Diana Damrau

Diana Damrau is one of the most sensational opera singers to emerge in the past decade. [...] While she is an outstanding and endearing presence in all these operas, the role where she remains nonpareil is as the Queen of the Night in “The Magic Flute.” [...] In the ten minutes that she is onstage, she breathes so much life into the Queen that she can save a performance from mediocrity.