Died 26 May 1982 Record labels Malibran, IDIS | Genre Classical | |
Albums Wagner : Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth Festival 1928) Similar Karl Elmendorff, Rudolf Bockelmann, Ivar F Andresen, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Frieder Weissmann | ||
Nanny lars n todsen wagner tristan und isolde liebestod
Nanny Larsén-Todsen (2 August 1884 - 26 May 1982) was a Swedish soprano, renowned for her performances in works by Richard Wagner and counted as one of the most notable Wagnerian sopranos of the 20th-century, from the generation before Frida Leider and Kirsten Flagstad. She was particularly popular at the Bayreuth Festival as Brunnhilde and Isolde.
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Active at the Royal Swedish Opera 1906-25, at La Scala 1923-24, the Metropolitan Opera 1925-27, and Bayreuth in 1927-31, she also made guest appearances at most of the major European opera houses. Her last appearance was at the Paris Opera in 1937, as Isolde. She received Litteris et Artibus in 1920, was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1924, and made Hovsångerska in 1925.
Living in Stockholm following her retirement from the stage, Larsén-Todsen taught singing.
Recordings
Originally issued by Columbia EMI in 1929 on 20 discs (Columbia GOX 10532-10551), this was recorded (without audience) in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus with the approval of Siegfried Wagner during the late summer of 1928.
There were several CD reissues: Naxos CD 8.110200-02 (3 CDs) | Grammofono 2000 AB 78925-26 (2 CDs) | Preiser PSR 90383 (2 CDs)
Songs
Götterdämmung: Hier sitz ich zur Wacht
Tristan und Isolde: Acte I - prélude
Tristan und Isolde: Acte I - Frisch weht der wind der heimat zu