High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, (20 August 1843 - 20 November 1921) was a Swedish operatic soprano. She possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1869). Christina Nilsson was born Kristina Jonasdotter in the village of Sjoabol, near Vaxjo, Smaland, to the peasants Jonas Nilsson and Cajsa-Stina Mansdotter. She was discovered by a prominent civil servant when, aged 14, she was playing the violin at a market in Ljungby. He soon became her patron, enabling her to have vocal training. In 1860 she gave concerts in Stockholm and Uppsala. After four years' study in Paris, she had her operatic debut 1864 as Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata at the Theatre Lyrique, Paris. After this success she sang at major opera houses in London, Saint Petersburg, Vienna and New York. She also appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's inaugural performance on October 22, 1883 in Gounod's Faust.

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