Johanne Krarup-Hansen

She grew up in a musical home with her two sisters before moving to Copenhagen where she became a pupil of Agnes Adler for piano and of Leopold Rosenfeld for voice.

[1][2][4] It was not until March 1899 when aged 29 she made her début at the Royal Danish Theatre as Orpheus, impressing her audience with her deep, full-bodied mezzo delivery.

Under Johan Svendsen and later Georg Hoeberg she developed proficiency in performing Wagnerian roles such as Ortrud in Lohengrin and Kundry in Parsifal.

She is particularly remembered as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre in 1902, becoming the first Dane to take the role which had previously been performed by the Swede Ellen Gulbranson.

In recognition of her services, in 1934 she received the special award for women, Tagea Brandt Rejselegat.