Actor
Christa Ludwig
March 16, 1928 · Berlin, Germany
Christa Ludwig (16 March 1928 – 24 April 2021) was a German mezzo-soprano and sometime dramatic soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera, lieder, oratorio, and other major religious works like masses, passions, and solos in symphonic literature. Her performing career spanned almost half a century, from the late 1940s until the early 1990s.
She sang at many international opera houses and festivals, including at the Vienna State Opera from 1955 to 1994, and at the Metropolitan Opera in many roles. She is remembered for roles such as Mozart's Dorabella, Beethoven's Leonore in Fidelio, Wagner's Kundry, and both Octavian and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. In Vienna, she created the title role of Gottfried von Einem's Der Besuch der alten Dame in 1971.
Often works with
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Diane Kesling
3 titles together
Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold
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MET Orchestra
3 titles together
Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold
Hildegard Behrens
2 titles together
Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung
James Morris
2 titles together
Die Walküre, Das Rheingold
James Levine
2 titles together
Die Walküre, Das Rheingold
Matti Salminen
2 titles together
Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold
