Editing Birgit Nilsson (section)

=== Death ===
Nilsson died, aged 87, on 25 December 2005 at her home at Bjärlöv, a small village near [[Kristianstad]] in Skåne in the same county where she was born. No cause of death was released. She was survived by her husband Bertil Niklasson (died March 2007), a veterinary surgeon whom she had met on a train and married in 1948. They had no children.<ref>{{cite news |title=Birgit Nilsson, 87; Wagnerian Soprano Known for the Power of Her Voice and Personality|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=12 January 2006 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jan-12-me-nilsson12-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409153553/http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/12/local/me-nilsson12 |archive-date=9 April 2015 |url-status=live |access-date=29 April 2018 }}</ref>