BIRGIT NILSSON 100

The content includes three homages by the recipients of the Birgit Nilsson Prize (Plácido Domingo, Riccardo Muti, and Clemens Hellsb erg representing the Vienna Philharmonic), an article on the prize by Peter Blaha (chief editor of Die Bühne), 26 recollections from various people including from her fellow Isoldes Martha Mödl and Astrid Varnay, the stage director Otto Schenk, and Nilsson's long- time publicist Edgar Vincent. Some of these describe in some detail what Nilsson sounded like in person and for me this was absolute ly fasci...[Read more]