GRAND OPERA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 972, 15 May 1930, Page 17

GRAND OPERA

The talking screen is an ideal j medium for the presentation of grand 1 opera. The successful filming of such productions as “The Love Parade” and “The Vagabond King” has proven the adaptability of the screen to operatic comedy, and opened the way to the production of the greatest in musical entertainment, grand opera So says W. Franke Harding, noted composer, who wrote the enchanting songs featured in “Honey,” Paramount’s new screen musical farce, starring Nancy Carroll. "There is no reason that grand opera—but with an English libretto and modern music should not succeed on the screen is well as musical offerings of a lighter vein,” Harding continues. ' I believe that Hollywood will soon produce the composer who will write a new and modern opera, for th re:.son tha*. it has become the home and working place of the world's most famous composers.*

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