Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertoire of operatic and vocal works,...

The Birgit Nilsson Prize is the largest prize in classical music, awarded approximately every three years to an active artist or institution who has contributed...

2011, Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, the Polar Music Prize in 2012, and the Birgit Nilsson Prize in 2022. He was named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential...

the CulturArte Prize. Performers of German repertoire by Richard Strauss or Richard Wagner can receive the Birgit Nilsson Prize. Prizes can be shared,...

the Curtis Institute of Music. She was the first woman to win the Birgit Nilsson Prize for singing Wagner, at Operalia 2013. "Claudia Huckle". roh.org.uk...

Classical Album and Best Choral Performance for Verdi: Requiem 2011 Birgit Nilsson Prize 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. 2018 Praemium Imperiale...

Björling Award (Swedish: Jussi Björlingstipendiet) 2018: awarded the Birgit Nilsson Prize 2022: appointed Bayerische Kammersängerin 2023: appointed Ehrenmitglied...

a Medal of Honour from Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman. The first Birgit Nilsson Prize was awarded to him in 2009. In 2012, Domingo was voted into Gramophone's...

Prize (male singer) at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition and the Birgit Nilsson Prize for the German Repertoire of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner at...

Music Prize was given to Birgit Nilsson, who visited The Royal Theatre on May 17th, 1966, for a guest performance in "Fidelio". Birgit Nilsson honoured...

In 2012, Jagde won second prize in Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition, as well as receiving the Birgit Nilsson Prize for Wagner-Strauss repertoire...

2009) May 16 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000) May 17 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005) May 19 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American...

magazine. In 2010, he was appointed to the international jury of the Birgit Nilsson Prize. In 2022, he was appointed dance critic of The Spectator and was...

Sills Artist Award in 2025 First prize, Birgit Nilsson Prize, and the Zarzuela Prize at Operalia in 2014 First prize at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing...

international pour jeunes violonistes a lieu à Namur Heifetz (18 February 2016). "Prizes Awarded at 2016 Grumiaux International Junior Violin Comp". Retrieved 21...

Plácido Domingo with the first Birgit Nilsson Prize in October 2009. With one million dollars, it is the biggest prize in classical music. Also in October...

The Franco Abbiati Prize (Italian: Premio Franco Abbiati della critica musicale italiana) is an annual award that has been presented by the National Association...

Hovsångare (Swedish court singer) Birgit Nilsson. In 1986, Wärnfeldt was awarded both the Birgit Nilsson Prize and the Wagner Prize. Her opera debut in 1989 was...

September 2024. 17 May – The Birgit Nilsson Foundation announces Yo-Yo Ma as the recipient of the 2022 Birgit Nilsson Prize, the first instrumentalist ever...

Salon (Salon d'Automne) in Paris in 1909, and in 1912 together with Arvid Nilsson (1881–1971) had the solo exhibition Salon Joel in Stockholm. He also participated...

May 2018. "Birgit Nilsson Foundation Announces 2018 Birgit Nilsson Prize of 1 Million Dollars to Nina Stemme" (Press release). Birgit Nilsson Foundation...

Liederkranz Competition, received a Citation of Excellence from the Birgit Nilsson Prize Competition,[citation needed] won five study grants from the New...

from the music world: Annett Baumeister (Germany), Inna Davidova (Latvia), Birgit Hinterholzer (Austria), Ulf Werner (Germany), and Michael Nemeth (Austria)...

Larsson (born 24 April 1969) is a Swedish operatic baritone. He received Birgit Nilsson’s Grant in 1992. While studying at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music...

a part she sang 69 times at the Metropolitan. She was Brangäne when Birgit Nilsson sang first at the Met in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 1959, Amneris...

The Guardian. 15 September 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2020. Birgit Nilsson (2007). La Nilsson: My Life in Opera. UPNE. p. 255. ISBN 978-1-55553-670-1. Roy...

last minute. His live Bayreuth recording of Tristan und Isolde with Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, conducted by Karl Böhm, is still highly regarded by many...

15th Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (born 1944) 2005 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1918) 2005 – Joseph Pararajasingham...

percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015. Glennie was born in Methlick, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland. The indigenous...

passion for opera as a youth, having seen his first opera (Turandot with Birgit Nilsson in the title role) at around the age of ten. As a teenager, Waltz would...