Anne Schwanewilms is recognised as one of the leading interpreters of the works of Richard Strauss. She is a regular in opera houses like Munich, Dresden, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, New York or Tokyo.  At the Semperoper Dresden, Anne Schwanewilms had remarkable  successes as Arabella, Marschallin and  Chrysothemis under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann, roles which she reprised at the Vienna National Opera . Repeatedly she appears as Elsa & Eva or Elisabeth at the Bayreuth and the Salzburg Festivals.

 Her opera recordings include DVDs of „Die Gezeichneten“ (Salzburg Festival), „Die Frau ohne Schatten“ (Salzburg Festival, Christian Thielemenn, Vienna Philharmonic), „Der Rosenkavalier“ (Fabio Luisi, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2007). She is renowned as one of the most important voices for Strauss’s legacy „Vier letzte Lieder“, which she has recorded officially  twice. A  Wagner CD with „Tristan and Isolde“, „Tannhäuser“ and the „Wesendonck-Lieder“ as well as many Lieder recordings by Liszt, Mahler, Schumann, Wolff, and Schönberg are available.  Her „Wozzeck“ from Houston received the ECHO Klassik Award in 2017 and the GRAMMY Award 2018. In 2019 the DVD “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” from the Bayreuth Festival received an OPUS Klassik.