The Man and his Music
A Programme arranged by MARK H. LUBBOCK and Presented by GORDON MCCONNEL
Artists
EVA TURNER
DINO BORGIOLI
NORA GRUHN
ARNOLD MATTERS
THE B B C CHORUS
(Section C)
The Combined B B C THEATRE and VARIETY ORCHESTRAS
Led by Montague Brearley
Conductor, STANFORD ROBINSON
' Puccini, the Man and his Music ' is designed on the same lines as ' The Life of Verdi ', which was such a great success with listeners some time back. It is intended to give side-lights on the character of the man and on his methods of working. Excerpts will be sung from Madam Butterfly, Manon Lescaut , Tosca, and Turandot. The all-star cast includes two singers of international fame, one of whom is British, Eva Turner , and the other Italian, Dino Borgioli.
Eva Turner is already well known to listeners. She is one of the few British singers who have won fame abroad in opera. Born at Oldham, Miss Turner lived most of her early life in Bristol. Later she went to the Royal Academy of Music to study singing, then joined the chorus of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, became one of its principals, and finally left England for Italy, where she sang with great success at various opera houses, including La Sca la. Since that time her name has been acclaimed in every European country and in the United States. Miss Turner has been called ' the perfect Turandot '.
Dino Borgioli is equally well known.
He made his début at La Scala, Milan, during the 1918-19 season in Donizetti's Don Pasquale. Since that time he has sung at the Vienna Opera, Salzburg Festspielhaus, Chicago Opera House, New York Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and at the Paris Opera. During the last season given by Melba in Australia in 1924 Borgioli sang with her in La Bohème and Faust.