#BirgitNilsson was born on a farm in Skåne in southern Sweden #OnThisDay in 1918, destined to become one of the great sopranos of her day; here she's singing "In questa reggia" in "Turandot" in 1971:
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📆October 11, 2018 Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme is awarded the fourth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize

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Birgit Nilsson in “Tristan und Isolde,” Vienna State Opera, 1967. © The Birgit Nilsson Foundation/Fayer

On December 18, 1959, Nilsson made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Isolde in Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.”

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Richard Wagner, Birgit Nilsson, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Karl Bohm:
🎵 Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Tristan und Isolde)

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Richard Wagner, Birgit Nilsson, Vienna Philharmonic & Georg Solti:
🎵 'Fliegt hei, ihr Raben!' From Immolation Scene of Gotterdammerung

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Act One: Nin sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan (Lohengrin) 🏎
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A princely duet, with a solo bonus: “In questa reggia” from “Turandot” by Puccini (🧵4 videos. See photo and video credits below)
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Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish farmgirl who milked 10 cows on the eve of her entrance exam to The Stockholm Music Academy. She went on to conquer international opera house stages with Wagner, Strauss & Puccini. "Is there any more wonderful profession than mine?" -BN

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#BirgitNilsson was born #OnThisDay in 1918, becoming one of the great sopranos of her day, scaling the heights of #opera before retiring to her farm & dying at the age of 87 in 2005; this documentary tells her remarkable story:

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Richard Wagner, Birgit Nilsson, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Karl Böhm:
🎵 Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

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#BirgitNilsson was born on a farm in Sweden #OnThisDay in 1918, destined to become one of the great sopranos of her day before retiring to her farm & dying at the age of 87 in 2005; this documentary tells her remarkable story:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYTN...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgit_...

Brünnhilde’s Battle Cry for 4 historical sopranos: “Hojotoho!” from “Die Walküre” by Wagner (🧵4 videos. See photo and video credits below)
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Charles Gounod, Åke Levén, Trad. & Birgit Nilsson:
🎵 Gounod: Ave Maria: arr. from Bach's Prelude No.1 BWV 846

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