梅尔塔·比尔吉特·尼尔森(Märta Birgit Nilsson 1918年5月17日－2005年12月25日) 是一位瑞典歌剧女高音。生于瑞典南部省份斯康纳，她是二战后（从50年代末到她80年代中引退）瓦格纳女高音的代表人物。

职业生涯

1946年在斯德哥尔摩上演的歌剧自由射手中，尼尔森扮演女主角阿伽特。那是她的首演。1947年同样是在斯德哥尔摩，她扮演的麦克白夫人引起轰动。1954年她首次登台维也纳国家歌剧院。

1959年她在纽约的大都会歌剧院中，演唱了伊索尔德。当时她的演唱征服了整个北美洲。

在各大歌剧院都可看到尼尔森的身影，诸如慕尼黑,东京,巴黎,布宜诺斯艾利斯,芝加哥,旧金山和汉堡。1954到1970年间她年年登台拜鲁依特音乐节，其中《尼伯龙根的指环》中布伦希尔德和伊索尔德是她最成功的角色。1969年她在维罗纳竞技场里饰演的图兰多特和1973年在法国南部奥林奇古圆形露天剧场中（卡尔·伯姆指挥，琼·维克斯饰特里斯坦)饰演的伊索尔特引起了巨大轰动。

晚年经历

比尔吉特·尼尔森是维也纳爱乐乐团的荣誉成员。

据瑞典"Expressen"和"Svenska Dagbladet"报道，比尔吉特·尼尔森于2005年12月25日圣诞节当天于她瑞典南部Bjärlöv的家中逝世;但死讯直到2006年1月11日，即在她出生地Västra Karup举行过葬礼后方才向外界公开。尼尔森长期忍受心脏肾脏疾患。她在双亲的墓旁被下葬。但进一步的细节并未清楚。

尼尔森于1948年与兽医Bertil Niklasson结婚。夫妇两人并未育有儿女。

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English Introduction

Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano who specialized in operatic works of Wagner and Richard Strauss, though she sang the operas of many other composers, including Verdi and Puccini. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power, and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register.Nilsson made such strong imprints on many roles that they came to be known as the "Nilsson repertory".

She sang the operas of Richard Strauss and made a specialty of Puccini's Turandot, but it was the music of Wagner that made her career. She once said that Isolde made her famous and Turandot made her rich. Her olympian command of his music was comparable to that of Kirsten Flagstad, who owned the Wagner repertory at the Metropolitan Opera during the years before World War II.Birgit Nilsson was born Märta Birgit Svensson on a farm at Västra Karup in Skåne (100 km/60 miles north of Malmö) to Nils Svensson and Justina Svensson née Paulsson.

When she was three years old she began picking out melodies on a toy piano her mother bought for her. She once told an interviewer that she could sing before she could walk, adding, "I even sang in my dreams". Her vocal talent was first noticed when she began to sing in her church choir. A choirmaster near her home heard her sing and advised her to take voice lessons. She studied with Ragnar Blennow in Åstorp for six months to prepare for an audition at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm where she came in first out of a group of 47 singers and awarded the Christina Nilsson scholarship named for the famous soprano. Märta Birgit Svensson combined her middle name with Nilsson to form her new stage name. Her teachers at the Academy were Joseph Hislop and Arne Sunnegårdh. However, she considered herself self-taught: "The best teacher is the stage", she told an interviewer in 1981.

"You walk out onto it, and you have to learn to project." She deplored her early instruction and attributed her success to native talent. "My first voice teacher [Hislop] almost killed me ... [T]he second was almost as bad."