Anna Hilda Charlotta Norrie née Petterson (1860–1957) was a Swedish actress and operetta singer. After training under
Julius Günther
Julius Günther (1 March 1818 – 22 March 1904) was a Swedish opera singer, choral conductor and voice teacher in Stockholm.
Biography
Julius Günther was born in Gothenburg, the son of organist Georg Günther. He began a career with the Älvsb ...
at the
Sockholm Conservatory, she took singing lessons with
Fritz Arlberg
Fritz Georg Efraim Arlberg (21 March 1830 – 21 February 1896) was a Swedish baritone, teacher, composer, opera singer, translator of opera libretti and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Biography
Arlberg was born in Leksand in ...
. She was engaged by the
Nya teatern in 1882 where she performed leading operetta roles. But it was not until 1887 at the
Vasa Teatern that she reached her peak, gaining popularity as ''
La belle Hélène
''La belle Hélène'' (, ''The Beautiful Helen'') is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The piece parodies the story of Helen of Troy's elopement with Paris (mythology ...
'' or ''
Le petit duc
''Le petit duc'' (, ''The little duke'') is an opéra comique in three acts by Charles Lecocq. The French libretto was by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
Performance history
The opera was first presented at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, P ...
''. Until her retirement in 1920, she was acclaimed as the operetta prima donna of the North, singing on tour in Helsinki, Bremen, Leipzig, Hannover and Berlin. During the
First World War
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years, she moved to Copenhagen where she ran the literary cabaret Edderkoppen which closed in 1919.
Early life
Born in
Stockholm
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on 7 February 1860, Anna Hilda Charlotta Pettersson was the daughter of the restaurateur Anna Christina Pettersson and the physician Samuel Magnus Axel Könsberg.
[ In 1891, she married the Danish theatre director William Good Norrie (1866–1946) and in 1909, the actor Anton Frithiof de Verdier (1878–1954).][ When she was 17, she was admitted to the ]Stockholm Conservatory
The Royal College of Music, Stockholm () is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was made independent of the Academy in 1971, and ...
where she studied voice under Julius Günther
Julius Günther (1 March 1818 – 22 March 1904) was a Swedish opera singer, choral conductor and voice teacher in Stockholm.
Biography
Julius Günther was born in Gothenburg, the son of organist Georg Günther. He began a career with the Älvsb ...
. She was later a pupil of the opera singer Fritz Arlberg
Fritz Georg Efraim Arlberg (21 March 1830 – 21 February 1896) was a Swedish baritone, teacher, composer, opera singer, translator of opera libretti and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Biography
Arlberg was born in Leksand in ...
for voice and of the actor Emil Hillberg for drama.[
]
Career
Norrie initially performed as an actress at the Nya Teatern where in 1882 she made her début as Antoinette in Édouard Pailleron
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (7 September 183419 April 1899) was a French poet and dramatist best known for his play .
Early life
Édouard was born in Paris on 7 September 1834. From a Parisian cultured "bourgeoise" family (upper-middle class ...
's play ''L'Étincelle'' (in Swedish ''Gnistan''). When she played the male role of Lars Hjortsberg in Karl Wetterhoff's ''En repetition på Tillfälle gör tjufven'', she sang a ballad so well that she was engaged by the theatre to perform a series of operetta roles. Among these were Offenbach's ''La fille du tambour-major
''La fille du tambour-major'' (, ''The Drum Major's Daughter'') is an opéra comique in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Alfred Duru and Henri Chivot. It was one of the composer's last works, premiered less than a year bef ...
'' (''Tamburmajorens dotter'') and Carl Millöcker
Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker ( – ), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.
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He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he ...
's ''Der Bettelstudent
''Der Bettelstudent'' (''The Beggar Student'') is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym of F. Zell) and Richard Genée, based on ''Les noces de Fernande'' by Victorien Sardou ...
'' in which she demonstrated her tomboy charms and her comic abilities. In 1883, after further study under the demanding opera singer Signe Hebbe
Signe Amanda Georgina Hebbe (30 July 1837 – 14 February, 1925) was a Swedish operatic soprano and instructor.
Life
Signe Hebbe was born in Värnamo to the journalist Vendela Hebbe and Clemens Hebbe.
Education
In 1848, at the age of ele ...
, she was highly acclaimed for her performance in Victorien Sardou
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's ''Le Roi Carotte
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''. As a result, she was able to spend the next three years singing in operettas at Södra Teatern
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History
Södra Teatern is one of Sweden's o ...
and Djurgårdsteatern
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It was the only theatre in Stockholm outside the royal theatres ...
.[
In 1887, Norrie embarked on a long engagement at the Vasa Theatre where she gained a reputation as the leading operetta prima donna of the North. She achieved considerable success in ''La belle Hélène'', '']La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
''La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'' (''The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein'') is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The s ...
'', '' Barbe-bleue'', ''Fatinitza
''Fatinitza'' was the first full-length, three-act operetta by Franz von Suppé. The libretto by F. Zell (a pseudonym for Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée was based on the libretto to ''La circassienne'' by Eugène Scribe (which had been set t ...
'', ''Le petit duc'', ''Orphée aux enfers
''Orpheus in the Underworld'' and ''Orpheus in Hell'' are English names for (), a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed as a two-act " opéra bouffon" at the Th ...
'' and many others. She was equally successful on her tours to Helsinki, Bremen, Leipzig, Hannover and Berlin. Although she formally retired from the stage in 1920, on occasion she appeared in speaking parts. For example in 1932 she played Queen Desideria in Herbert Grevenius's ''Den förste Bernadotten'' at the Stockholm Concert Hall
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With a design by Ivar Tengbom chosen in competition, inaugurated in 1926, the Hall is home to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. It is also wh ...
.[
When she was 73, she turned to teaching, basing her approach on the strict rules of enunciation and movement she had learnt from Hebbe. Among her many students were ]Signe Hasso
Signe Eleonora Cecilia Hasso ( Larsson; 15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish actress.
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Hasso was born in the Kungsholmen parish of Stockholm in 1915. Her father and grandfather died when she was four, and her mother, gran ...
, Ingrid Bergman
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, Gunn WÃ¥llgren
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Gunn ...
, Sif Ruud
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, Gerd Hagman
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* ''Blossom Time (1940 film), Blossom Time'' (1940)
* ''The Fight Cont ...
, Viveca Lindfors
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, Birgitta Valberg
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, Anita Björk
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Björk was born in Tällberg, Dalarna and attended the Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1942 to 1945. She was a leading lady of Swedish theatre for many years and ...
, Margaretha Krook
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, Yvonne Lombard
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, Ingrid Thulin
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, Gunnar Björnstrand
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, Sven Lindberg
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, Ulf Palme
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* '' The Serious Game'' (1945) - Ture Törne
* ''M ...
, Ingvar Kjellson
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, Jarl Kulle
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, Jan-Olof Strandberg
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and Max von Sydow
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.[
Anna Norrie died in Stockholm on 13 July 1957 and was buried in Solna's ]Norra begravningsplatsen
Norra begravningsplatsen, literally "The Northern Burial Place" in Swedish, is a major cemetery of the Stockholm urban area, located in Solna Municipality. Inaugurated on 9 June 1827, it is the burial site for a number of Swedish notables.
Th ...
.[
]
References
External links
Films including Anna Norrie from IMDb
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1860 births
1957 deaths
Actresses from Stockholm
19th-century Swedish actresses
20th-century Swedish actresses
19th-century Swedish opera singers
20th-century Swedish women opera singers
Burials at Norra begravningsplatsen