OPERA FOR AUSTRALIA.
MELBA’S PLAN. NEW PROOF-READER TENOR. PARIS, Nov. 29. Dame Nellie Melba has been attracted by the tenor voice of Batti Bernardi, aged 28, who was born in Ballarat. His parents are in Melbourne. Bernardi is at present a proofreader in the office of the Continental edition of the Chicago Tribune. Dame Nellie has placed him with a well-known teacher, and hopes that he will secure a contract to tour Australia. Melba, when she returns to Australia next year, hopes to inaugurate an Australian National Opera Company, in which Australian artists will be given adequate scope. This message would suggest that Dame Nellie has decided to originate subsidised opera in Australia —a new departure. France and Germany have opera, to which the Government makes substantial grants.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 12
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128OPERA FOR AUSTRALIA. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 12
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