Kirsten Flagstad

Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad (12 July 1895 – 7 December 1962) was a Norwegian opera singer, who was the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her era. Her triumphant debut in New York on 2 February 1935 is one of the legends of opera. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the longstanding General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera said, "I have given America two great gifts — Caruso and Flagstad." Called "the voice of the century", she ranks among the greatest singers of the 20th century. Desmond Shawe-Taylor wrote of her in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera: "No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone."

Bruno Walter Conducts Wagner (Live) - 2022-09-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Bruno Walter Conducts Wagner (Live) - 2022-09-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Parsifal Lauritz Melchior's only surving recording live - 2022-04-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Wagner: Immolation Scene and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung, Preludes from Lohengrin & Die Meistersinger - 2021-11-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Mahler & Wagner: Orchestral Works (Live) - 2021-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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