NILSSON ON VIDEO AND DISC

For an extensive discography, visit Youngrok Lee's website


"And now for Nilsson. From a steady development in Stockholm during the nineteen-forties, she gained an outstanding international reputation in the fifties, so that in August 1960 the experienced correspondent from Vienna could write for Opera: 'On the stage Nilsson was the undisputed heroine of the evening; she was vocally magnificient, the greatest Brunnhilde of my memory. I do not think there was ever one like hers. Perhaps Flagstad's? Perhaps Mildenburg's?'. Questions evidently designed to set venerable heads shaking, while awed youngsters keep quiet. This might seem the ultimate in achievement, but in fact during the following decade her stature grew by as much again. So it is plainly the highest standards that we should expect from her records" -J.B. Steane, The Grand Tradition

Fanatical Favorites

Great Stars of Opera, Vol. 3: Telecasts from the Bell Telephone Hour, 1959-1968.

  • "Come Unto Him" (Messiah), Inflammatus (Rossin's Stabat Mater) from 1961
  • "Im Prater bluh'n wieder die Baume" (Stolz), "Wien, du Stadt meiner Traume" (Sieczynski) from 1963
  • "Pace, pace mio Dio" (Forza del Destino), "Vissi d'arte" (Tosca) from 1967
    • The Birgit Nilsson Virtual Monument Is An Ongoing Project From The NYC Opera Fanatic

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    The Birgit Nilsson Virtual Monument Is An Ongoing Project From The NYC Opera Fanatic

    Main Page
    Birgit Nilsson Timeline
    When Colleagues Talk
    The Gospel According To Birgit

    NYC Opera Fanatic Homepage

    Credits

    While this webpage was created by the NYC Opera Fanatic, he is merely an instrument of greater powers. 2 people also deserve credit for this webpage: the divine Birgit herself (for obvious reasons) and Nilsson Fanatic in Excelsis Mike Richter (many of the audio clips on this page have been culled from Mike's website over the years). To each of them, the NYCOF gives a "four-times hurray" (that's 8, right?) for their contribution to opera and to my life!

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