Gun Kronzell-Moulton

Gun Kronzell-Moulton (1930 - 2011) was at heart a stage personality, a singer, a musician, a good friend. This page is dedicated to her and her life and career. After 60 years on the operatic stage, she sang most roles in three vocal ranges. She sang the alto part in Beethoven 9th symphony in Amsterdam, in Paris, at the opening of the Ruhrfestspielhaus Recklinghausen and at Festival Hall in London. She sang three dozen operatic mezzosoprano roles internationally (Vienna, Hannover, Stockholm, Augsburg, Wiesbaden, Graz, Köln, a.o), including Abigail in Nabucco, Erda in Rheingold, Asucena in Il Trovatore, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Orpheus in Orpheus and Eurydike, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana and Ulrica in A Masked Ball. However, she also sang soprano roles, such as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. After hearing her sing Brünhilde in Wagner's The Ring, famous colleague James King said: "Jesus Christ, what a voice!"

Gun Kronzell was more than just a singer. She was a director and a film actress. She was an excellent vocal- and speech pedagogue. In 1984, she started working at the Vienna Music Academy as a singing professor, founding the music group "Musik Melange" that toured Europe with multicultural concerts.

But that still doesn't limit her artistic work. During her freelance years in Sweden, she was involved in multiple projects in order to survive. She taught cruise ship disc-jockeys microphone technique and speech training, taught Chinese waiter Swedish, gave church musicians master courses in singing, worked as a church organist and produced, directed, wrote, choreographed and starred in the play adaptation of her own good night stories , a play named "Long Live The Trolls!"

We have, however, still not reached the end of her creative capabilities. Her love of her home town of Kalmar, Sweden gave her the urge to return there every year to visit her parents. Involved in many projects there, she spent many summer touring the countryside, literally singing in every possible church. Her huge family and her many friends in Sweden lead to a lot of invitations.

Gun was also the mentor of many singers. Many students were inspired to sing again, people who had given up singing. Her expertise came from working with people like Sebastian Peschko, Paul Lohmann and Madame Skilondz. Her student was also Pavarotti's secretary for eight years. She was married to Herbert Eyre Moulton, whom she also and toured with.