{"id":35586,"date":"2021-04-27T09:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/?p=35586"},"modified":"2021-04-27T09:44:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:44:25","slug":"opera-star-christa-ludwig-dies-aged-93-her-italian-rippled-along-like-a-second-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/opera-star-christa-ludwig-dies-aged-93-her-italian-rippled-along-like-a-second-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera star Christa Ludwig dies aged 93: ‘Her Italian rippled along like a second music’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world\u2019s great stages for four decades, has died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria. She was 93.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her death was announced on Sunday by the Vienna State Opera, which said she died on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

An illustrious career<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

A mezzo-soprano who also succeeded in soprano roles, Ludwig made her Vienna State Opera debut as Cherubino in Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Le Nozze di Figaro<\/em>\u00a0on April 14, 1955, when the company was temporarily in the\u00a0Redoutensaal. She was heard in the rebuilt opera house for the first time that December 26 as Octavian in Strauss\u2019s\u00a0Der Rosenkavalier<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

She sang 769 performances of 42 roles in Vienna.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe words of the Marschallin often quoted by Christa Ludwig \u2013 ‘With a light heart and light hands, hold and take, hold and let\u2019 \u2013 which she repeatedly referred to as a personal motto, were actual and true expressions of her way of life,\u201d Vienna State opera director Bogdan Roscic said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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