Christa Ludwig

66 pieces since 2008 — in 18 roles, at 9 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

66 pieces
18 roles
9 companies
19 years

5 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Christa Ludwig.

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Jailhouse Roccos

Chris’s Cache wraps up November with Régine Crespin’s Chicago Leonore; two rare Met Fidelios headed by Christa Ludwig and Hildegard Behrens; and a concert performance with Birgit Nilsson led by Leonard Bernstein, plus a final twist: excerpts of Carol Vaness in Leonore.

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Desperate housewife

As New Yorkers swelter in the Fahrenheit 90s. Trove Thursday escapes to wintry Vienna 1920s for Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo (in English) sumptuously conducted by Julius Rudel and starring the incomparable Elisabeth Söderström as the delicious, exasperating wife of Alan Titus.

Le déjeuner sans l’herb

Five decades before the Met turned to computer-assisted planks to help tell the story of Wagner’s Ring cycle,  the company stirred controversy and comment with another staging of the tetralogy. General Manager Rudolf Bing imported a stark, abstract production from the Salzburg Festival in order to secure the services of Herbert von Karajan, who not […]

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