"I awoke this morning as one person and retired in the evening as another.”
#OnThisDay, 7 Mar 1838, Jenny Lind makes her stage debut in Sweden. She became a global star, but no recordings seem to survive. A fictionalised version appears in The Greatest Show.
We wrote about her real story, and some other famous opera singers, here: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/