Record

Performance TitleSpecial Sunday Concerts (1922-1923 Season) - Melba Concert
Performance Date24 June 1923
Performance DaySunday
Main PerformersDame Nellie Melba,
Prince Alexis Obolensky - vocals,
Miss Una Bourne - piano,
Secondary PerformersFrank St Leger - organ
Set List'Piano forte Soli - 'Waltzes from Op 39' Brahms, (Una Bourne)
Gigue', Scarlatti, (Una Bourne),
Aria - ;King of Thule', and 'Jewel Song', (Faust), Gounod, (Dame Nellie Melba),
Arai - 'Vulcan's Song', (Philemon et Baucis), Gounod, (Prince Alexis Obolensky),
Aria - 'Scena e Ave Maria' (Act IV, Otello), Verai, (Dame Nellie Melba),
Pianoforte Soli - 'Nocturne in C sharp minor', Chopin, (Una Bourne)
'Spanish Dance' (Sevillanas), Albeniz, (Una Bourne)
Songs - 'Christ is Risen', Rachmaninoff, (Prince Alexis Obolensky),
'Romance' Varlamoff, (Prince Alexis Obolensky),
'Doubinoushka', Russian Folk Songs, (Prince Alexis Obolensky),
'The Prisoner', Russian Folk Songs, (Prince Alexis Obolensky),
Songs - 'Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes' arr by Roger Quilter, (Dame Nellie Melba),
'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot', Burleigh, (Dame Nellie Melba),
'By the Waters of Minnetonka', Lieurance', (Dame Nellie Melba),
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1923/81/SC)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1923/81/SCSpecial Sunday Concerts - Melba Concert (Last Sunday concert of the season)24 June 1923
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7750Special Sunday Concerts (1922-1923 Season)35
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/161Melba; Dame; Nellie (19 May 1861-23 February 1931); GBE; Australian operatic soprano
DS/UK/21120Bourne; Una Mabel (1882-1974); Australian pianist, composer
DS/UK/21155Obolensky; Alexis (1915-1986); Prince; Russian socialite
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