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  • This clip is what got me into opera in the first place :)

  • oh come on now...this video should start a few seconds earlier in the movie..the way the movie presents that Mozart got the inspiration for this, when his mother-in-law (i think) was shouting at him...that was epic.

  • Why is it always an ugly woman singing this..

  • @R1colientje, look at the video "Diana Damrau as Queen of the Night II" She looks HELLISH but if you get past the evil appearance, you can see how beautiful she is. Just google image "Diana Damrau." June Anderson is beautiful, too! This is not her in this movie. She just provided the voice. That is an actress lip-synching in the Queen's costume.

  • @Fancyfrost It's in English. All songs but the ones from Marriage of Figaro and the Requiem are in English in this movie, I believe. June Anderson's diction isn't very clear in this song and it's hard to understand the words

  • in realtà mozart stava discretamente bene quando ha diretto la prima del flauto magico... ha cominciato a stare malissimo con la rappresentazione della clemenza.

  • Could someone please tell me what language this is sung in?

  • Perché sorride?? Astrofiammante è furiosa quando la canta!

  • To the 37 dislikes, (Satan and his Legion) return from whence you came!

  • I liked the way he conducted this scene.

  • I nearly cried when watching that part in the movie. It's so sad how much he works so hard and create such beautiful music that he ended up becoming sick.

  • He couldn't conduct in the beginning of movie, either. He was just flapping his arms around during Seraglio.

  • @whatevr192 The producers wish to apologize most sincerely. Attempts at witchcraft to reanimate the late Herr Mozart proved fruitless. Instead of hiring a conductor to play Mozart they decided to go cheap and hire an actor.

  • la regina della notte è una delle arie piu' belle che abbia mai sentito

  • I like the slightly slower tempo in this version

  • movies are such a bunch of fluff

  • It is better in German, but I understand why they chose to do it in English

  • What I'm think she's saying: Be my daughter nevermore Abandoned be forever Disowned be forever Destroyed be forever All bonds of kin and blood Um...something All bonds of kin and blood If not Through thee Sarastro's life be taken Hear Hear Hear God's of vengeance A mother's oath
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  • @sweeneysebbyalucard

    I think she's saying:

    And then you'll be my daughter nevermore. Disowned you'll be forever. Abandoned you'll be forever. Destroyed will be forever all the bonds of kin and blood....something...something­...Hark! Hark! Haaaaaaark! Gods of vengeance, hear a mother's curse.

  • why in english??? why??? is more more more more better in german!

  • @vyturunen91 It was done in English because the director was trying to illustrate that Mozart had written the opera in the language of the common people, not in Italian. Since the dialogue of the film is in English, the clips from The Magic Flute as well as The Abduction from the Seraglio were sung in English translation. Yes, they would have been better (and more accurate) in German, but to an English-speaking audience that point would have been lost.

  • (the actress is Christine Ebersole)

  • Mozart was not sick or dying in the last week of Sept 1791, when this opera premiered. He was sick and dying from Nov 18, 1791 - 2 months later. You might want to read my book, Echoes of a Distant Crime, to read what really happened. Still, this is a great aria.

  • @thais1954 The book just shows a theory. We don't know if the book is true. Most experts today believe that Mozart likely had complications from the strep throat. So on the one hand you have an unknown author who publishes a book (did she made conclusions from a painting???), on another - several researchers from the University of Amsterdam that analyzed data from Vienna's death registry and found more than 500 people had similar symptoms.

  • If you think this is good, search for Erika Koth singing the same aria. None better!

  • Amazing !

  • No, "catholic" with a small "c" - meaning "universal." I like all kinds of music. I grew up listening to rock and I still listen to it, although much of the time it's classics, especially baroque. I admit that I don't appreciate jazz as much as I ought to. (Be patient with me, Sachmo!) You Raise Me Up by Celtic Woman - corny but I like it anyway. My one request is, listen to Purcell's 'O fair Cedaria' on You Tube.

  • People have questioned the existence of God, no one of Amadeus.

  • At 1:45 it sounds like she's saying "lots of bitches" haha

  • @gnarleydud3 Fantastic remark!

  • Right,so I'm entitled to say something:It is awfully obvious that the actress doesn't sing it -they could have at least taught her how to look like you're singing.I can't imagine how could anyone sing even an octave lower and look like this and move with your neck like this and open your mouth like this. Anyway,June Anderson sings this pretty good but I like Gruberova's Queen of the Night better.She sings it lighter clearer.There were moments when anderson was a tiny little off (don't kill me:)

  • She's supposed to be in her daughter's bedroom.

  • @ZenPapageno

    Yes, she is. But for the purpose of a movie this scene is much more spectacular, don´t you think? This movie is not a document but piece of art, my dear ..

    And this is also an answer to 905118´s comment .. ;)

  • @nevimzevim It would have been historically accurate with that scenery if she had sung the Queen's first aria.

  • @ZenPapageno

    Oh hahaha, how you would treat the role of Saglieri then to be "historically accurate" ..... ? :D

    Anyway, it is not a question to be answered. I can just repeat the same ... this movie is NOT historical document. Cheers.

  • @ZenPapageno You're right, but this wasn't a full performance. This was just a one-off performance for the masses. Mozart's greatest hits if you like.

  • @TheFestivelights Oh, all right. 

  • @ZenPapageno Sorry. Great aria though. Have you seen the 'Parrot singing opera' on You tube. He actually sings this Mozart classic perfectly.

  • @TheFestivelights I know everybody feels that way, but I like the first aria better. I like the change in moods when the Queen goes from grief to telling the prince that he can rescue her daughter. I wonder if just maybe it's the difficulty of singing the second aria that always gets it the raves. I dunno.

  • @ZenPapageno Yes, there's some truth in that.The one Mozart piece that really leaves me speechless, The Jupiter Symphony, 2nd movement. Stunning. I remember when I was doing a bit of traveling and I gave my Walkman to a very beautiful Swiss lady that I'm met. We were sitting watching the sunset at the highest point on the Island of Koh Pee Pee in Thailand.I played this for her and she was blown away. Said it went perfectly with the sunset. Special moments. Have you seen BBC's Mozart documentary?

  • @TheFestivelights I'll see it if I can. My tastes are somewhat catholic. It wasn't till recently that I discovered Purcell. I now regard him as one of the truly great composers. I'm amazed that he's not better known, but then I live in the US, not the UK, where he might be more popular. Fairy Queen! Oh fair Cedaria!

  • @ZenPapageno Well I'm not Catholic, although I do work in a Catholic school so I get to hear Catholic music from time to time and they have wrote some beauties over the years. I'd be interested to hear what you think about a few gems I've discovered on you Tube recently. Search for 1) Celtic Woman Ave Maria(Just stunning and in my mind the best version of this classic) 2) Mozart Ave Verum Corpus por Leonard Bernstein(I read that it's the greatest choral work ever written). Cheers.

  • Golliwogg APPROVES of this June Anderson rendition.

  • they should have gotten Diana Damrau and omg would have rock this part

  • @BlueMoonLightDreams

    No. Natalie Dessay would suit much better to this movie as it is very emotional. Damrau is like a piece of ice ..

  • @nevimzevim she is good but...not really man, have to disagree and not because i want to be right, just listen to them both and u will see why, another one who could have rocked this part is even Edita Gruberova, listen to the same piece by the tree of them, u will see the difference.

  • why would they sing it in fucking english????

  • @h0wud0in2 Probably because the movie is in english...

  • Just to let you all know this is the hardest aria to sing in opera! An June Anderson is a Coloratura so she can swing it!

  • To all you critics- if you can manage to sing even 5 seconds of this aria you are entitled to have your say, otherwise SHUT UP !!!!!

  • Totally fantastic brain and heart ORGASM !!!! Annnnfff !!!!

  • Thumbs up if you noticed the kids behind Mozart at 1:21

  • I see Salieri getting ready to Ragequit

  • @Hannahcatcatmn lmao

  • poor Mozart T-T hes dying and hes still composing!

  • nice although they didnt have dry ice in the 18th century but thats Hollywood

  • Why does she smile? That's an anger's aria!

  • In my opinion it's better in german

  • @LestatAlber of course there is nothing like the song in it's originality however a ton of people don't speak german hahahaha

  • @LestatAlber Or in Swedish. The Bergman version is pretty good. Even if anything with Damrau in it wipes the floor with, well, anything else.

  • @LestatAlber I agree a song is always good in it's original form :)

  • @operara

    Milada Cechalova is an actress.

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  • I'm not keen on the film, or the play, but I love the few seconds following 1:00 when you can see Salieri thinking "I'm going to give up and go home".

  • MAKE A MOVIE LIKE THIS WITH WAGNER! NOW!!!!

  • @Mirani2

    People would not stomach his antisemitism. Best stick to his music and leave the biography in the trash heap of history.

  • @OrodesIII A lazy summary. Perhaps the biography is best retrieved from the trash before it is too late.

  • @MsFerna I totally agree with you. Diana is the best! :D

  • To the people bitching about his conducting: he's sick and dying. He can barely stand at this point of the movie.

  • They could have taught some principle fo conducting movements to that main carachter arse. It leads as a baby would do.

  • @anonimomascherato Conducting as taught today is a lot more strict and developed as a technique than it was in the 17th century.

  • amadeus is the bomb

  • Yes we are very lucky to live in an age of recorded music....

    and I am sure that Ms. Anderson sings much better than most of her critics.

  • Does anyone know how to get the original whole song?

  • @BrandonxxYn1 Irrelevant. He's a pop-singer !

  • the fact the actress "sings" with that happy face just kills me

  • @MsFerna its killing me too... dosent she know what she is saying...lol but i do find June's Voice (not the lip sync actress) enchanting

  • @stara2608 I agree with you, such a lovely voice, but Diana Damrau is THE queen of the night (for me)

  • Wish you'd included the 5 seconds of clip leading up to this scene, it's one of the funniest parts of the movie.

  • I really wish I could sing like that, its so beautiful.

  • they should have taught Tom Hulce how to properly conduct for this scene...

  • Mozart couldn't sing though, let's give the singer some credit here

  • beautiful

  • @BrandonxxYn1 bieber couldn't be mozart's shit..

  • I wish mozart still alive that is the best ever

  • but what a winderful piece of music listen xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • great movie :)

  • like OMG

    Mozart was not an earthling

  • 30 people listens to Justin Bieber.....

  • T'would be terrible if Bieber music will be remembered as we remember composers of the classical era.

  • @whop9 Bieber who??? He will be NOT memoried 5 years later ;D Where are Hanson, Haselhoff.. now?

  • I cant take it!  Humans are amazing!!!!!

  • I used to be dismissive of movie versions of books I read; they are never 100% true to the books. But they can still be great movies!

    It sounds wrong to you guys because you know it in the original German, or maybe  because you feel it isn't true to the original. You don't feel the beauty many of the rest of us feel.

  • Absolutely the best performance of this air !!!

  • Is Queen of the Night perhaps the best music ever written? If not the best, it's definitely in the top 5.

  • @lancetop it's in the top 5 with Ode to Joy :D

  • @lancetop - i think that this is one of the very best aria's ever written for sure. can you imagine if the man lived longer? such a shame he died so young -

  • I do not like Mozart at all but is because I prefer Baroque music, but this guy was smart. Although this movie was grossly wrong and should never be taken as fact. But this is the only aria I like and his other composition of Requiem Lacrimosa…

  • @manuel82ification Yea i agree the movie was very mis leading and so many people take it for the truth :(

  • this is amazing! i like the piece better when sung a bit faster though.... just gives it an extra OOMF

  • English??? WTF??

  • @Meskiagkasher Little can be more wrong than trying to sing what sounds beautiful in German in ENGLISH. Mozart is rolling.

  • @Meskiagkasher You're right! I don't speak german but I noticed something was very wrong with the lyrics she was singing! It is in english!!!!!  That's sad!!!

  • damn this movie is good

  • 30 people can't feel the music

  • Der Hölle Rache sounds weird in English....

  • I just saw Julie Taymor's production at the Met last night--abridged 110 minute version--brilliant theatrics & beautifully sung--Nathan Gunn as Papageno.

  • Zajebiste.

  • is June Anderson the BEST interpreter of Mozart's queen of the night

  • @EFIG6415 Maybe because she was the first one I heard, I hear the most beauty in her version.

    Her staccato notes aren't as good as some,. Her voice isn't as coloratura-like, and I like it better (not as much vibrato on each note). Her voice is rich and beautiful. I think the part from 1:08 to 1:20 could never be done better.

    People always talk about Lucia Popp being one of the greatest of all time.

  • @SOAPSHOWERmusic - You talk bullshit crap. It's an English language film. Taken your argument to its logical conclusion, the whole film should be in German, in which case it will need German speaking actors and then subtitles, and then it wouldn't be the success that it was. There were never any puritanical complaints when the Beatles sang 'She Loves You' and 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' in German.

  • you dont know who mozart is? yup you need help

  • I love watching "Mozart" conducting the orchestra. You can feel warmth from the actress portraying the Queen and the singer but you feel HEAT watching "Mozart" conducting the orchestra.

  • WOnderful singer!

  • I'm sorry haters! JUNE OWNS THIS SONG! Her voice (not the actress in the movie, or the singer on the soundtrack) appeals to the classical AND the non classical ear simultaneously! THAT my fellow humans, is called TALENT! I've never heard another singer accompish this as June can. June can sing high, full, and sweetly, AT THE SAME TIME! This makes makes all the difference. She doesn't get all tinny in the ethers! Brat nowithstanding, God bless Wolfgang for giving us this music!

  • @Rayterrell33 she is good but ive heard better im sorry to say. Not saying shes no good but there is better on here just have a look

  • @Rayterrell33 have you heard lucia popp? :)

  • Well, I definitely prefer in in German.

  • Great scene

  • god like

  • i love this movie!!!

  • Anyone can post the lyrics in english ? I don't understand them because it is... well, lyrical... :)

  • 27 dislikes? someones crazy... well 27 someones

  • A shiver went through me and my hair stood on end. Talk about perfect beauty.

  • i wanna hear this actress sing

  • brava June

  • wonderful as the night.

  • too slow

  • She's too happy and cheery to be telling her daughter to kill someone. Nice voice but off character.

  • @Gloria0004 AHHHHHH! icic. haha, sorry i didn't realize that i'd missed the first half of the conversation! :)

  • @mozartoper No that's fine! You were just trying to help! :)

  • daughter

    it's a great colouratura

  • I believe this is "der holle rache," "o zittre nicht" is the queen's gorgeous first aria, sung to tamino :)

  • @mozartoper That is the right name for this piece, but Dnahwols said in an earlier comment that it is the wrong scene to the piece, which I think is correct. In "Der Holle Rache", the Queen of Night is telling Pamina to kill someone. In any performance I've seen she is following her around with the knife that she is to use. I think "O Zittre Nicht" is the correct piece to this particular scene because there is always a moon behind her. (Thanks, Dnahwols, by the way!)

  • @Gloria0004 np

  • Sometimes i stop and think...was Mozart a real person?? Can a Human create something as beautiful as this? it just sounds like something out of this world.

  • @thegenius204 Amen freund!!

  • English is my favourite version!!! YEAH!!! ENglish rules!

  • It sounds pretty fine, but I prefer the aria to be sung by Maria Callas.

  • @TheSacredCapitalism You must be mistaken, Callas never sang the queen of the night.

  • @tenor220 No, she actually did. But maybe we are talking about different arias.

  • For some reason, the fake clouds and everything always make me think of Monty Python and the holy Grail...

  • @Ropieroo I'm not going to be able to watch this scene without thinking of that, now xD

  • Yes, Mozart was amazing. But he never had to try to sing this bad boy. I'm in awe of anyone who can hit those notes. Crazy.

  • All through the video i was like "What is she singing? Those are not the lyrics" Then at the end i heard gods of vengeance and realized it was in English lol

  • imagine only being able to hear this in concert... I feel so lucky to listen to this whenever I wish... for free...

  • @dillonfreed I find myself thinking that all the time, that it would suck to only be able to hear this im concert. Although I bet it made the experience all the more amazing, knowing that it was so fleeting.

  • @dillonfreed  We live in a privileged time.

  • @dillonfreed

    ignorance is bliss

  • @dillonfreed Stupid modernist! How dare you compare a bad quality record like this to a live and original artistic performance..

  • it's sound a little bit strange, because it's in english (but all opera pieces are sung in english in this movie [great movie!!]). I don't know what she's singing, but it's strange because I have the german lyrics in my mind...XD

    Hört, Rachegötter! Hört der Mutter Schwur!

    ^^

    great music,

    sorry for my terrible english

  • @Orbelain92 Definitely feel you there.  They should have left it in German.

  • Wrong aria to this scene. Great movie though!

  • @Dnahwols This is the scenery to the Queen's first aria in Act one. Also, Pamina is missing, with Monastatos waiting in the wings watching everything.  Still... great staging.

  • @Dnahwols What is the right aria? I've been trying to find it and I've had no luck.

  • @Gloria0004 O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn is the name of the aria, if my memory serves.

  • In My Opinion the best Opera ever written!

    Truly Amazing!

    Hail Amadeus Mozart!

  • NOT JULIE ANDREWS !!!!!!!! 

  • The movie Amadeus was filmed in the Czech REPUBLIC AND IN WIENNA

    MOZART had a residence in Prague NA BERTRAMCE

    AND FILMED BY Milos Forman of Hollywood

    MOST OF THE MUSICIANS WERE EUROPEANS

  • Ummm...I think that IS June Anderson :)

  • Funwit23, you're correct. The voice is June Anderson's. The actress is not. Why? Who is telling you that it isn't June Anderson singing this?

  • this scene in this movie is what inspired me into the world of classicism and opera :~)

  • @fishyfishycup me too! it's what made me start to understand opera. this music, in this movie, is unbelievable.

  • lol Salieri got scared and suprised by the fireworks boom at the end XD

  • She looks like the Queen from the Candy Land board game.

  • idiots

  • is this what it would've looked like 1st time around?

  • Wonderful music.

    Wonderful movie.