Editing Birgit Nilsson (section)

== Honours and awards ==
* 1954 [[Hovsångerska]] (Royal Court Singer), Stockholm, Sweden<ref>Unless otherwise indicated, this section is sourced from {{cite web |title=Honours and Awards |url=http://birgitnilssonprize.org/birgit-nilsson/honours-awards/ |website=BirgitNilssonPrize.org|access-date=26 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403040607/http://birgitnilssonprize.org/birgit-nilsson/honours-awards/ |archive-date=3 April 2016}}</ref>
* 1958 Gold Medal, [[Teatro Liceo]], Barcelona, Spain
* 1960 Sweden: Royal medal [[Litteris et Artibus]]
* 1960 Honorary member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Music]], Stockholm
* 1966 [[Sonning Award]], Denmark<ref>{{cite book |last=Leach |first=H. G.|title=The American-Scandinavian Review |publisher=American-Scandinavian Foundation|issue=v. 54–55 |year=1966 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMsgAAAAMAAJ |access-date=29 April 2018 |page=203 |quote=The Leonie Sonning Prize for 1966 was recently awarded the Swedish singer BirgitNilsson. The amount of the Prize is 50,000 Danish kroner. The Leonie Sonning Prize was awarded for the first time in 1959, with Igor Stravinsky being the recipient. The 1965 winner was conductor Leonard Bernstein.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Theatre in Denmark |publisher=Danish Centre of the I.T.I. |issue=2–10 |year=1966 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1w8iAQAAMAAJ |access-date=29 April 2018 |page=3 |quote=This year's Leonie Sonning Music Prize was given to Birgit Nilsson, who visited The Royal Theatre on May 17th, 1966, for a guest performance in ''Fidelio''. Birgit Nilsson honoured young Danish singers by donating her salary for this performance to be used as a scholarship for two young female singers.}}</ref>
* 1967 Gold Medal For the Promotion of the Art of Music (Swedish: ''För tonkonstens främjande'') of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Music]], Stockholm
* 1968 Austrian [[Kammersänger]]in in 1968
* 1968 Honorary Member of the [[Vienna State Opera]], Vienna, Austria
* 1970 Honorary doctorate from [[Merrimack College]], Andover, Mass. USA
* 1970 Honorary Member of the [[Royal Academy of Music]], London, England
* 1970 Bavarian Kammersängerin, Munich, Germany
* 1972 Denmark: Royal medal [[Ingenio et Arti]]
* 1974 Sweden: Commander First Class of the [[Order of Vasa]]
* 1975 Norway: Commander First Class of the [[Order of St. Olav]]
* 1981 Gold medal of the [[Royal Swedish Opera]] (Swedish: ''Kungliga Operan''), Stockholm
* 1981 Sweden: [[Illis Quorum]] gold medal, 18th grade with chain
* 1982 Honorary doctorate from the [[Manhattan School of Music]], New York City
* 1982 Honorary doctorate from [[Michigan State University]], East Lansing, US
* 1982 [[Vasa Order of America#Swedish-American of the Year|Swedish-American of the Year Award]], New York City
* 1988 Germany: Cross of Merit First Class of the [[Lower Saxony Order of Merit]], Land of [[Lower Saxony]]
* 1991 France: [[Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres]]
* 1993 [[Royal Opera House]] Silver Medal for 25-year's service as a Guest Artist, London, England
* 1994 Award of the [[Sweden–America Foundation]] (Swedish: ''Sverige-Amerikastiftelsen''), New York City
* 1997 Honorary doctorate of the [[Sibelius Academy]], Helsinki, Finland
* 1999 Honorary member of the [[Vienna Philharmonic]], Vienna, Austria
* 2012 [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'s Hall of Fame in 2012<ref name=Gramophone />