Lucia Popp began her career as a soubrette, and later moved into the light-lyric and lyric coloratura soprano repertoire and then the lighter Richard Strauss and Wagner operas.
11 Facts About Lucia Popp
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Lucia Popp's career included performances at Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala.
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Lucia Popp's mother was a soprano, with whom the young Lucia often sang duets at home.
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Lucia Popp initially studied medicine at the Bratislava University, then entered the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava to study drama.
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Lucia Popp made her Royal Opera House debut in 1966 as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, and her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1967 as the Queen of the Night.
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Lucia Popp played "Tereza" in the 1963 Slovak film Janosik about the Slovak highwayman Juraj Janosik.
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Lucia Popp died of brain cancer in 1993 in Munich, Germany, at the age of 54.
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Lucia Popp was survived by her husband, German tenor Peter Seiffert, whom she married in 1986.
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Lucia Popp rarely recorded roles she did not perform on stage.
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Lucia Popp can be seen as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio with Gundula Janowitz conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
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Lucia Popp was Sophie in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier DG 00440 073 4072 Carlos Kleiber conductor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester; Otto Schenk director, recorded 1979.