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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Julie Berwald
- Julie Mathilda Berwald (14 October 1822 in Stockholm – 1 January 1877) was a Swedish concert and opera singer. Julie Berwald was born to the concert singer Mathilda Berwald and the musician Johan Fredrik Berwald.
- She and her sisters Fredrique and Hedvig Eleonora were trained as singers by their mother, and performed with her at their fathers public concerts.
- They toured as concert singers in Finland (1842), Copenhagen (1844) and Berlin (1847).
- The three siblings were a popular singing trio. Between 1847 and 1852, she was engaged as a opera singer at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm; from 1848 contracted as a 'Premier Actress'.
- During her years at the Opera, she became one of the greatest stars of the Swedish opera.
- In 1851, she also performed in Copenhagen to great acclaim. Nils Arfwidsson said about her: "...
- daughter of the royal orchestra conductor by the same name and fostered within the theatre, she gained fame as a society singer already as quite young.
- In the late 1840s she decided to perform on stage, where she became the most noted person displayed on the operatic stage after Lind and prior to Michal.
- Julia Bervald had a beautiful figure, a well shaped though somewhat lifeless face, a pleasant manner.
- Her by nature beautiful soprano had been much trained, and there was much correctness, much grace in her performance although, as with her entire being, something cool and sober.
- She was not very good, or at least not very spectacular, in glowing tragic parts, but there was also here grace, softness and a certain intensity in her performance.
- "In 1852, she married Baron Georg Gustaf Knut Ã…kerhielm and retired from the stage.
- Her marriage met with no resistance from the nobility, indicating a change in attitude towards singers and actresses, who were long looked down upon socially. Julie Berwald was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, as member no.
- 337 on 16 December 1853.
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