Lind, Jenny

LIND, Jenny, was born at Stockholm Oct. 6, 1820 (not, as Fétis says, on Feb. 8). Count Puke, director of the Court Theatre, admitted her to the school of singing which is attached to that establishment, and she received there her first lessons from a master named Berg. She made her début at the Opera in her native city, in March 1838, as Agatha in Weber's ‘Freischütz,’ and played afterwards the principal róle in ‘Euryanthe,’ Alice in ‘...