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mixed mixed blessing a thing that has disadvantages as well as advantages.
mixed metaphor a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect.
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CLEF'S NOTES.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 4/23/1999; 573 words
; The Daily Classical Music Column from United Press International. Today is April 26th. FRIEDRICH VON FLOTOW Friedrich von Flotow (FLOH'-toh) was born in Teutendorf, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, on this...
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OPERA 'MARTHA' RESET IN FLAPPER ERA.(Living)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/20/1990; 700+ words
; ...their opera light, the new production of Flotow's "Martha" at the New York City Opera...has kept this work in the repertory while Friedrich von Flotow's 17 other operas remain forgotten. Flotow uses set musical pieces rather than music...
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Marvelous `Martha';The Baltimore Opera's Frothy Freshness
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/13/1988; ; 639 words
; Friedrich von Flotow's "Martha," playing tonight and Monday at the Lyric Opera House...praise of beer, and the great quintet with chorus that ends Act 2. Flotow's music has the solidity of Germany, where he was born, enriched...
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`Martha': Lyric Fun and Frolic Revived
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/29/1991; ; 600 words
; Friedrich von Flotow's "Martha," a pleasant, tune-packed, inconsequential bit of...numbers, but its best-known melody after "M'appari" is one that Flotow borrowed and used almost as a leitmotif: the English tune "The Last...
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In review: Wexford
Magazine article from: Opera News; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a hired assassin, was a lot more fascinating than the boy-gets-girl silliness cooked up by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese for Friedrich (von) Flotow, the composer of Martha. In their 1844 version of Alessandro Stradella (Oct. 24), called...
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UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY OPERA THEATRE PRESENTS 'MARTHA' AT THE CAINE LYRIC THEATRE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/17/2008; 640 words
; ...Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, presents "Martha," a comic opera by German composer Friedrich von Flotow (1813-1883) and librettist Wilhelm Friedrich. Performances are at the Caine Lyric Theatre (28 W. Center, Logan) Nov. 20-22 at...
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Vincent Wallace: The Meeting of the Waters; 17 Celtic Fantasies
Magazine article from: Musical Opinion; 7/1/2003; ; 466 words
; ...a few, in so attractive a pianistic garb. The Last Rose of Summer and Robin Adair, more famously featured in Friedrich von Flotow's Martha and Francios Adrien Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche, are also given the treatment. Rosemary Tuck, an...
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Discover Roots this week at Fillmore
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 2/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...Martha" -- and no, this isn't a production about the domestic diva and her legal troubles. The opera by Friedrich von Flotow tells the story of Lady Harriet. She's young, hip, charming and, most important, wealthy. Having a case...
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Rock opera band loudly delights with musical mix.
Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ); 11/4/2006; 700+ words
; ...whistled in true rock fashion. The concert's program read like opera's greatest hits: "M'Appari" from Friedrich von Flotow's "Martha"; "Un Bel Di" from Puccini's "Madama Butterfly"; "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot...
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Alessandro Stradella, 1639-1682: His Life and Music.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...dead as they were, no less than six operas brought his story to the stage. I knew of one of these works, by Friedrich von Flotow; I now know the others because Carolyn Gianturco ends the first part of the book under review (72-73) with...
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Friedrich von Flotow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Friedrich von Flotow , 1812-83, German operatic composer. Flotow's operas show the influence of French opéra comique, which set the tone for light opera in the 19th cent. Many of his 29 operas were translated into English, French...
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Flotow, Friedrich von
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Flotow, Friedrich von ( b Teutendorf, 1812; d Darmstadt, 1883). Ger. composer. Lived mostly in Paris and Vienna. Intendant, ducal court th...
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Alessandro Stradella
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Venetian nobleman with whose mistress Stradella had eloped. His life is the subject of several operas, one by Friedrich von Flotow (1844). Stradella's music is generally lighthearted and melodious. He helped to develop the structural form...
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Martha
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Richmond Fair ( Martha , oder Der Markt von Richmond ). 4-act opera by Flotow to lib. by W. Friedrich after V. de Saint-Georges's ballet-pantomime Lady Henriette for which Flotow had comp. some mus. Makes use of ‘...
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Meyen, Franz Julius Ferdinand
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...1826 Meyen studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms Institute where military...through the influence of Alexander von Humboldt, Meyen obtained the post...described only the lichens (with J. von Flotow). In August 1834 Meyen was named...
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