Birgit Nilsson – The Great Live Recordings

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The great voice of a unique soprano voice: on their 100th birthday, their most beautiful live recordings will show the Swedish prima donna Birgit Nilsson as close as ever! The limited edition combines the biggest and most important live productions of the outstanding opera singer and thus outlines her career. It combines musical masterpieces from the Met in New York, the Bayreuth Festival, the Vienna State Opera and individual rarities from her concerts in Stockholm with the best sound quality. For this, all recordings were remastered by the original master tapes. The limited anniversary edition shows the much-respected opera singer in roles in which she sets new milestones: Turandot, Isolde, Brünnhilder, Salome and Elektra, in outstanding recordings by world star conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Euchum were conducted. Other well-known singers can be heard as Counterparts, such as Anna Moffo, Régine Crespin, Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, Regina Resnik, Franco Corelli, Wolfgang Windgassen, Ramón Vinay, Jon Vickers, Jess Thomas, Theo Adam and Martti Talvela. Birgit Nilsson was a vocal phenomenon in her own " league & #34; (New York Times). She was able to drown out even the largest orchestras with her powerful voice. Many sound engineers were unable to give their voice the voice the voice that they deserved, so even the acclaimed German music critic Jürgen Kesting compared the soprano in the studio to a Porsche that would be driven in the backyard.