starting with Puccini’s Tosca at the behest of Birgit Nilsson in 1968. In 2006 he directed his 16th and final production there, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with Anna Netrebko and Juan Diego Flórez.

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Photo: Chris Lee If you like looking at pictures of Alfred Roller’s sets for Götterdāmmerung or portraits of Jean de Reszke as Siegfried or Birgit Nilsson as Brünnhilde, you would likely have enjoyed ...

Wiwen Nilsson was one of the most celebrated Swedish silversmiths of the 20th century, known for his use of geometric lines and brushed silver. Born Charles Edwin Nilsson on May 19, 1897 in Copenhagen ...

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In the 1950s, photojournalist Lennart Nilsson set out to capture the earliest stages of existence.