Anna Norrie

[3] Norrie initially performed as an actress at the Nya Teatern where in 1882 she made her début as Antoinette in Édouard Pailleron's play L'Étincelle (in Swedish Gnistan).

Among these were Offenbach's La fille du tambour-major (Tamburmajorens dotter) and Carl Millöcker's Der Bettelstudent in which she demonstrated her tomboy charms and her comic abilities.

In 1883, after further study under the demanding opera singer Signe Hebbe, she was highly acclaimed for her performance in Victorien Sardou's Le Roi Carotte.

[1] In 1887, Norrie embarked on a long engagement at the Vasa Theatre where she gained a reputation as the leading operetta prima donna of the North.

Among her many students were Signe Hasso, Ingrid Bergman, Gunn Wållgren, Sif Ruud, Gerd Hagman, Viveca Lindfors, Birgitta Valberg, Anita Björk, Margaretha Krook, Yvonne Lombard, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sven Lindberg, Ulf Palme, Ingvar Kjellson, Jarl Kulle, Jan-Olof Strandberg and Max von Sydow.