GALLI-CURCI.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 10

GALLI-CURCI.

Throughout the world of music no success of the century has been so illuminating as that of Amelita Galli-Curci, who will appear here on 2nd July. Lifted to the niche prepared for her "by popular appreciation, the present season, her eighth in America, finds this great a-rtist occupying a position never before recorded in the annals of musical history— a regular member and featured star of both of America's great opera organisations, the metropolitan and Chicago .opera- companies—the very idal of millions whom she has thrilled with her golden tones. Last season, her managers state, was the greatest and most significant of her career, artistically and financially. He who would analyse the art of Galli-Curci from a technical point or diagnose its gripping quality through aji exposition of its intrinsic elements underuikes the impossible, for that art" in its sublimity and its power defies dissection. It is a composite of all the gifts of the gods. As Juliet, Violetta, Lakme. Dinorah, Butterfly, Marion, Lucia, Gilda, and other famous heroines of grand opera as -well as in concert, Galli-Curci has revealed her matchless art. She has a song for every heart, a message for every mood, a balm for every care. The wonderful purity of her voice, its amazing flexibility, its marvellous " iftjating" quality, so elusive in its witchery, so satisfying and entrancing to the ear; her uncanny ease in the delivery of passages of the utmost technical difficulty, these.and other phases of her art have inspired a thousand pens to attempt with ■glowing superlatives to describe the beanties of her voice. But words have never expressed the full sense of its exquisite charm and pathose or conveyed the meaning of its touching appeal. The Wellington public is reminded that the preferential plans will be opened at The Bristol at 10 a.m. on Wednseday morning. Tliose residing outside Wellington who intend to hear Galli-Curci- should lose no tune in writing into the box omce.