Birgit Nilsson: Famous Opera Arias

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Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) is the biggest international soprano Sweden ever created. This new compilation on 4 cd’s presents arias from the most famous operas she performed as the leading roll. The recordings are made 1949-1961 on some of the biggest stages and opera houses, with orchestras like Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Royal Swedish Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and conductors like Karl Böhm, Georg Solti, Leopold Ludwig, Leopold Stokowski and Hans Knapperstbusch.