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Artmanjosephgrech (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
My Friday 13th of November 13th ended with an orgy of great singing which continued until the early hours of the 14th. The cause of my ecstasy was the arrival of the Readers Digest album- The World’s Greatest Voices. There are five programmes each on a separate audio disk and an extensive booklet with info on each track. Programme one is entitled Enchanting arias with an emphasis on tenderness...
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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
This hasn’t happened since Frasier was on the air, but there was an opera-sitcom convergence last night. I don’t know who was the singer in the opera recording played on The Office (Jim played it so Dwight couldn’t hear him), but the aria was from Martha by Friederich Von Flotow, a once-popular comic opera whose [...]
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ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 17/02/2009
NPR has an article about what Abraham Lincoln might have put on an his iPod if had owned one. NPR says Lincoln liked Friedrich von Flotow's opera "Martha." He also saw a performance of Mozart's Magic Flute one month before he was assassinated so that would probably be on his presidential iPod. "We know that Lincoln liked the opera Martha, by Friedrich von Flotow, and had it performed...
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