Hanna Tove Dahlberg (born April 25, 1973 in Stockholm) is a Swedish mezzo-sopranoopera singer, active on the international opera scene. In 2005 Dahlberg was one of a group of world-class musicians who were permitted to perform inside a building at Auschwitz for the first time ever during the filming of the International Emmy Award winning TV documentary Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film.[a][1]
Education
Dahlberg attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. She then studied jazz singing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm before starting her opera singer training - first at Opera Studio 67 in Stockholm, and then until 2002 at the University College of Opera, also in Stockholm. Subsequently, she was admitted at the Covent Garden opera's two year Vilar Young Artists Programme (later renamed Jette Parker Young Artists Programme) in London.[2]
On other Swedish scenes Dahlberg has performed in several opera roles written for specifically her, among them Calypso, Eurycleia and Helena in Reine Jönsson's Return to Ithaka (Swedish title: Strändernas svall) at Vadstena Academy.[20] She has also portrayed opera singer Moster in Paula af Malmborg Ward’s one act Would you like a frosty pear?.[21] At the Drottningholm Palace Theatre she sang the role of Linnaeus's Daughter Lisa Stina in Jonas Forssell’s The Garden.[22][a]
Both the French music television channel Mezzo and SVT have shown the Lyon Opera production of Mozart'sCosi fan tutte with Dahlberg in the role of Dorabella.[14][23] On the BBC music channel Radio 3 she has participated in a number of solo performances.[24] She was also one of the soloists in BBC's In memory of Auschwitz, a European co-production, which in 2005 was awarded with an Emmy as best cultural film, later released on DVD.[a]
Dahlberg lives in Stockholm.
Awards and Scholarships
Tove Dahlberg has received numerous scholarships and awards. Among them are:
Debussy – The Martyrdom Of Saint Sebastian, Label: BBC Music Magazine – BBCMM341, BBC Music Magazine – Vol. 20 No. 5[29]
Benjamin Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream - complete, Format: 2-CD Set, Label: Glyndebourne, Conductor: Ilan Volkov, Artists: Bejun Mehta, Kate Royal, Tove Dahlberg, Iride Martinez, Release Date: 31-Oct-2011[30]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mass in C minor, Format: CD, Label: Coro, Conductor: Harry Christophers, Artists: Gillian Keith, Tove Dahlberg, Thomas Cooley, Nathan Berg, Release Date: 31-Aug-2010[31]
Filmography
Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film (2005), available as DVD Video, PAL, 16:9, Color, Time: 88 mns, Copyright for the DVD edition by BBC & Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum[32]