A pity she had to die so young. She was born in 1939 and died in 1994, not yet 55. She was a very beautiful woman and had a voice that could sing to God Himself with no shame.
i'm sorry to say, but 23 users don't undertand nothing about warmth, beauty, an angel love message. With her singing Lucia Popp express, for me, the most brillant joy of life. With her smile. Thank you sweet little lady...
I've listened this song sang by many , but she is different, her voice has something special. The only one that sings it like she does, is Angela Gheorghiu.
God bless Lucia's soul, rest in peace and may you reborn as a opera singer in your next life!
I forgot to mention--race doesn't have anything to do with genius or creativity. There are creative geniuses in all races--you are just too limited to be able to realize and appreciate it. What a sad, dismal life you must lead...
Lucia Popp was the greatest singer in classical music. So Musical and emotinal in her singing. and what a control she had. She is greatly missed by serious music lovers.
Popp of course still reigns on the Rusalka throne, perhaps because she´s country-woman with Dvorak. But I also like Flemings rendition of the aria.There is room for
I far refer Popp's version of this song to those of Fleming and Netrebko. It just has a certain quality that seems to capture Rusalka's character that i find absent in the other two interpretations.
My dear fellow, the power of this piece, and music in general (not just classical music), is that it transcends race, ethnicity, social bearing, and time to resonant with what we all have in common--the human condition. It is not a question of race. By embracing such despicable principles, you have painted yourself into a distinctly unflattering facsimile for one who loves opera--renounce your ways you scoundrel! You fiendish aficionado!
@NIETZSCHEAN14 "Proud to be White (sic)": Silly. A fatuous, not to say absolutely stupid, sentiment. Great art should make us proud to be human. It affirms humanistic values and to put art of a racial basis belies its essence. The history books are filled with a multitude crimes committed in the name of racial pride; the lynchings, the death camps, the gutter politics, the bogus ideology of eugenics. You should look into your crooked heart.
@princeandrey. You fool! You have simply vomited out a load of liberal garbage you learned from television. Monteverdi, Pachelbel, Purcell, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Rossini, Bellini, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Bruckner, Grieg, Korsakov, Elgar, Puccini, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Orff, Shostakovich - all WHITE composers. Shame on you for not giving the White Race credit for producing these great artists. This exchange is over - fool!
@NIETZSCHEAN14 You are pathetic. But then I understand your limitations because you have some "bad blood" (non-white) blood in you because your white ancesters raped slaves and killed Jews in concentration camps--and then intermarried.
@Hailstormand. Monteverdi, Pachelbel, Purcell, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Rossini, Bellini, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Bruckner, Grieg, Korsakov, Elgar, Puccini, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Orff, Shostakovich - all WHITE composers. Shame on you for not giving the White Race credit for producing these great artists. This exchange is over - fool!
@NIETZSCHEAN14 This kind of exchange is never over because there are socially inadequate people like you. I credit the Divine for the presence of these composers, never a particular race. Your belief system is based on human fallacy and ravings of a syphilitic madman: I therefore pity you. You will never understand the concept of Divinity as a result of this adherence. You never will understand humility and humanity. Neither will you understand the universality of music.
To interject a little science into your ravings, and to anyone else who might have similar views -- science has no category subsetting human sapiens called "race." Try to find me wrong on this. You can't .
By your lights, all those guys whose names end in "i" are somehow polluted because they have "black blood." How do I know? Read a guy named Spencer Wells, who tracked DNA out of east Africa and found how that "pollution" is with us all.
@lskarin. Are you seriously telling me scientists have never taught there are different races of humans? If yes, you need to study the writings of Professor Kevin MacDonald, Professor Philippe Rushton, and Professor Richard Lynn (all three are alive, and all three teach humans are divided into races). Also, if you get a copy of the book, 'Which Way Western Man', you will find a section in that book which gives a list (31) of distinguished SCIENTISTS who reject what you have said.
@NIETZSCHEAN14 I can't find your attack on me on a particular post. So I'm responding to any of your poisonous outposts. One key to your outrageous claim to scientific backing is Rushton -- the looney Candian whose views have been dismissed by even the faculty of his own Western Ontario University.
You can talk of nigger lips or Asian slant eyes but the fact remains the the DNA IS INHERENTLY THE SAME.
Thus, I can give a blood tranfusion to a moron like you.
Lucia you are a darling and a have a voice to capture ones mind. Could I add Yvonne Kenny from Australia who would blow all the other false pretenders away. Thank you LaViolettaValery. Graham Melb Aus
@Kiovigbax I agree, the best Ruslkas for me are Milada Subrtova and Lucia Popp, but the aria fits Subrtova's voice more, because Popp is a coloratore. But for a colorature she sings this miracleously!! I also love Frederica von Stade's version
Have'n listened to many singers of this song to rhe moon only two can really sing it the first being Genia Kuhmeier who sounds like a bell on a glacier, and Anna Netrebko's gutsy vertion... tarzan
Velmi velmi dobré, sehr sehr schön, very beautiful. She is the second best in this aria Mesicku on YouTube, after Mrs. Subrtova. Druhá nejlepší árie Měsíčku na YT po paní Šubrtové. Prostě musí být slovanská duše!!! Flemingová kvílí jak meluzína.
@dyredoktor3003 Ja wiem co jest dobre. Rusalke moze spiewac dobrze iba slovanska dusza. A Lucia Popp je Slovenka (Slovak lady), trzebaze zila dlugo v Nemcach.
There seems to be no satisfying version of this song anywhere. Netrebko and Popp are the best technically, Netrebko being overall more satisfying, Popp more beautiful. But neither voice has that unforgettable quality. On my 11th soprano I was pinning my hopes on Fleming, but it did not work out either.
so...the toffs cannot stand to applause...maybe these galas should have the seats removed and that would give some people the chance to hear such beauty...maybe low-waged and unemployed people to experience such wonders. Viva la revolution!
The best rendition of this incerdible aria... by an incredible singer. This is one of those performances I can`t live without. I`m out of words... the beauty...
Krásne...a jej všetky zamýšľané plány prekazila zákerná choroba, v dôsledku ktorej svetoznáma slovenská sopranistka s veľkým ľudským srdcom a dušou svoj duel so smrťou prehrala. Stalo sa tak v novembri 1993 v Mníchove. Miesto posledného odpočinku našla v Bratislave na Slávičom údolí. Cest jej pamiatke!
Krásne...a jej všetky zamýšľané plány prekazila zákerná choroba, v dôsledku ktorej svetoznáma slovenská sopranistka s veľkým ľudským srdcom a dušou svoj duel so smrťou prehrala. Stalo sa tak v novembri 1993 v Mníchove. Miesto posledného odpočinku našla v Bratislave na Slávičom údolí.
At first I said myself: Oh, my God, it´s absolutelly amazing czech language and then of course angel voice which fondled and caused the pain at the same time. The explanation of her brilliant czech I have got, she was from Slovakia, but voice? It´s a gift from heaven. Pitty, I couldn´t hear of her in concert.
Dear Lucia.... I remember seeing her as a student.. She was simply gorgeous as she is here.... perfect for this very sad rôle. Netrebko has a wonderful voice but unsuitable to this character... it is far too thick and Russian here.
Voice, Interpretation, Appearance, Attitude, Smile...etc. Put all of these together in one, who is Lucia Popp. No offense to other great Sopranos. Just, that moment was touching and will be unforgetable for food.
Não interessam palavras para qualificar a voz de Lucia Popp, nem vale a pena compará-la com qualquer outra soprano. Lucia é única; há que ouvi-la e extasiarmo-nos.
Gorgeous singer; magnificent, albeit too short career. I disagree with the comments about Lucia being flat. The microphone placement is the cause. Anyone who understands the "doppler effect" will understand.
branko1b I don't believe in ultimate or 'divine versions of arias' (and I don't belong to any "cult of Popp") but juts mentioning Fleming or Netrebko in the context with Popp is utterly nonsensical, a real 'reductio as absurdum' - just like saying "god is great, but look at these merino sheep, they are powerful creatures too"
Beautiful voice; beautiful woman, and what a tragic loss. She'd be 71 had she lived. Does anyone know if "Song To The Moon" has been sung by a male? A great tenor could do justice to this piece. I can't find one.
@barmanjoe you're absolutely right she's flat almost all the way! I wonder what happened. It must be recorded during a concert and she's not in great shape. Usually, she sings right on the notes. Too bad!!
Renee's interpretation is wonderful (maybe a bit slow) but I prefer Lucia. Her voice sounds as if she IS Rusalka.
Of course I cannot say if her pronouncing and accentuation are good (I've learnt Russian not Check ), yet I guess it sounds so beautiful that she must sings it right.
And yes Renee's is far more tuneful. I will probably get ousted by the hanging crowd but Renee's rendition is actually so slow that for me the song loses its momentum (still very passionate tho). I would like sthg between Lucia's & Renee's. And yes I am a singer (not a lousy one), a connaisseur and have a good ear and the many soloists I have heard in New Zealand sound more like Renee than this particular recording of Lucia. Still it is wonderful that Lucia gives so many people so much pleasure!
I am torn between not stooping to the level of some of the correspondents on this site and voicing my opinion. Because a minority of listeners have politely voiced one opinion, the teeming majority have, impolitely in some cases, gone against it and given the thumbs down which results in having the minority comment removed. I am amazed at the small-mindedness.
Compare this version to Renee Fleming-you will not be disappointed.I saw Lucia Popp at Covent Garden in the early 70's in Der Rosencavalier so I know she can sing ...but Fleming is Queen of the Moon to me.
I am sorry, but before I read other's comments. I really feel she off pitch a bit. The starting is more obvious. This song is a bit low for her. Anyway, I still like her voice.
if I sang that way out of tune I would consider myself one of the best singers and would die happily! .... Lucia is just wonderfull, might not have been her best performance ever, but every note was true, pure, honest and divine!!!
That kind of remarks comes mostly from so called 'connaiseurs', lousy singers or the poor sods with absolute hearing..... The least could possibly be right, but in this case the whole bloody orchestra must have been off pitch together with Lucia..... ;-)
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Yeah she is off pitch, Especially in the lower range. Her chorus remains off as well, she gets the high A though, and then picks up the pitch after that. The orchestra seems to sound alright.
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The unfortunate thing about being able to post comments and hide your face is that it enables people to be impolite when normally they would not (Hantipas). Blackappleseed is correct in saying that this is not a great performance by Lucia. She has a wondrous voice but in this particular performance she is frequently flat.
He says exactly the opposite; he says "divine interpretation but frequently off pitch". The question is: which notes are off pitch? I am not impolite; he is. Lucia is dead and she deserves respect.
Hey, what are you talking about? Butterfly shirts were big in the 80's. Everybody wanted one. I wish she was still here with us. There was a sweet, melodic quality to her voice that has been unmatched. One of the best, most talented and beloved singers. Brava Lucia.
nowadays, in our HD time, how could imagine a singer going on stage in a black skirt and a butterfly shirt? Lucia Popp did it, and who cares what she´s wearing? Her singing is pure soul. Lucia, I miss you. When I was a child, you were the most beautiful singer for me. Now I´m sitting here, crying...
Lucia Popp, you were a gift to this world, without you we would have never experienced such beauty and grace that your voice gives. You enrich opera and all those who listen to it, and not to mention that you were the best Queen of the Night that has ever lived. Thank-you.
There is something about her that goes straight to the heart. Not every famous singer has this. It's above technical skill. It's unlearned. It's precious, and I miss her very much.
No paddaman, don't be a snob. Storm2nite is just thick as 2 short planks because he had his ear cut off when he was 14, now he's older i expect he plays G.T.A. and manages to multitask by masturbating simultaneously. Either way, he's a definite wanker.
Impresionante. Lucia Popp es fantástica. Tiene una voz bellísima. Siempre me emociono con Lucia Popp pero más si cabe cuando canta melodías tan sublimes como ésta de Dvorák. ¡Bravo Lucia! ¡Siempre estarás en mi corazón!
I just accidently found another version of this song on youtube... with Lucia Popp taken while in costume during a performance at an opera house. If youlcan find it, which version do YOU like better? As for me, I love 'em both!!!
Désolée pour pour les fans, mais, il y a un truc qui me chagrine, elle a une voix magnifique et tout, mais, je la trouve un tout petit peu trop basse, ce n'est pas grand chose, mais c'est gênant !
Simply amazing.
dysplasticrome0 5 days ago
A melhor interpretação dessa ária jamais feita!
Dvorak, se a conhecesse, jamais deixaria que outra interpretasse o papel de Rusalka!
sergiobantam 6 days ago
seen prettier woman at my local mall
rckflare 1 week ago
A pity she had to die so young. She was born in 1939 and died in 1994, not yet 55. She was a very beautiful woman and had a voice that could sing to God Himself with no shame.
ftorresgamez 3 weeks ago
This is for the ages!!!
tibele1000 1 month ago
she has beauty of a butterfly and voice of a rainbow
huschow 1 month ago
splendida in ogni senso
pulejus 1 month ago
hi
RAZORFAN67 2 months ago
i'm sorry to say, but 23 users don't undertand nothing about warmth, beauty, an angel love message. With her singing Lucia Popp express, for me, the most brillant joy of life. With her smile. Thank you sweet little lady...
ITritornavincitor 2 months ago
I love Lucia Popp. She is the best Rusalka. I love this aria. :)
tenaciousgirl 2 months ago
Oddly mannered and rather stiff version. Joshua Bell's version gets nearest to
the heart of this gorgeous pieceof music. I heard a version by a counter tenor, whose name escapes me, which was excellent.
petelloyd5 3 months ago
I've listened this song sang by many , but she is different, her voice has something special. The only one that sings it like she does, is Angela Gheorghiu.
God bless Lucia's soul, rest in peace and may you reborn as a opera singer in your next life!
dragosnarcis 5 months ago
Not the best. She's flat. :(
mattthepie 6 months ago
@mattthepie I agree!
JayveeSonata 3 weeks ago
Morons who abuse other people's views should not be allowed to listen to something as sublime as this.
wilf1812 6 months ago
What does any of this race crap have to do with the sublime voice of Lucia Popp? Perhaps this is not the best place to discuss such trivial matters.
JJMooreSoprano 6 months ago
Lucia Popp is the best RUSALKA!
ErikaSopranolirica88 8 months ago
I forgot to mention--race doesn't have anything to do with genius or creativity. There are creative geniuses in all races--you are just too limited to be able to realize and appreciate it. What a sad, dismal life you must lead...
loge10 9 months ago
popp is sublime!
MrNikodemus2 9 months ago
毎週土曜日にラジオ番組で彼女の歌声を聴いてますが迚も素晴らしいです。
35012000masa 9 months ago
There are a number of good versions of this, and this one is right up there with Subertova.
7inga7 10 months ago
A gorgeous performance by the lovely Popp, may she rest in peace --
stevevandien 10 months ago
Lucia Popp was the greatest singer in classical music. So Musical and emotinal in her singing. and what a control she had. She is greatly missed by serious music lovers.
Dionysosable 10 months ago
Popp of course still reigns on the Rusalka throne, perhaps because she´s country-woman with Dvorak. But I also like Flemings rendition of the aria.There is room for
many more Rusalkas though!!!
pump066 10 months ago
i watched "Bicentennial Man" i heard this song and looked it up. and now im here.
gorillaz1690 10 months ago
Wow.
lskarin 10 months ago
I far refer Popp's version of this song to those of Fleming and Netrebko. It just has a certain quality that seems to capture Rusalka's character that i find absent in the other two interpretations.
nannyrox107 10 months ago
My dear fellow, the power of this piece, and music in general (not just classical music), is that it transcends race, ethnicity, social bearing, and time to resonant with what we all have in common--the human condition. It is not a question of race. By embracing such despicable principles, you have painted yourself into a distinctly unflattering facsimile for one who loves opera--renounce your ways you scoundrel! You fiendish aficionado!
JCccny 10 months ago 3
This makes me very proud to be White. The White Race has produced so many wonderful artists.
NIETZSCHEAN14 11 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14
DERELICT OF HUMANITY! YOU ARE OUT OF HERE.
JCccny 10 months ago
@JCccny. No, I am still here (lol). I love opera, it is White Power music. :o)
NIETZSCHEAN14 10 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14 "Proud to be White (sic)": Silly. A fatuous, not to say absolutely stupid, sentiment. Great art should make us proud to be human. It affirms humanistic values and to put art of a racial basis belies its essence. The history books are filled with a multitude crimes committed in the name of racial pride; the lynchings, the death camps, the gutter politics, the bogus ideology of eugenics. You should look into your crooked heart.
princeandrey 10 months ago
@princeandrey. You fool! You have simply vomited out a load of liberal garbage you learned from television. Monteverdi, Pachelbel, Purcell, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Rossini, Bellini, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Bruckner, Grieg, Korsakov, Elgar, Puccini, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Orff, Shostakovich - all WHITE composers. Shame on you for not giving the White Race credit for producing these great artists. This exchange is over - fool!
NIETZSCHEAN14 10 months ago
Oh, my! So much vituperation! The hatred that animates your viewpoint speaks for itself.
princeandrey 10 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14 You are pathetic. But then I understand your limitations because you have some "bad blood" (non-white) blood in you because your white ancesters raped slaves and killed Jews in concentration camps--and then intermarried.
loge10 9 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14
Composers create Great Music.
You?
Hailstormand 10 months ago
@Hailstormand. Monteverdi, Pachelbel, Purcell, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Rossini, Bellini, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Bruckner, Grieg, Korsakov, Elgar, Puccini, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Orff, Shostakovich - all WHITE composers. Shame on you for not giving the White Race credit for producing these great artists. This exchange is over - fool!
NIETZSCHEAN14 10 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14 This kind of exchange is never over because there are socially inadequate people like you. I credit the Divine for the presence of these composers, never a particular race. Your belief system is based on human fallacy and ravings of a syphilitic madman: I therefore pity you. You will never understand the concept of Divinity as a result of this adherence. You never will understand humility and humanity. Neither will you understand the universality of music.
Hailstormand 10 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14
To interject a little science into your ravings, and to anyone else who might have similar views -- science has no category subsetting human sapiens called "race." Try to find me wrong on this. You can't .
By your lights, all those guys whose names end in "i" are somehow polluted because they have "black blood." How do I know? Read a guy named Spencer Wells, who tracked DNA out of east Africa and found how that "pollution" is with us all.
If you're human.
lskarin 8 months ago
@lskarin. Are you seriously telling me scientists have never taught there are different races of humans? If yes, you need to study the writings of Professor Kevin MacDonald, Professor Philippe Rushton, and Professor Richard Lynn (all three are alive, and all three teach humans are divided into races). Also, if you get a copy of the book, 'Which Way Western Man', you will find a section in that book which gives a list (31) of distinguished SCIENTISTS who reject what you have said.
NIETZSCHEAN14 8 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14 I can't find your attack on me on a particular post. So I'm responding to any of your poisonous outposts. One key to your outrageous claim to scientific backing is Rushton -- the looney Candian whose views have been dismissed by even the faculty of his own Western Ontario University.
You can talk of nigger lips or Asian slant eyes but the fact remains the the DNA IS INHERENTLY THE SAME.
Thus, I can give a blood tranfusion to a moron like you.
lskarin 7 months ago
@lskarin. Now you are just being silly . This exchange is over.
NIETZSCHEAN14 7 months ago
Lucia you are a darling and a have a voice to capture ones mind. Could I add Yvonne Kenny from Australia who would blow all the other false pretenders away. Thank you LaViolettaValery. Graham Melb Aus
23zowie23 11 months ago
@23zowie23 Yvonne Kenny..... Good heavens man have you got cloth ears?
PenzancePete 10 months ago
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I think Lucia is the best singer of all time!
MarietteDavina 1 year ago
@Kiovigbax I agree, the best Ruslkas for me are Milada Subrtova and Lucia Popp, but the aria fits Subrtova's voice more, because Popp is a coloratore. But for a colorature she sings this miracleously!! I also love Frederica von Stade's version
AleksandraPlamenac 1 year ago
Have'n listened to many singers of this song to rhe moon only two can really sing it the first being Genia Kuhmeier who sounds like a bell on a glacier, and Anna Netrebko's gutsy vertion... tarzan
1321viv 1 year ago
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No one can touch Popp's exalted version of this divine piece of music.
montstasia 1 year ago
No one can touch Popp's exalted version of this divine piece of music.
montstasia 1 year ago 28
@montstasia no one!
Beattles007 1 month ago
Velmi velmi dobré, sehr sehr schön, very beautiful. She is the second best in this aria Mesicku on YouTube, after Mrs. Subrtova. Druhá nejlepší árie Měsíčku na YT po paní Šubrtové. Prostě musí být slovanská duše!!! Flemingová kvílí jak meluzína.
Kiovigbax 1 year ago
@Kiovigbax oni nie wiedza co jes dobren mto je prawda to jest slowiańska dusza
dyredoktor3003 1 year ago
@dyredoktor3003 Ja wiem co jest dobre. Rusalke moze spiewac dobrze iba slovanska dusza. A Lucia Popp je Slovenka (Slovak lady), trzebaze zila dlugo v Nemcach.
Kiovigbax 1 year ago
While Lucia Popp made me love this, Netrebko's version is better.
MelekBetul 1 year ago
@MelekBetul it's not
brunnhild23 1 year ago
Finally, Svetla Vassileva... The most animated and expressive version. But the recording picks up the audience's coughs more than her voice!
2levina 1 year ago
There seems to be no satisfying version of this song anywhere. Netrebko and Popp are the best technically, Netrebko being overall more satisfying, Popp more beautiful. But neither voice has that unforgettable quality. On my 11th soprano I was pinning my hopes on Fleming, but it did not work out either.
2levina 1 year ago
so...the toffs cannot stand to applause...maybe these galas should have the seats removed and that would give some people the chance to hear such beauty...maybe low-waged and unemployed people to experience such wonders. Viva la revolution!
Tommyfazz 1 year ago
Pulchra illa vox tam clara ut interpretatio ... Masters
juan080564 1 year ago
The best rendition of this incerdible aria... by an incredible singer. This is one of those performances I can`t live without. I`m out of words... the beauty...
Transoxiana94 1 year ago 2
Krásne...a jej všetky zamýšľané plány prekazila zákerná choroba, v dôsledku ktorej svetoznáma slovenská sopranistka s veľkým ľudským srdcom a dušou svoj duel so smrťou prehrala. Stalo sa tak v novembri 1993 v Mníchove. Miesto posledného odpočinku našla v Bratislave na Slávičom údolí. Cest jej pamiatke!
MyMiloti 1 year ago
Krásne...a jej všetky zamýšľané plány prekazila zákerná choroba, v dôsledku ktorej svetoznáma slovenská sopranistka s veľkým ľudským srdcom a dušou svoj duel so smrťou prehrala. Stalo sa tak v novembri 1993 v Mníchove. Miesto posledného odpočinku našla v Bratislave na Slávičom údolí.
MyMiloti 1 year ago
The best
zdeseoz 1 year ago
Wonderful rendition.
sweltame 1 year ago
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Peeetwa 1 year ago
Sorry I am a Popp fan and this isn't her best singing nor does it beat Anna's IMO. To each his own
spintotenor83 1 year ago
I saw Lucia in 1970 at Covent Garden in Der Rosencavalier----Fantastic --but for this aria my vote goes to Renee Fleming
kennetti76 1 year ago
simply the best!
frafantuzzi 1 year ago 9
Lovely aria and amazing voice too
Does anybody has the phonetic of the lyris of this ?"Song to the moon"?
I am a soprano and I can't read czech.I don't know the pronunciation
Thanks for your time and attention!
maritate 1 year ago
At first I said myself: Oh, my God, it´s absolutelly amazing czech language and then of course angel voice which fondled and caused the pain at the same time. The explanation of her brilliant czech I have got, she was from Slovakia, but voice? It´s a gift from heaven. Pitty, I couldn´t hear of her in concert.
gidzitka 1 year ago
Comparisons are odious
Tommyfazz 1 year ago
Wow. Her voice is.. Absolutely Amazing. This is SO beautiful.
liljamerz 1 year ago
Voz muy bella y tersa. muy agradable de oir. Actriz excepcional y siempre emocionante transmitia los sentimientos de sus personajes al público
faricallas 1 year ago
Dear Lucia.... I remember seeing her as a student.. She was simply gorgeous as she is here.... perfect for this very sad rôle. Netrebko has a wonderful voice but unsuitable to this character... it is far too thick and Russian here.
farnsmere 1 year ago
Lucia is perfection in this rôle. Netrebko... a beautiful voice but far to Russian for this rôle. It is heavy here and better suited to other rôles.
I do so miss Lucia. I saw her as a student. She was just gorgeous.... a real star... and then she died at just 54.
cantuar144 1 year ago
Yeah, Luicia is MUUUUUUUCH BETTER than Netrebko (deajj)
fairygam 1 year ago
Voice, Interpretation, Appearance, Attitude, Smile...etc. Put all of these together in one, who is Lucia Popp. No offense to other great Sopranos. Just, that moment was touching and will be unforgetable for food.
bass2jim 1 year ago 3
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lyricaltones 1 year ago
lucia rules!
bloosey1 1 year ago
Não interessam palavras para qualificar a voz de Lucia Popp, nem vale a pena compará-la com qualquer outra soprano. Lucia é única; há que ouvi-la e extasiarmo-nos.
manueltraquina 1 year ago
Gorgeous singer; magnificent, albeit too short career. I disagree with the comments about Lucia being flat. The microphone placement is the cause. Anyone who understands the "doppler effect" will understand.
tenore8 1 year ago 2
branko1b I don't believe in ultimate or 'divine versions of arias' (and I don't belong to any "cult of Popp") but juts mentioning Fleming or Netrebko in the context with Popp is utterly nonsensical, a real 'reductio as absurdum' - just like saying "god is great, but look at these merino sheep, they are powerful creatures too"
branko1b 1 year ago
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branko1b 1 year ago
wow this is really good, her voice is a sort of flat through a lot of it, but other then that........ Renee Fleming also sings this beautifully. :)
operadiva023 1 year ago
Melopedia: ¡Pronunciación perfecta y extrema dulzura!.-
melopedia 1 year ago
Lucia's soulfully beautiful face and eyes only add to the beauty of her performance.
BurnsDillon 1 year ago
Lovely as the voice is, she is singing flat for the whole song...
deeefie 1 year ago
No mames, chille con la pelicula Bicentenary man., this song its ...wow ......its.......wooooooow.....
Changuitt0 1 year ago
I don't know why but I like her Rusalka most of all, She is so inspiring! A great soprano!
VladaSunlight 1 year ago
Beautiful voice; beautiful woman, and what a tragic loss. She'd be 71 had she lived. Does anyone know if "Song To The Moon" has been sung by a male? A great tenor could do justice to this piece. I can't find one.
BurnsDillon 1 year ago
@BurnsDillon
That would be like a soprano or mezzo singing Nessun Dorma...
dialectgirl 1 year ago
@dialectgirl
Been done. Many times. Deanna Durbin was most successful.
Chiliarches 1 year ago
@BurnsDillon It could probably be sung by a countertenor.
TheGraysianViolinist 1 year ago
I'm sorry if I'm offending anyone but she's quite flat in this video, lovely voice though.
barmanjoe 2 years ago
But the orchestra seems so too...
flamencoexpress 1 year ago
@barmanjoe you're absolutely right she's flat almost all the way! I wonder what happened. It must be recorded during a concert and she's not in great shape. Usually, she sings right on the notes. Too bad!!
monpitt500 1 year ago
Oh I <3 Lucia she is AMAZING!
gabriellecorinne 2 years ago 3
Her best role! Wonderful!
antinoj2005 2 years ago
What a loss that she died so young, at only 54!
Astraea52 2 years ago 2
Should be good. Lucia Popp was Czech. What a perfect voice this was.
Scramtone 2 years ago
she was Slovak (and I agree with the rest)
ddnnvv11 2 years ago
Renee's interpretation is wonderful (maybe a bit slow) but I prefer Lucia. Her voice sounds as if she IS Rusalka.
Of course I cannot say if her pronouncing and accentuation are good (I've learnt Russian not Check ), yet I guess it sounds so beautiful that she must sings it right.
TaidhOSullibhan 2 years ago
I did no know she was Czech, I thought she was Polish (probably because I know some Polish persons with the same surname).
TaidhOSullibhan 2 years ago
She was Slovak... She was born in Zahorska Bystrica...
rudolfhudec 2 years ago
Truly magnificent.
drumscool 2 years ago
Jsem Čech a Lucia Popp dle mého názoru Rusalku ,na to že je cizinka, zpívá krásně a má v hlase i kousíček českého akcentu...
iwosmollkow 2 years ago
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plchv 2 years ago
Lucia Popp je Slovenka (tedy bohužel byla...),takže
proto ta výborná čeština...
plchv 2 years ago 3
very nicely sung and a beautiful melody
Jamesdena 2 years ago
And yes Renee's is far more tuneful. I will probably get ousted by the hanging crowd but Renee's rendition is actually so slow that for me the song loses its momentum (still very passionate tho). I would like sthg between Lucia's & Renee's. And yes I am a singer (not a lousy one), a connaisseur and have a good ear and the many soloists I have heard in New Zealand sound more like Renee than this particular recording of Lucia. Still it is wonderful that Lucia gives so many people so much pleasure!
Smoon2 2 years ago
I am torn between not stooping to the level of some of the correspondents on this site and voicing my opinion. Because a minority of listeners have politely voiced one opinion, the teeming majority have, impolitely in some cases, gone against it and given the thumbs down which results in having the minority comment removed. I am amazed at the small-mindedness.
Smoon2 2 years ago
Compare this version to Renee Fleming-you will not be disappointed.I saw Lucia Popp at Covent Garden in the early 70's in Der Rosencavalier so I know she can sing ...but Fleming is Queen of the Moon to me.
kennetti76 2 years ago
Renee is a lovely and worthwhile singer but....Lucia is in a class of her own.
PenzancePete 2 years ago
I am sorry, but before I read other's comments. I really feel she off pitch a bit. The starting is more obvious. This song is a bit low for her. Anyway, I still like her voice.
YingYingChang 2 years ago
I LOVE Lucia Poop
Tfr3sh17 2 years ago
Brava!
guachuco1 2 years ago
She was one of the best SLOVAK singers and she is not really out of tune...
ondrejUK 2 years ago
@ondrejUK
Are you Slovak ?
dacor31 2 years ago
in my opinion, No matter who performs this beautiful song, Lucia , for me, gives the definitive rendition. Beautiful. I never tire of it.
ozzlieford 2 years ago
if I sang that way out of tune I would consider myself one of the best singers and would die happily! .... Lucia is just wonderfull, might not have been her best performance ever, but every note was true, pure, honest and divine!!!
ARTUROPVIOLA 2 years ago
If she is off pitch, who is not?
That kind of remarks comes mostly from so called 'connaiseurs', lousy singers or the poor sods with absolute hearing..... The least could possibly be right, but in this case the whole bloody orchestra must have been off pitch together with Lucia..... ;-)
Dalmata1961 2 years ago 2
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Yeah she is off pitch, Especially in the lower range. Her chorus remains off as well, she gets the high A though, and then picks up the pitch after that. The orchestra seems to sound alright.
sopera123 2 years ago
Beautiful...for those loving good singing and music. Ugly for those who have no capacity to enjoy anything or anyone..including themselves
indunamike 2 years ago 2
Oh, the opera connaisseurs!!! In what moment is she off pith, please, could you say it?
Hantipas 2 years ago
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The unfortunate thing about being able to post comments and hide your face is that it enables people to be impolite when normally they would not (Hantipas). Blackappleseed is correct in saying that this is not a great performance by Lucia. She has a wondrous voice but in this particular performance she is frequently flat.
Smoon2 2 years ago
He says exactly the opposite; he says "divine interpretation but frequently off pitch". The question is: which notes are off pitch? I am not impolite; he is. Lucia is dead and she deserves respect.
Hantipas 2 years ago
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i agree! i respect Lucia, but this is a fact...
silvija73 2 years ago
blackappleseed, are you deaf or just silly?
Hantipas 2 years ago
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divine interpetation..but frequently off pitch.unfortunately.but still beautiful.
blackappleseed 2 years ago
So beautiful.
ines176 2 years ago
Hey, what are you talking about? Butterfly shirts were big in the 80's. Everybody wanted one. I wish she was still here with us. There was a sweet, melodic quality to her voice that has been unmatched. One of the best, most talented and beloved singers. Brava Lucia.
anakyriou 2 years ago 2
nowadays, in our HD time, how could imagine a singer going on stage in a black skirt and a butterfly shirt? Lucia Popp did it, and who cares what she´s wearing? Her singing is pure soul. Lucia, I miss you. When I was a child, you were the most beautiful singer for me. Now I´m sitting here, crying...
leonore0210 2 years ago 2
Lucia Popp, you were a gift to this world, without you we would have never experienced such beauty and grace that your voice gives. You enrich opera and all those who listen to it, and not to mention that you were the best Queen of the Night that has ever lived. Thank-you.
ObliquePerfection92 2 years ago 25
Lucia, we miss you!!!!
hamumalm 2 years ago 10
this song is transcendental.
flpcavalcanti 2 years ago 10
DIE perfekte Interpretation einer wunderbaren Künstlerin!
mupawi 2 years ago 5
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Sorry POOR QUALITY OF INTERPRETATION, SHE STARTED OUT OF TUNE> How about listening to Anne Netrebko for interpretation!!!!!
gharusa 2 years ago
Oh, please... You GOTTA be kidding. Netrebko's interpretation of this makes me nervous. Popp's send me to heaven.
belamcandaful 2 years ago 44
You must be joking, if you think Netrebko is better the lucia popp.
tenor220 2 years ago 57
who thinks THAT!?
yomisma77 2 years ago
@yomisma77 Some twat a few comments back.
tenor220 2 years ago
@tenor220 Not too mention that in the Youtube performance Netrebko's intonation is very spotty.
missanyhooox3 1 year ago
@tenor220 sorry but i must confess i have difficulties in comparing singers. what must be taken in consideration?? i would thank any tipps and clues!
kuladoo 1 year ago
@tenor220 Netrebko better than Popp! Never! Lucia is one of those lucky people like Deanna Durbin and Barbara Bonney who never sing a bad note.
swanningaround 1 year ago
@gharusa out of tune??? you are tone deaf dude!
nicolashrv 1 year ago
Lucia Popp is the best soprano ever :)
lcsingin4christ 2 years ago 5
yup
000nour000 2 years ago
interesting
SkylandSandmich 2 years ago
There is something about her that goes straight to the heart. Not every famous singer has this. It's above technical skill. It's unlearned. It's precious, and I miss her very much.
VivaLucia 2 years ago 10
THE BEST EVER.....PERIOD!!!!
travdancer222 2 years ago 3
bravo !!!! bellissima
salvadoraugustus 2 years ago
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WTF! what is this shit??
Storm2nite 2 years ago
Its something you wont understand because your brain is too small. You are what we call the lower class!
paddaman1 2 years ago
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I am not lower class, I know opera and this isn't real opera..
Storm2nite 2 years ago
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Dickhead.
katiegreenaway 2 years ago
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paddaman1 2 years ago
You're an idiot. This is absolutely beautiful, exotic and gentle. Try listening to it 7 or8 times its quite incredible. What crap do you like?
katiegreenaway 2 years ago
No paddaman, don't be a snob. Storm2nite is just thick as 2 short planks because he had his ear cut off when he was 14, now he's older i expect he plays G.T.A. and manages to multitask by masturbating simultaneously. Either way, he's a definite wanker.
katiegreenaway 2 years ago
Impresionante. Lucia Popp es fantástica. Tiene una voz bellísima. Siempre me emociono con Lucia Popp pero más si cabe cuando canta melodías tan sublimes como ésta de Dvorák. ¡Bravo Lucia! ¡Siempre estarás en mi corazón!
jonvadillodomingo 2 years ago 3
I just accidently found another version of this song on youtube... with Lucia Popp taken while in costume during a performance at an opera house. If youlcan find it, which version do YOU like better? As for me, I love 'em both!!!
boland7214 2 years ago
Sorry but I have to agree, she is so out of pitch here it's insane.
I adore Popp. She owns Rusalka and she's perhaps the finest Mozart voice ever.
Basically the only note on pitch I hear here is the final high B flat.
But this is so majorly flawed I'm thinking there must be something wrong with the recording.
eradesso 2 years ago
Lucia Popp, artiste subtile. Sublime Mozartienne.
Quelle grande perte pour l'Art lyrique, et quelle tristesse lorsqu'elle partit.
Qui l'a vue et entendue sur scène ne peut pas oublier une telle artiste. Elle manque.
callistrate 2 years ago
Désolée pour pour les fans, mais, il y a un truc qui me chagrine, elle a une voix magnifique et tout, mais, je la trouve un tout petit peu trop basse, ce n'est pas grand chose, mais c'est gênant !
henson80 2 years ago
Je suis de ton avis aussi.
zrshwe 2 years ago 2
She is so beautiful...
kunimatsuishida 2 years ago 2
i like so much lucia pop!!
lukameridian 2 years ago 5
Exquisite!
reynaldo7899 2 years ago 3
sometime ago i had my own rusalka.
now i have to make do with this
JHGKFHJK 2 years ago
Mistr Dvořák by měl radost z takového přednesu
vilitube 2 years ago
She will always be appreciated.
RIP, great soprano
JordanSean 2 years ago 5
An exquisite performance.
patjan92 2 years ago 2