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
Hamar
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Hamar is a town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the traditional region of Hedmarken. The town is located o
Kirsten Flagstad
…the New Grove Dictionary of Opera: "No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone." Flagstad was born in Hamar, Norway, in her grandparents' home, now the Kirsten Flagstad Museum. Though she never actually lived in Hamar, she always considered it her home town…
Aerial view of Hamar
Ruins of the Cathedral; drawing by Joachim Frich (1810–1858), c. 1848
Hamar Cathedral; drawing by Olaf Nordhagen (1883–1925)
View of Hamar in the 1890s