Inga Ã…berg (Ingeborg Elisabeth; 1773â€"1837) was a Swedish actress
and opera singer. She was engaged as an opera singer at the Royal
Swedish Opera, and as a stage actress at the Royal Dramatic Theater,
between 1787 and 1810.Inga Ã…berg was the daughter of Jonas Ã…berg, a
footman at the Royal Palace and Fredrika Maria Svahn. It is likely
that her paternal grandmother was Beata Sabina Straas, the first
professional native stage actress: Straas had been employed as a
chambermaid of the royal household prior to her stage career, and
after she married Anders Ã…berg and retired from the stage, both she
and her spouse was employed in the royal household, but it is not
confirmed that Jonas Ã…berg was their son. Both Inga and her brother
Gustav Ã…bergsson where described as beautiful and placed as students
in the French Theater of Gustav III, where she was enrolled from 1781
to 1787. Many later famed Swedish of stage artists of her generation
was trained by the French actors of the French Theatre in Bollhuset
under Monvel, among them Maria Franck, Lars Hjortsberg, and as such,
they also performed as child actors in the productions.Inga Ã…berg
debuted as an opera singer at the age of fourteen on 31 May 1787 at
the Royal Swedish Opera in the role of Yngve in Frigga. Her following
performance in Gustav Adolf and Ebba Brahe by King Gustav III of
Sweden, she was favorably noted by the King (also the author of the
play) and formally engaged at the opera.
and opera singer. She was engaged as an opera singer at the Royal
Swedish Opera, and as a stage actress at the Royal Dramatic Theater,
between 1787 and 1810.Inga Ã…berg was the daughter of Jonas Ã…berg, a
footman at the Royal Palace and Fredrika Maria Svahn. It is likely
that her paternal grandmother was Beata Sabina Straas, the first
professional native stage actress: Straas had been employed as a
chambermaid of the royal household prior to her stage career, and
after she married Anders Ã…berg and retired from the stage, both she
and her spouse was employed in the royal household, but it is not
confirmed that Jonas Ã…berg was their son. Both Inga and her brother
Gustav Ã…bergsson where described as beautiful and placed as students
in the French Theater of Gustav III, where she was enrolled from 1781
to 1787. Many later famed Swedish of stage artists of her generation
was trained by the French actors of the French Theatre in Bollhuset
under Monvel, among them Maria Franck, Lars Hjortsberg, and as such,
they also performed as child actors in the productions.Inga Ã…berg
debuted as an opera singer at the age of fourteen on 31 May 1787 at
the Royal Swedish Opera in the role of Yngve in Frigga. Her following
performance in Gustav Adolf and Ebba Brahe by King Gustav III of
Sweden, she was favorably noted by the King (also the author of the
play) and formally engaged at the opera.
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