# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christa-ludwig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:47:33.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christa-ludwig"
name: "Christa Ludwig"
slug: "christa-ludwig"
description: "Christa Ludwig 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."
tagline: "German mezzo-soprano (1928-2021)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-03-16"
deathDate: "2021-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.701232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump