Kongelige Kammersangere

Kongelige Kammersangere or The Royal Chamber Singer is a prestigious award given to Danish Opera singers by the monarch. Only about 50 people have received the award since it was started in 1700. The first non-native Danish person who was appointed as a royal chamber singer was the Italian Giuseppe Siboni, who in 1819 received Danish citizenship and became director of the Royal Theatre.

Presented by Frederik VI

• ca. 1819 – Giuseppe Siboni (1780-1839)
• ca. 1821 – Josephine Fröhlich (1803-1878)

Presented by Christian VIII

• 1841 – Ida Henriette da Fonseca (1802-1858)
• 1843 – Catharine Simonsen (født Rysslander, 1816-1849)

Presented by Frederik VII

• 1854 – Jørgen Christian Hansen (1812 - 1880)
• 1858 – Leocadie Gerlach (1827-1919, født Bergnehr)

Presented by Christian IX

• 1864 – Charlotte Bournonville (1832-1911)
• 1866 – Peter Schram (1819-1895)
• 1874 – Niels Juel Simonsen (1846-1906)
• 1879 – Anna Henrietta Levinson (1839-1899)
• 1888 – Elisabeth Dons (1864-1942)
• 1894 – Sophie Keller (født Rung, 1850-1929)
• 1901 – Vilhelm Herold (1865-1937)

Presented by Frederik VIII

• 1906 – Ellen Beck (1873-1953)
• 1906 – Emilie Ulrich (1872-1952)
• 1907 – Peter Cornelius (født Cornelius Petersen, 1865-1934)
• 1907 – Helge Nissen (1871-1926)
• 1907 – Ida Møller (1872–1947)
• 1908 – Johanne Krarup-Hansen (1870-1958)

Presented by Christian X

• 1914 – Tenna Kraft (født Frederiksen, 1885-1954)
• 1915 – Margrethe Lendrop (født Boeck, 1873-1920)
• 1916 – Johanne Brun (født Prieme, 1874-1954)
• 1917 – Albert Høeberg (1879-1949)
• 1918 – Niels Hansen (1880-1969)
• 1919 – Ingeborg Nørregaard Hansen (1874-1941)
• 1922 – Lilly Lamprecht (1886-1976)
• 1930 – Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973)
• 1931 – Ingeborg Steffensen (1888-1964)
• 1931 – Poul Wiedemann (1890-1969)
• 1934 – Holger Byrding (1891-1980)
• 1934 – Holger Bruusgaard (1884-1968)
• 1934 - Else Schøtt (1895-1989)
• 1934 – Per Biørn (1887-1944)
• 1936 – Helge Rosvænge (1897-1972)
• 1939 – Einar Nørby (1896-1983)
• 1941 – Ebba Wilton (1896-1951)
• 1941 – Ely Hjalmar (1892-1952)
• 1946 – Marius Jacobsen (1894-1961)
• 1946 – Thyge Thygesen (1904-1972)
• 1946 – Else Brems (1908-1995)
• 1946 – Edith Oldrup (1912-1999)

Presented by Frederik IX

• 1947 – Henry Skjær (1899-1991)
• 1949 – Stefan Islandi (1907-1993)
• 1949 – Dorothy Larsen (1911-1990)
• 1950 – Erik Sjøberg (1909-1973)
• 1950 – Lilian Weber Hansen (1911-1987)
• 1957 – Ruth Guldbæk (1924-2006)
• 1959 – Otte Svendsen (1918-2008)

Presented by Margrethe II

• 1974 – Ib Hansen (Born 1928)
• 1985 – Aage Haugland (1944-2000)
• 1998 – Inga Nielsen (1946-2008)
• 2006 – Stig Fogh Andersen (Born 1950)
• 2010 - Tina Kiberg (Born 1958)

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