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Birgit Nilsson in conversation with Opernwelt

In your book "La Nilsson. Mein Leben für die Oper" you write that Wieland Wagner said, "La Nilsson was famous even before she became great."  Was he right saying this?

I became greater through working with him.  I am very grateful to have been able to work with him.  But indeed I had to wait more than nine years after our first acquaintance before he inv…