Anna-Maria Hallgarn

{{short description|Swedish musician and actress}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Anna-Maria Hallgarn

| image = Hallgarn.jpg

| occupation = Actress, musician, singer, dancer

| years_active = 1980–present

| website = [https://anna-maria.hallgarn.nu/ Official website]

}}

Anna-Maria Hallgarn, (born 10 February 1971 in Orrviken, Jämtland) is a Swedish musician, singer and actress. She received acting training at Balettakademien's programme for musical artists in Gothenburg.

Her performances include Kharmen at Gothenburg City Theatre (2005).{{cite web|url=http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.67813-stora-kanslor-i-kharmen?m=print|title=Stora känslor i Kharmen|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006081948/http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.67813-stora-kanslor-i-kharmen?m=print|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.expressen.se/noje/anna-maria-dodligt-farlig/|title=Anna-Maria dödligt farlig|work=Expressen|date=16 February 2005 |accessdate=5 October 2014}} At Malmö Opera she has participated in Zorba. She has also worked on musicals including Cabaret, Jekyll & Hyde and Godspell. At GöteborgsOperan Anna-Maria Hallgarn has played the part of Vera in the newly written pop and rock musical Grymt! (Wicked) that had its premiere on Skövde scene during the spring of 2008. Anna-Maria Hallgarn played nightclub performer Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, at the Göteborg Opera, Gothenburg, Sweden (2009). She participated in Björn Skifs show.

During 2010-2012 She played Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar at Malmö Opera and Göta Lejon.{{cite web|url=http://sv.opera.se/om-oss/personal/portratt/anna-maria-hallgarn/|title=Anna-Maria Hallgarn|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2014|archive-date=7 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007014723/http://sv.opera.se/om-oss/personal/portratt/anna-maria-hallgarn/|url-status=dead}}

In 2011, Hair she played the pregnant, stoned Jeannie slipping ever further into drug addiction.{{cite web|url=https://speedospopblogg.com/2012/01/|title=Musicals:Hair|accessdate=30 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019143341/http://speedospopblogg.com/2012/01/|archive-date=19 October 2013|url-status=dead}} at the Stockholm City Theatre.

During 2012, Hallgarn played the bipolar mother Diana in Next to Normal,{{cite web|url=http://www.theatricallyspeaking.com/2012/09/next-to-normal.html|title=Something Next to Normal|accessdate=25 September 2012}} in the Wasa Teater, Finland.

She performed the lead role in Carmencita Rockefeller - Princess of Japan,{{cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/scen-carmencita-rockefeller/om/kultur:scen|title=Brilliant Musical Carmencita Rockefeller|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |date=13 April 2016 |accessdate=13 April 2016 |last1=Backman |first1=Dan }}{{cite web|url=http://www.lifeline.se/artister/carmencita/|title=Carmencita Rockefeller occupies Stockholm|accessdate=10 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919090825/http://www.lifeline.se/artister/carmencita/|archive-date=19 September 2016|url-status=dead}} at the Göteborg Opera in cooperation with the Malmö Opera and the Helsingborg City Theatre, which was also performed in southern and western Sweden in 2013 and 2014. Between 12 and 27 April, the play had six performances at the Scala Theatre in Stockholm. The musical is based on a true story and written by the director, playwright and actor Rikard Bergqvist.

Anna-Maria Hallgarn as Carmencita Rockefeller a mysterious woman who tries to seem perfectly normal, but her twisted personality plays games with people around her.

The cast for The Last 5 Years, at Åbo Svenska Teater included Hallgarn and Alexander Lycke. The musical was written and composed by American Jason Robert Brown. Åbo Svenska Teater's version was directed by Markus Virta, and the costumes were designed by Lotta Nilsson.{{cite web|url=http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/09/15/intensiv-och-intim-musikal|title=Intensiv och intim musikal|date=15 September 2014 |accessdate=15 October 2014}}

Svenska Dagbladet critic Bo Löfvendahl wrote: "Anna-Maria Hallgarn makes her increasingly hollow-eyed self the most heartbreaking part of the evening with her strong, bearing voice."{{cite web|url=https://www.folkbladet.se/kultur/default.aspx?articleid=7018927|title=Folkbladet|date=2 June 2014 |publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2014}}

Her 2002 album debut Rått & Romantiskt as a solo singer, was a set of covers. Inspired by philosophical Ulf Lundell's lyrics, Anna-Maria recorded the album in Stockholm and toured with concerts around Sweden.{{cite web|url=http://www.dagensskiva.com/2004/01/15/anna-maria-hallgarn-ratt-romantiskt-anna-maria-hallgarn-sjunger-ulf-lundell/|title=Du har aldrig hört Lundell så här|publisher=|accessdate=15 January 2004}}

In 2014 she received the Annalisa Ericson Scholarship from the Annalisa Ericson Foundation, for talent in song, dance and theater.{{cite web|url=https://www.nt.se/kultur-noje/anna-maria-hallgarn-far-stipendium-9856175.aspx|title=Anna-Maria Hallgarn får stipendium|date=1 June 2014|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2014}} The scholarship was awarded after a performance of Carmencita Rockefeller at the Gothenburg Opera.

2017 Anna-Maria Hallgarn together with Erik-André Hvidsten, Johan Aspelin, Saara Lehtonen, Thomas Lundin, Richard Mitts, Tove Qvickström and Maria Udd, played in Wasa Teater's Ingvar! musical. The dotted story semi-based on the biography of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad.{{cite web|url=https://www.wasateater.fi/feature/ingvar-en-musikalisk-mobelsaga/|title=INGVAR! – en musikalisk möbelsaga|date=1 October 2017|publisher=|accessdate=1 October 2017}} Ingvar! premiered in Wasa Teater in Vaasa in September 2017, directed by Markus Virta, composed by Erik Gedeon, with lyrics by Klas Abrahamsson.

In the comedy show Grotesco, Anna-Maria acted in an episode called Föräldramötet - ett kammarspel.{{cite web|url=https://www.svtplay.se/video/15851255/grotesco/grotescos-sju-masterverk-sasong-3-foraldramotet-ett-kammarspel|title=Grotesco - Föräldramötet - ett kammarspel|date=1 November 2017|access-date=11 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212032918/https://www.svtplay.se/video/15851255/grotesco/grotescos-sju-masterverk-sasong-3-foraldramotet-ett-kammarspel|archive-date=12 December 2017|url-status=dead}}