Video: Jussi Björling sings Prayer of Thanksgiving
mainThe great Swedish tenor, never knowingly outsung. Watch the video here.
The great Swedish tenor, never knowingly outsung. Watch the video here.
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I’ll never forget his Calif to Birgitte Nilsson’s Turandot and Renata Tebaldi’s Liu. At least I remember all three, together, or maybe apart. I was very young.
Memories do play tricks. He never sang the role on stage but, of course, there was the famous recording with the two of them. The live pairing we all remember was, in this role, the incomparable Corelli, and Nilsson
His like will never come again, any more than will another Wagner.