Helga Görlin

She also created roles in the world premieres of operas by Kurt Atterberg, Natanael Berg, and Hilding Rosenberg during her career.

In 1937 she portrayed the opera singer Jenny Lind in the film John Ericsson, Victor of Hampton Roads.

[2] In 1934 she portrayed Minnie in the Swedish premiere of Puccini's La fanciulla del West with Jussi Björling as Dick Johnson at the RSO.

[3] As a guest artist, Görlin performed the role of Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust at the Finnish National Opera in 1949.

She returned to the RSO as a guest artist in 1954 to perform the final opera appearance of her career; the role of Cid-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

[2] Other roles in her repertoire included Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice, the Goose Maid in Engelbert Humperdinck's Königskinder,[1] Pamina in The Magic Flute,[1] Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro,[1] Zerlina in Don Giovanni,[1] and the title roles Ambroise Thomas's Mignon, Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Iolanta,[1] and Puccini's Manon Lescaut.

After retiring form the stage in 1954 she worked as a voice teacher at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm where one of her pupils was the baritone Håkan Hagegård.