Ingela Tägil is a Swedish coloratura soprano and doctor in Musicology. She graduated from the Academy of Music at the University of Gothenburg as solo singer 1998. After this Tägil has been involved in opera performances, music theatre for children, though her mainly occupation has been church music. Through the years, Tägil has been touring in churches in Sweden, Germany, Holland, Belgium and the United States.
Between the years 2008–2013 Tägil was PhD student at the Academy of Music at the University of Örebro. She received her doctoral degree in Musicology in October 2013. Her thesis: Jenny Lind. The impact of her voice on media identity investigates what factors made the famous Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind’s (1820–87) image as icon and stereotype symbol of femininity possible, and highlights the imprtance of her voice. Lind’s voice was a high soprano, but not very powerful. It was fragile due to a voice damage in her early youth. Tägil’s argument is that the voice damage created a unique timbre that the contemporary perceived as particularly feminine. Lind’s voice corresponded to the nineteenth century’s female ideal: fragile and weak. Lind adapted all her interpretations to her fragile voce, its strength being high notes, pianissimo dynamics and equilibrism, and gave all her roles a gender-stereotyped voice. The thesis contains detailed descriptions of Lind’s vocal technique as well as her voice timbre. Tägil uses her vocal skills in developing a method for analyzing the voice with artistic, practical methods in a gender-theoretical perspective.
2015 Tägil received a three year postdoc scholarship from the Swedish Science Council for her project The female voice of the Garcia School. This project is located to Bern University of Arts. Tägil intend to further develop her artistic-based gender analysis by investigating the vocal techniques of the nineteenth-century Garcia School.

Forschungsprojekt
The Female Voice of the Garcia School