MDLLE. DOLORES' RECITALS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 24 February 1902, Page 2

MDLLE. DOLORES' RECITALS.

MUST CONOKRT TO-MORROW EVENING. Thus a contsmporary: —" A packed audiecce on Saturday night greeted Mdlle. Dolores like a wellrrmtmbored charming companion, and was rewarded with two delightful hours of exquisite vocslisation, Considered from a purely technical point, Mdlle. Dolores' voice has attained a degree of perfection that is extremely rare in anything human. Responding in all registers with equal readiness to the singer's faintest breath, infallible in attack and pitch, mej'ow, flexible, and elastic, without blemish or mannerism, this voice seems to be cjuite unconscious of difficulties. A delicious feeling of security overcomes the listener, and as every syllable of tho song under treatment—be it English, French, ei Italian—reaches his ear, his enjoyment is noS njarr.d by the slightest contretemps. But &1{ will agree that the shadow dance from Meyerbeer's ' Dinorah' was a stupendous example of bravura singing, that the air from Handel's " L'Allegro" resounded with hilarity, and that the songs selected from three centuries and three languages were tung with the utmost charm and refinement, If I may select my favouritas I name Buononeinis' ' Per la Gloria,' Purcell's ' I Attempt from Lovo Sickness to Fly,' aud Haydn's 1 The Mermaid.' The letter's ' Follow Me' was so bewitchingly given I that many a knight-errant would have eagerly taken a plunge for it. During the evening threo encorai were granted, namely, two graceful French songs one of them te the fair sugar's own nccompanimont—and a brilliant and florid English song. The applause waß extremely hewty, and the flower offerings and magnificent.' A number of seats haye already been reserved, and intending patrons should lose no time in palling at the box offi.ee.