- She appeared at the Oper Zürich in 1967 as Kundry in Wager's Parsifal.
- Lindholm performed first at the Royal Opera House as Chrysothemis in 1966, returning for Isolde, Brünnhilde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen staged by Götz Friedrich and conducted by Colin Davis, and Chrysothemis again between 1973 and 1975.
- From 1970 to 1973, she was Brünnhilde in the three parts of the cycle.
- Lindholm was awarded the title Hovsångare (award by the Swedish monarch to a singer -usually an opera singer- who, by their vocal art, has contributed to the international standing of Swedish singing) in 1976.
- In 1969 she sang Cassandre in a recording of Berlioz's ''Les Troyens' conducted by Colin Davis.
- "Brünnhilde" and "Isolde" were her most notable roles.
- Brünnhilde was her role again at the San Francisco Opera in 1972, and for her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1975.
- She was known for portraying heroines such as Wagner's Brünnhilde and Isolde, and Chrysothemis by Richard Strauss, and for her acting as well as her singing.
- She made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 1967 as Venus in Tannhäuser, and returned the following year to perform as Brünnhilde in the Ring production directed by Wolfgang Wagner, initially in Die Walküre and Siegfried, with the Third Norne in Götterdämmerung.
- She first performed Wagner's Isolde in Stockholm in 1967 and she was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera until 1972, and became then based at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
- During her student years she appeared in operas, including Gluck's Iphigenia in Aulis in 1954, performed at Drottningholm, and Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea.
- Lindholm made her debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1963 as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di figaro. After a short time, she stepped in as Helmwige in Wagner's Die Walküre, and was discovered as a dramatic soprano.
- She also appeared at the 1974 Edinburgh Festival with a production of Elektra by the Royal Swedish Opera.[4.
- Berit Lindholm was a Swedish opera singer (dramatic soprano), who appeared internationally, including at the Royal Opera House, the Bayreuth Festival and the Vienna State Opera.
- In 1971 she rescued a Ring cycle at Opera Scotland; booked for a preliminary performance of Götterdämmerung, she returned a week later to step in for Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.
- Lindholm performed at the Vienna State Opera as Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, Leonore, Chrysothemis and Tosca from 1967, as Brünnhilde from 1968, and as Isolde from 1970.
- Lindholm appeared in leading roles, such as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio, Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Verdi's Aida and Puccini's Tosca. She was Chrysothemis in Elektra by Richard Strauss in 1965, alongside Birgit Nilsson in the title role, who recommended her to the Vienna State Opera.
- After her teacher's exam, she studied voice at the Royal College of Music with Britta von Vegesack and Käthe Sandström.
- She participated in world premieres, of Alexander Goehr's Die Wiedertäufer at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein on 19 April 1985, and of Backanterna by Daniel Börtz at the Royal Swedish Opera on 2 November 1991.
- In 1983 she first performed the title role of Elektra, at the Opéra de Marseille.
- A reviewer noted in 2002 that she had "a richly nuanced voice, a deep dramatic soprano with a resonant bottom extension capable of considerable projection. She sustains the length of her scene with insight and is often unerringly beautiful.".
- She appeared as the Dyer's Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss at the Theater Bremen in 1991.
- She became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm in 1984, and received the "Litteris et Artibus" award in 1988.
- Two of Berit Lindholm's recordings, "Tannhäuser" and "Götterdämmerung", has been released on the Russian record labels 'AnTrop' and 'Melodiya', something that is extremely unusual for a Swedish artist.
- During 1972, Lindholm suffered from bleeding vocal cords and therefore canceled a series of performances. On the recommendation of Birgit Nilsson , she instead studied breathing technique for six months with a singing teacher in New York. The result was a voice completely without a previously quite noticeable vibrato and a greatly increased voice volume. When she subsequently returned, the voice reminded a lot of Astrid Varnay's during this singer's glory days.
- She was Member number 850 of the Royal Academy of in Stockholm and its vice president 1995-1997.
- In 2022 she received the 'Gold medal from the trade union Scen & Film' for "extraordinary artistic work".
- She was offered to sing Chrysotemis in Georg Solti's recording of Richard Strauss' Elektra on Decca as well as by von Karajan to appear as Brünnhilde in his Siegfried and Götterdämmerung for Deutsche Grammophon . However, Lindholm declined these offers because at the time she did not think she had sufficient experience with the roles in question.
- She was offered several roles by commercial record companies of which she only accepted one, "Kassandra in Trojans" for Philips.
- Born in Stockholm, she first studied there to become a primary school teacher.
- Lindholm suffered from extreme short-sight and that had made her career difficult since she often had to memorize the stage choreography for her performances. The advent of good contact lenses in the 1960s was a great boon to her and improved things considerably.
- In Bayreuth, instead of a luxurious transport she got around on a bicycle that her colleague Theo Adam had named Grane, like Brünnhilde's horse.
- In 2021, she published a memoir titled "Hovsångerska - eller vad ska jag göra med den där jävla folkskolelärarinnan?" ("Court singer - or what shall I do with that damn primary school teacher?"), titled after a remark made from Göran Gentele, the director of the Royal Swedish Opera, shortly after she had joined the company in 1963.
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