Christina Nilsson

Christine Nilson
Nilsson in 1870
Born
Christina Jonasdotter

20 August 1843 (1843-08-20)
near Växjö, Småland, Sweden
Died22 November 1921 (1921-11-23) (aged 78)
Occupationopera singer

Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, also called Christine Nilsson[1] (20 August 1843 – 22 November 1921)[2] was a Swedish operatic dramatic coloratura soprano. Possessed of a pure and brilliant voice (B3-F6), first three then two and a half octaves trained in the bel canto technique, and noted for her graceful appearance and stage presence,[3][4][5] she enjoyed a twenty-year career as a top-rank international singer before her 1888 retirement.[3] A contemporary of one of the Victorian era's most famous divas, Adelina Patti,[6] the two were often compared by reviewers and audiences, and were sometimes believed to be rivals.[4][7] Nilsson became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1869.

  1. ^ "Nilsson, Christine (1843–1921) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ Warrack, John; West, Ewan (1996). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford University Press. p. 365. ISBN 978-0-19-280028-2. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b Rowden, Clair (2018). "Deferent Daisies: Caroline Miolan Carvalho, Christine Nilsson and Marguerite, 1869" (PDF). Cambridge Opera Journal. 30 (2–3). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 237–258. doi:10.1017/s0954586719000089. ISSN 0954-5867. S2CID 186985223. [1]
  4. ^ a b The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia. Stanford University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8047-3247-5.
  5. ^ The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5.
  6. ^ Freitas, Roger (1 August 2018). "Singing Herself: Adelina Patti and the Performance of Femininity". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 71 (2): 287–369. doi:10.1525/jams.2018.71.2.287. Retrieved 19 December 2021 – via online.ucpress.edu.
  7. ^ "One of the most important and brilliant rivals of Adelina Patti was Christine Nilsson, a Swede."[2]

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