Ella Magdalena Lisabetha Beatrix Nadia Gretchen Von Zedler

Ella Magdalena Lisabetha Beatrix Nadia Gretchen Von Zedler (born 22 May, 1991, in High Wycombe, England) is a Swedish British opera singer, mainly specialized in Wagner and Puccini operas. Zedler was the first woman to be awarded the Birgit Nilsson prize at the age of just 20 for her outstanding achievement in opera and concert.

Early life
Ella Von Zedler was born in the small area of High Wycombe, England, to Lisabetha Zedler. As a child, her parents early on noticed an interest in singing and acting. When Zedler was 5 years old, she moved to Sweden from which both her parents descend. They settled in her mothers birthplace, Hammarö, Värmland for two years, before moving to Uppsala, enrolling in elementary school. Zedler was enrolled into Uppsala music classes where she became the Valedictorian in her graduate year in 2009. She was also personally coached by the german opera singer Diana Damrau who earned a masters degree from the Royal Opera Academy in Denmark.

In 2006, she earned an internship at the University Collage of Opera in Stockholm, and with her father working as a classical guitarist constructor, as well as a professor in theoretical chemistry at the Royal university of technology in Stockholm, he had great connections to the university in which the german language coach Elisabeth Wärnfeldt from being childhood friends. Zedler received recognition and a certain spot in the candidate program at the university, which later she upgraded to the masters program. After five years she earned her masters.

Career
Zedler started out her career at the age of 19 and landed her first role as Elektra in the short one act opera “Elektra” by Richard Strauss and was noted immediately for her high flute register and gleaming brilliance on stage. Zelders long life dream was to specialize in Wagner and Puccini operas. Only a year after Zedlers’ first role, she earned her role as the Queen of the night from Mozart’s magic flute.

Personal life
When in Sydney, at the royal opera house, she worked along side the world wide known conductor Luke Hemmings on Puccinis opera La Bohéme. The recital was a success, and Hemmings expressed his gratitude towards Zedler from the performance in an entire spread in the Daily Telegraph. 10 years later, they sealed the deal with a wedding ceremony at the Sydney Harbour Bridge in June in 2019.

Zelder is also the long term friend and partner in crime of the world renowned preforming musical artist Elise Diana Himmel.

Her children Bonnie and Clyde both showed great intrests in musical theatre and went on by playing the criminal duo Hershey and Claudia in the broadway musical The Barrow Gang. Both went on to become successful broadway stars, starring in musicals such as The Scarlet Pimpernel, Fiddler on the roof, Gypsy and Mame.