Nilsson, CHRISTINE,

Nilsson, CHRISTINE, operatic singer, was born the daughter of a farmer at Wexiö, in Sweden, 3d August 1843, and singing at a fair in 1857 so impressed a magistrate of Ljungby that he sent her for a musical education to Stockholm and Paris. She made her début at Paris in La Traviata in 1864; and in London, where she appeared in 1867, soon took rank as one of the foremost soprano singers. Marguerite is one of her best-known parts. She has repeatedly visited the United States. She was married (1872) to M. Rouzand, who died in 1882.