YES Okay you're not the only one who's confused by that. It's lighearted bouncing string accompaniment under what would be the most tense section that gets me. Why!?
I think that with those high notes Mozart wanted to give the idea of an "inhuman" and heartless character, since they were so difficult to sing: I read a similar idea in a book about Mozart some years ago. Also, what I love about this aria is the ambiguity and contrast between the lovely-but-superhuman music and the cruel text. Actually, a whole lot of Mozart music is inherently ambiguous and sometimes you can't decide if it's about happiness or drama... And finally, the whole Zauberflöte is full of symbolisms and nothing is really what it seems. This rendition th-cam.com/video/H_xfC9RXicU/w-d-xo.html by Erika Miklosa is fantastic to me because she looks like a psychopath and it goes very well with the music lol
@@azurbtkl3901 thanks for this explanation. I definitely got the inhuman aspect of it and was thinking later that it was kind of a macabre humour by Mozart to make it so light. They did used to joke about death in a way that is foreign to us now.
Another big Mozart fan here! I love this aria and from what I've read I think the reason why the piece is this way is because Mozart wanted to simulate a wicked high-pitched laugh for the Queen of the Night. A few months ago I read a book about Mozart's letters and once he mentioned that musicalizing anger was a challenge for him because rage is dissonant and without harmony, so I think that's why his arias that represent anger sound kinda violent but without losing beauty, especially in this piece since the character is powerful and mystical but yet elegant like a queen
Oh i thought you mean how angry and evil are your neighbours at 1 am when you are practicing... at the beginning there was anger expressions. I think I am wrong because everyone else saying something else 😅😅
I never understood the fascination with Callas, but then again I never heared her singing live. The old recordings make her sound like a hen in my opinion, while Damrau here shows her crystal clear and strong voice.
@@ardevin Cristal and strong? I think the gruppetti are too slow, the melody is unclear, the vibrato too heavy. She gives me a sense of stress. Listen to Edda Moser, Lucia Popp, etc.
@@azurbtkl3901 To each their own. I've listened to many other versions of this aria, which are considered superior, but I don't like the sound of them, while others loved them. I guess I'm a hopeless sucker for Diana Damrau's charisma. Technique is not everything. Also, I'm barely musically trained, so I simply didn't see all those flaws you mentioned. I just like the sound of her voice and her stage persona in this particular opera. There are surely younger and better voices out there, but they never gave me goosebumps as frau Diana does here. Simple as.
I wish my neihbours were like yours, I'd jump the fence and do this...
0:38 that precise control over her voice is insane
Big Mozart fan here but I gotta say, i don't get at all why he wrote such a delightful little ditty to depict a fit of vengeful rage.
YES Okay you're not the only one who's confused by that. It's lighearted bouncing string accompaniment under what would be the most tense section that gets me. Why!?
I think that with those high notes Mozart wanted to give the idea of an "inhuman" and heartless character, since they were so difficult to sing: I read a similar idea in a book about Mozart some years ago. Also, what I love about this aria is the ambiguity and contrast between the lovely-but-superhuman music and the cruel text. Actually, a whole lot of Mozart music is inherently ambiguous and sometimes you can't decide if it's about happiness or drama... And finally, the whole Zauberflöte is full of symbolisms and nothing is really what it seems. This rendition th-cam.com/video/H_xfC9RXicU/w-d-xo.html by Erika Miklosa is fantastic to me because she looks like a psychopath and it goes very well with the music lol
because emotions are far more complex and independent than you think right now
@@azurbtkl3901 thanks for this explanation. I definitely got the inhuman aspect of it and was thinking later that it was kind of a macabre humour by Mozart to make it so light. They did used to joke about death in a way that is foreign to us now.
Another big Mozart fan here! I love this aria and from what I've read I think the reason why the piece is this way is because Mozart wanted to simulate a wicked high-pitched laugh for the Queen of the Night. A few months ago I read a book about Mozart's letters and once he mentioned that musicalizing anger was a challenge for him because rage is dissonant and without harmony, so I think that's why his arias that represent anger sound kinda violent but without losing beauty, especially in this piece since the character is powerful and mystical but yet elegant like a queen
only if they were this musical i would enjoy being their neighbour every day
*the mosquitoes in my room when I try to sleep:
this level of control... this is the elite of singing
If i could sing like that, 1 a.m. is too early to stop
My all time favorite rendition of this incredible Aria!! Diana Damrau is a GODDESS 🥰😍😍😍💝💖💘💞💋💯💢
When you neighbor is actually an oprea singer... luckily they do most of their practice during the day
If I had neighbours like this, I would be joining in!!!
I took me a second to get it. Now I'm dying with laughter xD
? What is there to get?
@@Chopin-Etudes-Cosplay queen of the *night*
They're either fighting or....
@@falconeshield 😂 now i get it. Wow, spicy.
I'll have what she's having
years of intense practicing ?
My favourite Mozart piece, so elegant, and so technical.
No
@@Alix777. There really is a LOT better stuff than this aria.
The best performance of all!
I wish my neighbours shouting were this pleasant
You know what's funny? I am playing this at 1am 🤣🤣🤣
When she goes *rââaaa râaa rrrrrâa ra ra ra*
I feel that. 💀
Her makeup was amazing!
I wish this was all my neighbours were capable of, mine are just radiating me to death… friendly bunch 😅
Diana Damrau! 😍 wish she was my neighbour !
She's a nightingale beside Edda Moser
my neighbor's mom yelling at them for not doing the dishes:
WOW. Thank you!! ❤️
My neighbors between 12:30am to 4:30am
I'm going to substitute this for my sister screaming at her boyfriend. This is going to be very entertaining! 🤣🤣
it's the fairy from Shrek 2
As I’m watching at 1am lol
Mine at 4AM…..
Sweet as honey!
Demonic! You best stop this mess!
Love the cupcakke version
Maleficent?
Do a video on papageno pls
I am your neighbor. They hate me because I play classical music when I'm home lol
Oh i thought you mean how angry and evil are your neighbours at 1 am when you are practicing... at the beginning there was anger expressions. I think I am wrong because everyone else saying something else 😅😅
excellent performance but why the title is like a memes
It should have been Maria Callas, for example.
Callas never sung this aria. But yes, there are some better choices (not among the living sopranos, sadly lol)
Nah
I never understood the fascination with Callas, but then again I never heared her singing live. The old recordings make her sound like a hen in my opinion, while Damrau here shows her crystal clear and strong voice.
@@ardevin Cristal and strong? I think the gruppetti are too slow, the melody is unclear, the vibrato too heavy. She gives me a sense of stress. Listen to Edda Moser, Lucia Popp, etc.
@@azurbtkl3901 To each their own. I've listened to many other versions of this aria, which are considered superior, but I don't like the sound of them, while others loved them. I guess I'm a hopeless sucker for Diana Damrau's charisma. Technique is not everything. Also, I'm barely musically trained, so I simply didn't see all those flaws you mentioned. I just like the sound of her voice and her stage persona in this particular opera. There are surely younger and better voices out there, but they never gave me goosebumps as frau Diana does here. Simple as.
Name of piece?
Darude Sandstorm