BARBRO ERICSON, mezzosopran

BIOGRAFI

BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE

DISKOGRAFI (Operaclass.com)

FILMOGRAFI

RECENSIONER

Andrew Clemens: Wagner: Parsifal, Vickers/Ericson/Hotter/ Stewart/Bayreuther FO/ Knappertsbusch (The Guardian)

Carl Johann Malmberg: Wagner: Lohengrin, Gedda, Nordmo-Lödberg, Jupither, Ericsson, Wixel, Varviso (SvD)

"Men föreställningens speciella höjdpunkter står Barbro Ericson för. Det finns inte många inspelningar med henne. Hon hade inte bara en av Sveriges mest uttrycksfulla röster, hon var också en psykologisk gestaltare av stora mått. Det märks här i hennes eruptivt ondskefulla Ortrud".

Malin Eijde: Barbro Ericson sjunger med hjärnan (SvD)

Parsifal, Bayreuth-1954: "It is also the dark colours of Barbro Ericson's Kundry that are the most fascinating aspect of her performance, her voluptuous contralto none the less able to master the awkward intervals and emotional outbursts of this complex character" (MDT).

Göran Forsling: Great Swedish Singers (MusicWeb International)


Barbro Ericson was that rarest of things, a really fruity, deep, thundering contralto. She had a stage presence comparable to Kjerstin Dellert’s and while her acting wasn’t as many-faceted as Ms Dellert’s she was the most commanding, both visually and vocally. Something of this is inevitably lost on a sound-only disc but there is enough left to convince even those who never saw her. Eboli, Amneris and Ulrica are magnificent and she was also a great Wagnerian, which the Lohengrin and Rheingold excerpts give evidence of. Her Fricka in Die Walküre, which I saw in the early 1970s, singing against the monumental Sigurd Björling, was also something quite exceptional. Her Kundry can be seen on the CD cover above.

AUDIO/VIDEO

Lohengrin (Herur 22)