ARTISTS ABROAD
Many Colonials Have Made Good HIGH-CLASS WORK DONE The proposal to present "La Boheme,” with an all-Australian cast, during the coming Williamson-Melba grand opera season, has been styled "patriotic, but impracticable.” Certainly it would be ridiculously easy to select a brilliant cast were all our native singers who have “made good” overseas available. The list of Aus- ; tralian and New Zealand singers notable abroad in opera, oratorio or on the concert platform is a re- | markable one. Besides Melba, who ' is a world figRosina Buckman ure, there are Florence Austral, John Brownlee, Browning Mummery, Rosina Buckman. and other artists who are famous. Then there are Harold Williams, Cecil Sherwood, Fred Collier, Edna Bennie and Clara Sarena in the front rank of operatic singers in London. Frances Alda is singing at the Metropolitan, New York, and Elsa Stralia is in California.
Concert and oratorio singers in London include Horace Stevens, Rosa Alba, Gertrude Johnson, Essie Ackland. Mignon Trevor, Stella Murray, Peter Dawson, Ethel Osborn, Dorothy Helmrich, Ernest McKinley, Muriel Turner, and many others who are duing high-class work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 14
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179ARTISTS ABROAD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 14
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