Sigrid Arnoldson

Possessing a fine dramatic coloratura soprano voice with a range of three octaves, music critics believed she was Jenny Lind's successor and dubbed her "the new Swedish Nightingale".

As Rosina, she was said to be "Young, pretty, and of engaging manner, with a good voice and method, and considerable talent as an actress" and to have "won public favour with the greatest of ease".

[3] Apart from a poorly received Zerlina (Don Giovanni) in 1887,[4] her success there was considerable, and she was engaged to sing at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 1888 and again between 1892 and 1894.

[5] The Musical Times called her Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro) "charming",[6] and her work as George Fox's Nydia in the eponymous opera "a graceful impersonation"[7] She was engaged in 1890 by the Max Strakosch for an American tour of some 60 concerts for the sum of 250,000 Francs.

[10] In 1897 she is recorded as having sung two "hackneyed show pieces" at a Royal Philharmonic Society concert in London, which were "rapturously applauded"[11] yet earlier that year she was appearing with "immense success" at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in Italian opera.