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Barbro Ericson Suggest updates

Swedish mezzo-soprano.

Barbro Ericson spent most of her career as a member of the Royal Swedish Opera. She can be heard as Siegrune in the famous recording of Die Walküre made in 1966, with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.

Roles in Scotland

Maddalena sister of Sparafucile
Rigoletto 1959
Mamzell Arvidson a fortune-teller (Ulrica)
Masked Ball 1959
Giovanna Gilda's duenna
Rigoletto 1959
Siegrune a Valkyrie
Valkyrie 1959
Klytämnestra widow of Agamemnon
Elektra 1974

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