PAUL DUFAULT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1365, 22 June 1916, Page 32

PAUL DUFAULT.

FAREWELL CONCERTS

Paul Dufault, the ever delightful and ever welcome tenor, returns to Auckland for two farewell concerts next Friday and Saturday. The news of this opportunity of again hearing the favourite tenor has been generally welcomed. Paul Dufault is a French-Canadian and is proud of it; so are his thousands of admirers on this side of the world. He is justly famous for his singing of French and English ballads, but he is something more than a singer of ballads; he is also a great artist in the great music of the world. When Paul Dufault sings a simple little ballad with that inimitable delicacy of his, it must not be forgotten that he can also sing a great operatic aria with the same inimitable dramatic intensity, for Dufault is a master of many moods and in each seems equally convincing.

The extraordinary success which has greeted the Paul Dufault tour of New Zealand is something new in our musical experience. It can safely be said that no male singer who has visited us has been so universally appreciated as this great dramatic tenor. All music-lovers have welcomed the announcement of his two farewell concerts, to be given at His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland, on Friday and Saturday next, June 23 and 24, for which the box plans are now open at Wildman and Arey’s. Mr. Dufault’s success during his previous season here was enormous, and there is great interest evident in his return. The Dufault Australian tour opens in Sydney on July 1, and Mr. Dufault and his assisting artists sail from Auckland by the Makura on June 26; therefore this week’s entertainments will be his two last concerts in New Zealand, and absolutely the last opportunity of hearing him. Mr. Dufault will be assisted here by the same talented trio as before. Miss Pauline Bindley, soprano; Miss Florence Scapini, violinist; and Harold Whittle, pianist.