Word: birgit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last three years has lifted her into the haughty company of the world's finest. Standing there beside her are five singers, whose achievement challenges the memory of some of opera's most hallowed names. The other five: Ma ria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Eileen Farrell, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price...
...BIRGIT NILSSON, 43, is the big Wagnerian soprano the Met started searching for as soon as Kirsten Flagstad retired. Nilsson displayed her vibrant, flashing voice for the first time at the Met two years ago in a performance of Tristan und Isolde. She has triumphed in most of the Wagnerian repertory, impressing not only with her ringing power but with a precision of phrasing and general musicianship that is not always found in Wagnerian opera. Best of all, at 5 ft. 8 in. and 150 Ibs., Swedish Farm Girl Nilsson is capable of lending an air of physical credibility...
Negotiations Resumed. But no one was prepared to call the canceled season irretrievably lost. Most of the Met singers were behaving as if they expected to be back at the old stand in the fall. Only two-Sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Anna Moffo-had announced their availability to other opera houses. In response to a pleading wire from Soprano Leontyne Price (who was to open the Met season in Girl of the Golden West), Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg called Bing and the union and offered his negotiating services to New York Mayor Robert Wagner. At week...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Birgit Nilsson, Fritz Uhl, Regina Resnik, Tom Krause; the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Sold; London, 5 LPs). This first complete recording of the opera in stereo comes close to equaling London's celebrated stereo recording of Das Rheingold. The sound of the orchestra is glowing and massive, and Nilsson's voice soaring through it and over it is a delight. For those anxious to peek behind the scenes, London has included a bonus recording of a rehearsal explaining how it was done...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "Signs of Spring," a musical med ley with Birgit Nilsson, John Raitt, Mar tha Wright, Paul Hartman. Color...