Borghild Langaard

Borghild Langaard
Borghild Bryhn (1920)
Born	Borghild Bryhn (1883-07-23)July 23, 1883 Kongsvinger, Norway
Died	November 20, 1939(1939-11-20) (aged 56) Oslo, Norway
Other names	Borghild Bryhn Langaard Borghild Lindvig Borghild Brunelli
Spouses	Mads Conrad Langaard (married 1909-1916) Bjarne Lindvig (married 1918-?) Ermanno Brunelli (married 1930-?) [1]

Borghild Bryhn Langaard in 1916

Borghild Bryhn Langaard, née Bryhn (23 July 1883 – 20 November 1939) was a Norwegian operatic soprano.

Biography

Borghild Bryhn was born on 23 July 1883 in Kongsvinger. She died on 20 November 1939 in Oslo.[1]

Career

Borghild Bryhn studied with Gina Oselio and Nina Grieg. Her public debut was in 1906 at a concert in Kristiania (called Oslo after 1925) featuring songs by Grieg, accompanied on piano by the composer, Edvard Grieg, himself.[1]

Her operatic debut was in 1907 in Kristiania in the opera Sjømandsbruden by Sigwardt Aspestrand [no]. In 1908, at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Hans Richter and Percy Pitt's English language production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen[1]

Appearing in a 1908 Pathéphone commercial.

In the period 1908-1916, Borghild Bryhn Langaard made several gramophone recordings, including art songs by Grieg, and excerpts from her operatic repertoire.

Footnotes

1. Svendsen, Trond Olav. "Borghild Langaard". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 April 2019.