Lisa Davidsen has been starring as Isolde in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde.” At the ...

Konecranes Plc (HEL:KCR) shares dropped 6.02% on Friday following the company’s Annual General Meeting, which approved a share split that will dilute existing shareholders’ dividend entitlement. On ...

The Swedish soprano spoke to us ahead of her Royal Opera House performances as Brünnhilde in Barrie Kosky’s new staging of Wagner’s Siegfried Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid has become one of the most ...

The Birgit Nilsson Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is the a look at the vocal performances. Opera singer and actor Richard Hamrin, together with pianist Eric Skarby, takes the audience on ...

Salome was 16 and slinky-slim. Birgit Nilsson is 46 and boatswain-burly. As for casting the Swede in the title role of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the idea seemed roughly comparable to starring Judith ...

The calling card of a live (and open-air) 1973 Tristan und Isolde is the chance to hear Nilsson in her favourite role alongside Jon Vickers. At the start here audience chatter and picnic rustling ...

Stuart Skelton, Nina Stemme and Brian Mulligan as Tristan, Isolde and Kurwenal performing behind the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photo: Jessica Griffin / Philadelphia O ...