Arne Olav Weiglin Hendriksen (born 1 January 1911 in Berlin

Berlin

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, died 5 November 1996 in Täby

Täby

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, Stockholm) was a Norwegian-Swedish ceramic artist and opera singer (tenor).

Hendriksen was trained as a ceramic artist, but had a talent for singing. After studying with Karl Aagard Østvig

Karl Aagard Østvig

Karl Aagaard Østvig was a Norwegian operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher. The Norwegian Music History Archive states that he is the greatest dramatic tenor in Norwegian history, and that he was particularly admired for his portrayals in operas by Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss and...

 he made his debut in Christiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 (1938). Engaged at the National Theatre (1940), he worked at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen (1942-1946), before settling in Sweden, where he sang some forty roles at the Stockholm Opera

Royal Swedish Opera

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 (1947-64). These included his debut Nemorino

L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore is an opera by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. It is a melodramma giocoso in two acts...

 and Mozart roles, leading onto Italian bel canto and Herod in Salome

Salome (opera)

Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer....

. He appeared at times at the Norwegian Opera Company, and enjoyed success as the main character in The Tales of Hoffman (1954), as well as in other productions. He also appeared at the Volksoper in Vienna and he toured the United States. He recorded Don José

Carmen

Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

 and Iopas

Les Troyens

Les Troyens is a French opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid...

 and appeared in the Bergman The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (1975 film)

The Magic Flute is Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film version of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte. It was intended as a television production and was first shown on Swedish television but was followed by a cinema release later that year. The film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, but was not...

 film.

He was the son of the painter Ulrik Hendriksen (1891-1960) and was married to Anne Margrethe, who was Ole Bull

Ole Bull

Ole Bornemann Bull was a Norwegian violinist and composer.-Background:Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden . His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect...

's granddaughter. Their son is the opera producer Knut Hendriksen (1944).

This stub incorporates material from Norwegian Wikipedia, with additional material from Kutsch KJ, Riemens L. Arne Hendriksen. In : Unvergängliche Stimmen: Sängerlexikon. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munchen, 1982.