The Birgit Nilsson Days
The Birgit Nilsson Days were inaugurated in 2018. Although a relatively new addition to the museum calendar, the summer master classes and concerts grew out of a long history of events in Västra Karup, in which Birgit herself performed many times.
” In interview journalists often ask in which place I have sunbathe longest or where I prefer to preform” reminisced Birgit 1982. “Quite reflectively, I usually say that at the Stockholm Opera I have sung for 35 years, in Vienna and Munich 28, at the Metropolitan 22 and so on. It was not until now that it struck me that in my hometown of Västra Karup I have sung the longest.”
The Birgit Nilsson Days rekindle the spirit of those earlier concerts by supporting and highlighting young Swedish talent and drawing international artists to the small community of her home region in the south of Sweden.
From potatoes to opera
Documentary
In this documentary film, you get an insight into the Birgit Nilsson days and the annual Master Class that has been held at the museum for many years. The film also contains a number of archive clips with Birgit Nilsson, which have never before been shown publicly.
The film premiered on June 28, 2020 on Musik i Syd Channel in connection with the Birgit Nilsson Museum’s 10-year anniversary and season opening.