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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.
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entertainment · Swedish opera singer (1820–1887) · actor · opera singer · music educator · stage actor · also Jenny Lind, Johanna Maria Lind, Madame Goldschmidt, Jenny Goldschmidt, Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, Swedish Nightingale
Born 6 October 1820 · Died 2 November 1887 · Q231345
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“The reasons for her early retirement have been much discussed for nearly a century, but remain today a matter of mystery. Many possible explanations have been advanced, but not one of them has been verified”
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The New Yorker: Jenny Lind’s Morals—Rogues and Riffs—Winnie Lightner Throws a Party
BroadwayWorld: Jenny Lind Presents PT Barnum at Wilbur Fiske Haven House
insider.si.edu: Jenny Lind Concert Ticket, November 29, 1850
insider.si.edu: Jenny Lind Concert Program, November 30, 1850
George Biddlecombe confirmed in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association that "The Committee of the Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation possesses material indicating that Mendelssohn wrote passionate love letters to L
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Elvis Costello announced that he was writing an opera about Lind, called The Secret Arias with some lyrics by Andersen
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A semibiographical film, Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale, featured Flora Montgomery as Lind
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Ilse Werner starred as Lind in the German-language musical biography film The Swedish Nightingale
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Sits in the Framnäs section of Djurgården island in Stockholm
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Died 1887-11-02.
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Was appointed professor of singing at the newly founded Royal College of Music
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Lind trained the soprano choristers for the first English performance of Bach's B minor Mass in April 1876, and performed in the mass
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Lind wrote that a singer's vowels must be rich in quality to form a sensation of "speak singing"
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Gave a concert with Arthur Sullivan at St James's Hall
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It was wrecked in a creek on the Queensland coast; the creek was accordingly named Jenny Lind Creek
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At the invitation of the Philharmonic Society conducted by William Sterndale Bennett, she sang the chief soprano part in the first English performance of the cantata Paradise and the Peri by Robert Schumann
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To return to England, and Lind invited Otto Goldschmidt to replace him as pianist and conductor
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And a feature in the cave was named in her honour, called "Jenny Lind's Armchair"
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Lind went to the United States at the invitation of the showman P
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Lind was approached by the American showman P
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Hans Christian Andersen met and fell in love with her
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Born 1820-10-06.
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