did you hear the size of that high F???? Wanna go see her do Gilda in Nashville?

Girl? Don’t belittle that woman like that.

I was highly doubtful of this comment, as I’m sure everyone has seen Diana Damrau’s rendition, but damn... after watching, all I can say now is that if it isn’t better than Diana’s, it is certainly on par. Nothing less

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INDEED.

@@mrbigbigtoe YYEEESSS!!! I really agree with that! Did you see the second aria? It Will make you speechless !

I wonder who is the sadist director who made her perform all of this while hunching down, having her weighing unnecessarily on her diaphragm and hindering her movement, all for the sake of a pretty silly characterization choice (i.e. having the Queen be an old hag)

Listen to Cristina Deutekom's 1971 Königin der Nacht

Yes, there are different colors, because she is using different voices....she's changing her vocal production for different parts of her range. That's what I hear, anyway.

She is good, but Damrau has more depth and also softer tones inbetween

Same!! Listened to at least 20 versions, she really is the best! She does the highest note very beautifully!

definitely not high g, it’s a high f

Written as an F6.

French productions are known to make modern productions of opera that frankly speaking not understandable. Just look at Sabine Devieilhe production in this aria and you will see what i mean

I think the symbolism here is that Tamino is basically a blank slate out of which the Queen may do whatever she pleases. That's why she's bringing him military gear. She's dressing him to fight her war.

indeed

Idiots i would think. Everything has to have a story behind it nowadays. Every piece of clothing and every stick that's sticking out of the floor has a hidden meaning and must tell a story. Where is the elegace of beautiful costumes that stand out. Where is the queen in her gown with stones that glitter like starlight and her crown adorning her head like a moon in the night. Where is the prince that saves the princess with sword drawn and clothes that tell of his standing. Not a story told about the things on stage. But the things that help tell the tale.

No no no Edda Moser still better

@@wermachbanks4599 if you like wide wobbly singing just for the sake of being loud then feel free to keep listening to her

@@luceafarul579 she is not wobbly she has an icy, big tone, typical German singer not boring crap Italian-type. Lewek is extraordinary but she was clearly inspired by Moser, too.

@@davidmuller9938 I’ve listened to plenty of german opera singers who are not wobbly like Moser was in queen of night, and moser herself isn’t wobbly in everything she sings, but in queen of night, which requires a mozartian technique in which she’s just not one of the best ones, she is wobbly. There are German Mozartian singers who can sing mozart overall better than her, such as diana damrau. Has nothing to do with her “icy tone” I’m not talking about “tone” but the evenness of her vibrato and smoothness of her legato. Her staccato in the second aria for example is exemplary. And I think honestly that’s how she became such a famous queen of the night-people just paid attention to those famous staccato in the more famous second aria and didn’t really care about much else. Just like many opera fans only care about how loud you sound in an opera house especially for those famous high notes and virtually nothing else.

gonna go out on a limb and say thats pamina