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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A $1 million classical music prize has been established to commemorate the late Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson. The prize is the largest to be awarded in the history of classical ...

The sudden death of Pierre Audi in May this year lent a moving note to the presentation of the Birgit Nilsson Prize in Stockholm on October 21. The prize, which has been awarded every three years ...

STOCKHOLM — “Today’s stage is a music celebration that honors both the legacy of Birgit Nilsson and this year’s laureate, France’s Aix-en-Provence Festival,” said Susanne Rydén, head of the Birgit ...

The director Pierre Audi died suddenly in May, aged 67. Justice was done to his memory at a Wagner-themed concert and awards ceremony in Stockholm on Tuesday night, when the Birgit Nilsson Prize for ...

“It’s like an international flight,” whined a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s audience within earshot of me the last time that Richard Wagner’s longest opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was ...

This image released by the Philadelphia Opera shows Soprano Nina Stemme, from top left, tenor Stuart Skelton, and baritone Brian Mulligan, with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by music director Yannick ...

President of the Birgit Nilsson Stiftelsen, Susanne Rydén announced that the 2025 Birgit Nilsson Prize of 1 million dollars has been awarded to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. The prestigious French ...

Sweden’s Birgit Nilsson is the world’s reigning Wagnerian soprano. Austria’s Herbert von Karajan has no superior as a conductor of the Ring cycle. Alas, two great melodies do not always pro duce a ...

Salome was 16 and slinky-slim. Birgit Nilsson is 46 and boatswain-burly. As for casting the Swede in the title role of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the idea seemed roughly comparable to starring Judith ...