Eufrosyne AbrahamsonW
Eufrosyne Abrahamson

Eufrosyne Abrahamson was a Swedish soprano.

Adèle AlmatiW
Adèle Almati

Alma Adèle Louise Almati née Heitmann (1861–1919) was a German-born Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer who sang at the Royal Swedish Opera between 1886 and 1897. Important roles included Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il trovatore and Brünhilde in Die Walküre.

Sigrid ArnoldsonW
Sigrid Arnoldson

Sigrid Arnoldson was a Swedish opera singer with an active international career at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th. Possessing a fine coloratura soprano voice with a range of three octaves, music critics believed she was Jenny Lind's successor and dubbed her "the new Swedish Nightingale". Her voice is preserved on several recordings made in Berlin for the Gramophone Company between 1906 and 1910.

Lovisa AugustiW
Lovisa Augusti

Lovisa Sofia Augusti was a Swedish opera singer (soprano). She was regarded as one of the most noted opera singers of the Royal Swedish Opera during the Gustavian era. She was appointed Hovsångare in 1773 and inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1788.

Kerstin AvemoW
Kerstin Avemo

Kerstin Avemo is a Swedish opera singer with an active international career as a coloratura soprano.

Maria Bengtsson (soprano)W
Maria Bengtsson (soprano)

Maria Bengtsson is a Swedish operatic soprano, who has appeared in major opera houses in Europe. She is known for roles in operas by Mozart and Richard Strauss.

Julie BerwaldW
Julie Berwald

Julie Mathilda Berwald was a Swedish concert and opera singer.

Olga BjörkegrenW
Olga Björkegren

Olga Augusta Christina Björkegren,, was a Swedish opera singer.

Anna-Lisa BjörlingW
Anna-Lisa Björling

Anna-Lisa Björling was a Swedish opera singer and actress. She was married to tenor Jussi Björling, from 1935 until his death in 1960.

Malin ByströmW
Malin Byström

Malin Byström is a Swedish lyric soprano who has sung leading roles at many of the world's leading opera houses.

Kjerstin DellertW
Kjerstin Dellert

Kjerstin Dellert was a Swedish opera singer and theater manager.

Mathilda EbelingW
Mathilda Ebeling

Aurora Mathilda Ebeling (1826–1851) was a Swedish soprano opera singer. After first appearing as a concert pianist in 1842, she made her singing début at Stockholm's Mindre Theatre in 1844. She performed at the Royal Swedish Opera from 1846 to 1848 before further study in Paris and an engagement with Berlin's Royal Opera in 1850.

Selma EkW
Selma Ek

Selma Ek was a Swedish operatic soprano who had an active international career from the 1870s through the 1890s. Like Lilli Lehmann and Lillian Nordica, she was one of those universally talented singers of the late 19th century who was able to master roles from the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic soprano repertoires. The leading Swedish soprano of her day, she was particularly admired for her portrayals of Mozart, Wagner, and Verdi heroines.

Christina EnbomW
Christina Enbom

Christina Wilhelmina Enbom was a Swedish operatic soprano. She was active at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in 1819–26, in 1830–41 and 1850–57. She was one of the most noted opera singers in Sweden during the 1830s.

Wilhelmina FundinW
Wilhelmina Fundin

Wilhelmina ("Mina") Christina Fundin was a Swedish operatic soprano who sang at the Royal Swedish Opera without interruption for 30 years. In the mid-1800s, she was considered to be one of the opera's most talented performers.

Mathilda GelhaarW
Mathilda Gelhaar

Mathilda Fredrika Gelhaar was a Swedish opera singer. She was also appointed official singer of the royal court.

Wilhelmina GelhaarW
Wilhelmina Gelhaar

Wilhelmina Charlotta Gelhaar (1837–1923) was a Swedish operatic soprano who performed at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm from 1857 to 1866. She also gave concert performances. Thanks to her coloratura soprano roles, her good looks, her pleasant disposition and her competence as an actress, she was one of the most popular singers of her day.

Mathilda GrabowW
Mathilda Grabow

Mathilda Grabow, was a Swedish opera singer (soprano). She was a court singer (Hovsångare) (1886) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1895) and was given Litteris et Artibus (1895).

Rosa GrünbergW
Rosa Grünberg

Rosalie "Rosa" Grünberg,, was a Swedish actress and opera soprano singer. She was considered one of the Swedish opera scene's prima donnas.

Ellen GulbransonW
Ellen Gulbranson

Ellen Gulbranson was a Swedish operatic soprano with a strong, dramatic voice best suited to the works of Richard Wagner. She was a leading figure among the second generation of Bayreuth singers and her voice is preserved on a few acoustic recordings that she made for Edison Records and Pathé Records during the early part of the 20th century. In 1911, she was awarded The King's Medal of Merit by Sweden's monarch.

Margareta HallinW
Margareta Hallin

Gunhild Margareta Hallin Ekerot was a Swedish opera singer, composer and actress.

Signe HebbeW
Signe Hebbe

Signe Amanda Georgina Hebbe was a Swedish operatic soprano and instructor.

Barbara HendricksW
Barbara Hendricks

Barbara Hendricks is an American operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland in Basel since 1985. She is a citizen of Sweden following her marriage to a Swedish citizen.

Cecilia HjortsbergW
Cecilia Hjortsberg

Cecilia Hjortsberg is a Swedish opera singer (soprano), born 1973.

Busk Margit JonssonW
Busk Margit Jonsson

Busk Margit Jonsson is a Swedish Soprano opera singer.

Nanny Larsén-TodsenW
Nanny Larsén-Todsen

Nanny Larsén-Todsen was a Swedish soprano, renowned for her performances in works by Richard Wagner and counted as one of the most notable Wagnerian sopranos of the 20th-century, from the generation before Frida Leider and Kirsten Flagstad. She was particularly popular at the Bayreuth Festival as Brunnhilde and Isolde.

Elisabeth LillströmW
Elisabeth Lillström

Elisabeth Lillström née Söderman was a Swedish stage actress and opera singer. She was one of the first professional actresses in Sweden and a member of the pioneer generation of Kungliga svenska skådeplatsen, the first national theater in Bollhuset in Stockholm, where she was one of the most prominent members. She was the mother of Elisabeth Olin.

Jenny LindW
Jenny Lind

Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of the United States beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.

Berit LindholmW
Berit Lindholm

Berit Lindholm is a Swedish soprano.

Göta LjungbergW
Göta Ljungberg

Göta Ljungberg was a major Swedish Wagnerian soprano of the 1920s who sang throughout American and Europe and left an important recorded legacy.

Marie Louise MarcadetW
Marie Louise Marcadet

Marie Louise Marcadet née Baptiste was a Swedish opera singer and a dramatic stage actress of French origin. She was active in the Royal Swedish Opera as a singer, and in the Royal Dramatic Theatre and the French Theater of Gustav III as an actress. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1795.

Hillevi MartinpeltoW
Hillevi Martinpelto

Hillevi Martinpelto is a Swedish lyric soprano. She made her debut in Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini in 1987. She is best known for her work with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir. With Gardiner, she recorded Weber's Oberon and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Idomeneo, to considerable acclaim.

Louise MichaëliW
Louise Michaëli

Louise Charlotte Helene Michaëli, née Michal, was a Swedish opera singer.

Birgit NilssonW
Birgit Nilsson

Märta Birgit Nilsson was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertory of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power, and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register.

Christina NilssonW
Christina Nilsson

Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, was a Swedish operatic soprano. She possessed a bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti. Nilsson became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1869.

Elisabeth OlinW
Elisabeth Olin

Elisabeth Olin née Lillström was a Swedish opera singer and a music composer. She performed the leading female role in the inauguration performance of the Royal Swedish Opera in 1773, and is referred to as the first Swedish opera prima donna. She was the first female to be made Hovsångerska (1773), and the first woman to become a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1782).

Carolina ÖstbergW
Carolina Östberg

Carolina Östberg was a Swedish opera singer and singing teacher. She was nationally and internationally famous and belonged to the elite members of the Royal Swedish Opera

Miah PerssonW
Miah Persson

Miah Persson is a Swedish soprano, active internationally and in recordings.

Isa QuenselW
Isa Quensel

Isa Quensel was a Swedish actress and operatic soprano who appeared in over 50 films, plays, operas, TV and radio shows. In 1939 she created the title role in the world premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die Kathrin at the Royal Swedish Opera.

Amalia RiégoW
Amalia Riégo

Amalia Riégo was a Swedish soprano opera singer.

Elin RomboW
Elin Rombo

Eva Elin Rombo, née Karlsson, is a Swedish operatic soprano. In November 2013 she was named Hovsångerska.

Hjördis SchymbergW
Hjördis Schymberg

Hjördis Gunborg Schymberg was a Swedish coloratura and lyric soprano active on the opera stage and in concert halls between 1934 and 1968. One of the leading singers of the Royal Swedish Opera, she was awarded the title of Hovsångerska in 1943, and in her later years became a distinguished voice teacher.

Anna Sofia SevelinW
Anna Sofia Sevelin

Anna Sofia Sevelin née Thunberg was a Swedish opera singer (alto). She was a Hovsångare and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

Gitta-Maria SjöbergW
Gitta-Maria Sjöberg

Gitta-Maria Sjöberg is a Swedish operatic soprano who celebrated her 25th anniversary as a soloist with the Royal Danish Theatre in 2013. She has frequently performed outside Denmark, especially in Germany and Sweden as well as in North and South America.

Elisabeth SöderströmW
Elisabeth Söderström

Anna Elisabeth Söderström was a Swedish soprano who performed both opera and song, and was known as a leading interpreter of the works of Janáček, Rachmaninov and Sibelius. She was particularly well known for her recordings of the lead soprano roles in the three Janáček operas Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, and The Makropoulos Affair, all of which received Gramophone Awards. The Gramophone critic John Warrack described her portrayal of Káťa Kabanová as "establishing by an infinity of subtle touches and discreet, sensitive singing the picture of Káta as the richest and most human character in the drama."

Nina StemmeW
Nina Stemme

Nina Maria Stemme is a Swedish dramatic soprano opera singer.

Fredrika StenhammarW
Fredrika Stenhammar

Fredrika Stenhammar was a Swedish opera singer (soprano).

Camilla TillingW
Camilla Tilling

Camilla Tilling is a Swedish soprano in opera and concert.

Sara WidénW
Sara Widén

Sara Kristina Widén was a Swedish opera singer (soprano). From 2013 until her death, she was starring in productions by the Royal Swedish Opera.

Henriette WiderbergW
Henriette Widerberg

Henriette Sophie Widerberg was a Swedish opera singer (soprano) and memoirist. She was an elite member of the Royal Swedish Opera and its perhaps most noted singer and prima donna of her time. She was also active as a courtesan and noted for her love life. She was appointed Hovsångare in 1837.