You finally reaction to the real queen. 🤣🤣🤣 I am a big fan of jona and lani everytime they sung classical songs but this girl proves that she is the real queen 👸👸👸
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Opera singing is the highest musical art. As my father says, this is most distinguished form of screaming in the world :))) They are all opera singer (my father, grandfather and so on.. :)))
Of course it’s going to be a polished performance it’s the Royal Opera House it has a reputation to uphold, nothing short of an Olivier Award worthy performance will do.
Yeah!! IKR it doesn't have autotune, it's not polished but it is more better than Jona and clear has very good diction, Very good pitch that's why!! It's arguably the best Queen🥰❤️!!
Opera is meant to perform that way, in our perspective as a classical singer, we aim for the refinement of our craft. It's nice to geqr some pop singers can sing "der hölle rache" which is the correct title of the song and they popularized it by saying it is the "Queen of the night" which is the chracter in that opera. Pop singers can perform this song, but they cannot imitate the the true style and beauty of this kind music. And classical music is another genre that preserve many centuries from the great minds of that era.
Mozart intended to be this way - to sound PERFECT. He made his music to be perfect and expected no less from musicians, singers and performers. He was a perfectionist hence his music. Maybe learn more about Mozart. I'm sure Diana Damrau's performance is what Mozart would've wanted, perfect, flawless and polished just like his music.
This is Mozart. This is how he had intended the aria to sound and be. It's part of a story. She's a coloratura soprano. Perhaps the other person you've heard sing, sang it in a different key so that her vocal range could be more manageable for her. Diana Damrau is the epitome of this aria!
That’s why the opera is called, THE MAGIC FLUTE! Google prior to reacting so you know the story. It helps, especially when they’re singing in a foreign language, as most operas are. Cheers!
The song wasn't written with software in mind, it was composed by Mozart for a singer that he did not like, so he intentionally made it difficult in hoping that she wouldn't be able to rise to the challenge - except, she did. Notwithstanding, it is one of the most challenging arias that a soprano can face because of how technical and demanding it is. Any soprano will have fear about hitting a high F just once during a live performance, let alone 4 times lol.
"[I]t was composed by Mozart for a singer that he did not like, so he intentionally made it difficult in hoping that she wouldn't be able to rise to the challenge... ." DIANA DAMRAU: Hold my beer.
"Too polished" ... We have all the bad things we deserve.... By the way, it's not too polished, playing with no apparent mistakes doesn't mean polished or perfect, there are nuances that makes the parts of the music different, interesting, powerful. It's precisely pop music and recorded music in general, stiff, mechanic, redundant boring and weak, which is the opposite to this live performance. Comparing this majestic piece of music, which is constantly shape shifting over itself, changing the arrangement on a couple of themes, going towards a climax, being organic and alive... comparing this, I repeat, with some popular song, which doesn't change anything, it's always the same, perfected by electronic and computing methods is utter nonsense
he is not so far from the truth. today's opera singers are often too polished, far from the past's raw, edgy, real opera stars and their singings. but Damrau is great here. my fave is Edda Moser her voice is icy and metallic AF
"Too polished"? This is perfection, period. Diana Damrau is to many folks, myself included, the best Queen ever. You can't look at opera with the same eyes as, say, pop music. In this genre, what you call "robotic perfection" is something we seek, and anyone who has ever dared to pick up an opera music sheet strives to reach such level of polish, cleanliness, and yeah, perfection. Now, for a (maybe!) different experience, can you give a shot to Dmitry Hvorostovsky performing the "Largo al factotum", please? It's a fun piece, and I'm sure you'll apreciate it :)
Opera has a dozen hits that goes around and around. The rest just is dead boring shouting and squeaking tiring your ears. So bad diction you can't understand the lyrics even when sung in native language, man, that's really bad. Btw. Nothing new of interest is produced.
@@yogajedi3337 Just out of curiosity, what’s your native language? Cause I can make out every word she sings no problem, and my German isn’t even good at all. As an Italian speaker, I can actually assure you she has excellent diction there as well, despite it being her fourth language. More in general, I very rarely find myself struggling to understand any singer in Italian repertoire, usually without even having to try, and it’s never happened to me with a native speaker. The little English opera I’ve seen is also perfectly intelligible to me. French, which I don’t speak as well, is more difficult when sung by foreigners, but not even remotely enough to make me not get the story if I don’t know it, and super easy to understand when sung by native speakers. In terms of everything else, I guess it’s taste. Not sure of why you felt the need to watch a video related to opera and then comment so many times just to let everyone know you pretty much hate this whole genre, but you do you. I’d be curious to know how much opera you’ve actually bothered to listen to, though, before coming to these conclusions. Cause I never stop finding “new” interesting operas and revisiting known ones through different singers and productions.
@@EIizabethGrace You must be joking. Opera houses uses subtitles even in native language. It never struck you why they are doing that. The worst singers can be found in the genre, no doubt. The never ending whining and bleating on the opera stage repels an audience with intact hearing. By the way. The average audience at The met is +60 😂
@@yogajedi3337 I’m pretty sure a lot of it is to help non-native speakers who want to follow the opera in the original language, but aren’t quite comfortable enough to understand an old-timey, poetic, sung version of it. Anyway, I’m speaking for myself: save very rare exceptions, I have absolutely no problem understanding most singers word for word in Italian or English, even foreigners who are singing something I’ve never heard before. Same with native French speakers. My family also understands everything in Italian. It’s not like you mentioning subtitles changes that. I’m also not sure of why the age of the Met’s audience should matter. Not of where you got those statistics, tbh: I’m not American, but the last time I went to the opera there were dozens of people below 30 just in my area, and not because of some event. As for the worst singers thing, I must assume you’re trolling. You may not appreciate opera, but to say they’re the worst singers is nonsensical: nearly everyone seems to agree that in terms of technique they’re the best. Have you ever tried listening to an opera singer singing something more in your genre, like a cover or something? Idk, you just sound like you’re trying your hardest to bash opera without having given it much thought at all.
@@EIizabethGrace Opera sopranos are infamous for their bad diction or you must be deaf. Even stars like Sutherland has horrible diction. Of course if you memorised the lyrics you are fooling yourself you are understanding. In musicals they don't use subtitles in native language. But in Opera they do. In theatre understanding the lyrics is number one or it's a failure. The reason why its' so hard/impossible understand the lyrics is because opera singers use an unnatural awkward singing technique. You can't sing any contemporary music without sounding just super silly. Males sings so stiff like they got something stuck up in the rear. Sopranos squeaks so loud that you think it's your home alarm system siren which went off. Sopranos, with their never ending over the top vibrato, could work as a siren clearing riots from the streets. If you think the siren and pompous sound is the result of "good" singing technique you need a hearing aid.
Ohmy, where do i start with this mess of these eumm.. comments (and comparing Diana to..euhmm.. Jona)... ok let’s start with a thank you for reacting to an actual proper Opera (and one of the best ever written, and by one of the best music composer in history, Mozart) BUT, whila Jona’s vocal was FANTASTIC (she is indeed coloratura soprano), her execution of this aria was mediocre, and her interpretation was honestly CRAP. Queen of the night is written and intended to show a VENGEFUL RAGE of a queen whereby she places the knife into the hand of her daughter in order to kill her rival. Go back and watch Jona’s performance again. Mozart is crying and howling in his grave. Second of all, Diana’s too polished? I’d argue that, as far as interpretation goes, Sumi Jo’s version was the most polished i heard among all of coloratura soprano. Diana has that edge, She plays with a bit of frills here and there. But compared to Jona, i see what you mean, yes Diana is polished. BUT that’s what an opera singer singing an opera number SHOULD deliver (even tho the aria is performed without the whole opera. E.g Jona’s performance) Jona’s voice was so unpolished, opera houses would kindly ask her to pack her bags and try auditioning again next year. I dont know what training Jona had.. but either she was not at her best to deliver an aria, or she just lacks a proper opera training. Without further fuming more people, i just have to Close with Jona’s voice is fantastic.. But no way at the same level of top professional coloratura soprano. That was indicative of her performance of Queen of The Night.
Wow thank you, commented about this as well, she's the best for me with this performance. There's a clear difference between classical singing and pop singing. I salute jona for attempting this aria, being a pop singer, but it definitely can't be compared to a classical coloratura soprano who spent years and years of classical singing technique, not everybody can relate as you said, specially in this era, but I believe Jona can achieve that status if she really wants to course herself into this path, but she has to scrap all the years of pop singing technique she acquired, which I believe would be very hard at this point. Mariah Carey was classically trained by her mom who was a lyric soprano, then she opted to go pop, which explains her vocal superiority during her prime. ☝️✌🏻🤟🙏❤🇵🇭😍🥰😘🤩
Agreed. But as a Mariah Carey fan: Mariah was never classically trained. Her own technique isn't that great: she's a bit of a chest-puller but that doesn't spoil the sound of her amazing voice. It damages it, though. Anyway: She got tips from her mother but her mother hardly ever sat Mariah down to practice. Mariah would sit around as her mother was practicing and started mimicking her mother. Her mom would then tell her how to better reach those notes. When Mariah started picking it up really easy and sometimes, correcting her mother: her mother told her : You think you are good singer but don't think you will ever be as good as me. Mariah was never really into Opera but that whole story of her mother training her is not entirely true. Mariah and Patricia Carey have a complicated relationship. Pat was jealous of her own daughter. I read the biography so you'll forgive me for geeking out.😉
Diana Damrau won a award, because she was considered the best Queen of the bight of all the time. And to me, she is the bes queen of all the time! Like do you saied, yes she have a longest vocal range, when she was younger, she was a pure soprano coloratura, but now she is a soprano dramatic coloratura and lose some hig notes.
Opera must be perfectly Polished. When one attends the Opera, it is not to see certain performers (although we have been delighted by world class performers from time to time). You are not supposed to see her as a singer, you're not to see her at all. You were supposed to see the Night Queen taking vengeance upon her daughter because of the traditional unacceptable true love. When you go to the Opera, it is not to see the performers, it is to see the performance. It is to be immersed in another world and get caught up in the story.
Opera should be always polished no matter what because you cannot restart when you sing a wrong,lose or too much notes. When you sing too much,lose or wrong note when you're really performing in an opera house you'll receive a boo at the end because its a world class genre of music and its theatre, theatre should always be polished and no mistakes should happen.
The main problem is their singing style, in the long run, sound pompous and stiff. It's from a different era with other ideals. A modern audience can't relate to what they are trying to say with their music.
No no no no. Opera is not about being relatable. Opera is created as a way to show how perfect the human voice is. How perfect God created the human voice. Opera singers work DECADES to be able to be polished like this. To be able to PROJECT like this. Idk if u noticed but there was not one microphone making her voice louder. The orchestra doesnt hold back either, yet she manages to be so clear, be so loud and yet so controlled. THAT is what Opera is all about. The perfection in the human voice. Everything has to be perfect. Thats what they work on like crazy.
greater middle eastern music, as well as opera, aren't like modern songs where its all about selling product, making a nice beat, and hyping the crowd. Rather, they're a demonstration of technical skill, showing off an art, and in many historical cases, about pushing the superiority of an idea, nation, religion etc.
Not relatable because it's too perfect? The character is a vengeful and villainous queen who is threatening to disown her daughter if she doesn't kill a virtuous and charitable man whose only crime was inspiring the late king such that he made the man benefactor of his will. Like, the queen wants her daughter to _murder_ someone in cold blood because her husband left him all their money for being a nice guy. She's not _supposed_ to be relatable. She's not _supposed_ to feel human. She's supposed to be a wicked and psychotic _monster_ who's happy to exploit her children for her own gain. The disconnect you feel from that character is exactly how you're supposed to feel, which means Diana nailed the performance in every way you can conceive of it. She is Sauron with boobs. The audience is not supposed to relate to Sauron with boobs, and the way you do that is by making the performance (and the piece itself) inhuman, which is exactly what Diana Damrau is.
If opera singer learnt how to sing with better diction so they are understandable you don't need to read a book for explanation.
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I liked your reaction so much! And the story during this Aria is that the Queen of the Night is telling her daughter she must kill a man named Sarastro, otherwise she would repudiate her as her daughter. As for what you said about Damrau being "too perfect" for your liking, Operas are known for giving more structured and almost-too-vocally-perfect performances because as people who study and perform merely classical music for years, they always try to give the most accurate rendition of the original music as possible, which is not the same as a classical crossover performer who (regardless of if they study for years or not), they decide to give different colors and sounds to a classical piece (which is not bad either). Diana Damrau is a German Dramatic Coloratura Soprano, and I would love to see you reacting to her performance of "Glitter and Be Gay" from "Candide".
Julie Ureña I couldn’t agree more. That’s why I don’t want to compare Jona’s and Diana Damrau’s. Both are beautiful. Diana’s performance, however, is as close to divinity as it can be-a celebration of what humans can possibly achieve. Perfect performances remind us of human feat. Imperfect ones remind us that we remain beautiful as humans and our value is never diminished despite our flaws. I think this is what makes art powerful. It can project the extreme ends of human nature.
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@@jetholpaanod423 Indeed, that's why it's important to appreciate art in many different ways and forms. I love Damrau, she's a beast! 😂 But I really love other artists who play and give different interpretations of any piece, because the beauty comes in the variety too. If everyone could do the same thing the same way, oh how boring it would be!
@@la.luminosa No. She is a dramatic coloratura soprano, a lyric soprano would be bright or light sounding and Damrau doesn't fall on that category. An example of lyric sopranos are: Ariana Grande and Morissette Amon. Damrau's voice is very power full, rich, and it falls on the category of being a dramatic coloratura sopranos.
Oh yes Coloratura Soprano.. DIANA DAMRAU... She is one formidable Queen. What I like about Damrau performing this from others who have done the role, is that Damrau can ACT the role with INTENSITY as she sings the aria, without breaking flow. One cannot watch and listen without being captivated.
The Magic Flute by Mozart. It's not too polish, Diana is the Standard to follow for every single person who wants to perform this part. The Orchestra is directed by Sir Collins Davis before he died. Actually the whole staff was amazing, the 3 girls, thi kids, papagueno, Sarastros, etc. Amazing. This is perfection at its best.
Most people would assume the extremely high notes are the hardest part of this aria, but honestly…..while they are difficult, the REALLY brutal part is at 4:50 Those runs, done so softly and seamlessly flowing each note together is INSANELY hard. The breath control and precise vowel control needed are ridiculous.
OMG!!!! I've watched this like more than 100x already but I want to watch it again with your reaction this time! Never expected that you would see this :O *gasp
Her name is Diana Damrau...She's phenomenal. But I guess Mozart was a sadist too. Did he intend to tear the diaphragms of the women who attempted to sing this? Brutal!
Thank You for reacting to this Idol I really love Diana Damrau so much. Opera fanatic here. Can I ask for one thing ? Can you please also react to JE VEUX VIVRE of Diana. Love from the Philippines 🥰
Listen to Edda Moser, the best Queen of the Night ever, fierce, powerful, you will see what "intense" means. This is an aria di furore, this isn't supposed to sound pretty. Damrau can sing, but she's a little nightingale here...
Magic Flute or Die Zauberflöte is the Opera title. Queen of the Night or Königin der Nacht is the character Der Hölle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen or just Der Hölle Rache is the title of the aria
Operatic singers needs to be Polished as possible so that when they perform, their performance will be perfect and spotless, why? Because the slightest mistake can ruin the whole act, that's why she's so careful with her performance...
You should hear Cristina Deutkom’s rendition. She is by far the most powerful coloratura soprano there ever was. Her voice shakes the floor it’s so out of this world
@@yogajedi3337 How can you relate to opera? Have you ever heard of a story? Have you heard of the emotion called *anger?* Well this piece portrays that emotion, so you can relate to it. I bet you cant relate to your songs about getting booty my man
@@yogajedi3337 How can you not understand vocal tones? How can you not differentiate screaming angrily from screaming happily? Give it a thought. Just because something is in another language doesn't mean you cannot enjoy it, or relate to it.
@@JackBHolt Opera essentially is about theatre and telling a story. The story is everything. But if the theatre needs subtitles because of sever diction problems even when sung in native language something gone completely wrong. For a healthy ear listening to shouting and squeaking singers with over the top excessive vibrato is so tiring you want to leave after just 5-10 minutes. Opera has their hits, the same ones that goes over and over again. That's all there is to it. This reactor is very honest in his reaction.
Queen of the night is the character lol. The song is called the magic flute. :) When it says 'mozart; the magic flute - queen of the night aria', what that means is that it is an aria (a solo performance) by the queen of the night (character) performing the magic flute (title of song), composed by mozart.
@@jamescopeland8050 Don't worry, I got that, Mr Copeland. The "song" you're referring to is an opera. The aria of the Queen of the Night is but one aria within that three-hour work. There are no songs within an opera but arias. A song would be Die Forelle by Schubert or Der Erlkönig. While these would be referred to as Lieder, the German term. Neither is it a cycle of songs like Die Winterreise (Schubert) or Carmina Burana (Orff). Die Zauberflöte (original German title of The Magic Flute) is very familiar to me, as is the libretto by Schikaneder, its history and its references, having studied in great detail the scenery by Schinkel for this last opera (1791) of Mozart. I merely said previously that he was listening to the Queen of the Night for the first time, actually meaning the Character which he did not know before, neither did he know how it sould be sung or sound. ... Well .. lol to you too, Mr Copeland. Hope I could be of help to you.
In opera there is no such thing as too polished. Opera is all about perfection of the art. The way Ms. Damrau sings the aria is exactly how Mozart intended it. Full stop.
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OMG!!! I still can't believe you just reacted to Diana Damrau!!! Also I clicked so fast and went directly to comment while starting to watch the video 😂 notification squad what is UP!
It's been awhile since you have reacted to Morissette so I would like to recommend her new performance on the wish bus together with St. Wolf. I'd bet you'll love that. Thank you
While I appreciate your opinion, I question your conclusion that this performance of Diana Damrau is "stagey" simply because it is too perfect. I agree with those who decided that only this performance represented the best aria of humanity in the music portion of the golden disk recording carried into outer space by Voyager in 1977.
There is no polishing of her performance. In the future do some background checks on the operas and the Aria. The notes are written to convey the power of the queen. The cast is expected to sing the original notes and those are not notes you sing just by having voice training. Also, view other classical sopranos who play this role. Most stand and sing to get the notes, while Diana as a German singing in German brings the character of Queen of the Night alive with acting and singing which is rare in the classical arena.
Humans have always tried to reach perfection. Computers can do just that if there are no flaws in the code. Would you rather go and see the same performance in a different country where everything is exactly the same or see the whole thing in a different way?
I love opera and the heavy metal too.. Edda Moser is the best queen of the night for me. Reaction for Iron Maiden, the number of the beast or fear of the dark please... concierto en Chile 2011.. genial 👍👍👍 Saluds desde Chile
How dare you compare this artwork to the intent of that girl Jona? That is, this piece is from the great work "The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and this is the correct technique to interpret it, with perfect notes and staging. But course, if you don't have that culture, you'll settle for a failed attempt like Jona's. Lol 🤣
Awww. A click and stop reactor. You don't DO that during classical music! There is no copyright strikes for 'dead' music! 😂😂😂 and another thing:" TOO POLISHED?!!" I am far from an expert on opera but this is the Royal Opera house! It has to be PERFECT!
@@yogajedi3337 Yes, lol, recorded performances definitely involve microphones. Often enough they’re just on the edge of the stage and in the theater, though, so that what’s recorded is more or less what the people in the theater actually heard. Some have (at time even quite visibly) miked singers, too. Can’t see any mics here, and it’s a fairly old production, so it could be either.
@@EIizabethGrace Recordings from for example The Met and most other opera houses uses microphones in the costumes and placed hidden around the stage. Who are you trying to fool.
@@yogajedi3337 That’s literally what I said? The only think I’ve never heard about is the “around the stage” part. As far as I know, non-body mics are located only downstage and in the house. Not sure if the Met, having a huge stage, spreads them throughout it as well? In terms of body mics, I’m pretty sure they’re the norm now for recordings, and you can often see them as well (the production of Semiramide in Pesaro in 2019 comes to mind as one with obviously miked singers). No one is trying to hide them for anything other than aesthetics: they’re good for sound in the context of a recording. As far as I know, they were less widely used in the early 2000s, though, so that’s why I mentioned this may still have been recorded with just non-body mics. Pretty sure there were used, though. Again, not sure of why that would matter.
@@EIizabethGrace Perhaps opera singers should sing in smaller spaces so they will sound better instead of their constant shouting. This is how a typical opera monster cow singer sound from the audience. I'll tell you. Only an opera fetishist will stand that bleating for more than a few minutes. Search for "Angela Meade - Ebben! Ne andrò lontana".
you see "being too polished" is a bit of bs, think of it, its an opera house not a local performance at a bar or mall. professionals are expected to perform very highly since people buy to see perfection thats the different between this and the other one, really comparing this piece to the other one is unfair, a professional soprano opera singer to just a singer has difference. so dont take my point differently its just a no saying shes too perfect like robotic style, no shes practicing her life to be an opera singer
LOL too polished? this song was intended to be sang this way by Mozart. It's is SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY. Are you a vocal coach, sir? I suggest, going back to a music school.
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You finally reaction to the real queen. 🤣🤣🤣 I am a big fan of jona and lani everytime they sung classical songs but this girl proves that she is the real queen 👸👸👸
Also pls react to gidget dela llana. Singing didn't we almost have it all in tawag ng tanghalan.
Also jophil cece singing "love always find a way" he got the highest score over gidget dela llana and lucky
Good day bro😁 can you please give a reaction video on gazini ganadoz miss universe Philippines advocacy for elders thank you bro!😉 th-cam.com/video/7Pw0lfM3w04/w-d-xo.html
Please react z stars it's chrismass..
She is one of the best, if not, the best soprano singing this aria. Nothing digital about it. It is just top performance.
Poor Diana, all those years perfecting her voice and her singing and she gets dissed by a TH-camr for being to good.
Well, that's the way Opera performed. Being classy to the highest level is needed. being polished, traditional and perfection is a must.
Well creativity is mixing opera ing other genra, dont get me wrong they are artis the can. Freely do what they want.
Opera singing is the highest musical art. As my father says, this is most distinguished form of screaming in the world :))) They are all opera singer (my father, grandfather and so on.. :)))
@@adeeo Very true. i can agree with that. ❤️👌
@@Don-yq9oy ...Gobbledygook. Try English next time.
Of course it’s going to be a polished performance it’s the Royal Opera House it has a reputation to uphold, nothing short of an Olivier Award worthy performance will do.
Yeah!! IKR it doesn't have autotune, it's not polished but it is more better than Jona and clear has very good diction, Very good pitch that's why!! It's arguably the best Queen🥰❤️!!
I do agree... 100% on point comment 👍🏼 Alex Monkman
Too polished?! Gurl please, this performance is the GOAT!
In my opinion, Diana Damrau is the best singer of this aria because when she hits that f6 it doesn’t sound thin.
"Too polished" lol just LOL
Opera is meant to perform that way, in our perspective as a classical singer, we aim for the refinement of our craft. It's nice to geqr some pop singers can sing "der hölle rache" which is the correct title of the song and they popularized it by saying it is the "Queen of the night" which is the chracter in that opera. Pop singers can perform this song, but they cannot imitate the the true style and beauty of this kind music. And classical music is another genre that preserve many centuries from the great minds of that era.
Classical music is interesting as a museum.
@@yogajedi3337 depends on if you like museums or not, my dude.
@@yogajedi3337classical music is awesome.
Mozart intended to be this way - to sound PERFECT. He made his music to be perfect and expected no less from musicians, singers and performers. He was a perfectionist hence his music. Maybe learn more about Mozart. I'm sure Diana Damrau's performance is what Mozart would've wanted, perfect, flawless and polished just like his music.
This is Mozart. This is how he had intended the aria to sound and be. It's part of a story. She's a coloratura soprano. Perhaps the other person you've heard sing, sang it in a different key so that her vocal range could be more manageable for her. Diana Damrau is the epitome of this aria!
Finally you reacted to Diana Damrau! She's one of the best Opera singer!
lul stop saying crap, her modern technique is poor, listen to Edda Moser or Gruberova in this aria.
@@Alix777. this performance of Damrau smokes those of those you mentioned.
@@bq-9238 lol stop embarassing yourself
@@Alix777. stop embarrassing yourself too.
That’s why the opera is called, THE MAGIC FLUTE! Google prior to reacting so you know the story. It helps, especially when they’re singing in a foreign language, as most operas are. Cheers!
The song wasn't written with software in mind, it was composed by Mozart for a singer that he did not like, so he intentionally made it difficult in hoping that she wouldn't be able to rise to the challenge - except, she did.
Notwithstanding, it is one of the most challenging arias that a soprano can face because of how technical and demanding it is. Any soprano will have fear about hitting a high F just once during a live performance, let alone 4 times lol.
"[I]t was composed by Mozart for a singer that he did not like, so he intentionally made it difficult in hoping that she wouldn't be able to rise to the challenge... ."
DIANA DAMRAU: Hold my beer.
"Too polished" ...
We have all the bad things we deserve....
By the way, it's not too polished, playing with no apparent mistakes doesn't mean polished or perfect, there are nuances that makes the parts of the music different, interesting, powerful.
It's precisely pop music and recorded music in general, stiff, mechanic, redundant boring and weak, which is the opposite to this live performance. Comparing this majestic piece of music, which is constantly shape shifting over itself, changing the arrangement on a couple of themes, going towards a climax, being organic and alive... comparing this, I repeat, with some popular song, which doesn't change anything, it's always the same, perfected by electronic and computing methods is utter nonsense
It's so polished you quickly get bored.
he is not so far from the truth. today's opera singers are often too polished, far from the past's raw, edgy, real opera stars and their singings. but Damrau is great here. my fave is Edda Moser her voice is icy and metallic AF
Opera singing is the highest musical art, that is why Diana is on the top. But there are little human mistakes, you just have to adjust your ears :)
"Too polished"? This is perfection, period. Diana Damrau is to many folks, myself included, the best Queen ever.
You can't look at opera with the same eyes as, say, pop music. In this genre, what you call "robotic perfection" is something we seek, and anyone who has ever dared to pick up an opera music sheet strives to reach such level of polish, cleanliness, and yeah, perfection.
Now, for a (maybe!) different experience, can you give a shot to Dmitry Hvorostovsky performing the "Largo al factotum", please? It's a fun piece, and I'm sure you'll apreciate it :)
Opera has a dozen hits that goes around and around. The rest just is dead boring shouting and squeaking tiring your ears. So bad diction you can't understand the lyrics even when sung in native language, man, that's really bad. Btw. Nothing new of interest is produced.
@@yogajedi3337 Just out of curiosity, what’s your native language? Cause I can make out every word she sings no problem, and my German isn’t even good at all. As an Italian speaker, I can actually assure you she has excellent diction there as well, despite it being her fourth language. More in general, I very rarely find myself struggling to understand any singer in Italian repertoire, usually without even having to try, and it’s never happened to me with a native speaker. The little English opera I’ve seen is also perfectly intelligible to me. French, which I don’t speak as well, is more difficult when sung by foreigners, but not even remotely enough to make me not get the story if I don’t know it, and super easy to understand when sung by native speakers.
In terms of everything else, I guess it’s taste. Not sure of why you felt the need to watch a video related to opera and then comment so many times just to let everyone know you pretty much hate this whole genre, but you do you. I’d be curious to know how much opera you’ve actually bothered to listen to, though, before coming to these conclusions. Cause I never stop finding “new” interesting operas and revisiting known ones through different singers and productions.
@@EIizabethGrace You must be joking. Opera houses uses subtitles even in native language. It never struck you why they are doing that. The worst singers can be found in the genre, no doubt. The never ending whining and bleating on the opera stage repels an audience with intact hearing. By the way. The average audience at The met is +60 😂
@@yogajedi3337 I’m pretty sure a lot of it is to help non-native speakers who want to follow the opera in the original language, but aren’t quite comfortable enough to understand an old-timey, poetic, sung version of it. Anyway, I’m speaking for myself: save very rare exceptions, I have absolutely no problem understanding most singers word for word in Italian or English, even foreigners who are singing something I’ve never heard before. Same with native French speakers. My family also understands everything in Italian. It’s not like you mentioning subtitles changes that. I’m also not sure of why the age of the Met’s audience should matter. Not of where you got those statistics, tbh: I’m not American, but the last time I went to the opera there were dozens of people below 30 just in my area, and not because of some event.
As for the worst singers thing, I must assume you’re trolling. You may not appreciate opera, but to say they’re the worst singers is nonsensical: nearly everyone seems to agree that in terms of technique they’re the best. Have you ever tried listening to an opera singer singing something more in your genre, like a cover or something? Idk, you just sound like you’re trying your hardest to bash opera without having given it much thought at all.
@@EIizabethGrace Opera sopranos are infamous for their bad diction or you must be deaf. Even stars like Sutherland has horrible diction. Of course if you memorised the lyrics you are fooling yourself you are understanding.
In musicals they don't use subtitles in native language. But in Opera they do. In theatre understanding the lyrics is number one or it's a failure. The reason why its' so hard/impossible understand the lyrics is because opera singers use an unnatural awkward singing technique. You can't sing any contemporary music without sounding just super silly. Males sings so stiff like they got something stuck up in the rear. Sopranos squeaks so loud that you think it's your home alarm system siren which went off. Sopranos, with their never ending over the top vibrato, could work as a siren clearing riots from the streets. If you think the siren and pompous sound is the result of "good" singing technique you need a hearing aid.
Ohmy, where do i start with this mess of these eumm.. comments (and comparing Diana to..euhmm.. Jona)... ok let’s start with a thank you for reacting to an actual proper Opera (and one of the best ever written, and by one of the best music composer in history, Mozart)
BUT, whila Jona’s vocal was FANTASTIC (she is indeed coloratura soprano), her execution of this aria was mediocre, and her interpretation was honestly CRAP.
Queen of the night is written and intended to show a VENGEFUL RAGE of a queen whereby she places the knife into the hand of her daughter in order to kill her rival.
Go back and watch Jona’s performance again. Mozart is crying and howling in his grave.
Second of all, Diana’s too polished? I’d argue that, as far as interpretation goes, Sumi Jo’s version was the most polished i heard among all of coloratura soprano. Diana has that edge, She plays with a bit of frills here and there. But compared to Jona, i see what you mean, yes Diana is polished. BUT that’s what an opera singer singing an opera number SHOULD deliver (even tho the aria is performed without the whole opera. E.g Jona’s performance)
Jona’s voice was so unpolished, opera houses would kindly ask her to pack her bags and try auditioning again next year. I dont know what training Jona had.. but either she was not at her best to deliver an aria, or she just lacks a proper opera training.
Without further fuming more people, i just have to
Close with Jona’s voice is fantastic.. But no way at the same level of top professional coloratura soprano. That was indicative of her performance of Queen of The Night.
I agree with everything you just said. After hearing him say "too polished" I just stopped watching the video😂😂
Wow thank you, commented about this as well, she's the best for me with this performance. There's a clear difference between classical singing and pop singing. I salute jona for attempting this aria, being a pop singer, but it definitely can't be compared to a classical coloratura soprano who spent years and years of classical singing technique, not everybody can relate as you said, specially in this era, but I believe Jona can achieve that status if she really wants to course herself into this path, but she has to scrap all the years of pop singing technique she acquired, which I believe would be very hard at this point. Mariah Carey was classically trained by her mom who was a lyric soprano, then she opted to go pop, which explains her vocal superiority during her prime. ☝️✌🏻🤟🙏❤🇵🇭😍🥰😘🤩
True
A real coloratura soprano 😍
Yes a power of a Coloratura Soprano is just sooo amazing
My goodness.....my nose is bleeding. Hahaha
Agreed. But as a Mariah Carey fan: Mariah was never classically trained. Her own technique isn't that great: she's a bit of a chest-puller but that doesn't spoil the sound of her amazing voice. It damages it, though. Anyway: She got tips from her mother but her mother hardly ever sat Mariah down to practice. Mariah would sit around as her mother was practicing and started mimicking her mother. Her mom would then tell her how to better reach those notes. When Mariah started picking it up really easy and sometimes, correcting her mother: her mother told her : You think you are good singer but don't think you will ever be as good as me.
Mariah was never really into Opera but that whole story of her mother training her is not entirely true. Mariah and Patricia Carey have a complicated relationship. Pat was jealous of her own daughter. I read the biography so you'll forgive me for geeking out.😉
Diana Damrau won a award, because she was considered the best Queen of the bight of all the time.
And to me, she is the bes queen of all the time!
Like do you saied, yes she have a longest vocal range, when she was younger, she was a pure soprano coloratura, but now she is a soprano dramatic coloratura and lose some hig notes.
Maybe this guy hasn't been in the opera house too. He doesn't know what to expect from a pricey play and be performed perfectly with acting.
This is the best version I've ever heard!
Opera must be perfectly Polished. When one attends the Opera, it is not to see certain performers (although we have been delighted by world class performers from time to time).
You are not supposed to see her as a singer, you're not to see her at all.
You were supposed to see the Night Queen taking vengeance upon her daughter because of the traditional unacceptable true love.
When you go to the Opera, it is not to see the performers, it is to see the performance. It is to be immersed in another world and get caught up in the story.
tooo perfect? computer? this is live as far as I know. no computer in sight. Oh well, to each his own missery....
Trained opera singers are over processed to boredom.
Opera should be always polished no matter what because you cannot restart when you sing a wrong,lose or too much notes. When you sing too much,lose or wrong note when you're really performing in an opera house you'll receive a boo at the end because its a world class genre of music and its theatre, theatre should always be polished and no mistakes should happen.
The main problem is their singing style, in the long run, sound pompous and stiff. It's from a different era with other ideals. A modern audience can't relate to what they are trying to say with their music.
Imagine having a full orchestra to back you up every time you yell at your family!
For me she is the best for now singing this opera the magic flute.😊😊
No no no no. Opera is not about being relatable. Opera is created as a way to show how perfect the human voice is. How perfect God created the human voice. Opera singers work DECADES to be able to be polished like this. To be able to PROJECT like this. Idk if u noticed but there was not one microphone making her voice louder. The orchestra doesnt hold back either, yet she manages to be so clear, be so loud and yet so controlled. THAT is what Opera is all about. The perfection in the human voice. Everything has to be perfect. Thats what they work on like crazy.
greater middle eastern music, as well as opera, aren't like modern songs where its all about selling product, making a nice beat, and hyping the crowd. Rather, they're a demonstration of technical skill, showing off an art, and in many historical cases, about pushing the superiority of an idea, nation, religion etc.
Damrau's 2003 Queen of the Night is one of the best interpretations I've seen online.
Also, try to react to "Lucia Popp Der Holle Rache"
Not relatable because it's too perfect? The character is a vengeful and villainous queen who is threatening to disown her daughter if she doesn't kill a virtuous and charitable man whose only crime was inspiring the late king such that he made the man benefactor of his will. Like, the queen wants her daughter to _murder_ someone in cold blood because her husband left him all their money for being a nice guy. She's not _supposed_ to be relatable. She's not _supposed_ to feel human. She's supposed to be a wicked and psychotic _monster_ who's happy to exploit her children for her own gain. The disconnect you feel from that character is exactly how you're supposed to feel, which means Diana nailed the performance in every way you can conceive of it. She is Sauron with boobs. The audience is not supposed to relate to Sauron with boobs, and the way you do that is by making the performance (and the piece itself) inhuman, which is exactly what Diana Damrau is.
If opera singer learnt how to sing with better diction so they are understandable you don't need to read a book for explanation.
I liked your reaction so much! And the story during this Aria is that the Queen of the Night is telling her daughter she must kill a man named Sarastro, otherwise she would repudiate her as her daughter.
As for what you said about Damrau being "too perfect" for your liking, Operas are known for giving more structured and almost-too-vocally-perfect performances because as people who study and perform merely classical music for years, they always try to give the most accurate rendition of the original music as possible, which is not the same as a classical crossover performer who (regardless of if they study for years or not), they decide to give different colors and sounds to a classical piece (which is not bad either).
Diana Damrau is a German Dramatic Coloratura Soprano, and I would love to see you reacting to her performance of "Glitter and Be Gay" from "Candide".
Julie Ureña I couldn’t agree more. That’s why I don’t want to compare Jona’s and Diana Damrau’s. Both are beautiful. Diana’s performance, however, is as close to divinity as it can be-a celebration of what humans can possibly achieve. Perfect performances remind us of human feat. Imperfect ones remind us that we remain beautiful as humans and our value is never diminished despite our flaws. I think this is what makes art powerful. It can project the extreme ends of human nature.
@@jetholpaanod423 Indeed, that's why it's important to appreciate art in many different ways and forms. I love Damrau, she's a beast! 😂 But I really love other artists who play and give different interpretations of any piece, because the beauty comes in the variety too. If everyone could do the same thing the same way, oh how boring it would be!
Diana is not a Dramatic Coloratura, just a full lyric soprano with high extended notes
@@la.luminosa Well done. This seems to be the Operatic equivalent of "suchandsuch band's not metal". I wonder if Opera fans find it as annoying.
@@la.luminosa No. She is a dramatic coloratura soprano, a lyric soprano would be bright or light sounding and Damrau doesn't fall on that category. An example of lyric sopranos are: Ariana Grande and Morissette Amon. Damrau's voice is very power full, rich, and it falls on the category of being a dramatic coloratura sopranos.
Oh yes Coloratura Soprano.. DIANA DAMRAU... She is one formidable Queen. What I like about Damrau performing this from others who have done the role, is that Damrau can ACT the role with INTENSITY as she sings the aria, without breaking flow. One cannot watch and listen without being captivated.
The Magic Flute by Mozart. It's not too polish, Diana is the Standard to follow for every single person who wants to perform this part. The Orchestra is directed by Sir Collins Davis before he died. Actually the whole staff was amazing, the 3 girls, thi kids, papagueno, Sarastros, etc. Amazing.
This is perfection at its best.
There is no such thing as perfection. Those who look for perfection in music always fails.
Most people would assume the extremely high notes are the hardest part of this aria, but honestly…..while they are difficult, the REALLY brutal part is at 4:50
Those runs, done so softly and seamlessly flowing each note together is INSANELY hard. The breath control and precise vowel control needed are ridiculous.
The BEST Der Holle Rache before and until TODAY. Nobody can and will match Damrau's performance.
OMG!!!! I've watched this like more than 100x already but I want to watch it again with your reaction this time! Never expected that you would see this :O *gasp
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She is my favorite opera singer!
Her name is Diana Damrau...She's phenomenal. But I guess Mozart was a sadist too. Did he intend to tear the diaphragms of the women who attempted to sing this? Brutal!
Damrau is a one trick pony. Do you buy her albums.
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I really love Diana Damrau so much.
Opera fanatic here. Can I ask for one thing ?
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Listen to Edda Moser, the best Queen of the Night ever, fierce, powerful, you will see what "intense" means. This is an aria di furore, this isn't supposed to sound pretty. Damrau can sing, but she's a little nightingale here...
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After watching this, I realized thag Jona really did a great job performing Queen of the Night.
It is Magic Flute.
Queen of the Night is another aria.
@@thecarlitz3920 Queen of the Night is from the Magic Flute Opera.
@@aristotleliwag9830 That is the title of the opera stage performance. The song title is what I am telling about.
@@thecarlitz3920 the song she is singing is queen who f rhe bight form the opera rhe magic flute.
Magic Flute or Die Zauberflöte is the Opera title.
Queen of the Night or Königin der Nacht is the character
Der Hölle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen or just Der Hölle Rache is the title of the aria
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Operatic singers needs to be Polished as possible so that when they perform, their performance will be perfect and spotless, why? Because the slightest mistake can ruin the whole act, that's why she's so careful with her performance...
5:40 forget T-posing, the night queen's out here Y-posing on 'em!
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You should hear Cristina Deutkom’s rendition. She is by far the most powerful coloratura soprano there ever was. Her voice shakes the floor it’s so out of this world
A real magic flute
Does he listen to opera or theatre?
what you're saying makes no sense. but i guess that's what we get for asking an amateur to react to opera.
His reaction is intuitive. How can you relate to opera.
@@yogajedi3337 How can you relate to opera?
Have you ever heard of a story? Have you heard
of the emotion called *anger?* Well this piece
portrays that emotion, so you can relate to it.
I bet you cant relate to your songs about getting
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@@JackBHolt How can you relate when it's impossible understand the lyrics. Give it a thought.
@@yogajedi3337 How can you not understand vocal tones? How can you not differentiate screaming angrily from screaming happily? Give it a thought.
Just because something is in another language doesn't mean you cannot enjoy it, or relate to it.
@@JackBHolt Opera essentially is about theatre and telling a story. The story is everything. But if the theatre needs subtitles because of sever diction problems even when sung in native language something gone completely wrong. For a healthy ear listening to shouting and squeaking singers with over the top excessive vibrato is so tiring you want to leave after just 5-10 minutes. Opera has their hits, the same ones that goes over and over again. That's all there is to it. This reactor is very honest in his reaction.
She is BEST at that aria
Hearing the QUEEN OF THE NIGHT for the first time but telling people what an opera performance should sound like. Strange.
Queen of the night is the character lol. The song is called the magic flute. :) When it says 'mozart; the magic flute - queen of the night aria', what that means is that it is an aria (a solo performance) by the queen of the night (character) performing the magic flute (title of song), composed by mozart.
@@jamescopeland8050 Don't worry, I got that, Mr Copeland. The "song" you're referring to is an opera. The aria of the Queen of the Night is but one aria within that three-hour work. There are no songs within an opera but arias. A song would be Die Forelle by Schubert or Der Erlkönig. While these would be referred to as Lieder, the German term. Neither is it a cycle of songs like Die Winterreise (Schubert) or Carmina Burana (Orff). Die Zauberflöte (original German title of The Magic Flute) is very familiar to me, as is the libretto by Schikaneder, its history and its references, having studied in great detail the scenery by Schinkel for this last opera (1791) of Mozart. I merely said previously that he was listening to the Queen of the Night for the first time, actually meaning the Character which he did not know before, neither did he know how it sould be sung or sound. ... Well .. lol to you too, Mr Copeland. Hope I could be of help to you.
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The classical music station says, THAT is what an angry soprano sounds like!
If you want to hear the definitive Queen of the Night, listen to Edda Moser. Her voice is massive and those fabled F6s are on point.
Moser = multi talented with diverse vocal ability. Thanks for mentioning someone who was born more than 5 days ago!!!!
In opera there is no such thing as too polished. Opera is all about perfection of the art. The way Ms. Damrau sings the aria is exactly how Mozart intended it. Full stop.
OMG!!! I still can't believe you just reacted to Diana Damrau!!! Also I clicked so fast and went directly to comment while starting to watch the video 😂 notification squad what is UP!
Yes! I prefer a music or performance that touches my heart and soul.
Imagine her being your mom: GO TO YOUR ROO-OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH-AAHM"
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ingeborg hallstein does my favorite rendition of this piece!
Nathan Dixon she does a good version of the first Queen of the Night aria. However on the second one, her voice is just too pretty.
It's been awhile since you have reacted to Morissette so I would like to recommend her new performance on the wish bus together with St. Wolf. I'd bet you'll love that. Thank you
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While I appreciate your opinion, I question your conclusion that this performance of Diana Damrau is "stagey" simply because it is too perfect. I agree with those who decided that only this performance represented the best aria of humanity in the music portion of the golden disk recording carried into outer space by Voyager in 1977.
There is no polishing of her performance. In the future do some background checks on the operas and the Aria. The notes are written to convey the power of the queen. The cast is expected to sing the original notes and those are not notes you sing just by having voice training. Also, view other classical sopranos who play this role. Most stand and sing to get the notes, while Diana as a German singing in German brings the character of Queen of the Night alive with acting and singing which is rare in the classical arena.
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Humans have always tried to reach perfection. Computers can do just that if there are no flaws in the code. Would you rather go and see the same performance in a different country where everything is exactly the same or see the whole thing in a different way?
Try watching Gerphil Flores version of Magic Flute please
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Edda Moser is the best queen of the night for me.
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How dare you compare this artwork to the intent of that girl Jona? That is, this piece is from the great work "The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and this is the correct technique to interpret it, with perfect notes and staging. But course, if you don't have that culture, you'll settle for a failed attempt like Jona's. Lol 🤣
Awww. A click and stop reactor. You don't DO that during classical music! There is no copyright strikes for 'dead' music! 😂😂😂 and another thing:" TOO POLISHED?!!" I am far from an expert on opera but this is the Royal Opera house! It has to be PERFECT!
Friend, As far as know The Mozy made this piece so, that anyone else can his, own girlfriend,
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" flute and her voice hitting the same note" .. I just cant ,,, bye
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no microphone and the people on the far top tiers seat can hear every whispers every nuance
sorry I have a question!where's the her? the beautiful black woman.
and that is without microphone!
How did they record this? With a a banana?
@@yogajedi3337 Yes, lol, recorded performances definitely involve microphones. Often enough they’re just on the edge of the stage and in the theater, though, so that what’s recorded is more or less what the people in the theater actually heard. Some have (at time even quite visibly) miked singers, too. Can’t see any mics here, and it’s a fairly old production, so it could be either.
@@EIizabethGrace Recordings from for example The Met and most other opera houses uses microphones in the costumes and placed hidden around the stage. Who are you trying to fool.
@@yogajedi3337 That’s literally what I said? The only think I’ve never heard about is the “around the stage” part. As far as I know, non-body mics are located only downstage and in the house. Not sure if the Met, having a huge stage, spreads them throughout it as well?
In terms of body mics, I’m pretty sure they’re the norm now for recordings, and you can often see them as well (the production of Semiramide in Pesaro in 2019 comes to mind as one with obviously miked singers). No one is trying to hide them for anything other than aesthetics: they’re good for sound in the context of a recording. As far as I know, they were less widely used in the early 2000s, though, so that’s why I mentioned this may still have been recorded with just non-body mics. Pretty sure there were used, though. Again, not sure of why that would matter.
@@EIizabethGrace Perhaps opera singers should sing in smaller spaces so they will sound better instead of their constant shouting. This is how a typical opera monster cow singer sound from the audience. I'll tell you. Only an opera fetishist will stand that bleating for more than a few minutes. Search for "Angela Meade - Ebben! Ne andrò lontana".
Funny thing is, this isn’t even the most difficult piece she sings in that opera.
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you see "being too polished" is a bit of bs, think of it, its an opera house not a local performance at a bar or mall. professionals are expected to perform very highly since people buy to see perfection thats the different between this and the other one, really comparing this piece to the other one is unfair, a professional soprano opera singer to just a singer has difference. so dont take my point differently its just a no saying shes too perfect like robotic style, no shes practicing her life to be an opera singer
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I think it's not flute. It's the violins and cielos of the orchestra.
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LOL too polished? this song was intended to be sang this way by Mozart. It's is SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY. Are you a vocal coach, sir? I suggest, going back to a music school.
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