TOTI TO WED.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17466, 28 July 1928, Page 17 (Supplement)

TOTI TO WED.

CARRIAGE IN SYDNEY. AN OPERA ROMANCE. The announcement was made In Sydney last week by Mr Nevin Talt that slgnorina Toti Dal Monte, of the Williamson Grand Opera Company, has become engaged to Signor E. de Muro Lomanto, and the marriage will take place shortly, probably at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. Toti Dal Monte was born in Venice, and she has won fame in opera all oyer the world. Her engagement to Signor E. de Muro La Lomanto is a real romance. Dal Monte's international fame really began with her career in Australia on the occasion of her first visit there. From there she went to Chicago, then lo the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and so to Covent Garden. Her career has been remarkably rapid. A Beautiful Homo. Toti has a beautiiul home just outside Venice, which is called Veneto. Her estate is a large one, and she cultivates grapes for wine. The people who manage her estate while she is absent receive a certain share of the profits from the crops. She feels now that she would like a little more ease lo spend a few- weeks at her own home, a relaxation she has not enjoyed for a couple of years. Mr Nevin Tait had the pleasure of meeting her mother and found her a very charming lady. He met her uncle in Italy too —Signor Cacerdote, a publisher, who prints all the currencv for the Italian Government. One of his jokes to Mr Tait was that he would never be short of money. Toti herself has made a fortune during the last few years. But she will not give up her art. That may be taken as a foregone conclusion. She will continue to sing after her marriage, but she will not make her opera appearances and study the only objects in her life. She will occasionallv appear with her husband in the theatres of the world's centres, and meanwhile her crops will engage some of her attention. The Lucky Lomanto. Of course, all her Sydney admirers will be thinking that the tenor, Lomanto, is a lucky man. He is really by profession a barrister, having passed through his law course in Italy, where his family Is well known. Like a lot of other Italians, he took a keen interest in opera, adopting the art of opera singer and making a quick advance. . At an early age he appeared at the Theatre San Carlo, Naples; La Scala, Milan; Opera House, Paris; Vienna, Budapest, Brussels, and other centres. He is a very talented scholar, and is regarded as"one of the handsomest men in the Wilhamson-Melba Company. He met Toll Dal Monte and sang with her in "The Daughter of the Regiment," at La Scala, Milan, this vear Signor Umberto do Lello, another member of the present company, was also in'that cast.