I love the effect of the blue fabric of her dress blowing away at the end, showing that she is the "night".

Best entrance I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dessay is a true virtuoso. Love everything about her

I saw this performance in Paris and the costumes were signed by Kenzo. She was absolutely perfect and it was her last performance as the Queen of the Night !

i love dessay and her queen of the night... viva la dessay!!!

perfect coloratura, stunning performance, drop any criticism: she's simply brilliant.

Dessey is just a luminous singer. What a privilege to hear her sing and perform.

I love the effect of the Queen of the night being bigger than everything else. It fits the original intent of the play.

Dessey is just a luminous singer. What a privilege to hear her sing and perform. I too loved her entrance and exit. It was pure magic and yet so simple to do.

I never knew ocean waves sounded so beautiful!

The best production I've ever seen. The stage is amazing and the cast is perfect.

wow...she sings very clear.i can understand every single word she sings...

i saw this at l'opéra de garnier....it was amazing

I love her! She does this beautifully. Dessay IS coloratura :)

Absolutely marvelous!!! Shes breathtaking!

I have had the good fortune to see many productions of Flute and to have been in four of them. This is absolutely the best entrance of any Queen. It is just breathtaking. And I am impressed by how much emotion and acting Dessay was able to put in this just standing and delivering (and undoubtedly holding on to whatever she was holding onto for dear life.) Good job by the director.

the dress is cool!

this video teached me how to sing .. i watched it while practicing maybe 200 times

Beautifull Natalie Dessay Mozart 4Ever💕💕💕💕✅👍

Amazing! Wonderful!!!

One of the most puzzling works of art ever. Wonderful and infinitely beautiful.

She acts so well only with her facial expressions....

Wow! really impressive, I wish I could watch it in direct....

Vraiment très impressionnant, de son entrée à sa sortie, vraiment très bien orchestrées, et sa magnifique voix, elle joue ce rôle à la perfection

The producer was like that's the best way to tie her down because she jitters and moves quite erratically specially during her Queen of the night aria performance =)

Lovin' this performance!

Gotta love the exit 💙

Really cool staging. And, of course, Dessay is magnificent as always.

I got this one in DVD for $14.90 in ebay..I have been looking for a zauberflute with awesome artists and amazing visual efects I love what they did with every scene.!!!!!!!!!!!...happy that I got this one :))

@OccyDaBoss

4 жыл бұрын

with dessay? if so can we trade mp4?

Dessay's performance of Olympia a the Met brought the house down. It was an unforgattable experience. The Queen of the Night was composed for a truly rare voice such as a dramatic coloratura.

i think she sounds phenomenal

i saw her sing manon at the chicago lyric this fall. she was flawless. simply amazing.

Damn, this blue volcano can sing.... Who knew that there were blue volcanoes? Also, that they were virtuosic soprano coloraturas...

Amazing the way she appeared!!

What singing! Everyone pales in her light. She is such a complete musician and actress. Just with her facial expressions and sublime phrasing and coloring of her voice, the whole personality of the queen comes through. Brava.

Mise en scène Benno Besson Décors et costumes, Jean-Marc Stehlé Lumières, André Diot

One could say that she's larger than life here.

wow! I loved the set!

I love Natalie, I get a bit annoyed at the people who think she is a fading soprano. It is my understanding that her vocal cord operation changed her voice, but did not damage it. I heard her at the Met in Guilio Caesare and I adored her aria.

If my memory does not fail me, Mozart wrote it for his sister in law, who also sang the role of Constanza. If you want to hear a true and rare voice such as a dramatic coloratura, look for Edda Moser's Queen of the Night. In 1973 she alternated with Lucia Popp at the Met in Marc Chagall's produdtion of the Magic Flute. Moser's Queen is pissed and in rage, she means business, is truly amazing parformance.

@davidgjeffroy7239

5 жыл бұрын

Èternal Genius like the Sun.

@davidgjeffroy7239

5 жыл бұрын

Hot days: cool night's.

What a spectacular entrance! Perks you up immediately after all that lengthy sleepy dialogue with the 3 ladies. lol

amazing production

Fantastic! Going to see her at the Barbican in April in a concert of Pellisande&Melisanda, just can't wait. Thanks for the postings.

the costume tho kinda hilarious

Wow! She appears like Mt. Fuji this way.

There has also been wonderful set and costume designer! This is huge!!!!!!!

very nice production indeed! the entrance is fantastic!

WOW! What an entrance!

This is the most visually stunning 'Die Zauberflote', I've ever seen. Although I tend to agree, with all due respect and admiration to Natalie Dessay (who is a fantastic singer), that she is not her best here. It could perhaps be an off-night or around the time before or after her throat surgery - so her voice was not up to its usual standard. But either way, her voice is not totally unpleasant and her voice actually does fairly well as the despondent but wrathful Queen of the Night.

Maravilloso, no me canso de verlo :-)

I bet she has never stood so still singing an aria in her life, and how she rises out of the floor... how fierce is that?!

@droegel82 She was my first Queen of the Night I heard in its entierty. She sounds so much like an instrument!

i'm not sure if she's the best actual singer for it, but she is definitely the most beautiful queen.

Fantastic!Not lunatic. Beatiful! wonderful!every thing.

Una voz potente.Diria que lirica.Y a su vez dulce en su grandeza...

Die Zauberflote is one of the most performed operas in the entire repertory. This role is written for a dramatic coloratura, but those singers are so rare. Hence you see a lot of lyric coloraturas, like Natalie, sing this role. It's the same with Violetta in La Traviata.

@artdanks

5 жыл бұрын

Jose Hill. I agree completely! We need to start hearing Dramatic Coloraturas in this role again! Haven't really heard many since Edda Moser. Although, recently I Hungary, there is one who is quite good. Klara Kolonits.

BRAVA. Her voice has developed a lot. [Comprare to 1994]...

She's a MOUNTAIN!! :O With a high F!

Wow dude, thanks - didn't even know footage existed. I must say, her singing in the 1994 recordings are much better; however, her acting compared to the 2001 recordings is lacking. Phenomenal either way though. Great post.

BEAUTIFUL

probably the best looking, thrilling entrance and exit of the queen of the night i have seen so far.

3:53 "So sexy daaah!"

Exceptionnelle Natalie !

Yep, this is awesome.

que genial el vestuario el canto todoooooo eshermosoo

la mejor puesta en escena que he visto en todo este tiempo cuando se eleva desde el suelo, bestial

I also saw her as Zerbinetta at the MET . In this demanding role she was able to show even more her spectacular skills !

beautiful ^____^

Natalie will ONLY play this role if she does not come across as really evil. She says that she will not play a "bad" person- you have to admire her for her standards, and she surely has had some wonderful productions mounted for her. Love this entrance!

Great production, perhaps one of the best! Thanks for posting this one! I like her German diction so much better than her English.

"Ujra és újra meghallgatni" volt a belső parancsom....BRAVISSIMÓ!

J' y étais !! Immense !!!!

Realmente assim é que é uma entrada de uma Rainha

If you are interested, I have posted the same 2 arias but recorded in 1994... Interesting to compare... She is one of the very very very few coloratura singers / high notes singers that wish to go further than simple sparkling technique, and succeed in it. What I prefer in her singing is how she uses coloraturas to express feelings. And it is quite rare to feel that the Queen of the Night dies have feeling (except a rude anger...)

perfectly executed!

por favor la misma obra completa con natalie dessay y subtitulos en español para descargarla en youtube

Justamente estoy trabajando el concepto de vestuario escenográfico para trabajar en un proyecto de puesta en escena de ópera. ver y escuchar esto es profundamente inspirador! gracias!

"SO IF YOU CARE TO FIND ME..." lol

thanks

@FoxyGrandpa I think she sang it perfectly. I haven't heard any singer after Karin Ott hitting the notes so brilliantly. Yes. Almost like an instrument.

Brava.

What a divaaaaaaaaaaaa =O

Actually, that workshop master class is at Juliard and Ms. Callas only sings along with the student during a short period of this aria. It is the student that finishes the coloratura line in O Zittre Nicht. Callas, I don't believe, ever publicly recorded herself hitting any notes above High E. But then again, possibly someone has a lost recording not yet bestowed on the public.

@MrHbc3 Agreed on the costumes, for sure. When I used the word "standards", I was actually quoting an interview that Ms. Dessay herself had given, so it was her word. It's also why, she said, that she would not perform "Lulu", despite having been contracted for the role very, very early in her career.

bravissima!!!!

wow!!!!!!!

Brilliant staging

si!

@SsteinwayS yeah pretty much.

Kelvinmusic, I see that we have the same favorite. Forever Lucia Popp with Klemperer ! But I do appreciate Dessay's though

Bonjour Amis de la musique et de la spiritualité, Est ce que quelqu'un pourrait me dire où trouver le DVD de la version 2007 ? Merci, Sylvain

@MrHbc3 Agreed about the costumes! Why do directors feel that the Queen of the Night needs to look ridiculous?! My choice of the word "standards" was taken directly from an interview Ms.Dessay herself had given in a French publication, so it wasn't arbitrary. She also cited it as the reason why she would not perform the role of "Lulu" despite being contracted for it early on in her career.

wow, what an interesting dress!

@sylvainbonify Il y a une version de 2007?Avec quelle chanteuse?

@tris648 It was the same production but for thr role of the queen of the night there was 2 singers...Rancatore and Dessay that's it :-)

Certifié intergalactique !🌹

@wickedistheshiz wish i could make entances like that!!!!

@WickedProductions100 Yep...right here.

amazing! was it opera garnier or opera bastille?

I disagree, especially if you check her 1994 performance of this aria (also on KZread.) She's a great actress-- the director and designer had a different concept here, and I don't really 'like' it either, but the singing is awesome. I did love the very end where Miss Dessay sinks back into the floor... I was waiting to hear her shrieking, "I'm MELTING! MELTHING!"

I totally support your comment!