Hanna Schwarz Mezzo-soprano
Season 24/25 Artist

Biography

Hanna Schwarz made her international breakthrough in 1975 as Fricka (Ring) at Bayreuth, where she also sang Erda, Waltraute (Ring) and Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde). She then embarked on an international career, working with conductors such as James Levine, Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm and Zubin Mehta.

She sang Hérodias (Salomé) at the 2011 Salzburg Easter Festival, as well as new productions of Die Soldaten at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Zurich Opera, Jenůfa and Salomé in Zurich, Charodeyka and Peter Grimes at the Theater an der Wien, Daphne in Basel and at the Hamburg State Opera, Jenůfa at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Kátia Kabanová and Eugene Onegin in Hamburg. Recent projects include new productions of Dialogues des carmélites and La Dame de Pique in Basel, concerts of L'Opéra de quat'sous in Vienna, London, Paris and Hamburg, Salomé in Valencia and at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, L'Or du Rhin in Seville and Jenůfa at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Hanna Schwarz has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, the London and Boston Symphony Orchestras, and in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His numerous radio broadcasts and recordings include Das Lied von der Erde, Gurrelieder, symphonies and songs by Gustav Mahler, and Verdi's Requiem. In the 2024-2025 season, she will appear in Jenůfa at London's Royal Opera House and in La Walkyrie in Basel.

At the Opéra national de Paris: La Force du destin (Preziosilla), 1976; Lulu (Der Gymnasiast, Ein Groom, Eine Garderobiere), 1979; La Chauve-souris (Prinz Orlofsky), 1983; Don Quichotte (La Belle Dulcinée), 1986; Giulio Cesare (Cornelia), 1987; Eugène Onéguine (Filipievna), 2017.

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