Mozarts Top 5 Beautiful Arias for Female Voice , 5 Ruhe Sanft

Song Details: Two years before Mozart s first successful operatic masterpiece Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart began to write Zaide, a German rescue opera that deviated from the norm of a male hero rescuing his lady in distress (like Belmonte rescuing Konstanze in Abduction ) and instead told the story of a heroine, Zaide, who rescues her lover Gomatz. Mozart never finished Zaide, and the music was not performed until long after he died. Yet Mozart s unmatched genius comes to life in this, Moz