ROSINA BUCKMAN CONCERTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18762, 16 January 1923, Page 2

ROSINA BUCKMAN CONCERTS

■ -O' The box plan for the three farewell concerts to bo given in His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday next, .January 20, and the following Monday and Wednesday by the dominion's Queen of Song, Miss Rosin a Buckman, and her talented husband, Mr Maurice D’Oisly, will bo opened at ("no Bristol Piano Company to-morrow morning. In view of (ho enthusiasm evoked by these delightful artists at the concerts given in Dunedin lust June, it may safely be predicted (hat on Saturday next His Majesty’s Theatre will again bo packed to the doors by eager and expectant concert-goers. The famous prirna donna and her equally well known husband have just, completed a

phenomenally successful tour of Australia, (luring which no fewer than 50 concerts were given. Dealing with the first concert of the return season, the Sydney Morning Herald said: •‘Both Miss Rosina Buckmau and Mr Maurice D'Oisly are well-known to Sydney music-lovers. They received a, rapturous welcome on their return to Sydney on Saturday evening, when an enthusiastic audience included their Excellencies the Governor-general "and Lady Forster. The soprano’s voice is larger than ever, and reveals qualities of infinite beauty and richness in the upper register, which at time's was put to thrilling effect. Her rendering, in English, of Oho Oho flan’s ‘One Fine Day’ aria, was exhilarat-

ing in the extreme. 'Hie high floating phrases of the opening, the liquid beauty of which immediately stirred the audience, quickly led to (he quaintnoss of the shorter phrases, and thence the tone leaps upwards to the tense emotional outburst ef (he close, of which (he prima donna made good use. Even finer, was the duct, which completes the first act. when, with night falling Inst. Butterfly goes to her lover, and the exquisite melody follows, the climax of the

scene ending with ‘Oh. Kindly Heavens.’ The soprano joined with Mr D’Oisly in this duet, and given at the end of the programme, it led to furious recalls.” Of Miss Adelina Leon's ’cello playing, the same critic wrote. ‘‘Miss Loop’s playing has a rich, warm tone, and she was admirably suited in the ‘Chanson HLndouc,' from Rimsky-Korsakoff’s opera ‘Sadko.’ Tn the onera this very beautiful air is sung by a Hindu merchant, n character of minor importance, hut it has l>ceu made famous by Melba and other great singers, ns well ns by violinists such as Kroisler. Miss l/oon irresistiblv suggested its langurous atmosphere with little chromatic runs as of lulling sighs in Eastern lands, and there were faint suggestions of passion. One cannot hear too much of it.”