Mozart’s Top 5 Beautiful Arias for Female Voice - #5 Ruhe Sanft

Song Details: Two years before Mozart’s first successful operatic masterpiece “Abduction from the Seraglio,“ Mozart began to write “Zaide,“ a German “rescue“ opera that deviated from the norm of a male hero rescuing his lady in distress (like Belmonte rescuing Konstanze in “Abduction“) and instead told the story of a heroine, Zaide, who rescues her lover Gomatz. Mozart never finished “Zaide“, and the music was not performed until long after he died. Yet Mozart’s unmatched genius comes to life in this, Moz