Anne Schwanewilms was born into a musical family in Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr, but studied gardening before training as a singer with the great German bass Hans Sotin in Cologne. (Gardening remains her

Anne Schwanewilms debuted as Gutrune in Gotterdammerung, for the 1996 Bayreuth Festival Ring, and she quickly came to specialise in the German Romantic soprano repertory, stunning English audiences at

Anne Schwanewilms press reviews ANNE SCHWANEWILMS (Extract from programme article for Anne Schwanewilms Liederabend at L'Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg, March 8, 2008)"Anne Schwanewilms belongs to

Anne Schwanewilms RECORDINGS / discography