Person

Elisabeth Olin

Swedish opera singer and a music composer

b. 1740 CE – d. 1828 CE World The Great Crossroads

Elisabeth Olin née Lillström (December 1740 – March 26, 1828), is a Swedish opera singer and a music composer.

She performs the leading female role in the inauguration performance of the Royal Swedish Opera in 1773, and is referred to as the first Swedish Opera prima donna.

She is the first female to be made Hovsångerska (1773), and the first woman to become a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1782).