Lucia Popp (November 12, 1939 – November 16, 1993) was a noted 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.
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Lucia Popp (November 12, 1939 – November 16, 1993) was a noted 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.
Lucia Popp was born as Lucia Poppová, in Záhorská Ves (Hungarian: Magyarfalu, German: Ungeraiden; then in Czechoslovakia and now in Slovakia). She had Slovak, Hungarian, Moravian, and Romanian origins. Popp initially entered the Bratislava Academy to study drama. While she began her vocal lessons during this period as a mezzo-soprano, her voice developed a high upper register to the degree that her professional debut was as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute in Bratislava, a role she revived in a 1963 production directed by Otto Klemperer....
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