STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- She was a celebrated star on the stages of the world's greatest opera houses. But a diva, Birgit Nilsson was not. "The thing that was remarkably wonderful about her was that she ...

Watch as German operatic tenor Jonas Kaufmann explains why Birgit Nilsson was “an unbelievable force of nature” while English-Italian conductor Antonio Pappano breaks down her 1969 performance of ...

President of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Clemens Hellsberg sits next to the president of the Birgit Nilsson Foundation Rutbert Reisch, left, as he speaks during an interview with The Associated ...

Critics always tried and failed to describe the unique voice of Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson, the singer who more than any other of our time defined dramatic soprano repertoire. One called the voice ...

Birgit Nilsson, who died on Dec. 25, 2005, was considered by many to be the greatest Wagnerian soprano in history. Only Kirsten Flagstad, whom Nilsson herself revered, can be mentioned in the same ...

Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish opera singer whose vocal brilliance, physical prowess and dramatic intensity made her the leading Wagnerian soprano of her day, died on Christmas Day at age 87, according ...

Nilsson recalled the episode in an Oct. 30, 2003, phone interview with the AP following Corelli’s death. “He neither bit nor kissed me. It all ended appropriately in any case,” she said. Nilsson sang ...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – 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. A ...