Lucia Popp
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Biography
[Edit]Popp was an accomplished coloratura soprano in the early years of her career, but later as her voice changed color slightly, she moved with great success into the lyric repertoire, and still later, into the lighter Strauss and Wagner operas. She had the ideal voice and personality for Viennese operetta, and was one of the best Rosalindes and Hanna Glawaris of her time. She was also a celebrated recitalist and lieder singer, and in both recitals and on the opera stage had a charming stage presence. Her untimely death in 1993 (the same year that saw the early deaths of Arleen Auger and Tatiana Troyanos) prematurely ended a major career.
When she was a child, while she sang in local choirs, her primary interest was acting, and after high school, not being certain of what she wanted for a career, she entered the Bratislava Academy to study drama. Anna Hrusovska-Prosenkova, a voice teacher at the Academy, happened to hear her singing during a performance of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and offered her voice lessons. She began her studies as a mezzo, but as she described it, her voice suddenly developed a high upper register, and when she graduated she began her professional career as a soprano. In 1963 she made her stage debut at the Bratislava Opera as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflaute, and also debuted at the Vienna Theater an der Wien, which led to her being engaged by the Vienna State Opera, where her first role was Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro. She had strong ties to the Vienna State Opera during her career, though she left their regular roster in 1967, and in 1979, she was named an Austrian Kammersangerin. She made her Covent Garden debut in 1966 as Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, and her Met debut in 1967 as the Queen of the Night.
During the 1970s, she left coloratura roles for lyric ones, particularly Mozart, where she was an especially effective Pamina and Susanna, and in the 1980s, abandoning those roles, as well as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, another of her specialties, she began to add even heavier roles, including Eva in Die Meistersinger and Strauss' Arabella (both in 1983), with similar success. She died unexpectedly in 1993.
On Acanta (43 326), she recorded a number of arias from both her core Mozart and Czechoslovakian repertoire as well as from operas she sang far more rarely. Her recording of operetta arias on EMI (CDR 7243 5 69853 2 2) displays her silvery voice and charm to great advantage, and she is a vivid Susanna on the Solti "dream cast" for Le Nozze di Figaro on London (410 150-2).
Title: Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (2 CDs)
Artist: Wiener Philharmoniker, Lucia Popp, Sir Charles Mackerras, Dalibor Jedlicka
Genre: Classical
Title: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Artist: Karl Ridderbusch, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Lucia Popp, Carlos Kleiber, Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Claire Watson, Georg Paskuda, Albrecht Peter, Benno Kusche, David Thaw, Margarethe Bence, Franz Klarwein, Brigitte Gassbaender, Aneliese Waas
Genre: Opera
Title: Fauré: Requiem / Faure: Requiem
Artist: Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Lucia Popp, Simon Estes, Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis
Genre: Classical
Title: Mozart: Don Giovanni
Artist: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernd Weikl, Margaret Price, Gabriel Bacquier, Lucia Popp, Stuart Burrows, Georg Solti, Sylvia Sass
Genre: Opera
Title: Great Singers Live
Artist: Waldemar Kmentt, Heinz Wallberg, Mirella Freni, Hermann Prey, Margaret Price, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leopold Hager, Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Lamberto Gardelli, The Bavarian Radio Chorus, Georges Prêtre / Georges Pretre, Elisabeth Grümmer / Elisabeth Grummer, Hans Altmann, Heinz Fricke, Horst Stein, Werner Schmidt-Boelcke, Argeo Quadri, Kurt Peter Eichhorn, Vladimir Ghiaurov, Alfredo Antonini, Hans Zanotelli, Roberto Abbado
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Title: The Unforgotten, Vol. 1 (1976-1983)
Artist: Heinz Wallberg, Lucia Popp, Kurt Peter Eichhorn, Munich Broadcasting Orchestra
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Title: Complete Mozart Edition: Late Italian Operas - "la Clemenza Di Tito"
Artist: Janet Baker, Lucia Popp, Stuart Burrows, Colin Davis
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Title: The Complete Mozart Edition: Arias, Vocal Ensembles & Canons - Vol. 1
Artist: Edita Gruberova, Lucia Popp, Leopold Hager
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Title: Mahler: Symphony No. 4/Adagietto
Artist: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucia Popp
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Title: Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito Selections
Artist: Anne Murray, Philip Langridge, Lucia Popp, Delores Ziegler, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Title: Beethoven: The Symphonies
Artist: Bernard Haitink, Robert Holl, Carolyn Watkinson, Peter Schreier, Lucia Popp, Concertgebouworkest, Netherlands Radio Chorus
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Title: R. Strauss: Capriccio, Op. 85, TrV 279 (Excerpts) [Live]
Artist: Waldemar Kmentt, Christa Ludwig, Otto Wiener, Lucia Popp, Walter Berry, Fritz Wunderlich, Georges Prêtre / Georges Pretre, Robert Kerns, Lisa Della Casa, Orchestra Of The Vienna State Opera
Genre: Orchestral, Classical, Orchestral
Title: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, "Choral"
Artist: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt, Lucia Popp
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Title: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Artist: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Gwynne Howell, Lucia Popp, Yvonne Minton, Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Mallory Walker
Genre: Classical
Collections
Title: 100 Best Tchaikovsky
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Title: Mozart: Music from Motion Pictures
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Title: Classics for Your Wedding
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Title: 100 Best Relaxing Classics [CD4 Of 5]
Genre: Classical
Title: 100 Best Adagio Voices (CD1)
Genre: Classical
Title: Best Romantic Classics 100 (CD4)
Genre: Classical
Title: Absolute Opera (CD2)
Title: An Austro-German Romance
Genre: Classical
Title: Classical Music - 100 Masterworks (CD2)
Genre: Classical
Title: 50 Greatest Opera Classics
Genre: Classical
Title: Mozart 225: Concert Arias (CD2)
Genre: Classical
Title: Mozart 225: Concert Arias (CD4)
Genre: Classical
Title: Handel: Dreams (CD1)
Genre: Classical
Title: Handel: Dreams (CD2)
Genre: Classical
Title: Opus Handel (CD1)
Genre: Classical
Title: Opus Handel (CD2)
Genre: Classical
Title: Wagner: The Dramatic Composer
Genre: Classical
Title: Autumnal Handel (CD2)
Genre: Classical
Title: Autumnal Strauss II
Genre: Classical
Title: Baroque Thanksgiving (CD1)
Genre: Classical
Title: Baroque Thanksgiving (CD3)
Genre: Classical
Title: Baroque Thanksgiving (CD4)
Genre: Classical
Title: Classical Christmas Songs (CD3)
Genre: Traditional Pop Music, Classical
Title: Playlist: Hi-Res Masters: Classical Essentials
Genre: Classical
Title: The Moldau & Other Masterpieces
Genre: Classical
Title: Golden Pages Of Music (CD1)
Genre: Classical
Featuring albums
Title: Bernstein: Haydn
Artist: Wiener Philharmoniker, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Wagner: Götterdämmerung / Wagner: Gotterdammerung
Artist: Wiener Philharmoniker, Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georg Solti
Genre: Opera
Title: Rossini: Stabat Mater - Petite Messe Solennelle
Artist: Stephen Cleobury, Riccardo Muti
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Title: Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Highlights)
Artist: Bernard Haitink, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Genre: Opera
Title: Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Artist: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
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Title: Mozart: Die Zauberflöte / Mozart: Die Zauberflote
Artist: Otto Klemperer, Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz, Philharmonia Orchestra
Genre: Opera
Title: Die Zauberflöte / Die Zauberflote
Artist: Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chorus
Genre: Opera
Title: Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Highlights)
Artist: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Nabucco
Artist: Giuseppe Sinopoli, Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Genre: Classical, Opera, Classical Crossover
Title: Lortzing: Zar Und Zimmermann
Artist: Heinz Wallberg, Hermann Prey, Werner Krenn, Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Title: Solti - Wagner - The Operas
Artist: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti
Genre: Opera
Title: Carlos Kleiber - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Artist: Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlos Kleiber
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Title: J.S. Bach: The Great Choral Masterpieces
Artist: Peter Schreier, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden
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Title: Opera 2012
Artist: Juan Diego Florez, Cecilia Bartoli, Roberto Alagna, Bryn Terfel, Joyce Di Donato, Aleksandra Kurzak
Title: Mozart Gala: Famous Arias
Artist: Samuel Ramey, Hermann Prey, Marilyn Horne
Title: Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) [3 CDs]
Artist: Mstislav Rostropovich, Orchestre National De France
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Title: Verdi: Rigoletto
Artist: Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Lamberto Gardelli
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Nabucco - Highlights
Artist: Giuseppe Sinopoli, Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin
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