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This episode discusses the opera singer Jarmila Novotna. She sings arias from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi and Meine Lippen, sie küssen so hot from the operetta Giuditta by Franz Lehar. Then the song is performed Para mi pequeno y lejano pueblo by Dino Saluzzi. The author moves. Sverrir Guðjónsson, 12 years old, also sings a Lullaby by Emil Thoroddsen to Jón Thoroddsen's poem. Supervisor reads The night owl by HC Andersen.

The nightingale is the opera singer Lotte Lehmann. She sings Die toten Augen by Eugene d'Alber; Mein Herr, was dachten Sie von mir from The Bat by Johann Strauss II; I went to him by Erich Korngold; Quiet Quiet from The magic shooter by Weber; Came Hoffnung from Beethoven's Fidelio and Liebsetod from Tristan und Isolde by Wagner. Halldór Hansen is interviewed and the supervisor reads from the Nightingale by HC Andersen.

Opera singers Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Elisabeth Schumann and María Markan sing works by Puccini, Bellini, Schubert, Taubert and Grieg. Halldór Hansen is interviewed and the supervisor reads from the Nightingale by HC Andersen.

Kathleen Ferrier, Sigrid Onegin, Janet Baker and Lotte Lenya perform works by Brahms, Arditi, Handel, Weill and folk songs. Halldór Hansen is interviewed and the supervisor reads from the Nightingale by HC Andersen.

Tito Schipa, Enrico Caruso, Lauritz Melchior, Jusse Björling, Beniamino Gigli, Hughes Cuenod, Charles Kullmann, Stefán Iceland and Einar Kristjánsson perform works by Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, von Flotow, Halle, Mozart, Árna Thorsteinsson and Jón Þórarinsson. Halldór Hansen is interviewed and the supervisor reads from the Nightingale by HC Andersen.

Gérard Souzay and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sing The winter trip by Franz Schubert. Halldór Hansen is interviewed and the supervisor reads from the Nightingale by HC Andersen.

Bryn Terfel, Dimitri Hvorostovski, Leontyne Price and Jessye Norman perform works by Handel, Gershwin and Wagner as well as folk songs and Negro hymns. A supervisor talks to Halldór Hansen and reads from Brekkukotsannál by Halldór Laxness, a chapter about the return of Garðar Hólm.

Michael Chance, James Bowman, Alfred Deller, Sigur Rós, Sverrir Guðjónsson and Snorri Örn Snorrason perform works by Bach, Purcell, Händel, Dowland, Hróðmar Inga Sigurbjörnsson as well as folk songs. A supervisor talks to Halldór Hansen and reads from Brekkukotsannál by Halldór Laxness.

Erna Berger, Helga Roseaenge and Edith Piaff perform works by Wagner, Puccini, Mozart, Leoncavallo, Offenbach and others. A supervisor talks to Halldór Hansen and reads from Brekkukotsannál by Halldór Laxness.

Lotte Lehmann, Herbert Jansen and Eggert Stefánsson perform songs by Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss Jr., Eugene Dálbert, Wagner, Brahms, Sigvalda Kaldalóns and Björgvin Guðmundsson. A supervisor talks to Halldór Hansen and reads from Brekkukotsannál by Halldór Laxness.

Engel Lund, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Guðmunda Elíasdóttir, Sigríður Ella Magnúsdóttir, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Gunnar Guðbjörnsson and Sverrir Guðjónsson sing songs by Björk, Sigvalda Kaldalóns, Jón Leifs, Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson and Sigfús Einarsson. Supervisor talks to Halldór Hansen and reads from Brekkukotsannál by Halldór Laxness.

Final episode. Gunnar Eyjólfsson presents a festival program in the Hall, June 19, 2000, held in honor of Halldór Hansen. Sveinn Jónsson, the chairman of the music association gives a speech, the Kársness School Choir sings. Other music does not come from the festival program. Elly Ameling, Finnur Bjarnason and Sverrir Guðjónsson sing works by Erik Satie, Franz Schubert, Charles Ives, George Gershwin and Johannes Brahms. The supervisor reads from Brekkukotsannál by Halldór Laxness.