Anna Larsson (contralto)
Swedish contralto (born 1966)
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Anna Larsson (born 10 September 1966) is a Swedish contralto. As a student she attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm.[1] Her international debut was made with the Berlin Philharmonic and the conductor Claudio Abbado in a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in 1997.[2][better source needed][3] In 2005 received a Grammy nomination for her recording of Richard Strauss Daphne together with WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Semyon Bychkov.[4]
In 2010, she was appointed Hovsångerska (i.e. ’courtsinger’ - cf. ’Kammersänger/in’ in Austria) by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden[5]
