The American Symphony Orchestra returned recently to Carnegie Hall with the underrated ‘Guntram,’ championed by conductor ...

Märta Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner ...

Connection to Birgit Nilsson Stemme was friends with Birgit Nilsson, one of the greatest Isoldes and Brünnhildes, who died in 2005 at age 87.

Soprano Nina Stemme sung her 126th and final performance of Isolde in Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Marian Anderson Hall.

The 2025 Birgit Nilsson Prize – the most valuable prize in classical music, worth 1 million US dollars – has been awarded to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Announced today by Susanne Rydén, President ...

But the statuesque Birgit Nilsson, who sang the part with rare force and clarity in the 1960s and ’70s, “wound up as fully dressed as she started,” according to a 1965 review in The New Yorker.

The singers are Mirella Freni, Birgit Nilsson, Kiri te Kanawa, Victoria de los Angeles, Grace Bumbry, Tatiana Troyanos, Franco Corelli, Jussi Björling, Luciano Pavarotti, and Placido Domingo.

So when he, as a teenager, hung a picture of the dramatic soprano Birgit Nilsson above his bed, they were supportive, he said, if a bit confused.

In the small German town of Bayreuth, a battle for succession is threatening to change Europe's most storied opera festival forever.