(b Stockholm, 11 July 1925). Swedish tenor. He made his début at the Stockholm Opera in 1952 and appeared at La Scala from the 1952-3 season. He sang the Duke of Mantua at Covent Garden in 1955, returning in later seasons as Benvenuto Cellini. At the Met in 1958 he created Anatol in Barber's Vanessa. A refined artist and fine linguist, he has a large song repertory and is one of the most versatile and gifted singers of his generation.

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