Main Performers | Senor Carasa, Dame Nellie Melba, Mr Mischa Elman - vocals, Mr Backhaus, Mr L Camilier - pianoforte |
Set List | 'Two Hungarian Dances in G Minor and D', Brahms, 'Romanza (Ugenotti)', Meyerbeer (Carasa), 'Ballade in Ab', Chopin (Backhaus), 'Ah! Fors e Lui' from Traviata, Verdi (Melba), 'La Donna e Mobile' from Rigoletto, Verdi (Carasa), 'Ave Maria' from Othello, Verdi (Melba), 'Military March' Schubert-Tausig (Backhaus), 'Se Saren Rose', Arditi (Melba), 'Hungarian Rhapsody No.2', Liszt |
Performance Notes | The concert was given prior to an extensive Operatic Tour by Madame Melba through Australia.
"In the course of the afternoon Madame Melba was presented by the Gramophone Company with a beautful model of the steamship Osterley, on which she will travel to Austalia, made in flowers, floating on a sea of green moss, and bearing th elegend, "Come back soon."" (The Daily Telegraph, 1911) |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1911/39/SC) |