Lindholm, Berit (1934– )

Swedish soprano. She made her debut in Stockholm in 1963, as Mozart's Countess. She sang Chrysothemis at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in 1966, being heard there later as Isolde and Brünnhilde and from 1967 appeared at Bayreuth, where she made her debut as Venus. In 1972 she made her US debut, in San Francisco, and in 1975 her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, as Brünnhilde. Other roles include Élisabeth, Tosca, Leonore, and Cassandre in the Colin Davis recording of Les Troyens. She created Divana in the first performance of Goehr's Behold the Sun (Duisburg, 1985).