A Rainha Damrau

Previsivelmente, Diana Damrau foi inexcedível como Rainha da Noite. Damrau é o soprano coloratura do momento.

«The Queen of the Night in Mozart’s “Zauberflöte” is a fiendishly difficult and dramatically exasperating role. It’s a crucial but short part.»

De acordo! Mas… a que se refere o jornalista, ao apelidar o papel em questão de “dramatically exasperating”??? Tanto quanto sei, a Rainha sempre fez parte do repertório ligeiro, pela agilidade que demanda!

Bom, seja como for, Damrau brilho e arrebatou, como atesta a mesma notícia:

«As required, the German soprano Diana Damrau stopped the show twice on Tuesday night in the Metropolitan Opera’s production by Julie Taymor, with Kirill Petrenko conducting. Just three nights earlier she had sung the last of several performances as Pamina in the Met’s “Zauberflöte” run. Pamina is a very different vocal assignment, requiring lighter and more poignantly lyrical singing.

In her Act I recitative and aria the Queen of the Night persuades earnest Prince Tamino to rescue Pamina, her daughter, who is being held by the pontificating, all-powerful Sarastro, Priest of the Sun. Ms. Damrau had everything, including a penetrating sound — bright but never hard-edged — and ample coloratura technique to execute the virtuosic passagework.»