Bella mia fiamma Lilian Sukis Leopold Hager Mozarteum K.528

Bella mia fiamma, addio - Resta, oh cara K.528 Concert aria Leopold Hager Mozarteum
One of Mozart’s most brilliant concert arias, Bella mia fiamma K.528 was written during the period of Mozart’s greatest glory, the successful premiere of Don Giovanni in Prague, 1787. The Mozarts were guests of the composer Franz Duschek and his wife, celebrated soprano Josepha Duschek, for whom he had composed the concert aria Ah, lo previdi K.272 ten years earlier. Josepha locked Mozart in the garden house until he produced an aria for her. Mozart refused to turn over the score unless Josepha agreed to sing the aria at sight, a mighty challenge considering the complexity and dramatic requirements of the aria. In his book on Mozart, Alfred Einstein states succinctly, "Mozart used extreme means to represent an extreme situation…"

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Magnificently sung!

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Exquisite singing