GRAND OPERA
Sir-In your issue of June 10 "Opera Lover" (Petone) makes the naive suggestion: «If we had, say, one hour each Sunday night set by, or even half-an-hour, it would help in no small way to satisfy the opera-starved public of New Zealand." I would recommend him to scan and use the programmes given him each week in your paper. Had he 3 doing so, he would have seen’ that, for years now, there has always been at least ome grand. opera put over the main stations every Sunday night. Thus the very issue of The Listener which prints his letter advertises Borodin’s Prince Igor over 4YA on
Sunday evening, June 19, from 9.22 to 10.30-eight minutes more than he begs. During the week also, operas in full or by instalments have been consistently scheduled for the main. stations ever since your paper started. In addition, a very large part of each day’s outputoften advertised, often not-is grand Opera numbers. All ‘this without mentioning the flood of opera put out daily by the smaller stations, I would have thought the opera-lover rather overcatered for, more especially as grand opera is by no means the highest form of musical and literary art.
F. K.
TUCKER
(Gisborne),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 524, 8 July 1949, Page 5
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