Alma Fohstrom

Alma Evelina Fohström-von Rode
1856–1936
Finnish soprano

From 1873 to 1877, she studied song under the Swedish opera singer Henriette Nissen-Saloman at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.In April 1878, Fohström performed at Berlin's Kroll Opera House, gaining immediate recognition. She went on to perform in some 200 venues in Europe, Asia and the Americas, singing for emperors and monarchs.South American tour in 1883 included performances in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Her amazingly successful tour of the United States in 1885–86 included ten cities from New York to Cincinnati and in San Francisco, Became professor of singing at the St Petersburg Conservatory from 1909 to the Russian Revolution in 1917. She then returned to Finland before teaching at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin from 1920 to 1928. Thereafter she taught at the Helsinki Conservator , Roles included role of Vincent Wallace's opera Maritana, as Zerlina in Danil Auber's Fra Diavolo, and as Filina in Ambroise Thomas' Mignonn Bellini's La sonnambula Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.] Marguerite in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Mathilde in Rossini's William Tell, Margaretha in Gounod's Faust,[ Bertha in Meyerbeer's The Prophet,[ and Eudora in Halévy's La Juive.