Odd Operas
"THE YC Sunday opera broadcasts have some strong competition from other stations. I often find myself torn between something especially appetising on Sunday Showcase, and an absorbing opera. Last week, the seduction of The School tor Scandal led me to abandon Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar, in full flight, with very great reluctance. I hope that we shall have the chance to hear works like this again later on less heavily competitive evenings. However, the pleasure Glinka’s brilliant, lively, tuneful music gave me leads me to reflect on the exceptional service these YC links provide. In other countries, America, for instance, it is only very rarely that one hears a complete opera on radio; and hardly ever that one encounters a work outside the conventional repertoire. To be sure, in these lands, (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) there are many opportunities to hear opera in the flesh. Yet, in New Zealand, where live opera, despite the young Opera Company, is still a rare treat, the broadcasting of off-beat compositions is an important addition to our cultural life. A dip of the lid, therefore, on behalf of all who can’t afford LP albums, to the NZBS for this invaluable service.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 24
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207Odd Operas New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 24
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