Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish opera singer whose vocal brilliance, physical prowess and dramatic intensity made her the leading Wagnerian soprano of her day, died on Christmas Day at age 87, according to news accounts.
Former journalist*; born in Maine; raised in NY; transplanted to Philly; Christian liberal; Democrat from me mother's knee.
(* Well, I was Scribe for Troop 84 as well as editor-in-chief of my high school newspaper...I'm the skinny kid in the back)