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.
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).
Photo: Enrico Nawrath
Photo: Wilfried Hösl
„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