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Swedish singer
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Female
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10 September 1966(Stockholm, Over-Governors office, Sweden)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Anna Larsson (born September 10, 1966) is a Swedish contralto. As a student she attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. 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. In 2005 received a Grammy nomination for her recording of Richard Strauss Daphne together with WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Semyon Bychkov.
Awards
- 2010: appointed Hovsångerska by H.M. the King of Sweden