Elisabeth Söderström
Acting
Biography
Anna Elisabeth Söderström CBE was a Swedish soprano and actress who performed both opera and song, and was known as a leading interpreter of the works of Janáček, Rachmaninov and Sibelius.
Born: May 7, 1927
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Known For
Fidelio
Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera at Glyndebourne. Elizabeth Söderström plays Leonore, with Elizabeth Gale as Marzelline and Curt Appelgren as Rocco.
Le Grand Échiquier
The Adventures of Picasso
A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
Aniara
Nobel Laureate Harry Martinson's famous poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, is ejected from the solar system after an accident and into an existential struggle.
Great Performances
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Svenske ryttaren
Agneta Gyllencrona is in love with Henrik Lettnoff, a refugee from the Baltic. They have to leave together when her mother, the Countess, wants to tear them apart.
The Human Voice
Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.
![Backdrop for The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/qpnCVKL3GHIKCjIdlaORclcbECA.jpg "Backdrop for The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera]")
The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera]
Elijah Moshinsky’s atmospheric production, designed by Mark Thompson, sets the stage for this gripping performance of Tchaikovsky’s passionate setting of Pushkin’s classic novel. Valery Gergiev’s idiomatic and authoritative conducting inspires a superb cast, headed by Plácido Domingo (Ghermann), breathtaking in his portrayal of a man unraveling toward suicide. Galina Gorchakova is Lisa, the woman he loves and destroys, Dmitri Hvorostovsky lends a superb voice and regal bearing to Prince Yeletsky; and Elisabeth Söderström is hair-raising as the old Countess. Olga Borodina is Paulina and Nikolai Putilin is Count Tomsky.
En lek på blodigt allvar
Göran Gentele (1917 - 1972) was a Swedish actor, director, and opera manager. He studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school 1944-46, followed by acting and directing theatre and film, became artistic director of the Swedish Royal Opera in 1963 and of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1972.
Fata Morgana
Fata Morgana - a mirage, a vision that's become a film. A fantastical space journey through technical spheres.
Filmography
as Self
as Countess
as The Woman
as Leonore
as Leonore / Fidelio
as Mimi
as Self
as Juliana
as Daisy Doody / La Garconne
as Agneta von Kreschwitz / Agneta Gyllencrona