Lars Hjortsberg

Lars Hjortsberg (22 November 1772 – 8 July 1843) was a Swedish actor. He is often called the greatest male actor in his country in the 19th century; he and Emilie Högquist are the best known Swedish actors from the first half of that century.

Biography

Lars Hjortsberg's father Laurentius (Lars) was employed at the court and his mother Maria Lovisa Schützer as a singer at the Opera; of their six children, two sons and two daughters where employed at the theatre or the Opera, and two of them was to become famous; Hedda Hjortsberg as a dancer, and Lars Hjortsberg as an actor.

Lars Hjortsberg was born in Stockholm, and first appeared as a child actor at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1778, at the age of six, when he played an angel with a couple of lines at the celebration of the birth of the Crown Prince in Athalie. He was noticed by the theatrically interested king, Gustav III of Sweden, who saw a great dramatic talent in him, and also hired him at the royal court as a so-called garçon bleu, a common (non noble) page boy, reader and librarian. He was employed at the Opera in 1780, and appeared in a mute part as the brother of Cora in Cora och Alonzo by Naumann at the premier of the new Opera in 1782; in 1783–1785, he was a student of Caroline Frederikke Müller, and from 1785, he was a student in the French Theatre of Bollhuset under Monvel, like other Swedish actors such as Fredrique Löwen, Maria Franck and Inga Åberg, and in 1787, he was a student in Dramatens elevskola and a member of its troupe, which performed for the king the same year.

The Walking

The Walking is an avant-garde music/experimental film score studio album by Jane Siberry. The album was released on Reprise Records internationally, but remained on the independent label Duke Street Records in Canada. It is an excellent example of music that, on release, was panned by critics and largely spurned by the market, only to become a museum-quality art that has stood the test of time.

Critical reception

The album was initially poorly received by critics. It largely turned its back on the quirky new wave pop that Siberry had been known for; in its place was a surreal amalgam of progressive rock and Laurie Anderson-style performance art narratives, only one of which was shorter than six minutes.

Toronto progressive radio station CFNY, an early champion of Siberry's music, announced that it did not view any track on The Walking as viable for airplay on their station. Sales of the album were slow at first, although they improved when Siberry provided radio stations with a shorter edit of "Ingrid and the Footman".

Cecilia Hjortsberg

Cecilia Hjortsberg is a Swedish opera singer (soprano), born 1973.

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Employment at The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen since 2005. Previous employment at Malmö Opera and Music Theatre, where she has contributed in Miss Saigon, Otello, Turandot, La Bohème and Faust. Contributed in Don Giovanni by Skånska Operan as Donna Anna, 2005.

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