OPERATIC RECITAL.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 4

OPERATIC RECITAL.

The first of the season's chamber recitals by-Signor Lucicn Ccsaroni was given in the studio hall on Saturday^ night before an appreciative audience. The innovation of chamber music last year had encouraging results, and this year the Signor is presenting his arias in costume. Five recitals will be given this season. Signor Cesaroni's deep bass was artistically used in "the Pagliacci Prologue, following on the introductory pianoforte work of Mr. Harold Whittle. The aria embodies an old Grecian1- idea of apology by one player for the limitations of the other actors, and the Signor allowed full dramatic effect to the words. As a recall, "Arm, Arm, Ye Brave," from "Judas Maccabaeus," was given. The gCm of the evenin? was "La Calumni," from Rossini's "Barber of Seville," and in this the singer rose to,grand heights, and had to repeat the number, the audience liking his byplay and the humour with which he invested the lines. Other arias that delighted were "Song of the Whistle" (from Boito's "Mephistopheles"), and one from Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable."- Tosh's "Pieta" Signor" was also nicely interpreted in the Italian'manner. Mr. Harold Whittle was again the perfect accompanist. Miss Ivy Middlemiss displayed musicianly ability in her piano solos, two sonatas by Scarlatti and a caprice by Beethoven.