Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-02
COLORATURE' AT
ITS BEST SHOWN
BY DE IREVltLE
Gifted Soprano Has Golden
Voice and Costume Recital
Proves Novel

ColOrature at It's best, a rare pima
Gle OF vocal achievement, was display
ed in a novel form to a 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 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 i'll reality a cOmpO-
| site of manners.
If all cOloratura sopranos we're equal
| to Mile. de Treyille, the flOurishes and
cadenZas, the vocal soarings and vol
planes, woulI 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-executed; true to key,
| faultless in grace~ea and range. And
Mile. de- TreYille is equal to these de-
mands, she triumphs over them.
Her voice is finely trained, marvel
| lousy 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 of a type to tax this
flexible and enduring voice, and her
opening program was such that for
two and one-half hours she was sing.
| ing almost constantly. She did not
shirk high or low notes and while her
| voice is of light and floating fibre,
on OCCASION as she proved again and
again.
In the novel presentation of her
songs, attention to the musical offer
| ings themselves hadsoften 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-
caded satin near cerise color. Jenny
| Lind, old-fashioned and shy in stifly-
| rustling gray, taffeta silk over wide.
spreading hoops, came. next, and then
! followed the belle Of today. in drap-
ed pink and gold each with her songs
appropriate to the garb of the singer.
| The costuming gave pleasant in
| formality to the recital, an effect
heightened by the no less pleasant vi
sion of the smiling, laughing, dimpling
singer. justifiably confident that il the
! attention of her neutrality-suspicious..
ly the feminine portion-~went to her
skirts aud bodiees,dahe, could draw it
back with the lure OF her silyer'spun
| notes. o~sE <
| Her program covered considerable
4 range. Its noticeable lack was of
songs in English, and this suggestion
is made in full recognition of the char
acteri of thearecital as exemplifying
i vocal as we'll as drapery . fashions
/ English-speaking people with the cour'
! age of their convictions have the
/ right to ask for at least an apprecia-
Bile proportion OF songs in their own
] tongue, and Mile. de- Treviue 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
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 Cor THE Masked Balf')
particularly the latter, furnished abun-
dant opportunity for the ford vocal
| devices of the bel canto.
Mrs. Edith Bowyer Whffen. Mile.
de Treville's accompanist, furnished
| an admirable complement to the sing,
er. Her accompanying is remarkably
unobtrusive 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
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth
century costume. This program con-
tains a number of songs in English
1t is not often that Honolulu has an
opportunity to hear an artist as capa-
BILE and conscientious as Mile. de Ire
vile and still less often that Honolulu
can hear an exquisite voice united
with charming manner and both dra-
matte and mimetic ability The Sc