Bergliot Ibsen


Bergliot Ibsen was a Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer.

Biography

She was born Bergliot Bjørnson in Christiania as the daughter of writer and Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Karoline Bjørnson. She was married to politician Sigurd Ibsen, son of playwright Henrik Ibsen and Suzannah Ibsen. Her husband later became Norwegian Prime Minister in Stockholm. They were the parents of Tancred Ibsen, Eleonora Borberg and Irene Ibsen Bille.
Bergliot Ibsen made her concert début in Paris in 1880, and later toured in Norway and Denmark. In 1948 she published the memoir book De tre on the three Ibsens: Henrik, Suzannah and Sigurd.
She died in Bolzano, Italy in 1953. She was buried in Oslo at Æreslunden in Vår Frelsers gravlund.