Bayreuth Festival, »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«, 25 July 2017
"I thought Anne Schwanewilms performance was exceptionally good….full of character and with extraordinary swoops and expressive detail."
Opera Journal, 21 August 2017
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Anne Schwanewilms hosts »Klassik, Pop, etc.« on Deutschlandfunk
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.
Bayreuth Festival, »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«, 25 July 2017
»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
Bayreuth Festival, »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«, 31 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
Bayreuth Festival, »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«, 25 July 2017
»Anne Schwanewilms delighted the audience as Eva with a beautiful voice and she was absolutely sure singing the high notes.«
Wolfram Goertz, Rheinische Post, 26 July 2017
Opening of the Bayreuth Festival
On July 25 the Bayreuth Festival opens with Richard Wagner’s „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“. Anne Schwanewilms sings Eva in this new production directed by Barry Kosky. Philippe Jordan is musical director. The premiere will be broadcasted live at the radio and in selected cinemas.
A Guest at the NDR Kultur radio show „Klassik à la Carte“
On 21 July 2017 from 1.00 to 2.00 pm Anne Schwanewilms is a guest in the German radio show „Klassik à la Carte“ on NDR Kultur. She talks to her host Margarete Zander about her return to the Bayreuth Festival and the role of Eva in the new production of „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“.
„Der Rosenkavalier“, Borussen Philharmonic Orchestra Istanbul, 30 March 2017
„Six days before the premiere Anne Schwanewilms jumped in as Marschallin. The soprano delighted with a sophisticated pianissimo in her elegant and nuanced performance of the role. She focused perfectly on the important moments: ‚Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbar Ding’ turned out as touching as her contribution to the final terzet, which has been sung in complete harmony and devoid of kitsch.“
DAS OPERNGLAS, S. Barnstorf, May 2017
Lieder by Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf, New York, Lincoln Center, 16 April 2017
„It proved among the season’s best recitals, with the German soprano in pristine voice and a charming mood plus the Scottish pianist achieving wonders of sensitivity and tonal caress throughout. Schwanewilms started very ethereally, with slow tempi and rather disengaged sound, but her soprano gained in richness and shine throughout, and its enduring purity of attack and dynamic subtlety impressed as much as the expressiveness she can bring to bear with a fairly uncomplicated tone color.“
www.gaycitynews.nyc, 26 April 2017
Lieder by Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf, Washinton DC, 22 April 2017
„In a Vocal Arts DC recital at the University of the District of Columbia on Thursday, a program of richly expressive, late-Romantic art songs by Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf suited soprano Anne Schwanewilms’s strengths uncommonly well. She’s famed for her shimmering upper voice and spun-sugar high notes, but Schwanewilms’s tangier, more forthright middle and lower registers proved just as distinctive, as did her word-specific treatment of song texts. (…) And when she bathed songs such as Wolf’s “Verborgenheit: Lass, o Welt, o lass mich sein” and Strauss’s “Die Nacht” and “Morgen” in silvery floated tone, the results were ravishing."
The Washington Post, 21 April 2017