Lone Koppel

Lone Herman Koppel (born 1938) is a Danish operatic soprano who for some 42 years was one of the leading opera singers at Copenhagen's Royal Theatre. Among her memorable performances was her 1964 appearance in Puccini's Tosca, which was broadcast on Danish television.

Biography Born on 20 May 1938 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Lone Herman Koppel was the daughter of the composer Herman David Koppel (1908–1998) and Edel Vibeke Clausen-Bruun (1909–1976). She married three times: on 15 June 1961 with the editor Erik Cosman Lindgren (born 1939), divorced in 1969; on 30 April 1969 with the pianist and opera director John Winther (born 1933), divorced in 1979; and on 23 July 1983 with the Swedish opera singer Björn Asker (born 1941). She has three children: Mie (1963), Thomas Peter (1965) and Nikolaj (1969).

Brought up in a musical family, she sang from an early age and by the time she was 11, could accompany herself while singing songs by Brahms and Schubert.