Emma Meissner

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Emma Olivia Meissner ({{née|Ekström}}; 30 October 1866 – 20 November 1942) was a Swedish soprano and actress.{{cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/nojsam-slutklam-nar-emma-meissner-fyllde-50-pa-grand-hotel/|title=Nöjsam slutkläm när Emma Meissner fyllde 50 på Grand Hôtel |work=Dagens Nyheter|date=30 October 2006|access-date=29 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805022032/http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/nojsam-slutklam-nar-emma-meissner-fyllde-50-pa-grand-hotel/|archive-date=5 August 2017|url-status=live}}

Biography

Emma Olivia Ekström was born in Karlstad to Johan Fredrik Ekström and Anna Brita Pettersson. She worked in the choir at Mindre teatern in Stockholm 1881–1883. Her first role was as a character in the opera Sjökadetten.{{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/hvar8dag/15/0374.html|title=354 (Hvar 8 dag / Årg. 15 (1913/1914))|website=runeberg.org|access-date=29 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170723083633/http://runeberg.org/hvar8dag/15/0374.html|archive-date=23 July 2017|url-status=live}} She was a student at the conservatory in Stockholm 1884–1885, and then studied for Fritz Arlberg (1830–1896) and Signe Hebbe (1837–1925) from 1885 to 1886. She then worked at Södra Teatern in Stockholm 1888–1889.{{cite web|url= http://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/arlberg-fritz/|title= Fritz Arlberg (1830–1896)|website= Swedish Musical Heritage|access-date= 1 January 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190626011756/http://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/arlberg-fritz/|archive-date= 26 June 2019|url-status= live}}

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She got her big breakthrough at Vasateatern in Stockholm during 1890 as Yum Yum in The Mikado.{{cite web |url= https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9243 |title= Emma O Meissner |website= Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |access-date= 1 January 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170224141739/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9243 |archive-date= 24 February 2017 |url-status= live }}

Personal life

She was married from 1899 to opera conductor Hjalmar Meissner (1865–1940). He was employed by theatre director Albert Ranft (1858–1938) and was the second conductor at his theaters until 1925, with the exception of a period 1908–1910 at the Royal Swedish Opera and 1914 at the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.{{cite web |url= https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9244 |title= C Hjalmar Meissner |website= Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |access-date= 1 January 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190814195836/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9244 |archive-date= 14 August 2019 |url-status= live }}{{cite web |url= https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=7539 |title= Albert A Ranft |website= Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |access-date= 1 January 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170224103519/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=7539 |archive-date= 24 February 2017 |url-status= live }}

Meissner died in Stockholm.

Emma Meissner

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