Elisabeth Wärnfeldt

Siv Elisabeth Margaretha Wärnfeldt (born 1956) is a Swedish author, opera and concert singer.

Education and career

Wärnfeldt took a bachelor's degree at Stockholm University in music, art and theatre science in 1979. She wrote her dissertation on the Swedish composer Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist.[1] She studied music and voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria. For many years her vocal teacher was the Hovsångare (Swedish court singer) Birgit Nilsson. In 1986, Wärnfeldt was awarded both the Birgit Nilsson Prize and the Wagner Prize.[2] Her opera debut in 1989 was in the part of Halka at the Silesian Opera in Bytom, Poland. Wärnfeldt has since sung, among others, the part of Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Södra Teatern, directed by Johannes Schaaf. Other notable parts are Anna Bolena in Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Contessa in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Rosalinda in Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Leonore in Verdi's Il trovatore.

Wärnfeldt has written several articles since her time at the university of Stockholm[3] and has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Vienna,[4] and at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. In 2012, she received[5] an M.Phil. from the Åbo Academy. Wärnfeldt is a member of the Swedish writers' union, Sveriges Författarförbund.

Texts and libretti written by Wärnfeldt

Books

Music written for, dedicated to or first performed by Wärnfeldt

Discography

References

  1. "Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist". Svensk Musik. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  2. "Stipendiater". Svenska Wagner-Sallskapet (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  3. "Wärnfeldt Elisabeth". Libris. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  4. http://www.abo.fi/public/News/Item/item/6106
  5. http://www.fennicagehrman.fi/composers/nieminen-kai/
  6. http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fimic.fi%2Ffimic%2Fnieminen%2Bkai&session_token=KQKDMHWD_wV5uRhgAdmTOe4WyMh8MTM2MDA5NzUzMEAxMzYwMDgzMTMw
  7. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/nuotisto.nsf/0/6C0043DF9C6DCDBFC22576B7004D8915?opendocument
  8. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/nuotisto.nsf/0/CC8F210E931D3A57C225784E002C99DA?opendocument
  9. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/nuotisto.nsf/0/EA2D0FE32BEA1C32C225779700340CE4?opendocument
  10. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/nuotisto.nsf/0/9FB601A29E1277CCC225776F003308F8?opendocument
  11. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/WWOR/1352B329B8FDF03FC22576BE003B95C1?opendocument&cat=contemporary_-_classical
  12. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/WPRI/29CAA845B8CC45FFC22576DC002EC141
  13. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/WPRI/6E1A21867AE23CE4C22577750023F28D
  14. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/nuotisto.nsf/0/A5BF13C58F749C5BC225784E002D0E68?opendocument
  15. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/nuotisto.nsf/0/27E0060EC9212E32C225784F003F2CAE?opendocument
  16. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/nuotisto.nsf/0/5EFA68B2C2219FB1C22578D4002996D4?opendocument
  17. http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/WWOR/4BAE9E24DAF348FFC225796B004118BC?opendocument&cat=contemporary_-_classical
  18. "Det händer i hamnkvarteren på Skeppsholmen, Kastellholmen, Djurgårdsvarvet, Beckholmen och Galärvarvet" (PDF). Stockholms Sjögård (in Swedish). 4 April 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  19. "Opern Festspiele". Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  20. "Reflection". nosag. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

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