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...works as innocent and pure as Treemonisha. Joplin called his work an opera and structurally it is one. He wrote his own libretto and decked it out with orchestral preludes, choruses, solos, duos, even a quintet, in a way that indicated he probably knew the works of Weber and Flotow. The spirit of the work, though, hovers somewhere between operetta and masque. The use of ragtime is limited to exhilarating dance finales: Aunt Dinah Has Blowed de Horn at the end of Act I and A Real Slow Drag at the final curtain. Elsewhere one can find a waltz...
German Composer Friedrich von Flotow (1812-83) wrote about a score of operas for the theaters of Paris, but only Martha remained in the repertory. As late as the 1920s it was a smash at the Met, with Caruso periodically igniting the house with the tenor aria "M'appari." The only other scrap of the opera likely to be familiar to modern audiences is The Last Rose of Summer, which Flotow lifted from a book of Irish folk songs, where it was known as The Groves of Blarney. When Berlioz heard Soprano Adelina Patti sing the air, he remarked...
...Atlantic City, N. J., the Steel Pier Opera Company last week began its tenth season with an English production of Il Trovatore. Henri Elkan again conducted. Other operas listed: Verdi's Rigoletto, von Flotow's Martha, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana...
...opera "Martha" by Flotow will be given tonight at 8.20 o'clock at the Boston Opera House by members of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Singing in the opera will be Edith Mason, Irene Pavloska, Antonio Cortis, Virgilio Lazzari, and Victorio Trevisan...
Following is the program for the pop concert in Symphony Hall this evening: 1. Fest March (Organ, Mr. Marshall). Triebel 2. Overture, "Martha," Flotow 3. Waltz, "Artist's Life," Strauss 4. Rhapsody, No. 3, Liszt 5. Galop Chromatique, Liszt 6. 'Cello Solo, "Kol Nidrei," ('Cello Solo, Mr. J. Keller). Bruch 7. Selection, "Lohengrin," Wagner 8. Rhapsody in C minor, No. 2, Liszt 9. Rhapsody in D major, No. 2, Liszt 10. Abenlied. (Orchestrated by Joachim), Schumann 11. Kaiser Waltz, Strauss 12. March, "Probe Kuss," Milloecker