Roberta Peters canta Der Hölle Rache da Die Zauberföte

[narayanmimi]

spellbinding!

[newhere66]

ciao others

[RobertoTifi]

In my opinion she is the BEST Koenigin. I've heard several others, and they're great (you HAVE to be if you play the Queen of the Night!!) but Roberta Peters is PERFECT!

[RobertoTifi]

...and then Luciana Serra, other great Queen

[newhere66]

@RobertoTifi perfect.

[SHICOFF1]

Actually it took her grandfather Leon Hirsch more than one time to convince Jan to have Roberta's mom bring her to Jan but finally Jan agreed to hear the 12 year old Girl. Odd but Althouse who met her said she had a thick neck and he liked that in a singer! Still he did not teach 12 year old kids but he was impressed by her.

[SHICOFF1]

continued from below. Jan Peerce who her Grandfather-- on her Moms side Mr. Hirsch . took her to Jan as Leon Hirsch was a waiter in the catskills where Jan frequented and Jan took her to Paul Althouse, she was 12 but Paul said he not would not take a child to teach, he was above that really and had famous students. He and Peerce advised her to continue working. Later she got Mr. Herman and so on!

[SHICOFF1]

In her a rare book title she wrote with Louis Biancolli "debut at the met" she shows on page 21 how she started with her teacher's advice to study the book "Garcia's Method" she said she learned swelling the note slowly to crescendo and then returning to decrescendo. then the other way started full and decrescendo, finally no cresendo and all on one note. Her parents where not wealthy but did all they could to help her father Sol Peterman was a salesman. Peerce took her to Althouse-

[SHICOFF1]

Another amazing quality she had was the ability as a coloratura with a light voice to project with any tenor. Listen to her live Luica with Corelli , his only Edgardo she never is drowned out by him or Tucker, both BIG voices and I heard her in big houses sing and project with ease. Diminuendo to a whisper on the breath and swell out to forte easily, trill as Gilda in Rigoletto live at the met in the 50's with Tucker,again in 1964' with him or the RCA recording with Bjorling/ Merrill in 1956

[SHICOFF1]

Peters was born Roberta Peterman in 1930 and luckily I heard her in Recital 3 times and in concert also and in fact one Recital was so amazing because she sang perhaps more arias and songs then anyone I ever heard, maybe 35 numbers, I didn't count but that was in 1988, she was 58 but the voice sounded younger, she was beautiful. In 1993 she opened the Grant Park Chicago season and sang many arias and operetta, even Norma Casta Diva! 1968 She sang a concert with Peerce her mentor- It was great

[Vincenzo2010an]

bad.  live si beter

[Divina126]

I thought that Lucia Popp is the best queen of the night of all times, but now I doubt!!

[MusikPiratCH]

Roberta Peters (eigentlich Petermann) übertrifft hier meiner unbedeutenden Meinung (muM) nach sämtliche andere Königinnen der Nacht!

Stimmlich ist sie glockenrein und technisch singt sie jeden Ton "von oben" an (wie es sich gehört)! Sie ist einfach grossartig! :D

Respekt und eine Riesenverbeugung, Roberta Peters! :)

[LohengrinT]

omg another! great Queen of the Night :))) I still wonder how this impossible!!! to sing aria (according to Beverly Sills) is sung so fantastically well by so many! different sopranos :)))

[makeschfatchimm]

wonderful Queen and the best Rosina as well ever heard

[andrecooper555]

She is the first Queen ot the Night that I ever heard...in the 70's. I still love her voice doing this aria!

[jmccracken1963]

I have "passed" on this recording any number of times (mostly because I prefer Mozart's Italian operas to his German ones), but I suppose I will now have to find a copy of this one. Peters is OUTSTANDING in this aria; listen to the heft later on at the end of the scena as well as the pinpoint exactness of pitch even up in the "stratosphere" with good and full tone throughout her range. She finally got to sing this role in German at the Met in 1967, when the Rennert/Chagall production premiered

[josemuso1]

I suscribe this opinion all the way, Roberta is the nearest to perfection, great among the greatest Queens, (Popp, Moser, Gruberova, and several other..JRT

[haruka07]

Wie schöööön :D ich hatte die gesamte Oper "Die Zauberflöte" auf CD und ich finde es toll mal wieder etwas davon zu hören da ich sie nie von meiner Musiklehrerin zurückbekommen habe...

[RVP57]

OUTSTANDING! Brava!

[ShawDAMAN]

Excellent! Very underrated now in my opinion. Not only the diction but a very sparkly voice and stage persona and she still has discernible, beautiful tone in the extreme upper register even on the F's

[paulostroff99]

Glorious! Brava! TY.

[VinylToVideo]

Wow - She must have had a wider rep than I thought. Very fine diction too; fantastic!

[paulostroff99]

VinylToVideo-I'm stunned at not having anything with her,and as to why not. This is truly IMHO a stunning performance. Bravo, TY.

[VinylToVideo]

Yes unfortunately I don't have much with her at the moment either. That'll have to change soon.

[ShawDAMAN]

wonderful recording all the way around, thanks for the send

[GermanOperaSinger]

This was from a complete studio recording of Zauberfloete which, incidentally, featured Wunderlich as Tamino.

[nanu1980]

2:10 - 2:14 *****!!!!