Paul. At Klagenfurt’s city theater he’s appearing in the main role of Zellers Der Vogelhändler. The Opera of Limoges is showing Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss and for the first time Paul is performing the role of Tanzmeister and Brighella, a role he had already performed several times at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

The season 22/23 starts by debuting at Opera Straßbourg in the role of Der Narr in Franz Schreckers opera Die Schatzgräber. Directly after that he is performing in Menottis Amahl with the Theater an der Wien in a production directed by Stefan Herheim and in spring he’s appearing as Sam Borzallino in Korngolds Die Stumme Serenade. An artistic long time relationship leads to these collaborations. At this opera house he was already seen several times. For example in Zaza by Leoncavallo and in Salome by Richard Strauss as 1. Jew and Narraboth, delighting audiences in this double role. In the previous seasons he performed at the Vienna Volksoper with Das Gespenst von Canterville, by Marius F. Lange. Highlights from recent years include his appearances at the Palais Garnier in Paris and at the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals. In Summer 2021 he embodied the main role in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story at the Seefestspiele in Mörbisch. At this prestigious festival he already sang the role of Adam in Carl Zeller’s Der Vogelhändler. As well has he appeared as Edwin in the Csárdásfürstin at the Stadttheater in Bozen, and played Doctor Siedler in Im weissen Rössl at the Cologne Opera.

An absolutely new artistic task is approaching the artist at the Mozartwoche 2023. He is going to direct a pasticcio with music of Mozart at Marionettentheater Salzburg.