• Title
  Toti Dal Monte, Italian coloratura soprano - portrait, 1924 / Ruskin, Melb.
• Creator
  Ruskin Studio (Melbourne)
• Call number
  P1/427
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1924
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  447323
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint, on card (trimmed) - 14.2 x 19.1 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Melba brought her second opera company to Australia for JC Williamson's in 1924. The great new star ... was Toti Dal Monte, aged 31, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but not yet seen in London or the USA. After her first Lucia the Argus compared her to "our own great inimitable coloratura [Melba], and one missed the silvery tones, the perfectly balanced phrases, and the magical atmosphere." Dal Monte enchanted audiences, however, and after the tour she remained to give concerts, no doubt on Melba's advice as to their profitability, cancelling her San Francisco debut and a Chicago appearance. -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Dal Monte, Toti (BM), January 2010
  Digital order no:a4214027
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  To Mr Marr Thompson / with my gratitude / Toti Dal Monte / Sydney 1924 -- signature on upper and lower edges of photograph
  
  Photographer's signature -- lower right hand corner of photograph
• Name
  Dal Monte, Toti
  Melba-Williamson Grand Opera Company
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  Italians
  portraits
  singers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1661386

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