Mozart's The Magic Flute

Queen of the Night

Perth Festival of the Arts

The Scots Opera Project

The Magic Flute ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Colleen Nicoll’s statuesque Queen of the Night is the Nurse Ratched of the staging, all but stealing the show with her coloratura aria.” - Keith Bruce

“The Queen of the Night is always something of a dragon, but Colleen Nicoll added an extra dimension as “the boss from hell”. Mozart gives her two super contrasting arias… Both demand phenomenal tonal range across the tessitura, but with very different expression. This they received in spades. Absolutely superb. Dramatically, threatening the vulnerable Pamina with a knife to persuade her to murder Sarastro was thrillingly melodramatic. Fabulous performance.” - Donal Hurley

“Colleen Nicoll wasn’t merely a cameo part – even in abridged versions of Mozart’s classic opera, the Queen of the Night role is a prominent one and her top-C-top-D aria was carried out with ease. She was the ideal “baddie” in this production, and any similarity to Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was not, I’m sure, completely coincidental.” - Garry Fraser