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MUSICAL VISITORS : Under engagement to the New;-Zea-land Broadcasting Board,' Madam* Florence Austral, the' famous soprano, arrived in Wellington yesterday with Mr. John Amadio," Who : is'oiie' fif th« world's greatest flautists. Florence Austral was born in Richmond, Melbourne. : After preliminary * studies in her home' city, she went to New York and "London, and made such outstanding progress in her l art that engagement at Covent*_ Garden followed. She made, her first- great success in Wagnerian opera, _and has sung in many parts of Europe and with the world's greatest orchestras in oratorios and concert work. She is recognised as one of the greatest English dramatic sopranos. ? Mr. John Amadio is equally well known as a flautist. His boyhood was spent in Wellington, with which city he is renewing acquaintance after many years. He was at one .time • pupil of the late Mr. Charles- "Hill.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 153, 30 June 1936, Page 4
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