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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
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Gundula Janowitz (Leonore), Rene Kollo (Florestan), Manfred Jungwirth (Rocco), Hans Sotin (Pizarro), Lucia Popp (Marzelline), Adolf Dallapozza (Jaquino), Hans Helm (Fernando), Karl Terkal (First Prisoner), Alfred Sramek (Second Prisoner)
Wiener Staatsoper, Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein had a special rapport with Beethoven's opera and indeed with Vienna, where Otto Schenk's 1989 production is given further conviction by a top-quality cast led by Gundula Janowitz's... — More…
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
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Gwyneth Jones (Marschallin), Brigitte Fassbaender (Octavian), Lucia Popp (Sophie), Manfred Jungwirth (Baron Ochs), Benno Kusche (Faninal), Francisco Araiza (Italian Singer), David Thaw (Valzacchi), Gudrun Wewezow (Annina)
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Carlos Kleiber
Kleiber's conducting is spacious, transparent and warm. Brigitte Fassbaender is ideal as Octavian, Gwyneth Jones a moving Marschallin, Lucia Popp a sweet-voiced if mature Sophie, and Manfred... — More…
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Kurt Moll, Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Lucia Popp & Wolfgang Brendel
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
This charming production features Lucia Popp's still glorious Pamina and Moll's resonant Sarastro heading a first-rate cast. Brendel's Papageno lightens the recommendation. — More…
Orff: Carmina Burana
Lucia Popp (soprano), John van Kesteren (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra & Bavarian Radio Choir, Kurt Eichhorn
an imaginative staging... The main background set is a ruined church, against which the singers are seen in medieval costume, with action, sometimes surreal, invented to illustrate each section... — More…
The Dvorák Cycle - Volume VI
Live Recording from The Alte Oper Frankfurt 1993
Lucia Popp (soprano), Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Josef Protschka (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass)
The Prague Syphony Orchestra & Prague Symphonic Choir, Petr Altrichter
Smetana: The Bartered Bride
Alfred Sramek, Lucia Popp, Walter Fink, Siegfried Jerusalem, Karl Ridderbusch & Heinz Zednik
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Adam Fischer
The Little Drummer Boy - Documentary
An essay on Gustav Mahler by and with Leonard Bernstein
Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp & Walton Groenroos
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein's 1985 BBC 'essay' THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, contends that Mahler's music often sounds Jewish and, less convincingly, that his guilt at abandoning Judaism led to his obsession with death.... — More…
Weber: Missa Sancta No. 1 'Freischützmesse'
Krisztina Laki, Marga Schiml, Josef Protschka & Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Lucia Popp, Doris Soffel, Horst Laubenthal & Kurt Moll
Bamberger Symphoniker & Chor der Bamberger Symmphoniker, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Horst Stein, Rafael Kubelik
George London: A Tribute
George London (baritone), Nicolai Gedda, Lucia Popp, Tatiana Troyanos, Edita Gruberova, Catherine Malfitano, Simon Estes, Margaretha Hintermeier, Francisco Araiza, Sona Ghazarian, Thomas Moser, Leonie Rysanek, James King
Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Lothar...
Offer, Dvorak: Sacred Music
Live Recordings from The Alte Oper Frankfurt, 1993
Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Peter Mikuláŝ (bass), Josef Protschka (tenor), Eva Urbanová (soprano), Katerina Kachlíková (mezzo-soprano), ŝtefan Margita (tenor), Lívia Ághová (soprano) & Ivan Kusnjer (baritone), Ivan Zenaty (violin)
Prague Symphony Orchestra & Prague...