MISS ETHEL OSBORN

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 5

MISS ETHEL OSBORN

DEBUT IN LONDON. Miss Ethel Osborn, the Brisbane soprano, v.ho toured New Zealand last vear, appears to have made a very successful debut at the Albert Hall, London, on October 13, under the wing ot and on the same programme as Dame Clara Butt. Of her performance the “Daily Sketch” said:— . “It would be an exaggeration to say that Ethel Osborn, the new soprano, Ims laid Ixmdon at her feet in a single concert, but after her success at the Albert Hull last night she takes definite rank anmng the great singers who have come here from Australia. Slie mane good in exceptional circumstances, inasmuch as the famous conductors. Sir Edward Elgar and Sir London Ronald, with the London Symphony Orchestra and the full resources of the grand organ, were all engaged in helping to welcome back Dame Clara Butt and Mr. Kennedy Rumford from their world tour. Li these circumstances, the separate welcome given to Miss Osborn was the greater tribute.” . The “Daily Telegraph” said: — The concert, at which, incidentally. the London Symphony Orchestra played some familiar Wagner and ether things under the direction of Sjr Landon Ronald, introduced the audienec to a newcomer in Miss Ethel Osborn, an Australian singer, the credit for whose discovery belongs Io Dame Clara Butt. Unquestionably Miss Osborn is somethin? of a trouvaille, as her fluent and flexible singinsr of “Resmava rel Silenzio” (“Lucia di Lammermoor ’) showed plainly enough. Her light soprano voice is distinguished by a purity and delicacy of no common order, and her upper notes —she scored easily to the high D—ring clear and invariably t’.uc.”