Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertoire of operatic and vocal works,...

The Birgit Nilsson Prize is the largest prize in classical music, awarded approximately every three years to an active artist or institution who has contributed...

actress Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005), Swedish soprano Birgit Prinz, German football (soccer) player Birgit Püve, Estonian photographer Birgit Rausing,...

Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, the Polar Music Prize in 2012, and the Birgit Nilsson Prize in 2022. He was named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People...

100-kronor banknote; blue Ingmar Bergman on the 200-kronor banknote; green Birgit Nilsson on the 500-kronor banknote; red Dag Hammarskjöld on the 1,000-kronor...

in Verdi's La traviata, and Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (with Birgit Nilsson), are not delivered by him with the same degree of effectiveness.) As...

to great acclaim at the Met until 1974 in roles such as Calaf (with Birgit Nilsson as Turandot), Cavaradossi, Maurizio, Ernani, Rodolfo and Edgardo. He...

Culshaw assembled for the cycle included Kirsten Flagstad, Hans Hotter, Birgit Nilsson and Wolfgang Windgassen. Apart from Arabella in 1957, in which he substituted...

Philharmonic, the conductor Georg Solti and leading Wagner singers including Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hans Hotter and Gottlob Frick and, in roles they...

activist Aurora Nilsson (1894–1972), Swedish writer Bengt Nilsson (born 1954), Swedish actor Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005), Swedish soprano Bo Nilsson (1937–2018)...

squillo rather than volume in the course of a performance, for example Birgit Nilsson. Starker, Leonard Bonn. "From physics to music: an analysis of the role...

capital letters, underlining or italics. For example, Märta Birgit* Nilsson is known as Birgit Nilsson, and Björn* Kristian Ulvaeus is known as Björn Ulvaeus...

made her Chicago Lyric Opera debut as Liu in Puccini's Turandot with Birgit Nilsson in the title role, and sang Massenet's Thaïs. Her Liu was well received...

Classical Album and Best Choral Performance for Verdi: Requiem 2011 Birgit Nilsson Prize 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. 2018 Praemium Imperiale...

1971. She later drew notoriety for obsessively stalking opera singer Birgit Nilsson for nine years, beginning at the summer of 1968 at the Bayreuth Festival...

The final performance of that last season was on March 21, 1961, with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli in Turandot. After the Tuesday night visits were...

recording of Puccini's Turandot, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf and starring Birgit Nilsson as Turandot, Jussi Björling as Calaf, Tebaldi as Liù and Giorgio Tozzi...

passion for opera as a youth, having seen his first opera (Turandot with Birgit Nilsson in the title role) at around the age of ten. As a teenager, Waltz would...

Björling, Gösta Winbergh, Nicolai Gedda, Peter Mattei, Jenny Lind, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Söderström, Fritz Arlberg, Anne Sofie von Otter, Katarina...

register as a young woman. Nevertheless, Maria Cebotari, Ljuba Welitsch, Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Éva Marton, Radmila Bakočević, Montserrat Caballé,...

Educators Journal. 32: 30–35. Harold C. Schonberg (November 4, 1979). "Birgit Nilsson – The Return of a Super-Soprano". The New York Times. "The Note That...

the International Music Score Library Project Full text and some performances "Liebestod", concert performance on YouTube, Birgit Nilsson Portal: Opera...

to realize the size of her achievement. It was as if someone asked Birgit Nilsson, who is famous for her great Wagnerian voice, to substitute overnight...

Boué (1918–2017) Mesude Çağlayan (1918–2011) Ellen Faull (1918–2008) Birgit Nilsson (1918–2005) Mado Robin (1918–1960) Rosl Schwaiger (1918–1970) Astrid...

Ramon Bisogni: Franco Corelli Irrestistbile tenore, pages 123-124 Birgit Nilsson: La Nilsson. My Life in Opera, pages 200-202 "Il Pellegrinaggio a Piedi da...

and is now available as a live recording. In the 1960s, the soprano Birgit Nilsson was considered the major Isolde interpreter, and she was often partnered...

famous sopranos and mezzo-sopranos of the day: Montserrat Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Viorica Cortez, Renata Scotto, Ileana Cotrubaş, Sylvia Sass, Teresa...

Miller, and in 1969 for the role of Liù in Puccini's Turandot, with Birgit Nilsson in the title role and James King as Calàf. She also returned to Philadelphia...

Laureates 1950s Igor Stravinsky (1959) 1960s Leonard Bernstein (1965) Birgit Nilsson (1966) Witold Lutosławski (1967) Benjamin Britten (1968) Boris Christoff...

Strauss): Karl Böhm conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra with Birgit Nilsson and James King (1985) (Deutsche Grammophon) Aida (Giuseppe Verdi) in...