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Elisabeth Olin (née ''Lillström'') (December 1740 – 26 March 1828) was a Swedish opera singer and a music composer. She is referred to as the first Swedish Opera prima donna. She was a court-singer (Hovsångare). She was the first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1782). Together with Fredrique Löwen, she is referred to as the most successful Swedish woman stage artist in the 18th century. ==Background and debut== Her father, Petter Lillström, was a musician, an organist, and played in the theatre orchestra in Bollhuset. Her mother, Elisabeth Lillström, was one of the first professional native actresses in Sweden, the prima donna of the troupe and a member in the board of directors that run the theatre of Bollhuset from 1740 to 1753. Elisabeth Olin debuted as a child-actor on the stage of Bollhuset alongside her mother at the age of seven under the name Betty Lillström in the part of ''Alfhild'' in ''Syrinx'' in 1747, called Sweden's first native Opera comique, and was very popular, often described as one of the most valuable members of the staff even though she was not an adult, but in 1753, the theatre was reserved for the French troop hired by the queen, ending the first experiment of a national theater. The parents of Olin then joined the Stenborg Troupe. She received training from the leading Swedish actor, Petter Stenborg, in singing, and clavecin training and theory lessons by the court-chapel conductor Ferdinand Zellbell. It was most likely at one of his concerts at Riddarhuset that she made her debut, the date is however lost; she is believed to have been active as a professional concert singer in the late 1750s. In 1760 she married the official Gabriel Olin (1728–1794). The first time she was confirmed as a singer was at a concert by Zellbell in 1761, and she was a popular concert singer in the 1760s. She appeared as a singer in concert in 1769, directed by Francesco Uttini, leader of the Italian Opera-troupe in Bollhuset of 1754–1767 and Royal orchestra conductor, and was at this point very popular among the nobility and often hired for private concerts. In 1768, she published her own song composition;〔Anna Ivarsdotter Johnsson och Leif Jonsson: ''Musiken i Sverige. Frihetstiden och Gustaviansk tid 1720–1810'' (Music in Sweden. The age of Liberty and the Gustavian age 1720–1810) , page 373〕 she was one of the Swedish composers who wrote one composition each for the collection ''Gustaviade. En hjältedikt i tolv sånger'' (1768) (English: "Gustaviade. A heroic poem of twelve songs"); Elisabeth Olin was responsible for composition number eight.〔Anna Ivarsdotter Johnsson och Leif Jonsson: ''Musiken i Sverige. Frihetstiden och Gustaviansk tid 1720–1810'' (Music in Sweden. The age of Liberty and the Gustavian age 1720–1810) , page 373〕 At the opening of parliament in 1772, the troupe of Petter Stenborg appeared before King Gustav III and all the public in Bollhuset after the French troupe had left, and after this, the monarch decided to found a native speaking opera and theatre. The Swedish theatre had been made up of foreign companies and was more or less a matter for the court until this time, (except for a brief experiment from 1737–1753, where her parents was pioneers in the first try to start a native-speaking theatre). It was after this that the King decided to form a Swedish theatre, with Swedish actors, and thereby making theatre open to a public who could not understand the tongues of the foreign companies. Thus, the national Swedish Opera was founded in 1773, and Elisabeth Olin was one of its pioneers. As she was married to an official, a Royal court secretary, it was not considered entirely proper for her to perform professionally, and the King then raised the prestige of the opera company by styling it Royal Swedish Opera and appointed Elisabeth Olin first court-singer. At the search for talents to the newly founded opera, the direction "hardly dare consider" to think of her, as she was a part of the upper class after her marriage, which gave her a great advantage in the negotiations. After the negotiations about her salary, Gustav III said, "She holds herself very expensive"; she was the highest paid member of the entire Swedish opera, which gave female members higher salary than the male. Her husband is described as always very proud of her. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elisabeth Olin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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