Bergliot Ibsen (née Bjørnson; 10 June 1869 – 2 February 1953) was a Norwegian
mezzo-soprano
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singer.
Biography

She was born Bergliot Bjørnson in
Christiania (now Oslo, Norway) as the daughter of writer and
Nobel Prize in Literature
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laureate
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished ...
and
Karoline Bjørnson (née Reimers). She was married to politician
Sigurd Ibsen
Sigurd Ibsen (23 December 1859 – 14 April 1930) was a Norwegian writer, lawyer and statesman, who served as the prime minister of Norway in Stockholm (1903–1905) and played a central role in the dissolution of the union between Norway an ...
(1859-1930), son of playwright
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
and
Suzannah Ibsen. Her husband later became Norwegian Prime Minister in
Stockholm
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. They were the parents of
Tancred Ibsen
Tancred Ibsen (11 July 1893 – 4 December 1978) was a Norwegian military officer, aviator, film director and screenwriter.
Background
Ibsen was the son of Sigurd Ibsen and Bergljot Bjørnson. He was the grandson of both Henrik Ibsen and Nobel ...
, Eleonora Borberg and
Irene Ibsen Bille.
Bergliot Ibsen made her concert début in
Paris
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in 1880, and later toured in Norway and Denmark.
[ In 1948 she published the memoir book ''De tre'' on the three Ibsens: Henrik, Suzannah and Sigurd.][
She died in ]Bolzano
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, Italy in 1953. She was buried in Oslo at Æreslunden in Vår Frelsers gravlund
The Cemetery of Our Saviour () is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemi ...
.
References
1869 births
1953 deaths
Musicians from Oslo
Norwegian women singers
Norwegian memoirists
Bergliot
Norwegian expatriates in Italy
Norwegian expatriates in France
Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour
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