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Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 14.43 EDT Christa Ludwig, who has died aged 93, was one of the outstanding singers of her generation, acclaimed alike in lieder and opera, where she was highly regarded for her matchless interpretations of an impressively wide range of roles. Making her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1955, she remained with the company for more than 30 years, giving 769 performances of 42 roles. There she won the undying affection and admiration of the public, the whipped-cream quality of her voice possibly reminding the Viennese of their favourite Schlagsahne. She habitu...

QUADFLIX Debuting on April 12, 2001, Gloomy Sunday screened every day in one Christchurch cinema for almost a decade. LeAnn Rimes’ Can’t Fight the Moonlight topped the charts, Peter Jackson was shooting the first of his Lord of the Rings movies and New York's twin towers were still standing when Gloomy Sunday made its debut on Christchurch cinema screens on April 12, 2001. A less-than-appealing title (its subtitle, A Song of Love and Death, was even worse), poor returns in its native Germany (it lasted only two weeks) and a plot that includes Nazi brutality, beef roulade and bitter re...

Warmth from other Suns. View here until April 29. 7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Women in Music. Women’s History Month is marked with instrumental and vocal music by Maddalena Sirmen, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Clara Schumann. Featured guests include harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, violinist Shelby Yamin, and soprano Michele Kennedy, who share a commitment to researching, performing, and recording music by women composers. View here. 8 pm ET: EnsembleNEWSRQ presents Nightfall! The ensemble performs Gerard Grisey’s Stelé for two percussionist...

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. From January 11, 1979. View here and for 24 hours. 7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Jewish Diaspora. Rec...

Yes, that Marseillaise: the anthem of liberty written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 and France’s national song. In 1934 the British Union of Fascists needed a song of its own. But its publication Fascist Week rejected Elgar’s Land of Hope and Glory, a far-Right favourite then as now, because “it stands for ideals we regard as obsolete”. The Italian fascist anthem Giovinezza was deemed too, well, Italian. Instead, asked Blackshirt magazine (the British Union of Fascists’ newspaper), “Who is to be the first ‘Rouget de Lisle’ to give the Movement a Marseillaise?�...