ARRIVAL IN N.Z. OF ITALIAN OPERA COY.
AUCKLAND, February 16.
One of the world’s leading opera conductors, Franco Ghione, arrived by Skymaster from Sydney to-day to conduct the Italian Grand Opera Company, which begins its New Zealand tour in Auckland on Wednesday next. In 30 years, Ghione has conducted the most famous orchestras in Europe, Britain and America. In 1921 Toscanini called him to conduct at La Scala Opera House in Milan, where he remained for eight years. Preferential bookings for the threeweek season in Auckland have been extremely heavy, Mr John Farrell, touring manager, said to-day. A section of the National Orchestra had been rehearsing in Wellington to accompany the opera, and a ballet of local performers was training under an Australian ballet mistress.
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Grey River Argus, 17 February 1949, Page 7
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