"I've always tried to remember what my mother used to tell me. 'Stay close to the earth. Then when you fall down, it won't hurt so much.'" Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish soprano, took her mother's advice ...
Birgit Nilsson sings the Immolation scene from the end of Wagner's last Ring opera, Götterdämmerung, in a concert performance from 1973. One of the great Wagnerian singers of the last century, the ...