Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen - wikipedia Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen From a production of The Magic Flute at Texas A&M University -- Commerce : the Queen of the Night menaces the terrified Pamina. `` Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen '' ( `` Hell 's vengeance boils in my heart '' ), commonly abbreviated `` Der Hölle Rache '', is an aria sung by the Queen of the Night, a coloratura soprano part, in the second act of Mozart 's opera The Magic Flute ( Die Zauberflöte ). It depicts a fit of vengeful rage in which the Queen of the Night places a knife into the hand of her daughter Pamina and exhorts her to assassinate Sarastro, the Queen 's rival, on pain of denying and cursing Pamina if she does not comply. `` Der Hölle Rache '' is one of the most famous of all opera arias, memorable, fast paced and menacingly grandiose. This rage aria is often referred to as the `` Queen of the Night 's Aria '' ' despite the fact that the Queen sings another distinguished aria earlier in the opera, `` O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn ''. Contents 1 Libretto 2 Music 3 Performance history 4 References 5 External links Libretto The words were written by Emanuel Schikaneder, who also authored the rest of the Magic Flute libretto, headed the theater troupe that premiered the work, and created the role of Papageno. Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Tod und Verzweiflung flammet um mich her ! Fühlt nicht durch dich Sarastro Todesschmerzen, so bist du meine Tochter nimmermehr. Verstoßen sei auf ewig, verlassen sei auf ewig, zertrümmert sei'n auf ewig alle Bande der Natur. wenn nicht durch dich Sarastro wird erblassen ! Hört, hört, hört, Rachegötter, hört, der Mutter Schwur ! The vengeance of hell boils in my heart ; Death and despair blaze around me ! If not by thee Sarastro feels the pains of death Then you will be my daughter nevermore. Outcast be forever, Forsaken be forever, Shattered be forever All the bonds of nature If not by thee Sarastro turns pale ! Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, gods of vengeance, hear the mother 's oath ! Metrically, the text consists of a quatrain in iambic pentameter ( exceptional for this opera, which is mostly in iambic tetrameter ), followed by a quatrain in iambic trimeter, then a final pentameter couplet. The rhyme scheme is ( ABAB ) ( CCCD ) ( ED ). Music Beginning of the first coloratura passage The aria is written in D minor, and is scored for pairs of flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, and trumpets, along with timpani and the string section. This is a larger orchestra than for `` O zittre nicht '' and comprises all the players from the opera as a whole, except the clarinets and trombones. The aria is renowned as a demanding piece to perform well. The aria 's vocal range covers two octaves, from F to F and requires a very high tessitura. Bauman has expressed particular admiration for one moment in the score. At the climax of the aria, the Queen sings the words `` Hört, hört, hört ! '' solo, in alternation with loud chords from the orchestra. The first two syllables are sung to D and F, suggesting to the listener a third one on A, completing the D minor triad. But, as Bauman writes : Mozart 's masterstroke is the transformation he brought about by moving from the third degree to the flat sixth rather than to the fifth... No matter how often one hears this passage... one is led by musical logic to expect, after D and F, A. But the Queen sings a terrifying B ♭ instead. The effect is accompanied by unexpected Neapolitan harmony in the orchestra, with all the violins playing in unison high on the G string to intensify the sound. Performance history Alice Verlet as Queen of the Night, 1912 The first singer to perform the aria onstage was Mozart 's sister - in - law Josepha Hofer, who at the time was 32. By all accounts, Hofer had an extraordinary upper register and an agile voice and apparently Mozart, being familiar with Hofer 's vocal ability, wrote the two blockbuster arias to showcase it. An anecdote from Mozart 's time suggests that the composer himself was very impressed with his sister - in - law 's performance. The story comes from an 1840 letter from composer Ignaz von Seyfried, and relates an event from the last night of Mozart 's life -- December 4, 1791, five weeks into the opera 's initial ( very successful ) run. According to Seyfried, the dying Mozart whispered the following to his wife Constanze : Quiet, quiet ! Hofer is just taking her top F ; -- now my sister - in - law is singing her second aria, ' Der Hölle Rache ' ; how strongly she strikes and holds the B - flat : ' Hört ! hört ! hört ! der Mutter Schwur ! ' '' In modern times a great number of notable sopranos have performed or recorded the aria. June Anderson sings it in the film Amadeus. The aria was also a favorite of the famously incompetent singer Florence Foster Jenkins. A recording of the aria by Edda Moser, accompanied by the Bavarian State Opera under the baton of Wolfgang Sawallisch, is included in a collection of music from Earth on the Voyager 1 spacecraft. References `` Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen '' Sandra Partridge, Siam Philharmonic Orchestra, Trisdee na Patalung conducting ; live recording from the Thailand Cultural Centre Problems playing this file ? See media help. Notes Jump up ^ Bauman, Thomas ( 1995 ) Opera and the Enlightenment. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, p. 284. Excerpts posted on line at Google Books : ( 1 ). Jump up ^ NMA score : ( 2 ) Jump up ^ Quoted from Deutsch ( 1965, 556 ). For the B ♭ to which Mozart referred, see discussion from Baumann above. The original German reads : `` Still, still ! Jetzt nimmt die Hofer das hohe F ; -- jetzt singt die Schwägerin ihre zweite Arie : ' Der Hölle Rache ' ; wie kräftig sie das B anschlägt und aushält : ' Hört ! hört ! hört ! der Mutter Schwur ! ' ''. Source : `` Die Verdienste des Herrn Schikaneder '', Hamburger Abendblatt ( 3 January 1994 ) ( in German ) Jump up ^ Golden Record -- Music From Earth, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sources Deutsch, Otto Erich ( 1965 ) Mozart : A Documentary Biography. Stanford University Press. External links Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen : Score in the Neue Mozart - Ausgabe Edda Moser : `` Der Hölle Rache '' on YouTube Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's The Magic Flute Music Discography `` O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn '' `` Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön '' `` Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen '' Sequel Das Labyrinth Films The Magic Flute ( 1975 ) The Magic Flute ( 2006 ) Other adaptations The Magic Flute ( musical ) Related Libretto of The Magic Flute Works inspired by The Magic Flute Mozart and Freemasonry Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart Operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Operas Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 1767 ) Apollo et Hyacinthus ( 1767 ) Bastien und Bastienne ( 1768 ) La finta semplice ( 1769 ) Mitridate, re di Ponto ( 1770 ) Ascanio in Alba ( 1771 ) Il sogno di Scipione ( 1772 ) Lucio Silla ( 1772 ) La finta giardiniera ( 1775 ) Il re pastore ( 1775 ) Thamos, King of Egypt ( 1779 ) Zaide ( 1780 ) Idomeneo ( 1781 ) Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( 1782 ) L'oca del Cairo ( 1783 ) Lo sposo deluso ( 1784 ) Der Schauspieldirektor ( 1786 ) The Marriage of Figaro ( 1786 ) Don Giovanni ( 1787 ) Così fan tutte ( 1790 ) La clemenza di Tito ( 1791 ) The Magic Flute ( 1791 ) Arias `` Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen '' `` Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön '' `` Madamina, il catalogo è questo '' `` Non più andrai '' `` O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn '' `` Se vuol ballare '' Discographies Così fan tutte Die Entführung aus dem Serail Don Giovanni The Magic Flute The Marriage of Figaro Opera portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title= Der_Hölle_Rache_kocht_in_meinem_Herzen&oldid = 814323861 '' Categories : Arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute Opera excerpts 1790s songs 1791 compositions Compositions in D minor Hidden categories : Articles containing German - language text Articles with German - language external links Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Français 한국어 Italiano ქართული 日本 語 Polski Português Русский Simple English Suomi Svenska Türkçe Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 8 December 2017, at 03 : 44. 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