Elisabeth Söderström

Acting

Elisabeth Söderström

Born 1927-05-07 · Stockholm, Sweden

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.

Acting credits

Fidelio poster
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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.

Fidelio

1980

The Adventures of Picasso poster
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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.

The Adventures of Picasso

1978

Beethoven's Fidelio poster
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Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera at Glyndebourne

Beethoven's Fidelio

1980

Svenske ryttaren poster
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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.

Svenske ryttaren

1949

The Human Voice poster
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Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.

The Human Voice

1985

The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera] poster
9.0

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.

The Queen of Spades [The Metropolitan Opera]

1999

Fata Morgana poster
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Fata Morgana - a mirage, a vision that's become a film. A fantastical space journey through technical spheres.

Fata Morgana

1979

Aniara poster
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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.

Aniara

1960

En lek på blodigt allvar poster
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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.

En lek på blodigt allvar

1999

Behind the camera