MISS ROSINA BUCKMAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 16010, 21 December 1922, Page 5

MISS ROSINA BUCKMAN.

The programmes for the forthcoming conceits to be given in the Opera House, on Saturday next, December 23, and Tuesday next, December 26, by Miss Roshia Buckman, the famous New Zealand soprano, and Mr.; Maurice D'Oisly, the English tenor, promise, 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 leaving England for New Zealand, Miss Buckman and Mr. D'Oisly made- an "extraordinary successful tour of Great Britain,, embracing the principal cities. In Manchester, which in the opinion of musicians is one of the most critical towns in England, they were the principal soloists at a concert performance of "Cavalleria Rustieana" with Sir Henry J, Woods, and the Manchester Guardian, reviewing the performance says : "Opera- companies are a little given to a complete reliance on the melodrama to carry this work through, and we rarely hear their finest singers in it. We hear, then, with a certain surprise tlie fine musical qualities which such singers as Miss Buckman and Mr. Maurice D'Oisly 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 ian approach to the parlante style were given in such a vivid way that they more than any other feature ■ lift his performance above thafof the normal tenors in the part. "Tii the Beecham Opera, he stood so much for the beauty of Mozart and the purely musical in opera that 'we were apt to forget his dramatic capabilities, but in this work there is now no forgetting nor ignoring them, and when we hear him and Miss Buckman make so much- of so little, it makes us chafe rather at the delays of the National Opera, in which we might hear them again. Miss Buekman's singing was complete in a dual sense. We might have forgotten its. dramatic purport and just listened with ravished care to its delicious .music, or we might have, forgotten all but the thrilling dramatic significance. In both, ways it was perfect.:" . I.\yets 'rem standard opera* will be a feature of the BuckmanD'Oisly concerts,, and the success these artists* have enjoyed with these excerpts in England will, doubtless be repeated fourfold here. The box plan ,is at. Muir's, bookseller.