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Birgit Nilsson sings Wagner "Liebestod".



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From the video of Bayreuth Wagner Festival in Osaka Japan, 1967. Birgit Nilsson sang Isolde's Liebestod.


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She gives me chills ... ( 8 months ago by vawver)
She gives me chills.. haha
I cried. So ... ( 8 months ago by elgar34)
I cried. So magisterial...
How does she do it. ... ( 8 months ago by CyberElektra)
How does she do it. She's made me cry again! I've just listened again to the concert performance by Nilsson posted by mxl2003 (on the right), it made me cry too and at a different point. No-one else sings it like her, although Waltraut Meier comes close, and is a better actor. I think it must be Birgit's dynamic range, that makes her performances so emotional, and brilliantly executed crescendos. Magic performer! I love her! ;):)
I agree. Nobody as ... ( 8 months ago by grupetto)
I agree. Nobody as Nilsson.
Breathetaking... ( 8 months ago by Freddiesoldfaithful)
Breathetaking...
Yes! How in Eve's ... ( 7 months ago by Kryltoppa)
Yes! How in Eve's name does she still have enough control to do that thing in piano at the end of the whole opera is beyond me. Everyone else has to be loud on it. Totally unreal! Brava!
I'm going to see ... ( 7 months ago by weepingforbrunnhilde)
I'm going to see Tristan at the Met on Friday! It'll be great, because even mediocre Wagner is still great, but honestly, it's a little hard sometimes: singers these days don't even come close to this. It seems that in the old days the gap between Flagstad and the next tier wasn't so wide. Today, the very best singers would be like third rung a few generations ago.
Meant to say ... ( 7 months ago by weepingforbrunnhilde)
Meant to say Nilsson. Same point, though.
Her piano on Lust ... ( 7 months ago by CyberElektra)
Her piano on Lust is just so spinechillingly beautiful. This is the most emotionally moving thing I've ever heard on Youtube. Why has the user disabled the embedding? I love Birgit, I love Birgit, I love Birgit.
It is incredible! ... ( 6 months ago by mwk12kev)
It is incredible! She does this by having perfect control of the breath, support, perfect forward focus on all vowels and does not involve the throat. And never 'muscles' a tone. In short a perfectly intregated head voice.
She very much ... ( 5 months ago by SVENSKSOPRAN)
She very much opposed the throaty or dark singing of today. I went to one of her last masterclasses here in Stockholm, and she emphasized only two things, mask/open nose, and low support
My teacher sang ... ( 5 months ago by SVENSKSOPRAN)
My teacher sang with her on many occasions, and he said it was never harsh to stand close to her, and the jaw, the tongue were so free
I am curious. Who's ... ( 4 months ago by rrgallo)
I am curious. Who's your teacher?
Array ( 4 months ago by SVENSKSOPRAN)
Mr Erik Saed
én bass-baritone
Superb ( 4 months ago by sirmercutio99)
Superb
The voice Wagner ... ( 3 months ago by Steinweg9)
The voice Wagner wrote it for (the voice type, I mean) could do it. The voice built on bel canto technique, which functions by constantly rooting the voice to the fundamental and also by sounding the vowel from the space directly above the vocal cords, can always accomplish this. This technique has been lost due to a switch to an incorrect technique, taught everywhere today, which attempts to cultivate frontal brilliance without an open throat. Disaster is everywhere, no one can sing Wagner.
Interesting (I ... ( 3 months ago by Kryltoppa)
Interesting (I don't sing, so I don't know much about technical things)! Is that also why Wagnerian singers today have such ugly wide vibrato after they've been around a few years?
Then she must have ... ( 3 months ago by Steinweg9)
Then she must have opposed the throaty or dark singing of all the men and women who sang well in her generation also. Who knew better than she how long it takes to build a voice properly? Her throat was always already open (Most famous quote: "Birgit is singing -- the ship is coming into the harbor"), it would naturally have begun to resonate in the mask, she never had to put it there whether she did or not. Her Met debut came when she was 41 years old, in her prime with ten years to go!
The throat opens ... ( 3 months ago by SVENSKSOPRAN)
The throat opens slightly when you cover or sing into pure head voice if that is what you mean, Jussi was great at it and so was she. I have a very early recording of her singing 1st act Walkure, Sieglinde, and it is comparatively uneven and quite cloudy.
Array ( 3 months ago by SVENSKSOPRAN)
Erik Saed
én who also sang opposite Jussi, taught Gösta Winbergh and many more successful Swedish singers since the 50's and studied at the same school as her for Sunegårdh says she struggled hard to find her voice. Her great material was obvious but her top was at that point near a scream. He holds her in
the highest esteem! As you say she was against quick fixes. Perhaps she opposed dark singing in her own time too. Don't know if it was as common then. The art changes with the artists.
Sorry, that should ... ( 3 months ago by SVENSKSOPRAN)
Sorry, that should be Sunneg
årdh (Arne, father of Met star Erika Sunnegårdh)
Sorry for taking up ... ( 3 months ago by SVENSKSOPRAN)
Sorry for taking up so much space, just that quote, from her teacher Hislop...Mr Saed
én told me he used to be mean not only to her but to many students, insulting them etc. At this time she hadn't gained complete control of her head voice I guess, as she told she just learned overnight later on while trying to cope with a cold! Many bigger voices struggle with their head voice!
Nilsson never had ... ( 1 month ago by birgitnilsson)
Nilsson never had to borrow high C
´s from anyone. Flagstad borrowed them from Schwarzkopf. Didn´t she?
she is amazing...! ( 2 weeks ago by Saintpistolwhip)
she is amazing...!



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