Tenna Kraft

One of the Royal Danish Theatre's outstanding sopranos in the early 20th century, she sang in operas by Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and Richard Strauss.

She gained particular success in 1926 with the title role in Siegfried Salomon's Danish opera Leonora Christina which included the popular Der er tre hjørnestene.

[1] A talented singer as a child, she first studied in Copenhagen under Jens Larsen Nyrop and Osta Schottlænder before becoming a pupil of Désirée Artôt and Jean de Reszke in Paris.

Over the next 33 years, she played most of the well-known leading roles, including those in Tosca and La traviata, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Desdemona in Otello and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser.

She was particularly popular in Danish works such as Peter Heise's Drot og marsk and Siegfried Salomon's highly acclaimed Leonora Christina which was specially written for her.