Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Evan Rogister (conductor) Mendelssohn: Suite, from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Īnnie Ternström, (soprano), the young Jenny and Elin Rombo (soprano) Jenny, Mozart: Or sai chi l'onore, from 'Don Giovanni' Grieg: Last Spring 'Varen' from 2 Elegiac Melodies Op.34įlotow: Letzte Rose, wie magst du, from 'Martha' In the newspaper Correspondents review, she was called Näkterlagen, 'The Nightingale' for the first time. At Pentecost the same year, she gave a concert for 2,000 people in Uppsala. Mendelssohn: Hear ye, Israel, from 'Elijah'īellini: Overture, Casta diva and Cabaletta 'A bello a me ritorna,' from Norma Answer (1 of 4): In January 1840 Jenny Lind was appointed court singer. But what significance does Jenny Lind have for us today? Is she just a glimmering fantasy or a face on a Swedish banknote, or can she open the door to the sacred rooms of art even for us?Īlso today, Tchaikovsky's evergreen Sleeping Beauty. Barnum, sold concert tickets by auction and the deeply religious Jenny Lind donated almost all of her unimaginable income to charity after the tour. The tour manager, the legendary entrepreneur P.T. Andersen said of her that no one else had such a profound influence over him as a poet: “She opened the door to the sacred rooms of art for me.” After retiring from the stage aged just 29, she toured far and wide on her arrival in New York, she was met by 30,000 cheering people and disembarked to a cascade of flowers. It is difficult to really comprehend how idolized this young singer was: she achieved tremendous international fame in the five years since she made her debut in Berlin in 1844. One of the greatest ever Swedish stars, she was never called anything other than Jenny. Johanna Maria Lind was born in 1820 and retired early from the opera stage. Here, she is celebrated by two of today’s Swedish opera stars: Elin Rombo, who was awarded the Jenny Lind grant in 1999, and Annie Ternström, last year’s winner of Young Artists. Jenny Lind, born two hundred years ago, was Sweden’s first international superstar, and counted H C Andersen, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and even England’s Queen Victoria among her admirers. The Baltic Sea Festival: The Swedish Nightingale, a tribute to Jenny Lind, Sweden's first international superstar
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