Lieder, yes, but chansons? Would her French be up to the clotted symbolism Debussy wrote himself for some of his most dreamlike music in his early Proses Lyriques? It hadn’t been clear some years back ...

The wrappings weren't pure fluff, either. Franz Schreker's early Op. 3 songs give no indication of the adventurer to come, but he lends a bittersweet twist to reflections on a past love by Paul Heyse.

Messiaen’s 1930s song-cycle, an evocation of mystical love inspired by his first wife, deserves a wider hearing, and Schwanewilms’ white soprano captures its enchanted beauty. The Orchestre National ...

German soprano Anne Schwanewilms has withdrawn from all remaining performances as the Countess Almaviva in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's revival of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Schwanewilms is ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Most people in London probably think of Anne Schwanewilms in connection with the episode of the “little black dress”.

On Thursday morning, the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh was filled with the gorgeous sound of soprano Anne Schwanewilms. In this programme of Lieder by Strauss and Mahler, her vocal abilities were evident.

Ariadne auf Naxos has returned to the Royal Opera House on a wave of hype over a little black dress and a generously proportioned soprano. Critics writing in Thursday newspapers generally cheered the ...

Born in 1967 in the German industrial city of Gelsenkirchen, Anne Schwanewilms is a lyric soprano associated with German late Romantic music. Her voice is on the bright side, with coloratura high ...

GERMAN soprano Anne Schwanewilms started off as a mezzo, and from her beautifully delivered but slightly unengaging Queen’s Hall recital, you could tell. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...