Rita Clare (soprano)
Dunstan Hart (baritone)
Rita Clare , who has just returned from a three months' tour as leading lady in Schubert's Lilac Time, has a soprano voice of unusual quality. She comes of a musical family. Her grandmother was a distinguished amateur singer and harpist, and her mother a well-known figure in West Country oratorio and opera.
Rita Clare sang in public at the age of eleven and, after leaving school in England, went to Lausanne and thereafter to Florence, where she studied the piano. Returning to London she won a scholarship at the Royal College of Music and returned to Italy where she continued to study under the great Italian teacher Zaira Falchi. She first appeared in Bitter Street, and first broadcast when she was with the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company shortly afterwards.
Rita Clare was at the Royal
College of Music at the same time as her co-broadcaster, Dunstan Hart. He has had a long musical career, obtaining his first theatrical engagement while still a student, and thereafter playing in a number of musical shows such as The Beggar's Opera and The Duenna. He later toured South Africa and Australia. He first broadcast from Savoy Hill, and has also been heard on the air from radio stations in Johannesburg and Barcelona.