Ljungberg, Göta (Albertina)
Ljungberg, Göta (Albertina)
Ljungberg, Göta (Albertina), Swedish soprano; b. Sundsval, Oct. 4, 1893; d. Lidingö, near Stockholm, June 28, 1955. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Opera School in Stockholm; later was a student of Mme. Cahier, of Fergusson in London, of Vanza in Milan, and of Bachner and Daniel in Berlin. In 1918 she made her operatic debut as Elsa at the Royal Stockholm Opera, remaining there until 1926. She was a member of the Berlin State Opera (1926-32), and also appeared at London’s Covent Garden (1924-29), creating the title role there of Goos-sens’s Judith (1929). She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in N.Y. as Sieglinde in Die Walküre on Jan. 20, 1932. She remained on the roster until 1935, and created the role of Lady Marigold Sandys in Hanson’s Merry Mount in its first stage production there in 1934. She subsequently taught voice in N.Y., and later in Sweden. Among her notable roles were Isolde, Brünnhilde, Salome, and Elektra.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire