Kongelige kammersangere
Kongelige kammersangere or The Royal Chamber Singer is a prestigious title 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.
List of Honorees
Presented by Frederik VI
- ca. 1819 – Giuseppe Siboni
- ca. 1821 – Josephine Fröhlich
Presented by Christian VIII
- 1841 – Ida Henriette da Fonseca
- 1843 – Catharine Simonsen
Presented by Frederik VII
- 1854 – Jørgen Christian Hansen
- 1858 – Leocadie Gerlach
Presented by Christian IX
- 1864 – Charlotte Bournonville
- 1866 – Peter Schram
- 1874 – Niels Juel Simonsen
- 1879 – Anna Henrietta Levinsohn
- 1888 – Elisabeth Dons
- 1894 – Sophie Keller
- 1901 – Vilhelm Herold
Presented by Frederik VIII
- 1906 – Ellen Beck
- 1906 – Emilie Ulrich
- 1907 – Peter Cornelius
- 1907 – Helge Nissen
- 1907 – Ida Møller
- 1908 – Johanne Krarup-Hansen
Presented by Christian X
- 1914 – Tenna Kraft
- 1915 – Margrethe Lendrop
- 1916 – Johanne Brun
- 1917 – Albert Høeberg
- 1918 – Niels Hansen
- 1919 – Ingeborg Nørregaard Hansen
- 1922 – Lilly Lamprecht
- 1930 – Lauritz Melchior
- 1931 – Ingeborg Steffensen
- 1931 – Poul Wiedemann
- 1934 – Holger Byrding
- 1934 – Holger Bruusgaard
- 1934 – Else Schøtt
- 1934 – Per Biørn
- 1936 – Helge Rosvaenge
- 1939 – Einar Nørby
- 1941 – Ebba Wilton
- 1941 – Ely Hjalmar
- 1946 – Marius Jacobsen
- 1946 – Thyge Thygesen
- 1946 – Else Brems
- 1946 – Edith Oldrup
Presented by Frederik IX
- 1947 – Henry Skjær
- 1949 – Stefan Islandi
- 1949 – Dorothy Larsen
- 1950 – Erik Sjøberg
- 1950 – Lilian Weber Hansen
- 1957 – Ruth Guldbæk
- 1959 – Otte Svendsen
Presented by Margrethe II
- 1974 – Ib Hansen
- 1985 – Aage Haugland
- 1998 – Inga Nielsen
- 2006 – Stig Fogh Andersen
- 2010 – Tina Kiberg