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Dressed as Anatol for the world premiere of Vanessa at the Metropolitan, February 1958. (Photo by Louis Mlanon, New York)
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Nicolai Gedda
My life & art
by Nicolai Gedda
as told to Aino Sellermark Gedda
Translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes
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An earlier version of these memoirs was published in 1977 as Gvan r inte gratis by Albert Bonniers Frlag, Stockholm
Copyright 1999 by Aino Sellermark Gedda. All rights reserved.
Translation by Tom Geddes, 1999
Where not otherwise indicated, the photographs in this book are from Nicolai Gedda's private collection. Some are photographs taken at rehearsals, commissioned by the relevant theater. Photographs of recording sessions were similarly commissioned. Other material from childhood and youth is from personal family sources.
ISBN 1-57467-048-4
Printed in Hong Kong
Published in 1999 by Amadeus Press, an imprint of Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gedda, Nicolai. Nicolai Gedda : my life & art / by Nicolai Gedda, as told to Aino Sellermark Gedda; translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes. p. cm.(Opera biography series; no. 12) "An earlier version of these memoirs was published in 1977 as Gvan r inte gratis by Albert Boniers Frlag, Stockholm;"T.p. verso. Includes index. ISBN 1-57467-048-4 1. SingersBiography. I. Gedda, Aino Sellermark, 1927- . II. Geddes, Tom. III. Gedda, Nicolai. Gvan r inte gratis. IV. Title. V. Series. ML420.G32 A3 1999 782.1'092dc21 [b] 98-42923 CIP MN
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Contents
Foreword
by Charles Osborne
7
Preface
by Aino Sellermark Gedda
9
Chapter One Youth
11
Chapter Two Stockholm
21
Chapter Three My Parents
33
Chapter Four The Beginnings of a Musical Education
44
Chapter Five The Royal Academy of Music and the Opera School
52
Chapter Six From the Stockholm Opera to the World Stage
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