Flagstad
Americannoun
noun
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The most famous early case involved a 1952 recording of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” in which the aging soprano Kirsten Flagstad was unable to hit a high C.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024
Her warm, even tone and clear diction became associated indelibly with the composer’s amorous page in the way that Kirsten Flagstad was with Isolde and Feodor Chaliapin with Boris Godunov.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2023
Inside, an introduction by popular-culture critic Richard A. Lupoff recounts Browne’s professional career and is followed, nearly 900 pages later, by a memorial afterword from the writer’s daughter Melissa Flagstad.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2018
Kirsten Flagstad, who had known Varnay since she was a child, recommended her to Wieland Wagner when Bayreuth resumed operations in 1951.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2018
"I was crazy about Kirsten Flagstad at the time," she would recall later, "so I began to fancy myself as a Wagnerian."
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2010
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