| Main Performers | Madame Nellie Melba,
Mr Ben Davies,
Mr Maurel - vocals |
| Secondary Performers | Mr A Fransella - flute,
Mr Landon Ronald - piano accompanist |
| Orchestra or Band | Massed Bands (Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, and Irish Giards, Royal Marine Artillery, three divisions of the Royal Marine Light Infantry - Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth)) |
| Set List | 20:00 Entrance of HM The King,
'The National Anthem' (God Save the King) (Massed Bands),
'1812 Overture', Tchaikovsky,
Included:
'Onaway, Awake, Beloved', S Coleridge Taylor (Davies),
'In Sympathy', F Leoni (Davies),
'Songs of Araby' (Davies),
'Mad Scene' from Lucia, Donizetti (Melba),
Waltz 'Rosebuds', Arditi (Melba),
'Good-bye', Tosti (Melba),
Excerpts from 'Don Giovanni' (Maurel),
'Otello', Verdi (Maurel),
'Falstaff', Verdi (Maurel),
INTERVAL
'Tannhauser', Wagner,
'Veronique', Messagers,
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) |
| Royal Presence | HM King Edward VII,
HRH The Prince of Wales,
HRH The Princess of Wales,
HRH Prince Henry of Batternberg,
HRH Princess Henry of Battenberg,
HRH Princess Margaret, Duchess of Connaught,
HRH Princess Christian,
HRH The Duke of Connaught,
HRH Princess Margaret,
HRH Princess Victoria Patricia,
HRH Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Norway,
HRH Princess Louise Augusta of Schlewig-Holstein,
HRH Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll |
| Performance Notes | An event raising money for a building dedicated to the use of British soldiers and sailors cited by Waterloo Station, London, and also a 'national memorial' to the men who died in the South African War.
"...with flowers and draperies, eployed with no little taste, much was done last night to give to the huge concert-hall an aspect of unaccustomed brilliance. With two exceptions, all the boxes were draped in front with sky-blue and pale yellow silk, the line of these delicate tints being broken only on the first tier at two points - the one marking the Royal box, occupied b ythe King and those accompanying him, and the other the loge to which the Prince and Princess of Wales brought a large party. In both these cases the blue and yellow fold made way for a crimson covering, that in front of his Majesty's box having the Royal arms embroidered in the centre and a festoon of roses stretched across it. A profusion of dainty roses also adorned the interior of both 'enclosures'. In other directions, too, the eye lighted upon blossoms in great varioety, a conspicious floral embellishment in front of the platform taking the shape of the Prince of Wale's feathers fashioned of white blooms set in a frame of daffodils."
(The Daily Telegraph, May 1905) |
| Related Archival Material | Illustration from 'The Graphic' (RAHE/9/1905/1) |