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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).
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 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 ...
Queen of the Night, or Königin der Nacht, a major character in the 1791 Mozart opera The Magic Flute "Queen of the Night aria" ("Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen ") Queen of the Night (Maggie Bell album) Queen of the Night (Loleatta Holloway album), 1978 "Queen of the Night" (song), a 1993 single by Whitney Houston
She was born in Zell im Wiesental, in present-day Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the daughter of Fridolin Weber and Cäcilia Weber (née Stamm). She had three younger sisters (in descending order of age): Aloysia, who was an early love interest of Mozart and sang in his later operas; Constanze, who married Mozart in 1782; [1] and Sophie.
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]
Virtuose Arien von WA Mozart, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, EMI Electrola 1C 063-29 082 (1 LP, issued 1973) [4] Works: "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn, recitative and aria for the Queen of the Night from Die Zauberflöte "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen", aria for the Queen of the Night from Die Zauberflöte
Of special importance is the 1964 recording of Mozart's The Magic Flute, conducted by Karl Böhm, in which Wunderlich gave a critically acclaimed performance as Tamino, [3] opposite sopranos Evelyn Lear as Pamina and Roberta Peters as the Queen of the Night and baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the role of Papageno.