STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- She was a celebrated star on the stages of the world's greatest opera houses. But a diva, Birgit Nilsson was not. "The thing that was remarkably wonderful about her was that she ...

A $1 million classical music prize has been established to commemorate the late Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson. The prize is the largest to be awarded in the history of classical music and is to ...

Elisabeth Soderstrom, a Swedish soprano who was greatly admired for her sensitive operatic roles and for her refined, delicately shaded voice, died of a stroke Friday in Stockholm. She was 82. During ...

Elisabeth Soderstrom, 82, a Swedish soprano who was greatly admired for her sensitive operatic roles and for her refined, delicately shaded voice, died Nov. 20 of a stroke in Stockholm. During a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Swedish opera soprano Nina Stemme Swedish opera singer Nina Stemme has won the one-million dollar prize awarded in memory of ...

About the Episode Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme sings her first Met performances of the demanding title role of Puccini’s imperious Chinese princess, with Anita Hartig in her company role debut ...

Is there any love story in which love conquers as much - up to and including death - as it does in "Tristan and Isolde"? The couple at the center of Richard Wagner's opera are seized by other passions ...

STOCKHOLMSTOCKHOLM — Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says. Olow says Soderstrom died in Stockholm early Friday morning of ...

The long list of departed opera stars sadly grew again Friday with the death of Elisabeth Soderstrom in Stockholm at the age of 82, following a stroke. The Swedish soprano, born in 1927, was an ...