Signor and Signora Marotta to give Concert at 2YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 35, 15 March 1929, Page 14

Signor and Signora Marotta to give Concert at 2YA

OR classical night at 2YA, next Monday, there has been a special engagement of Signor and Signora Marotta, late of the MelbaWilliamson Opera: Company. Signor Marotta was one of the leading tenors of the company, while Signora was one of eight singers chosen by Dame Melba from hundreds of applicants for the chorus. Signora Marotta’s soprano voice is not unknown to listeners, for, as Miss Eva Webb-Jones, for three years prior to joining the opera company she was a regular performer for 2FC, Sydney. HE programme to be presented on Monday evening will provide a great treat for listeners. Both artists will sing ballads as well as operatic selections. The Signora’s numbers will comprise solos from Puccini’s opera "Turandot," also "Silent Moon" (Vaughan Williams), "Advice" (Molly Carew), "In the Silent Night"? (Rachmaninov), "Oh, Could I But Iixpress in Song" (Malachin), "Isles of Innesfree," and "God Touched the Rose." Signor Marotta will sing "Danza" (Rossini), "From the Land of Sky Blue Water" (Cadman), "Core ‘ngrato" (Cardello), "Marechiare" (Tosti) "O Sole Mio," "Di Capua" and "Varlaam." VARLAAM, in Moussorgsky’s opera "Boris Godounoy," is a wandering dissolute monk. In this song he tells of the glorious days "Long ago at Kazan, where I was fighting," when Tsar Ivan harried the Tartars in that city, drove mines beneath it, and blew-up forty thousand of the hated enemy-so Varlaam says. Signor and Signora Marotta will also sing, as the concluding item on the programme, the duet "Desio." Apart from a specially selected programme by the Studio Orchestra, there will be a ’cello solo by Mr. Geo. Ellwood, and flute soli by Signor A. -P. Truda, all played to orchestral accompaniment, .and a flute and clarinet duet by Signor Truda and Mr. A. H. Wright.