Slippedisc comfort zone (19): Lenny saw her comic side

Slippedisc comfort zone (19): Lenny saw her comic side

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

May 02, 2021

Audiences mostly saw the serious side of the late Christa Ludwig.

Leonard Bernstein saw a comedienne.

I remember this 1989 LSO performance of Candide as if it were yesterday. Christa stole the show.

This may have been where he saw it first.

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