CHARLES HACKETT TO-NIGHT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18147, 9 August 1924, Page 14

CHARLES HACKETT TO-NIGHT.

——« AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME. It is already very obvious that the two remaining; concerts to be given tonight and on Monday night in the Theatre Royal, by the renowned tenor, Mr Charles Hackett, will bo quite inadequate to satisfy Christchurch music-lovers. Unfortunately no extension of the season is. possible, as the famous dinger must leave New Zealand on September '2nd to take up his operatic engagements in America and Euiope. The first of these will be -with the Chicago Opera on September 30th, whou Mr Hackett will open the season in Bizet's opera ~L*s Pecheuis de PerW with S-.gnora Galli-Curci. After the tumultuous reception accorded the famous tenor and h.s associate artist** on Thursday niyht by a packed audience, it may bo tjjeen tor granted tuat the Theatre Royal will be incap. b.e o: h Wing the crowds: anxious to atte.'id the concerto to-night Wad on Monday i:i = ht. Tne m,-iiiageu;ent itqueais patrons'to reserve their scats this morning at The Biistol Piano Co., or 10 buy day sale tickets at the Theatre Koyal Confectionery, where the box plan will also be on view after 1 p.m.

Another attractive programme will bo prenented this evening, when the famous tenor's arias from Grand Opera will include the great aria "0, Paradiso!" from Meyerbeer's opera, "L'Africana," and the classic "II mio tcsoro," from Mozart's "Don Giovanni. Tho astounding versatility of the great singer should be amply exploited in a group of diversified French songs, which will include Extase (Dupa-rc), Les Papillons (Chauason), Clair de Lune (Szulc), and Mai (SaiutSaens). Songs in English will bo:—f»a Lehmann's "Ah, Moon of My Delight," Frank Biidge's "Love Went a-Riding," Duna (McGill), "I Heard You Singing," (Eric Coates), "In the Forest" (Ansorge), and "Thank God for a Garden" (del Riego). M. Yovanovitch Bratza, the young Serbian virtuoso of the violin, who created o remarkable impression on Thursday night, •will be heard, with Mr CUwence Raybould, in the Wieniawski Concerto in D minor, and also the Bach Prelude in E, Havanaiea (Saint-Saens), Chant d'Amour (Suk), and Fritz Kreisler's popular Tambourin Chinoia. The accompaniments will again be provided by the inimitable Mr Raybould.