Henriette Nissen-Saloman

Henriette Nissen- Saloman ( born March 12, 1819 in Gothenburg, † August 27 1879 in Bad Harzburg ) was a Swedish mezzo-soprano.

Nissen studied in Paris at the piano Frédéric Chopin and singing with Manuel Garcia. She made her debut in 1843 at the Italian Opera Giulia Grisi next as Adalgisa in Bellini's opera Norma. From 1845 to 1848 she undertook a highly successful concert tour of Italy, Russia, Norway, Sweden and England. She became famous with leading roles in the operas La sonnambula, Norma, Lucrezia Borgia, Lucia di Lammermoor and Ernani. At the Leipzig Gewandhaus concerts in Berlin and she was a serious competitor of the popular Jenny Lind. In Berlin she married the violinist and composer Siegfried Saloman.

From 1859 onwards taught Nissen singing at Konservatoruium of Saint Petersburg. In 1881 she published her textbook The study of song, which has been published in French and Russian translation.