Clara Butt's Debut
AY /ITHIN half-a-dozen years of the opening of ths ‘ Royal College of Music, a girl of seventeen gained a gcholarship, and soon distinguished herself at the students’ concerts, particularly in the performance of opera, This girl’s name was Clara Butt. So successful was this particular student’s performance as Orpheus in Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice, produced by the Royal College of Music at the Lyceum Theatre, that the Prince of Wales com-
manded a repetition of the performance, which H.R.H. and other royalties attended. She was presented to the Princé, who become very interested in her career from then onwards. A few months later, at her first command performance before Queen Victoria, Clara Butt’s orchestral accompaniments were conducted by Sir Arthur Sullivan. He declared, after she had sung his "Lost Chord" at his request at the audition: "This is the first time I have heard it sung as it should be sung." ("Some Favourite Edwardian Entertainers." 2YA, November 9). g
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 127, 28 November 1941, Page 5
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163Clara Butt's Debut New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 127, 28 November 1941, Page 5
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