Birgit Nilsson dies

[Floristan]

This is sad news.  Here is the obit from the Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/arts/music/11cnd-nils.html?ex=1294635600&en=19a8e1f660cc2be0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

She was a great Wagnerian soprano.  I heard her once at the Met, and also heard her farewell recital.  Amazing voice.  It could cut through a Wagnerian orchestra like a buzz saw and still be musical.

I thought others might like to know this sad news.

[arensky]

LOL, I like what she said about her voice teachers! 

I first knew Die Walkure through her recording of it with Solti, she was an extraordinary singer, one of the last of the great Wagner singers. Don't know if we will have anymore, not like her, Flagstad or Melchior, at any rate. Perhaps she is burning Valhalla, wherever she might be...

RIP, Maestra.

[ahinton]

LOL, I like what she said about her voice teachers! 

I first knew Die Walkure through her recording of it with Solti, she was an extraordinary singer, one of the last of the great Wagner singers. Don't know if we will have anymore, not like her, Flagstad or Melchior, at any rate. Perhaps she is burning Valhalla, wherever she might be...

RIP, Maestra.

She was indeed just that - although I would hesitate to say "one of the last of the great Wagner singers" for, although that's the way it now seems, it would be a sad matter indeed if no future Wagnerian sopranos could ever follow her wondrous example. Likewise, for all that it is natural in mourning the loss of great pianists such as Cherkassky, Michelangeli, Ogdon, etc. to be tempted to conclude that there will never be anyone quite like them again, it is perhaps worth considering that, in all probability, no one ever expected such phenomenal artists before they began to scale the heights that they did...

Best,

Alistair

[rlefebvr]

Stallone is going to be so sad.....

[mikey6]

Stallone is going to be so sad.....

That's what I though originally untill I read wagnerian soprano.
"That's one big pregnant dog!" (axel foley)

[Floristan]

Stallone is going to be so sad.....

Just saw this.  ROTFLMAO.     Yeah, different Birgit Nilsson...this one sang like an avenging angel.  Listen to her Brunnhilde sometime, it'll blow you away.

[mikey6]

"That's one big pregnant dog!" (axel foley)

Ah man I thought I had actually written that! had to think you're not aloud to write that word 

[letters]

haha thort u were talking about brigit nilsson then, her of reality tv fame, i was thinking she isnt a singer!! hmmm