Sigrid Arnoldson

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Chamber singer Sigrid Arnoldson (around 1900)
Sigrid Arnoldson (around 1890)

Sigrid Arnoldson , from 1889 Arnoldson-Fischof (born March 20, 1861 in Stockholm ; † February 7, 1943 ibid), was a Swedish opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher. She became known for her coloratura and her dramatic skills. She has been hailed by some music critics as the successor to Jenny Lind and referred to as "the new Swedish nightingale" .

Life

She was the daughter of the opera singer Oscar Arnoldson and his wife Fredrika, nee Dag. After attending school, Sigrid Arndolson became a student of Fritz Arlberg and Désirée Artôt de Padilla at the Conservatory and made her debut in 1885 as Rosina in the Barber of Seville in Prague . She took on numerous major vocal roles, especially in contemporary French operas and was also famous as Violetta in La Traviata . Sigrid Arnoldson sang not only in Sweden, but also on opera stages in London , Germany , Italy , Spain , the Netherlands and the United States of America . She often stayed in St. Petersburg , Moscow and Paris . She was a member of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm.

Her voice has been preserved on several recordings made by the Grammophon Society in Berlin between 1906 and 1910.

In 1909 Sigrid Arnoldson was appointed royal Saxon chamber singer in Dresden . She was also a grand ducal Hessian chamber singer. In 1922 she retired from the stage and lived as a singing teacher in Vienna, where she taught Dorit Kreysler . Due to the German occupation of Vienna, she returned to Stockholm in 1938, where she continued teaching until her death and died in 1943.

family

In 1889 she married the Vienna-born impresario Alfred Fischhof (1855–1925), also Alfred Fischof or Maurice Fischof, with whom she was married until his death in 1925.

literature

Web links

Commons : Sigrid Arnoldson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935.
  2. ^ Swedish biographical dictionary: Sigrid Arnoldson-Fischof . Retrieved February 8, 2019.
  3. ^ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon, Volume 4, pp. 156–157
personal data
SURNAME Arnoldson, Sigrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnoldson-Fischof, Sigrid (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish opera singer and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1943
Place of death Stockholm