ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 July 1922, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MISS ROSI!vA BUCRMAN. 1 The programme for the forthcoming concert to be given in the Opera House on Tuesday next, August 1, by Miss Rosina Buckman. the fan cms New Zealand soprano, and Mr. . Maurice I 1) Oisly, the English tenor, premises to be of more than usual interest, as both artists have achieved extraordinary success in grand opera and on the concert platform, and are able to combine ■ the two with happy results. Prior to I leaving England for New Zealand, Miss Buckman and Mr. D'Oisly made an extraordinarily successful tour of Great Britain, embracing the principal cities ; In Manchester, which, in the opinion of , musicians, is one of the most critical I towns in England, they were the prin.I clPa/ soloists in a concert performance |ot Cavallena Rustic-ana," with Sir j Henry J. Woods, and the Manchester j bruardian, reviewing the performance, i said: "Opera companies are a little I given to a complete reliance on the melodrama to carry this work through , and we rarely hear their finest singers . m it. We hear, then, with a certain surprise the fine musical qualities which such singers as Miss Buckman and Mr au"(^. l?'°, isly reveal in the work! Mr. D Oisly has come on amazingly in the purely dramatic sense also, and one could trust him to make the Turridu of this opera effective without any help from the music at all. The frequent exclamations which demand so close an i approach to the parlante style were ' given in such a vivid way that they I more than any other feature lift his ' performance above that of the normal I tenors of the part. In the Beecham • opera he stood so much for the beauty i of Mozart and the purely musical in opera that we were apt to forget his dramatic capabilities, but in this workthere is now no forgetting nor ignoring them, and when we hear him and Misi i JJuekman make so much cf so little it ! makes us chafe rather at the delays of the National Opera, in which we might hear them again. Miss Buckman's sirWinsr was complete in a dual sense W e might have forgotten its dramatic purport and just listened with ravished care to its delicious music, or we might have forgotten all but the thrilW dramatic signifidance, In both ways"t was perfect." Duets from standard these artists have en oved with these excerpts m En-land will doubtless bl repeated fourfold.here. The box nlan is now open at Mrs. Cook's Sweet Shop