Ellen Gulbranson

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Ellen Gulbranson, 1890

Ellen Maria Elizabeth Gulbranson (born March 4, 1863 in Stockholm as Ellen Nordgren; died January 2, 1947 in Oslo ) was a Swedish - Norwegian opera singer . Her voice was in the range of soprano and mezzo-soprano .

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Gulbranson studied from 1880 to 1883 at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm with Julius Günther and then in Paris with Ellen Kenneth and Mathilde Marchesi and their daughter Blanche . It was the latter that led Gulbranson's voice from mezzo-soprano to dramatic soprano . She made her operatic debut in 1889 as Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in Stockholm, where she sang the Wagner roles Brünnhilde ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) and Ortrud ( Lohengrin ) in 1898 . Other roles were Kundry in Parsifal and Isolde in Tristan and Isolde .

In 1896 she appeared for the first time at the Bayreuth Festival with the support of Johan Svendsen . There she worked until 1914, mostly alternating with Lilli Lehmann as Brünnhilde. In the meantime she has also sung at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden , the National Theater in Oslo and the Concert Hall in Bergen .

In 1915 she withdrew from the stage world. Their last concert took place in 1923. She gave singing lessons for several years, a. a. Eidé Norena , Agnes Hanson-Hvoslef and Julie Eline Gjestvang .

On November 18, 1890, she married the Norwegian Lieutenant Colonel Hans Peter Francis Gulbranson and received Norwegian citizenship. She had three daughters.

In 1911 she received the King's Medal of Merit in Gold .

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SURNAME Gulbranson, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gulbranson, Ellen Maria Elizabeth (full name); Nordgren, Ellen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Norwegian singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1947
Place of death Oslo