MAVIS BENNETT (Soprano)
THE WIRELESS MILITARY BAND, conducted by B. WALTON O'DONNELL
AUBER became one of the most popular
A writers of French Opera in the nineteenth century, but he had to make several attempts before he had any success in that side of composition. His first Opera was such a failure that ho would not try again for six years. He really got into his stride, however, when he became associated with the clever playwright, Scribe.
Lestocq, or Intrigue, and. Love, produced in 1834, was one of the numerous works in which Scribe collaborated with him. Their partnership of some forty years was only terminated by Scribe's death in 1861. Auber lived ten years longer, dying at the age of nearly ninety.