AiSHY PRIMA DONNA.
Not* for a long time has there been such a sensational opening of, a concert season as characterised the first appearance in Australia of Kirsten Flagstad, at- Sydney. Town Hall. The applaUse was electrical, and the .newspaper critics agreed that there had never been a more tumultuous "recognition of a great artist as Flagsfad was accorded. The -world's greatest dramatic soprano is shy. After the concert she stayed for a few minutes in her dressing-room and then slipped quietly out by the back .entrance", of the Town Hall, as she did not feel she could face the people who stood in groups on the steps waiting to see her depart. , s •. ~'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 21
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114AiSHY PRIMA DONNA. Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 21
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