Birgit Nilsson - Ozean du Ungeheuer

eccelsa...voce straordinariamente potente timbrata ma capace di modulare
ottima tecnica...
e interprete di classe nonostante le critiche che le sono state fatte di essere fin troppo vocalista
Grande tra le grandi del secolo XX

Simply astounding artistry, especially when you realize she was 46 at the time she did this. One of the great voices of the century. None like her working today.

7:07 man...that high note....

What incredible technique and artistry. I feel blessed to have seen her many times in performance, both in Vienna and NYC.

R I P

GREAT!

MAGNIFIQUE!

Well every concert in Sweden is formal. It will take the horns they used to shake the walls of Jericho to wake up a Swedish audience! :-D (I am Swedish myself.) :-(
Anyway, this is from the same concert in what I judge to be the Stockholm Concert Hall (not the Berwald Hall) during the mid-60-ies that Isolde's Liebestod (here on YouTube) is from. The conductor being the great (but outside of Sweden unknown) Stig Westerberg! (I'll check my 1964-68 diary. I may mention it.)

Brava!
Brava!
Brava!

I dare say none of these as well as Nilsson did it. She had it all. A once in a century phenomenon.