Revisiting Mozart’s Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World

About this episode

The episode discusses the significance of Mozart's aria from The Magic Flute as a representation of humanity in the context of the Voyager spacecraft's mission.

When the Voyager spacecraft set off to explore the galaxy, it carried recordings to represent the best of humanity. There was only one aria: the rage-fest from Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Topics covered

• Mozart
• The Magic Flute
• Voyager spacecraft
• humanity
• opera

Keywords

• Queen of the Night
• rage-fest
• classical music

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Voyager

Books & works: Queen of the Night, The Magic Flute

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