AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10182, 7 March 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

MISS AMY CASTLES' FAREWELL CONCERTS.

- Miss Amy Castles' forthcoming concert in Masterton is creating a stir amongst the music-loving community, and it is almost safe to predict that the concert will be largely attended. The box office sales at Miss Rive's have been unusually heavy, and the booking still continues brisk. On the conclusion of liev farewell tour Miss Castles goes to Europe where she has definitely decided po take up an operatic career. That this decision is a wise , one on the part of Miss Castles can now scarcely be gainsaid, for she has 1 most conclusively proved her' capabilities as an operatic star, and it can almost be said, if the enthusiastic criticisms of the press of New Zealand are to be taken into consideration, that Miss Castles was the salvation of the Williamson Grand Opera Company on their, recent tour. Her performance as Madam Butterfly and La Boheme being nothing short of marvellous, whsn one considers that it was the young singer's first serious effort in this direction. That Miss Castles has more than fulfilled the early promise which she gave is without contradiction and music-lovers will look forward with the keenest possible interest to hearing lier lovely soprano voice again on the concert platform. Apart from the fame arid ability of the star, Miss Castles has associated with her a company of more than usually attractive calibre, ancl when we consider that these include Alexander Campliausen, the celebrated operatic .baritone from the Grand Opera of Berlin,; Dresden, Hamburg, arid Leipsic. Her Camp., hausen is said to possess a remarkable voice of superb quality. In addition wg have He'rr Louis Hattenbaeli, the great performances have been received 1 with the greatest artictic pleasure! The pianist of the company is Mr William Conway, a young Australian who has just returned from a visit t.o Berlin, ■ Antwerp, and London.