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.
The last performance of the new production of Ernst Krenek’s „Karl V“ with Anne Schwanewilms as Isabella will be streamed live from the National Theater Munich on 23 February 2019 at 7.00 pm. The videostream is available on the website oft he opera house.
Live from the National Theater Munich: The radio channel BR Klassik broadcasts the premiere of Ernst Krenek’s opera „Karl V“ with Anne Schwanewilms in the role of Isabella. The show starts at 5.30 pm with informations about the work and the cast, the live broadcast of the performance starts at 6 pm.
On 10 February 2019 Anne Schwanewilms will sing the role of Isabella in a new production of Ernst Krenek’s opera „Karl V“. Her last appearances in Munich had been Elsa and Marschallin, now the soprano returns for this role debut. The conductor is Erik Nielsen, among the other soloists are Bo Skovhus and Okka von Damerau. Performances: 10, 13, 16, 21 and 23 February 2019 and 14 July 2019 (Munich Opern Festival).
Anne Schwanewilms starts 2019 with a recital in Wigmore Hall in London. Accompanied by Malcom Martineau the soprano sings Lieder by Robert Schumann, Othmar Schoeck, Henri Duparc und Claude Debussy. 11 January 2019, 7.30 pm.
On 16 December 2018 Anne Schwanewilms will be a talkshow guest at Annette Dasch’s „DaschSalon“ at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. The „DaschSalon is a show combining talk with musical performances, so both sopranos will also sing together. At the piano: Kathrin Dasch and Ulrich Naudé.
„The wonderful concert with world-class soprano Anne Schwanewilms permitted the encounter with a beguiling, versatile and luminous voice with a velvet timbre. (…) The soprano appeared to change register without any effort, her voice sounds lustrous in the hights and very warm in the middle register. She does not need big operatic gestures to cast a spell on the audience.“
Elisabeth Höving, WAZ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 November 2018
„She presented a whole bunch of Lieder by Richard Strauss to the jubilating audience. (…) In these miniatures Anne Schwanewilms unfolds the particular charm of her voice: the entrancing and detailed phrasing, the profund knowlege of the language, (…) the weightless swaying of the legato and the magic of a fascinating art of expression.“
Bernd Aulich, Recklinghäuser Zeitung, 7 November 2018
On 5 November Anne Schwanewilms returns to Gelsenkirchen for a concert with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen. On the programme: „Lieder für Sopran und Orchester“ by Richard Strauss, the conductor is Rasmus Baumann. The concert will also be performed in Turnhoutse (Belgium) on 7 November 2018.
Anne Schwanewilms has been offered a professorship at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weinmar. As a Vocal Studies professor she starts her classes in October 2018. „I’m really looking forward to working with the students“, the soprano says. „After all the masterclasses I gave in the last years in opera houses and universities I realized how important this work is to me.“
In Barrie Kosky’s acclaimed new Bayreuth production of „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ Anne Schwanewilms made 2017 her role debut as Eva. One year after the premiere Deutsche Grammophon releases the production on DVD and blu-ray. With Klaus Florian Vogt (Stolzing), Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Daniel Behle (David), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Magdalena) and others.