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Alice Verlet as Queen of the Night, 1912. The first singer to perform the aria onstage was Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, who at the time was 32. By all accounts, Hofer had an extraordinary upper register and an agile voice and apparently Mozart, being familiar with Hofer's vocal ability, wrote the two blockbuster arias to showcase it.
The arrival of the Queen of the Night. Stage set by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) for an 1815 production "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn" ("Oh, don't tremble, my dear son") is the first aria performed by the Queen of the Night (a famous coloratura soprano role) in Mozart's singspiel The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte).
The Queen of the Night appears and promises Tamino that Pamina will be his if he rescues her from Sarastro (Recitative: "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn" / Oh, tremble not, my dear son! – and aria: "Du, Du, Du wirst sie zu befreien gehen / You will go to free her). The Queen and the ladies leave and Papageno can only hum to bemoan the ...
Deutekom was born Stientje Engel in Amsterdam. [1] She studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Coby Riemersma and Felix Hupka. In 1963 she made her debut with De Nederlandse Opera as Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute. [2]
[16] [17] In June–July 2013, she debuted in the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Opéra National de Lyon. [18] Later in the year, she interpreted Sister Constance in Christophe Honoré's staging of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra de Lyon, Théâtre Graslin in Nantes, Le Quai in Angers.
One of the best-known examples of the genre is the Queen of the Night's "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen", from Die Zauberflöte. [5] Others include "No, no, I'll take no less", from Handel's Semele , "I am the wife of Mao Tse-Tung" from John Adams' Nixon in China , "D'Oreste, d'Ajace" in Mozart's Idomeneo .
Wilma Lipp ([vɪlma lɪp]; 26 April 1925 – 26 January 2019) [1] was an Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. A long-time member of the Vienna State Opera, she was particularly associated with the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, a role she performed internationally more than 400 times. [1]
In 2017, she and Susanna Phillips sang the Mass in C-minor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [7] Since 2013, Lewek has performed Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera every season. [4]