Birgit Nilsson Edition
The Great Live Recordings
Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
Many of these live recordings have been remastered, mostly very adequately, from radio broadcasts, and include samples at least of all her major roles...The casts for some of these performances... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards2019Winner - Historical
31 CDs
$129.25Contents
Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
- Sung in German, Stockholm 1953
- Birgit Nilsson (Judith), Berhard Sönnerstedt (Bluebeard)
- Sveriges Radios Symfonieorkester
- Ferenc Fricsay
Wagner: Lohengrin
- Bayreuth Festival, 1954
- Theo Adam (König Heinrich), Wolfgang Windgassen (Lohengrin), Birgit Nilsson (Elsa), Hermann Uhde (Telramund), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Der Heerrufer)
- Bayreuth Festival
- Eugen Jochum
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
- Bayreuth Festival, 1957
- Wolfgang Windgassen (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Grace Hoffman (Brangäne), Hans Hotter (Kurwenal), Arnold van Mill (König Marke), Fritz Uhl (Melot), Hermann Winkler (Ein Hirt), Egmont Koch (Ein Steuermann), Walter Geisler (Stimme des Seemanns)
- Bayreuth Festival
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wagner: Schlafst du, Gast? Ich bin's! (from Die Walküre)
- Bayreuth Festival, 1957
- Birgit Nilsson (Sieglinde), Ramón Vinay (Siegmund)
- Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
- Hans Knappertsbusch
Wagner: Heil dir, Sonne! (from Siegfried)
- Bayreuth Festival, 1967
- Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried)
- Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
- Otmar Suitner
Puccini: Turandot
- Metropolitan Opera House, 1961
- Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Franco Corelli (Calàf), Anna Moffo (Liù), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Timur), Frank Guarrera (Ping), Robert Nagy (Pang), Charles Anthony (Pong), Alessio De Paolis (L’Imperatore Altoum), Calvin Marsh (Un Mandarino), Edilio Ferraro (Il Principe di Persia)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Leopold Stokowski
Strauss, R: Salome
- Metropolitan Opera House, 1965
- Birgit Nilsson (Salome), Karl Liebl (Herodes), Irene Dalis (Herodias), Walter Cassel (Jochanaan), George Shirley (Narraboth), Marcia Baldwin (Page der Herodias)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Karl Böhm
Strauss, R: Elektra
- Opéra de Montréal, 1967
- Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis), Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Gerd Nienstedt (Orest), Fritz Uhl (Aegisth), Danica Mastilovic (Aufseherin)
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Karl Böhm
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
- Wiener Staatsoper, 1967
- Jess Thomas (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Ruth Hesse (Brangäne), Otto Wiener (Kurwenal), Martti Talvela (König Marke), Reid Bunger (Melot), Peter Klein (Ein Hirt), Harald Pröglhöf (Ein Steuermann), Anton Dermota (Stimme des Seemanns)
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Karl Böhm
Wagner: Die Walküre
- Metropolitan Opera House, 1969
- Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Régine Crespin (Sieglinde), Theo Adam (Wotan), Josephine Veasey (Fricka), Martti Talvela (Hunding)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Herbert von Karajan
