Anne Schwanewilms
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Anne Schwanewilms (* 1967 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Anne Schwanewilms received her vocal training in Cologne. The famous bass player Hans Sotin was one of her teachers . Before her vocal training, she learned the craft of florists in Gelsenkirchen. From 1990 to 1992 she was a member of the Opera Studio in Cologne, after which she was a regular member of the ensemble at the opera there until 1996. After initially singing roles for mezzo-soprano , she reoriented herself, even canceled long-term contracts and switched to the soprano subject. She appears at the opera houses in Hamburg, Dresden, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, London, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, New York and Tokyo. She has been a guest at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festival several times, most recently in 2017 she sang Eva in the new production of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg .
Anne Schwanewilms initially made a name for herself primarily as an interpreter of Richard Wagner roles. From 1996 to 1998 she appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Gutrune in Götterdämmerung . Today she is one of the most outstanding interpreters of Richard Strauss's works internationally . Her repertoire includes roles such as Arabella, Ariadne ( Ariadne auf Naxos ), Feldmarschallin ( Der Rosenkavalier ), Kaiserin ( The Woman Without a Shadow ) and Danae ( The Love of Danae ). She also sings roles like Desdemona ( Otello ), Marie ( Wozzeck ) and Madame Lidoine ( Dialogues des Carmélites ).
In an interview in 2012, Anne Schwanewilms described the song as her profession, recitals are “my productions”. In her recitals she is accompanied by Malcom Martineau, Charles Spencer and Roger Vignoles and interprets songs by Schumann, Wolf, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler, Strauss and Schönberg. Anne Schwanewilms regularly gives master classes and is a member of the jury of the Louis Spohr competition for song accompaniment.
In the critics' poll of the magazine Opera world in 2002 Anne Schwanewilms was voted "Singer of the Year". Her CD recording of Alban Bergs Wozzeck (Hans Graf, Houston Symphony) received the ECHO Klassik 2017 and the Grammy Award 2018.
In 2018 Schwanewilms was appointed professor for singing at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .
CD recordings
- Richard Strauss: 4 last songs - Orfeo
- Richard Strauss: Elektra - Profile
- Richard Strauss: Songs - Hyperion
- Richard Strauss: Orchestra songs - Halle
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 - Decca
- Francis Grier: Around the Curve of the World - Somm
- Richard Wagner: Wesendonck songs - Capriccio
- Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder - Onyx
- Johanna Doderer: Symphony No. 2 and Violin Concerto No. 2 - Capriccio
- Arnold Schönberg: Gurre-Lieder - Thorofon
- Franz Schubert, Franz Schreker, Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Beautiful world ..." - Capriccio
- Alban Berg: Wozzeck - Capriccio
DVD recordings
- Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Deutsche Grammophon
- Richard Wagner: Lohengrin
- Franz Schreker: The Drawn - Euro Arts
- Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Medici Arts
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon - Saur Verlag
- Manuel Brug: The new singer voices - Henschel Verlag
Web links
- Works by and about Anne Schwanewilms in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of Anne Schwanewilms
- Anne Schwanewilms at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Anne Schwanewilms in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne Schwanewilms: “I made a nice bed for my voice” . Interview with Arnt Cobbers in Crescendeo magazine, November 28, 2012.
- ^ Press release of the Louis Spohr Foundation of February 2, 2016 , accessed on March 7, 2016.
- ↑ Press release of August 8, 2018, Klassik heute , accessed on August 9, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwanewilms, Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |