[ EMI Very Best of Singers / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 1 October 2003
The esteemed Czech-born Austrian soprano Lucia Popp began her career by training as an actress. Only then did she begin studying music and singing at the Conservatories of Brünn and Prague.
COMPACT DISC 1 :
DVORÁK
Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
SMETANA
Should I ever learn (The Bartered Bride)
How confused I feel (Dalibor)
GRIEG
Solveig's Song / Solveig's Cradle Song (Peer Gynt)
ORFF
Amor volat undique / Stetit puella / In trutina (Carmina Burana)
STRAUSS
Frühling / September / Beim Schlafengehen / Im Abendrot
MAHLER
Symphony No. 4 in G - IV. Sehr behaglich
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tatiana's Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin)
COMPACT DISC 2 :
HANDEL
Un cenno leggiadretto (Serse)
Ho perduto il caro sposo (Rodelinda)
O had I Jubel's lyre (Joshua)
MOZART
Laudate Dominum (Vesperae Solannes De Confessore)
Welche Wonne, welche Lust (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
Porgi amor / Voi che sapete / Giunse alfin il momento…Deh vieni, non tadar (Le nozze di Figaro)
Crudele?…Non mi dir (Don Giovanni)
Come scoglio / Una donna a quindici anni (Così fan tutte)
Der Hölle Rache / Ach, ich fühl's (Die Zauberflöte)
ROSSINI
Crucifixus (Petit Messe Solennelle)
SCHUBERT
Die Forelle / Gretchen am Spinnrade / An Sylvia
STRAUSS
Zueignung
LEHÁR
Es lebt' eine Vilja (Die lustige Witwe)
STRAUSS II
Klänge der Heimat (Die Fledermaus)