The Young Queen

A friend sent a link to a video of a performance by a young teenage boy of Mozart's notorious "Queen of the Night" aria. It's amazing, but not only from the dancing-bear angle. His voice is a bit young sounding compared to the expected mature-soprano voice, but his pitch is impeccable — not an easy task with an aria alleged to have been written by Mozart to torment a soprano he hated. Also impeccable is his German, but that's less of a surprise given the lederhosen that he's wearing.

Posted on February 27, 2006 at 17.26 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Music & Art, Raised Eyebrows Dept.

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