Her real name was Maikka Pikkarinen under which
she has also appeared at the beginning of her career. She studied singing under
Mathilde Marchesi de Castrone in Paris and with Julius Hey in Berlin. In 1893
she married the significant Finnish composer and conductor Armas Järnefelt
(1869-1958). When her husband worked at the Opera House of Wroclaw, she made
her debut there (1895). Till 1899 she remained in Wroclaw and sang later at the
Königlichen Opernhaus in Berlin. She made guest appearances also at the Stadttheater
in Magdeburg and at the Opernhaus in Dusseldorf. In 1899 she made her debut at
the Bayreuth festival, then sang in Bremen (Stadttheater), Wiener (Hofoper, 1906),
Copenhagen and Stockholm (Royal Opera). She also took part in opera
performances organized by Armas Järnefelt in Helsinki. In 1906 she made guest appearances
at the Teatro Regio in Turin and later also performed at the Opera House in Rimini.
In 1908 she separated from Armas Järnefelt and married in 1910 the Finnish
composer Selim Palmgren (1878-1951). In 1915 she appeared at the Copenhagen Royal Opera as Senta in "Fliegenden
Holländer" and as Elsa in ‘’Lohengrin’’. When Selim Palmgren was appointed
in 1923 as a professor of the Eastman conservatoire in Rochester (New York),
she followed him to North America; she was active there in the education area till
1930. later she lived in her Finnish native country.
Chronology of some appearances
1895-1899 Wroclaw Opera
House
1899 Bayreuth
festival
1906 Wiener Hofoper
1906 Turin Teatro
Regio
1915 Copenhagen Royal Opera
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