Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist
Swedish opera singer
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Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist (1771 – 6 June 1800, in Norrköping) was a noted Swedish opera singer and stage actress.
Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1771 |
| Died | 6 June 1880 (aged 108–109) |
| Genres | opera |
| Instrument | vocals |
She was employed as an opera singer at the Royal Swedish Opera, and as an actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, in 1788–1799, and additionally as both an actor and a singer at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm in 1784–1799.
Her father worked as a caretaker. She debuted at the Eriksberg Theatre in Stockholm in January 1784. The same year, she became a student at the Royal Opera, but she was not contracted there until 1788. She was the student of Carl Stenborg.
The memoirist Gjörwell wrote about her: "She lived with her mother and lived a modest life. She was a fairly beautiful girl, sang beautifully but acted with coldness and spoke monotoniously."[1]
At her performance in Norrköping 1800, she was given the critique: "Mrs Brooman have given the part to our complete pleasure. We can only regret, that an illness to the chest deny her voice the strength."[1] She died soon after.
She married her colleague Johan Erik Brooman in 1798.