OPERA SEASON EXTENDED.
|NSTEAD of sailing for Australia on May 20, the International Opera Company will now travel by air, leaving Auckland probably on June 3 and 5, This extension of the season by about a fortnight méans that there will be opportunities for thousands more people to see and hear a variety of works, Dates for the Timaru season and the early part of the Dunedin season have been re-arranged, and so, in turn, have dates of opera broadcasts by the NZBS. ; Timaru will hear.’"Madame Butterfly" this Friday, May 6, and "The Barber of Seville’ (matinee) and ‘La Boheme" on Saturday, May 7. The evening performances on May 6 and 7 will be broadcast. Dates and operas for the Dunedin season will be:-Monday, May 9, "Madame Butterfly’; Tuesday, May 10, "Aida’’; Wednesday,- May 11, "La Boheme"; Thursday, May 12, "Madame Butterfly’ (matinee), evening, ""Aida’’; Friday, May 13, "Tosca"; Saturday, May 14, "‘La Boheme"’ (matinee), evening, "Rigoletto"; Monday, May 16, ‘Manon’; Tuesday, May 17, "Rigoletto’’; Wednesday, May 18, "Cavalleria Rusticana" and ‘‘Pagliacci"’; Thursday, May 19, "Madame Butterfly’ (matinee), evening, ‘The Barber of Seville’; Friday, May 20, "Il Trovatore’; Saturday, May 21, ‘Cavalleria Rusticana"’ and "Pagliacci" (matinee), evening, ‘""Manon’’, There will be broadcasts of the evening performances only on May 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, and 21, In Invercargill all three performances, "Madame Butterfly" on Monday, May 23, "Manon" on Tuesday, May 24, and "The Barber of Seville’ on Wednesday, May 25, will be broadcast. ° The return season in Wellington will re-introduce ‘li Trovatore" on Friday, May 27, and "Rigoletto" (matinee), and ‘Manon’ on Saturday, May 28. "Manon" will be broadcast. The final New Zealand performance by the company will take place in Auckland, where the dates and performances will be:--Monday, May 30, "Madame Butterfly’; Tuesday, May 31, "Il Trovatore’’; Wednesday, June 1, "‘KAadame Butterfly’ (matinee), evening, ‘Rigoletto’; Thursday, June 2, | "Manon". Performances on May 31, and June 1 and 2 will be broadcast. 4 —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 5
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