Lauritz Melchior
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Lauritz Melchior was a Danish-American opera singer. He was the preeminent Wagnerian heldentenor of the 1920s through the 1940s and has come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type. Late i
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The Royal Danish Theatre, where Melchior made his operatic debut
Melchior with his children
Melchior's tombstone
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
Lauritz Melchior
…stage performance, on February 2, 1950. Some of Melchior's most notable colleagues in the opera houses of the world included the sopranos Frida Leider, Kirsten Flagstad, Lotte Lehmann, Helen Traubel, Marjorie Lawrence, and Elisabeth Rethberg, and conductors Felix Weingartner, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Fritz…
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