The 2025 Portrait of Honour will depict the swimmer Sarah Sjöström. The photograph, captured by Magnus Ragnvid, is scheduled ...

STOCKHOLM — “Today’s stage is a music celebration that honors both the legacy of Birgit Nilsson and this year’s laureate, France’s Aix-en-Provence Festival,” said Susanne Ruden, head of the Birgit ...

WASHINGTON — Lennart Nilsson, a Swedish photographer who unveiled unborn life in electrifying images that were splashed across Life magazine, filled hours of acclaimed documentary films and decades ...

Sweden’s Birgit Nilsson is the world’s reigning Wagnerian soprano. Austria’s Herbert von Karajan has no superior as a conductor of the Ring cycle. Alas, two great melodies do not always pro duce a ...

Salome was 16 and slinky-slim. Birgit Nilsson is 46 and boatswain-burly. As for casting the Swede in the title role of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the idea seemed roughly comparable to starring Judith ...

Taylor Swift isn’t the only singer fans are flocking to Paris to hear. Lise Davidsen has become classical music’s biggest draw, attracting crowds to the Paris Opéra Bastille for her first performances ...

Yo-Yo Ma has become the first instrumentalist to receive the Birgit Nilsson prize, awarded every three years to honour “active artists and institutions who have made a major contribution to the ...

El violoncelista estadounidense de origen chino Yo-Yo Ma ha sido distinguido este martes en Suecia con el premio Birgit Nilsson, dotado con 1 millón de dólares (960.000 euros) y considerado uno de los ...

While the Birgit Nilsson foundation is most know for its awarding of a prize to a major artist or organisation – classical music’s largest monetary award – just as important to honouring the spirit of ...

Pittsford - Jane Hutton Günter-McCoy, 83, passed away October 20, 2021, in the loving and devoted presence of longtime friends following a courageous battle with cancer. The younger of two daughters, ...

The Met, Bayreuth, and all the other great opera houses of the world fell over themselves to acquire stakes in her special incandescence, but she always returned to her home region. Her parents’ ...