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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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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…
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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Smetana: The Bartered Bride
Alfred Sramek, Lucia Popp, Walter Fink, Siegfried Jerusalem, Karl Ridderbusch & Heinz Zednik
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Adam Fischer
Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Anja Silja (Leonore), Richard Cassilly (Florestan), Ernst Wiemann (Rocco), Theo Adam (Pizarro), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Jaquino), Lucia Popp (Marzelline), Hans Sotin (Fernando); Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg & Choir of the Hamburg State Opera, Leopold Ludwig
Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Bernd Weikl (Gabriel von Eisenstein), Lucia Popp (Rosalinde), Erich Kunz (Frank), Brigitte Fassbaender (Orlofsky), Josef Hopferwieser (Alfred), Walter Berry (Dr Falke), Anton Wendler (Dr Blind), Edita Gruberova (Adele); Wiener Staatsoper, Theodor Guschlbauer (conductor) & Otto Schenk (director)
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…
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
Haydn: The Creation
Lucia Popp, Francisco Araiza, Samuel Ramey, Olaf Bär & Iris Vermillion
Wiener Philharmoniker & Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti
There is plenty of glamour, and Muti is excitingly dramatic. — More…
Haydn: Mass, Hob. XXII: 5 in C major 'Cäcilienmesse'
Lucia Popp (soprano), Doris Soffel (alto), Horst Laubenthal (tenor) & Kurt Moll (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
this is a well-judged reading of a consistently-infectious masterpiece — More…