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  • Birgit Nilsson as Sieglinde?

    From yonkedrake@att.net@21:1/5 to Terry Ellsworth on Tue Apr 28 08:35:52 2020
    On Saturday, May 13, 2000 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Terry Ellsworth wrote:
    I was having a discussion with a friend after Walkure at the MET last week and
    he said the best Sieglinde he ever saw was Birgit Nilsson. Now, he started going to the opera in the 1970s. I was fairly sure that the last time Nilsson sang a staged Sieglinde was in the late 1950s. Can anyone out there confirm when her last Sieglinde was??

    Terry Ellsworth

    She most certainly did. 4 performances in 1975. In case you don't know about the Met Archives, it can be found at:

    http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm

    It can answer all these types of questions.

    Best
    Mike

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  • From lesismore036@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Terry Ellsworth on Mon May 11 22:01:05 2020
    On Saturday, May 13, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Terry Ellsworth wrote:
    I was having a discussion with a friend after Walkure at the MET last week and
    he said the best Sieglinde he ever saw was Birgit Nilsson. Now, he started going to the opera in the 1970s. I was fairly sure that the last time Nilsson sang a staged Sieglinde was in the late 1950s. Can anyone out there confirm when her last Sieglinde was??

    Terry Ellsworth

    Nilsson did one or two performances of Sieglinde at the Met in the spring of 1974 or 75, I believe. She had a hankering to do it after so many years. The reviews were rather good, if I recall.

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  • From wkasimer@21:1/5 to lesism...@gmail.com on Thu May 14 06:14:27 2020
    On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 1:01:07 AM UTC-4, lesism...@gmail.com wrote:

    Nilsson did one or two performances of Sieglinde at the Met in the spring of 1974 or 75, I believe. She had a hankering to do it after so many years. The reviews were rather good, if I recall.

    March 1975, three performances. Rita Hunter was Brunnhilde, and Vickers was Siegmund for two of them. Pity it wasn't broadcast, but an inhouse recording exists.

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