MINA FOLEY FOR DUNEDIN
MINA FOLEY, who won ‘prolonged and. thunderous applause from Promenade audiences at Wellington and Auckland earlier this -year, is soon to make her first South Island appearance with the National Orchestra of the NZBS. The young Auckland soprano will appear with the orchestra at Dunedin on Saturday, July 18. She will sing "The Bell Song" from Delibes opera
Lakme, and "Ernani Involami" from Verdi’s Ernani. When Miss Foley reappeared on the New Zealand concert stage during Wellington’s Promenade season in January the audience received her so enthusiastically that she was asked to repeat her performance the following evening. The young soprano began studying at the age of 14. She has won competitions in New Zealand and Australia, and has recorded songs with an Australian orchestra. In 1951 she left to study abroad, and after fulfilling several engagements in London, won a scholarship to study in Italy. There she was taught by the famous singer and teacher Toti dal Monte, and was offered an engagement at Venice to sing in Lucia di Lammermoor, but her health broke down and she returned to New Zealand to rest. Other items on the National Orchestra’s programme for the July 18 concert include Dvorak’s "New World" Symphony, and Sibelius’s "King -Christian" Suite. A second concert is scheduled for July 21, when the violinist Maurice Clare, formerly leader of the Boyd Neel String Orchestra, will give a performance of Beethoven's Concerto in D, Opus 61. This programme will also include performances of Stravinsky’s "Firebird" Suite, and of the tone poem Hinemoa, a composition by the National Orchestra’s guest conductor Warwick Braithwaite.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 19
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269MINA FOLEY FOR DUNEDIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 19
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