Singer sylvia schwartz biography

Spanish soprano Sylvia Schwartz has made a name as one of the leading sopranos of her generation, combining a deep musicality with great lyricism.
Spanish soprano Sylvia Schwartz is one of the most exciting lyric singers of her generation.
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Sylvia Schwartz

soprano

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Spanish soprano Sylvia Schwartz is one of the most exciting lyric singers of her generation.

She has appeared at many of the world’s finest opera houses and festivals including La Scala Milan, Berlin Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, The Bolshoi Theatre, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Edinburgh, Baden Baden, Salzburg and Verbier festivals.

Sylvia is also much in demand in concert and is a celebrated recitalist and has worked with pianists such as Wolfram Rieger, Charles Spencer and Malcolm Martineau; and with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Rene Jacobs, Fabio Luisi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel Patrick Fournillier, Marc Minkowski, Ivor Bolton, Yves Abel, Jean Christophe Spinosi, Helmut Rilling and Christopher Hogwood.

In 2015-2016 her engagements include opera performances at Berlin Staatsoper (Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno), Teatro Real Madrid (Die Zauberflöte) and Michigan Opera (Die Zauberflöte). In concert, she will

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Sylvia Schwartz plays on Opus 930, a baroque violin patterned after the ‘Goldberg’ violin of Joseph Guarneri “del Gesú”. From the beginning of our relationship, Sylvia has shown a great deal of ingenuity and ambition, putting together a successful crowd-funding campaign to help purchase her instrument and embracing many of the new ways of engaging with audiences that technology is bringing us, including Groupmuse, a website that facilitates chamber music house concerts, and Patreon, a web-based patronage subscription system. She performs with her partner, John Ott, as Guts Baroque. You can support their Patreon here.

In the interview, we talked extensively about the work of Émile Jacques Dalcroze, a Swiss composer and music educator who developed an influential pedagogy known as eurhythmics in the early 20th century. If you are interested in learning more about this, The Dalcroze Society of America is a good place to start. This interview was conducted by Brendan Taaffe.

Sylvia Schwartz, Opus 930

I’m curious to hear about what drew you to early music, and how you’ve bee

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English-Spanish soprano Sylvia Schwartz has reached an international status thanks to her extraordinary vocal qualities and her acting talent. Recently acclaimed at Wien Staatsoper for her Adina in Elisir d’amore, she already had a successful experience in January 2012 performing at Berlin Staatsoper singing Bellezza in Händel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno. In the near future, she will perform in Paris at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in a Mozart recital, then she will be Susanna in a concert version of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Verbier Festival and finally she will perform some more Mozart repertoire at the Saltzburg Festival under Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s baton. Her concert schedule will be hectic as she will perform several lieder recitals in the next months at various important venues. She is currently singing Sophie in DerRosenkavalier at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In Italy, Sylvia Schwartz debuted at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 2006 as Zerlina in Don Giovanni. In 2010 she performed with pianist Kirill Gerstein in Reggio Emilia. Sylvi