Queen of the Night, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 153cm x 153cm
Queen of The Night
Inspired by Mozart’s sublime soprano aria “Der Hölle Rache” from The Magic Flute, this painting reimagines the figure of the Queen of the Night as both a celestial being and a reflection of feminine transcendence. The aria, with its soaring vocal precision and emotional tempest, becomes the heartbeat of this work, a bridge between the realms of sound and silence, music and vision.
In this painting, the Queen holds the moon in her hands, not as an ornament, but as an extension of her soul. She becomes a lunar goddess, her body a vessel of light and shadow. The moon glows softly against her palms, symbolizing intuition, mystery, and the divine cycles of womanhood. Through her, night no longer feels cold or distant, it becomes sacred, illuminated by her quiet strength.
She stands at the threshold of darkness and revelation, commanding not through force, but through the magnetism of serenity. Her presence invites reverence, the kind that music demands in its most perfect moments of stillness. Within her gaze lies forgiveness, echoing the eternal paradox of the divine feminine.
Queen of the Night is an ode to that duality, to the woman who rules her own inner cosmos, who shines not because the world allows her to, but because she carries the moonlight within. She is opera and silence, power and surrender, shadow and illumination. She is every woman who has learned to hold her own light in the dark.