Eidé Norena
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Eidé Norena (born April 26, 1884 in Holten [today the municipality of Rijssen-Holten ]; died November 13, 1968 in Lausanne ) was a Norwegian opera singer ( soprano ).
Live and act
Kaja Andrea Karoline Hansen was born in 1884 as the daughter of Gullik Hansen (1852-1892) and Susanne Anette Marie Møller (1857-1921). On May 29, 1909, she married the actor Egil Næss Eide (1868-1946). After the marriage was dissolved, she married the lawyer and businessman Henry Myron Blackmer (1872–1962) in 1939. She adopted the stage name Eidé Norena in the 1920s.
She received singing lessons from Helene Aschehoug and Ellen Gulbranson and later studied in Weimar, London, and Paris - among others with Raimund von Zur Mühlen . She had her first appearance in 1903 in her home town of Horten, others followed in Kristiania and Horten. On March 18, 1905, she made her debut in Oslo with the pianist Hildur Andersen . The director of the National Theater Bjørn Bjørnson then brought her to his house. In 1907 she made her operatic debut as Amor in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . That same year she sang Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and a year later in Aagot Thranes Fjeldeventyret and the title role in Olsen Laila. In 1909 her breakthrough came with the title role of Madame Butterfly.
After appearances at the Royal Theater in Stockholm, she sang at La Scala in Milan (1924), at Covent Garden in London (1924–1925, 1930–1931, 1934 and 1937) and at the Paris Opera (1925–1937). She was a member of the Chicago Opera (1926-1928) and from 1933 to 1938 of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she made her debut in 1933 as Mimi ( La Bohème ). Concert tours took her through the USA. From 1935 to 1938 she also took part in the festivals in Salzburg . Her best roles included Mathilde in Guillaume Tell , Violetta in La traviata , Marguerite in Les Huguenots , the 3 heroines in Les contes d'Hoffmann and Desdemona in Othello . As Desdemona, she gave her last performance at the Paris Opera in the spring of 1938. Its last performance took place on February 26, 1939 in Horten.
In 1940 she moved to Switzerland, where she died in Lausanne at the age of 84. She was buried on Vår Frelsers Gravlund .
Awards
- Winner of the King's Medal of Merit in Gold
- Member of the Legion of Honor
- Knight 1st class of the Order of Saint Olav
- Ingenio et arti medal
Web links
- Kaja Eide Norena in the Norsk biografisk leksikon
- Kaja Eide Norena in the norske leksikon store
- Norena, Eidé (real name, Kaja Andrea Karoline Hansen- Eidé) in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
- Eidé Norena (1884–1968) (gramophone.co.uk)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coloratura soprano Fru Kaja Andrea Karoline Eide Norena Blackmer , Gravferdsetaten i Oslo commune. (Retrieved October 3, 2018.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Norena, Eidé |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hansen-Eide, Kaja Andrea Karoline (full name); Hansen, Kaja Andrea Karoline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holten |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1968 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |