BUCKMAN-D'OISLY SEASON

Evening Star, Issue 18175, 16 January 1923, Page 6

BUCKMAN-D'OISLY SEASON

COMMENCES ON SATURDAY. The throe farewell concerts to bo given l>v Miss Rosiua Buckmau and Mr Maurice D’Oisly in, His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday next. January 20. Monday, January 22, and Wednesday, January 24, will afford Dunedin music-lovers a last opportunity of hearing tho dominion’s queen of song and her talented husband before their return to England. In view of her many engagements ahead it will probably bo several years before the famous prima donna will bo able to revisit her homeland. In May iiext blio is duo to commence an extensive concert lour of the British Isles, tho first concerts being in tho Royal Albert Hall, where her reappearance is eagerly awaited by the huge audiences which packed tho Empire’s greatest concert hall week after week when Miss Buekman waa singing there during the war years. A concert "tour of the United States ia arranged for 1924, and there are insistent demands from Continental opera-houses, whore much interest was evinced in Miss Buckman’s English successes, particularly in the roles of Isolde and Butterfly, The famous soprano is very anxious to accept the invitation of the directors of the La Scala Openr-houso in Milan to sing several leading roles there. An invitation to sing ,at La Scala ia perhaps the most highly-prized distinction in the world of opera. Miss Buckman is the first British singer since Melba to receive this honor. At Saturday’s concert Miss Buckmau and Mr D’Oisly will sing for the first time in New Zealand the celebrated garden, scone duet from the third act of the Russian opera ‘ Boris Goudonov,’ by Modesto Moussorgsky. Several other new numbers will be given by both singers. Miss Adelina Leon will again bo heard in violoncello solos, and Mr Percy Kahn will provide the accompaniments. It is safe to assume that Die memory oi tiw dolightfu' concert! giver hero a few months ago by- these artists will ensure a repetition of the enthusiastic reception then accorded them. The box plan for tho three concerts will bo opened at The Bristol Piano Company’s to-morrow morning.