Svanholm blev först organist och folkskollärare och fortsatte sedan sina sångstudier för John Forsell. Han debuterade 1930 som Silvio i Pajazzo och sjöng barytonroller till 1936, då han övergick till tenorpartier, först och främst Wagners hjälteroller Siegmund och Siegfried, som han sjöng i Bayreuth 1943 och på La Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, i Hamburg, på Metropolitan och många andra scener.
Set Svanholm tenor och operachef
Utöver dessa Wagnerroller sjöng han också bl.a. Tristan , Parsifal, Florestan i Fidelio, titelrollen i Idomeneo, Herodes i Salome och Laca i Jenufa. 1956-63 var han chef för Operan i Stockholm där han bl.a. tog initiativet till nyupsättningar av flera Wagneroperor. Hovsångare 1946.LMA 1953.
Set Karl Viktor Svanholm, född den 2 september 1904 i Västerås, död den 4 oktober 1964 i sitt hem i Saltsjö-Duvnäs, var en svensk operasångare (tenor), kantor och operachef.
Svanholms föräldrar Viktor Svanholm och Beda Swanström var frikyrkopredikant respektive folkskollärare. Efter studentexamen 1922 och folkskollärarexamen 1926 studerade Svanholm på Musikkonservatoriet i Stockholm 1927–1929, bland annat solosång för John Forsell och han avlade kyrkosångar- och musiklärarexamen. Han blev därefter elev på Operaskolan 1930. Han verkade som folkskollärare och organist 1922–1929, som kantor i Jakobs kyrka i Stockholm 1929–1949, som lärare på Musikkonservatoriet 1930–1940 och som dirigent för Stockholms stifts kyrkosångförbund 1933–1943.
Svanholm debuterade som barytonsångare i rollen som Silvio i Pajazzo vid Stockholmsoperan 1930. Han övergick till tenorfacket 1936 i och med rollen som Radamés i Aida. Han var engagerad vid Stockholmsoperan mellan 1932 och 1963, vid Metropolitan i New York 1945–56 och gästspelade från 1938 bland annat i Wien, München, Berlin, Budapest, festspelen i Salzburg och Bayreuth, Milano, London samt Nord- och Sydamerika. Svanholm var under två decennier en internationellt ledande hjältetenor, främst i operor av Wagner och Verdi. Den sista rollen på Stockholmsoperan blev Manrico i Trubaduren hösten 1962 och det sista operagästspelet som Tristan i Tristan och Isolde i Düsseldorf våren 1963.
Svanholm efterträdde Joel Berglund som chef för Stockholmsoperan 1956 och innehade den befattningen till 1 juli 1963. Han var far till kördirigenten Eva Svanholm Bohlin och morfar till kördirigenten Ragnar Bohlin och operasångerskan Ingela Bohlin.
Set Svanholms minnesfond instiftades 1966, och utser stipendiater som gjort uppmärksammade operainsatser främst inom de tyngre rollfacken.
Metropolitan Opera
[Met Performance] CID:143040  Siegfried {201} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/15/1946 Debuts: Set Svanholm, Fritz Stiedry |
| [Met Performance] CID:143080 Tristan und Isolde {318} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/20/1946 Debut: Dezsö Ernster |
| [Met Performance] CID:143190 Tristan und Isolde {319} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/30/1946 Broadcast Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:143230 Aida {485} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/4/1946 |
| [Met Performance] CID:143320 Tristan und Isolde {320} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/13/1946 |
| [Met Performance] CID:143350 Siegfried {202} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/16/1946 |
| [Met Performance] CID:143410 Die Walküre {351} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/21/1946 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:143480 Aida {486} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/28/1946 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:143580 Tristan und Isolde {321} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/4/1947 |
| [Met Performance] CID:143600 Siegfried {203} American Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/7/1947 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:143880 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {243} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/1/1947 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:144320 Aida {490} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/15/1947 |
| [Met Performance] CID:144390 Aida {491} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 03/22/1947 |
| [Met Performance] CID:144430 Lohengrin {475} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 03/26/1947 |
[Met Performance] CID:144500  Parsifal {171} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/2/1947 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:144560 Lohengrin {476} Public Hall, Cleveland, Ohio; 04/8/1947 Reviews |
| [Met Performance] CID:146790 New production Siegfried {206} Ring Cycle [77 Uncut Metropolitan Opera House; 01/21/1948 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:146890 Tannhäuser {361} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/30/1948 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:147190 Götterdämmerung {163} Ring Cycle [78] Uncut Metropolitan Opera House; 02/24/1948 |
| [Met Performance] CID:147330 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {251} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/8/1948 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:147370 Tannhäuser {365} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/12/1948 |
| [Met Performance] CID:147460 Siegfried {208} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 03/19/1948 |
| [Met Performance] CID:147530 Parsifal {175} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/24/1948 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:149490 Siegfried {209} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/14/1949 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:149540 Götterdämmerung {167} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/19/1949 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:149580 Tristan und Isolde {334} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/22/1949 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:149630 Siegfried {210} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/27/1949 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:149690 Siegfried {211} American Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 02/1/1949 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:149750 Tristan und Isolde {335} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/7/1949 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:149850 Die Walküre {363} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/17/1949 |
| [Met Performance] CID:149920 Tristan und Isolde {336} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/23/1949 |
| [Met Performance] CID:149980 Siegfried {212} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/28/1949 |
| [Met Performance] CID:150020 Götterdämmerung {168} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/4/1949 |
| [Met Performance] CID:150330 Tristan und Isolde {337} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/1/1949 |
| [Met Performance] CID:150470 Parsifal {178} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/13/1949 |
| [Met Performance] CID:150490 Parsifal {179} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/15/1949 |
| [Met Performance] CID:150600 Aida {514} Fair Park Auditorium, Dallas, Texas; 04/24/1949 |
| [Met Performance] CID:152510 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {253} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/12/1950 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:152550 Die Walküre {366} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/14/1950 |
[Met Performance] CID:152580  Lohengrin {482} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/18/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:152600 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {254} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/20/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:152660 Gianni Schicchi {47} Salome {32} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/26/1950 Debut: Paul Schöffler Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:152720 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {255} American Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/31/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:152780 Gianni Schicchi {48} Salome {33} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/6/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:152810 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {256} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/8/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:152860 Lohengrin {484} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153010 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {257} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/27/1950 |
[Met Performance] CID:153020  Tosca {290} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/28/1950 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:153340 Die Walküre {369} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 03/29/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153390 Lohengrin {487} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/2/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153440 Parsifal {182} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/7/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153500 Lohengrin {488} Cleveland Public Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio; 04/13/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153550 Lohengrin {489} Indiana University Auditorium, Bloomington, Indiana; 04/17/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153580 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {258} Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri; 04/20/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153630 Lohengrin {490} Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia; 04/25/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153720 Lohengrin {491} City Auditorium, Houston, Texas; 05/2/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153750 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {259} Northrup Memorial Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 05/5/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:153820 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {260} Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois; 05/11/1950 |
[Met Performance] CID:155010  New production Der Fliegende Holländer {45} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/9/1950 Debut: Hans Hotter, Sven Nilsson, Charles Elson Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:155040 Der Fliegende Holländer {46} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/13/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:155100 Der Fliegende Holländer {47} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/18/1950 |
| [Met Performance] CID:155140 Der Fliegende Holländer {48} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/22/1950 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:155360 Der Fliegende Holländer {49} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/14/1950 |
[Met Performance] CID:155420  New production Die Fledermaus {11} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/20/1950 Debuts: Jack Gilford, Eugene Ormandy, Garson Kanin Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:155490 Die Fledermaus {12} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/27/1950 |
[Met Performance] CID:155520  Opera NewsDer Fliegende Holländer {50} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/30/1950 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:155560 Der Fliegende Holländer {51} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/2/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:155580 Die Fledermaus {14} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/4/1951 Debuts: Marguerite Piazza, Tibor Kozma |
| [Met Performance] CID:155690 Die Fledermaus {15} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/13/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:155810 Das Rheingold {95} Ring Cycle [79] Metropolitan Opera House; 01/25/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:155840 Das Rheingold {96} Ring Cycle [80] Metropolitan Opera House; 01/27/1951 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:155900 Die Fledermaus {19} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/2/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:155960 Siegfried {213} Ring Cycle [79] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/7/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156000 Siegfried {214} Ring Cycle [80] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/10/1951 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:156030 Die Fledermaus {21} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156050 Götterdämmerung {169} Ring Cycle [79] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/15/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156080 Götterdämmerung {170} Ring Cycle [80] Metropolitan Opera House; 02/17/1951 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:156130 Die Fledermaus {22} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/22/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156180 Die Fledermaus {23} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/26/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156210 Tristan und Isolde {347} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/28/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156250 Die Fledermaus {24} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/3/1951 Debut: Zachary Solov |
| [Met Performance] CID:156320 Opera News Fidelio {75} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/10/1951 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:156340 Siegfried {215} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/12/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156380 Fidelio {77} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/16/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156410 Fidelio {78} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/19/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156480 Die Fledermaus {26} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/24/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156490 Tristan und Isolde {349} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/26/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156710 Tristan und Isolde {350} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/15/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:156770 Tristan und Isolde {351} Cleveland Public Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio; 04/20/1951 |
| [Met Performance] CID:158280 Götterdämmerung {171} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/13/1951 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:158330 Götterdämmerung {172} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/17/1951 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:158520 Götterdämmerung {173} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/5/1952 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:158580 Gianni Schicchi {50} Salome {35} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/10/1952 Debuts: Eugene Tonry, Elisabeth Höngen |
| [Met Performance] CID:158630 Gianni Schicchi {51} Salome {36} American Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 01/15/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:158690 Gianni Schicchi {52} Salome {37} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/19/1952 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:158720 Götterdämmerung {174} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/22/1952 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:158740 Gianni Schicchi {53} Salome {38} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/24/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:158780 Gianni Schicchi {54} Salome {39} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/28/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:158820 Götterdämmerung {175} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/1/1952 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:158940 Die Fledermaus {49} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:158990 Elektra {15} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/18/1952 Debut: Walburga Wegner Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:159050 Opera News Elektra {16} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/23/1952 Broadcast Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:159200 Elektra {17} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/7/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:159220 Die Fledermaus {50} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/8/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:159250 Elektra {18} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/12/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:159330 Alceste {8} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/19/1952 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:159340 Elektra {19} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/20/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:159410 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {263} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/27/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:159500 Parsifal {183} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/4/1952 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:159570 Parsifal {185} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/11/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:159650 Gianni Schicchi {56} Salome {41} Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio; 04/18/1952 Debut: Gloria Lyons |
| [Met Performance] CID:159690 Gianni Schicchi {57} Salome {42} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/22/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:159730 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {265} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/25/1952 |
| [Met Performance] CID:161990 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {270} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/17/1953 |
| [Met Performance] CID:162230 Tristan und Isolde {353} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/11/1953 |
| [Met Performance] CID:162340 Tristan und Isolde {354} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/21/1953 Broadcast Performance interrupted for fund raising |
| [Met Performance] CID:162360 Parsifal {187} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/23/1953 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:162480 Parsifal {189} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/3/1953 |
| [Met Performance] CID:162530 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg {271} Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 04/7/1953 |
| [Met Performance] CID:164800 Die Walküre {372} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/4/1954 Debut: Mariquita Moll Reviews |
| [Met Performance] CID:164890 Die Walküre {373} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/13/1954 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:164990 Die Walküre {374} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/23/1954 Debut: Rosalind Elias Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:165210 Die Walküre {375} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/17/1954 |
| [Met Performance] CID:165550 Parsifal {191} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/16/1954 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:165560 Parsifal {192} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/17/1954 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:168150 Tristan und Isolde {358} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/3/1955 Debut: Albert Da Costa Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:168190 Tannhäuser {378} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/7/1955 |
| [Met Performance] CID:168280 Tristan und Isolde {360} Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 03/15/1955 |
| [Met Performance] CID:168300 Otello {116} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/17/1955 Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:168330 Opera News Tristan und Isolde {361} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/19/1955 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:168720 Otello {117} Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts; 04/22/1955 |
| [Met Performance] CID:171340 Opera News New production Parsifal {195} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/24/1956 Broadcast Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:171480 Parsifal {197} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/6/1956 |
Utmärkelser
- Hovsångare 1946
- Innehavare av det med anledning av Hans Majestät Konung Gustaf V:s 90-årsdag instiftade minnestecknet
- Ledamot av Kungl Musikaliska Akademien 1953
- Litteris et artibus 1957
- Riddare av Nordstjärneorden
- Riddare av Vasaorden
- Officer av Ungerska Kronans orden.[3]
Diskografi (urval)
- Set Svanholm och Kathleen Ferrier med Bruno Walther 1948 Das Lied von der Erde
- Set Svanholm sings Wagner – Arias and scenes from Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Mästersångarna i Nürnberg, Valkyrian and Tristan och Isolde (RCA Orch; Frieder Weissmann, cond. & Philharmonia Orch; Karl Böhm, dir.) Preiser Records 89535
- Wagner: Rhenguldet, den klassiska inspelningen av Georg Solti med George London. Svanholm sjunger här Loge.
- Wagner: Valkyrian – Utdrag (Med Birgit Nilsson och Josef Greindl) Preiser Records 93447
- Wagner: Valkyrian – akt 1 (Med Birgit Nilsson och Josef Greindl; Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt dir.) Bella Voce 107.010
- Set Svanholm Live – Utdrag från Mästersångarna i Nürnberg (inspelad live vid Kungliga Operan, Stockholm, 1939; Nils Grevillius dir.), Aida (inspelad live vid Kungliga Operan, Stockholm, 1939; Leo Blech dir.), och Ragnarök (inspelad live vid Bayreuthfestspelen, 1942; Karl Elmendorff dir.) Preiser Records 90332
- Siegfried i Wagners Götterdämmerung. Live, Bayreuth 1942. Dir. Karl Elmendorff. Music & Arts CD 1058 (4 CD).
- Wagner in Stockholm. Inspelningar 1899-1970. Bluebell ABCD 091 (4 CD).
- Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Med Elena Nikolaidi, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter dir.) Music & Arts 950.
- Set Svanholm. Great Swedish singers. Bluebell ABCD 058.
- Simson i Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila samt Énée i Berlioz Les Troyens. Caprice CAP 22054. Svens mediedatabas.
- Radamès i Aida. Med Birgit Nilsson, Brita Hertzberg m. fl. Royal Swedish Opera Archives. Vol. 4. Caprice CAP 22055.
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