Pleasure for Opera-lovers
SUNDAY evening programmes from 1YC used not to be particularly exciting; and, faithful most. of the week, I would then switch to 1ZB’s TIFH and other lively BBC programmes. But recent months have made this 1YC evening almost the best of the week. Partly this is because of the fine World Theatre plays-Malleson’s delightful Moliere, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull and She Stoops to Conquer---but also because of the unfamiliar and little-heard operas which are naw presented frequently. In the old -dispensation we used to hear from 1YA on "Sunday opera night" almost only the more hackneyed Verdi
and Puccini works, over-lengthily commented on by a too-familiar voice, But within the last few weeks, 1YC has given us Mascagni’s L’Amico Fritz, Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne, Donizetti’s L’Elisire d’Amore, and, most recently, Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, If 1YC can present pieces like this regularly, they will not only give much pleasure to opera-lovers but will help to remove the impression that the only worth-while operas are those whose most popular arias are flogged to death on screen and radio.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 764, 12 March 1954, Page 10
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183Pleasure for Opera-lovers New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 764, 12 March 1954, Page 10
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