Hell's Vengeance Boils in My Heart
Hell's vengeance boils in my heart is the second aria of the Queen of the Night in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte .
The aria
Hell's Vengeance boils in my heart , usually abbreviated as Hell's Vengeance , is often referred to as the "aria of revenge" or "aria of the queen of the night", although the role already in the first act with the aria: O do not tremble, my dear son occurs, which in the final part contains numerous coloratura .
The aria is part of the 2nd act of the Magic Flute . Driven by vengeance, the Queen of the Night gives her daughter Pamina a knife and tells her to murder her rival Sarastro. Otherwise, repudiate and abandon her daughter Pamina. ("If Sarastro doesn't feel the pain of death through you, you'll never be my daughter.")
music
The aria is for 2 flutes , 2 oboes , 2 bassoons , 2 horns in F , 2 clarini (trumpets) in D , timpani and strings . The orchestral accompaniment is greater here than in O's not trembling ; The whole orchestra is involved except for the clarinets and trombones. The playing time is about three minutes.
shape
The aria is written in two parts. The first part begins in D minor with the first theme (“Hell's vengeance is boiling in my heart”) and modulates after a few bars to F major. The coloratura form the second theme (“You will never be my daughter like this”). After that, the second part begins with the line “be forever rejected” in F major. Soon there will be modulation to G minor and from there via the diminished seventh chord on G sharp to A major, the dominant of D minor. Mozart is now taking up an old tradition: Without repeating the first theme, the second theme begins, again in the tonic, this time shortened. This is followed by the dramatic coda, which is driven by violent chords. The aria ends with the unusual cadence VI - I - V - I, which creates a dramatic effect.
Stylistic devices
To make the aria as dramatic as possible, Mozart uses a number of stylistic devices. The key of D minor, in which this aria is also in, often has a dramatically loaded, dark, fateful meaning for Mozart, as for example in the overture to Don Giovanni , in the piano concerto KV 466 or finally in the Requiem KV 626. Provide further dramatic aspects the frequent fp changes, the coloratura in the second theme and the use of the Neapolitan sixth chord. At the beginning of the second part, there is another stylistic device: the lines “be rejected forever, abandoned forever, be shattered forever” are sung on one note, which creates a relentless mood. This is later driven to hectic in G minor by shortening the lines to “repudiate, abandon, smash”.
Expectations
Hell's Vengeance is known to be a particularly demanding piece. The range extends over two octaves, from f 1 to f 3 . The aria requires a particularly high grade for the soprano soloist .
text
The libretto was written by Emanuel Schikaneder , who also played Papageno in the premiere.
Hell's vengeance boils in my heart,
death and despair flames around me!
Sarastro does not feel the pain of death through you,
so you will never be my daughter.
Be cast out
forever, be
abandoned forever, be
shattered forever
All the bonds of nature,
If not through you Sarastro will turn pale!
Hear, gods of vengeance, hear the mother's oath!
The text begins with a four-line line in the iambic five-key - unusual for the Magic Flute , which consists largely of iambic tetrameters . This is followed by four verses in iambic three-lifter , the final couplet again consists of five- lifter . The rhyme scheme is[ababcccded].
Interpreters
The first singer to sing the aria on stage was Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer , who was 33 years old at the time. It is said that Hofer had a particularly agile voice with a pronounced high register . To show this, Mozart wrote the two arias of the Queen of the Night "especially for her".
In a letter from 1840, the composer Ignaz von Seyfried wrote about the last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life, who died on December 5, 1791:
- “On the evening of December 4th, Mozart was already in fantasies and thought he was in the Wiedner Theater of the Magic Flute; almost the last words whispered to his wife were: 'Quiet! quiet! now the Hofer takes the high F; - now the sister-in-law sings her second aria: "Hell's Vengeance"; how hard she hits the B and holds it out: “Listen! hear! hear! the mother's oath! ""
Trivia
The aria, sung by Edda Moser , is one of the selected pieces of music that were recorded on Voyager Golden Records as examples of the music of mankind . These data disks left the solar system on board the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 .
literature
- Deutsch, Otto Erich (1965) Mozart: A Documentary Biography . Stanford University Press
Web links
- Hell's vengeance boils in my heart : Score in the New Mozart Edition
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mozart's feverish fantasies . Retrieved February 28, 2009.
- ^ Roland Tenschert: Mozart: an artist's life in pictures and documents . JM Meulenhoff Verlag , 1931, p. 251.
- ↑ http://archive.org/details/ActIiDerHoelleRachemoserSawallisch
- ↑ Music From Earth on NASA's website . Retrieved November 30, 2011. (en)