Birgit Nilsson interview: 'I passed over a bridge I thought really of jumping in. If performing in opera was like this, I couldn’t go on' | Classic interview

Alan Blyth
Monday, January 2, 2023

Birgit Nilsson spoke to Alan Blyth for Gramophone's January 1970 issue...

Birgit Nilsson (Tully Potter Collection)

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