That’s easy. It is the Queen of
the Night aria from Mozart’s The Magic
Flute. She gets two arias, but there is only one that is famous. In the novel Danyl – the character, not the
author – sings the aria on the rare occasion that he has a win, using his name
(which, sadly, is not a dactyl – that would have been too awesome) as vocalise
on the high notes, which are very high indeed. From memory the aria is in D
minor. D for Danyl, obviously. It goes like this. All together now, with
Natalie Dessay, “The vengeance of hell rages in my heart”:
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