Editing Birgit Nilsson (section)

=== Interactions with conductors ===
Nilsson was known for standing up to conductors. In a 1967 rehearsal of ''Die Walküre'' with [[Herbert von Karajan]] conducting, Nilsson responded to the gloomy lighting of the production by wearing a miner's helmet (complete with Valkyrian wings).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blum |first1=D. |last2=Steinhardt |first2=A. |title=Quintet: Five Journeys Toward Musical Fulfillment |publisher=Cornell University Press |series=G – Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-8014-3731-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/quintetfivejourn00blum|via=[[Internet Archive]]|url-access=registration |access-date=29 April 2018 |page=[https://archive.org/details/quintetfivejourn00blum/page/173 173]}}</ref> When on some occasion [[Herbert von Karajan|von Karajan]] urged a retake "but this time with more heart. That's the place where you have your purse", Nilsson replied, "I'm so pleased to find we have something in common."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nilsson |first1=B. |last2=Popper |first2=D. J.|title=La Nilsson: My Life in Opera |publisher=University Press of New England |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-55553-859-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YvPwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA113 |access-date=29 April 2018 |page=113}}</ref> When [[Georg Solti]], in ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'', insisted on tempos too slow for Nilsson's taste, she made the first performance even slower, inducing a change of heart in the conductor.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}