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Kathleen Battle sings Blonde with Levine in the pit in Mozart's beautiful singspiel opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Her trademark radiant, glistening timbre, and effortless legato line is combined with a wonderful ease with the text, in a performance of immense charm of an oft overlooked aria in an opera for whom the vocal plaudits usually go to the role of Constanze. Again, the lack of support in the low notes is forgivable when an E6 can be reached this easily and incorporated into the line.

This recording exists elsewhere on YouTube, though mistakenly transposed up a semitone, a common glitch of the transferring process. I have corrected the source recording here so that it is in the correct key - the high note is now an E6 as it should be. Enjoy!

libretto:
Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln,
Gefälligkeit und Scherzen
Erobert man die Herzen
Der guten Mädchen leicht.
Doch mürrisches Befehlen,
Und Poltern, Zanken, Plagen
Macht, dass in wenig Tagen
So Lieb' als Treu' entweicht.

English translation:
By tenderness and flattery,
Kindness and joking
You’ll conquer the heart
Of this good maiden.
But crabby commands,
Rumbling, bickering, and plagues
Will cause in a few days
Love and faithfulness to escape.

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