Previous posts for May 17th may be found here: Erik Satie (2019), Birgit Nilsson and Zinka Milanov (2020), Erik Satie (2021), Erik Satie; Enya (2022), Erik Satie (2023), and Erik Satie; Bob Merrill (2024)
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Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a Swedish dramatic soprano and the supreme Wagnerian of her day.
Anything You Can Do…
Then there were the usual run of manipulative managers, impresarios, and the occasional tenor, most notoriously Franco Corelli, with whom she contested the duration of high Cs in Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot. (Both singers have said that this rivalry was more for the press than actual animosity.) – Dewey Faulkner, "The Last Valkyrie" @ https://yalereview.org
Birgit Nilsson and Corelli
Sang together, and woah Nellie!
When they had a high C battle
They could make the rafters rattle.
Their rivalry of jealous spite
Was re-enacted every night,
But later on in times less stressed
The artists (both of them) confessed,
And they admitted their duplicity
In having done it for publicity.
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