ALFRED O’SHEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 575, 30 January 1929, Page 17

ALFRED O’SHEA

FIRST CONCERT ON SATURDAY Alfred O’Shea, the great Irish tenor, will give the first of tlie four concerts of his Auckland season at the Town Hall on Saturday evening. Mr. O’Shea, who has just concluded a most successful tour of Australia, where he was principal tenor of the Melba-Williamson Grand Opera Company, and soloist at the Eucharistic Congress, is now on his way to fulfil important and lengthy engagements in America, so that New Zealanders Will probably not have another opportunity of hearing him. The critic of the Sydney “Morning Herald” said of Mr. O’Shea recently: “It is unusual for an audience to interrupt a sequence of songs, but that is what Mr. O’Shea’s audience demanded last night, when he sang an exquisite French song, “lie Memoir/ In his encore pieces Mr. O’Shea gave ‘II Mio Tesoro/ from ‘Don Giovanni,’ which was a sheer delight, and lie also sang ‘Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded/ ‘Oft in the Stilly Night/ and ‘several other old Irish melodies with a sincerity and sweetness and sympathetic feeling that has never been approached before in Sydney.”

In his Auckland concerts Mr. O’Shea will be assisted by Ina Bosworth, violiniste, Mavis Grevatti, harpiste, and Theo Halpin, solo pianiste and accompaniste.

The next Auckland concerts will, be given on February 5, 7 and 9. Country concert arrangements are advertised. The box plans are now open with Lewis Eady, Ltd.