Lucia Popp
Lucia Popp (Slovak: Lucia Poppová; born November 12, 1939 in Ungeraiden, today Záhorská Ves, Slovakia, † November 16, 1993 in Munich) was a soprano Slovak, Moravian, Hungarian and Romanian descent.
Life
First, the daughter of an engineer and a soprano medicine and then drama at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava studied. Previously, she was able to show her acting talent already in two rolls of film: 1957 in Štyridsatštyri (German: Forty-four ) and 1962 /63 the female lead in Janosik (something like the Slovak Robin Hood). 1959 to 1963 she studied voice with Anna Hrušovská in Bratislava and at the Music Academy in Prague.
In Bratislava at the city's Opera House Lucia Popp made his debut in 1963 in one of her best roles, the Queen of the Night, which they in the same year, after she was hired immediately by the Vienna State Opera, under the direction of Otto Klemperer at his studio version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic recorded. "You are a wonderful beast! " Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is whether the vocal performances of the young soprano who proclaimed.
This role early in her career her only, Lucia Popp brought to the big houses in the world. Performances have taken her to the Theater an der Wien and the Hamburg State Opera. When she no longer wanted to be the " star-flaming queen ," she has her repertoire gradually expanded. It ranged from the soubrette and coloratura with Queen of the Night, Blonde ( The Abduction from the Seraglio), Adele ( Die Fledermaus ) 1964 /5 to be lyrical and youthfully dramatic roles Pamina ( The Magic Flute ), Eva ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) or Daphne (Daphne), who has sung them in their later career because of the darkening of her voice.
From 1966 to 1977 Lucia Popp was a regular cast member of the Cologne Opera. During this time she worked among others the primary authors of the comprehensive seven operas Mozart cycle by Jean -Pierre Ponnelle, conductor István Kertész. Since 1966, she performed at the Royal Opera House London, since 1967 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Guest appearances have taken her to many other opera houses. In addition, she appeared as Marie said in a television adaptation of Albert Lortzings opera Zar und Zimmermann, who has since been released on DVD.
In the song, Lucia Popp area is primarily as an interpreter of Mahler's songs. She was in this respect one of Leonard Bernstein's favorite singers. But her recordings of Schubert and Schumann songs are evidence of their musical mastery. The necessary linguistic foundations she earned in less than two years. Whether this is due to their German ancestors, is speculation. Her German was never without an accent, but always idiomatic and in the interpretation it was a reconciler of seriousness and humor. The best they could do this Mahler demonstrate to the songs in folk style of Brahms, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Kodaly, Janáček and (again). But her performance of German children's and lullabies shows the genre of an unbiased page.
Lucia Popp was married in first marriage with conductor Georg Fischer, in a second marriage with 15 years younger tenor Peter Seiffert.
She died at the age of 54 years an inoperable brain tumor and rests in the cemetery Slávičie údolie ( group 31 ) in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Discography
Complete recordings (selection)
- Beethoven: Fidelio, Marcellina, with Janowitz, Kollo, Sotin, Fischer- Dieskau, Jungwirth. Cond Bernstein ( DGG )
- Brahms: A German Requiem, with Brendel, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli ( Polydor, 1983)
- Donizetti: L' elisir d' amore, Adina (RCA)
- Flotow: Martha, Martha (EMI )
- Handel: Serse, Romilda, with Forrester, Tyler, Lehane, Miller, Hemsley, Brannigan, cond Priestman ( DGG, 1965)
- Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel, Gretel, with Schlemm, Fassbaender, Gruberová, Hamari, Burrowes, Berry, conductor Solti ( Decca )
- Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel, Dew Fairy, with Moffo, Donath, Ludwig, Fischer- Dieskau, Berthold, Augér, cond Eichhorn (RCA)
- Janáček: Jenufa, Karolka, with Hönger, Felbermayer, Pantscheff, Miljakovic Jurinac, Mödl Kmentt, Brown, Konetzni, Cox, cond Krombholc ( Myto )
- Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Vixen, with Randova, Jedlicka, Blachut, conductor Mackerras ( Decca )
- Lehar: The Count of Luxembourg (EMI )
- Leoncavallo: La Bohème, Mimi ( Orfeo )
- Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Blonde ( EMI)
- Mozart: The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night, with Janowitz, Berry, Gedda, Frick, cond Klemperer (EMI )
- Mozart: The Magic Flute, Pamina, with Jerusalem, Brendel, Zednik, Gruberova, cond Haitink (EMI )
- Mozart: The Magic Flute, Pamina, with Araiza, Brendel, minor, Gruberova, conducted Sawallisch, DVD ( DGG )
- Mozart: Idomeneo, Ilia, with Pavarotti, Baltsa, Nucci, Gruberova, conducted Pritchard ( Decca )
- Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito, Servilia, cond Kertész ( Decca )
- Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito, Vitellia, cond Harnoncourt ( Teldec )
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Countess Almaviva, with v. Dam, Hendricks, Raimondi, Baltsa, cond Marriner (Philips)
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Susanna, with Te Kanawa, von Stade, Allen, Ramey, conducted Solti ( Decca )
- Orff: Carmina Burana with Unger, Wolansky, Noble, cond Frühbeck de Burgos (EMI )
- Orff: Carmina Burana by van Kesteren, Prey, conductor Kurt Eichhorn (RCA)
- Puccini: La Bohème, Mimi with Araiza, Daniel, Brendel, Baumann, Rootering, cond Soltesz (EMI, in German language )
- Puccini: Suor Angelica, Giorgetta (RCA)
- Puccini: Suor Angelica, Angelica (RCA)
- Strauss, J. (Son): The Bat, Adele, with Varady, Weikl, Kollo, Prey, cond C. Kleiber ( DGG )
- Strauss, J. (Son): The Bat, Rosalind, with Lind, Baltsa, Seiffert, Brendel, Rydl, cond Domingo ( EMI)
- Verdi: Rigoletto, Gilda (RCA)
- Wagner: Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest on the Wartburg, Elizabeth, with King, minor, Weikl, Meier, cond Haitink (EMI, 1985)
Song recordings (selection)
- Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Walton Grönroos, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein ( DGG )
- Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Andreas Schmidt, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein ( DGG )
- Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Bernd Weikl, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Klaus Tennstedt (EMI )
- Prokofiev / Kodaly / Mahler / Brahms: Lieder recital at the Mozarteum in 1981 with Geoffrey Parsons ( Orfeo )
- Schubert: The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Vol 17 with Graham Johnson ( Hyperion )
- Schumann: Woman love and live with Geoffrey Parsons ( RCA)
- Most German children's songs and lullabies ( Orfeo )