MADAME MELBA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 46, 21 February 1903, Page 2

MADAME MELBA.

WILL BING AT NSW PLYMOUTH. CONCERT DATE FIXED. It was intimated to the Daily Niwa on Thursday evening that arrangements had all but been made for Madam* Melba to give a concert at the Theatre Riyal at an e»rly date. As, however, the nutter wa» to be finally arranged on Friday, we delayed ths announcement of the good news until the receipt of a wire from Mads me Melba's agent. This duly cimi to band on Friday morning, and the publio will be glad to know ihit the oelebrated songstress will si> g herf on Friday next There is no diubt but that Hr Jones, the enterprising proprietor of the Theatre Royal, is entitled to great credit for the trouble he has taken in the matter of ge'.ting this great treat for the mosioal portion of the community, and there will probably be an eig r competition for seat*, although the prices era sp- cial. I-. may interest our reader* to be reminded that Madame Melba was born in Australia in 1865. When a of only s'z years of age she sang ballads to her own accompaniments, being subsequently sent to Paris, where she studied under Mtdame Marches!. Her first appearance on the operatic stem was at Brusnells in October, 1887, when s u e took pirt in "Rigoletto." In the following year she appeared before a London au lience as Lucia at Oovent • irdms Op:ra Qcu«e. Siooe then her career has been a aeries of uninterrupted and ever increasing triumphs, culminating, on her return recently to the land of her birth, in what WM equal to a Royal reception. In this respect her tour of New Zealand bids fair to evokt an equal tribute of homage to the greatest singer cf the day. At Dunedin Theatre an audience of 2000 welcomed Madame Melba. Up to the moment of her departure ah* was be with autograph hunters, It is nti'ed th%t she simply magnetised the audience. Sea's will be securtd on the principle of first come, first served. ' 11- m -