Mathilda Ebeling

At the age of 15, she gave her first major concert as a pianist in Stockholm's Stock Exchange Hall where she showed promise as one of the country's most notable performers.

Nevertheless, following the encouragement of the composer Johan Magnus Rosén [Wikidata], she decided to take singing lessons which led to her début in the opera Farinelli at the Mindre Theatre in 1844.

The opera proved so popular that it ran for over a hundred performances, playing to full houses ten times in succession.

Writing in Stockholms Figaro a critic complimented her as a "bright star" who had "great promise with her full voice, a true sense of music and a propensity for deep perception".

She went on to play the roles of Anna in Don Giovanni, Agathe in Der Freischütz, Adalgisa in Norma and the countess in The Marriage of Figaro.