Main photo of "Renee's Coming In" by A. HabermehlRenee's newest solo show, RENEE'S COMING IN - Ich bin auch ohne Lady gaga! ("I'm gaga even without the lady!"), premiered in April 2011 at the Grüner Salon/Volksbühne Berlin. Additional performances were at the Hofperle/Neuköllner Oper, the Kookaburra Comedy Club in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, the Varia Vineta Pankow, the TIPI am Kanzleramt and at the ShowSpielhaus Main-Taunus. Show dates for 2012 will follow. In January 2013, the show can be admired on the German cruise ship AIDAaura in the Carribean Sea.
Renee as Yma in September 2010. Photo by Stephan Gustavus.Andreas Renee Swoboda played the starring female role in the show sensation Yma – too beautiful to be true at the Berlin FriedrichstadtPalast, Europe's biggest show palace featuring the world's largest theatrical stage, from its world premiere in September 2010 until February 2012 (break from Feb. until Aug. 2011 due to the production of Renee's new comedy show - see above).
Yma (pronounced "Ee-ma") was the hostess, moderator and star of the show. With elegance and humor she presents the audience her world of tempting bodies, artistic tantalization and cultivated craziness. A top show of superlative quality, surpassing no less than Las Vegas with over 100 artists performing on stage!
Renee was seen almost daily until March 2010 as First Tenor and Solo Vocalist on the AIDA luna & AIDA bella cruise ships in a 3-month engagement each ship. The ships featured 10 different show formats each, in which he sang, for example, a collection of tunes from the Beatles, Abba, Queen, Cool & the Gang, Take That, Culture Club, and Andrew-Lloyd Webber and James Bond title songs.
Not to mention the additional performances of his new gala special "Renee - vom Feinsten" ("Renee – most sophisticated", featuring Renee in his masculine persona!), in the 800-seat Theatrium – each performance a rousing success.
And during the Glamorous Night parties in the Anytime Disco, his feminine persona "Renee Fein" got the audience fired up by singing "her" own dance-pop tunes from the show >>Soiree mit Renee<<. The cruises went to the Canary Islands and countless cities and towns located in the west region of the Mediterranean Sea.
AIDAluna 2009, Renee Fein with go-go dancers Rich & Stas. Photo by www.photoeffects.deFor the Berlin Water Festival, Renee made his first appearance on September 5th 2009 as a moderator in a gala event; it was a public infotainment and marketing event targeting all Berlin residents. On the stage of the Atrium, he hosted a 6-hour variety show with dance numbers, theater, cabaret and media artists with spontaneity, humor and warmth. He also chatted with performers, members of the audience and the press officer of the company.
Guest-performing in Bozen (South Tyrol, Italy), Renee appeared for the first time in the popular Broadway musical Cabaret, in May 2009. He was the "Kit-Kat Girl Frenchie" in the stage production by Paul Kribbe, with choreography by James de Groot.
Renee is well known for his musical role in La Cage aux Folles as the soprano "Chantal". He sang, played and danced the role "Cagelle" from November 2008 through April 2009 thrice so far, this time in the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen.
The press wrote: "(...) something like Chantal's adorable Sissi-dream in white. Renee – the man with the woman's voice – indeed leaves nightingales far behind in shame. You don't have to be a prophet to know that La Cage aux Folles will become a perennial success in Gelsenkirchen. (...)"
(Pitt Herrmann)
A second full-length stage show, "Nette Renee - Zwei schminken sich was ab" ("two uncover their cover-ups"), premiered December 2007 in the Grüner Salon in the Berlin Volksbühne. It is a highly enjoyable musical repartee between Renee (in the first part as his feminine persona "Renee Fein", in the second as a man) and the "Chanson-Nette" Jeanette Urzendowsky. Accompanied by Angela Stoll on piano and directed by Dagmar Bedbur.
Nette & Renee times two. Photo by Elke Jung-Wolff.At the close of May 2006, Renee's first full-length show >>Soiree with Renee<< premiered in Berlin. This is where he plays the female model "Renee Fein", who wouldn't like anything more than to be a pop star. Christoph Wagner and Dietrich Bartsch alternate in stage piano accompaniment. This show played countless times in Berlin and in the Rhein/Main area and is now as ever topical, and especially suited for events and galas.
Andreas Renee Swoboda as the model "Renee Fein" in <<Soiree with Renee>>.
Renee as Cagelle 'Chantal' Foto: Theater LübeckIn the summer of 2004, Renne took on the role of "Chantal" for the second time in the musical "La Cage aux Folles", in a 10-month engagement at the Theater Lübeck, where he could also be seen singing and dancing in the musical "The Wizard of Oz" (precursor of the musical "Wicked").
Renee has resided in Berlin since the summer of 2002 and is taking additional training for his outstanding falsetto voice, which corresponds to a mezzo soprano female voice, with Prof. Renate Faltin of the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He is working on his authentic female character "Renee Fein" together with Prof. Renate Faltin.
AIDAcara 2001, Renee far right
Renee was able to prove his vocal and acting versatility in 18 different show productions on the AIDA club ship, where he could be seen on stage daily as show ensemble soloist during the 2001/2002 Caribbean half-year.
Renee played the role of "Chantal" in La Cage aux Folles for the first time during the 2001 summer season at the BKA-Luftschloss, Berlin-Mitte. The experience changed the course of his career, as during the engagement he was made aware of the astonishing quality of his high soprano voice by the audience and his colleagues.
Before he graduated
from the Hamburg "Stage School".
In the summer of 2001, Renee successfully graduated in acting, singing and dance receiving his Musical Artist Diplom at the renowned Stage School of Music, Dance & Drama in Hamburg.
Parallel to his second year of education, Renee wrote and produced (at the time as Andreas Swoboda) in 1999, his first stage show, the 40-minute musical comedy Jacob & Svob - The Charming Twins, which played with rousing success in Berlin and the Rhein-Main Area. The show twins "Jacob & Svob", he played both characters in rapid change, were last seen in February 2006 as surprise guest(s) of the Midnight Show in the legendary Schmidt-Theater on the Hamburg Reeperbahn.
Renee IS BOTH: "Jacob" AND "Svob" in this photo montage from 1999, picture of his first solo show.
Panoptikum CD cover.Renee alias Andreas Swoboda experienced his official start on stage in 1995: He was a full member of the Panoptikum comedy troupe at the Posthofkeller-Theater in Hattersheim am Main. He acted, sang and danced in five show productions in male and a few female roles. Do you recognize him on the cover? He's at the far left in the second row from the top, in the third row at the far right and at the far left in the bottom row.
