ITALIAN OPERA

Radio Record, 22 April 1938, Page 42

ITALIAN OPERA

Impresario Will Choose | N.Z. Singers For Chorus QF special interest te-choral -societies is the news that Signor Franco Izal, noted Italian opera singer and impresario, will be: arriving in New Zealand early next month for the purpose of holding auditions and selecting singers for-nse in the chorus of: the Dal: Verme-Moret-tini Italian Grand Opera Company, which will be presented under the direction of Sir Benjamin Fuller in this country later in the year. The company will begin a‘tour. of Australia early in June, and it is proposed to pick the chorus from among Australian and’ New Zealand. singers. Signor Izal will be remembered for his association with the Imperial Grand Opera Company which toured New Zealand about five years ago. There is a romantic flavour’.to his eoming visit to the Dominion, for nor only will he be choosing singers and arranging the. New Zealand end of the tour, but he will also be on his honeymoon. Just before he comes here he is marrying-in Sydney-Tyve-lyn Hall, the contralto who took the place of Evelyn Gardner in the J. C. Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Company when Miss Gardiner left in the middle of the’season to take up'a contract in New York,