Since my UCSC students are doing Mozart’s Magic Flute right now, I thought I should definitely direct them, and you, to this which I found via Jason Heath’s blog (he found it via this blogger. Really. You’ve got to see it.

Hmmm. I’d never heard it called “Queen of a One Thousand and One Nights” aria before.

The announcer is right … you’ve never heard it done this way before. I promise! I do wish the camera could have zoomed in.
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