Marie Sundelius sang for many years with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and later embarked on a second career as a celebrated voice teacher in Boston.
13 Facts About Marie Sundelius
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Marie Sundelius began to study music first with Frederick Bristol and later Enrica Clay Dillon.
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Marie Sundelius had coaching lessons with Swedish composer, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger in Stockholm, and French lyric tenor Edmond Clement in Paris.
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Marie Sundelius married Gustaf Sundelius, a Swedish born businessman, in Boston in 1906.
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Marie Sundelius accepted, and made her opera debut at the "Old Met" on November 25,1916 as the First Priestess in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride with Melanie Kurt in the title role and Artur Bodanzky conducting.
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Marie Sundelius remained committed to the Metropolitan Opera up through 1923, although she returned to the house periodically as a guest artist up through 1928.
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Marie Sundelius created roles in several world premieres at the Met, including Johanna in Reginald De Koven's The Canterbury Pilgrims, Amy Everton in Charles Wakefield Cadman's Shanewis, the Monitress in Suor Angelica, and Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi.
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Marie Sundelius returned a few more times to the Met for concert performances, making her final and 248th appearance at the house on March 11,1928.
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Marie Sundelius retired from the stage in the early 1930s, after which she taught for many years at the New England Conservatory.
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Marie Sundelius's voice is preserved on several recordings made on the Columbia, Vocalion and Edison record labels during the second decade of the 20th century.
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Gustaf Marie Sundelius was born in Sweden, where he attended Uppsala University.
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Marie Sundelius came to the United States in 1900 settling in Boston.
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Marie Sundelius was later attached to the Swedish Vice Consulate in Boston.