Birgit Nilsson

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary (1996)

This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I could not stop watching these discs. Let me say this much; Levine has done for the Met, making it the premier ...

Strauss: Elektra (1980)

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on Homer's tale into a harrowing opera noir. Elektra lives for one ...

Elektra (1980)

The Metropolitan Opera live production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra on February 16, 1980 ...

Tristan und Isolde (1973)

Birgit Nilsson and Jon Vickers star in this filmed record of the Theatre Antique d'Orange's acclaimed 1973 production of Wagner's epic tale of doomed love in the Middle Ages. Tristan und Isolde also features the Orchestre National de R.T.F., under the dire ...

Birgit Nilsson: Glimtar från sångerskans verksamhet (1970)

In the autumn of 1968, Director Eric M. Nilsson and film team accompany Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson during the many-faceted events of her life, on and off stage. ...

Tristan und Isolde (1967)

Stimulantia (1967)

Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic cleanliness, French literature, and a black woman in a cupboard in the neighborhood of Farsta near Stockholm. ...

The Golden Ring (1965)

Watching the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti, and a stellar cast record Wagner's immense Götterdämmerung for Decca in the fall of 1964 provides a thousand lessons in the art of working under pressure. For this classic documentary, The Golden Ring, a BBC ...

Poker (1951)

Sven Bergström is charged with murder, alternatively a man slaughter, on an infamous professional poker player called "The Rover". The trial is in progress. In retrospect, we witness Svens life until the time of the crime. ...

The Happy Tailor (1945)

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have. ...