Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

** Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano ( d. 2005 )

Among them, Zarah Leander, Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich, Evert Taube, ABBA, Lasse Dahlquist, Birgit Nilsson, Pernilla Wahlgren and Carola Häggkvist.

* – Birgit Nilsson as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

* Birgit Nilsson ( 1918 – 2005 ), a Swedish soprano

The last performance was on March 21, 1961 with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli in Turandot.

Other celebrated singers who debuted at the Met during Bing's tenure include: Maria Callas, who had a bitter falling out with Bing over repertoire, Renata Tebaldi, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Sherrill Milnes, and Cesare Siepi.

Among the artists, Leonard Bernstein and Birgit Nilsson gave their last performances with the company at the concert.

** Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), Birgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Björling, Renata Tebaldi & the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Turandot

Also sopranos Christina Nilsson, Birgit Nilsson, and tenor Nicolai Gedda, baritone Håkan Hagegård and the contemporary mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter have become known in the world of opera.

** Georg Solti ( conductor ), Regine Crespin, Hans Hotter, James King, Christa Ludwig, Birgit Nilsson, & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walkure

Operans Guldfoajén: The Golden Hall ( with a bust of Swedish singer Birgit Nilsson ) at the Royal Swedish Opera.

Famous singers who originally were ( or still are ) part of the opera's ensemble are Jussi Björling, Gösta Winbergh, Nicolai Gedda, Peter Mattei, Jenny Lind, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Söderström, Anne Sofie von Otter, Katarina Dalayman and Nina Stemme.

* Birgit Nilsson

Soloists: Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, Eberhard Waechter, ( Deutsche Grammophon, stereo )

Soloists: Helga Dernesch, Birgit Nilsson, Theo Adam, James King, Leonie Rysanek, Wolfgang Windgassen, ( Philips, stereo )

He would sing to great acclaim at the Met until 1974 in roles such as Calaf ( with Birgit Nilsson as Turandot ), Cavaradossi, Maurizio, Ernani, Rodolfo and Edgardo.

Other important commercial recordings include Rigoletto with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Carlo Bergonzi under Rafael Kubelík, Turandot with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli under Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, I Pagliacci with José Carreras, Cavalleria rusticana with Plácido Domingo, Norma with Tatiana Troyanos, Otello ( Verdi's ), Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea Chénier.

* Birgit Nilsson

Since 1923, SFO has presented the U. S. debut of numerous artists, including Vladimir Atlantov, Inge Borkh, Boris Christoff, Marie Collier, Zdzisława Donat, Sir Geraint Evans, Mafalda Favero, Leyla Gencer, Tito Gobbi, Sena Jurinac, Mario del Monaco, Anna Netrebko, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Margaret Price, Leonie Rysanek, Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anja Silja, Giulietta Simionato, Ebe Stignani, Renata Tebaldi and Ingvar Wixell ; conductors Gerd Albrecht, Valery Gergiev, Sir Georg Solti and Silvio Varviso ; and directors Francis Ford Coppola, Harry Kupfer and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.

Throughout the many years at the Lyric, Carol Fox developed the confidence and authority to bring the following world-famous artists to the Lyric: Luciano Pavarotti ( 56 performances in 7 roles ), Tito Gobbi, Eleanor Steber, Jussi Björling, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulietta Simionato, Richard Tucker, Boris Christoff, Eileen Farrell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Robert Merrill, Joan Sutherland, Christa Ludwig, Jon Vickers, Marilyn Horne, Grace Bumbry, Monserrat Caballe, Tatiana Troyanos, Sherill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Felicia Weathers and Jose Carreras.

** Georg Solti ( conductor ), Regine Crespin, Hans Hotter, James King, Christa Ludwig, Birgit Nilsson, & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walküre

** Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), Birgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Björling, Renata Tebaldi & the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Turandot

As a result Birgit Hogefeld and Wolfgang Grams were to be arrested in Bad Kleinen.

** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.

In 2008 he married Birgit, who was 30 years his junior and was formerly a flight attendant for his airline.

In September 2009 Birgit gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.

* Birgit Erler: The speech act of forbidding and its realizations: A linguistic analysis.

Birgit Lechtermann hosted a version for VOX in Germany from 1993 to 1994.

Among the international players were China's Sun Wen, Pu Wei, Fan Yunjie, Zhang Ouying, Gao Hong, Zhao Lihong, and Bai Jie ; Germany's Birgit Prinz, Conny Pohlers, Steffi Jones and Maren Meinert ; Norway's Hege Riise, Unni Lehn, and Dagny Mellgren ; Brazil's Sissi, Kátia and Pretinha ; and Canada's Charmaine Hooper, Sharolta Nonen, and Christine Latham.

* June 27, 1993: Arrest of RAF terrorists Birgit Hogefeld and Wolfgang Grams in Bad Kleinen.

In 1994, Birgit Scherzer, then director and choreographer of the Saarbrücken Staatstheater Ballet in Germany used the Hauser story as the basis for a ballet Kasper Hauser which she presented at the Saarbrücken Staatstheater.

He appeared with actress / singer Birgit Kronström in the 1941 romantic comedy " Onnellinen ministeri " (" Happy Minister "), which included the famous song " Katupoikien Laulu ", remade by other Finnish pop singers including Katri Helena.

Soloists have included, in chronological order of the 39 recordings listed on the bach-cantatas website, Helen Watts, Maureen Forrester, Paul Esswood, Birgit Finnilä, Jadwiga Rappé, Sytse Buwalda and Daniel Taylor.

Conductors have also included Rudolf Barshai and Ludwig Güttler, singers Birgit Finnilä, Jadwiga Rappé and Monica Groop.

Editor Folkert Jensma was succeeded on 12 December 2006, by Birgit Donker.

Zurich Opera in Switzerland mounted Semele in 2007 as a vehicle for Cecilia Bartoli, with Birgit Remmert and Charles Workman as Juno and Jupiter and William Christie conducting.

At the end of 1992, three of the four representatives of the People's Movement in the European Parliament ( Jens-Peter Bonde, Birgit Bjørnvig og Ulla Sandbæk ) decided to represent the June Movement for the rest of the election term.

Next year he will be defending his STCC title however, Frederik Ekblom will not be contesting in the STCC as he has signed with Volvo Polestar in the silhouette touring car championship run by the TTA which is based on a Volvo C30 chassis and many teams and successful Swedish drivers, i. e. Jan " Flash " Nilsson and Richard Göransson, who were STCC BMW drivers in the 2011 season.

Nilsson believes that the original cult of Ploutos ( or Pluto ) in Eleusis was similar with the Minoan cult of the " divine child ", who died in order to be reborn.

Even so, the total perturbation does not coincide with experiment, and an empirical spin orbit coupling, named the Nilsson Term, must be added with at least two or three different values of its coupling constant, depending on the nuclei being studied.

In a show of friendship, Lennon accompanied Nilsson to negotiations, and both intimated to RCA that Lennon and Starr might want to sign with them, once their Apple Records contracts with EMI expired in 1975, but would not be interested if Nilsson were no longer with the label.

Finally, Nilsson recorded what he later considered to be his favorite album, 1977's Knnillssonn.

With his voice strong again, and his songs exploring musical territory reminiscent of Harry or The Point !, Nilsson anticipated Knnillssonn to be a comeback album.

* Nilsson by Tipton ( 1970, Warner Bros. Records ), Although it may not be considered a tribute, it featured George Tipton conducting instrumental versions of 11 Nilsson songs.

However, he subsequently fell out with the majority of the Swedish nobility, most prominently Svante Nilsson, and the Swedish council of the realm declared him to be deposed as regent on 8 March 1497.

Harry Nilsson brought a VHS copy of the film to the 1982 New York Beatlefest convention, to be shown only at a special Friday night party that host Mark Lapidos was giving for the convention guests and vendors.

Nilsson, Juslin and Olsson ( 2008 ) found this to be influenced by the

While the film's music disappointed fans of the band's more traditional pop sound, it features what some critics considered to be some of the best recorded work by The Monkees, including songs contributed by Carole King and Harry Nilsson.

Lennon thought it would be a good idea for the musicians to live under one roof to ensure they would get to the studio on time, so Pang rented a beach house in Santa Monica, for her, Lennon, Nilsson, Ringo Starr and Keith Moon to live in.

( Literally hours before his 1994 death, Nilsson finished recording the final vocal tracks for a planned ' comeback ' album, but it has yet to be released.

It was from the beginning only supposed to be temporary but after a few months of good results, Nilsson was contracted for the whole season.

Following a vibrant vocal and visual display on the night — with choreography that appeared to be somewhat influenced by Carola's famous routine from the 1991 contest — Selma shot into an early lead in the voting, but was gradually pegged back by Sweden, represented by Charlotte Nilsson.

It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists like Zager and Evans, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Chicago, The Doors and Kraftwerk in its seven-year run.

In 1992 the band split up, after Johansson and Nilsson had left the band in 1991, and no suitable replacements could be found.

During the time he spent at Wednesday, Nilsson became a real favourite amongst the club's fans as his performances proved to be a catalyst for a footballing renaissance at Hillsborough.

A number of Wednesday's fans still consider Nilsson to be the best right-back, and perhaps even the best foreigner, to ever play for the club.

In January 1994, Nilsson announced that he was suffering from homesickness and asked to be sold to a Swedish club.