Maggie Teyte to Sing on Australian Air

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 5, 11 August 1933, Page 10

Maggie Teyte to Sing on Australian Air

The Australian Broadcasting Commission announces the engagement of Maggie Teyte (soprano) and’ Tudor Davies (tenor), with

their pianist, Yelland Richards, for a series of siv one-hour recitals. The career of Maggie Teyte reads like a story ‘from the pages of romance, says the "Wireless Weekly." At six her father dis. covered that she had a wonderful voice; at eight she sang in the convent where she was being educated; at ten she enrolled as a pupil at the Royal Conservatorium of Music in London; at fourteen she became a pupil of the world-famous tenor-teacher in Paris, Jean re Reszke, who predicted that in two years she would be singing on the operatic stage; at sixteen she made her debut in grand opera at Monte Carlo and in Paris; at eighteen she married the son of a wealthy French aristocrat; at nineteen she sang her way into the hearts of the music-lovers of London at Oovent Garden; and at twenty she completely captivated musical New York at the Metropolitan Opera House, following. through suecessive years, with many additional triumphs in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna. New York, Chicago. and

Philadelphia. Tudor Davies is regarded as Britain's foremost tenor. He was born in South Wales , and served in the Navy during the War. He was engaged to sing the principal tenor roles with the British National Opera Company in 1922, and in 1926 he sang with Melba. at Covent Garden in the role of Rodolfo -to Melba’s Mimi. He has appeared. in many famous operas in England, America. and the Continent. ; .