From Birmingham
Directed by THOMAS JONES
Relayed from Corporation Street
Restaurant
ORCHESTRA OFFENBACH knew how to cater for the taste of his day. His work was musical daily journalism, as one might say, rather than authorship ; he turned out ninety operas; at an average rate of one and three-fifths per year-much too fast for consistently first-rate work. His burlesque of the Greek legend of Orpheus is full of broad comedy. The Overture is a packet of perky tunes, one or two of which will be known to almost all listeners, even to those who do not remember the bright days of the 'sixties and 'seventies, when burlesque was so popular in this country.
FLORENCE CLEETON (Soprano)