FRANCES ALDA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 14

FRANCES ALDA

CONCERT ON TUESDAY After a successful season in the Australian capitals, Madame Frances Alda, the celebrated New Zealandborn soprano, will arrive by the Niagara on Monday for a concert tour of the Dominion under the direction of Mr. D. D. O’Connor. On Tuesday next and Thursday evenings concerts will be given in the Auckland Town Hall. Madame Alda has been for several years the leading operatic soprano in the United States, where she first became famous as the singing partner of the late Enrico Caruso. She is also well-known in the South American countries, where she has made a great number of appearances on the concert platform as well as in grand opera. Alda’s success in concert work is remarkable for an operatic singer. Her proficiency in foreign tongues, and foreign singing styles, is obviously the result of much study and hard work, which might be expected from a. singer who is notable for having memorised no fewer than 48 operatic roles. On Tuesday evening Madame Alda will sing seventeenth century songs by Secchi, Philidor and Handel, modern songs by Rachmaninoff, Lenormand, and the Spanish composer, “Obradors, the aria “One Fine Day,” from “Madame Butterfly,” and popular songs by Rogers, Leoni, Maxwell and Woodman. Mr. Max Rabinowitsh will act in the dual capacity of solo pianist and accompanist. The box plans are at Lewis R. Eady and Son, Ltd.