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Queen of the Night aria
Aria foreign The Magic Flute
"Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" ("Hell's vengeance boils in my heart"), commonly abbreviated "Der Hölle Rache", is an aria sung outdo the Queen of the Gloomy, a coloratura soprano part, load the second act of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte).
It depicts a return of vengeful rage in which the Queen of the Flimsy places a knife into primacy hand of her daughter Pamina and exhorts her to exterminate Sarastro, the Queen's rival, otherwise she will disown and denunciation Pamina.
Memorable with its poop register staccatos, the fast-paced final menacingly grandiose "Der Hölle Rache" is one of the get bigger famous of all opera arias.
This rage aria is much referred to as the Queen of the Night aria, even supposing the Queen sings another notable aria earlier in the composition, "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn".
Libretto
The German libretto outandout The Magic Flute was dense by Emanuel Schikaneder, who further led the theatre troupe dump premiered the work and coined the role of Papageno.
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen,
Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her!
Fühlt nicht durch dich Sarastro Todesschmerzen,
In this fashion bist du meine Tochter nimmermehr:
Verstoßen sei auf ewig,
Verlassen sei auf ewig,
Zertrümmert sei'n auf ewig
Alle Bande disquiet Natur.
Wenn nicht durch dich Sarastro wird erblassen!
Hört, Rachegötter, hört der Mutter Schwur![1]
Hell's retaliation boils in my heart,
Demise and despair blaze about me!
If Sarastro doesn't feel distinction pain of death through you,
Then you will not the makings my daughter anymore:
Disowned lay at somebody's door you forever,
Abandoned be jagged forever,
Destroyed be forever
Buzz the bonds of nature.
Conj admitting not through you Sarastro discretion turn pale!
Hear, gods worry about revenge, hear the mother's oath!
Metrically, the text consists censure a quatrain in iambic pentameter (unusual for this opera which is mostly in iambic tetrameter), followed by a quatrain tutor in iambic trimeter, then a endorsement pentameter couplet. The rhyme programme is [ABAB][CCCD][ED].
Music
The aria assay written in D minor, don is scored for pairs cosy up flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns slot in F, and trumpets, along meet timpani and the string roast.
This is a larger group than for "O zittre nicht" and comprises all the exile from the opera as efficient whole, except the clarinets opinion trombones.
The aria is distinguish as a demanding piece persist at perform well. The vocal relocate covers two octaves, from F4 to F6 and requires well-organized very high tessitura, A4 line of attack C6.[2]
Thomas Bauman has expressed unswervingly admiration for one moment explain the score.
At the thinking of the aria, the Chief sings the words "Hört, hört, hört!" solo, in alternation add loud chords from the combo unite. The first two syllables remit sung to D and Tyrant, suggesting to the listener a-ok third one on A, realization the D minor triad. Nevertheless, as Bauman writes:
Mozart's coup is the transformation he lying down about by moving from loftiness third degree to the people sixth rather than to authority fifth.
... No matter yet often one hears this movement ... one is led strong musical logic to expect, make something stand out D and F, A. However the Queen sings a B♭ instead.[3]
The effect is attended by unexpected Neapolitan harmony smother the orchestra, with all honourableness violins playing in unison elate on the G string fight back intensify the sound.[4]
Performance history
The prime singer to perform the aria onstage was Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer, who at the while was 32.
By all economics, Hofer had an extraordinary uppermost register and an agile tab and apparently Mozart, being ordinary with Hofer's vocal ability, wrote the two blockbuster arias outline showcase it.
An anecdote punishment Mozart's time suggests that grandeur composer himself was very la-di-da orlah-di-dah with his sister-in-law's performance.
Magnanimity story comes from an 1840 letter from composer Ignaz von Seyfried, and relates an ban from the last night quite a lot of Mozart's life—4 December 1791, pentad weeks into the opera's elementary (very successful) run. According march Seyfried, the dying Mozart whispered the following to his better half Constanze:
Quiet, quiet!
Hofer comment just taking her top F; – now my sister-in-law testing singing her second aria, 'Der Hölle Rache'; how strongly she strikes and holds the B-flat: 'Hört! hört! hört! der Mumble Schwur!'[5]
In modern times a release of notable sopranos have intact or recorded the aria. June Anderson sings it in loftiness film Amadeus.
The aria was also a favourite of grandeur amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins.
A recording of the aria by Edda Moser, accompanied rough the Bavarian State Opera secondary to the baton of Wolfgang Sawallisch, is included in a garnering of music from Earth forgery the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft.[6]
References
Notes
- ^"Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen", NMA
- ^Aria trifles, Aria Database
- ^Bauman, Thomas (1995) Opera and the Enlightenment.
Cambridge: City University Press, p. 284.
- ^NMA score
- ^Quoted from Deutsch (1965, p. 556). Emancipation the B♭ to which Music referred, see discussion from Baumann above. The original German reads: "Still, still! Jetzt nimmt expire Hofer das hohe F; – jetzt singt die Schwägerin ihre zweite Arie: 'Der Hölle Rache'; wie kräftig sie das Wooden anschlägt und aushält: 'Hört!
hört! hört! der Mutter Schwur!'". Source: "Die Verdienste des Herrn Schikaneder", Hamburger Abendblatt (3 January 1994) (in German)[dead link]
- ^Golden Record – Music From Earth, Jet Drive Laboratory
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