Australia’s Lyster Opera is set to go on tour with Flotow’s “Martha” this February. Sharing the titular role will be Katy Turbitt and Jesse Linke. They will be joined by Maria Woolford, Paul Biencourt, Michael Lampard, Troy Castle, Nicholas Sheppard, Angelique Tot, Sofia Imperatore, Adelaide Soccio Greenaway, Mandy Lyn Brook, Joshua Morton Galea, Metehan Pektas, and Noah Straughan. Jamie Mofat {…}
For this week’s Word Search we turn to Flotow’s “Martha” and the storied artists who have taken on the opera. Flotow is a German composer born on April 27, 1812. Instructions: You are free to solve the word search directly on your mobile or desktop device; just click the first and last letter of each word for it to appear {…}
Premiering on November 25, 1847, “Martha” is adapted from a ballet composed by Friedrich von Flotow titled “Harriette, ou la servant de Greenwiche.” The ballet, which premiered three years earlier at the Paris Opera Ballet, is itself based on a story written by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. Though not a regular in the repertory of opera houses today, “Martha” has {…}
Friedrich von Flotow, born on April 27, 1812, was a German composer of about 30 operas. He was French-trained, learning from such composers as Auber, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Donizetti, Halévy, Gounod, and Offenbach. He completed his first opera in 1835, entitled “Pierre et Cathérine,” and would go on to create operas all the way through 1876. He was popular throughout his {…}