Revisiting Mozart’s Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World

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WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera

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4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When the Voyager spacecraft set off to explore the galaxy, it carried recordings to represent the best of humanity. There was only one aria: the rage-fest from Mozart's The Magic Flute.

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0:00.0	Hey Ariacode fans, we thought you'd enjoy this encore presentation of one of our favorite
0:05.5	episodes from a past season.
0:07.6	We'll be back soon with a brand new episode.
0:10.7	I always talk about how singing Queen of the Night is like throwing darts with your eyes closed.
0:20.0	You have that darting your hand, You know exactly where the bullseye is. You shut your eyes and you toss it.
0:30.0	From WQXR in the Metropolitan Opera, this is Ariacode. I'm Rianenin Kiddens.
0:38.0	She's murderous, she's vengeful, she's got a knife that she gives to her daughter and she's trying to incite her daughter to murder
0:45.9	Every episode we take apart one Aria and then put it back together so you can hear it in a whole new way
0:52.1	Today we're going into the stratosphere with de holle rachre
0:56.0	from Mozart's Ditzauber floater,
0:58.0	or the magic flute.
1:00.0	There's something almost supernatural
1:02.0	about the register she's singing in.
1:05.0	That in itself reaches out and grabs us in our kind of innate sense of fascination with evil.
1:13.4	The year I was born, do I have to say it? Okay, 1977, NASA sent two probes into space to take a look around.
1:32.0	And just in case they ran into anyone or anything,
1:37.3	yes I'm talking about aliens now, they put a golden record in each probe. Now these records are like time capsules.
1:44.0	They've got pictures, sounds, and music
1:47.0	representing the best of life on Earth,
1:49.0	as we knew it in 1977.
1:51.0	The idea is that if an alien spins it on its alien turntable, it will learn what it means to be human.
1:57.0	Now, amidst all the wonderful music on that record, it only has one Aria. And I'll bet you've heard it even if you're not a
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