GALLI-CURCI.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 9

GALLI-CURCI.

What is Galli-Curci like? Everyone who loves music, and has a gramophone, is asking this question in view of the coming of the diva to New Zealand next month, and to Wellington on 2nd and 4th of July. Here is a Sydney impression : —"Slight in figure, extremely vivacious, with a quick, flushing smile, equally, quick nods of a head, a little run to go off with, a way of seeming to seek individual admirers in the audience, which immediately puts on a big popularity footing—such is Galli-Curci. A moment before she sings, Galli-Curci looks defiantly—almost bitterly— at the unknown quantity before her. Then the light lades out of her face, as if under the hand of a mesmerist; the eyes lose lustre, the cheeks become tired and wan in appearance. We feel that we are present at the death of a flower. At last, one softly-moving piano note runs to another, a second to a third, a fourth- to a fifth . . . petals of music quietly wafted along the avenue of a garden. When the song is ended, and before the last fainting anist. of sweetness has trailed away, the audience replies with the sound of wind in a forest of trees. Amelita stoops left and right; her teeth flash; her hand rises high over her head while she flicks a handkerchief in the air. She turns to go, and we see her supple back undulating as she disappears from the public view." r

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