Roberto Hazon, conductor and music teacher, 1907 / Crown Studios, Vice-Regal Photographers, Sydney

P1/306

item

1907

Graphic Materials, Photographs

879414

Digitised

1 photographic print - panel - 30.7 x 21.9 cm

For a biography of Roberto Hazon, see: The Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition. (http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm) accessed December 21, 2009

"Robert Hazon shocked Sydney in 1907 by resigning as conductor of the Philharmonic Society and the Amateur Orchestral Society. Because of failing health he intended to return to Italy after 21 years in Australia. He left after an emotional farewell concert in September 1907. In Milan, he conducted at La Scala for a time, and in 1910 he returned to Australia as conductor and director of Williamson's Grand Opera Company"

Reference:
Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991, p.150

Digital order no:a4260006

Photographer's stamp on the lower edge of the mount
"To Mr & Mrs Marr Thompson, very sincerely yours, R Hazon, 2nd Feb. 1907" -- in ink below the photograph
Previously identified from the signature as "R. T. Carion"

The National Library dates this photograph as 1890, and as it is a theatrical souvenir, Hazon may have been using earlier photographs