CHORAL HALL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 885, 21 February 1907, Page 17

CHORAL HALL.

THE BLANCHE. ARRAL SEASON. The Blanche Arral season at the Choral Hall has proved eminently successful, Thursday’s and Saturday’s recitals being attended by large and enthusias ic audiences who were evidently delighted with the famous prima donna and her talented little concert party. On Thursday Madame Arral’s programme included such taking melodies as Gounod’s “If I Were King,” the same, author’s “Flower Song” from “Faust” ; Masse’s “L’ Air du Rossignol,” Bizet’s “Habanera,’.’ the scene “Ah! Fors, e lui,” from Verdi’s “La Traviata,!’ and the “Grand Bolero Espagnol. ” the delivery, of all of which fairly thrilled and entranced the audience, so much so that Madame was recalled again and again, and received numerous floral' tributes. The recital was in every respect a remarkable one, and concluded with Verdi’s famous “Bird Waltz,” which proved so irresistibly attractive at Madame’s opening concert, arid was again thunderously applauded. On. Saturday rhe programme included the aria “Adieu men Beauvirage” from. Meyebeer’s opera “L’Africane, ” the grand aria from Maillart’s “The Hermit’s Bell.” Tosti’s “Good-Bye” (given in English in response to an encore), Gounod’s “Serenade,” and the Shadow Song from Meyebrer’s Dinorah”; the Bolero from Verdi’s Siciliori Vesper, and Lococq’s Spanish song “Heart and Hand.” Madame Arral gave a fourth concert last evening, and will, it is understood, give a fifth before leaving Auckland, where she has made hundreds of admirers by her magnificent powers of song.