Jenny lind descendants

Jenny Lind, the 200th anniversary of whose birth falls this month, was one of the most celebrated singers of the nineteenth century.

Known later as the ‘Swedish Nightingale’ after the fairy story ‘The Nightingale’ written by Hans Christian Andersen, she made her debut on 7 March 1838 as Agathe in Weber’s Der Freischütz at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm.

In later life referring to that day, she often said : “I got up that morning one creature, and I went to bed another, for I had found my vocation”.

After numerous performances in Sweden in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, and Bellini’s Norma among others, her voice began to show signs of strain and she went to Paris to study under the singing te