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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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Before World War II, “Martha” was a staple at the Met. It’s pretty much disappeared from the repertory since then. Nelson Eddy sings the big A-flat aria in the Disney cartoon from the Thirties about a whale who sang at the Met.