Birgit Nilsson
- Category : Entertain-Music-Vocalist-Opera
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 2/4 - Hermit / Opportunist
- Definition : Split - Small (9)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Contagion 2
Categories
- Birth Year: 1918
- Birthday: 17. May
- Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
- Category: Entertain-Music-Vocalist-Opera
- Profile: 2-4
- Type: Emotional Manifesting Generator
- Inc.Cross: Contagion 2
- Definition: Double Split - Small (9)
- Variables: BLL-MRR
- 1949 Synthesis
- 2145 The Money Line
- 0214 Beat
- 1020 Awakening
- 1333 The Prodigal
- 2946 Discovery
Biography
Swedish soprano opera singer who received her first operatic contract in 1947 and sang at the Metropolitan Opera on 12/18/1959. She sang at weddings and funerals for ten years before receiving her first big break.
Her family needed her on the farm when she was young, but she broke away anyway to study in Stockholm. Her father objected, but her mother funded her with a legacy. Nilsson married Swedish restaurateur Bertil Niklasson on 9/10/1949. She died on December 25, 2005 in Vastra Karup, Sweden, age 87. Before she died she named Placido Domingo the recipient of the first prize in her name, to be awarded after her death, for "unrivaled comtributions to the world of opera." Domingo was notified of the $1 million award in October 2009.