Sylvia Gähwiller (5 July 1909 – 19 March 1999) was a Swiss operatic soprano and a voice teacher.
[1] She appeared there as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Konstanze in his Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Countess Almaviva in his Le nozze di Figaro, Baroness Freimann in Lortzing's Der Wildschütz, Mimì in Puccini's La bohème, Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Elmire in Schock's Erwin und Elmire and the title role in Flotow's Martha.
She interpreted classical works by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others, as well as contemporary works by, for example Paul Hindemith, Willy Burkhard, Arthur Honegger, Alban Berg, Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartók, Ernst Krenek and Arnold Schoenberg.
[1] Gähwiller can be heard on several recordings, for example under the direction of Walter Goehr as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare in Egitto and as Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea[2] as well as song singer in Othmar Schoeck plays Othmar Schoeck and in Zürcher Liederbuch 1986.
[3] In the 1960s and 1970s she taught singing at the conservatories of Zürich and Winterthur, after which she continued to give private lessons.