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Diana Damrau is the Queen of the Night

submitted by E_Nygma

1 decade 7 years 4 months 4 weeks ago

Fantastic performance of Mozart's Der Hölle Rache (Hell's Vengeance) Aria from the Opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, lead by Colin Davis, directed by David McVicar. Scene from the second act, featuring Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night and Dorothea Röschmann as Pamina.

The sequence at -2:56 is considered one of the most demanding ever written, and Damrau is considered by many to be the best to ever sing the part.

16 Comments

Der Hölle Rache translates as Hell's Vengeance, not the magic flute, and it's the name of the Aria. The Opera is Die Zauberflöte.

And don't forget to vote for your own videos E_Nygma

Man, I felt like leaping to my feet and applauding in my living room!

Haha, thanks Enzo. I'll fix straightaway

*requeue

Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Monday, October 15th, 2007 9:22am PDT - requeue requested by submitter E_Nygma.

YAY more opera!!

damn, she is good!!!!!!!!!

Goofball_Jones says...

Opera by Mozart...in case anyone was wondering, since he wasn't even mentioned in the write-up.

Weird.

Her voice is just amazing. It's hard to believe that some humans are capable of making noise like that.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Diana, Damrau, opera, The, Magic, Flute, Der, Holle, Rache' to 'Diana Damrau, opera, The Magic Flute, Der Holle Rache, mozart' - edited by Deano

what awesome *quality we have here.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by dbot2006.

Holy fucking fuckshit... hardcore, dudes.

awesome performance but I'm not really getting a "Hell's Vengeance" feeling from it.

FlowersInHisHair

Damrau is THE definitive Queen of the Night! Love the costumes here too.

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