Edda Moser

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Album cover for Edda Moser's recording of
"Virtuoso Arias by W. A. Mozart" (EMI 1C 063-29 082)
which received the coveted Grand Prix du Disque.

Edda Moser (Frau Kammersängerin) (born 27 October 1938) is a German soprano. She was particularly well known for her interpretations of music by Mozart. Her 1973 recital LP "Virtuoso Arias by W. A. Mozart" received the Grand Prix du Disque.

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Personal History [edit]

Moser was born in Berlin, Germany, she is the daughter of the musicologist Hans Joachim Moser. She studied at the Berlin Conservatory with Hermann Weissenborn and Gerty König and made her debut as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Berlin Städtische Oper in 1962. After singing in the Wurzburg Opera Chorus from 1962 until 1963, she sang at the opera houses in Hagen, Bielefeld, Hamburg and Frankfurt, before joining the Vienna State Opera in 1971. She also sang in Salzburg.

She made her American debut in November 1968, when she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, in the role of Wellgunde in Das Rheingold. She went on to sing various roles there over nine seasons, including the parts of Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and the Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte), both by Mozart, as well as Liu in Puccini's Turandot.

She maintained an extensive repertoire, singing both dramatic coloratura and lirico spinto roles. She played Donna Anna in Joseph Losey's movie of Don Giovanni. She was one of the original performers of Hans Werner Henze's oratorio Das Floß der Medusa which she created on disc because the intended premiere in Hamburg was cancelled after a classical music riot.

Opera News has said, in a review of a series of recordings made in the 1980s, that Moser could sing with a "finely controlled" legato."[1]

After retiring from opera, Edda Moser remained active as a recitalist during the late 1990s. She gave several concerts in Germany with Ivan Törzs at the piano (Dresden, Semper Opera House 1997, Stadttheater Giessen 1999) with programs ranging from Johann Adolph Hasse to Clara Schumann and Richard Strauss. She gave her farewell performance in Munich in 1999 at the Cuvilliés Theatre.

Currently,[when?] Edda Moser is involved in promoting the use of proper German instead of Denglisch. In 2006 she founded the yearly Festspiel der Deutschen Sprache. Three CDs documenting this festival have appeared thus far at the German publishing house Edition Lübbe. She is also a professor of singing at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne.[citation needed]

A recording by Moser of "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" from Die Zauberflöte was included on Voyager 1's Golden Record.[2]

Recordings [edit]

Operas and Operettas (studio recordings)
  • Beethoven - Leonore - Leonore
  • D'Albert - Abreise - Luise
  • Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice - Amor
  • Gounod - Faust (in German "Margarethe" highlights) - Marguerite
  • Humperdinck - Hänsel und Gretel - Knusperhexe
  • Kálmán - Gräfin Mariza - Manja
  • Lehar - Giuditta - Giuditta
  • Lehar - Lustige Witwe - Hanna Glawari
  • Leoncavallo - Pagliacci (in German "Bajazzo") - Nedda
  • Mozart - Apollo et Hyacinthus - Hyacinthus
  • Mozart - Don Giovanni - Donna Anna
  • Mozart - Idomeneo - Elettra
  • Mozart - Schauspieldirektor - Mademoiselle Silberklang
  • Mozart - Zauberflöte - Königin der Nacht
  • Orff - Prometheus - Chorführerin I
  • Rameau - Hippolyte et Aricie - prêtresse, chasseresse
  • Schubert - Verschworenen - Gräfin Ludmilla
  • Schumann - Genoveva - Genoveva
  • O. Strauss - Walzertraum - Franzi Steingrüber
  • Suppé - Boccaccio - Beatrice
  • Verdi - Don Carlos (in German, highlights) - Elisabetta
  • Wagner - Rheingold, Götterdämmerung - Wellgunde
  • Weber - Abu Hassan - Fatime
Sacred Music
  • Bach - Magnificat (BWV 243)
  • Beethoven - Missa Solemnis
  • Handel - Brockes Passion
  • Mozart - Krönungsmesse
  • Mozart - Vesperae solennes de confessore

Concert Arias and Operatic Recitals
  • Virtuoso Arias by Mozart - Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Munich
    • Works:
      • "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn" – "Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren," recitative and aria for the Queen of the Night from Die Zauberflöte, Act 1
      • "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" aria for the Queen of the Night from Die Zauberflöte, Act 2
      • "Popoli di Tessaglia!" – "Io non chiedo, eterni Dei," K. 316, recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra
      • "Crudele?" – "Non mi dir, bell idol mio," recitative and aria for Donna Anna from Don Giovanni
      • "Ma che vi fece, o stelle" – "Sperai vicino il lido," K. 368, recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra
      • "Martern aller Arten," aria for Konstanze from Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Act 2
    • Label and catalog number: EMI Electrola 1C 063-29 082 (1 LP, issued 1973)
    • Awards: Grand Prix du Disque; Schallplattenpreis der Mozartgemeinde Wien
  • Various other albums with Mozart Concert Arias on EMI and Berlin Classics (with Jeanette Scovotti)
  • Mendelssohn - Infelice! Ah, Ritorna, Eta Felice
  • Opern-Recital - arias from Tannhauser, Oberon, Ariadne auf Naxos, Alceste, Rinaldo, Iphigenie en Tauride, La Clemenza di Tito, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, conductor Peter Schneider
  • Wagner - aria's (Isolde, Brünnhilde) Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra, conductor Anton Nanut
Lieder

Various albums on EMI with songs by Robert Schumann (Frauenliebe und -leben), Clara Schumann (Drei Lieder nach Friedrich Rückert), Brahms, Wolf (Mignon Lieder), Strauss (Brentano Lieder, Ophelia Lieder), Pfitzner and Schubert.

Symphonies
  • Beethoven - 9th symphony
  • Mahler - 8th symphony
Various
  • Cavalieri - La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo - Vita Mondana
  • Henze - Cantatas "Being Beauteous," "Cantata della Fiaba Estrema," "Whispers from Heavenly Death"
  • Henze - Das Floß der Medusa - La Mort
  • Haydn - Jahreszeiten - Hanne
  • Bruno Maderna - Studi per 'Il processo' di Franz Kafka
  • Schumann - Das Paradies und die Peri - Die Peri
  • Schumann - Des Sängers Fluch, op.139
  • Schumann - Spanisches Liederspiel, Spanische Liebeslieder, Tragödie, Liebesfrühling, Minnespiel
Spoken Word
  • Fairy tales for Christmas by Hans Christian Andersen
  • Poems to the Moon (Mondgedichte)
Live recordings
  • Handel - Rinaldo - Alcina (Met, 1984)
  • Henze - Novae de infinito laudes
  • Mozart - Don Giovanni - Donna Anna (Met, 1971)
  • Mozart - Mitridate - Aspasia
  • Verdi - Rigoletto - Gilda
  • Wagner - Walküre, first act - Sieglinde
Anthologies
  • Great Moments of ... Edda Moser [EMI BOX SET]
  • Edda Moser singt Mozart EMI 2006
Interview
  • Edda Moser im Gespräch mit Holger Wemhof (Interview CD from 2006) comes free with the EMI Mozart anthology Edda Moser singt Mozart
Videoclips
  • Sibillando, Ululando from Händel's Teseo, posted on youtube by gi1ro2la3mo4.
  • Fröhliche Weihnacht überall, posted on youtube by tukrom.

References [edit]

  1. ^ Pines, Roger (March 2007). "Historial recordings - Edda Moser: "Sings Mozart"". Opera News (Metropolitan Opera Guild) 71 (9). Retrieved 22 February 2011. 
  2. ^ Music on the Golden Record. NASA JPL. Accessed 1 December 2011.

Bibliography [edit]

Jürgen Kesting, Die großen Sänger (Band 2) 1986, p. 1371-1375 Tragische Scheuche: Edda Moser

External links [edit]

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