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Sylvia Schwartz

soprano

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About

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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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

Sylvia Schwartz

Glass Orphée (Eurydice)

Teatro Real (October 2022)

[Sylvia Schwartz] plays a credible Eurydice because of her fragility and vital unease. Musically… [she is] confident, with good projection and full of subtle colors that contrast with her antagonist.

María Pardo, Opera World

A lyricism that Sylvia Schwartz's Eurydice manages to bring out with traits of particular sweetness.

Fabio Zannoni, GDM

Perfect in their tasks, the young Cegèste by Pablo García-Lopez and the enamored Eurydice by Sylvia Schwarz.

Beckmesser

Soprano Sylvia Schwartz is Eurydice, a role she masters with flying colours.

ConcertoNet

Honegger Jeanne D’Arc (La Vierge)

Teatro Real (June 2022)

The vocal and actor performances of the whole cast were excellent… Sylvia Schwarz in the part of the virgin.

Fabio Zannoni, GDM

The limpid voice of Sylvia Schwartz gave expression to the Virgin.

Beckmesser

Sylvia Schwartz - Concert

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