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
A similar immersion comes through in Wilhelm Furtwängler’s 1952 studio recording of “Tristan und Isolde,” with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde and Ludwig Suthaus as Tristan.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2013
The all-time greats in the role are Kirsten Flagstad and Birgit Nilsson.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
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