In Aida at the Tennis Stadium in Båstad conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra created ”a truly Verdian sound”, writes Opera with Opera News. The September issue is also strucked by the fact that several former Birgit Nilsson Stipendium recipients participated, in addition to this year's recipient Karolina Bengtsson in the role of the priestess. Christina Nilsson sang Aida ”with gleaming power” and with the Nile Aria as ”the highlight” of the evening, Fredrik Zetterström (Amonasro) was…
”Båstad is Birgit Nilsson's homeland, and when the foundation that bears her name decides to stage Aida outdoors, it knows how to do things, write the French opera web Forumopera in a very entusiastic review. Read more: https://www.forumopera.com/spectacle/verdi-aida-bastad/ … There will be a sound system, so that no vocal or orchestral detail escapes the spectators, the concentration of the audience and the quality of its silence allowed for a near-ideal reception of the work. And the Scandinavian nightfall is poetic in its poetry.…
With more than 20 events which ran from 3-9 August, the Birgit Nilsson Festival 2025 closed with a performance of Verdi’s Aida - a grand finale with a record audience – 3,469 people at the Tennis Stadium in Båstad. The week also offered everything from a Stipendium recital to a Master Class, concerts, talks, musical meetings, films and sing-alongs for the whole family! The planning for the BIRGIT NILSSON FESTIVAL 2026 is already in full swing and following the applause…
Birgit Nilsson Festival (August 3-9) is Skåne's largest summer festival for opera and classical music. Opera, concerts, film screenings, exhibitions, talks, meetings, masterclasses. Plus a sing-along for the whole family with Rickard Söderberg, among others, and finally the grand finale at Båstad Tennis Stadium - Verdi's grand opera with our new world star, soprano Christina Nilsson in the title role. A central meeting place during the festival week is the Birgit Nilsson Museum at the farm where the great singer…
Opera and classical music in Birgit Nilsson country
SEK 250,000 will be awarded to this year's Birgit Nilsson Stipendium recipient, Swedish soprano Karolina Bengtsson. The official announcement was made on May 17, Birgit's birthday, during celebrations at the Birgit Nilsson Museum. On August 8, Karolina Bengtsson will give her Stipendium recital in Birgit's “own” Västra Karup church. "What an honour! It is an incredible feeling to be awarded the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Stipendium” said Karolina on receiving the news.”In addition to the honour, it is also recognition -…
Karolina Bengtsson awarded this year’s Birgit Nilsson Stipendium
Birgit Nilsson lived on the farm in Svenstad with her parents until she was 23 years old. It was a simple upbringing without electricity or running water and the first amenities were not installed until the 1930s. Birgit helped with all the chores on the farm. She thinned beets, planted potatoes, harvested hay and milked cows. In other words, it was a life far removed from what she would later experience as one of the world’s most famous opera singers.…
Sweden's newest international star - soprano Christina Nilsson - will sing Verdi's Aida at Båstad's Tennis Stadium, as the finale of the Birgit Nilsson Festival 2025. She recently made her New York debut performing Aida to standing ovations and acclaim from the press and audience at the Metropolitan Opera - perhaps the most prestigious opera house in the world. In Båstad, Christina replaces the Lebanese-Canadian soprano Joyce El-Khoury. With acclaimed performances three years running at the Birgit Nilsson Days, El-Khoury…
Nilsson takes over the role at the Nilsson Festival
Opera on Sweden’s famous Tennis Centre Court in Båstad, a special exhibition, concerts and talks at the Birgit Nilsson Museum, the Stipendium Recital in “Birgit’s Church” at Västra Karup, a public masterclass at Ravinen Cultural Centre, plus screenings of historic performances and tv appearances at the local Scala Cinema. The 2025 Birgit Nilsson Festival presents more than 20 events between 3 & 9 August. “With this year‘s Festival we are aiming higher than ever before. It will be a programme…
Camilla Tilling leads the Birgit Nilsson Master Class 2025 Camilla Tilling trained as a singing teacher but instead took a "detour" and became a great soprano favorite with conductors, audiences and critics. But - in the middle of an international career, this summer she gets to show off her pedagogical skills and train the next generation of singers at a Master class in front of an audience during the Birgit Nilsson Festival. After Camilla started the festival week as a…
Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) was one of the greatest opera singers of the twentieth century. Her superb voice and supreme stage presence were praised by critics and audiences alike, bringing her international recognition as the world’s leading dramatic soprano and a legendary interpreter of especially Wagner, Strauss and Puccini. Birgit Nilsson made her operatic debut at the Swedish Royal Opera in 1946 and achieved international stardom in the mid 1950’s with her debuts in Vienna, Bayreuth, Buenos Aires, San Francisco and Chicago. She added a…
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