Per Erik Sevelin (15 March 1791 - 26 August 1851), was a Swedish actor and ballet dancer.

Biography

He was born in Stockholm, the son of the governor of an estate, Per Erik Sevelin, and Anna Katarina Nordström, and married the opera singer

Anna Sofia Sevelin Anna Sofia Sevelin née Thunberg (23 July 1790 – 25 February 1871) was a Swedish opera singer (alto). She was a '' Hovsångare'' and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Life Anna Sofia Sevelin was the daughter of the church musicia ...

in 1813. Per Erik Sevelin was trained as a ballet dancer in the

Royal Swedish Ballet The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in Europe. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, King Gustav III founded the ballet in 1773 as a part of his national cultural project in response to the French and Italian dominance in this fi ...

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 ...

, where he was active as a dancer from 1801 to 1806. After this, he had a successful career as an actor. He was engaged at the

Djurgårdsteatern Djurgårdsteatern (Swedish for "Djurgården Theatre"), was an historical Swedish theatre, active at Djurgården in Stockholm between 1801 and 1929 (from 1863 in a new building). It was the only theatre in Stockholm outside the royal theatres dur ...

in 1806-1811, the

Royal Dramatic Theatre The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The the ...

in 1811-1838, the

Mindre teatern Mindre teatern (''The Smaller Theatre''), Nya teatern (''The New Theatre''), Lindeberska teatern (''The Lindeberg Theatre''), was a Swedish theatre at Kungsgatan in Stockholm, active 1842–1863. The building was used as localities for the Royal D ...

in 1838-1844, and again at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1844-1847. Sevelin belonged to the star attractions of the Royal Theatre during the 1820s- and 30s. He was popular particularly for his ability to perform caricature within comedy. He resigned from the royal theatre in 1838 because he regarded his wife to have been badly treated by the theater management, who first destroyed her voice by exhaustion, then stopped giving her parts, and lowering her salary because she was not active: in 1837, she resigned because of this, and not long after, Per Erik Sevelin made a scandal at the stage in mid performance by resigning and declaring that he would never return.Nordensvan, Georg, Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar. Förra delen, 1772-1842, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1917 In 1844, however, his popularity with the audience made the royal theatre engage him again.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sevelin, Per Erik 1791 births 1851 deaths Male actors from Stockholm 19th-century Swedish ballet dancers 19th-century Swedish male actors Swedish male stage actors