Lucia Popp was one astounding singer! Her musical interpretations were second to none, and she captured the feeling in the last Act of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
Lucia Popp made her debut at the Vienna State Opera, where she formed a lifelong association and was given the honorary title Kammersängerin (court singer), and at Salzburg, Austria. Later in the 1960’s she made debuts at London’s Covent Garden and New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Later she appeared in the Mozart cycle staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle in the ’70s.
Although Popp was especially associated with Mozart and Strauss (she sang both Sophie and the Marschallin in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and recorded his Four Last Songs three times), she also sang Janacek, Puccini, and Wagner, And more.
Listen carefully to these Mozart sounds. After all, instrumental music is primarily an imitation of the human voice:
