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Opera Star Kirsten Flagstad Dies in Oslo at 67
Oslo reports the death of Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad at 67. The Metropolitan Opera stalwart debuted in 1935 as Sieglinde and led the company during difficult postwar years. She left the U.S. in 1941 to return to German-occupied homeland with husband Henry Jansson, asserting she had no ties to the Nazis and sang in neutral Sweden and Switzerland during the war.
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Kirsten Flagstad
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Miss Flagstad
Sieglinde
Met
United States
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Sweden
Switzerland