Wilhelmina Gelhaar

Her son, Hans Ludvig von Stedingk, became director of the Royal Theatre while her daughter Gulli Gelhaar-Rudberg was also a soprano singer.

[1][3] Her parents ensured that she received a musical education by sending her to the Royal Theatre school where she was taught by Julius Günther.

[3] Following her mother's footsteps, she made her stage début in the Royal Theatre school in 1858, as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and continued to perform until 1866.

She played a wide variety of roles – including Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in The Magic Flute and Marguerite in Les Huguenots.

[2] She performed in the Swedish premières of Aimé Maillart's Les dragons de Villars as Rose Friquet in 1863 and in Fromental Halévy's La Juive in 1866 as Eudoxie.