Maria Gelhaar

Engaged by the company until 1888, her roles included Fiametta in Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, Papagena in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Mercedes in Bizet's Carmen.

In 1886, she married Stockholm's postmaster, Tom Otto Wilhelm Gelhaar, with whom she had a daughter, the opera singer Signe Gelhaar-Bågo.

[2][3][4] In September 1882, she made her debut at Stockholm's Nya Teater as Silvia in Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor and went on to take the role of Fiametta in Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio and that of Maritana in Jules Massenet's comic opera Don César de Bazan.

The following April she performed the role of Papagena in Mozart's The Magic Flute and in September appeared Verdi's Un giorno di regno.

Engaged by the company from 1883 to 1888, roles included Marcedes in Carmen, Zobeide in Daniel Auber's Le maçon and Angelina in Luigi Cherubini's Les deux journées.