Christa Ludwig, the favourite mezzo of Karajan, Böhm and Bernstein, was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this evening's Gramophone Awards ceremony in London. In her filmed acceptance ...

She named three cypress trees in her garden after them. “Christa is simply the best, and the best of all possible human beings,” said Leonard Bernstein.

Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, had died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria.

Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria. A mezzo-soprano who ...

Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, had died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria.

Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, had died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria.

German mezzo soprano Christa Ludwig's 90th birthday is being celebrated by Deutsche Grammophon with a 12-CD box set of her recordings. She is pictured here with Leonard Bernstein. Picture ...

Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, had died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria.

She was a frequent collaborator with conductor Karl Böhm and with conductor Leonard Bernstein. She sang at Bernstein's New York Philharmonic memorial concert in 1990.

Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig dies at 94 Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, had died at her home in ...

Christa Ludwig, operatic mezzo-soprano with a vast repertoire who never took herself too seriously – obituary As celebrated for lieder and oratorio as opera, she sang for cigarettes in post-war ...