La Tetrazzini.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 13, 28 March 1908, Page 13

La Tetrazzini.

To employ a sporting phrase. Madame Tetrazzini has now brought off a treble event (writes a Landon critic). Making her first appearance in Buenos Ayres, London, and New York in "La Traviata,” she in each instance conquered her audience at the outset by her brilliant singing of “Ahl fora’ e lui,” aad then worked

her way on to a triumph by her superb interpretation of Violetta’s music in the final scene of Verdi’s opera. Her success was due to the fact that she has obtained perfect control over a beautiful voice of exceptional range and volume. Having noted the practical unanimity that existed among the London critics with regard to the artist’s remarkable qualities, the musical public—as on many earlier occasions when assured of obtaining good value for their money—came to the doors of Covent Garden in their thousands. That some of the German critics in New York should be-unable to appreciate fully the beauty of Madame Tetrazzini’s tones and the brilliancy and certainty of her technique. is not to be wondered at, for that delightful artiste's method is laudably free from those blemishes which render the singing of many Teutonic artists so destructive of enjoyment to those whose ears derive pleasure from just intonation. As Sir Alexander Mackenzie pointed out at the Royal Academy of Music recently, the opera performances given in not a few towns in Germany are so bad that they would not be tolerated in London. Dr. Joachim, too, not long ago affirmed that, while rough playing elicited no protest from connosseurs in Berlin, the London critics would certainly draw attention to and condemn any lapses of the kind. J»