I have spent several nights with his early mornings searching and listening to all the versions of "Song the Moon" on RU-vid. I'm not a musician or a critic, just a regular guy. It turns out that this version by Lucia Popp is the one I liked the most and the one that has moved me to my bones.
@@sonjabaevska8028 😍Thank you very much, Sonja. RU-vid's algorithm didn't suggest it to me before. I'm listening to it again tonight at home. Greetings from Argentina.
I bought the CD-album Le Nozze Di Figaro with Lucia Popp as Susanna in 1999, six years after her death. Around 2020 which is almost 27 years (MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY) later, I just found out about it. So -stupid- clueless of me. Although it is almost 30 years too late, I still want to say: Rest in peace, my sweet angel with beautiful voice. 😭😭😭
@@chiensyang Hello Chien Yang. Why stupid? No, no way, I didn't know about the existence of this wonderful woman either, but it's the version I heard at least 30 times. Another version was recommended to me right here, but Lucia has stayed in my soul, perhaps because of the poignancy of the video recorded like this, and because she gave a sublime performance. Yes, Sofia rests in peace, for all the happiness and beauty she has given to a guy like me, 62 years old, poor and Argentinian, and to the whole world for eternity. Greetings from the soul.
when I was a boy , my parents and I watched and heard her sing this on a Sunday morning on German television. We all had tears in our eyes.. Now, 40 years later, I still get teary -eyed ,listening to this angel. I've heard the aria many times by many many great singers, but Lucia Popp is the only one that goes straight to the soul and to the heart
Very true Mr. Lunow. She is my most favorite one of her generation. Her interpretation of Arias of Mozart , her singing of Mass in C Minor of Mozart under Rafael kubelik are few of gems to be treasured forever. This interpretation of Song to the Moon of Rusalka shows her command over the melody. A brilliant, remarkable vocalist of highest calibre.
This is one of my favorite pieces. I've heard many variations, from Renee Fleming to Sarah Brightman. Each do a wonderful rendition, however Lucia Popp sings this song with such emotion and fluidity, it seem effortless to her. RIP Ms. Popp and thank you for your gift to the world of such an awesome gifted voice.
Absolutely agree.. Renee Fleming is good ..I LOVE Netrebko and her version is amazing.. but this is on a different level she is perfection for this song..
@@eddieman2004 Lucia Popp was amazing. Listen to this one though, an exceptional rendition ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eRLUY2HEgIc.html
I like them all, but I consider Frederica von Strada's version (available on RU-vid) is my favourite. Perhaps because her voice is pitched lower and to me that adds something. Listen to Flica's versions of 'Balero' for further consideration, against her friend Kiri Te Kanawa's. I think it lends support for my opinion. Now get listening, and, as the text books in Philosopy advise, discuss.
I watched Rusalka in Prague 6 years ago , ever since I heard this song i grew attached to it , but Lucia’s voice is absolutely something else , something out of this world , heavenly almost ❤️
This particular aria is sung by the title character, Rusalka, in the opera's first act. Rusalka is the daughter of a water-goblin who wants nothing more than to be human after she falls in love with a hunter/prince who frequents the lake in which she lives. Rusalka sings this song asking the moon to reveal her love to the Prince.
Like every human being who has heard Lucia Popp, I fell in love with a voice beyond human expectations. Thank you, Lucia, for all the years of beauty and happiness you have brought into my life. I owe you a debt that is unpayable. If there is an after-life, you belong as the brightest star in it.
For just a few short years, we were visited by an angel of the Lord, but the Lord could no longer live without this angel in his holly presence... so she went home, leaving us with only a few wonderful reminders of what awaits us in the next life. Rest & Sleep in Peace, Lucia poppova; ours was a better and more beautiful world with the sound of your song... Na tebe, stejně jako na všechny nebeské anděly, nikdy nezapomeneme.❤💔❤
Yes madam, Lucia's voice was sublime, heavenly & lucid with full of warmth. She immersed herself completely in everything she sang, opera arias, songs, lieder. She departed too early.
Absolutely true! She used to immerse herself with her soul& heart in any of her numerous characters she'd sang and any of those were extraordinarily bright and easy to perceive her musical culture and talent she was blessed with.
Personally, Popp is my number 1 among all other great supranos. Most of the songs that Popp had sang, I hardly find a better version from any other singer. For some reasons, she can drag you into the music and make you feel like...hmm...this is how the composer should feel when writing the song. Song to the Moon is a perfect example, it's like thie song was meant for Popp to sing. It is very interesting that Popp's voice can make you feel different in each song, the tone is different, so expressive, unlike Price or Callas or Sumi Jo or any other, Callas is Callas in Carmen, Callas is Callas in Norma, but Popp is the Queen of Night, Popp is Rusalka, Popp is the Angel to sing laudate dominum, etc
Amen to that ! Nobody can match her. So sad the way she left us. Her "Four Last Songs" by Strauss is another one of her high points. Nobody better. No way.
It´s easy to sit a whole day watching youtube pearls, like a mental shower. This is definately one of those pearls, who will last forever. R.I.P. Lucia Popp
I had never heard Lucia Popp's rendition of this beautiful aria and I can't believe I had not heard it before. I do not want to go into this bad habit of the internet of comparing X to Y, because of volume, color, effort and bla bla bla. I find her voice of a purity that really matches this role. What makes me love this rendition is the quality of each of the syllables. She manages to pronounce each vowel and consonant without losing the beauty of her voice and the great melody of the aria. Bravisima!!!
It is a crying shame that this wonderful voice left us at such a young age. Thank the almighty we have the recordings. This is fine rendition of the Song to the Moon and will live with us forever.
Lucia Popp (born Lucia Poppová; 12 November 1939 - 16 November 1993) was a Slovak operatic soprano. She began her career as a soubrette soprano, and later moved into the light-lyric and lyric coloratura soprano repertoire and then the lighter Richard Strauss and Wagner operas. Her career included performances at Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala. Popp was also a highly regarded recitalist and lieder singer.
...and Fritz Wunderlich encouraged her to go on and not to travel home to Preßburg when she was having problems with the aria of "Königin der Nacht". What treasures are they both!
@@ikseldecorativearts8139 I remembered her fondly seeing/hearing live in concert for the first time in the 70s when she sang Strauss “ Four Last Songs “ with Chicago Symphony Orchestra directed by Georg Solti when I was a student in Chicago. Never forget that experience!!!
Yes Mr. Ching. She is one of the greatest sopranos who made her outstanding career on operatic front. Her interpretation of Mozart, Mahler are breathtaking and absolutely divine. With crystal clear voice, with complete thought process behind every rendition, she is equally at par in non-germanic compositions.
The beauty of her soprano is beyond description, and unrivaled, andoff the charts Indescribable beauty Indescribable comfort Indescribable feeling and something indescribable
I love this beautiful song so much. It made me so sad to hear about Lucia's death. Someone who can sing this beautifully should be able to live forever. Rest in peace. 😞💖
The most devoted voice/singing to music I have ever listened to. Her voice is a perfect marriage of purity and maturity. Love Lucia Popp's devotion to music in her voice and singing. Absolutely the best!
Dear God... she sings this so unbelievably well... this woman was singing so phenomenally well that the flaws of her sound surface really do not matter.... singing of the highest level
Thanks to the movie The bicentennial man, where the robot was listening to this masterpiece in the basement, I've found the best opera singer, Lucia Poppova. R.I.P. Lucia! You are the best!
Absolute perfection! I would pick this song and version to travel onto the stars on another gold or bronze disc to show what fantastic things the human voice is capable of😉
Yes, Popp is the highly set bar, the acme that sopranos try to attain with varying degrees of success. I hope you keep on singing as long as you can, the best that you can. That's the best way to honor Popp's memory!
sung by many rarely so beautifully as this the controlled power and strength of this amazing and pure voice fearless in the attack such perfection and control she is a godess
♥♥♥Fantastique!!!: interprétation très expressive, voix splendide, technique brillante: cette très grande chanteuse ne peux que figurer au Panthéon de la Musique!
I fell in love with Lucia Popp's voice in the Fruhbeck Carmina Burana, and she still gives me chills every time I hear her. The voice is gorgeous and the technique perfected, of course--like very few other singers. As a non-singer, I think I know what so captures me. She has an incredible control of micro-dynamics, producing the tiniest crescendo imaginable, and she does it multiple times within phrases. It lends the line a unique character that I've only heard from Lucia Popp.
Loved your appraisal, John. I recently posted another example that you may like .. also in the Czech language .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y10g_QzDlK8.html
BazzasBest Thanks for the generous comment, BB, even more for the reference. She was wonderful, wasn't she? And with the gorgeous singing, her acting in that clip is moving, also.
+John Pendley Well said, John, and I am sure you have heard her do the Strauss Last Songs, which, especially the 3rd and 4th, leave one stricken with emotion.I refer to the reading she did with Tennstedt.
If Lucia is pretty good what will you say about the rest of the so called top sopranos? Average? She was the best of the best. I never heard anyone come close to her enchanting voice as she owns this aria and many others. Beautifully aria from opera Rusalka by Dvorak, the musical genius.
Agi, if any of your friends or acquaintences ask why you love classical music, just play recordings of Lucia Popp singing. Then they will understand! 😂
Sublime - my favourite soprano of all. I was lucky to have sung in the chorus on her 1976 Decca recording with RPO/Dorati of Haydn's 'Creation' in Kingsway Hall, London. She arrived wearing an enourmous fur hat! Though every inch a shining star, even before opening her mouth, she was so gracious and friendly to us amateurs behind her.
I believed for many years that Rita Streich sang the best version but after hearing Lucia Popp, I am completely touched by the expressive power of this great artist. A voice of great quality and musicality. Wonderful, just wonderful !
Rita Streich sang everything just about perfectly; you are comparing apples with oranges at this point, both Ladies being like angels come to Earth to bless us!
On par with the great singer Milada Šubrtová, who never took any foreign engagment and remained behind the iron wall all her life. Thought to be the best Rusalka by many Czechs. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eRLUY2HEgIc.html
