* 1925 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor

* Nicolai Gedda

* Handel: Messiah, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Grace Hoffman, Nicolai Gedda, and Jerome Hines

* Mozart: Die Zauberflöte ( The Magic Flute ), with Nicolai Gedda, Walter Berry, Gundula Janowitz, Lucia Popp, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as the First Lady

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), Richard van Allan, Janet Baker, Montserrat Caballe, Ileana Contrubas, Vladimiro Ganzarolli, Nicolai Gedda & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte

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.

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.

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.

** Hans Weber ( producer ), Leonard Bernstein ( conductor ), June Anderson, Nicolai Gedda, Adolph Green, Jerry Hadley, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Ollmann & the London Symphony Orchestra for Bernstein: Candide

The Paris Opera first staged the work in October 1974, directed by Patrice Chéreau with Nicolai Gedda in the title role.

* Capriccio ( Christa Ludwig, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Wolfgang Sawallisch ) ( 1957 ) EMI CDS 7 49014-8

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), Richard van Allan, Janet Baker, Montserrat Caballé, Ileana Cotrubaş, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Nicolai Gedda & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for Mozart: Così fan tutte

** Hans Weber ( producer ), Leonard Bernstein ( conductor ), June Anderson, Nicolai Gedda, Adolph Green, Jerry Hadley, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Ollmann & the London Symphony Orchestra for Bernstein: Candide

Fischer-Dieskau in a cameo non-singing role as the Speaker, with Hans Sotin as Sarastro, Nicolai Gedda as Tamino, Cristina Deutekom as Queen of the Night, Edith Mathis as Pamina, William Workman as Papageno.

She sang with many famous colleagues including tenors Beniamino Gigli, Mario Filippeschi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus, Jon Vickers, Luciano Pavarotti, and Plácido Domingo, mezzo sopranos Giulietta Simionato, Fedora Barbieri, Shirley Verrett, Lili Chookasian, Grace Bumbry, baritones Gino Bechi, Tito Gobbi.

The diva made many recordings, including Eugene Onegin ( 1956 and 1970 ), Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death ( 1961 and 1976 ), Britten's War Requiem ( with Sir Peter Pears and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, conducted by the composer ; 1963 ), The Poet's Echo ( 1968 ), Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov ( 1970 and 1987 ), Puccini's Tosca ( 1976 ), Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades ( with Regina Resnik, 1976 ), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ( 1978 ), Tchaikovsky's Iolanta ( with Nicolai Gedda, 1984 ), and Prokofiev's War and Peace ( 1986 ).

Nicolai Gedda ( left ), in Finland, debating about musical interpretation with m: fi: Caj Ehrstedt | Caj Ehrstedt ( on the right ), during the Korsholm Music Festival, in 1987.

Nicolai Gedda ( born 11 July 1925 ) is a Swedish operatic tenor.

Nicolai Harry Gustav Gedda ( gedda as ' gädda ' means ' pike ' in Swedish ) was born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a half-Russian father.

Nicolai Gedda was a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in 1994 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy.

Later the two wrote another biography: " Nicolai Gedda: My Life and Art ", which was published by Amadeus Press in 1999.

* Nicolai Gedda Fanpage-Un-official Nicolai Gedda fan website ( in English and German ).

She also notably sang the role of Maharanee in the United States premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Last Savage in a cast that included George London, Nicolai Gedda, Roberta Peters and Teresa Stratas.

Elena Nicolai sang Wagnerian roles, including the ' Die Walküre ' Brünnhilde at the Verona Arena, with great success.

Nicolai Ghiaurov sang the title role to great acclaim at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1974 and again in 1981.

Interestingly enough, many of these were recorded in her " mezzo period ", in the 1960s ( including excerpts of La forza del destino in German, with Bumbry as Leonora and Nicolai Gedda as Alvaro ).

Hamlet tries to show his mother Gertrude his father's ghost ( artist: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard | Nicolai A. Abildgaard ca.

Ludvig Holberg's 1741 novel Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum ( Niels Klim's Underground Travels ), in which Nicolai Klim falls through a cave while spelunking and spends several years living on a smaller globe both within and the inside of the outer shell.

Inspired by the Prose Edda narrative, Ymir suckles from the cow Auðumbla while she licks Búri from the ice in a painting by Nicolai Abildgaard ( 1790 )

The Count died in his residence in the factory on the 27th February 1784, while the Prince was staying in Kassel, and the death was recorded in the register of the St. Nicolai Church in Eckernförde.

His major influences while studying philosophy were Hans Driesch, Nicolai Hartmann and especially Max Scheler.

A Prussian-bred man, Nicolai felt at odds with emotional Italian opera while he lived near Milan.

* In Ludvig Holberg's 1741 novel Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum ( Niels Klim's Underground Travels ), Nicolai Klim falls through a cave while spelunking and spends several years living on both a smaller globe within and the inside of the outer shell.

* September 13 – Nicolai Ghiaurov, operatic bass ( d. 2004 )

Freni was married for many years to the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, with whom she performed and recorded.

Among the star guest singers during the Davis years were the sopranos Montserrat Caballé and Leontyne Price, the tenors Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolai Gedda and Luciano Pavarotti and the bass Gottlob Frick.

From Rome came the Norwegian Jesuit Laurentius Nicolai, whom she housed in an old Franciscan monastery that had been closed during the Reformation.

During World War I, pacifist doctor Georg Friedrich Nicolai was banned from Berlin to the remote area which had to be ceded in 1919 to Poland as a result of the Treaty of Versailles.

Nicolai Hartmann was once thought to be at the center of phenomenology, but perhaps no longer.

In 1921 the prestige of Nicolai Hartmann the Neo-Kantian, the Professor of Philosophy at Marburg, was added to the Movement ; he " publicly declared his solidarity with the actual work of die Phänomenologie.

* Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor ( 1849 ) by Carl Otto Nicolai, based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The Matrix theory they proposed was first suggested as a description of two branes in 11-dimensional supergravity by Bernard de Wit, Jens Hoppe, and Hermann Nicolai.

Other operas based on the novel have been composed by Gioachino Rossini ( Ivanhoé ), Thomas Sari ( Ivanhoé ), Bartolomeo Pisani ( Rebecca ), A. Castagnier ( Rébecca ), Otto Nicolai ( Il Templario ), and Heinrich Marschner ( Der Templer und die Jüdin ).

He had resided there only a month when he was called to Eisleben, where he remained till 1526 as teacher in the school of St Andrew, and preacher in the Nicolai church.

* 1812 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect ( d. 1881 )

* 1733 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German writer and bookseller ( d. 1811 )

* De Witt, B .; Hoppe, J .; Nicolai, H. " On The Quantum Mechanics Of Supermembranes ", Nucl. Phys.

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard ( September 11, 1743 – June 4, 1809 ), Danish artist, was born in Copenhagen, the son of Søren Abildgaard, an antiquarian draughtsman of repute, and Anne Margrethe Bastholm.

A late example is Scandinavia's most creative and forceful Counter-Reformation figure, the Jesuit Laurentius Nicolai Norvegicus, born as Laurids Nielsen after the Reformation, who attended Oslo Cathedral School in his youth.

* Mark R. McGee: Berlin 1925-1946-2000, 2000, Nicolai ' sche Verlag, ISBN 3-87584-901-9

Sakamoto collaborated with Alva Noto ( an alias of Carsten Nicolai ) to release Vrioon, an album of Sakamoto's piano clusters treated by Nicolai's unique style of digital manipulation, involving the creation of " micro-loops " and minimal percussion.

Another example is Ludvig Holberg's novel Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum, 1741.

* 1929 – Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer ( d. 2004 )

Of course filmmakers also tried to emulate the Leone cinematography ( at least the close-ups ) and most important of all, if Ennio Morricone couldn't compose the music for the film himself, composers like Luis Enrique Bacalov, Francesco Di Masi, Bruno Nicolai, Carlo Savina and others wrote something similar.

* June 9 – Carl Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor ( d. 1849 )