MISS ROSINA BUCKMANN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 282, 1 May 1914, Page 8

MISS ROSINA BUCKMANN.

SINGS BEFORE KlN'fi AXD QUEEK, A London Times cable mc*.s4aga received by tlie Sydney Sun lust Tuesday week leads as follows: — ; The King and Queen, the Mother, the Princess Victoria, anil many other notabilities were .present at the opening of the grand opera season at Covent Harden last night. Mmc. Melba sang as convincingly as ever in "La Boheme," and Miss Rasina JSuckmann, who took the role ' of Musetta, was intensely alive and a delightful termagant. > > j Miss Buckmann is a Xe'.v Zealand girl, and has resided at Nelson, Mas.terton and Wellington. Her parents' are, at present residents of Xew Plymouth: On the advice of Mr. John McConnaek (with whom she appeared in opera in Sydney and Melbonrne, and in conpprts in New Zealand), supported by that of Madame Melba, Miss Buckmann went to London in 1912, and after, i> to.i|r of tlie United Kingdom with; Mr. McCormack, settled down to concert work, and finally made her first operatia Appearance in London as one of the 'flower -girls in the first performance of' Wagner's "Parsifal" at Covent Gafdei) in "FtSbrviary last. Miss Buckmanw 'placed fMusetta to Madame Melba's Mlihl'in""La Boheme" in Australia, where she sharo'd the honors of the second act'Cvenlv'witih Madame herself. ; ;