GERTRUDE JOHNSON CONCERT.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4012, 11 June 1920, Page 5

GERTRUDE JOHNSON CONCERT.

Next AVednesday Feilding folk are to have a rare musical treat from a. new group of musicians. They are Miss Gertrude Johnson, the phenomenal young operatic Boprano and prima donna, of Melbourne, Mr Horace Hunt, the brilliant Auckland pianist, musician, and composer, and MiCharles Russell, the celebrated Australian flautist. Early this year Miss Johnson was in the Dominion as prima donna in the J. O. WHEamson Grand Opera Company. She was a triumphant success in New Zealand, as she had previously been in Australia mi her principal roles, in "Lucia de Lammermoor" and "Rigolette." lv reviewing her work in the former opera, a Wellington musical critic said: —"Miss Gertrude Johnson was a revelation. Than that of Lucia it is difficult to name a much more exacting role in; grand opera. Yet Miss Johnson "was singularly successful in it." Mr Horace Hunt, who will appear conjointly with Miss Johnson, is on the same high plane of excellence. His art has been, perfected to a pronounced degree ih the last few years, through a wide experience of the world's great artists and their methods. The box plan opens at D'Anvers on Monday.