I have posted previously about this fine artist whom I heard at the Vienna Opera as a young fellow of 14. Today I bring her back for your listening pleasure, as she sings Dvorak’s “Song of the Moon”.
Lucia Popp was an accomplished coloratura soprano in the early years of her career, but later 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 (Die Fledermaus) and Hanna Glawaris (The Merry Widow) of her time. She was also a celebrated recitalist and lieder singer. She died in 1993 in Munich, Germany.
Here is soprano Lucia Popp:
