Birgit Nilsson Dies
Jan. 11th, 2006 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonSwedish Soprano Birgit Nilsson Dies
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I heard her live only once in Munich. I stood in line to buy the tickets in advance (standing room) and stood with a friend through the throes of a Wagner opera which is quite a span of time. It too required ''Comfortable shoes.''
Filed at 9:51 a.m. ET
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Birgit Nilsson, whose prodigious voice, unrivaled stamina and thrilling high notes made her the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the post-World War II era, has died. She was 87.
I heard her live only once in Munich. I stood in line to buy the tickets in advance (standing room) and stood with a friend through the throes of a Wagner opera which is quite a span of time. It too required ''Comfortable shoes.''
