Per Grundén

Per Grundén (* May 23, 1922 in Eskilstuna, Sweden, † February 6, 2011 in Trosa, Sweden) was a Swedish opera singer and actor.

Life

Grundén completed in the 1940s to study singing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He was taught, among other things in the known Scottish Swedish opera singer and vocal pedagogue Joseph Hislop ( 1884-1977 ). His debut as an opera singer gave Grundén 1945 at Stora Theater ( Stora Teatern ) in Gothenburg in the role of Sporting Life, Porgy and Bess at the opera. At Stora theater he remained until 1949 in the commitment, then moved to the Academy Theater ( Oscars Teatern ) in Stockholm, where he began his career as an operetta singer. As a guest Grundén also appeared in the Royal Opera in Stockholm; there he sang lyric tenor roles in opera and operetta roles, some, including the Symon in the operetta The Beggar Student; with this role he managed the breakthrough there.

From 1953 to 1963 Grundén sang at the Vienna Volksoper; He also acted in productions at the Vienna State Opera, which used the building of the Volksoper due to the destroyed Staatsoper for their performances. Grundén sang in Vienna focus also again operetta roles, but also took on roles in operas. So he sang 1953-1955, among other things, the title role in Fra Diavolo, the Max in Der Freischütz, the Paris in the beautiful Helen, the Barinkay in The Gypsy Baron, the Symon in The Beggar Student, Danilo in The Merry Widow and the painter Armand Brissard in The Count of Luxembourg. At the Vienna Volksoper were from the late 1950s in particular Danilo, but also the Count René in Madame Pompadour, who in The Land of Smiles and the title role in the operetta The Tsarevich to his brilliant games. Prince Sou - Chong The role of the Sou - Chong he sang in over 80 performances at the Vienna Volksoper. In 1958 he was appointed chamber singer. In later years Grundén toured again in 1976 at the Vienna Volksoper; he assumed the poet Joseph Calicot in the operetta Madame Pompadour.

Grundén graduated in Germany guest performances in Hamburg, Munich, each as Danilo, and 1960 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In Sweden, he sang in 1954 in a production by Danilo at Malmö City Theatre, directed by Ingmar Bergman. In 1965, he guested at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm in 1973 at the Riks Theater in Stockholm.

From 1967 took Grundén increasingly changing into Buffo tray; also he took over now increasingly acting roles. So he interpreted first time in 1967 the role of the traveling man Lustig -Per in the popular play Skinnarspelet by Rune Lindström with music by Jan Johansson. This role, which had been specially written for him, he played until 1982, almost every summer during performances at the amusement park Orrskogen in Malung.

He also took some film roles. He played in the popular Swedish film series Jönssonligan a clumsy gangster trio, the Jonsson League, with. He also starred in the role of a German businessman Jean Wagner in the popular satirical comedy apple war (1971).

The voice of Per Grundén is narrated by some sound files. In a complete recording of the operetta The Merry Widow he sang Danilo on the side of Hilde Güden. In 1978 reasons under the title Ömsom vienna, ömsom Vatten out a collection of Viennese songs and Swedish shanties on record.