SIGNOR FOLI.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 45, 26 August 1892, Page 20

SIGNOR FOLI.

SiaNOB Foli, the world-famous basso, arrived in Dunedin on Tuesday morning, per Talune, with a very talented concert company, including Miss Bertha Bossow, the young Boprano who assisted Madame Patey, and made herself highly popular on the occasion of the Exhibition concerts. Miss Bossow, directly after her New Zealand trip, starts for Europe, and will very shortly make her bow to a London audience , so that this will be her farewell here. Madame Cole , another of the party, is reputedly a very fiae contralto, and Mr T. Lselie Middleton, the South Australian tenor, is, according to the Press, the best tenor produced by the colonies for many years. Miss Wood, who was also here with Madame Patey, will act as accompanist. Of Signor Foli much might be written. His name in grand opera anl oratorio was always a tower of strength at the Crystal Palace, the Boyal Albert Hall, or Coven t Garden Theatre. Witn Sims Beeves, SantLey, and Edward|Lloyd ha is classed. Undoubtedly, these are the greatest singers in the world. He comes to the colonies in possession of his fullest powers, and with a voica equal, if not superior, to that which so electrified his audiences in London when he sprang into fama. A red-letter event, undoubtedly hia advent will be in Duaedin, and from Thursday the 25th inst, and throughout the six concerts announced, we expect to see the Garrison Hall overflowing. The reasonable prices must be a great inducement, considering tbe great salaries paid to such stars as Signor Foli, The programmes to be given will be so diversified that the majority of the items set down for Signor Foli will give full evidence of his magnificent powers as a vocalist.