Anna Elisabeth Söderström was a Swedish soprano who performed both opera and song, and was known as a leading interpreter of the works of Janáček, Rachmaninoff and Sibelius. She was particularly well
As Lola in Cavalleria rusticana, Royal Swedish Opera Stockholm, 1954.
Sven Erik Vikström (Orpheus) with Elisabeth Söderström (Eurydice), Royal Swedish Opera, 1955.
Adelaide Andreyeva von Skilondz was a Russian operatic coloratura soprano.
Elisabeth Söderström
…the picture of Káta as the richest and most human character in the drama". Born in Stockholm, Söderström received her first musical schooling from Adelaide von Skilondz and later studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. She made her debut in 1947 at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre singing in one of Mozart's…
Skilondz, painted by Ilya Repin, c.1915-1925
Skilondz in Lakmé at Royal Swedish Opera, 1916