BRITISH OPERA
PREFERENCE TO FOREIGNERS rAnetralian A N.Z. Cable AsinJ K LONDON, April 26. Miss Katharine Arkands, who first won fame in “The Beggars’ Opera,” ig the only British star appearing at the forthcoming opera season at Covent Garden, though British singers are filling a number of minor roles. Miss Arkands, interviewed by the “Daily Exxpress,” said: “I am not only the sole British singer filling a leading role, but I looked at the contract, and I found that it was in the German ian- ■ guage. Imagine that! A German contract offered to a British singer to appear in a British opera house! ” The “Daily Express” editorially says: “The subscription list for Covent Garden is practically full. So much for British support for opera. What about grand opera’s support for British singers and conductors?” * Among others mentioned, the paper r f says: “Miss Florence Austral should be given a chance in senior opera, as she has one .of the greatest voices of the world.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1927, Page 5
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