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
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
Flagstad was past her prime when she recorded “Tristan” with Wilhelm Furtwängler, in 1952, yet the courtly warmth in her voice supplies a dimension lacking in Varnay’s tour de force of raging passion.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2018
The all-time greats in the role are Kirsten Flagstad and Birgit Nilsson.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2013
It’s hard to recall anyone’s sounding more commanding or at ease in the part, and that includes Kirsten Flagstad.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2010
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