In 2017 Barrie Kosky’s production of „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ premiered at the Bayreuth Festival with Anne Schwanewilms as Eva. The DVD released the following year has already received numerous nominations and will now be awarded the OPUS KLASSIK 2019. The award ceremony takes place on 13 October 2019 in the Konzerthaus Berlin, ZDF will broadcast the gala at 22:15 the same evening.
Fotos: Wilfried Hösl
As Empress in “Die Frau ohne Schatten” Anne Schwanewilms achieved a big success at the Salzburg Festival and at MET in New York. On September 1, 2019 she sings her signature role in a concert performance of Richard Strauss’ fairy tale opera with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Vladimir Jurowski has the musical direction, the cast includes Thorsten Kerl (Emperor), Ricarda Merbeth (The Dyer’s Wife) and Thomas J. Meyer (Barak). Performance: 1 September 2019, 6 pm.
Tickets: www.rsb-online.de
BBC Radio 3 broadcasts live the performance of Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection Symphony” from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Anne Schwanewilms and Alice Coote are the two soloists, Sir Mark Elder has the musical direction of the Hallé Orchestra. The concert starts at 19:30 British time.
On 11 May 2019, Anne Schwanewilms will give a guest performance with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Under the musical direction of Josep Pons, the orchestra plays a double Strauss programme: Johann Strauss’ waltz “An der schönen blauen Donau” is followed by Richard Strauss’ “Four Last Songs” and the symphonic poem “Thus Spoke Zarathustra“. The concert takes place in the Halle aux Grains, the former cereals market has been home to the orchestra since 1974 and is one of the most fascinating concert halls in Europe.
“Anne Schwanewilms as Leonore is, of course, only new in this role for the Viennese audience. The soprano singer, who is now highly regarded as a Strauss singer, originally began her singing career as a mezzo soprano and, when switching to the higher vocal range, initially concentrated on roles from the intermediate fach. So roles such as Wagner’s Senta and Beethoven’s Leonore, which she had sung for the first time as a concert singer at Hessischer Rundfunk in 1999, came just at the right time for her.
Now, twenty years later, she knows how to carefully take back her great voice and thus endow the figure with the mixture of strength and vulnerability that is so characteristic of her. Schwanewilms captivates with an almost vibrato-free middle register and blends wonderfully into the songlike quartet ‘Mir ist so wunderbar’ in the first act, but also creates her great aria ‘Abscheulicher! Where are you hurrying?’, in which she encourages herself in the face of Don Pizarro’s murderous intentions to make a moving confession.”
Manfred A. Schmid, onlinemerker.com, 24 April 2019
On Saturday, 27 April 2019, Anne Schwanewilms will be a guest of Albert Hosp at the Ö1 Klassik-Treffpunkt. The live broadcast with studio audiences will focus on her current appearance at the Vienna State Opera, upcoming projects and her teaching activities at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar. There will also be selected music excerpts.
In April Anne Schwanewilms returns to the Vienna State Opera: in four performances of Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio« she sings the role of Leonore. Adam Fischer has the musical direction. Among the other soloists are Thomas Johannes Mayer, Brandon Jovanovich, Lars Woldt and Chen Reiss. Performances: 23, 26, 29 April and 2 May 2019
In February 2020 Anne Schwanewilms makes her role debut as Grand Duchess of Gerolstein in Jachques Offenbach’s same-titled operetta. The Semperoper Dresden presents a new production directed by Josef E. Köpplinger, Jonathan Darlington has the musical direction. The premiere is on 29 February 2020.
The DVD recording of „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ from the Bayreuth Festival with Anne Schwanewilms in the role of Eva has been nominated for the International Opera Awards 2019. The DVD has been released at Deutsche Grammophon in July 2018. The International Opera Awards is an annual celebration of excellence in opera around the world, this year’s ceremony will take place in London on 29 April.