Giacomo Puccini did not live to write the end of "Turandot," and his death in 1924 left us a gorgeous riddle. That the opera itself is about riddles only adds to the mystery of this last work by the ...

Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish opera singer whose vocal brilliance, physical prowess and dramatic intensity made her the leading Wagnerian soprano of her day, died on Christmas Day at age 87, according ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Birgit Nilsson, whose prodigious voice, unrivaled stamina and thrilling high notes made her the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the post-World War II era, has died. She was 87. A ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Birgit Nilsson, one of the greatest Turandots of our time, was fond of saying that ...

Two singers sang two arias at the Met last week and suddenly made clear that, vocally, opera is in the midst of a new golden age. Soprano Leontyne Price, in Aïda, sang the famous O patria mia with ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- She was a celebrated star on the stages of the world's greatest opera houses. But a diva, Birgit Nilsson was not. "The thing that was remarkably wonderful about her was that she ...

Birgit Nilsson, who died on Dec. 25, 2005, was considered by many to be the greatest Wagnerian soprano in history. Only Kirsten Flagstad, whom Nilsson herself revered, can be mentioned in the same ...