Que privilégio de nós homens e mulheres dos séculos 20 e 21 de podermos ter preservadas essas gravações, imagens, filmes e todos os tipos de registros de grandes artistas. Amo essa cantora!
I never tire of her voice. The purity, brilliance of tone and perfection with which she sings not to mention the emotion... nobody has ever come close to matching her. Saw her live shortly before she passed. There wasn't a dry eye in the audience. Rarely can you find a singer who is both technically perfect and is able to move an audience like that. She was/is a legend and a true artist in every sense of the word.
I am very proud, Lucia Popp was born in Slovakia. Beautiful voice. Her Moonlight serenade from Dvorak s Rusalka is number one for me:) Greetings from Bratislava.
Meeting her at the Wigmore Hall after the recital was such pleasure to see a charming person with great smile ,a joy to music such valuable performer .Brava..
Some singers seem to sing along with the music whereas Ms Popp's voice floats in between and with the notes. I'm not even a musician, but find the interaction with and of the orchestra masterful. What pure beauty!
Luego de ESCUCHAR a MOZART,no hay oídos para escuchar a NADIE más por toda la eternidad.....y está ARCHIVIRTUOSA soprano,será el PARADIGMA de voz por siempre!!!!
Thank you for posting this and helping to keep the great Lucia Popp alive. This is magnificent, exactly the Mozart sound for this absolute masterrpiece. I can't wait for her young heir apparent Patricia Janeckova to take on the Exsultate Jubilate.
A true Goddess of all Mozart sopranos. It was a great pleasure for me to see her last concert in Bratislava live - she sang the soprano part of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
I'm sorry, my memory is no longer fresh. I saw Beethoven Ninth with Lucia, conducted by Bernstein, live on Czech TV at that time (1990?) as part of the Prague Spring Music Festival. The performance with Lucia Popp (her last one in Bratislava) was conducted by Sir Yehudi (Brahms?). It was something like an Amnesty Intnl charity, and if I remember correctly, even Gidon Kremer performed that night.
Instead of ecclesiastical or classical Latin, it is a very nice, pure scholar Latin pronunciation. An unadulterated Mozart soprano! And in the finale, she strictly adheres to Mozart’s score so she doesn’t jump up to C6.
…eines der Wunder, die der Himmel schickt. Wir dürfen darauf vertrauen, daß Lucia Popp dort wieder eingezogen ist. Wer Ohren hat zu hören, der höre….mi piace moltissimo
The much overused word fabulous has lost its true meaning these days,for those who don't know the true meaning just listen to Lucia. She is truly fabulous.
This song always reminds me a movie, namely, "A girl and 100 men" I first saw sixty-some years ago. (I've just googled it to find the title was "One Hundred Men and a Girl." Big difference?) I am sure I saw it once again later after I knew who Stokowsky was and where that "Alleluja" came from. Somehow, this time, Lucia Popp reminds me that girl in the movie. I miss Lucia Popp, one of sopranos I liked, and I want to see the movie again. - one last timer, perhaps.
This is truly excellent. Lucia is greatly missed. Arleen Auger's followed by Regula Mulhermann's are also both stunning renditions of Mozart's beautiful motet composed in 1773.
