Christa Ludwig

Person · Open Library

Born

1928-03-16

Died

2021-04-24

Works

10

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

• Eine Stadt als Bühne - 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele — self2020
• Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro — Self - Opera Singer2019
• Erlesen — self2010
• Faszinierende Frauen - Faszinierende Stimmen — Self2009
• Karajan: Beauty As I See It — Self2008
• Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies — Self2008
• Mozart Requiem — Self - Mezzo2005
• Karajan · Die Symphonien — Self2005
• alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio — Self1994
• Candide — The Old Lady1991

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1770-12-17

Active to

1827-03-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

7,265

Total plays

38,913

Christa Ludwig (born 16 March 1928) is a German mezzo-soprano (now retired), distinguished for her performances of opera, Lieder, oratorio and other major religious works like masses and Passions, and solos contained in symphonic literature. Her career spanned from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. Ludwig was born in Berlin to a musical family; her father, Anton Ludwig, was a tenor and an operatic administrator, her mother, the mezzo-soprano Eugenie Besalla-Ludwig who sang the Aachen Opera

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,272x

2. Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation

   · 1995 · cited 19,714x

3. Correlation Coefficients: Appropriate Use and Interpretation

   · 2018 · cited 8,775x

4. Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 Revisions to the McDonald criteria

   · 2011 · cited 7,648x

5. Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria

   · 2018 · cited 7,079x

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Key dates

Born

16 March 1928

Died

24 April 2021

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Christa

Gender

female

Citizenship

France

Place of birth

Berlin

Place of death

Klosterneuburg

Spouse

Walter Berry

Occupation

opera singer

Languages spoken

German

Native language

German