Elin Fohström-Tallqvist, stage name Elina Vandár, (22 September 1868 – 19 April 1949) was a Finnish operatic soprano who performed in Finland, Russia, the Baltic countries, Germany and Italy at the end of the 19th century.
After a relatively short but successful singing career, she returned to Helsinki where she worked as a voice teacher.
[1] After appearing in a concert in Helsinki in 1887, she made her operatic début as Margarete in Gounod's Faust (opera) in 1889.
That year she married Hjalmar Tallqvist, performing in Roméo et Juliette, The Barber of Seville and Carmen in Zürich where her husband was teaching at the university.
She spent her later years as a voice teacher in her native Helsinki where she died on 19 April 1949, aged 80.