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Breakin’ Mozart in Neustadt on the Wine Street
Title: ”The Queen of the Night shows what she is vocally capable of”

“And the Queen of the Night made a stop in an extremely impressive manner. One was truly unprepared for it: BOTH of the much-feared vengeance arias with murderously high coloratura passages were celebrated by Darlene Ann Dobisch with aplomb, immaculate nobility, and spotlessly clear high notes.

There she is, the coloratura soprano Darlene Ann Dobisch, who, with full on drama, garbed in a silky-red robe in the role of Candide,  wonderfully performs, in a seldomly heard oneness with both conductor and orchestra. The audience is completely enraptured, from the 2nd tier, all the way down to the orchestra seats!

Soprano Darlene Ann Dobisch delivered a brilliant performance with the aria “Glitter and Be Gay” from Leonard Bernstein’s operetta “Candide”

Darlene Ann Dobisch shines as a feisty Queen of the Night with gloriously clean coloratura and dead-on high notes.

This cross-over project goes, no, dances from pinnacle to pinnacle. One of these pinnacles is the performance of Darlene Ann Dobisch, who seduces poor Mozart. She interprets the Aria from "The Magic Flute" expressively and with clear, bell-like tones.

" The young soprano, Darlene Ann Dobisch, with her impeccably pure coloratura, contributed to the program with a highly amusing (re)interpretation of the Queen of the Night. "

"The execution of trills, turns and rapid scale and arpeggio passages… in the extremes of the vocal range… were of no concern for the accomplished soprano soloist, Darlene Dobisch, who tossed them off with ease, with radiant tone color and a remarkable evenness of quality throughout her vocal range. Her cadenza in the dialog with the woodwinds in the ‘et incarnatus est,’ was nothing short of spectacular."

Darlene Ann Dobisch portrays a Mother Maria of touching chasteness, while maintaining a luminescent soprano brilliancy.

"The soprano Darlene Ann Dobisch quickly found an intimate expression of the music in the first high notes and painted impressive and melancholic pictures of death with her easily modulating voice."

"Uncrowned Queen of the Evening: Coloratura Soprano Darlene Ann Dobisch. Her dazzling voice floated seemingly featherlight over the peak of her fach. She effortlessly mastered classics such as the aria of the Queen of the Night and the Springtime Waltz from Johann Strauss Jr."

"...Darlene Ann Dobisch with her shining, clean, bell-like soprano in „Exsultate Jubilate“ from Mozart or caro nome from Verdi’s “Rigoletto.“ The audience was fascinated by the flexibility of this voice in the highest registers and let themselves be carried away in the packed church. ”

"The strongest impression was left, however, by Darlene Ann Dobisch, who delivered the coloratura-laden aria of Genio with mesmerizing brilliance"

“Darlene Ann Dobisch, not only with her phenomenal high notes and precisely sung coloratura of the Queen of the Night, but also with a plausible expression of fury, insanity, and lust for revenge against Sarastro...

“Darlene Ann Dobisch, as Queen of the Night, is a superior vocal experience“    

“As Queen of the night, whose delicate high notes Darlene Ann Dobisch produces calmly and with striking aplomb....“

“She came, sang, and conquered“

“Darlene Ann Dobisch conquered the stage... and convinced with charm and great acting ability.“