Anne Schwanewilms
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Anne Schwanewilms is a German lyric soprano
. She studied gardening before training as a singer with the German bass, Hans Sotin
, in Cologne
. She is particularly associated with performing the works of Wagner, Franz Schreker
, Alban Berg
and Richard Strauss
.
She sang Gutrune in James Levine
's Bayreuth Ring.
On 26th January 2011, she performed the role of the Marschallin in the jubilee centenary performance of Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden.
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
. She studied gardening before training as a singer with the German bass, Hans Sotin
Hans Sotin
Hans Sotin is a German operatic bass.He was born in Dortmund and studied with Friedrich Wilhelm Hetzel and Dieter Jacob at the Dortmund Hochschule für Musik....
, in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
. She is particularly associated with performing the works of Wagner, Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...
, Alban Berg
Alban Berg
Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...
and Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
.
She sang Gutrune in James Levine
James Levine
James Lawrence Levine is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of May 2011 he has...
's Bayreuth Ring.
On 26th January 2011, she performed the role of the Marschallin in the jubilee centenary performance of Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden.