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NILSSON, CHRISTINE (1843– )

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NILSSON, CHRISTINE (1843– ) , See also:Swedish See also:singer, was See also:born at Wedersloff, near Wexio, See also:Sweden, on the loth of See also:August 1843. Her See also:father was a poor working See also:man, and she used as a girl to sing and perform on the See also:violin at popular gatherings. In 1857 a wealthy man, M. Tornerhjelm, perceiving the unusual beauty of her See also:voice while she was performing at a See also:fair in Ljungby, provided the means for giving her a proper musical See also:education, and in 186o she was heard in the See also:concert halls in See also:Stockholm and See also:Upsala, and then went to Pails, where, after four years' study, she made her debut in the role of Violetta at the See also:Theatre Lyrique on the 27th of See also:October 1864. Between that date and 1872, when she married M. Auguste Rouzaud, she was the leading prima donna. Her first See also:appearance in See also:London was in 1867. A See also:year later, on the 9th of See also:March, she made her first appearance in the See also:Paris See also:Opera See also:House as Ophelie in See also:Hamlet; and she visited the See also:United States in 1870. She sang in St See also:Petersburg in 1872; in See also:America in 1873–1874 and in 1882; in See also:Germany and See also:Austria between 1876 and 1877; and in the next few years in See also:Spain and Scandinavia; but after her See also:marriage her appearances in public were rare. M. Rouzaud died in 1882, and five years afterwards Madame Nilsson married See also:Count A. de Casa See also:Miranda, and finally retired from the See also:stage.

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