Out of the Past
[HE GOLDEN AGE OF OPERA, one, of the most popular of 1YC’s programmes, came to an end last week (continued on next page)
after ninety sessions. Grand Opera Requests (1YD on Sundays) will, I presume, continue to provide the occasional off-beat record and a gem or two from the great singers of the past. But Golden Age is, alas, no more. Here, drawing upon the more cobwebby of the NZBS stacks and helped by listeners with valuable private collections, the organisers have given ‘us a real banquet of outstanding performances of many of the more celebrated arias and, what is even more interesting, of many littleknown pieces from little-known operas Sometimes, to be sure, bad surfaces, older recording techniques and the mere erosion of time have meant that less than justice has ‘been done to Caruso, Melba, Chaliapin and others, Yet it was astonishing how, despite technical difficulties, so many of the singers came across with sufficient beauty and force to justify the name of the session, The Golden Age, which was always fortunate in its announcers, will be greatly missed. I hope that someone comes up with another idea which will enable some of the discs to be heard again, or, failing that, decides to launch out on the same
series Irom the beginning.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 18
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221Out of the Past New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 18
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