Aino Ackert Profile: Finnish Soprano (1876-1944)
Portrait of Aino Ackté Albert Edelfelt Portrait of Ackté from 1901.
Aino Ackert (at first Acht; 23 April 1876 – 8 August 1944) was a Finnish soprano. She was the first international star of Finnish opera after Alma Fohström and a pioneer in the domestic field.
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Akter was born in Helsinki. Her parents were mezzo-soprano Aimee Ackert (née Strömer) and conductor-composer Lorenz Nicola Ackert. Aino Ackté married doctor Heikki Renvall in 1901 and gave birth to their daughter Glory Leppänen the same year. Their son, Mies Reenkola, was born in 1908.
The young Ackté studied singing under the guidance of her mother until 1894 when she entered the Paris Conservatoire with Edmond Duvernoy and Alfred Girodet.She made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1897 Faust As a result, she signed on for six years.
In 1904, Ackert was employed by the Metropolitan Opera in New York until 1906.she created the lead character of Richard Strauss Salome at local premieres in Leipzig (1907) and London (1910). The Covent Garden debut was a resounding success, with Strauss himself proclaiming that Ackert was “the only Salome”. Ackert considers the London show to be her real breakthrough.
In 1911, Ackté, Oskar Merikanto and Edvard Fazer founded Kotimainen Ooppera (renamed Finnish Opera in 1914 and Finnish National Opera in 1956). She would serve as its director in 1938-39.
After parting ways with the State Opera, Ackert organized an International Savonlinna Opera Festival on July 3, 1912. It was held in 1912-14, 1916 and 1930.
Jean Sibelius dedicated his tone poem Longnotal On September 10, 1913, she premiered the work at the Tri-Chorus Festival in Gloucester, England.She also sang her first performance Longnotal January 1914 in Finland.
Ackté ended his international travels and returned to Finland in 1914, where he gave his farewell performance in 1920. Her last public performance was at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1930.
Ackté’s small circle included Albert Edelfelt, who painted her famous full portrait in 1901.she is Juhaand an opera that received two treatments: the first by Aarre Merikanto (1922) and the second by Leevi Madetoja (1934).
She died of pancreatic cancer in Numera, Vihti, in August 1944.
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She has a park road named after her, near Olavlinna in Savonlinna and another street in Helsinki, Finland. Her old summer house Aino Ackté in Helsinki is being rented by the city for cultural events and conferences.
Ackté is likely to be the prototype for Bianca Castafiore, the diva from the Hergé Belgian comic book The Adventures of Tintin.
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