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List Of Swedish Operatic Sopranos
This is a list of operatic sopranos and mezzo-sopranos who were born in Sweden or whose work is closely associated with that country. A *Eufrosyne Abrahamson (1836–1869), soprano who performed in operas mainly in Madrid and Vienna *Adèle Almati (1861–1919), German-born Swedish mezzo-soprano who performed leading roles at the Royal Swedish Opera *Ruth Althén (1890–1985), soprano at the Royal Swedish Opera, concert performer *Vendela Andersson-Sörensen (1860–1926), soprano at the Royal Swedish Opera from 1882 to 1887 *Susanna Andersson (born 1977), soprano opera singer, performing internationally in opera and recitals *Lovisa Augusti (c.1751–1790), German-born Swedish soprano who made her mark at the Royal Swedish Opera *Kerstin Avemo (born 1973), coloratura soprano performing in opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe B *Maria Bengtsson (soprano), Maria Bengtsson (born 1975), soprano performing in Europe's major opera houses *Julie Berwald (1822–1877), cel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Lisa Björling
Anna-Lisa Björling (née Emy Anna-Lisa Berg; 15 March 1910 – 24 November 2006) was a Swedish opera singer and actress. She was married to tenor Jussi Björling, from 1935 until his death in 1960. Born in Stockholm, Anna-Lisa was a soprano who had studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. After her marriage to Jussi Björling in 1935, Anna-Lisa focused on her family life and their children for ten years. When the children were older she resumed her musical studies, and made a very successful comeback at the Royal Swedish Opera Royal Swedish Opera ( sv, Kungliga Operan) is an opera and ballet company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Location and environment The building is located in the center of Sweden's capital Stockholm in the borough of Norrmalm, on the eastern side ... in 1948, where she performed various roles until the late 1960s. In Sweden and occasionally abroad, she performed duets with her husband Jussi Björling, for television specials and other events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Edling
Dina (Bernhardina) Edling, née Niehoff (14 November 1854 – 9 January 1935) was a Swedish opera singer (mezzo-soprano), singing teacher, and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She debuted at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in 1876, and was employed there in 1877–1892. She was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1885. She was given Litteris et Artibus in 1890. References "Edling, Bernhardina (Dina)" ''Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon'', I:268, 1906 (republished on Project Runeberg Project Runeberg ( sv, Projekt Runeberg) is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Patterned after Project Gutenberg, it was founded ...) * ''Sohlmans musiklexikon'' (''The Sohlman Music Dictionary'') 1854 births 1935 deaths Swedish operatic mezzo-sopranos Litteris et Artibus recipients 19th-century Swedish women opera singers {{Sweden-opera- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin State Opera
The (), also known as the Berlin State Opera (german: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from 1741 to 1743 according to plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in the Palladian style. Damaged during the Allied bombing in World War II, the former Royal Prussian Opera House was rebuilt from 1951 to 1955 as part of the Forum Fridericianum square. Nicknamed ''Lindenoper'' in Berlin, it is "the first theater anywhere to be, by itself, a prominent, freestanding monumental building in a city." History Names Originally called the ''Königliche Oper'' (Royal Opera) from 1743, it was renamed as the ''Preußische Staatsoper'' (Prussian State Opera) in 1919, then as the ''Deutsche Staatsoper '' in 1955. Until 1990, it housed the state opera of East Germany. Since 1990, it is officially called the ''Staatsoper Unter den Linden'' (State Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilda Ebeling
Aurora Mathilda Ebeling (1826–1851) was a Swedish soprano opera singer. After first appearing as a concert pianist in 1842, she made her singing debut at Stockholm's Mindre Theatre in 1844. She performed at the Royal Swedish Opera from 1846 to 1848 before further study in Paris and an engagement with Berlin's Royal Opera in 1850. Biography Born in Stockholm County on 11 October 1826, Mathilda Ebeling was the daughter of the flautist Johan Ludvig Ebeling and Aurora Olivia Björkman. She received piano lessons from Wilhelmina Josephson. At the age of 15, she gave her first major concert as a pianist in Stockholm's Stock Exchange Hall where she showed promise as one of the country's most notable performers. Nevertheless, following the encouragement of the composer , she decided to take singing lessons which led to her début in the opera ''Farinelli'' at the Mindre Theatre in 1844. In 1845, she was admitted to the Royal Opera as a student, making a highly successful début the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katija Dragojevic
Katija Dragojevic, born on 14 July 1970, is a Swedish operatic mezzo-soprano who is active at international opera houses such as La Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and La Monnaie. Dragojevic starred in the film ''Juan'' based on Mozart's ''Don Giovanni''. Career Born in Stockholm, the young Dragojevic attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School there and sang in Adolf Fredrik's Girls Choir. She received her professional training at the college of music in Stockholm and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. The debut took place in October 2000 as Kristina in Janáček's ''The Makropulos Affair'' at La Monnaie in Brussels. In 2012, she made her debut at La Scala in Milan as Cherubino in ''The Marriage of Figaro''.Marcus Boldemann"It is heavenly and strange at once" in ''Dagens Nyheter'', 29 March 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2014 At the Royal Opera Stockholm, she has also sung Cherubino, a page in ''Salome'' and Meg Page in Verdi's ''Falstaff''. On the concert s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjerstin Dellert
Kjerstin Dellert (4 November 1925 – 5 March 2018) was a Swedish opera singer and theater manager. Life Early life Born in Stockholm, Dellert made her opera debut at Stora teatern (the old Gothenburg Opera stage) in Gothenburg in the 1950s. Vocalist career Her career as a vocalist had begun when she won an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts contest in 1948 with '' Someone to Watch Over Me''. From the mid-1950s to the 1970s she worked primarily at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in a variety of opera roles, including Floria in Puccini's ''Tosca'' and Harry Martinson/Erik Lindegren/Karl-Birger Blomdahl's opera ''Aniara'' in 1959. Dellert has also been the initiator and producer of a few gala shows for particular celebrations, such as the show financed by Sweden's Parliament and given in 1976 at the Stockholm Opera for the wedding of King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia (where ABBA first performed ''Dancing Queen'' and she performed '' O, min Carl Gustaf''). and a review at Sö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tove Dahlberg
Hanna Tove Dahlberg (born April 25, 1973 in Stockholm) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer, active on the international opera scene. In 2005 Dahlberg was one of a group of world-class musicians who were permitted to perform inside a building at Auschwitz for the first time ever during the filming of the International Emmy Award winning TV documentary ''Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film''. Education Dahlberg attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. She then studied jazz singing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm before starting her opera singer training - first at ''Opera Studio 67'' in Stockholm, and then until 2002 at the University College of Opera, also in Stockholm. Subsequently, she was admitted at the Covent Garden opera's two year ''Vilar Young Artists Programme'' (later renamed ''Jette Parker Young Artists Programme'') in London. Career Dahlberg debuted on the Royal Opera Stockholm as ''Cherubino'' in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Claussen
Julia Claussen (11 June 1879 – 1 May 1941) was a Swedish mezzo-soprano. Early life and education Claussen was born on 11 June 1879 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was educated at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in that city; she also studied at the Royal Academy in Berlin. Career Claussen made her debut in ''La favorita'' in Stockholm on 19 January 1903, and remained with the Royal Swedish Opera for nine seasons. She sang at Covent Garden and in Paris, and appeared as Ortrud in ''Lohengrin'' in Chicago in 1913. She sang in Portland, Oregon in 1914, under the management of Alma Voedisch. She made several recordings in 1915. In 1916, she sang on the Chautauqua circuit, giving 119 recitals in twelve states. She toured in Scandinavia in 1920, was decorated by the King of Sweden, and gave a recital at New York's Aeolian Hall on her return to the United States. She gave a recital at Carnegie Hall in 1922. Claussen made her Metropolitan Opera debut, as Delilah, on 23 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Casagli
Justina Kristina Casagli née Wässelius (4 October 1794 – 1841) was a Swedish opera singer Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libretti .... She was internationally famous and active in Italy and Germany. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Life Justina Casagli was born in Stockholm. She was the daughter of a tapestry manufacturer, and the sister of Jeanette Wässelius. The home was reportedly a poor one. Following the example of her elder sister, she was enrolled in the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in 1805 under the tutelage of Sofia Lovisa Gråå. As such, she was active as a student in the performances of the student school. She was engaged at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1812-18. She married the Italien ballet dancer Luigi Casagli in 1812 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toledo Blade
''The Blade'', also known as the ''Toledo Blade'', is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications. The newspaper was first published on December 19, 1835. Overview The first issue of what was then the ''Toledo Blade'' was printed on December 19, 1835. It has been published daily since 1848 and is the oldest continuously run business in Toledo. David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the Civil War era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Under this name, he wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery, to the Civil War, to temperance. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them. In 1867 Locke bought the ''Toledo Blade''. The paper dropped "Toledo" from its masthead in 1960. In 2004 ''The Blade'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with a series of stories entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths". The story brought to light the stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Cahier
Sara Charles-Cahier or Madame Charles Cahier (born Sara Layton Walker; 8 January 187015 April 1951) was an American-born Swedish mezzo-soprano or contralto singer in opera and lieder, singing primarily in Europe. The American-born Cahier later acquired Swedish citizenship. She was associated with Gustav Mahler, and was one of the soloists in the posthumous premiere of his ''Das Lied von der Erde'' in 1911. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and was a teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her students included Marian Anderson. Career She was born as Sara Layton Walker in Nashville, Tennessee."Mme. Sara Cahier" '''', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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