Birgit Nilsson - Dich, teure Halle [Tannhäuser] - LIVE in Stockholm, 1967

[@emma41093]

Stunning, as always. This force of nature never ceases to amaze me.

[@crisha721]

wowwww! she never ceases to amaze me

[@greatsingers20]

❤❤❤

[@Yoavmw]

That effortless stream of bright yet sweet sound. I don’t hear the steel here 😍

[@wotan10950]

Listeners who only know her voice from recordings are always surprised, as I was, that her voice in the theater was much warmer than they expected. That steeliness was somewhat of a concoction by Culshaw and his cohorts. She sounded much better onstage.

[@mannail888]

@@wotan10950 Hard to believe a so-called singer whose main claim to prosperity is wall-quaking high notes, never mind those high notes were scooped up from beneath 90% of the time, not to mention skating through opera after opera without producing one single ounce of legato, (the one golden criteria that governs all kinds of singing, be it folk, jazz, cantata, r & b, pop, oratorio, stadium hard rock or even electronic dance beat/hip hop/rap), treading and thus abusing the Italian rep with a most Teutonic/Scandinavian approach and interpretative insight as abundant as none has been held in the highest regard by generations of certain operagoers. Really ballistic, but then, Hofmannsthal once wrote: "Es sind die mehreren Dinge auf der Welt, so dass sie ein's nicht glauben tät', wenn man sie möcht' erzählen hör'n. Alleinig wer's erlebt, der glaubt daran und weiss nicht wie."

[@Thearchivebeyondimagination]

@@mannail888 total bullcrap

[@Twisterjoe]

I wish the camera had stayed out from her more. When seeing the distance, it was easier for my perceptions to grasp the effortless force of her instrument. It was immediately visible at the beginning when she sang her first notes. It was wonderful to see the younger singer demonstrate that the repertoire was as easy for her as singing Mary Had a Little Lamb is for most of us.

[@ER1CwC]

I always love watching how her shoulders barely move and remain in a relaxed position when she sings. It’s like there is zero tension in her entire upper torso.

[@EvanDickerson-ub5ge]

​@@ER1CwC as it should be, relax the torso let the diaphragm do the work

[@meisterwue]

​@@EvanDickerson-ub5gethanks for this comment❤Birgit was my first wagnerian soprano quite 50 years ago

[@Twisterjoe]

@@EvanDickerson-ub5ge it should be, but it seems that vocalists have been taught that squeezy contractions of face and chest are expressions of the emotions, instead of the music expressing emotions.

[@luigimaffei9132]

Qui molto giovane... Da subito fenomeno vocale dall'inizio della sua carriera. La sua voce possente extra large, squillante in tutta la gamma, gelida negli armonici lhanno fatta diventare la più grande "principessa altera Turandot" di tutti i tempi. Mitici i suoi duelli con il titanico" principe ignoto Calaf" Corelli. Resteranno per sempre nella soria!!!!!! ineguagliabili. Chapeau

[@draganvidic2039]

Didn’t remember she sang this role as late as 1967

[@krunoslav1271]

She sang both Elisabeth and Venus at the Old Met in 1966.

[@christerguldeman9952]

Probably from a concert at the Stockholm Opera.