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Edda Moser is a German soprano, born on October 27, 1938 in Berlin, Germany. She is the daughter of the musicologist Hans Joachim Moser.

Moser made her debut as Kate Pinkerton, in 1962. In 1968, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, in the role of Wellgunde in Das Rheingold, and sang there several roles for 9 seasons. These roles included the parts of Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and the Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte), both by Mozart.

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, as the intended premiere in Hamburg was cancelled after a disturbance.

She had a beautiful instrument, as testified by her singing of the Donna Anna role from Mozart's Don Giovanni (examples: her "Crudele? Ah no! mio ben!" and "Or sai chi l'onore"), of the "Liebestod" from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and of various lieder, especially that of Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann (example: her rendition of Brahms's "die Mainacht", Op. 43 No.2).

Her voice was chosen for recording on the Golden Phonograph sent into space by NASA on the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft in case it should meet intelligent life. (The piece sung is the Queen of the Night from Mozart's The Magic Flute, no. 14 from the recording by Wolfgang Sawallisch).

After retiring from opera Edda Moser remained active as a recitalist during the late nineties. She gave several memorable 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.

Recordings

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 - Don Giovanni - Donna Anna
  • Mozart - Idomeneo - Elettra
  • Mozart - Schauspieldirektor - Mademoiselle Silberklang
  • Mozart - Zauberflöte - Königin der Nacht
  • Orff - Prometheus - Oceanides
  • 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
  • Verdi - Rigoletto - Gilda
  • Wagner - Rheingold, Götterdämmerung - Wellgunde
  • Weber - Abu Hassan - Fatime

Religious music

  • Bach - Magnificat (BWV 243)
  • Beethoven - Missa Solemnis
  • Handel - Brockes Passion
  • Mozart - Krönungsmesse
  • Mozart - Vesperae solennes de confessore

Concert arias and operatic recitals

  • Various albums with Mozart Concert Arias on EMI and Berlin Classics (with Jeanette Scovotti)
  • Mendelssohn - Infelice! Ah, Ritorna, Eta Felice
  • Wagner - aria's (Isolde, Brünnhilde)

Lieder

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

Symphonies

  • Beethoven - 9th symphony
  • Mahler - 8th symphony

Various

  • Henze - Cantatas "Being Beauteous", "Cantata della Fiaba Estrema," "Whispers from Heavenly Death"
  • Henze - Das Floß der Medusa - Nadia
  • Haydn - Jahreszeiten - Hanne
  • Bruno Maderna - Studio per 'Il processo' di Franz Kafka
  • Schumann - Paradies und die Peri - Peri
  • Schumann - Des Sängers Fluch, op.139
  • Schumann - Spanisches Liederspiel

Spoken Word

  • Fairy tales for Christmas by Hans Christian Andersen
  • Poems to the Moon (Mondgedichte)

Live recordings

  • Mozart - Mitridate - Aspasia
  • 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

Bibliography

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


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