Margherita Zelanda

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 45, 22 May 1931, Page 4

Margherita Zelanda

Touring YA Stations N2wv ZHALAND has every reason to be proud of the coloratura soprano Margherita Zelanda (Miss Daisy Hall), just now touring the YA stations under engagement to the Radio Broadcasting Company. She has only recently veturned from Italy, which country she proposes to visit to make her debut in grand opera at the La Scala, Milan.

In Italy she was known as the Bambino . prima donna. Miss Hall was born in Dunedin, and made her debut at a school concert at the age of seven years. She recalls how the schoolmaster carried her on his shoulder and called her "our little. Melba." His prophecy has come trug, for to-day critics compare her golden voice with those of the great Patti and Tetrazzini. Leaving Dunedin. she crossed over to Australia to study, and later completed her studies in Italy, first at Palermo and then at Milan with the famous Maestro Manlio Bayagnoli. Margherita Zelanda will sing at the Auckland Radio Pxhibition this week. She is to sing from 2YA on Monday, May 25, and Tuesday, May 26, and for 8YA on Friday, May 29.