Kirsten Flagstad
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title:
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 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 New Grove Dictionary of
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Norwegian operatic singer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Flagstad
date created:
2004-08-12T21:29:15Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T10:50:51Z
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