Popp, Lucia

Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Recording )
74 editions published between 1981 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mozart's immortal parable is ideally served by the great Lucia Popp as Pamina, the young girl caught between filial duty, motherly rage, and the stirrings of first love. David Kuebler is Tamino, the fearless prince who sets out to win her, and Dale Duesing sings Papageno, the down-to-earth birdcatcher who longs for a wife of his own. John Macurdy and Zdzislawa Donat are Sarastro and the Queen of the Night

Le nozze di Figaro K. 492 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Recording )
54 editions published between 1982 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 902 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains the entire opera

Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss ( Recording )
59 editions published between 1968 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 697 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Musical excerpts drawn from Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus (EMI Classics 5 73851 2) with descriptive narration by Robert Lyall, to promote the upcoming production of the opera on April 29 & 30, 2005 by Opera Grand Rapids in De Vos Hall

Symphony no. 8 by Gustav Mahler ( Recording )
30 editions published between 1972 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 636 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The first part of Mahler's 8th symphony is built around the 4th century Latin hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus (come, spirit of creation). The second part retells the final episode of Goethe's Faust in which the title character finds salvation. This recording also includes the Adagio from Mahler's 10th symphony and is the final installment of the San Francisco Symphony's Mahler cycle

The magic flute highlights by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Recording )
27 editions published between 1964 and 2001 in 4 languages and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Young listeners are introduced to the music of Mozart with one of his most iconic works, The Magic Flute

Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi ( Recording )
10 editions published between 1983 and 1984 in Italian and German and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the opera that made Verdi famous overnight, performed here with the all-star cast that introduced the work to the Met shortly before this broadcast. Thomas Schippers' superb conducting galvanized the Met orchestra and chorus, to say nothing of the magnificent soloists, headed by Cornell MacNeil as the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, who loses his throne to his demented, scheming daughter, played by a blazing Leonie Rysanek. Majestic bass Cesare Siepi is the high priest Zaccaria. The opera is still a rarity and this rendition is legendary

Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss ( Recording )
37 editions published between 1970 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Schwarzkopf samlingen

Fidelio op. 72 by Ludwig van Beethoven ( Recording )
55 editions published between 1978 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The well loved team of Waltraud Meier and Placido Domingo join conductor Daniel Barenboim in a complete recording of Beethoven's intense and dramatic opera

Requiem, op. 48. Pavane, op. 50 by Gabriel Fauré ( )
11 editions published between 1978 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner ( )
32 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in German and Undetermined and held by 351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tannhäuser deals with the medieval Minnesinger of that name