BLANCHE ARRAL CONCERTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10960, 1 May 1907, Page 2

BLANCHE ARRAL CONCERTS.

The advent of the operatic star, Madame Blanche Anal, who appears at His Majesty's Theatfe on Wednesday next, is causing considerable interest. '* Madame scored luer success m Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, and lost week m Dunedin, ; not alone with the musical cult, but also with the classes, for her programmes are arranged to please the critical ear as Well ,as the general public. No artiste who has visited New Zealand and Australia has : created more enthusiasm than Madame '< Amil. In Sydney her carriage. was mob- . bed as it left the Town Hall after the : final concert, and her beautiful floral tri- ' butes" were almost torn to%shreds by ex- j ; cited admirers. In Paris, at the Opera j Bouse, Madame created many of the original roles of the lighter school of opera, and she, has tne reputation of being one ' of the finest coleratura vocalists of the day. Included jii the programme to be ! submitted at her opening concert on Wednesday next will be the celebrated polacca from Thomas' opera "Mignon." Of her rendering of this beautiful composition the Sydney Morning Herald says : "She advanced herself m the favor of the audience by a crescendo of vocal achievements, and linallv brought down ihe huge audience oxer '.*•._ ignoii.' brilliantly, sung,