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THE SONGBIRD: Edda Moser was born in Berlin in 1938, the daughter of musicologist Hans Joachim Moser. She studied at the Stern Conservatory and made her debut as Kate Pinkerton in Berlin in 1962. After singing in the Würzburg Opera Chorus, she took principal roles at the opera houses in Hagen, Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Frankfurt. Moser joined the Vienna State Opera in 1971, debuting as Konstanze. She made her U.S. debut in 1968 in “Das Rheingold“ at The Met. Other roles there over nine seasons included Donna Anna, Queen of the Night, Konstanze, Armida, Nedda, Musetta, and Liù. THE MUSIC: Mozart's “Great Mass in C Minor“ is considered one of his greatest works. It was composed it in Vienna in 1782 and 1783, to fulfill a promise he made to himself that he would compose a mass after his marriage to Constanze, who sang one of the soprano solos at its first performance in Salzburg in 1783. The soprano aria “Et incarnatus est“ appears in the Credo section and is on
