Grand Opera Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 17, 4 November 1932, Page 6

Grand Opera Broadcast

Chorus and: Solo Items from 2YA | HE first of two memorable concerts to be broadcast by the chorus of the Imperial Grand Opera Company is scheduled for Sunday next, November 6, at approximately 8.15 p.m., from 2YA, and will be broadcast also on relay by stations 3YA and 4YA. . Sunday’s concert will be given by the male chorus of the Opera Company, and will include the following items:-- =~ Cuorus: "Peaceful Slumbers’; "Midnight Shadows’ (Un Ballo in Maschera) (Verdi). Soloists-D. Maxwell and. S. James. Cuorus: "Opening Scene-Lucia di Lammermoor"? (Donisetti) , Soloist-G. Livermore. Cuorus: "Zitti Zitti’; "Ve Go in Secrecy" (Rigoletto) (Verdi). Cuorus: "Soldiers’ Chorus-Faust" (Gounod). Cuorus: "Drinking Chorus-Tales of Hoffman"? (Offenbach). 3ASS: G. Veevers, "Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves" (Handel). Baritone: AL. Brien, "Aly Dreams" (Tosti). Tenor: R. Baxter. ; An added attraction at the concert will be the appearance of Madame Annette Chapman, the gifted Dunedin mezzo-soprano, who’ will sing the following numbers during the evening: , "Lope Eternal (Brahms). "Dort in deur Weiden" (Brahms). "To-morrow" (Strauss). "Standchen" (Strauss). "The Wraith" (Schubert) QN ‘the following Sunday, November 13, the mixed chorus of the ‘Opera Company will present another fine programme from 2YA, the numbers to be broadcast including: "The Toreador Song" (Carmen") (Bizet). "Cigarette Chorus" ("Carinen’) (Bizet). "Anvil Chorus’ ("Il Trovatore") with Soloists (Verdi). "Miserere Scene" ("Il Trovatore"), Chorus and Soloists (Verdi). "Valse" ("Faust") with Soloists (Gounod). "Quartet" from "Rigoletto" (Verdi). Solos will be contributed by: . Evelyn Hall (contralto); Violet Rogers (soprano); M. Brien (baritone) ; and G. Veevers (bass). : This concert will also be relayed by stations 3YA and 4YA.