Juliette Victor
Juliette Victor, Ph.D., is particularly interested in 20th and 21st century Sweden.
Contributions to nordics.info:
2019.08.18 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Ulf Lundell (b. 1949)
Ulf Gerhard Lundell is a Swedish rock singer, composer, author, poet, and artist known as ‘the Swedish Bob Dylan.’
2019.08.05 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Elisabeth Söderström (1927-2009)
Elisabeth Söderström was a Swedish soprano known for both her acting and her singing talent, and particularly noted for her performances of Mozart and Strauss and her recordings of Janáček.
2019.08.02 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Herbert Thorson Blomstedt (b. 1927)
Herbert Blomstedt is a Swedish conductor known for both championing Nordic composers and his well-received interpretations of German and Austrian composers over many decades.
2019.08.02 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Anne Sofie von Otter (b. 1955)
Anne Sofie von Otter is a Swedish mezzo-soprano noted for her versatile voice, her trouser roles in classical and romantic opera as well as her interpretations of oratorios, German Lieder, and Scandinavian songs.
2019.07.19 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968)
Karl-Birger Blomdahl was a Swedish composer and teacher best known for his 1959 prize-winning space opera 'Aniara', his third symphony 'Facetter', his choral work 'I speglarnas sal', as well as other symphonic and chamber pieces.
2019.07.16 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005)
Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish soprano who performed in the world’s top opera houses and festivals, noted particularly for her roles in Wagner (especially Isolde in Tristan and Isolde), Puccini (Turandot), and Richard Strauss (Elektra). She is considered perhaps the best Wagnerian soprano of her time.
2019.07.15 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Evert Sixten Ehrling (1918-2005)
Evert Sixten Ehrling was a Swedish conductor who led opera houses and symphony orchestras in Sweden and the United States. He was particularly noted for his recordings of Nordic composers (especially Berwald, Nielsen and Sibelius), his high standards and his technical precision.
2019.07.09 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Fred Åkerström (1937-1985)
Fred Åkerström was a Swedish ballad singer best known for his three albums of interpretations of the eighteenth-century poet Carl Michael Bellman.
2019.07.08 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, The arts
Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937-1987)
Cornelis Vreeswijk was a Dutch-Swedish songwriter, singer, poet and actor known for his influential role in modernizing the Swedish ballad and introducing it to a wider audience through merging tradition with more diverse musical styles.
2019.07.01 | Biography, Jenny Rood, Juliette Victor, Literature
Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf (1907-1968)
Gunnar Ekelöf was considered one of Sweden’s leading and most important twentieth-century poets who produced deeply intellectual and challenging works that weave in many different languages and cultural influences. A lifelong outsider, he is known for introducing surrealism and modernism to Swedish poetry, and for his late-career Byzantine…