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The world’s greatest dramatic soprano and interpreter of Wagner can offer you everything from Grieg’s Norwegian songs, Sibelius’s Nordic romances, Bach, Händel and Gluck’s light and rhythmic baroque, Richard Wagner’s and Richard Strauss’s grand romantic arias, recordings of some of the great treasures of sacred music, and much, much more.

Apart from Wagner’s works the museum has recordings of operas by Beethoven, Gluck and Purcell. The tapes include concerts and recitals of works by Alnæs, Backer Grøndahl, Bach, Bax, Brahms, Bull, Delius, Dørumsgaard, Eggen, Elgar, Grieg, Hurum, Händel, Lie, Rossini, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Sinding, Strauss, Weber, Wolf and a host of others.

Kirsten Flagstad also recorded about 50 psalms and hymns accompanied by organ, and in all left a treasure of more than 900 recordings over a career lasting 46 years.

The museum houses a collection of most of her best-known gramophone recordings: 1023 CD tracks, 30 EPs, 288 78s, 967 LPs, 110 cassettes, and about 200 CD tracks with diverse private recordings, interviews and other material, mainly acquired from Hegerman-Lindencrone in Copenhagen and Lord Bernard Miles in London.

All this material is registered on data, and we are only too pleased to play any recordings that our visitors would like to hear.

Here in the lecture room you can also watch the only film clip of Kirsten Flagstad on stage, Brünhilde’s war cry “Hojotoho” from Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, and the hour-long documentary film of Flagstad’s incredible life and career.
The museum also houses a large collection of biographies of Flagstad, and books and articles about opera in general.

All this can be enjoyed while you munch ballerina biscuits, opera mints and liquorice pastilles.