Friday, June 8, 2012

Der Hölle Rache - sung by Luciana Serra

You gotta love a good queen aria.  And this one is the king of queen arias.

Written by Mozart, Die Zauberflöte was a very popular Songspiel (a kind of opera with some spoken dialogue). To this day, this aria remains as one of the most difficult works for soprano in the genre. There are all sorts of recordings of this piece.  Some are really, really, REALLY bad

The version in the video was performed at the Metropolitan Opera a number of years ago.  (And yes, that is Kathleen Battle as Pamina!)

Happy listening!


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