Wennberg, Siv (1944– )

Swedish soprano. She studied in Stockholm and made her debut there in 1971, as Mozart's Marcellina; she made her soprano debut as Sieglinde, in 1972. She sang with the Stuttgart Opera (1973–76) and at Frankfurt from 1976. In 1972 she appeared as Senta and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser at the Vienna Staatsoper and Geneva. She made her London debut in 1975at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten/The Woman without a Shadow. In 1986 she sang in the first performance of Christina by Gefors, in Stockholm.