Birgit Nilsson - Da Capo - Interview with August Everding, 1986

Birgit Nilsson - Da Capo - Interview with August Everding
Im Gespraech mit August Everding
February 1, 1986

[@benediktpovel2520]

She is and she will be always my favourite soprano!!!! She was great!!! As a singer and as a human being! Love her kind of humor! Down to earth and such a great singer!! Very unique!!

[@hedwigkolb2720]

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[@mckavitt13]

Benedikt Povel Very unique is like saying very magnificent, very excellent. Unique stands alone, as the word suggests, but also as a superlative. Adding very gilds the lily.

[@elsalohengrin7777]

For me is Flagstad thw greatest Wagner Soprano in all times!

[@SymphonyBrahms]

The greatest Brunnhilde to ever sing the role. And the greatest Isolde. And Elektra. and Salome. And Turandot. And many other roles. The brilliant, the magnificent, the legendary Birgit Nilsson.

[@elsalohengrin7777]

It.was Flagstad!!!!! Sorry!

[@anjakorber6192]

Tolle Frau ohne Star Allüren aber mit Humor und Talent . Ein Weltstar 😊- heute ist es umgekehrt ohne irgend etwas zu können fühlen sich die Leute auf Instagram als Stars. Verkehrte Welt !😊

[@JessiRehbein]

Du sprichst mir aus der Seele, Anja 👍😉

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

So good to hear this. From an age when singers had stamina and technical strength to sing all over the world and could perform in many productions and opera houses. Such a rich and joyous performance culture.

[@franziskakress5263]

Eine große Sängerin und eine wirklich sympathische und humorvolle Frau. Zu schade, daß ich sie nie live hören konnte.

[@pauloolivier3134]

BIRGIT the best wagnerian soprano ever!!!! We miss you!!!

[@GGg-yb2qq]

Heard Birgit in Gotterdammerung and Tristan and also in concert. Effortless power and brilliance of tone. But I think her exuberant personalty really comes through in conversation. A God gifted artist.

[@Sutherland2]

Birgit and Flagstad were the TWO best.

[@michaelrudzick1399]

Birgit Nilsson: das ist Einzigartigkeit als Sängerin und als Mensch. OZEAN DU UNGEHEUER sang sie und das ungeheuerlich gut !!!

[@angre3745]

La Nilsson als Elektra und La Rysanek als Chrysothemis....mehr kann man vom Leben nicht erwarten.....nie mehr wird es solche Sterne geben!

[@culturevulture2011]

Fabulous high C in the aria from Oberon. She nails you to the wall with it!

[@rubenbenitez8342]

Birgit ha hecho obras muy difíciles de interpretar, sin embargo lo ha hecho con absoluto virtuosismo, grandeee Birgit , eres y serás la mejor!!!

[@johnschmid2453]

She did to the dramatic soprano what Sutherland did to coloraturas. There have never been voices like theirs in those 'fachs" before them or after! I heard both live-Thank God-and the size of the voices alone was overwhelming! CM Indianapolis Opera-33 seasons!

[@mckavitt]

John Schmid You mean excepting Kirsten Flagstad, surely.

[@PeanutLaBelle]

Flagstad was great, and absolutely amazing; however, you can't tell me that Flagstad has the same attention and same influence that Nilsson has had on Dramatic Soprano repertoire. If you do think that Flagstad had such an influence, you are surely lying to yourself. Flagstad was absolutely amazing at everything she did, but she didn't have the same influence as Nilsson. Not saying that Nilsson was better than she, because she wasn't, I'm just pointing out that Nilsson has had a much greater influence over today's dramatic sopranos than Flagstad ever had.

[@mckavitt]

Peanut LaBelle I took exception to the comment that there have never existed voices like theirs before or after. There was Flagstad before and after. No problem w the point you make, altho' am not sure Nilsson would even have " made it" w/o there having been a Flagstad before her. BTW, I adore them both.

[@mckavitt]

John Schmid I heard them both as well & was absolutely thrilled.

[@PeanutLaBelle]

She probably would have still made it without Flagstad being present because of all the popularizing she did in the Dramatic/Wagner repertoire. They both were absolutely amazing singers and I love them both, really.

[@SPTN58]

So fortunate to have seen her sing in Vienna and NYC.

[@regisoprano1]

Die beste als immer,obwohl habe ich immer in meinem Herz das Mirakel der Flagstad,aber die Große Nilsson bleibt unvergesslich im Wagner's Repertoire.

[@jacktaggart2489]

Thank you for this most entertaining post. Birgit and the great director August Everding. What a team!

[@peteradaniel]

Wie schönes Sängerin. Ich liebe die Schwedische Lied in dass beginnt dem Programm. Es ist ein perfektes Beispiel für die Bandbreite und Vielseitigkeit sie als Künstler hatte.

[@alexanderbrown1954]

at around 37:00 she says what many of us singers and teachers are saying: if the singer has a lyric voice (as opposed to a dramatic voice), it is the conductor's duty to keep the orchestra down! So often singers are drowned by the wall of noise rising from a huge orchestra in front of the singer in the opera house! And she was saying this in 1986!!! Unfortunately, her words fell on deaf ears. There are few conductors today who are willing to adapt their orchestra to the volume of the voice on stage, forcing singers literally to scream, and of course ruining their voices in the process! Shame on you conductors! Learn something about vocal technique and learn some humility!!!!

[@Khalid7a]

Alexander Brown but i think lyric and spinto voices must not sing the heavy dramatic repertoire like Caballe and Scotto did and destroyed there voices.

[@Khalid7a]

***** "I can't think of any roles Caballe sang that were too big for her" ?? most of her repertoire is too big for her, she sang Turandot which totally destroyed her voice, Roberto Devereux, Salome, Anna Bolena, Tristan und Isolde, she even dared to sing Medea which was a huge fail specially in the last act she could barely sing a word and many more. what about Scotto i true she had a wonderful years, but her vocal decline came after La Callas craziness where everyone wanted to be an assoluta by singing a bigger heavier repertoire and totally destroying there voices.

[@hiyadroogs]

Alexander Brown I love hearing the exultant ring of her head register. Like Eva Turner, Frida Lieder, & Flagstad, Birgit always floated her voice & allowed the head register to ring like a bell, rather than thicken the top voice artificially by adding chest register, or driving the voice with athleticism. Exactly the same applies to the tenor voice. When it is floated correctly, even in an essentially lyric timbred voice like Lauri-Volpi's, the top voice can be tremendously metallic & possess a pealing resonance. I always remember my teacher telling me that whether you possess a lyric or a dramatic voice, it must always be supported in a gentle lyrical fashion, & never forced for volume at the bottom, middle or top. Lauritz Melchior employed virtually the same head voice dominated technique as Bjorling, which is why it lasted 50 years.

[@alexanderbrown1954]

hiyadroogs absolutely right!

[@MrAlmebo]

+hiyadroogs FRIDA LEIDER HIESS SIE, NICHT Lieder !

[@karlbauer9734]

Phantastische Stimme.

[@richarddepalma3598]

Beste Stimme des 20. Jahrhunderts 👍🏼

[@jussi2100]

Thank you for a wonderful post!

[@niccolopiccinni]

Was fuer eine Stimme!

[@ΣονιαΚαραμανιαν]

Die schönste Stimme der Welt ein Genuss sie zu hören

[@elsalohengrin7777]

Für mich ist und bleibt, was.Eagner angeht Flagstad..Die hohen Töne bei Nielson, sind für mich teilweise viel zu schrill etc

[@omboingr]

La Nilsson. The greatest Wagner soprano during the 1900:th. Amazing!

[@liedersanger1]

Except for Flagstad.

[@omboingr]

David Perkins - We like different-Flagstad was good but La Nilsson was better, both in terms of volume, interpretation and voice expression.

[@liedersanger1]

You were right the first time. "We like different."

[@omboingr]

David Perkins, yes, we can both of us have right?! Opera would be a very uninteresting and monotonous art form if it was not that the ideal is different.

[@liedersanger1]

Quite so! God doesnt give everyone everything. It's so interesting to see what special qualities he serves up... though Im not terribly interested in the younger generation. Is that because Im older or has singing culture declined?

[@jussi2100]

Grazie!

[@arnaldobrignoli4464]

grandeeeeee!!!

[@emma41093]

YES!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!

[@bigcedock]

Einfach unübertroffen.

[@omairagamboa7821]

Please may i have this subtitled!?

[@dottiedelmar]

die Frau ist echt cool drauf 🤘🏻✌🏻👏🏻

[@bobinobaker]

If you write the title of the video in English even though everything is spoken in German as a German TV production then you should also add English subtitles! Wenn man den Titel zum Video in Englisch schreibt obwohl alles in Deutsch gesprochen wird da eine Deutsche TV Produktion dann sollte man auch Englische Untertitel hinzufügen !

[@faucignymarcel9380]

merci

[@rmm413f]

Sie scheint ja heiter, froehlich, und nett. Danke!

[@larmun]

Nilsson and Corelli Turandot

[@pega17pl]

If you like Birgit Nisson you should read English translation of her tv talk with Astrid Varnay and Martha Moedl www.oocities.org/vienna/strasse/7321/mnvdisc.html Both Astrid Varnay and Martha Moedl got "Da Capo - Interview with August Everding", too, posted here at YT.

[@aliena2979]

He "should" not. Why "should" he? Do it yourself. What cheek. We can't spend the whole day reading, speaking or writing in English just because you feel like it or you're conceited enough to demand it..

[@joerngrossblotekamp]

22:03 Oh yes, a cigarette factory in Sevilla around 1820 is not a pub in Gelsenkirchen in 2008.

[@CH-is1vc]

She looks a lot like Dot-Marie Jones here (American actress, Google her). Considering the physicality of a voice, that the body is really the instrument and source to the resonance. If Dot-Marie Jones, who is 1.90 cm, would sing opera, she would have a gigantic voice.

[@peterhelbich3334]

kirstin flagstadt was her mental Mentor

[@iloveopera8014]

Anybody who is able to translate to English and add subtitles to interview? Will be appreciated!

[@pega17pl]

I had already offered to pay the English translation of one "da capo"-episode but got no reaction by poster (who has to add the sub-titles). - Heinz

[@VocidellaLirica]

Apologies, but I didn't receive your message. Feel free to send the file to [e-mail] and I will upload it. Thanks.

[@Alexander.Christian-0612]

Das Mikro war schon an.🤪😂😜😀😋

[@alixvhessen]

Der nennt die immer "Nielsen" lol

[@alexanderehrmann4405]

Everding hat keinen Respekt,fällt Gästen ins Wort, und will immer gescheiter sein. Wäre besser er hätte seine Klappe öfter gehalten.

[@Giacomo8523]

Von den nachfolgenden Dramatischen Sopranistinnen hat nur Eva Marton das Niveau von Birgit Nilsson erreicht!

[@jostmiehlbradt6593]

Nun ja, das ist ja wohl kaum dieselbe Kategorie...

[@ClaudiaLopez-vt5jz]

No , no estoy de acuerdo , creo que nadie la alcanzó, Barton era muy buena , una voz importante bella , poderosa , pero calaba en los agudos ...