A FAMOUS SINGER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19311, 26 April 1926, Page 10

A FAMOUS SINGER.

-1 g, VISIT OF TOTI DAL MONTE, PASSING THROUGH ON NIAGARA. The famous operatic soprano, Signorina Toti Dal Monte, will arrive by the Niagara this morning en route to Australia. It will be remembered that last year she paid a meteoric Visit to the Commonwealth and sang to huge audiences with the Williamson-Tait-Melba Grand Opera Company, but a New Zealand visitwas found impracticable. This year Messrs. J. and N. Tait have promised that she shall visit the Dominion as soon as her Australian tour is ended. Signorina Dal Monte was born in Venice and chose the pianoforte as her form of study. This might have remained her profession in life but for n curious a'ccis dent which injured her wrist. Compelled 1 to abandon her pianoforte studies, the 1 young musician turned her attention to the l vocal branch of music and succeeded so - remarkably that she rapidly rose in public s estimation to become principal soprano at 3 the famous La Scaja Theatre in Milan. 3 She met with extraordinary success in r the leading Italian theatres from 1917 onwards, and at the Grand Opera. Paris, and in 1921 visited South America as leading operatic soprano, achieving an enormous success. From South America she proceeded to Australia, and just lately has been received with great enthusiasm in the United States. In response to an invitation sent by wireless, Signorina Dal Monte has agreed to be the guest of the Williamson management at His Majesty's Theatre this eveni in?- ' ' ITer Australian tour commences in Melbourne next month.