Tiefland is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Eugen d'Albert, to a libretto in German by Rudolf Lothar. Based on the 1896 Catalan play Terra baixa by Àngel Guimerà, Tiefland was d'Albert's sevent
Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague
Baritone Joseph Schwarz as Sebastiano in Tiefland. (c. 1916)
Ángel Guimerá, author of the play that inspired the librettist
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
Tiefland (opera)
…Terleckyj. The Sarasota Opera performed the opera five times in March 2018. In addition to Schmedes and Destinn, notable past performers have included: Kirsten Flagstad, who made her stage debut in 1913 at the age of 18 singing the role of Nuri at the National Theater in Oslo; the young Maria Callas, who sang the role…
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