STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Birgit Nilsson, the farmer's daughter who became renowned in the world's great opera houses for her dazzling voice and among colleagues for her playful sense of humor, has died at ...

Birgit Nilsson, the dominant Wagnerian soprano of the post-World War II period, whose unforced, voluminous sound, superhuman stamina and steely vocal brilliance thrilled audiences as she took on the ...

Soprano Birgit Nilsson, whose death Dec. 25 at age 87 was reported yesterday, was the great Valkyrie of her time -- a warrior woman whose steely voice sliced thrillingly through the vast orchestral ...

Opera is a field of legends – and opera lost a legend when Birgit Nilsson died, apparently on Christmas Day. (The news is imprecise about this.) The Swedish soprano was 87. She’d had a long career, ...

Birgit Nilsson, who has died aged 87, was considered to be the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her day; she had a rock-solid technique and a voice of such soaring, unforced power that it was able to cut ...

The myriad stories about Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson usually fall into two groups: the ones about her enormous, laser-focused voice and those about her rapier-sharp wit. Nilsson, born 100 years ago ...

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A $1 million classical music prize has been established to commemorate the late Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson. The prize is the largest to be awarded in the history of classical ...

Her parents’ farmhouse became a summer home, and their only child laid flowers on their grave when she gave recitals in the church at Västra Karups where she’d sung in the choir. Her huge financial ...

Spanish tenor Placido Domingo on Friday won the first $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize for his "unrivaled" contributions to the world of opera, the award foundation said. By The Associated Press ...

Birgit Nilsson, whose prodigious voice, unrivaled stamina and thrilling high notes made her the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the post-World War II era, died Dec. 25 in Sweden. She was 87. Born on a ...