STAR FROM THE MET.
ANY stars of New York’s | V | famed Metropolitan Opera have reached ‘the top through the Met’s annual "Auditions of the Air." Singers from all over the United States compete, and the winners are awarded contracts
with the company. One such winner is Frances Greer (below) who now regularly sings leading roles in such operas as Faust, Madam Butterfly, La Traviata, the Marriage of Figaro. Miss Greer is soon to be heard. from Commercial stations in a new series of half-hour programmes entitled Musicland. She joins with the brilliant young American baritone Earl Wrightson to bring listeners top tunes from musical comedy and operetta. There will be selections from Oklahoma, Kiss Me Kate, Brigadoon, The King and I, The Student Prince and _-
Mexican Hayride, among others. The orchestra and chorus is that of Alfredo Antonini (recently heard in Music by Antonini) Other singers to be heard include Thomas Hayward, tenor, Eugenie Baird, Virginia Haskins and Elaine Malbin. Earl Wrightson, who is host for the show, started in radio as a page-boy for one of the big broadcasting networks about 10 years ago, and has now become one of America’s leading singers on the air and on the stage. The tenor Thomas Hayward has been a member of the Met. since 1945. He began his musical career as violinist, then switched to singing. Originally broadcast in the United States by the CBS network, Musicland comes to NZBS listeners by courtesy of the Voice of America. It will be broadcast by all ZB stations and 2ZA at 7.30 p.m, on Sundays, beginning September 5.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 17
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265STAR FROM THE MET. New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 17
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