Jacobine Susanne "Ina" Madsen (December 31, 1867 – August 19, 1935) was a
Norwegian opera singer and
voice teacher.
Family
Ina Madsen was the daughter of the shipowner Jacob Edvard Didrik Madsen and Susanne Sofie Clausen, and the sister of the writer
Theodor Madsen
Hans Mathias Theodor Jacob Madsen (January 14, 1858 – November 5, 1935) was a Norwegians, Norwegian writer.
Madsen debuted with the novel ''I Drift'' (In Operation) in 1890. Most of his works are written in the Naturalism (literature), Natural ...
. She married the architect Børge Rosenkilde ( 1869–1927). Her father died before she was baptized in
Bergen.
Life and work
Madsen studied under
Camilla Wiese and
Julius Stockhausen.
She received the state scholarships two times, was twice a recipient of the Henrichsen scholarship (established by Theodor Henrichsen), and studied in Paris under
Pauline Viardot.
She debuted on May 22, 1889 at the
National Theater in Bergen in the role of Zerlina in
Mozart
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's opera ''
Don Giovanni
''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...
''. She performed at the same venue in June 1889, together with Christian Zangenberg as Griolet, in the role of Stella in
Jacques Offenbach's ''
The Drum Major's Daughter''.
In the 1890s, she performed in Bergen, where she had grown up, and then toured Europe with concerts in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, and elsewhere.
On February 20, 1898, she held her official farewell concert in Norway, in the
Gamle Logen
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History
Gamle Logen was originally built in 1836 for the Norwegia ...
banquet hall. There she performed a selection of folk songs, arias, and songs by a wide variety of composers, such as
Halfdan Kjerulf
Halfdan Kjerulf (17 September 181511 August 1868) was a Norwegian composer.
Biography
Kjerulf was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of a high government official. His early education was at Christiania University, for a lega ...
,
Edvard Grieg,
Agathe Backer Grøndahl, and
Gaetano Donizetti
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. She received considerable praise for her aria interpretation of Donizetti's opera ''
Lucia di Lammermoor'' in Germany.
In 1900 she performed at the
National Theater in Oslo in the role of Siébel in ''
Faust''. In addition to her roles in operas, Madsen often performed as a concert singer. She worked for many years as a voice teacher and concert singer in Berlin, where she lived during her married life.
Selected roles
*Zerlina in
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''
Don Giovanni
''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...
'' (
National Theater, 1889)
*Stella in
Jacques Offenbach's ''
The Drum Major's Daughter'' (
National Theater, 1889)
*Siébel in
Charles Gounod's ''
Faust'' (
National Theater, 1900)
*Micaëla in
Georges Bizet
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's ''
Carmen
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''
Awards
*1897: Government Grant for Artists,
NOK
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Archaeology
The discovery of terracotta figurines at this location caused its name to be used for the Nok culture, of which these ...
750
*1900: Theodor Henrichsen scholarship, NOK 2,000
References
Further reading
*Jensson, Liv. 1981. ''Biografisk skuespillerleksikon''. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, p. 111. .
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1867 births
1935 deaths
20th-century Norwegian women opera singers
19th-century Norwegian women opera singers
Musicians from Bergen
Musicians from Nordland