Kirsten Flagstad
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Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad was a Norwegian opera singer, who was the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her era. Her triumphant debut in New York on 2 February 1935 is one of the legends of opera. Giulio
Portrett av Kirsten Flagstad, ca 1940 45
Kirsten Flagstad Museum in Hamar
Flagstad as Isolde in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Flagstad's costume for Hollywood's The Big Broadcast of 1938, where she was filmed singing Brünnhilde's Battle Cry from Wagner's Die Walküre
Enrico Caruso
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Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor, who sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ranged from the lyric to the dram
Kirsten Flagstad
…the legends of opera. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the longstanding General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera said, "I have given America two great gifts — Caruso and Flagstad." Called "the voice of the century", she ranks among the greatest singers of the 20th century. Desmond Shawe-Taylor wrote of her in the…
Caruso, c. 1910
Enrico Caruso as the Duke in Rigoletto, 1904
Caruso as Duke in The Theatre, 1912
The medal that Caruso gave to Pasquale Simonelli, his New York City impresario