Professional Singer Reacts to Queen of the Night

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The great Diana Damrau performs the famous aria 'Der hölle rache', better known as the Queen of the Night Aria in the Royal Opera House's production of Die Zauberflöte by Mozart.
Please enjoy this breakdown + analysis of Diana Damrau's performance of Die Hölle Rache. Please feel free to watch the original video, which is linked below.
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@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

I hope you enjoyed this video! What should I react to next? Let me know in the comments ⬇

@dgeorgeluca4578 Год назад

Watch amadeus and you will understand a loot about mozart and salieri and his music its a 3 hours film

@R.N.LosAngeles 9 месяцев назад

Us old ladies? My mom is German and I grew up on this stuff. I didn’t like it as a teenager but I went to my first opera at 29

@foljamb 8 месяцев назад

i mean, where to start, nick? casta diva?

@D4Disdain 6 месяцев назад

Diana Damrau really capture the spirit of the Queen of the Night. She is like Hecate made flesh. Thank you for the video.

@grinsekatzenkanal224 Год назад

This aria is so wonderful and Diana Damrau ruled it, she owned it, she killed the game as usual! I am addicted to this :)

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

She is incredible!

@eliendre6926 Год назад

U should listen to Patricia Petibon. She’s my all time fav❤

@mirabilos Год назад

@@nickhiggsthesinger tbh her pronunciation/comprehensibility is awful; in my opinion Robin does it much better in ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KQ_3gVL5790.html That being said, neither does he have to do the role nor to project quite that much (that recording was apparently a semi-spontaneous fun addon at a meet). The rolling of the r is more common to the bavarian-austrian speakers so he’s got it down as Mozart intended, of course.

@pureffm 11 месяцев назад

@@nickhiggsthesinger I like Edda Moser and Anna Maria Alberghetti. Both are technicallly superior, bringing more chest into their top notes, and Alberghetti's stacatti are just more crisp and precise!

@Waterlily6519 8 месяцев назад

@@nickhiggsthesinger This is a quite late comment, but please react to the rendition of this same aria by Cristina Deutekom and listen to how she sings it. More quasi-wagnerian, just like Mozart intended the singer to do. Please, can you do that?

@dyanzobrist1227 11 месяцев назад

My 4 year old daughter loves watching this aria. She decided that she wants to be The Queen of the Night for Halloween this year. I told her a lot of people might not know who she is. I was just being honest. So to help her I decided that I would go as Papageno and my husband as Mozart. I’m still not sure if people will know who we are but we will post pictures on Reddit to enjoy the comments. It will be one of the best Halloween trios of the night!!!!

@tanyatanya9492 9 месяцев назад

She might get mistaken for Maleficient. Btw who cares if people will know who you represent as long as the mask is so cool

@yortsemloh1156 4 месяца назад

Please post a link to the costume photos. I’d love to see them.

@heyho4488 4 месяца назад

Your husband could have gone as papageno and you as papagena

@embreis2257 Месяц назад

and - did you have fun and did people identify you correctly?

Год назад

So pleasant to see young people who keep the legacy of universal culture alive. Thanks.

@Austin-if4ht Год назад

❤❤❤❤❤🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

@richardkeep1974 Год назад

Update! ... I've just listened to a few others and can still confirm that Diana is probably the best all round! ❤

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

She is incredible and very well known as being one of the best to ever do it!

@pureffm 11 месяцев назад

@@nickhiggsthesinger Deutekom and Edda Moser offer a meatier performance vocally, but Diana is acting the role to perfection.

@dasik84 7 месяцев назад

Absolutely. The other singers do just that - sing. But they don't act. Damrau IS the queen of the night, she IS the character.

@randar1969 3 месяца назад

Acting and drama wise she is best voice for me is excellent as well. But i agree with pureffm and Deutekom is the only one who can sing it to perfection. Here acting might not what Americans like but then again they never lived under a queen and like dramatic overexpressions unlike Deutekom who lived basically all her life under a real queen and she is just like her on stage.

@feelingpaulie3943 Месяц назад

Well, the timing was questionable with the orchestra, but yeah.

@Barzins1 Год назад

I wish I had discovered how much I like opera when I was younger and not 58.

@lindadillon3061 10 месяцев назад

I agree. I just discovered I loved opera at 56 yrs old. Now I am willing to travel to Europe just to see a specific opera, opera house or singer

@Fedralicious1 4 месяца назад

It's never too late to appreciate and enjoy good, quality music. 😊

@Starter61 21 день назад

Until my thirties i thought opera was boring and people on stage just pulling their lungs ..... but i have a good friend that invited me to Tosca, and clearly remember she said 'if you do not like Tosca you will never like opera at all. And she was right .. i LOVED IT so i have been an opera lover since then .. 1989

@danielcharest1587 14 дней назад

I discovered opera when I was 20, La Traviata was my first introduction. Still love it.

@klassicalkid90 Год назад

For those who are curious about this history of this role/aria: The role of the Queen of the Night was composed especially for Josepha Weber Hofer, who was Mozart’s sister in law. At the time, she was considered to be the best coloratura soprano in Germany/Austria. She was very young at the time of the premier of the opera but her age did hinder her technical ability or status during her career.

@Jared7873 Год назад

Did or didn't?

@rogermolineux9741 Год назад

I too would like the answer to whether her young age was a hinderance, which I suspect it was not?

@corner559 11 месяцев назад

What? Did or didn't?

@foljamb 8 месяцев назад

come on, people, klass obviously meant to write "did not"--look at the "or" which would have been an "and" if he meant that hofer was hindered

@Jesmed100 8 месяцев назад

Fun fact: on his deathbed, Mozart whispered to his wife how great Hofer was singing Queen of the Night. He died five weeks after Die Zauberflote opened to great success, so you could say he went out on a...umm... high note.

@NancyPollyCy Год назад

The "flat sixth moment" get me every time for the way Damrau's arms perfectly echo the V-shape in clouds behind her. Her power is to command the night, and the pose powerfully underscores that. Absolutely perfect, and just another of the thousands of tiny details that make this the very best staging of Zauberflote of all time. As far as "did Mozart write this for someone he hated," I can't say. But it's not unheard of. Patti LuPone once commented that Andrew Lloyd Weber must hate women, given the near-impossibility of some of the notes and phrases he makes them sing.

@simadelifar Год назад

Wow! Her vocal chords give me goosebumps every time. I loved that you analyzed it theatrically and musically. Also thank you for your great information about the original lyrics and explaining it. I wish more people would see your videos and reels, Nick! You’re the best❤

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Thank you Sima!!

@YonatanZunger 9 месяцев назад

I always interpreted Sarastro as being the Queen's ex and Pamina's father - she is living with her mentally ill mother, who has been gradually and steadily getting worse, and her father has been trying to figure out a way to get her out, but now this has reached a previously unimaginable level. And this production, and Damrau's singing, captures this sort of intensity and dynamic perfectly.

@NiiloPaasivirta 5 месяцев назад

Mozart wrote that aria for his sistere-in-law Josepha Hofer but he didn't hate her, instead he made it so difficult because he knew she could pull it off. He was right and was very impressed with her performance.

@SDKoka 23 дня назад

Came here looking for this compliment! Josepha apparently had NO difficulty whatsoever hitting those notes at all - although I'm certain even she had to work for it. Among the many quoted "last words" of Mozart were, "shhh...I can hear Josepha singing!".

@parsifal40002 Год назад

Diana's vowel modification during the staccati was amazing!

@mirabilos Год назад

I’d kinda love a hint as to how to sing these staccati. I tried transposing the whole thing down one octave or even two octaves, so it’s not where in the range they lie but… well. Use the diaphragm… but, how at that tempo?

@isaiahbaggett5014 Год назад

Lady Damrau is truly a queen and Maestra. Those high F's thooo wow. They must be perfectly in tune to match with the flutes/winds which are completely exposed there...wow...0_o!

@catherinenoble8091 Год назад

If I were on a desert island and could only listen to one opera aria ever again, it would be this one! And it would be this performance...fantastic! :-)

@stonesinmyblood27 Год назад

I agree

@lkayh Год назад

Me too. Goosebumps every single time.

@soundofnellody262 7 месяцев назад

This performance of Diana Damrau woke my interest in opera. She is so brilliant and sinister in this scene. And what an actress. In real life she is a humble down to earth super-nice person. I am an absolute rookie when it comes to opera but I enjoy my discovery-journey.

@Elphaboy Год назад

For me the most impressive vocal moment in the aria is the Triplets at 9:46 there’s a very easy trap of just scooping the notes instead of hitting each one and Diana does this moment with such perfection it’s soooo insane for me❣️❣️❣️❣️

@Mumsgardenoasis Год назад

omg - what beauty in sound! what a voice - what an opera - what a composer ...

@royj.mattice Год назад

Very nice video! I throughly agree with everything you said. When you mentioned the work of the body to hit the high notes, I realized I never noticed that before. I had seen this aria done in "Amadeus" where the Queen of the Night was standing still. When I saw Diana moving across the stage, that blew my mind! Great video, enjoyed every moment of it!

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Thank you so much!!!

@michaelheliotis5279 Год назад

Yeah, how it's done in the movie is what's sometimes known as "park and bark", and was quite typical for soprano arias but in recent times has fallen out of favour in order to increase options for dramatic expression which come with enabling mobility. Despite that, nobody would begrudge a performer that preferred to park and bark for this role, which only makes it so much more impressive how Damrau makes full use of the stage while singing it.

@rbettsx 4 месяца назад

A lot of people have said what a wonderful actress... I would go further and say: what a wonderful dancer, along with the chorus of attendants.This aria has been choreographed perfectly to marry the requirements of the singing body to the expression of regal power, intimidation, manipulation. And distill the rhythms of the piece. And even paint shapes into the set design with her magnificent costume. The whole team is here.

@agathamayra5045 6 месяцев назад

i always think opera singers are amazing, and then I remember that they're belting everything out on top of 100 musicians also belting everything out, and i remember they're AMAZING amazing.

@laerwen 24 дня назад

Such a great video that really enhances and contextualizes Diana Damrau's performance. You're so enjoyable to watch and listen to! I first saw this aria in Amadeus in the 80s on VHS as a little girl and was utterly transfixed - I had never heard anything like it. It completely shaped my view of opera and classical music. In the film this scene was in the common people's theater and it would have been world class high art, especially for ordinary people. The staging was beautiful but the singer was completely static - in one place the whole scene. One thing I love about this production of The Magic Flute is the costumes; they are so interesting and beautiful - but the illusion neckline of the Queen and her ladies-in-waiting's gowns show exactly how much of the body is required to produce that kind of technically precise, projected singing. Nothing about it is static! The fact that Diana was walking and emoting is even more astonishing! Gives me an even deeper appreciation for this work even now after almost 40 years. Diana Damrau is always a joy to listen to.

@Muck006 Год назад

11:50 The background colouring perfectly matches the colours of the dress (almost black ... which makes the queen seem like a "floating bust"). A very VERY well choreographed performance!

@andrewpeterson5882 4 месяца назад

What makes Diana's performance so iconic compared to so many others I've seen is the acting and intensity and drama she is able to bring WHILE hitting every single not spot on. If you didn't know a single thing about the plot of this opera or the lyrics or anything and saw this performance, you'd have a pretty bang on idea what was happening. You FEEL the hoelle Rache.

@hardsums32 Год назад

Diana Damrau and Mozart waited a long time for each other.

@sissi7746 Год назад

Watching Ms Damrau’s “Queen of the Night” powerful delivery, I have goosebumps each and every time.

@CathyKeating 3 месяца назад

I've watched a few singers perform this aria, all spectacularly well. But Damrau conquers them all in the way she inhabits the role. I think a lot of singers seem a little vague about what those staccato segments really mean; they're just trying to achieve them with perfection, and technically absolutely do. But Diana Damrau knows exactly what she means when she sings them at Pamina. She's not "laughing." A lot of reviewers/analysts talk about those sections as laughter, but not here. She's threatening. She's like the knife she wants to put in her daughter's hands, killing her hated husband. She's absolutely lethal. God, I love this performance.

@richardkeep1974 Год назад

An absolutely excellent choice. Diana really does it for me! Her vocal power and range is fantastic. Not only is she a brilliant opera singer but also a wonderful actress ❤ Your analysis was as I see it, spot on ❤

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Thank you so much! I have done quite a few classical music / opera reactions, please check those out as well :)

@bluelagoon1980 Год назад

Further analyzing her body language, not only does she whisk away as if in a puff of smoke, but instead of storming off, her shoulders rest and she walks levelly away. She's delivered her emotionally abusive tirade and then walked away, relaxed and calm once again. Classic abusive mother. Well done.

@hyraxchhunthang6933 Год назад

Man, the best analysis i've listened to so far... This is great and very helpful as well... Thanks so much

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@Sandrah326 Год назад

Sem demérito de todas as demais sopranos, que cantam e interpretam essa ária, Diana é perfeita; quase que como se a ária tivesse sido composta para ela. ❤💐👏👏👏

@seenenough1200 11 месяцев назад

Because she is a native German speaker, it sounds more organic.

@vorkosigrrl6047 9 месяцев назад

I love how Damrau attacks and then backs off of so many of the notes, like they were knife stabs. She’s incomparable!

@margaret7973 5 месяцев назад

I just love this opera, seen it so many times and never tire of it!

@jsprite123 Год назад

Diana Damrau's performance is to Queen of the Night as Pavarotti's is to Nessun Dorma.

@jaybeeshultz Год назад

Thank you for dissecting this aria. It adds so much more to the understanding of the artist and her performance. Again, thank YOU!

@XianHaos Год назад

Her approach to the character is my favorite: she played the Queen of the Night as a comic book villain.

@orthohawk1026 Год назад

what thee says about singing's being a full body exercise is so true. I've always gauged how much I was working on my singing, either at a concert or a rehearsal, by how tired I was afterwards.

@quaver1239 6 месяцев назад

Marvellous! Both the coloratura and the analyst. Loved every moment. Thank you.

@nickhiggsthesinger 6 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@paulkoza8652 7 месяцев назад

I'm glad I discovered your channel, especially with this aria. Mozart was a genius. This scene is one of my favorites. The staging is superb. Diana Damrau is fantastic. Thanks for the analysis. I look forward to more.

@nickhiggsthesinger 7 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@scout663 Год назад

So incredible I would love to see that performance in person.

@mikiohirata9627 5 месяцев назад

It's one thing to hit the notes but totally another to convey the character and That Diana does it so powerfully. She is definitely my favorite for this major coloratura aria 💥

@fizban5959 12 дней назад

The part of the Queen was written by Mozart by having his sister in law Maria Josepha Hofer in mind. The part plays to the strength of her for high notes as a soprano. Mozart often had people in mind, when he wrote arias.

@Starter61 21 день назад

Diana Damrau is maybe the greatest soprano we can enjoy nowadays. She's PHENOMENAL

@Jared7873 Год назад

Diana is amazing of course, but props to the director, makep artist and scenery designer! Truly perfect! Also the ladies-in-waiting, hemming poor Pamina in. Scary

@mikeifyouplease 11 дней назад

An additional reason that Diana Damrau can emphasized the consonants so well and make the lyrics and their meanings jump off the stage and into the audience is because German is her native language.

@lkayh Год назад

OMG. I was looking for the Dimash videos you mentioned in reply to a comment to another vid, and see you checked out my absolute favorite performance of this aria. It’s a true, dynamic performance, which is tough to do when you have to sing something this difficult at the same time. Her stressed notes are like poisoned darts, and you can see how seasoned she is as a singer-the way she positions her body and uses her mouth, even her teeth, to help nail those high notes. You’re right that this is pretty much an unbeatable performance. I have read somewhere that Mozart wrote this for his sister-in-law, to showcase her incredible range. Some articles suggest he also didn’t like her so he wanted to put her out there onstage with a truly difficult aria that she would have to sing before an audience nightly. It actually does sound plausible since at the time it had never been done before. Would be a way to take her down a notch if she wasn’t up to it. But tangible proof? It is probably one of those apocryphal stories that we’ll never know for sure. If you’re bored one day, there’s a video of Dimash warming up for a performance onstage, and he’s just singing these staccato notes like they’re nothing.

@joshdaniels2363 Год назад

It is said that on his death bed, Mozart had a flashback to that flat-6 moment. "Quiet, quiet! Hofer is just taking her top F; - now my sister-in-law is singing her second aria, 'Der Hölle Rache'; how strongly she strikes and holds the B-flat."

@rutha1464 Год назад

I love your tutorials! Mozart's music speaks for itself. Historians speculate, because it is what historians do. Speculation is not all bad. It was curiosity that motivated a 1979 Broadway Play, later a move (Amadeus) that reawakened an entirely new generation of interest in this remarkable, truly gifted by the Creator man.

@mikeifyouplease 11 дней назад

This is not about the music, itself...but I wish you had shown the very LAST part of this scene. The Queen and her entourage scurry to the back of the stage, then as the curtains start to close upon them, the Queen turns and faces defiantly her daughter and the audience. That SO ends the scene with an amazing climatic dramatic visual point. It is always a shame (for me) when many posters of this particular scene fail to let it run a little longer so that this genius inspired conclusion and climax can be shown and appreciated for the total unique closing and ending of this, the best adaptation and performance of this Mozart Masterpiece!! (In my opinion)

@PeteBMan 3 месяца назад

The thing I enjoyed most, beyond Diana setting the 'Gold' standard for this is precisely how it should always be sung, is the acting. The QoN is usually rather stationary if not fully stationary. She changed this and worked the stage. This became Diana Damrau in 'Die Zauberflote' by mozart and yes, little m

@kenw9438 5 месяцев назад

Really great explanation of a classic piece. You made me re experience it. Just awesome - thanks.

@SDKoka 23 дня назад

In my college music appreciation class, there was mention of a theory that Schickenader's original libretto had the Queen of the Night as the force of good, with Sarastro being the bad guy. Story is that there was another opera being written about the same time, which might have made The Magic Flute seem like a copy, so Mozart switched the Queen to the "dark" side and made Sarastro the good guy. In my humble opinion, if she were on the side of good, we wouldn't have the two masterpieces we have now, which bring down the house every single time.

@SolarShine Год назад

It was Mozart’s sister who first performed the Queen of the Night, whom he loved very much. The character is fictional but Empress Maria Theresa could have been one inspiration, since she wanted to stamp out Freemasonry of which Mozart was a member and this opera is loosely about.

@lohphat Год назад

Sister-in-law.

@russellbaston974 7 месяцев назад

@@lohphatYes, Josepha Hoffer, nee Weber.

@Nocturnal11Guy 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for explaining to me what's going on in this aria. Now fully appreciate aria even more now.

@DemiAndHisSyndromes Год назад

She's the best! Great review!!

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Thanks so much! Have you seen any of my others? I have a few classical music/opera reactions on here

@EmmaDivaOfficial 4 месяца назад

Damrau is my favourite Queen of the Night! Amazing performance.

@vmezzapelliyou 3 месяца назад

What you missed is the effectiveness of Damrau's use of props to convey the emotion like when she flings the coucg cover at Pamina

@Tantraloverful Год назад

You were right on point, guessing that the first performer of the Queen of the Night's part - Josepha Hofer (nee Weber) - indeed was Mozart's family member - being a sister of his wife. However, not out of spite or with tormenting intent, and not to sabotage deliberately - by giving the part to a bad singer, but to exalt and extol his music, Mozart just used the given virtuoso skills and vocal gifts of his sister-in-law, which she demonstrated with aptitude, and not just at the higly successful premiere night - under the batton of Mozart himself, but for the next 10 years - to universal acclaim.

@stonesinmyblood27 Год назад

I cannot imagine anybody singing this aria better than Diana Damrau. I think Mozart would agree with me

@mina_en_suiza Год назад

I have seen technically excellent performances of this aria, as good as this one, but none comes close in terms of emotional intensity. You notice that she feels and lives every single word she sings. This is a prime example for showcasing that singing opera is so much more than reproducing nice sounds.

@user-go4ym5ck8n Год назад

Cristina Deutekom destroys damrau...

@AllenFigueredo5 Год назад

Adelina Patti - Cristina Deutekom, Diana has better acting skills than any other coloratura soprano who sings this aria, but her technique is not appropriate at all.

@williammorris584 Год назад

I can think of at least five: Deutekom, Popp, Moser, Streich, and Sutherland. I will have to compare one of Edita Gruberova’s better efforts, but she might be in there also.

@brianfuller757 Месяц назад

This aria is quite difficult and on another level for most sopranos. Diana Damrau owned this and she's still the best Queen of the Night.

@RechtmanDon 3 месяца назад

Definitely the finest performance of all time of this aria! (Haven't heard those before around the 1930s but suspect that none would be at this level.)

@EDDIELANE 10 месяцев назад

As a total amatuer, I’ve tried singing this (my sister is in a professional opera) and I find the part at 9:43 WAAAY harder than the coloratura.

@Stephen8601 Год назад

Not bad at all. Your German pronunciation is pretty good. Mine pretty much sucks as I've almost forgotten how to speak my original language.

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Thanks!

@ThomasMLahey Год назад

Try watching movies in German.

@sianne79 Год назад

Mozart wrote this piece for his niece/cousin/who knows to show off her incredible range .and versatility.. So this wasn't a disgruntled revenge song......however he did write a song for his critics titled "Kiss My Ass." ..............I'm not making that up. It's on here. Nothing but poop jokes. Written for and sung by a boys choir. And yeah, she does the crazy eyes a little too well... Edit: Okay, maybe I'm not entirely right. I went looking for sources, and .apparently he was also pissed off with his mother-in-law and her constant naggitty nagging. That might be just another part of the theme though, as it is undisputed she wrote it for the sister in law's range.

@a.e.rivera-weaver8175 Год назад

Great review! I thought this guy was a micro managing dick, but at the 5 minute mark I understood his approach. It's technical and well informed from a professional of the art. Well done.

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Thank you 😅

@estroud6274 9 месяцев назад

I have know real understanding of opera or singing. Just love the music. Thank you for a little insight

@margaret6692 Год назад

I always heard that he wrote it for his sister to sing, to show off her coloratura talents ... But absolutely no credible sources

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

I haven’t heart that one!

@Nicooo Год назад

great analysis!

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Thank you!

@lunarcontact Год назад

Nailed it 👍 great job ❤

@TakeruTaiki Год назад

And her Acting is wonderful. Shes so scary.

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

She really is

@macman9831 4 месяца назад

She was probably feeling good that night, too. Smooth as silk.

@thomasborgsmidt9801 Год назад

One thing You should bear in mind is that Damrau is a natural German speaker. Italian is an open language, which means that every syllabel ends on a vowel. German is rather the opposite where the vowel is hidden between consonants. You should note how she starts on tip-toe and has to be VERY carefull in building up the crescendo, because she will crack one of the high F's. She probably did, and pensioned herself off the role. Erika Köth once did that, and say she could not sing it, because her throat stiffend up. The other thing is, You can't set it down a notch, because then Sarastro in second Act will be in deep shit. In diesen Heil'gen Hallen goes deep - real deep. Here with Gottlob Frick: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ryi39iYKmnk.html One should recall that Mozart died two months after the opera opened.

@philbertchow5425 Год назад

Lol he wrote himself to death

@mauriceuzoma 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video

@nickhiggsthesinger 5 месяцев назад

My pleasure

@argon805 Год назад

Love this aria ❤ and you do a very engaging job of dissecting it for us normal people. What else do you do?

@robwembley Год назад

Nice analysis !

@stevewebber3410 Год назад

Well, this piece ends on a B-flat D Minor and there’s also a lot of octave jumping between the upper and lower register

@PaulSchwartzmeyerxxx 11 месяцев назад

Very interesting Nick... great job

@nickhiggsthesinger 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@user-wt5ts3jh6y 2 месяца назад

thank you

@D4Disdain 6 месяцев назад

The Great Diana really captured the spirit of the Queen of the Night, like a Hecate made flesh. Every single sound hits like enraged knife, she even have some of the gestures for a spell. The dress and hair is perfect, she only need a black ringling tatoo on her left side of the face like a farrow. That would have been more sinister and more in conform with tradition of ancient times.

@almosdrozdik6738 Год назад

Would you perhaps be interested in doing a similar reaction video to a performance of the Papageno/Papagena duet? Some of that stuff seems impossible to me to sing (how the hell do they sing pa-pa-pa-pa that fast xd?), yet opera singers routinely do it with little visible difficulty.

@Starter61 21 день назад

I LOVE MOZART .... i think i listen to Moxart four times a day. And about the sopranos my all time favorite is Miss Callas of course

@ThatOneFlop653 Год назад

The most iconic mother screams at her daughter

@brosephh7130 8 месяцев назад

She is so beautiful. In every way.

@UmeSadakichi Год назад

I just laughed at Sarastro’s costume 😂😂 that must have been a really creative production

@ciseaux 8 месяцев назад

Often overlooked is the aria preceding the Hölle Rache, the "Zittre nicht, mein Lieber Sohn", my personal favorite, where Damrau's exceptional talent of voice and acting works like a steam roller...

@desperateambrose5373 11 месяцев назад

That woman is SCARY! 😱

@christianzotter4224 Год назад

There is a RU-vid-Video of Verdis "I Lombardi alla prima crociata"! Would be nice to have Your comments, what You think about! Its my most beloved opera in that production! With Michele Pertusi, Dimitra Theodossiou and Francesco Meli! Best Regards from Austria!

@aaronv2photography Год назад

Dr Strange: "Diana Damrau... I've come to bargain."

@sianne79 Год назад

Here's a completely random fact about the basis of the hairstyles. Just the basis, because there is NO explanation for the hairstyle overall other than someone really likes toy trains too much and considers them a wearable accessory (????) Anyway. At several points in time,. it was popular for women to pluck their hairlines in order to achieve the belief that having a high forehead was a sign of superior intellect. Queen Elizabeth 1 popularized that belief after all her hair fell out and she started wearing wigs... ...which I really can't blame her for that; with all the stress that poor woman was under from every direction. (I mean look at the before and after photos of US presidents. They age spectacularly in just 4-8 years...she did it for 40, in an age when women were second class humans who didn't have the intellect to do ANYTHING except babymaking and witchcraft. which led to women all over the country doing it too. (They also copied her rotting black teeth look, for god only knows what reason they did THAT for) And also lead poisoning. Lead poisoning def had something to do with that. So the high forehead is pulled from history, but I have to say the attendants being mostly bald is a bit....eeesh...it freaked me out right until I learned they were men.

@kaiblack4489 5 месяцев назад

4:42 As a trumpet player, my lips can vibrate that fast :)

@ASzabo-ce4ml Год назад

Hello Nick. , I completely screwed this aria thanks to you, for the first time👍🏻 Andy aus Deutschland 😉

@Immopimmo 6 месяцев назад

Diana Damrau is my Queen of the Night! She's perfect for the role!

@tim2015 Год назад

My guess is, Mozart may have written this aria to make full use of a particular singer's exceptional ability - as Benjamin Britten did when writing the solo parts of his Serenade for tenor voice, French horn and orchestra - because, if he had written something which the soprano could not sing, the resulting performance AND the composer would have got bad reviews.

@jeandoten1510 3 месяца назад

Of course the very next aria is the exact opposite--and also a much-,performed classic. Sarastro's "In Diesen Heiligen Mauen" is calm, warm, reassuring, and balances the Queen's high f with his own f 4 octaves lower. I love that Mozart placed the highest pitch and the lowest pitch of the entire opera right next to each other.

@antonioricardomartines5933 Год назад

She is putting a "magical spell" or a "magical charm" on her daughter to force her to obey to her order.

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Yep!

@david.alexandre. Год назад

If my mother doesn't fight me like that, I'm about to lose all respect for her.

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Hahaha true

@JeremyPickett 9 месяцев назад

The flat six makes a major triad. It sounds great not just because its unexpected, but it literally lifts the chord. Thats not a criticism, just an observation. (I cant sing worth anything, but not bad at woodwinds and composing)

@clement2780 8 месяцев назад

R is gutteral in german but some places it is rolled like in austria bavaria

@richardnaulty6724 4 месяца назад

you know what was hard. to kneel down on the bed or what ever it is and keep on singing not missing a beat and tone to completely change body position

@Patty1965able 8 месяцев назад

simple she is unbeleiveable

@barbarawissinger Год назад

Thank you. Watching Damrau makes other performances disappointing. My son loves opera & we had tickets for The Magic Flute in Vienna. The singer did not hit the notes fully, which was sad.

@nickhiggsthesinger Год назад

Damrau is great :)