Annick Massis & Ingrid Kaiserfeld in a diva vocal battle, to High F!

Mozart: DER SCHAUSPIELDIREKTOR - Ich bin die erste Sängerin trio, La Coruña Festival, 2002, High F
THE SONGBIRDS:
Annick Massis was born to a musical household in 1958 in Paris. She made her operatic debut in her early 30s in Toulouse. Massis built an impressive performance and recording career in Europe and the U.S. singing florid baroque and Mozart works, florid French lyric roles, and florid bel canto heroines.
Ingrid Kaiserfeld was born in Austria in 1961. She was a Mozart specialist singing the Queen of the Night over 80 times. Other roles included Konstanze (Florence), Donna Anna (Glyndebourne), Fauno (Bologna), Vitellia (Caen), Elettra (Vienna), and Rosalinde, Sophie, Lucia, Nedda, Gilda, and Musetta.
Spanish tenor José Ferrero was born in Chinchilla. Before his untimely death of a heart attack in 2016 at the age of 43, he had appeared in leading operatic roles in Venice, Naples, Madrid, Barcelona, Scotland, Berlin, Luxembourg, and Geneva. He also developed a passion for baroque music and founded La Capilla Antigua de Chinchilla.
THE MUSIC: Mozart's short comic opera "Der Schauspieldirektor" ("The Impresario") K.486 was given in a private performance on February 7, 1786 for Joseph II at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna as part of a composition competition. A German singspiel (Mozart's work) was presented at one end of the room and an Italian opera buffa by Antonio Salieri titled "Prima la musica e poi le parole" ("First the Music, Then the Words"), was then shown at the other end of the room. Three public performances were given a few days later in Vienna. There are only five musical selections in the work, which pits two rival divas against each other, as cleverly showcased in this wonderfully clever "battle of the divas" trio where Madame Herz and Mademoiselle Silberklang each claim to be the prima donna and the best singer. As they try to top each other by showing off their extraordinary vocal skills, the tenor Monsieur Vogelsang tries to calm them down. The diva roles were written for two of Mozart's muses: coloratura sopranos Aloysia Weber (Herz) and Caterina Cavalieri (Silberklang), both big stars in Vienna at the time. This helps explain the extremely florid and high vocal writing, up to High D, E-flat, and F.

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I was there! Massis was die Erste Sangerin!!!!