Paula Lindberg

Swedish opera singer (soprano), born Frödin, 25 January 1873 in Stockholm, died 12 January 1962 in Stockholm.

She attended the French School in Stockholm. She was a student in singing for Carolina Östberg and Louise Pyk, and in drama and stage performance with Signe Hebbe and Charlotta Strandberg. She made her debut in 1893 at the Stockholm Opera as Matilda in William Tell and was then one of the leading sopranos there from 1893–1911. After having succeeded in such demanding roles as Guilmette in The Lawyer Pathelin and Margot in The Huguenots, she was then mostly given the big dramatic soprano parts, roles that, according to Eugène Fahlstedt in Nordisk Familjebok, she was able to handle “thanks to an appearance that was particularly suitable for young heroine roles, atmospheric action and intelligent singing style, although the high notes of the voice were exposed by the softness and charm that its lower registers possessed.” Among her roles are Margareta in Faust, Margareta-Helena in Mefistofeles, Valentine in The Huguenots, Senta in The Flying Dutchman, Sieglinde in The Valkyrie, Eva in The Mastersingers, Gudrun in Ragnarök, Santuzza in På Sicilien, Marta in Tiefland, Anna in The White Lady, Katarina in The Crown Jewels, Pamela in Fra Diavolo, Tatjana in Eugene Onegin, Ingeborg in The Taken in the Mountain, Teresia in The Witch's Trap, Gullväg in Tirfing and Signe in The Guild on Solhaug.

After her career at the Opera, she taught plastic arts and lyric-dramatic role study privately and at Richard Andersson's music school. From 1922 to 1931, she was director of the Royal Swedish Opera's opera school.