Birgit Nilsson in Tristan und Isolde, Bayreuth, 1966Photo: © Siegfried Lauterwasser (German; 1913–20
Birgit Nilsson in Tristan und Isolde, Bayreuth, 1966Photo: © Siegfried Lauterwasser (German; 1913–2000)Sixty years ago today, on December 18, 1959, Nilsson made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Isolde in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. -- source link
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