Margareta Hallin

Hallin was born on 20 February 1931, in Karlskoga. She made her debut during her time as a student at the University College of Opera{{efn-ua|University College of Opera was, at that time, part of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.}} in 1955 as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.{{sfn|Sørensen|Jansson|Eklöf|1993|pages=160–169}}

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Hallin joined the Royal Swedish Opera as a full-time employee in 1956, where she performed in roles such as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss, Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, the title role in Aida, and Gilda in Rigoletto.{{sfn|Sørensen|Jansson|Eklöf|1993|pages=229–230}} Hallin was appointed Hovsångerska (Royal Court singer) along with Erik Saedén, in 1966, and was awarded the Jussi Björling Scholarship in 1970. Her last performance at the opera was in the title role of Cherubini's Médée.{{sfn|Sørensen|Jansson|Eklöf|1993|pages=229–230}}{{cite AV media|url=http://www.mic.se/avd/mic/prod/micv6.nsf/docsbycodename/soekresultat?opendocument&fraga=margareta+hallin|title=Sökresultat|publisher=Svensk Music|access-date=19 February 2016|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192622/http://www.mic.se/avd/mic/prod/micv6.nsf/docsbycodename/soekresultat?opendocument&fraga=margareta+hallin|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}}

Hallin's voice has been described as a coloratura soprano. She was considered to have the talent required for the international scene, but she chose to stay in Sweden.{{sfn|Gedda|Gedda|Geddes|2003|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Kl2AGg1ju1MC&dq=margareta+hallin+soprano&pg=PA49 49]}}

Her opera roles in the 1950s to 1970s included the blind poetess in Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Aniara,{{cite web|url=http://www.svt.se/veckans-forestallning/aniara-en-svensk-operaklassiker/|title=Aniara – en svensk operaklassiker|publisher=SVT|access-date=28 February 2016|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305035300/http://www.svt.se/veckans-forestallning/aniara-en-svensk-operaklassiker/|archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=live}}Blomdahl, Karl-Birger (1959). Aniara : en revy om människan i tid och rum : opera i 2 akter (7 scenbilder) efter Harry Martinsons versepos "Aniara". London: Schott & Co. Libris 1261304 Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, the title role in Verdi's La traviata, Therese in Lars Johan Werle's Drömmen om Thérèse,{{cite AV media|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=1755034|title=Kulturnytt special: Werle – Animalens, Tintomaras och Thérèses tonsättare|newspaper=Sveriges Radio|date=25 December 2007 |access-date=28 February 2016|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304170150/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=1755034|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}} and the Queen Mother in Georg Joseph Vogler's Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe.{{cite web|url=http://ingmarbergman.se/en/production/rakes-progress|title=The Rake's Progress|publisher=|access-date=28 February 2016|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305170800/http://ingmarbergman.se/en/production/rakes-progress|archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://play.spotify.com/album/3ebufGOao7XXVUjbBGL4c4?play=true|title=Hallin, Margaret: The Early Recordings (1955–1960)|publisher=Spotify|access-date=28 February 2016|url-access=registration|archive-date=16 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216195919/https://open.spotify.com/album/3ebufGOao7XXVUjbBGL4c4?play=true|url-status=live}} Hallin also performed in Glyndebourne, Florence, Vienna, Hamburg, Moscow, London and Copenhagen, as well as making a tour in the Soviet Union.{{sfn|Sørensen|Jansson|Eklöf|1993|pages=150–161}}

In the mid-1980s, she started composing music.{{sfn|Sørensen|Jansson|Eklöf|1993|pages=150–161}} Encouraged by composer Eberhard Eyser, she made her debut in 1986 with poems set to music. The poems were by Nils Ferlin, Harry Martinson, Werner Aspenström and Alf Henrikson – she performed a medley of these in the Drottningholm Palace Church.{{sfn|Sørensen|Jansson|Eklöf|1993|pages=150–169}} She was elected as a member of the Swedish Society of Composers in 1990{{sfn|Sørensen|Jansson|Eklöf|1993|pages=229–230}} and was awarded the honorary academic title of professors namn in 2001. In 2006, she received the Gunn Wållgren Award.

She set several works by August Strindberg to music, beginning with a chamber opera based on Fröken Julie (Miss Julie) in 1990. Miss Julie was staged at the Confidence Theatre in 1990, and restaged in 1994. Hallin also composed music for Strindberg's works Den Starkare (The Stronger) which was performed in the Rotunda at the Royal Opera in Stockholm in 1991, and Ett drömspel (A Dream Play) in 1992.{{sfn|Sørensen|Jansson|Eklöf|1993|pages=150–169}}{{cite web|title=Margareta Hallin|url=http://www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/micv6eng.nsf/DocsByCodename/single_object!opendocument&external=http://www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/personer.nsf/WebV6BiografierAOEng/D502C38785507A6541256492002D25F9|website=Svensk Musik|access-date=4 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416191307/http://www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/micv6eng.nsf/DocsByCodename/single_object%21opendocument%26external%3Dhttp%3A//www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/personer.nsf/WebV6BiografierAOEng/D502C38785507A6541256492002D25F9|archive-date=16 April 2016|url-status=dead}}

In Sundsvall in 2012, Hallin premiered a program, both read and sung, which she had composed based upon Strindberg's letters to Harriet Bosse. At its performance in Kramfors, the production was accompanied by a small exhibition of Hallin's paintings, including a portrait of Strindberg.{{cite news|title=Margareta Hallins djupa relation till August Strindberg|url=http://www.allehanda.se/kultur/margareta-hallins-djupa-relation-till-august-strindberg|access-date=4 April 2016|work=Allehanda|date=29 November 2012|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415071317/http://www.allehanda.se/kultur/margareta-hallins-djupa-relation-till-august-strindberg|archive-date=15 April 2016|url-status=live}}

Hallin was married twice. Her first marriage was to violinist Inge Boström from 1951 to 1956. The couple had a daughter, born in 1952.{{cite AV media |title=Sveriges dödbok 1947–2006 |language=sv|medium=CD-ROM v 4.00 |publisher=Sveriges Släktforskarförbund |year=2007}} Her second marriage was to Bengt Ekerot. Their son was born in 1966.

Hallin died on 9 February 2020,11 days before her 89th birthday, at the age of 88.{{Cite web|url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/musik/operasangerskan-margareta-hallin-ar-dod|title=Operasångerskan Margareta Hallin är död|date=9 February 2020|website=SVT Nyheter|access-date=9 February 2020|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213071808/https://www.svt.se/kultur/musik/operasangerskan-margareta-hallin-ar-dod|archive-date=13 February 2020|url-status=live}}

• 1966{{snds}}Hovsångerska{{sfn|Nyström|Kyhlberg-Boström|Elmquist|1996|page=84}} (Swedish Court singer){{cite book|editor-last1=Cummings|editor-first1=David M.|title=International Who's Who in Music and Musicians Directory: in the classical and light classical fields; 1998/99|date=1998|publisher=International Who's Who in Music|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0948875922|page=260|chapter=Hallin, Margareta|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ez1JfIVM4ykC&pg=PA260}}
• 1969 – Kvällspostens Thaliapris{{cite news|title=Årets Thaliapris går till Koutsogiannakis|url=http://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/kultur/arets-thaliapris-gar-till-koutsogiannakis/|access-date=4 April 2016|work=Kvällsposten|quote=See Tidigare Pristagare listing previous winners|date=8 October 2014|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415220350/http://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/kultur/arets-thaliapris-gar-till-koutsogiannakis/|archive-date=15 April 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Thaliapristagare|url=http://www.expressen.se/kvp/kultur/thaliapristagare-3364065/|access-date=4 April 2016|newspaper=Kvällsposten|date=25 September 2009|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415204249/http://www.expressen.se/kvp/kultur/thaliapristagare-3364065/|archive-date=15 April 2016|url-status=live}}
• 1970 – Jussi Björlingstipendiet{{cite web|url=http://www.skts.se/fonder/bjorling/bjorling.html |title=Jussi Björling |publisher=Stiftelsen Kungliga Teaterns Solister |language=sv |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222613/http://www.skts.se/fonder/bjorling/bjorling.html |archive-date=4 March 2016}}
• 1972{{snds}}Member No. 769 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
• 1976{{snds}}Litteris et Artibus{{cite web|title=Margareta Hallin|url=http://www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/micv5.nsf/DocsByCodename/single_object!opendocument&external=http://www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/personer.nsf/WebV5BiografierAO/D502C38785507A6541256492002D25F9|website=www.mic.stim.se|publisher=Svensk Musik|language=sv|access-date=13 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413224133/http://www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/micv5.nsf/DocsByCodename/single_object%21opendocument%26external%3Dhttp%3A//www.mic.stim.se/avd/mic/prod/personer.nsf/WebV5BiografierAO/D502C38785507A6541256492002D25F9|archive-date=13 April 2016|url-status=dead}}
• 1981 – Svenska grammofonpriset ("Swedish gramophone prize") for Gullebarn (with Rolf Lindblom, piano){{cite web|last1=Sahlin|first1=Björn|title=Gullebarns vaggsånger (Heidenstam)|url=http://www.bjornsahlin.se/bjornsahlin/extern/gullebarns-vaggsanger-heidenstam.htm|publisher=Björn Sahlin|access-date=13 March 2016|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415173218/http://www.bjornsahlin.se/bjornsahlin/extern/gullebarns-vaggsanger-heidenstam.htm|archive-date=15 April 2016|url-status=live}}
• 2004 – Hugo Alfvénpriset{{cite web|last1=Landström|first1=Lars|title=En roll för en legend|url=http://www.allehanda.se/kultur/en-roll-for-en-legend|date=18 February 2011|publisher=AB Allehanda|access-date=13 March 2016|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414220553/http://www.allehanda.se/kultur/en-roll-for-en-legend|archive-date=14 April 2016|url-status=live}}
• 2006{{snds}}Gunn Wållgren Award{{cite web|last1=Holmquist|first1=Åke|title=Gunn Wållgrens Minnesfond|url=http://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/download/18.25e6bcc411eccf1b68980004024/1377188561856/%C3%85rsskrift+2006.pdf|language=sv|publisher=Royal Swedish Academy of Music|access-date=13 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405193254/http://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/download/18.25e6bcc411eccf1b68980004024/1377188561856/%C3%85rsskrift+2006.pdf|archive-date=5 April 2016|url-status=live}}

• 1997{{snds}}Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Säffleoperan{{sfn|Hägglund|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ONYyHA360YgC&pg=PT388 388]}}
• 2007{{snds}}The Mummy, the Colonel's wife in Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata, Strindberg's Intimate Theater{{sfn|Szalczer|2012|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ryiSZuZ-JTkC&pg=PA195 195]}}
• 2011{{snds}}Sjuksköterskan in a dramatization of Strindberg's novel {{ill|Taklagsöl|sv|Taklagsöl (novell)}} (Topping out Ceremony), Strindberg's Intimate Theater{{cite web |title=Taklagsöl av August Strindberg |language=sv |url=http://www.strindbergsintimateater.se/repertoar/arkiv/2011/Taklags%C3%B6l%20av%20August%20Strindberg-copy |publisher=Strindberg's Intimate Theater|year=2011 |access-date=10 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311225650/http://www.strindbergsintimateater.se/repertoar/arkiv/2011/Taklags%C3%B6l%20av%20August%20Strindberg-copy |archive-date=11 March 2016}}

• Sex kvinnoporträtt ur operans värld ("Six portraits of women from the opera world"), solo performance with Norrköpings symfoniorkester, EMI His Master's Voice 4E 061–34616.{{cite web |title=Sex kvinnoporträtt ur operans värld / Margareta Hallin; Norrköpings symfoniorkester |language=sv |url=http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001461272 |publisher=Svensk mediedatabas |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311022501/http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001461272 |archive-date=11 March 2016 |url-status=live }}
• Great Swedish Singers. Bluebell ABCD 060.{{cite web|title=Uno Stjernqvist – tenor|language=sv|url=http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001546255|publisher=Svensk mediedataboas|access-date=10 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311020452/http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001546255|archive-date=11 March 2016|url-status=live}}
• Svenska hovsångerskor ("Swedish choir of court singers"). EMI CMCD 6350. Svensk mediedatabas.{{cite web |title=Svenska hovsångerskor |language=sv |url=http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001550802 |publisher=Svensk mediedatabas |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311013746/http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001550802 |archive-date=11 March 2016 |url-status=live}}
• Lieder. Strauss, Mahler, Mozart. Margareta Hallin. Rolf Lindblom, piano. Proprius PRCD 9151. Svensk mediedatabas.{{cite web |title=Ständchen (op 17:2) /Sång för 1 röst & piano, 1885–87?. text: Adolf Friedrich von Schack/ / Margareta Hallin |language=sv |url=http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001887612 |publisher=Svensk mediedatabas |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311021826/http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001887612 |archive-date=11 March 2016 |url-status=live }}
• Rigoletto as Gilda in Verdi's opera. Live recording. BIS CD-296. (2 CDs).{{cite web |title=Rigoletto / Giuseppe Verdi |language=sv |url=http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001505702 |publisher=Svensk mediedatabas |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311021232/http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001505702 |archive-date=11 March 2016 |url-status=live }}
• Tranfjädrarna ("The Twilight Crane") as Tsu in Sven-Erik Bäck's opera. Norrköpings symfoniorkester. with Olle Sivall, Uno Ebréus. Kammarkören, cond. Eric Ericson. Swedish Society Disciofil. SLT 33183. Grammis Award.{{cite web |title=Tranfjädrarna : opera / av Sven-Erik Bäck; regi: Bengt Ekerot; producent: Arne Arnbom; produktion: Sveriges radio; libretto: Bertil Malmberg |language=sv |url=http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001428876 |publisher=Svensk mediedatabas |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311015018/http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001428876 |archive-date=11 March 2016 |url-status=live }}

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