Lucia Popp - Opera Arias
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Composer or Director: Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustave Charpentier, Carl Maria von Weber, Giacomo Puccini, Antonín Dvořák, Hermann (Gustav) Goetz, Giuseppe Verdi, Bedřich Smetana
Label: Arts Music
Magazine Review Date: 12/1998
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 55
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 47517-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Louise, Movement: Depuis le jour |
Gustave Charpentier, Composer
Gustave Charpentier, Composer Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
Rusalka, Movement: O, moon high up in the deep, deep sky (O silver moon) |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Movement: Die Kraft versagt |
Hermann (Gustav) Goetz, Composer
Hermann (Gustav) Goetz, Composer Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
Manon, Movement: ~ |
Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, Composer
Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, Composer Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
(Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro', Movement: ~ |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
(Die) Zauberflöte, '(The) Magic Flute', Movement: Ach, ich fühl's |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Gianni Schicchi, Movement: O mio babbino caro |
Giacomo Puccini, Composer
Giacomo Puccini, Composer Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
(The) Bartered Bride, Movement: ~ |
Bedřich Smetana, Composer
Bedřich Smetana, Composer Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
Rigoletto, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
(Der) Freischütz, Movement: ~ |
Carl Maria von Weber, Composer
Carl Maria von Weber, Composer Kurt Eichhorn, Conductor Lucia Popp, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
Author: Patrick O'Connor
The big rarity here is the aria from Hermann Goetz’s Der Widerspanstigen Zahmung (“The Taming of the Shrew”). Composed between 1868 and 1874, it was the short-lived Goetz’s one big theatre success, admired by Bernard Shaw who hailed Goetz as one of the four true successors to Mozart (the others were Beethoven, Weber and Wagner). The reflective aria for Katherine in Act 4 finds her admitting to herself that she is tamed and in love.
Popp’s Manon and Louise are both fine versions of these much-recorded arias – I wonder if she ever sang the parts on stage? The recital ends with two arias in Czech, Marenka’s lament from Act 3 of The bartered bride, and then Rusalka’s “O silver moon”. Popp sang this at a gala at the Coliseum in the 1980s and stole the show. There are more typical recordings of Lucia Popp, but this is a touching souvenir of her later style; the recording has her voice well forward. No texts, translations or even synopses are included, just two paragraphs in praise of Popp’s “versatility, beauty and technical control” – no argument with that.'
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