Movies: Birgit Nilsson
- 1967
Stimulantia (1967)
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Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstra...
- 1996
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary (1996)
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This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I could not stop watching these discs. Let me say this much; Levine has done for the Met, making it the p...
- 1965
The Golden Ring (1965)
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Watching the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti, and a stellar cast record Wagner's immense Götterdämmerung for Decca in the fall of 1964 provides a thousand lessons in the art of working under pressure. For this classic documentary, The Golden Ring, a...
- 1980
Richard Strauss: Elektra (1980)
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It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannstahl, transformed Sophocles' take on Homer's tale into a harrowing opera noir. Elektra lives fo...
- 1951
Poker (1951)
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Sven Bergström is charged with murder, alternatively a man slaughter, on an infamous professional poker player called "The Rover". The trial is in progress. In retrospect, we witness Svens life until the time of the crime....
- 1980
Elektra (1980)
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The Metropolitan Opera live production of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra on February 16, 1980...
- 1973
Tristan und Isolde (1973)
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Birgit Nilsson and Jon Vickers star in this filmed record of the Theatre Antique d'Orange's acclaimed 1973 production of Wagner's epic tale of doomed love in the Middle Ages. Tristan und Isolde also features the Orchestre National de R.T.F., under th...
- 1970
Birgit Nilsson: Glimtar från sångerskans verksamhet (1970)
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In the autumn of 1968, Director Eric M. Nilsson and film team accompany Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson during the many-faceted events of her life, on and off stage....
- 1969
A Tribute To Hans Knappertsbusch (1969)
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