Kirsten Flagstad collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording] 1935-1960

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Kirsten Flagstad collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording] 1935-1960

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20519

These tapes constitute a large portion of the noncommercial recordings collected by Flagstad of her own performances and interviews. Recordings originating from Norway include Flagstad's farewell concert of December 12, 1953, and fourteen tapes recorded privately at the Norwegian Broadcast Service in 1954 and 1958 featuring songs by Norwegian composers.

75 sound tape reels, analog; 73, analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono, 7 in.; 2

The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6316811

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gv6ctc (corporateBody)

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as current general manager (2021). As of 2018, the company's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Met was founded in 1883 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house, and debuted the same year in...

Flagstad, Kirsten, 1895-1962

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6th8wvf (person)

Flagstad was a Norwegian soprano who achieved international recognition with her Metropolitan Opera debut on February 2, 1935. From the description of Kirsten Flagstad collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording], 1935-1960. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 123527574 From the guide to the Kirsten Flagstad collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording], 1935-1960, (The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded So...