The Court singer Hillevi Martin Pelto leads this year’s Master Class at Birgit Nilsson Museum

Soprano Hillevi Martinpelto debuted at the Royal Opera in Stockholm as Cio Cio San in Madame Butterfly and has since performed on most of the world’s leading opera and concert hall stages, for example in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Dresden, Leipzig, Salzburg, Vienna, Milan, Florence, Rome, Amsterdam, Brussels, Edinburgh, London (where she participated in 8 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall), Glyndebourne, New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Tokyo and Hong Kong. She has worked with conductors such as Sir John Eliot…

The Court singer Hillevi Martin Pelto leads this year’s Master Class at Birgit Nilsson Museum

Wonderful feature about Birgit Nilsson in Opernwelt

This summer Opernwelt visited the Birgit Nilsson Museum and hiked around the Bjare Penninsula in Birgit’s footsteps. The resulting feature entitled “Brünnhilde from Båstad” is a wonderful portrait of both La Nilsson’s roots and legacy. The barn is divided into three parts: At the two ends are the brick boxes for the pigs, while in the middle there is enough space and feeding troughs for the cattle. During the day, they graze on the green meadows that stretch across the…

Wonderful feature about Birgit Nilsson in Opernwelt