From 26. June to 1st July 2018 Anne Schwanewilms is giving a masterclass in the „Theater im Revier“ in Gelsenkirchen. With six young members of the ensemble, some of them still studying, she is working on opera arias and Lieder. The masterclass ends with a public concert on the 1st July at 6 pm.
The German radio channel rbb Kulturradio broadcasts a new edition of “Musiksalon” with Anne Schwanewilms as a guest. The soprano talks with music journalist Marek Kalina about her passion for Lieder and her opera roles. She also performs songs by Strauss, Wolf and Mahler accompanied by the pianist Manuel Lange.
The „Musiksalon“ is be broadcasted by rbb on Thursday, 10 May 2018, 15.04 h.
The Houston Symphony has received a GRAMMY Award 2018 for the recording of Alban Berg’s „Wozzeck“ as Best Opera Recording in the classical category! The soloists are Anne Schwanewilms (Marie) and Roman Trekel (Wozzeck). The album was also recently awarded the distinguished ECHO Klassik Award for Best Opera Recording (20th/21st Century Opera).
„Anne Schwanewilms gave her usual masterclass, ineffably poised between tone-colour, phrasing and word-pointing. Having hit the heights in Strauss, Schumann and Wolf in previous recitals, she found a deep centre this time in serious, almost operatic Schubert. Regular song-partner Charles Spencer's space and orchestral sonorities helped conjure vast landscapes and epic human emotions in an imaginative programme that touched on the profound.“
„Amazing how Schwanewilms can fleck a single note with gold in mid-flight.“
„More Schubert next time, please: I haven’t heard as sheerly beautiful a sound in his Lieder at the Wigmore since Gundula Janowitz and Margaret Price, and certainly no more probing interpreter.“
David Nice, www.theartsdesk.com, 3 october 2017
The CD recording of Alban Berg’s »Wozzeck« with Anne Schwanewilms in the role of Marie receives an ECHO Klassik Award 2017. The CD is honored with an award in the category »opera recordings« (opera of the 20th/21th century). The recording with the Houston Symphony Orchestra has been released in January 2017. Roman Trekel sings the titel role, musical director is the Austrian conductor Hans Graf. The ECHO Klassik award ceremony will take place on 29 October 2017 in Hamburg’s new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.
„There's so much good stuff in DIE MEISTERSINGER but none comes better than the ›Morgentraum‹ quintet….It was superbly (and beautifully) sung by the opera's five main characters.“
Tony Cooper, theoperacritic.com, August 2017
"I thought Anne Schwanewilms performance was exceptionally good….full of character and with extraordinary swoops and expressive detail."
Opera Journal, 21 August 2017
On September 23th at 10.05 a.m. Anne Schwanewilms will host the famous radio show »Klassik, Pop, etc.« on Deutschlandfunk. On the program: her favorite pieces of music and and a lot of stories about them.
»Anne Schwanewilms is a bigger-voice Eva than most, and she gives the character a compulsive skittishness that verges on the demented."
Martin Kettle, The Guardian, 27 July 2017
»Anne Schwanewilms gave us some fine acting as Eva, particularly good in her cat-on-hot-coals impatience in Act 3, as well as giving a clear, pure, well weighted soprano. The Act 3 quintet – Schwanewilms, Volle and Vogt with Daniel Behle’s David and Wiebke Lehmkuhl’s Magdalena – achieved rare send-you-off-into-dreamland beauty.«
David Karlin, bachtrack.com, 1st August 2017