ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 281, 20 April 1911, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

OSSIPOFF. TO-NIGHT. You will be pleased to learn that Eugene Ossipoff, Russia's most brilliant baritone, will sing in the Theatre Royal to-night and to-morrow. His commanding gifts have forced the admiring attention of all sections of his audiences wherever he has favored them. He is one of the earth's most expressive and intimate vocalists—vivid—compelling—■ unique. Temperamentally, Eugene Ossipoff is unapproachable. The tremendous vitality of the man and of his voicb come as a glad surprise to those who are familiar only with the mechanism of voice production. Eugene Ossipoff loves to sing, and those who have listened to the magnetic voice are necessarily attracted again. Eugene Ossipoff has ■ the unusual ability of appealing to all people even though he may not always sing in a language they know. The brilliance of his method has placed him in the front rank of grand opera singers. He is a master of many languages and he uses none more charmingly than the English. He is dramatically dynamic, with a fire and fervor welling from his inmost being. He becomes gently emotional with the emotion of a who knows and feels the glory of his theme. He can be tunefully tempestuous because the passion of the master musician is his also. He sings to the soul after he himself has gone. The songs he has sung remain to us happy memories. The songs he would like to sing to you —you must hear them. Having heard them you will mark the evening of hearing with letters of gold in the tablets of your memory. He brings to New Plymouth other eminent musicians whose works you will also remember. Miss Renee Lees, lyric soprano and memorised accompanist, Miss Lilian Edmonds, Australia's soprano, and Mr. Charles Norman, oboe soloist, the finest in the Southern Hemisphere. The Box plan is now open at Hoffmann's. Popu'lar prices: Dress circle, 4s; orchestral stalls, 3s; stalls 2s; and pit, Is.