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	Kirsten Flagstad
		Kirsten Flagstad, her father and her grandfather were all born there.
		Flagstad loyally promoted his career as a conductor and encountered occasional opposition, a debt he repaid by rendering her great service both in the Norwegian law courts and on the concert platforms of America when she run in troubles after the war.
		It is amazing that Kirsten Flagstad still had so much power in her voice.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /kirsten_flagstad.html (3232 words)

	Kirsten Flagstad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Norwegian opera singer Kirsten Målfrid Flagstad (July 12, 1895 – December 7, 1962) was considered one of the greatest Wagnerian (dramatic) sopranos of the 20th century.
		Flagstad was born at Hamar in a musical family; her father was conductor Michael Flagstad and her mother pianist Marie Flagstad Johnsrud.
		Flagstad was hired for minor roles the first year, and then for the role of Sieglinde in Die Walküre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kirsten_Flagstad (846 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kirsten Flagstad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Flagstad's performance is majestical; this is just two years before she made her famous recording of Tristan and Isolde with Furtwangler conducting (the one in which Schwarzkopf sang a high C for her).
		Flagstad's cool approach (were the quick tempi her choice or Furtwangler's?) is not inappropriate for the music, and it is odd that in the first song, "Frühling," she sings a lower note than written in the final line of the second stanza.
		Flagstad says in the interview on this CD that she admired Strauss's music, in particular Der Rosenkavalier, and that she sang a performance of Beethoven's Ninth at Bayreuth with him conducting many years earlier.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kirsten-Flagstad (2279 words)

	Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano) - Short Biography
		Norwegian soprano, Kirsten Flagstad's father was a conductor, and her mother was a singing coach and pianist as well as her first teacher.
		Later in 1934, Kirsten Flagstad turned her sights on North America and auditioned at the Metropolitan Opera to succeed the reigning Wagnerian soprano Frida Leider.
		Flagstad continued to record and sing concerts, and was director of the Norwegian National Opera from 1958 to 1960.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Flagstad-Kirsten.htm (594 words)

	Amazon.ca: Prima Voce: Flagstad [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nimbus gathers Kirsten Flagstad's classic recordings from the late 1930s, when she burst upon the scene to become an overnight sensation in the U.S. Her huge but supple voice, laser-like in clarity and power, was too big for the microphones of her day, but it still comes across as an extraordinary instrument.
		Flagstad had a trill, and it is recorded in her rendition of "Ocean, you mighty monster." In the war cry, Wagner expects a trill that lasts many measures, but even though there is a sort of trill happening, it is not as clean as it should be.
		Flagstad's interpretation is very much of her day; an interpretation to wash you away in the drama, not to settle you down into your easy chair and just rest with it.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000037K5 (1123 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7871, Kirsten Flagstad, in Song - Booklet Note
		By the time Flagstad made the recordings on this disc no apology was needed for her lack of identification with the material she was interpreting.
		The composer with whose songs Flagstad felt the deepest affinity was predictably her compatriot Edvard Grieg, and she seldom gave a recital which did not include at least one group of his compositions.
		Flagstad loyally promoted his career as a conductor, not without encountering occasional opposition; a debt which he repaid by rendering her great service both in the Norwegian law courts and on the concert platforms of America when she ran into trouble after the war because of her husband's membership of the Nasjonal Samling Party.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/7871c.html (1416 words)

	Opera Shop: Kirsten Flagstad
		Kirsten Falgstad was the daughter of Norwegian conductor Michael Flagstad (1869-1930) and pianist Marie Flagstad Johnsrud.
		In 1940, with the outbreak of war and then the occupation of Norway, Flagstad wished to return home, to be with her husband, Henry Johansen.
		Flagstad’s recordings range from the old acoustics to the modern tape-transfer (tweaked) technology.
	bassocantante.com /opera/flagstad.html (802 words)

	Hedmark Reiseliv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kirsten Flagstad, her father and her grandfather were all born in ”Strandstuen”.
		As an international opera star, for much of her life Kirsten Flagstad was constantly on the move, with a hotel room as her home.
		And this is the place where the Kirsten Flagstad Museum can be found today, in the very same house in which she was born on 12th July 1895, close to the church where she was baptized.
	www.hedmark.com /viewentity.php?lng=en&id=1253 (297 words)

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		Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962), an operatic soprano, spent the first 18 years of her career in Scandinavia, singing opera, operetta and musical comedy.
		Kirsten Flagstad in recital, 1956 accompanied by Waldemar Alme.
		Kirsten Flagstad singing Norwegian hymns accompanied by the Filharmoniske selskap Orkester conducted by Oivin Fjeldstad.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ars/xml/ars2004_1.xml (5834 words)

	KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD
		As a result of her appearances in Bayreuth, Flagstad was invited to audition for the Metropolitan opera and engaged to sing Wagner.
		With the outbreak of war and then the occupation of Norway, Flagstad wished to return home, to be with her husband, Henry Johansen.
		Kirsten Flagstad was born in Hamar july 12, 1895 and died in Oslo december 7, 1962.
	www.gonorway.no /go/flagstad.html (568 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7847, Kirsten Flagstad - Booklet Note
		Kirsten, like the other children, played the piano (hating her compulsory hour's practice daily) and she also sang, in private and later at parties.
		But her career at this stage was to be in medicine, and it was only when she became ill after trying to cram three years' work into two that she began to think at all seriously about singing.
		Flagstad denied any such charge, and was convinced that both she and her husband had an enemy who persecuted both of them vindictively.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/7847c.html (926 words)

	The Lauritz Melchior Homepage (Frames) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The duo Melchior and Flagstad may be heard on many 78rpm records and recordings of integral live performances.
		Kirsten Flagstad still took part in the Solti recording of the whole ring, singing Fricka in 1958.
		One reason for this was, that Kirsten Flagstadt had decided to return to Norway to be with her husband.
	wap03.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de /weber1/melchior/melpart.htm.1 (2185 words)

	Kirsten Flagstad -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Flagstad came from a family of professional musicians and studied singing in Oslo, where, after her operatic debut there in 1913, she worked principally as a light soprano, singing oratorio, opera, and operetta.
		Norwegian opera singer Kirsten Flagstad received high acclaim for her portrayals of Isolde and Brünnhilde in Richard Wagner's Ring operas.
		Acclaimed as the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her time, Birgit Nilsson was considered the successor to Kirsten Flagstad.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034467 (363 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kirsten Flagstad (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Kirsten Flagstad (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Kirsten Flagstad, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
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	Allartist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kirsten Flagstad was born in Hamar, Norway in 1895 and made her debut in Oslo at the age of eighteen.
		She had a wide repertoire of opera and operetta but came to prominence only in 1933, when she sang at Bayreuth.
		She appeared at Covent Garden from 1948 to 1951 and, after retirement, became Director of the Norwegian National Opera in 1959.
	www.naxos.com /scripts/Artists_gallery/other_artists.asp?artist_name=Flagstad_Kirsten&artisttype=historical (139 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Kindertotenlieder, here transposed up a minor third (presumably to accommodate the soprano range) audibly taxes Kirsten Flagstad's apparently waning powers (she was in her 62nd year at the time of this recording).
		Flagstad does distinctly characterize each of the songs, however, which is more than can be said for her Wayfarer Songs, where she sounds a bit tired and uninspired by the whole business.
		In the arias that follow, Flagstad's vivid recreations of Elsa, Kundry (though she's a little tame here), and especially Sieglinde certify without a doubt that Wagner was her thing, and it brought out the best in her.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=4183 (326 words)

	Kirsten Flagstad Concert
		Kirsten Flagstad, soprano/Philharmonia Orch/Wilhelm Furtw”ngler (May 22, 1950).
		Today's audiences might be surprised to know that Kirsten Flagstad sang the world premiere of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs.
		In the final song, "Im Abendrot," it's obvious during the last minute or so that a quite expert splice from another recording has been introduced, although at the end, with a change of ambience, we are back to the original for the applause.
	classicalcdreview.com /flagstad.htm (530 words)

	VIP Records: Lauritz Melchior & Kirsten Flagstad Sing Wagner
		Without question, Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad were the premiere Wagnerians of their time.
		Their 78's for Victor recorded in the thirties and early forties are treasured by record collectors all over the world.
		The balance of the voices is quite forward, and in most cases that would be a serious drawback, but the voices of Melchior and Flagstad can stand up to the close perspective.
	www.vintageip.com /records/vipop1001.html (466 words)

	Kirsten Flagstad Museum \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Hamar \| Frommers.com
		If you've never heard the music of Norway's greatest opera diva, Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962), it's worth it to come here and listen to her operatic recording in a special room.
		A special costume room is of particular interest because the Metropolitan Opera contributed some of the gowns that Kirsten wore in her most famous performances.
		The collection of recordings here is the largest Flagstad trove in the world, covering her entire career from her first recordings in 1914 to her last memorable recordings in San Francisco.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/hamar/A32452.html (236 words)

	Kirsten Flagstad: Great Artists of the Century = WAGNER: Wesendonck Lieder; Tannhauser: Allmacht&Mac226; ge Jungfrau; ...
		With the exception of the Siegfried excerpt (1951), these recordings by the great Wagnerian helden-soprano Kirsten Flagsten (1895-1962) date from 1948, when her voice still had solid intonation and projection, as well as suave flexibility of line.
		The upper range is a bit tight and strained, but Flagstad’s maturity of characterization compensates for the few vocal liabilities of her late career.
		As ever, Flagstad’s tone is massive, her diction rounded and sensual, especially in the Twilight of the Gods and Tristan excerpts.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=86 (509 words)

	Biography and Discography - Kirsten Flagstad
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	Kirsten Ralov -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		née Kirsten Gnatt Danish dancer, ballet teacher, and, from 1978 to 1988, associate artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet.
		Ralov began studying in Vienna but soon moved with her Danish parents to Copenhagen, where she was accepted (1928) into the Royal Danish Ballet School with her brother, Poul Gnatt.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9062551 (422 words)

	Kirsten Flagstad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born in Stranstuen, Hamar, Norway, Norwegian soprano Kisten Flagstad's...
		The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) (as Kirsten Flagstad of the Metropolitan Opera Company)....
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	eBay - kirsten flagstad, Records, Theater Memorabilia items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD sings EDVARD GRIEG Record 78 rpm
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		Kirsten Flagstad -Wagner: Immolation Scene- RCA Nm Lp
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	Kirsten Flagstad - La Voix du Siècle by Kirsten Flagstad CD
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	Amazon.com: Wagner: Opera Arias: Music: Richard Wagner,Georges Sebastian,Issay Alexandrovich Dobroven,Wilhelm ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Performed by Philharmonia Orchestra with Kirsten Flagstad, Set Svanholm
		Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90 Doch nun von Tristan?, Isolde's Narrative and Curse
		Performed by Philharmonia Orchestra with Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Hongen
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005GOF?v=glance (386 words)

	Reviews - Kirsten Flagstad - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD
		Lauritz Melchior (tenor); Kirsten Flagstad (soprano); Gordon Dilworth (baritone)
		Kirsten Flagstad (soprano); Lauritz Melchior (tenor); Arnold Gabor (baritone); Herbert Janssen (baritone)
		Ludwig Suthaus (tenor); Kirsten Flagstad (soprano); Blanche Thebom (mezzo-soprano); Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone); Josef Greindl (bass)
	www.classicstoday.com /digest/pdigest.asp?perfidx=2665 (477 words)

	tittel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kirsten Flagstad as Sieglinde - Metropolitan Opera 2.2.
		Kirsten Flagstad as Elisabeth - Metropolitan Opera 1935
		Kirsten Flagstad as Dido - Mermaid Theatre London 1951
	www.kirsten-flagstad.no /norsk/norsk_bildegalleri.htm (41 words)

	Divas - The Site / The Opera Divas / Kirsten Flagstad
		Whenever she appeared in one of her roles at a new opera house, she would send a personal assistant to the management, who told them step-by-step every stage movement that Flagstad would make during the course of the performance!
		She once arrived late to an orchestra rehearsal of Tristan und Isolde at Covent Garden, and upon pulling up the opera house in her taxicab, heard her entrance music being played from inside.
		Geliebter!" in a voice so loud and full that it stopped all activity in the market around the Royal Opera House, while simultaneously being heard perfectly well within the walls of the auditorium.
	www.divasthesite.com /Opera_Divas/Kirsten_Flagstad.htm (288 words)

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