Mozart's Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World
b'When the Voyager spacecraft set off to explore the galaxy in 1977, it carried a recording to represent the best of humanity. The \\u201cGolden Record\\u201d featured everyone from Bach to Chuck Berry, but there was only one opera aria: the rage-fest from Mozart\\u2019s The Magic Flute.\\nIn this episode, host Rhiannon Giddens is joined by soprano Kathryn Lewek, musicologist Carolyn Abbate and author Jan Swafford. Together they consider why the Queen of the Night\\u2019s big moment \\u2013 \\u201cDer H\\xf6lle Rache\\u201d \\u2013 is an out-of-this-world achievement, how Mozart created a profound fairy tale for adults and what it takes for a soprano to reach the stratosphere. You\\u2019ll hear Kathryn Lewek hit all those high notes onstage at the Metropolitan Opera and talk to Timothy Ferris, the man who produced NASA\\u2019s \\u201cGolden Record.\\u201d'