Birgit Nilsson – The Great Live Recordings
Gramophone Award 2019 „Special Achievement“
Repertoire Lohengrin (Bayreuth 1954), Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth 1957, Wien 1967, Orange 1973), Die Walküre (Exc. Bayreuth 1957), Siegfried (Exc. Bayreuth 1967), Die Walküre (MET 1969), Wagner in Concert (Stockholm 1953 & 1967, Sydney 1973), Salome (MET 1965), Elektra (Montreal 1967, MET 1971), Die Frau ohne Schatten (München 1976), Fidelio (RAI 1970), Turandot (MET 1961), Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Stockholm 1953)
Singers Birgit Nilsson, Anna Moffo, Helen Donath, Astrid Varnay, Leonie Rysanek, Ingrid Bjoner, Régine Crespin, Regina Resnik, Jean Madeira, Grace Hoffman, Irene Dalis, Ruth Hesse, Franco Corelli, Wolfgang Windgassen, Karl Liebl, Ludovic Spiess, Jon Vickers, Ramón Vinay, Jess Thomas, James King, Walter Berry, Hermann Uhde, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Theo Adam, Thomas Stewart, Otto Wiener, Hans Hotter, Arnold van Mill, Martti Talvela, Bengt Rundgren, Franz Crass
Conductors Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm, Otmar Suitner, Ferenc Fricsay, Hans Knappertsbusch, Sergiu Celibidache, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leopold Stokowski, Eugen Jochum
Liner Notes Rutbert Reisch, Thomas Voigt
Restoration Producers Othmar Eichinger, Grace Row
Produced by Thomas Voigt, Isabelle Tulliez, Robert Russ
Commissioned by The Birgit Nilsson Foundation
In Cooperation with Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bayerischer Rundfunk, ina / Chorégies d’Orange, RAI di Roma, Sveriges Radio, The Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, ORF
Release Date 2018
CD Box Sony Classical (31 CDs)