{"id":3513,"date":"2009-04-25T05:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2009-04-25T05:06:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:06:17","slug":"lucia-popp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/25\/lucia-popp\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucia Popp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog-luciapopp-01\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/blogluciapopp01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-luciapopp-01\" width=\"151\" height=\"235\" align=\"right\" \/> There comes a point in time listening to the classics that you start being able to distinctly tell by listening who\u2019s the person singing a particular role. Funnily, the two vocal ranges I have difficulty with singer identification are Alto and Tenor. Soprano and Bass is easy \u2013 I wonder why LOL.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, there several Sopranos I enjoy listening to: there\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiri_Te_Kanawa\">Kiri Te Kanawa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathleen_Battle\">Kathleen Battle<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eva-lind.at\/\">Eva Lind<\/a>. By far though, the singer I most admire is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucia_Popp\">Lucia Popp<\/a>. Her voice isn\u2019t expansive and at times almost seems a little \u2018small\u2019. But there\u2019s an incredible elegance and passion evident in her voice, and of a very distinct timbre.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s especially well-known for handling <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyric_coloratura_soprano\">lyric coloratura soprano<\/a> repertoire. When she sings in operas of the comedic variety, there\u2019s infectious fun in her voice. Of the recordings I have of her, everyone of them is a favorite: her part as the feisty Susanna in <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/09\/18\/marriage-mozart-and-da-ponte-part-ii\/\"><em>Le Nozze di Figaro<\/em><\/a> which I\u2019ve blogged about here before, Pamina in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Die_Zauberfl%C3%B6te\"><em>Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>and Rosalinde in Johann Strauus II\u2019s comic opera <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Die_Fledermaus\"><em>Die Fledermaus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/obituary-lucia-popp-1504963.html\">Called<\/a> \u201cone of the most gifted, attractive and intelligent singers of her generation\u201d, she sadly passed away from brain cancer in 1993 at the age of 54.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog-luciapopp-02\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/blogluciapopp02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-luciapopp-02\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a point in time listening to the classics that you start being able to distinctly tell by listening who\u2019s the person singing a particular role. Funnily, the two vocal ranges I have difficulty with singer identification are Alto<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/25\/lucia-popp\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Lucia Popp<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-music","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-11-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}