La Nilsson : my life in opera / Birgit Nilsson ; foreword by Sir Georg Solti ; afterword by Peggy Tu...
La Nilsson : my life in opera / Birgit Nilsson ; foreword by Sir Georg Solti ; afterword by Peggy Tu...
La Nilsson : my life in opera / Birgit Nilsson ; foreword by Sir Georg Solti ; afterword by Peggy Tueller ; translated from the German by Doris Jung Popper.
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Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover, NH : Published by University Press of New England, c2007.
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N782.1092/47
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English
German, Swedish
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Physical content
xii, 308 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
My debut at the Met -- When the little one came into the world -- The Royal Academy of Music and the Opera School in Stockholm, 1941-1946 -- The Stockholm Opera -- Rudolf Bing -- City of my dreams -- In a word--Bayreuth -- Buenos Aires -- The battle of the high Cs -- Beautiful Italy -- Fans, fanatic...
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Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover, NH : Published by University Press of New England, c2007.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c2007.
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"Nilsson's long and illustrious career (she performed until 1984), her celebrated professional and personal relationships, her friendships and rivalries, are all recounted with a down-to-earth wit and an engagingly odd admixture of ego and selfeffacement. She tells it all: the legendary quips, the often prickly relationships with Met impresario Rud...
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La Nilsson : my life in opera / Birgit Nilsson ; foreword by Sir Georg Solti ; afterword by Peggy Tueller ; translated from the German by Doris Jung Popper.
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Includes discography (p. [261]-294) and index.
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Translation of: Nilsson.
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N782.1092/47
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74VM8aLZ8bJd
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ISBN
1555536700 (alk. paper)
9781555536701 (alk. paper)
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782.1092 B
MMS ID
991000156459702626
