MISS GRACE MOORE.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19633, 20 July 1935, Page 17 (Supplement)

MISS GRACE MOORE.

COVENT GARDEN TRIUMPH.

SCENES OF GREAT ENTHUSIASM

The curtain fell on Grace Moore s performance In “ La Boheme ” at Covent Garden amid roars of applause that have rarely been equalled, says a London paper. The orchestra even remained to applaud. Even after 12 “curtains” had been taken, it was difficult to get the audience to move. When the curtain iiprt up for the 13th time Miss Moore appeared alone to receive the ovation. Police had to link hands to control the crowd at the stage door as she came out. Another reception was given her as she entered her car. “If we may accept Grace Moore s work as Mlml as revelatory of the whole of her operatic powers, she seems to have a voice the virtue of which resides in its unfailing sweetness rather than its volume,”' writes

Ernest Newman, the eminent critic. “ In the lower and middle register V is of exquisitely musical quality, an.' between about the two F’s she gave us sime very agaeejab'le range of gesture seems limited." John Brownlee (w'ho was ir. New Zealand a year or two ago) received great praise for his performance ao Marcello.

Theatre Reigns Supreme.

Miss Moore said that her debut at Covent Garden in “ La Bohcmc ” was the realisation of her life’s amb’tion —her “day and nignt dreams." “I am convinced,’ said 'Miss Moore, ‘that the cinema will never succeed in conveying the real spirit of opera, not as it is now at any rote. “ The theatre still reigns supreme. I ought to know, for I have worked for tlie past two years in radio, opera, concerts, and the cinema. “In Covent Garden the British possess tho greatest jewel in tin operatic world."