CAPPELLI CONCERT PARTY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1918, Page 8

CAPPELLI CONCERT PARTY.

A RETURN VISIT. The re-appearance of Signor Tino Cappelli and his talented concert company at Everybody's Theatre last night was greeted with tremendous enthusiasm by the large audience which crowded the building. It is safe to say that no party has ever before been accorded such a reception, and from the first the audience was insatiable ~in its demands for encores. The members of the company were, if anything, in better form than on the occasion of their previous visit, and they held the rapt attention of their hearers throughout the whole evening.

The range and beauty of Cappelli's voice, and tlie artistic treatment of his numbers, together with his strong dramatic power, make him a singer of forefront position, and last night he fully justified the high opinions that his work lias won for him wherever he has gone His numbers consisted of a bracketed of love songs, including the beautiful "Ah. si Oen mio," from "II Trovatore" (Verdi) and "Tu die a Dio spiemisti Vali," from Donizetti's "Lucia di l>mmennoor.'' In the second part he sang with telling intensity the '"Spirit 3o Fair," number from Donizetti's "La "stvorite" and "Lohengrin's Narrative" .Vagner). His encores were the ryth;c ballad "Lillito" (Bi'/.zi-Peceia), r attinata" (Leoncavallo), and "La ma e Mobile" (Verdi). Signor Lucien Cesarino, who created li a favorable impression on his first ; t, opened the programme with the 'a from Verdi's "Macbeth," entitled medal Cicl Preeipia," which he gave ■i splendid effect, and responded with t'e's "From Rushy Beds," the humor which became markedly contagious, 'er he sang Wagner's well-known "0, re and Tender Star" with exquisite >te, and for an encore he gave ."The >rseillai»e," the whole audience rising the sound of the first chords and relining standing throughout the numMisn Natalina M'Calhim, a gifted miiw s.iprano of lyric quality, who hails om Duncdin, has taken the place of Miss Bedford in the company, and she ' ,tmd instant favor with the audience 'ist night. Her programme numbers ••/ere "the Valley of Laughter" [Panders«n) and "Poor. Wandering One" (Sullivan), in,which Mr. John Amadio played the flute oblisato part. Her encores were "Wake Up" (Phillips) and "I ''now a Lovely OJardcn'' (Hardelot). Mr. John Amadio (flautist) was accorded what can only be termed a flat-! 'oring reception. His playing, as usual, ■'•as marked bv rich tonal beauty, perfect intonation and execution, and high 'rtistic interpretation. His numbers Vluded a dainty "Slumber Sonsr" 'Schumann) and the "Polonaise Brilli*nte" (Ttnse), for encores to which he played (by reque.st) a fantasia on national air's (which concluded with a thrillins production of the French National Anthem), and also a "Screnata" 'by Moskowski. In the second pnrt he played a Schubert-Elman "Serenade" and' waltz, and for encores "The Carnival dc ,r i>nice" and "Butterfly" (by request).

Mr. Harold Whittle, on whom rested Hie heavy tn.sk of playing the'accompaniments, fulfilled his part wij;h his accustomed grace and finish.