Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-02
COLORATURElAI'sf.
ITSBEST'SHONN
BY EIREVLlE
Gifted Soprano Has Golden
Voice and Costume Recital
Proves Novel

IIONVo NONCI
Colorature at its best. rare pinna-
Gle of vocal achievement, was display
ed in novel form to large and IA
shionable audience at the Opera House
last Saturday night. Mile. Yvonne de
Treville, appearing in the first of her
series Of two costume recitals, was
nothing less than a. delightful surprise
to audience and critics, winning both
by the lyric quality of her golden voice
and a charming and informal stage
manner that was in reality a compo-
site of manners.
If all coloratura sopranos were equal
to Nile. de Treville, the flourishes and
cadenZas, the vocal soarings and vol
planes, woull not have lost their fav-
or in opera as they have during the
past few years. The aria would not
have been put aside by contemporary
composers for the episode dialogue
form. But colorature work above all
must be well-execlted; true to key.
faultless in grace, ease and range. And
Mile. de TreyiIle is eqaA TO these de-
mands, she triumphs oyer them.
- Her voice is finely trained, marvel
lously flexible and its tones are agree.
ably musical. Many. are. of remark
ably pure beauty and through all are
the Joy Of youth and healthful vigor,
characteristics that distinguish the ar.
fist herself Her elaboration OF melo-
die themes is Ola type to tax this
flexible and enduring voice, and her
opening program was such that for
two and one-haIf hours she, was sing
ing almost constantly. She did not
shirk high or low notes and while her
voice is of q light and floating fibre,
il is capable of sustained strength up
on occasion, as she proved again and
again. . 49,. .. -
In the novel presentation of her
songs, attention to the musical offer.
ings themselves had often to be lost.
Her costuming effects proved immedi-
ately popular. She appeared first in
Louis XIV court gown, with simmer
ing white satin petticoat and hand.
somely draped oyerdress, of rose-bro-
scaded satin near a cerise color Jenny
Lind, old fashioned and shy. in stiffly-
rustling gray taffeta silk over awide-
spreading hoops; came next, and then
followed the belle of today, In drap.
ed pink and gold, each. with her songs
appropriate to thetgarb of the singer.
The costuming gayes{a pleasant in
formality to the recital. an effect
heightened by the no less pleasant vi
sion of the smiling, laughing, difnpling
singer. justifably confident that If the
attention Of her alidienee particular
~ the feminine portion 7went to her
skirts and bodicesa8he ceuldyrdrawe It,
hack with. the lure Of her silVer-spun
notes. III s4sR sst.he9as g,5s.G
Her program covered eeonside rable
range It's noticeable lack was aof
songs in English, and this suggestion
is made In full recognition OF the char
acter of the recital as exemplifying
vocal as we'll as dTaperys fashions.
ngIish-speaking people with the cour-
age Of their convictions have the
right to ask for at least an ,apprecia.t
BILE proportion OF, songs in their, own
tongue, and Mile. de, TreYflle in her
too few offerings Of, this kind was so
successful as to remove all doubts of
her ability. There are innumerable
compositions set to English words for
coloratures from which to choose.
OF her program Saturday night, her
greatest success was in the splendidly
elaborated "Proch." The Scandinavian
folksongs gave her an opportunity for
a quick change in mood. A dramatic
aria from Louise" by Charpentier
Lulli's Menuet Chante, gracefully
stately, and a Verdi Aria from "Ballo
in Maschera Tor THE Masked BaH'')
particularly the latter. furnished abun-
dant opportunity for the forid vocal
devices of the bel canto.
& Mrs. Edith Bowyer Whiffen, Mile.
de Treville's accompanist, furnished
an admirable complement to the sing.
err Her accompanying is remarkably !
and yet an essential part
of the songs, the piano tones so close
knit to the vocal tones as to seem but
one
Mile. de Treville's next recital will '
be on Thursday evening, February 5.
when she will appear successfully in
nineteenth and twentieth
century costume. This program con.
tains number of songs in English. !
1t is not often that Honolulu has an !
opportunity to hear an artist as capa-
Die and conscientious as Mile de Ire
Tille and still less often that Honolulu
IAN hear an exquisite voice united
with charming manner and both dra-
ratio and mimetic ability. The Sc
les should be a success.