Birgitte Christensen – Ketil Bjornstad: Flagstad – The Opera (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Birgitte Christensen – Ketil Bjornstad: Flagstad – The Opera (2021)
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A newly written opera about Kirsten Flagstad! In Flagstad – An Opera we get close to our biggest international opera star. The woman called “the Voice of the Century” looks back on her turbulent life, in a work written by Ketil Bjørnstad and Einar Bjørge.

A star is born! Kirsten Flagstad was born into a musical family in Hamar and was early discovered as a unique talent, and with perfect pitch. She made her debut at the National Theater as an 18-year-old in the role of Nuri in the opera Tifland by d’Albert in 1913. Nevertheless, it would be many years before she made her major international debut at the Metropolitan in New York as a 40-year-old in 1935. she starred overnight in the role of Sieglinde in Wagner’s Valkyrie. Pretty soon she was in demand all over the world, both as a Wagnerian interpreter and concert singer.

Flagstad’s triumphs and tragedies: This year it is 125 years since Kirsten Flagstad was born in Hamar on July 12, 1895. We celebrate this with the Oslo Opera Festival and Kirsten Flagstad Festival with an opera by Ketil Bjørnstad and Einar Bjørge, and with Birgitte Christensen and Lise Granden Berg in the role of Flagstad.

Flagstad settles here with key moments in her life – her artistic victories and her greatest personal defeats. The performance is based on new source material and focuses on the people-shy woman who won the whole world with her voice, but who met her greatest opposition at home in Norway.

Tracklist:

01. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Did he call? (01:58)
02. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Are you in pain? (01:24)
03. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Some more letters (01:21)
04. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: But you are so young (01:02)
05. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Now I will give you the injection (01:45)
06. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Flagstad, all that is gone (05:37)
07. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Henry!, Henry! (01:18)
08. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Und die Seel unbewacht (02:10)
09. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Else? (01:53)
10. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Bellini-fragment (01:22)
11. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: You know music is a language (02:12)
12. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: When she got married, Else (03:10)
13. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Bring me a glass of water, will you? (02:51)
14. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Did he call, did Bernhard call? (03:46)
15. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: How do we know what fate has kept in store for us? (02:56)
16. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Before the curtain fell (02:01)
17. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: The war. Felt like it would never end (04:18)
18. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: He was the kindest man there is (01:14)
19. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: They kept us separated (03:01)
20. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: You know, they didn’t let me sing in Norway (03:57)
21. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Bernard, you came (03:38)
22. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Send them my love (01:38)
23. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: I gave her more than usual this time (03:31)
24. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: When I have sung my songs to you (02:00)
25. Birgitte Christensen – BjørnstadBjörge: Applause (00:57)

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