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Jane Archibald - Strauss: DIE SCHWEIGSAME FRAU, Aminta's singing lesson, 2009

THE SONGBIRD: Canadian soprano Jane Archibald has sung most of the coloratura roles in the standard repertoire, and then some, on stages around the world. After studying in Canada, she joined the young artist program at the San Francisco Opera in 2005, where she sang Elvira in "L'Italiana in Algeri" and Queen of the Night in a special one-act version of Mozart's opera intended for kids. In 2006, she joined the Vienna State Opera, debuting as Musetta and singing Sophie, Zerbinetta, Aminta, Queen of the Night, Marie, Olympia, and Eudoxie. Her Met debut came in 2010 as Ophelia (a new production that Dessay dropped out of) and came back in 2013 as Adele for that season's run of "Die Fledermaus." Archibald has sung major Mozart, baroque, bel canto, and modern operatic roles in Zurich, Lucerne, Geneva, Paris, Aix, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Milan, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, London, Sante Fe, and Israel, as well as across Canada. THE MUSIC: Strauss's comic opera "Die schweigsame Frau" (The Silent Woman) premiered in Dresden in 1935 -- his first major opera with a new librettist since his close collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal died in 1929. Librettist Stefan Zweig based the work on a play by Ben Jonson. Though it has some stretches of iconic Straussian music and some admirers, it has generally been seen as a problematic work and is rarely performed or recorded. It has had only two productions in the history of the Vienna State Opera, first in 1968 with 37 performances featuring Mimi Coertse, Edita Gruberova, Karin Ott, Patricia Wise, and Meredith Zaza in the role of Aminta, and then in 1996 with 28 performances starring Laura Aikin, Jane Archibald, Natalie Dessay, and Siminia Ivan. There has been only one production at the Salzburg Festival in 1959 (with Hilde Güden as Aminta) and it has never been performed at The Met. The leading female character Aminta is married to Henry, the nephew of a wealthy retired naval Captain who must be surrounded by quiet due to hearing trauma experienced in battle. When the Captain discovers Henry and his wife are opera singers, he threatens to disinherit his nephew due to their noise. Their opera troupe plots to trick the Captain by having Aminta disguise herself as a shy "silent" woman who pretends to marry him, but then becomes as loud as possible at all times (the plot is very reminiscent of "Don Pasquale"). Aminta is a high coloratura role (as it the much smaller role of Isotta, another soprano in the opera troupe). She doesn't have a solo aria per se as the opera is written in an ensemble-based structure. There is, however, one scene at the beginning of Act Three whereby Aminta and Henry pretend to do a singing lesson to annoy the Captain while he is sleeping. Here the libretto literally references a duet from Monteverdi's "L’incoronazione di Poppea," but Strauss's music barely resembles the original. It starts as a short solo, then becomes a duet.