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"Child Murderess" (I remember every word of obloquy hurled at the hangman -- "hangman, craven hangman, canst thou not break off a lily") to the housemaid and me whenever my father and mother went out of an evening; and described "Papagena," in Mozart's opera which she had seen, all dressed in feathers; and was tempted to strum furtive melancholy chords on my mother's zither ....
Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Vernon Lee 1895
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The disguised Papagena also acquired an entrance aria, Mozart's "Die Alte."
Pared 'Flute' Is a Muted Production Heidi Waleson 2011
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Monica Harwood's appearance in the opera's last minutes as the frenetic Papagena and the slithery snake that had its two minutes of glory in the opening scene reminded us that this was, after all, a fairy tale.
'Magic Flute' hits the right notes -- except for the dramatic ones Joan Reinthaler 2010
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Dima Bawab's Papagena sounded oddly childlike and Raphaël Brémard was a not-very-menacing Monastatos.
Pared 'Flute' Is a Muted Production Heidi Waleson 2011
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It was a fairy tale, with dancing animals, a Sun King, and a pair of flirtatious parrots named Papageno and Papagena.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
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It was a fairy tale, with dancing animals, a Sun King, and a pair of flirtatious parrots named Papageno and Papagena.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
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Her future best friend, the Papagena of soprano Jamie-Rose Guarrine, shows promise in the SFO's apprentice program.
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It was a fairy tale, with dancing animals, a Sun King, and a pair of flirtatious parrots named Papageno and Papagena.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
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Papageno and Papagena skip even further forward to inhabit 20th Century sportswear, having long buried the struggles of political and religious ideology stemming from the Queen of Night and Sarastro.
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It was a fairy tale, with dancing animals, a Sun King, and a pair of flirtatious parrots named Papageno and Papagena.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
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