diana damrau.O zittre nicht, mein lieber not, my dear son

diana damrau is one DRAMA QUEEN, queen of the night in this case. she has to be one of the best OPERA ACTRESSES, though might NOT be my most favourite SINGER (cristina deutekom's singing/studio recording with sir georg solti, decca label, 1969 rendition stands resolutely the test of time) in delivering the lyrical lines in both of mozart's immortal arias for coloratura sopranos. once, a meet-up group member asked me if there was any opera suitable for her to bring her 14 year-old daughter along to watch. i straight away thought of this fairy-tale like (yet to many grown-up people, Die Zauberflöte is the most profound opera of all) grimm brothers' fashioned opera to recommend to her. like everyone, at first i thought the mother (my god, she is a mother!) was like any mother in the world (still, there are controversies: mozart, the composer, and schikaneder, the librettist, who were representing sarastro, were masons. queen of the night was likened to maria theresa. whom do you ba