Birgit Nilsson, one of the greatest Turandots of our time, was fond of saying that Wagner made her famous but TURANDOT made her rich. Why was this so? Simply because very few sopranos can toss out the ...

Birgit Nilsson, the dominant Wagnerian soprano of the post-World War II period, whose unforced, voluminous sound, superhuman stamina and steely vocal brilliance thrilled audiences as she took on the ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- She was a celebrated star on the stages of the world's greatest opera houses. But a diva, Birgit Nilsson was not. "The thing that was remarkably wonderful about her was that she ...

Watch as German operatic tenor Jonas Kaufmann explains why Birgit Nilsson was “an unbelievable force of nature” while English-Italian conductor Antonio Pappano breaks down her 1969 performance of ...

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Birgit Nilsson was born 100 years ago, on May 17, 1918, at her parents’ farm in Sweden. By her death in 2005, Nilsson had long been considered the world’s preeminent soprano for the operas of Wagner ...