Henry Alf | |
Birth Date: | April 10, 1891 |
Birth Place: | Oslo, Norway |
Death Place: | Oslo, Norway |
Nationality: | Norway |
Occupation: | Opera singer |
Family: | Ivar F. Andresen (brother) |
Alf Henry Andresen (April 10, 1891, Oslo, Norway – January 7, 1963, Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian opera singer who used the stage name Henry Alf.
He made his debut in the University Aula in the 1920s[1] and was head of the Norwegian Opera Singers' Association a couple of times in the 1930s. He performed at the capital's theater stages, such as Opera Comique (Oslo), which was active in 1918–1921. Later he was at the National Theatre,[2] for example in Aida, where he was "King of Egypt" in 1931. He was also involved in Germany.[3]
He was the son of Anton Olaf Andresen (1863–1926) and Nilsine Trondsen (1870–1959).[4] His father ran a manufactory in Kristiania. He was the brother of opera singer Ivar F. Andresen (1896–1940), while his sister Ingeborg Andresen (1904–92) was the mother of Thorvald Stoltenberg.