Monday, January 16, 2012

The Queen of the Night's Aria Ruined for Your Pleasure.

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I'm packing for a trip to Amherst.  So today's blog will be brief.  Here it is:

Rainer Hersch spoils Mozart for you!  Enjoy.


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2 comments:

HANNAH'S DAD said...

Thank you for that. We have this particular production on DVD, and I've often enjoyed Dianna Damrau's excellent Queen of the Night.

This excellent translation does a great deal to clarify some of the subtleties that I, as an English speaker hadn't caught before.

Both this and Rameau's _Zoroaste_ seem to be bizarre Masonic infommercials. Perhaps they were the _Battlefield Earth_ of their day?

hakkensack said...

Can't get it because of copyright restriction in Germany. But I will find it in the web! Thanx for the hint.