What I’m Listening to This Week: The Queen of the Night Aria
Posted By BillHeise on June 22, 2009
This is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) coloratura arias in opera. If you aren’t familiar with coloratura, it starts out at 0:51 in the first video. It’s really hard to do, and that’s why every singer almost completely stops moving when they have to start singing the coloratura parts (see 2:05 – 2:30 in the first video).
The aria appears in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). His character is the Queen of the Night. She’s scary.
For the costumes:
Performed by an actress:
In the movies (without acting):
And by a kid:
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