BIRGIT NILSSON CONCERT: All Wagner (New Orleans, prior to 1973) Conductor is Werner Torkanowsky, 

Madame is the real deal. I have loved her all my life. She is the greatest. God Bless. Aml. Xxxxxx. ❤❤❤❤❤❤.

My first wagnerian soprano , heroine in every sense...wonderful woman. ❤

Brava, Nilsson! Bravo, Torkanowsky!

I have always maintained that Nilsson sounded much better in the theater (and unprofessional tapes) than she did on the Solti-Culshaw monstrosities. Even here, you can feel the innate warmth and roundness of her tone. These were missing from the commercial recordings, where she sounds steely and shrill. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw her in the theater, and I said, “Wow, she sounds so much better without a mic stuck in her throat.”