OUR VOICES

Radio Record, 27 May 1938, Page 24

OUR VOICES

THE "Record" of April 22 carried an article which announced that Signor Franco Izal, noted Italian opera singer and 1mpresario, would arrive in New Zealand shortly to hold auditions and select singers for use in the chorus of the Dal Verme-Moretini.Italian Grand Opera Company. Then, in the "Record" of May 18 was a statement by Mr. John Hamer, manager of the Fuller-Hayward St. James Theatre, Dunedin, just back from Sydney, to the effect that the right voices for operatic choral work might not he available in the Dominion. Here are Mr, Hamer’s reported words: "Ll doubt very much if we have the right voices here for that sort of work." Last week, Mr, Carl Nicis, Russian tenor, who has sung with Chaliapin, and is now on contract with 38ZB, ealled on the "Records" Christchurch reporter. During his comparatively short stay in the Dominion he had heard a number of voices which would suit admirably for principal parts in Opera, to say nothing of chorus work, deelared Mr, Nicis,