to be honest u doesnt need a "big voice" to produce a sound like that over the orchestra its way u do it and acoustics. Pavarotti for example didnt have as "big voice" as other tenors like caruso or corelli but in the house was fire
Live on stage, not recorded in a studio, no microphones, exceptionally difficult song and ACTING the part of a mother telling her child to kill her father so you really believe it. I can only say "WOW"
I agree, but for one thing. Sarastro (the guy the Queen of the Night wants killed) is not Pamina's father. Her father died, bequeathing a very powerful object, the "Siebenfachen Sonnenkreis" (the seven-times suncircle) not to his widow, but to Sarastro, because he didn't trust her with it. That's why she's a bit miffed 😉
Mozart originally wrote The Queen of the Night Aria’ ……this part specifically for his sister in law in the 1700’s. I agree this piece of music and all the vocalists who can sing this are Amazing. Every time I hear it, my eyes well up, because of how stunningly beautiful this Aria is. Mozart is truly one of the true GOATs!!!!! I am happy to hear that this music and singing moved you. It is such a good feeling when that happens, right?
@@sagwan6991 I've heard this story too. But I don't know weather it can be proven. Fact is: Mozart made an aria which theoretically can be sung - so no one can blame him - but in practice... In practice dozen, or even hundreds, or even more singers did it, some of them with joy & force like a Lady we're enjoying here!
@@aleksandarstavric2226 “if you don’t kill Sarastro then you are my daughter no more!!” Sounds like something his mother in law probably said to his wife ab him
My sister is a kindergarten teacher and they played Zauberflöte with the kids. One of the kids wanted to write down the first line of 'Arie der Königin der Nacht' for his parents so my sister helped him. It says "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her" which means 'The Hells revenge is boiling in my heart, death and despair is flaming around me'. Now that's a letter you want to receive from your kids 😂
I have seen many performances of this aria, which were technically as well executed as this one, but Diana is undoubtedly the one who most leans into the text and its emotions. For me, there's no other singer who does it better. What I especially like is, that she doesn't always entirely follow the conventions of German stage pronunciation (like using a more colloquial "nimmamehr" instead of "nimmeRmehr"). She IS the Queen of the Night, not acting it.
"If Zarastro does not feel mortal pain by you, then you aren't my daughter anymore!" FYI, the amazing part is not the high notes, but the trioles at 2:46.
Diana Darnau is the real Queen of the Night! Amazing performance of her ! Diva! Magnificent pro Magnificent ! That was her mother ! Diana Damrau my favourite Queen of Night!😍 I love her!!!
The Queen of the Night’s aria is one of the most difficult arias to sing, which is why it commands such a lot of applause when a soprano sings it well.
this QUEEN OF THE NIGHT aria sung by the legendary DIANA DAMRAU is from MOZART'S opera THE MAGIC FLUTE. here, the queen of the night is commanding her daughter, pamina, kill her father and the queen's rival. she casts a spell on pamina. this is the most difficult and most iconic aria in all of opera. mozart's birthday was yesterday JAN 27. he is 267 years old. thank you mozart for igving us such beauty.
Well, there are microphones (else the video would have no sound) but no PA system to carry it to the audience, these are just for recording. There's usually a bunch of microphnes set a bit back because any decent opera singer will clip the mic when they go about it, so some distance is needed. If you have ever been to a rehearsal and got an earful of an opera singer going through their warmup ... well ... your hearing returns after a while back to normal. There is a video with Elizabeth from the Charismatic Voice where she does "Summertime" to a guitar. See the guy's face when she opens up. Been there and can relate. That's absolutely amazing.
Good picking Diana Domrau, she might be the best performer of the "Königin der Nacht" right now. I always loved Christina Deutekom more, but that's personal preference. You should watch the whole opera, it has brilliant songs. It was an Opera for the people, the first Opera to have German song texts. Listen to the "Bird trader/catcher"... Don't know the exact title of the songs in English. This whole Opera is more like a children's opera. Like Peter and the Wolf (Prokofjew)... In Germany any kid (with a good background) knows it.
This aria is one of the most difficult to sing for a Soprano in all of Opera, and in all of music history!! The beauty of this aria is unmistakable, even if you are a first timer listening to Opera!
You made an excellent choice, she is one of the greatest sopranos of all time, and that production was epic ,she was at the top of her game. What an incredible talent.
Damrau ruled as Der Hölle Rache, she's telling her daughter Pamina to kill her father. Thiz one of the most difficult arias to sing. Try the Doll song from the Offenbach Tales, more difficult to sing and with higher notes. Sabine Devieilhe totally nailed it. Devieilhe is now 36 yo or so
The Queen of the Night was written for Mozart’s sister-in-law Josefa Hofer in June of 1791 - both his sister-in-laws could since up to an A in alt -a 6th above the dreaded top C in alt - what a voice (like her sister Aloysia) she must have had ! Unfortunately Mozart died 6 weeks after the premiere on 30 Sept 1791-from a streptococcal infection after a Masonic Freemason meeting on 19 November 1791-which caus’d his old enemy from childhood (Rheumatic fever) to rear its ugly head - which led to kidney failure (as his near death experience on 31 Aug 1784 to 2 Sept 1784 which almost kill’d him) - symptoms included severe edema: inflammation of the limbs due to Uric Acid build up (kidney failure), which made it impossible to turn in bed-accompanied by high fever, projectile vomiting & diarrhea-and the over use of (up to 10) blood-sucking leeches plac’d on his back (as a quack remedy) to ‘remove the bad blood’ !! He also had a ‘deposit on the brain’ (= subdural haematoma, possibly the result of a fall from blacking out / fainting so much in early November 1791) - such a shame that M. was just shy of 36 years of age - during his lifetime (1756-1791) he manag’d to compose 935 pieces of music !! The botanist Ludwig von Koechel in 1862 track’d down 626 of them and gave them each a K. number in chronological order (he started composing music at 4 years of age) but more than 300 finish’d compositions have been located throughout Europe since 1862-as well as 320 unfinish’d compositions ranging all the way from 4 bars to 1,209 bars of music !!)
There is NOBODY else who captures the essence of this scene like Diana Damrau. To sing this aria at all is extremely difficult and only a small percentage of sopranos can do so. To sing it while moving and acting borders on the impossible yet she does it flawlessly. She's actually a very nice lady and quite a beauty under all that makeup. No matter how many times I hear this it takes my breath away. She's stunning
Cantar las obras de MOZART y escucharlas para disfrutar TOTALMENTE SU EXTREMA BELLEZA,requiere una elevadisima "sensibilidad"para conectarse con LA INASIBLE PERFECCION....del universo sonoro. Por eso se explica en gran medida que quienes se ATURDEN con los esperpentos "electrónicos"y vocalistas DISONANTES actuales,no logran "escuchar"(ni CANTAR!)las obras de MOZART...disponibles en este "mágico dispositivo celular"............
In case you were wondering, the queen is telling her daughter to kill the daughter's boyfriend (the protagonist) otherwise the queen will disown her and hate her forever.
Your reaction is why I always feel bad for people who only subject themselves to pop music. Opera singers sing and perform on an otherworldly level, a level which most people these days highly unnecessarily refuse to navigate.
It's even more 🤯over-the-top with the lyrics. They're in German & can be hard to follow, but it starts out with "der hölle rache kocht in meinem herzen" (...roughly "the vengeance of hell boils in my heart", but harsher) & quickly goes downhill from there. The gist of it is that she's telling her daughter to take the dagger she's giving her & murder Sarastro with it... or else she'll disown & abandon her forever. Mozart operas... they ain't always as cute + cuddly as most people believe them to be 😉
I m glad for every chance to hear this piece of music. its mindblowing. and despite being about vengence and killing it never fails to enlighten my mood by sheer notes :) so angry and so grieving and so triumphant at the same time.
My favourites are Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night and Simon Keenlyside as Papageno. But the Paris Opera 2001 performance is well worth watching.
True story - According to Mozart biographer Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Mozart had worked on this project for a few years. Though Mozart had originally written the Aria for his sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, there were continual problem in the production and rehearsal of the aria itself. From an 1840 letter from composer Ignaz von Seyfried, the biggest complaint is that Mozart forgot to create pauses in the music score so the singers could simply breathe between singing phrases along with the beat.
I first heard this when as a small child, maybe seven, my parents took me to see Bergman’s film version of The Magic Flute. I was so blown away by this piece… I remember coming home and trying and trying to sing it. Fantastic performance here.
My dad had an opera subscription to the Cologne City Opera for 2 people. And so he took me to my first opera, Mozart's Magic Flute. I was 11 or 12 years old.
The Queen of the Night’s second aria in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, “Hell’s vengeance boils in my heart,” requires several notes above c3, the highest being f3.
Mozart was a genius. Diana's stabbing staccatos are CRAZY good! Interesting fact about this performance; although there are mics around the stage, her voice is not amplified meaning she's not wearing a mic. She just projected her voice over the orchestra.
Thanks so much for your reaction, I've watched twice. You've opened yourself up to a whole new world, if you like. I could suggest so many but I'll go with this compilation. "The 10 Most Popular Opera Arias - by classical music stars (Pavarotti, Netrebko, Deborah York)" Copy and paste that in your search. I grew up listening to rock/pop, grew into a classical fan as well. Happy reactions!
You guys are lovely. Can I make one little correction for future reference? The opera is called Magic Flute, the character's name is QUeen of the Night and this is her famous aria. YOur reactions are to die for.
I have seen many versions of this over the years and Diana Damrau's version is still by far the best. It helps that she is singing in her native language (German) but not many sopranos can reach and hit that top F. And do not forget, she is singing this OVER the full orchestra (under the stage) whilst moving around in a heavy costume, acting and WITHOUT a microphone.
We're listening here to brilliant Diana Damrau, but let's also not forget the genius who composed it - Mozart! I'd love to be in the room when in 1791 Mozart showed Ms. Josepha Hofer - the first soprano - the score and told her: "Hey, I've got a new opera and I'd like you to sing the soprano role!"
It's sad that so very many people just write off the classical music genre as boring without first at least sampling a bit. This recordings is one of my favorites, in fact, I use it as a ring tone for one of my daughters, the drama queen in the family. She is crazy scary in the roll, but the her character is scary and she is just magnificent while being malevolent. So anyway, if you want to sample the heavy metal of the classical genre, try this one from Boellmann: The first one is kind of the training wheels, sort of a fusion of metal and real metal: ruclips.net/video/lVSGRJgQMOM/видео.html And then there is the real thing. Do remember to crank the volume all the way up. The only problem with the real thing is, given the instrument being played, headphones just can't reproduce the lower notes correctly, not enough power or range. ruclips.net/video/5Wm-wSRVk5A/видео.html There is so much more to explore in the classical music form, these are just a couple of selections. One other one in the fusion of metal the classical music is this one. ruclips.net/video/VWEmsUiQELU/видео.html
Please listen to Edita Gruberova - she was a famous Singer. By the way - to sing arias - you have to study classical singing a couple of years, have to train your vocal abilities - so if you ve trained in singing opera stuff you don't need a mic at all....the accoustic of opera houses or churches are constructed for this...
This couple might enjoy another version of this song sung by 12 year Afghan refugee girl Sofia Asgari on RUclips as "Holland's Got Talent 2013-Sofia Asgari". This type of singing is called coloratura soprano singing and was made famous by Mozart who when he was 15 and fell in love with and wrote music for coloratura soprano Anna De Amicis. Modern coloratura soprano Teodora Gheorghiu, who started as a flute player until age 14 when she discovered she could sing, made a CD of the greatest hits of Anna De Amicis which is previewed on RUclips as "Teodora Gheorghiu, soprano-making of CD Anna de Amicis". My favorite tune from the CD is on RUclips as "Tortorella abbandonata" which really shows off what a coloratura soprano can do where there are a lot of notes on the page.
I’ve always loved that duet because of the scene in Life Is Beautiful. Unfortunately when I saw Tales of Hoffman at Live at the Met, they set the scene during an orgy at a brothel.
The subplot to this aria and its prophetic qualities are beyond incredible. She represents the Empress of Austria-Hungary cursing her own people as represented by her own daughter. A curse that lasted for another 145 years and perhaps ended with the death of the most infamous Austrian of them all who died on the 30th of April 1945. Perhaps coincidentally Mozart was born only a few hundred yards from where Adolf Hitler was also born. Which is also very close to where the true story of The Sound of Music happened and the film was shot. This kinda puts a far more scary perspective on the piece, if it were not scary enough already.
The Charismatic Voice (channel) did a good break down, and points out that at no point does her core disengage- on the bed, she kneels, but never reclines for example
Opera can be made into a movie. In 1984 Julia Migines showed how to bring Carmen to the silver screen in the RUclips video entitled "Carmen-Habanera (with English subtitles and better quality)". The full two and a half hour movie is on RUclips as "Carmen-opera filmed as movie" with a lot of great music. The famous Italian opera La Boheme has a compelling story and is on RUclips as "Anna Netrebko-The Boheme Act I".
LMAO! She IS a singer of today. She's still doing concerts now. Do you actually think this was filmed in the 1700's when Mozart wrote this or something???
*In opera performance singing without a mic is STANDARD.* Singers trained in classical technique, not all of whom will become opera singers, are taught to project their voices. Not by simply singing "loud," but by adjusting the resonance of the sounds they are producing. Even with training, few voices are up to the demands of opera. And when I say opera, I mean performing full-length, sung-through musical dramas in the classical style, not merely being able to sing individual arias with competence. Though there are rare exceptions opera singers might use microphones -- exceptionally large venues, or some recorded performances -- in general using a mic in live performance opera is akin to blasphemy. Classical concert singing is a different matter. Classical singers -- some of whom specialize mostly in concert singing, because their voices are not up to the demands of live opera performance -- will often use a microphone in the concert setting. Concert halls tend to be larger than opera houses, and often lack the outstanding acoutics of opera houses.
She's german...it helps. But you are right in that it is more complicated to sing operatic songs in german. It's a phonetically hard language. That's why most opera is in italian.
Be sure to watch this video! A very young girl sings the same aria. She is fantastic! - (Adelways Lay - The Magic Flute | Blind Auditions | The Voice Kids Indonesia Season 4 GTV 2021)
Ich frage mich ernsthaft, ob die Amerikaner überhaupt irgendeine Art von Kultur in der Schule lernen. Mozart, Beethoven, Bach und andere Jahrhundertgenies sind so wichtig. Sie haben uns das Größte überhaupt hinterlassen, wir sollten das wertschätzen. Wir dürfen sie nie vergessen. Weltweit.
Imagine being in the audience the night this was recorded. This woman's talent is beyond description.
Bear in mind she is doing this with NO mic, singing over the orchestra. That's how big a voice you must have.
While acting and moving around dramatically :D
Especially the final low note (I think it’s a B flat) her vocal passage is a cannon.
to be honest u doesnt need a "big voice" to produce a sound like that over the orchestra its way u do it and acoustics. Pavarotti for example didnt have as "big voice" as other tenors like caruso or corelli but in the house was fire
Yeah... if you know a bit you see her body contract, and then keep acting while singning xD
She has a mic hidden in the wig
This performance is considered the gold standard for this role, that's how good she is
Diana Damrau is an absolute legend. It'll be another generation or two before her performance is ever matched. Just amazing.
High F... twice! Mozart takes no prisoners. :)
Those trills on top of straining the voice to hit those notes? Brutal, but she makes it look and sound easy
Diana is flawless here, breathtaking..
Live on stage, not recorded in a studio, no microphones, exceptionally difficult song and ACTING the part of a mother telling her child to kill her father so you really believe it. I can only say "WOW"
I agree, but for one thing. Sarastro (the guy the Queen of the Night wants killed) is not Pamina's father. Her father died, bequeathing a very powerful object, the "Siebenfachen Sonnenkreis" (the seven-times suncircle) not to his widow, but to Sarastro, because he didn't trust her with it. That's why she's a bit miffed 😉
@@annamo9354 How do you know those things? I saw the opera. DId I miss something or somethings? Lol
Wow, that’s all I could say too.
Mozart originally wrote The Queen of the Night Aria’ ……this part specifically for his sister in law in the 1700’s.
I agree this piece of music and all the vocalists who can sing this are Amazing.
Every time I hear it, my eyes well up, because of how stunningly beautiful this Aria is.
Mozart is truly one of the true GOATs!!!!!
I am happy to hear that this music and singing moved you. It is such a good feeling when that happens, right?
I will agree
" specifically for his sister in law in the 1700’s. " - it sounds more like for his mother in law
fun fact he did it for his sister in law because he hated her and wanted her to have a hard time singing it.
@@sagwan6991 I've heard this story too. But I don't know weather it can be proven.
Fact is: Mozart made an aria which theoretically can be sung - so no one can blame him - but in practice...
In practice dozen, or even hundreds, or even more singers did it, some of them with joy & force like a Lady we're enjoying here!
@@aleksandarstavric2226 “if you don’t kill Sarastro then you are my daughter no more!!” Sounds like something his mother in law probably said to his wife ab him
My sister is a kindergarten teacher and they played Zauberflöte with the kids. One of the kids wanted to write down the first line of 'Arie der Königin der Nacht' for his parents so my sister helped him. It says "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her" which means 'The Hells revenge is boiling in my heart, death and despair is flaming around me'.
Now that's a letter you want to receive from your kids 😂
It is totally fine ... as long as they dont tell their daughters to "take this dagger and end the life of that man".
Yep, she is saying kill your father or you are not my daughter. Such as nice family.
That's a Mozart for you...he was pure genius.
I'm so glad you did this! Diana Damrau is incredibly gifted!
My favourite Queen of the Night.
I have seen many performances of this aria, which were technically as well executed as this one, but Diana is undoubtedly the one who most leans into the text and its emotions. For me, there's no other singer who does it better.
What I especially like is, that she doesn't always entirely follow the conventions of German stage pronunciation (like using a more colloquial "nimmamehr" instead of "nimmeRmehr"). She IS the Queen of the Night, not acting it.
"If Zarastro does not feel mortal pain by you, then you aren't my daughter anymore!"
FYI, the amazing part is not the high notes, but the trioles at 2:46.
It’s all of it.
Who says 200 year old music isn’t powerful? Show them this performance. Diana Damrau is a BEAST, make no mistake.
Who says that has never listened to Beethoven let alone Mozart.
Diana Darnau is the real Queen of the Night! Amazing performance of her ! Diva! Magnificent pro Magnificent ! That was her mother ! Diana Damrau my favourite Queen of Night!😍 I love her!!!
The Queen of the Night’s aria is one of the most difficult arias to sing, which is why it commands such a lot of applause when a soprano sings it well.
diana damrau is THE queen of the night. period
this QUEEN OF THE NIGHT aria sung by the legendary DIANA DAMRAU is from MOZART'S opera THE MAGIC FLUTE.
here, the queen of the night is commanding her daughter, pamina, kill her father and the queen's rival. she casts a spell on pamina.
this is the most difficult and most iconic aria in all of opera.
mozart's birthday was yesterday JAN 27. he is 267 years old.
thank you mozart for igving us such beauty.
Soprano singers are from a different galaxy!
Yes, and they are born in the Nebulae Coloratura.
Imagine if this was your woman. Singing to you whenever you asked. Nicely.
not all sopranos have this range. she is a coloratura soprano.
This is opera. Notice - no microphones. Thanks for this reaction!!
They wear hidden microphones,
@@grsymes they do in musical theatre. Not in opera
Well, there are microphones (else the video would have no sound) but no PA system to carry it to the audience, these are just for recording. There's usually a bunch of microphnes set a bit back because any decent opera singer will clip the mic when they go about it, so some distance is needed. If you have ever been to a rehearsal and got an earful of an opera singer going through their warmup ... well ... your hearing returns after a while back to normal. There is a video with Elizabeth from the Charismatic Voice where she does "Summertime" to a guitar. See the guy's face when she opens up. Been there and can relate. That's absolutely amazing.
@@haraldschuster3067 thank you for clarifying!
Good picking Diana Domrau, she might be the best performer of the "Königin der Nacht" right now. I always loved Christina Deutekom more, but that's personal preference. You should watch the whole opera, it has brilliant songs. It was an Opera for the people, the first Opera to have German song texts. Listen to the "Bird trader/catcher"... Don't know the exact title of the songs in English.
This whole Opera is more like a children's opera. Like Peter and the Wolf (Prokofjew)... In Germany any kid (with a good background) knows it.
Christina is amazing omg and my favourite
This aria is one of the most difficult to sing for a Soprano in all of Opera, and in all of music history!! The beauty of this aria is unmistakable, even if you are a first timer listening to Opera!
You made an excellent choice, she is one of the greatest sopranos of all time, and that production was epic ,she was at the top of her game. What an incredible talent.
DIANA DAMRAU IS MAGNIFICENT
Diana Damrau is the queen! Best Queen of the Night ever.
Damrau ruled as Der Hölle Rache, she's telling her daughter Pamina to kill her father. Thiz one of the most difficult arias to sing. Try the Doll song from the Offenbach Tales, more difficult to sing and with higher notes. Sabine Devieilhe totally nailed it. Devieilhe is now 36 yo or so
The Queen of the Night was written for Mozart’s sister-in-law Josefa Hofer in June of 1791 - both his sister-in-laws could since up to an A in alt -a 6th above the dreaded top C in alt - what a voice (like her sister Aloysia) she must have had ! Unfortunately Mozart died 6 weeks after the premiere on 30 Sept 1791-from a streptococcal infection after a Masonic Freemason meeting on 19 November 1791-which caus’d his old enemy from childhood (Rheumatic fever) to rear its ugly head - which led to kidney failure (as his near death experience on 31 Aug 1784 to 2 Sept 1784 which almost kill’d him) - symptoms included severe edema: inflammation of the limbs due to Uric Acid build up (kidney failure), which made it impossible to turn in bed-accompanied by high fever, projectile vomiting & diarrhea-and the over use of (up to 10) blood-sucking leeches plac’d on his back (as a quack remedy) to ‘remove the bad blood’ !! He also had a ‘deposit on the brain’ (= subdural haematoma, possibly the result of a fall from blacking out / fainting so much in early November 1791) - such a shame that M. was just shy of 36 years of age - during his lifetime (1756-1791) he manag’d to compose 935 pieces of music !!
The botanist Ludwig von Koechel in 1862 track’d down 626 of them and gave them each a K. number in chronological order (he started composing music at 4 years of age) but more than 300 finish’d compositions have been located throughout Europe since 1862-as well as 320 unfinish’d compositions ranging all the way from
4 bars to 1,209 bars of music !!)
Everyone needs to see this performance! Literally every person on earth should listen to this.
Brilliant to see the same amazed reaction on the faces of adults that I had as a 10 year old - most amazing aria ever!
Every time I hear a person signing this song, I'm impressed by the vocal range. It's an incredible feat to perform this song well!
Her walk out at the end is so legend. Btw great review. 👍
There is NOBODY else who captures the essence of this scene like Diana Damrau. To sing this aria at all is extremely difficult and only a small percentage of sopranos can do so. To sing it while moving and acting borders on the impossible yet she does it flawlessly. She's actually a very nice lady and quite a beauty under all that makeup. No matter how many times I hear this it takes my breath away. She's stunning
Cantar las obras de MOZART y escucharlas para disfrutar TOTALMENTE SU EXTREMA BELLEZA,requiere una elevadisima "sensibilidad"para conectarse con LA INASIBLE PERFECCION....del universo sonoro.
Por eso se explica en gran medida que quienes se ATURDEN con los esperpentos "electrónicos"y vocalistas DISONANTES actuales,no logran "escuchar"(ni CANTAR!)las obras de MOZART...disponibles en este "mágico dispositivo celular"............
In case you were wondering, the queen is telling her daughter to kill the daughter's boyfriend (the protagonist) otherwise the queen will disown her and hate her forever.
Incorrect. She was telling her daughter to kill the high priest, Sarastro.
@@RaymondHngright😄
In most modern readings, Sarastro is Pamina's father
@@manicms But the spoken dialog makes int clear the Sarastro was connected to Pamina's father, the late King of the Day.
My bad, it’s been years since I’ve seen Magic Flute
Diana Damrau does not only sing this aria perfectly, her acting in this scene is also perfect.
The best "Queen of the Night"!
guys what a great choice super voice so passionate in her role she's top of the top thank you for that great reactions
She's singing She's moving She's acting int the same time and with no mic ❤
Your reaction is why I always feel bad for people who only subject themselves to pop music. Opera singers sing and perform on an otherworldly level, a level which most people these days highly unnecessarily refuse to navigate.
It's even more 🤯over-the-top with the lyrics. They're in German & can be hard to follow, but it starts out with "der hölle rache kocht in meinem herzen" (...roughly "the vengeance of hell boils in my heart", but harsher) & quickly goes downhill from there.
The gist of it is that she's telling her daughter to take the dagger she's giving her & murder Sarastro with it... or else she'll disown & abandon her forever. Mozart operas... they ain't always as cute + cuddly as most people believe them to be 😉
I m glad for every chance to hear this piece of music. its mindblowing. and despite being about vengence and killing it never fails to enlighten my mood by sheer notes :) so angry and so grieving and so triumphant at the same time.
It's well worth taking the time to see the full opera. My favorite production is the Paris Opera in 2001.
My favourites are Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night and Simon Keenlyside as Papageno. But the Paris Opera 2001 performance is well worth watching.
She's one of the greatest singers of all time. Mozart wrote this for her, for a voice like hers.
It's called coloratura - a style quite common in older operas from Handel to Rossini.
My favorite aria of all time
Your eyes are so gorgeous! Both of you! Glad you liked the Magic Flute. One can't go wrong with Mozart.
And this is live in an Opera house without microphones and a full orchestra playing with her.
True story - According to Mozart biographer Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Mozart had worked on this project for a few years. Though Mozart had originally written the Aria for his sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, there were continual problem in the production and rehearsal of the aria itself. From an 1840 letter from composer Ignaz von Seyfried, the biggest complaint is that Mozart forgot to create pauses in the music score so the singers could simply breathe between singing phrases along with the beat.
I first heard this when as a small child, maybe seven, my parents took me to see Bergman’s film version of The Magic Flute. I was so blown away by this piece… I remember coming home and trying and trying to sing it. Fantastic performance here.
English translation:
'Der hölle rache kocht in meinen hertzen!'
"Hell's Vengeance boils in my heart!"
I mean I had goosebumps, Imagine that girl feelings when her mother was screaming at her like that 🤣😭
Diana Damrau's native language is German 🇩🇪.
Welcome, this is opera. Greetings from Guatemala City in Central America.
lo bueno es que ustedes reaccionan a todo tipo de musica... incluso opera... bien por esta forma de raccionar.... felicitaciones a los dos
Welcome in the world of operas! 😂😂 So many surprises are waiting for you!! 🤩🤩
Try watching the Commendatore Scene from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Male voices.
My dad had an opera subscription to the Cologne City Opera for 2 people. And so he took me to my first opera, Mozart's Magic Flute. I was 11 or 12 years old.
The Queen of the Night’s second aria in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, “Hell’s vengeance boils in my heart,” requires several notes above c3, the highest being f3.
Your reactions is so sweet! Xxx
Mozart was a genius.
Diana's stabbing staccatos are CRAZY good! Interesting fact about this performance; although there are mics around the stage, her voice is not amplified meaning she's not wearing a mic. She just projected her voice over the orchestra.
Finally, the great, classical music has arrived!
Lesson for today: dont underestimate amadeus mozart. The genius of geniuses of classical opera.
Thanks so much for your reaction, I've watched twice. You've opened yourself up to a whole new world, if you like. I could suggest so many but I'll go with this compilation. "The 10 Most Popular Opera Arias - by classical music stars (Pavarotti, Netrebko, Deborah York)" Copy and paste that in your search. I grew up listening to rock/pop, grew into a classical fan as well. Happy reactions!
You guys are lovely. Can I make one little correction for future reference? The opera is called Magic Flute, the character's name is QUeen of the Night and this is her famous aria. YOur reactions are to die for.
I have seen many versions of this over the years and Diana Damrau's version is still by far the best. It helps that she is singing in her native language (German) but not many sopranos can reach and hit that top F. And do not forget, she is singing this OVER the full orchestra (under the stage) whilst moving around in a heavy costume, acting and WITHOUT a microphone.
Love this scene. A mother telling her daughter to kill a man or she will be disinherited. Very strong drama.
We're listening here to brilliant Diana Damrau, but let's also not forget the genius who composed it - Mozart! I'd love to be in the room when in 1791 Mozart showed Ms. Josepha Hofer - the first soprano - the score and told her: "Hey, I've got a new opera and I'd like you to sing the soprano role!"
There's a RUclips f her singing this piece without makeup. You can see the very same 'queen of the night' in daylight. Just as amazing.
Mozart is when god decided to dpend some time on earth and compose done music
As others have said, simply stunning!
It's sad that so very many people just write off the classical music genre as boring without first at least sampling a bit. This recordings is one of my favorites, in fact, I use it as a ring tone for one of my daughters, the drama queen in the family. She is crazy scary in the roll, but the her character is scary and she is just magnificent while being malevolent.
So anyway, if you want to sample the heavy metal of the classical genre, try this one from Boellmann:
The first one is kind of the training wheels, sort of a fusion of metal and real metal:
ruclips.net/video/lVSGRJgQMOM/видео.html
And then there is the real thing. Do remember to crank the volume all the way up. The only problem with the real thing is, given the instrument being played, headphones just can't reproduce the lower notes correctly, not enough power or range.
ruclips.net/video/5Wm-wSRVk5A/видео.html
There is so much more to explore in the classical music form, these are just a couple of selections.
One other one in the fusion of metal the classical music is this one.
ruclips.net/video/VWEmsUiQELU/видео.html
Please listen to Edita Gruberova - she was a famous Singer. By the way - to sing arias - you have to study classical singing a couple of years, have to train your vocal abilities - so if you ve trained in singing opera stuff you don't need a mic at all....the accoustic of opera houses or churches are constructed for this...
Ladies and gentlemen, Let me introduce u to Mr Mozart feat Diana Damrau
you've just watched the best !
This couple might enjoy another version of this song sung by 12 year Afghan refugee girl Sofia Asgari on RUclips as "Holland's Got Talent 2013-Sofia Asgari". This type of singing is called coloratura soprano singing and was made famous by Mozart who when he was 15 and fell in love with and wrote music for coloratura soprano Anna De Amicis. Modern coloratura soprano Teodora Gheorghiu, who started as a flute player until age 14 when she discovered she could sing, made a CD of the greatest hits of Anna De Amicis which is previewed on RUclips as "Teodora Gheorghiu, soprano-making of CD Anna de Amicis". My favorite tune from the CD is on RUclips as "Tortorella abbandonata" which really shows off what a coloratura soprano can do where there are a lot of notes on the page.
Happy to discover your channel, and your reaction to QON. It's amazing! So, I shall subscribe. Cheers!
Try the "Barcarole" from Jacques Offenbach. Preferably the Version ofsung by Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko.
I’ve always loved that duet because of the scene in Life Is Beautiful. Unfortunately when I saw Tales of Hoffman at Live at the Met, they set the scene during an orgy at a brothel.
Beautiful, i hope they will also hear the Christina Deutekom version….
Hello. Classical/Opera singers are highly trained in order to have vocal control, flexibility, and range.
The subplot to this aria and its prophetic qualities are beyond incredible. She represents the Empress of Austria-Hungary cursing her own people as represented by her own daughter. A curse that lasted for another 145 years and perhaps ended with the death of the most infamous Austrian of them all who died on the 30th of April 1945. Perhaps coincidentally Mozart was born only a few hundred yards from where Adolf Hitler was also born. Which is also very close to where the true story of The Sound of Music happened and the film was shot.
This kinda puts a far more scary perspective on the piece, if it were not scary enough already.
Christine deutekom still did my fave version!
You should have mentioned the singer’s name. It’s Diana Damrau.
😂😂😂 y’all faces!! Lollll
I hope you also try Deutekoms version. Imo thats the best version ever..)) clear and sharp as diamond
Forcing the knife into her daughter’s hand, then in the song commanding her to kill her father. Very powerful.
And she sings some really difficult bits while climbing/leaning on the bed!
The Charismatic Voice (channel) did a good break down, and points out that at no point does her core disengage- on the bed, she kneels, but never reclines for example
Awesome!
Opera can be made into a movie. In 1984 Julia Migines showed how to bring Carmen to the silver screen in the RUclips video entitled "Carmen-Habanera (with English subtitles and better quality)". The full two and a half hour movie is on RUclips as "Carmen-opera filmed as movie" with a lot of great music. The famous Italian opera La Boheme has a compelling story and is on RUclips as "Anna Netrebko-The Boheme Act I".
Inggmar Bergman made a film of Motzart’s Magic Flute (from which this aria comes) it’s fantastic, of course.
Great video guys
The I felt the same way. I I know a couple that ARE opera singers!!🤯😟🤯😟
You stumbled upon a pretty decent performance. No imagine a singer of today trying to move around singing like that. With costume and no microphone.
LMAO! She IS a singer of today. She's still doing concerts now. Do you actually think this was filmed in the 1700's when Mozart wrote this or something???
*In opera performance singing without a mic is STANDARD.* Singers trained in classical technique, not all of whom will become opera singers, are taught to project their voices. Not by simply singing "loud," but by adjusting the resonance of the sounds they are producing. Even with training, few voices are up to the demands of opera. And when I say opera, I mean performing full-length, sung-through musical dramas in the classical style, not merely being able to sing individual arias with competence.
Though there are rare exceptions opera singers might use microphones -- exceptionally large venues, or some recorded performances -- in general using a mic in live performance opera is akin to blasphemy.
Classical concert singing is a different matter. Classical singers -- some of whom specialize mostly in concert singing, because their voices are not up to the demands of live opera performance -- will often use a microphone in the concert setting. Concert halls tend to be larger than opera houses, and often lack the outstanding acoutics of opera houses.
What's that couple on screen most of the time supposed go be doing?
Not only she sang that extremely hard music, but also with german words...
She's german...it helps. But you are right in that it is more complicated to sing operatic songs in german. It's a phonetically hard language. That's why most opera is in italian.
Diana Damrau… ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Be sure to watch this video!
A very young girl sings the same aria.
She is fantastic! - (Adelways Lay - The Magic Flute | Blind Auditions | The Voice Kids Indonesia Season 4 GTV 2021)
Imagine if they heard Christina Deutekom...wow
I'm speechless too!
No autotune here ;)
Why in gawd's name am I watching this? Damrau's best performance!
The beauty of German language!
You must hear 9 year old Victory Brinket sing this she is stunning
Ich frage mich ernsthaft, ob die Amerikaner überhaupt irgendeine Art von Kultur in der Schule lernen.
Mozart, Beethoven, Bach und andere Jahrhundertgenies sind so wichtig.
Sie haben uns das Größte überhaupt hinterlassen, wir sollten das wertschätzen.
Wir dürfen sie nie vergessen.
Weltweit.
And not to mention her “Martern aller Arten “ most difficult aria is phenomenal
All opera Magic Flute is amazing, it is a little part