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Re: Queen of the Night

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On Saturday, September 11, 2004 at 6:56:27 PM UTC-7, Simon Roberts wrote:
> In article <4143193f$1...@news.meer.net>, Dan Koren says...
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> >Please name your favorites.
> In a complete recording of the opera, Christina Deutekom. (Yes, I know she's
> weird....)
> Simon

This article begins:

- Deutekom made a relatively late debut in 1963 at thirty-two, in Amsterdam, as the Queen of the Night. Hers was no soubrette voice but a dramatic instrument, despite its extension up to the high F and beyond; proper preparation took extra time and patience. Once onstage, however, she was in demand in every opera house in the world for her extraordinary Queen, whose combined power, accuracy, and brilliance exceeded any in living memory. She recorded the role for Decca under Solti in I969, and later made a film of it with the Hamburg State Opera. "The bright, deadly accurate staccatos glitter and peck: a predatory night-bird with a curiously sinister suggestion of clockwork" J. B. Steane wrote of her in The Grand Tradition. "It is the Queen of Night one has always wanted to hear." Other prodigious achievements notwithstanding, it is for her Queen that Deutekom has entered the operatic pantheon.

http://www.bruceduffie.com/deutekom.html