Kirsten Flagstad
Norwegian opera singer (1895-1962) · Norway · On the map · Musicians · Died at 67
Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad was a Norwegian opera singer, who was the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her era. Her triumphant debut in New York on 2 February 1935 is one of the legends of opera.
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Kirsten Flagstad Museum in Hamar
Flagstad as Isolde in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Flagstad's costume for Hollywood's The Big Broadcast of 1938, where she was filmed singing Brünnhilde's Battle Cry from Wagner's Die Walküre
Flagstad visiting Jean Sibelius at his home in June 1952.
Kirsten Flagstad painted on a Norwegian Air Shuttle airliner.Awards
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Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the longstanding General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera said, "I have given America two great gifts - Caruso and Flagstad."
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