Family Name: Stenborg
First Name: Carl
Birth Date: Wed, Sep 06, 1752
Birth Place: Stockholm
Death Date: Fri, Jul 30, 1813
Death Place: Stockholm
Main places of activity:
Place
Stockholm
Personal info:
Career

Opera singer, theatre director and composer. In 1783, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. 
Translations

translations activities

Stenborg translated a few operas into Swedish but he  worked closely with other translators like Carl Envallsson (1756-1806).

secondary bibliography references

Charlotta Wolff, "Musikkultur och musiksmak i 1700-talets Sverige. Ett bidrag till lyssnandets historia", Musikkultur och musiksmak i 1700-talets Sverige. Ett bidrag till lyssnandets historia. Historisk Tidskrift för Finland, 100, Vol 100 (4), p. 420-452.

Charlotta Wolff, « La musique des spectacles en Suède, 1770-1810 : opéra-comique français et politique de l’appropriation », Annales historiques de la Révolution française [En ligne], 379, janvier-mars 2015, p. 13-33.

Charlotta Wolff, « Grétry en Suède. Réception et adaptations »,Grétry, un musicien des Lumières, ed. Bruno Demoulin et alii, Art&Fact. Revue des historiens de l’art, des archéologues et des musicologues de l’Université de Liège, vol. 32 (2013), p. 137–142.

Translations

  • Le déserteur, opéra comique in three acts

  • Translation Title: Alexis eller desertören
  • Original Author: Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny with a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine.
  • Original title: Le déserteur, opéra comique in three acts
  • Publ. Year From: 1768 to:
  • lang: French
  • Note:

    First performed on 6 March 1769 by the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.

  • Translation: Alexis eller desertören
  • Pub. Date: 1776
  • Lang: Swedish
  • Note:

     First performance in Stockholm in May 1777. 

  • Les événements imprévus, comédie in three acts

  • Original Author: André Grétry with a libretto by Thomas d'Hèle
  • Original title: Les événements imprévus, comédie in three acts
  • Publ. Year From: 1778 to:
  • lang: French
  • Note:

    First performed at Versailles in 1779. 
  • Pub. Date: 1799
  • Lang: Swedish
  • Note:

    Performed 3 times in Stockholm in 1800. 

  • Nina, ou la folle par amour, opéra-comique in one act

  • Translation Title: Nina, eller den af kärlek svagsinta
  • Original Author: Nicolas Dalayrac with a libretto by Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières
  • Original title: Nina, ou la folle par amour, opéra-comique in one act
  • Publ. Year From: 1785 to:
  • lang: French
  • Note:

    First performed on 15 May 1786 by the Comédie-Italienne at the Salle Favart in Paris. 
  • Translation: Nina, eller den af kärlek svagsinta
  • Pub. Date: 1791
  • Lang: Swedish
  • Note:

    Performed 56 times in Stockholm between 1792 and 1820.

  • Le cadi dupé, opéra comique in one act

  • Translation Title: Den bedragne Cadi. Opera comique uti en act.
  • Original Author: Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny with a libretto by Pierre-René Lemonnier
  • Original title: Le cadi dupé, opéra comique in one act
  • Publ. Year From: 1760 to:
  • lang: French
  • Translation: Den bedragne Cadi. Opera comique uti en act.
  • Pub. Date: 1780
  • Lang: Swedish
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