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Lucia Popp (Lucia Poppova) (November 12, 1939–November 16, 1993) was a popular operaticsoprano from Slovakia. November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan is one of the worlds most famous opera houses. ... Look up soprano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
"Miss, you're phenomenal!" cried the great Elisabeth Schwarzkopf upon hearing her for the first time. Lucia Popp made her debut in 1963 in Bratislava, and then appeared at the State Opera of Vienna, Austria, where she remained until her death. Popp began with magnificent portrayals of coloratura soprano roles, and as her career progressed, moved into the light-lyric, and then lyric, repertoire. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DBE (b. ...
Popp is perhaps best known for her rendition of the Queen of the Night in the legendary 1963 recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute directed by Otto Klemperer. Her incredible talent in this midst of the other impressive singers on the recording is still a wonderful reminder of a golden age of operatic singing. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and highly influential composer of Classical music. ... Emanuel Schikaneder as the first Papageno in Mozarts Die Zauberflöte. ...
Her timbre—both round and warm—and her technique are well-loved by opera conaisseurs worldwide.[citation needed] One of the foremost interpreters of coloratura soprano roles since World War II, Popp has sung in the greatest theaters of the world, notably in Salzburg, Munich, and London.
Besides the Queen of the Night, Popp is known for her performances as Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Dorabella (Mozart's Così fan tutte) and as Eva (Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). Le nozze di Figaro ossia la folle giornata (Trans: ), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, Le mariage de Figaro (1784). ... Così fan tutte is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master Singers of Nuremberg) is an opera in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. ...
LuciaPopp made her stage debut as a singer at age 23 at the Bratislava Opera singing Queen of the Night in Mozarts Die Zauberflöte.
LuciaPopp has widened her repertoire by her experience in recordings (with such eminent conductors as Georg Solti, Raphael Frübeck de Burgos, Otto Klemperer, István Kertéz, John Pritchard and Joseph Krips), and through television.
LuciaPopp was unquestionably at the height of her art when she passed away so prematurely in 1994 (of brain cancer).
Considering the exceptional voice, clarity, sensitivity and emotional intensity with which she performs all the songs on this album, the opera world must have been extremely shocked and saddened to lose one of its brightest and most exceptional talents, especially just a few months after the death of the great mezzo-soprano Tatyana Troyanos.
As a lasting testament to her artistry, this CD represents a wide ranging repertoire from Mahler, R. Strauss, J.Strauss, Mozart, Lehar, Wagner, Dvorak and many others, showing the great diversity of voice that LuciaPopp possessed, something relatively unusual for what might be classed as a light soprano voice.
Indeed, it was with this aria that I was first intoduced to the sublime voice of LuciaPopp and without hearing the track first hand, it is difficult to describe the emotions that she manages to evoke.
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