Malena Ernman

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Malena Ernman (2012)
Malena Ernman (2012)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
La voix you north
  SE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
07/10/2009 (32 weeks)
Santa Lucia - En Klassisk Jul
  SE 2 11/26/2010 (12 weeks)
Opera di fiori
  SE 4th 07/15/2011 (22 weeks)
I decembertid
  SE 4th 11/22/2013 (9 weeks)
Advent
  SE 56 December 25, 2015 (1 week)
Singles
La voix
  SE 2 03/06/2009 (19 weeks)

Sara Magdalena "Malena" Ernman (born November 4, 1970 in Uppsala ) is a Swedish opera singer with the voices soprano and mezzo-soprano . She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009 .

Career as an opera singer

Ernman sang in amateur choirs as a child and, after discovering her talent, was trained at the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm . Her debut took place in the role of Kaja in Sven-David Sandström's Staden .

She performs in the fields of early music and bel canto , contemporary opera as well as with the usual repertoire of her vocal subject (coloratura) - mezzo-soprano . She has worked with conductors like Daniel Barenboim , William Christie , Daniel Harding , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , René Jacobs and Teodor Currentzis . She made her debut at the Theater an der Wien in 2007 as Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto and has since performed there regularly in leading roles.

Since her daughter Greta Thunberg convinced her not to travel by air for reasons of climate protection, she has turned down international engagements if they cannot be reached by train.

Roles (selection)

Eurovision Song Contest

Malena Ernman at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

In 2009 Ernman took part in the Melodifestivalen , the Swedish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest , with the title La voix , and won the final on March 14, 2009. So she qualified for participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow . In the final she finished 21st; the Norwegian Alexander Rybak won .

family

Ernman has been married to music producer and actor Svante Thunberg since 2004 . The couple have two daughters, of whom the elder, born in 2003, Greta achieved worldwide fame as a climate protection activist in 2018 . Her younger daughter Beata Ernman made her first appearances as a singer and campaigned against bullying with her song Bara du vill , with which she was seen in the shows Malou Efter Tio and BingoLotto on the Swedish private television broadcaster TV 4 .

In August 2014, her then 11-year-old daughter Greta Thunberg fell seriously ill. Her critical condition lasted for several months and she was eventually diagnosed with, among other things, Asperger's Syndrome . Her daughter's acute period of illness put such a strain on Ernman and her family that she collapsed several times during her professional career and some performances were stopped. After the crisis was over, she turned to the national daily Expressen , which then reported in detail. She said she wanted to help other families in a similar situation. She also wrote a book about this time until Greta became known worldwide.

Discography

Only publications with Malena Ernman as a solo artist are listed.

Albums

  • Naive (2000)
  • Cabaret Songs (2001)
  • Songs in Season (2003)
  • My Love (2003)
  • La voix du nord (2009)
  • Santa Lucia - En classic Jul (2010)
  • Opera di fiori (2011)
  • I decembertid (2013)
  • Advent (2015)

Singles

  • La voix (2009)
  • Min plats på jorden (2010)

Publications

  • Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Malena Ernman, Beata Ernman: Scener ur hjärtat. Bokförlaget Polaris, Stockholm 2018
    • German edition: Scenes from the heart. Our life for the climate. Translated from Swedish by Ulla Ackermann, Gesa Kunter u. Stefan Pluschkat. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397480-5 .

Web links

Commons : Malena Ernman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart discography Sweden
  2. ↑ Awards for music sales: SE
  3. ↑ a b Anita Partanen: Greta: A girl changes the world . Riva Verlag , 2019, ISBN 978-3-7453-0807-5 , pp. 17 ( Google Books ).
  4. ↑ Claus Hecking and Charlotte Schönberger: Interview with Greta Thunberg "It's a good sign that you hate me". In: www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2019, accessed March 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Photo series: Greta Thunberg: The Bullerbü girl who paints the devil on the wall (picture 4). In: www.nzz.ch. March 15, 2019, accessed March 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ biography on her personal website (English) ( Memento of 17 September 2018 Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Claus Hecking: Greta's uprising. Mirror online. November 30, 2018, accessed the same day.
  8. ↑ Carmen Zugaza: Así es Beata, la hermana de Greta Thunberg que canta contra el acoso y se declara feminista , El Mundo , December 8, 2019 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ Now Greta Thunberg's little sister urges onto the stage. In: The world . February 11, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020.
  10. ↑ Christer Olsson: Det har varit ett helvetiskt år (It's been a hell of a year) , Expressen , Stockholm, May 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Ernman, Malena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernman, Sara Magdalena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish opera singer with soprano and mezzo-soprano voices
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala , Sweden