So Mozart had to write a new aria — “Al desio ... so he wrote one (he would later make her into the Queen of the Night in “The Magic Flute”). And when yet another aria was needed for ...

The Magic Flute” —the final operatic work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart before his death in 1791 when he was 35 years old — is recognized as “the opera of all operas.” ...

Or maybe you will recall the captivating melody of the Queen of the Night’s aria, an ubiquitous piece in operatic history. It premiered just two months before Mozart’s death, at Vienna’s ...