Birgit Nordin [SEP] voice type
Birgit Nordin
Birgit Nordin (born 22 February 1934 in Sangis, Sweden) is a Swedish opera soprano. 
Education.
Nordin attended the Stockholm Royal College of Music from 1956 to 1958, studying under Britta von Vegesack. Later she trained with Lina Pagliughi in Italy.
Career.
Nordin joined the company of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm where she worked from 1958 to 1986.
Nordin's debut was as Oscar in Verdi's "Masked Ball" on 21 October 1958 and she was part of the
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The opera was conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini at the Holland Festival in 1959, the production also being seen and televised from the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July the same year, where Luigi Alva, Michel Hamel and Mariella Adani were among the cast. Conducted by Sergiu Comissiona it was performed in a staging by Etienne Glaser at Drottningholm in August 1969, with Margareta Hallin, Birgit Nordin as the daughters, Erik Saedén as Ernesto, Jonny Blanc as Ecclitico, and Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö as Cecco.