Per Grundén

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Per Grundén (born May 23, 1922 in Eskilstuna , Sweden ; † February 6, 2011 in Trosa , Sweden) was a Swedish opera singer ( tenor ) and actor .

Life

Grundén graduated from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in the 1940s . He received lessons from the well-known Scottish-Swedish opera singer and singing teacher Joseph Hislop (1884–1977). Grundén made his debut as an opera singer in 1945 at the Stora Theater ( Stora Teatern ) in Gothenburg in the role of Sporting Life in the opera Porgy and Bess . He stayed at the Stora Theater until 1949, then moved to the Oscar Theater ( Oscars Teatern ) in Stockholm, where his career as an operetta singer began. Grundén also appeared as a guest at the Royal Opera in Stockholm; there he sang lyrical tenor roles in operas and also some operetta roles, including the symon in the operetta Der Bettelstudent ; with this role he achieved his breakthrough there.

From 1953 to 1963 Grundén sang at the Vienna Volksoper ; He also appeared in productions of the Vienna State Opera , which used the Volksoper building for its performances due to the destroyed State Opera. Grundén sang operetta roles in Vienna again, but also took on roles in operas. Between 1953 and 1955, he sang the title role in Fra Diavolo , Max in Der Freischütz , Paris in Die Schöne Helena , Barinkay in Der Zigeunerbaron , Symon in Der Bettelstudent , Danilo in The Merry Widow and the painter Armand Brissard in The Count of Luxembourg . At the Vienna Volksoper, Danilo in particular, but also Count René in Madame Pompadour , Prince Sou-Chong in The Land of Smiles and the title role in the operetta The Tsarevich were among his highlights. He sang the role of Sou-Chong in over 80 performances at the Vienna Volksoper. In 1958 he was appointed chamber singer . In later years Grundén appeared again in 1976 at the Vienna Volksoper; he took over the poet Joseph Calicot in the operetta Madame Pompadour .

Grundén made guest appearances in Germany in Hamburg , in Munich , both as Danilo, and in 1960 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . In Sweden he sang Danilo in 1954 in a production at the Malmö City Theater under the direction of Ingmar Bergman . In 1965 he appeared at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm and in 1973 at the Riks Theater in Stockholm.

From 1967 on, Grundén increasingly switched to Buffo ; he also took on more acting roles . In 1967 he first interpreted the role of the wanderer Lustigs-Per in the folk play Skinnarspelet by Rune Lindström with music by Jan Johansson . This role, which had been written especially for him, he played almost every summer until 1982 at the performances in the Orrskogen amusement park in Malung .

He also took on some film roles . He played in the popular Swedish film series Jönssonligan about a clumsy gangster trio, the Jönsson League . He also appeared in the satirical comedy Apple War (1971) in the role of the German businessman Jean Volkswagner .

The voice of Per Grundén is also transmitted through some sound documents. In a complete recording of the operetta The Merry Widow , he sang Danilo at the side of Hilde Güden . In 1978 Grunden brought out a collection of Viennese songs and Swedish sea shanties on record under the title Ömsom wien, ömsom Vatten .

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  1. ↑ List of roles by Per Grundén in: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945-2005 , p. 441. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-85409-449-3
  2. ↑ a b Volksoper icon Per Grundén died Vienna Online on February 7, 2011
  3. ↑ a b Swedish operetta tenor Per Grunden died ( memento from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Obituary in: Kleine Zeitung from February 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Grundén, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish opera singer (tenor) and actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Eskilstuna , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2011
Place of death Trosa , Sweden