Lucia Popp - Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus "Mein Herr Marquis" as Adele Video

Lucia Popp
Die Fledermaus "Mein Herr Marquis" as Adele"
Conductor: Carolos Kleiber
Bayerischer Staatsoperchor
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Recording: Munchen 10/1975

Lucia Popp (born Slovak: Lucia Poppová, November 12, 1939 Slovakia November 16, 1993 Munich, Germany) 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.

The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story — concerning a rich widow, Hanna Glawari, and her attempt to find a husband — on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac.