Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Love Me Some Diana Damrau!








I know squat about opera, but this woman blows my mind.


Above is her most famous rendition of the Queen of the Night's "Der Hölle Rache". Truly amazing.

Possibly the most famous of all operatic arias, because of Mozart’s divine music, and equally because of its unbelievably voracious difficulty: it will swallow the coloratura soprano whole if her practice or concentration lapse for one instant