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
After all, Ms. Davidsen doesn’t believe she’s a Nilsson or a Flagstad just yet.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2019
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
"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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