CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN~ MAY-JUNE, 1961

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE COMMITTEE

R. L. B. TOBIN, National ChairmanThe National Council

JULIUS RUDEL, Co-ChairmanNew York City Opera

National Council Director!

MRS. AUGUST BELMONT

MRS. FRANK W. BOWMAN GEORGE HOWERTONE. H. CORRIGAN, JR. ELIHU M. HYNDMANMRS. NORR1S DARRELL MRS. JOHN R. SAVAGEHOWARD J. HOOK, JR. JAMES SCHWABACHER. JR.

Profeuional Committee

MAURICE ABRAVANEL RICHARD KARPSalt Lake City Symphony Pittsburgh OperaKURT HERBERT ADLER PAUL KNOWLESSan Francisco Opera University of MinnesotaVICTOR ALESSANDRO GLADYS MATHEWSan Antonio Symphony Community OperaROBERT G. ANDERSON MRS. LOUDON MELLENTulsa Opera Opera Soc. of Wash., D.C.WILFRED C. BAIN ELEMER NAGYIndiana University Hartt College of MusicROBERT BAUST1AN MME. ROSE PALMAI-TENSERSanta Fe Opera Mobile Opera GuildMORITZ BOMHARD RUSSELL D. PATTERSONKentucky Opera Kansas City Lyric TheatreJOHN BROWNLEE MRS. JOHN DEWITT PELTZManhattan School of Music Metropolitan OperaPAUL CALLAWAY GEORGE SCHICKOpera Soc. of Wash., D.C. Metropolitan OperaSTANLEY CHAPPLE MARK SCHUBARTUniversity of Washington Lincoln CenterEUGENE CONLEY MRS. L. S. STEMMONSNo. Texas State Univ. Dallas Civic OperaWALTER DUCLOUX LEONARD TREASHUniversity of S. California Eastman School of MusicPETER PAUL FUCHS LUCAS UNDERWOODLouisiana State University College of the PacificROBERT GAY GID WALDROPNorthwestern University Juilliard School of MusicBORIS GOLDOVSKY MRS. J. P. WALLACEGoldovsky Opera Theatre Shreveport Civic OperaWALTER HERBERT MRS. PAUL P. WILSONHouston Grand Opera Mid-South Reg. Director

LUDW1O ZIRNERUniversity of Illinois

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Volume 10, Number 5 May - June, 1968

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

AMERICAN OPERAS

The Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia was the scene of the premiere ofMichael White's METAMORPHOSIS on May 3. The three-act opera is based onFranz Kafka's story of the same title, rewritten into a verse-play by MiltonGoldberg who also is responsible for the opera libretto. The composer teachesat Philadelphia's M usic Academy.

Henri Pousseur, professor of music at New York University in Buffalo, is the com-poser of VOTRE FAUST. The Belgian born composer collaborated with Frenchnovelist, Michel Butor, on the libretto which presents the Faust theme in a contem-porary setting. Audience participation in form of voting for one of four possibleendings of the opera is one of its innovations. The work was performed on March17 in a concert version by the Buffalo Philharmonic as part of Buffalo's Festivalof the Arts.

The team of Lutz Mayer, composer, and Edward Devanny, librettist, collaboratedagain on a new opera, THE PARANOID PARAKEET. The premiere is scheduledfor the opening of the new Fine Arts Building at N.Y. State University-CortlandCollege and will be a joint production by the University's Drama and Music De-partments. A previous opera by Messrs. Mayer and Devanny is called Refuge.

Matt Doran, composer of the The Committee, has written THE LITTLE HANDSO OBSTINA TE. Excerpts of this new opera with a libretto by Sonia Brown wereperformed recently by the Music Department of Mount St. Mary's College.

The Opera Theatre of the University of Arizona in Tucson presented the first per-formance of Henry Johnson's THE MOUNTAIN on December 12, 1967. Two moreperformances followed. The libretto is by David Grozier.

THE MAGIC LAND OF OPERA by Martin Kalmanoff is suggested as opera educa-tion for young audiences. Appearing to a child in a dream sequence, leadingfigures from twelve of the most famous grand operas discuss their parts and singsome of the best known melodies from their respective operas.

Gladys Mathew, President of Community Opera in New York and member of theCOS Professional Committee, wrote the libretto for MIDAS, "a poetic opera inthree acts." The story is based on early Greek history and myths relating to thedynasty of Midas and Gordius in Lydia and Phrygia. The music is by the late Brit-ish composer Stanley Wilson, who completed the work with a two piano accompani-ment. Musical material has been chosen according to the text, i.e. Lydian andPhrygian modes have been adapted to modern composition. The opera requires alarge cast, chorus and dancers. For further information please contact Mrs.Mathew, 160 West 73 St., New York, N. Y.

Alberto Ginastera (Don Rodrigo and Bomarzo) is reported to be working on a newopera based on the life of Beatrice Cenci.

THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE by Bertolt Brecht will form the basis for amusical-in-new-format. It will mark the second collaboration of Leonard Bernstein,Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim, following the successful West Side Story.Playwright John Guare will assist in the adaptation of the original script.

Besides the new Canadian operas mentioned in the 6/67 Bulletin, we learn throughOpera Canada of three other works commissioned for the Centennial Year. Theyare: THE LAY OF THRYME by Jack Behrens, with a libretto by Keith Cockburn,premiered on Jan. 24, 1968 at the University of Saskatchewan; CASINO ("Creed')by Samuel Doblin with a libretto by Ronald Hambleton; and SCOTTISH LAND-ING by Trevor Jones with a libretto by Donald Wetmore, first performed inHalifax in November, 1967.

AMERICAN PREMIERES

Carl Orff s Bernauerin received it's first American performance at the Universityof Missourr-in Kansas City on March 21. The opera, under the title of THEBALLAD OF AGNES BERNAUER, was sung in an English translation by FritzKracht who was also in charge of stage directions. The story, which plays in 15thcentury Bavaria, is based on supposedly true events. The performance in KansasCity presented a collaborative effort of the University's Drama and Music Depart-ments with technical assistance from the University's radio station. The orchestraincluded a 16-piece percussion ensemble.

Also on March 21 the Opera Workshop of Boston University gave the Americanpremiere of Satie's GENEVIEVE OF BRABANT.

This fall the San Francisco Opera will present two American "firsts" within onetriple-bill. ROYAL PALACE by Kurt Weill will be produced in a pantomime ver-sion by Gunther Schuller scored for six solo voices and a women's chorus. It willalso include a ballet. The premiere of the original version took place in Berlin in1927. On the same program, the California company will present the Americanstage premiere of a one-act version of Darius Milhaud's Christopher Columbusunder the title of DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. The third work on this evening ofcontemporary operas will be Schonberg's Erwartung. Also on the schedule of SanFrancisco's 1968 season are revivals of two rarely performed operas, Fra Diavoloand Les Troyens; Die Walkure will be presented in a new production.

The American premiere of Hans Werner Henze's one-act opera, THE COUNTRYDOCTOR, will take place at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., within anunusual frame of presentation. "The Artist as Myth-Maker" is the title of theevening and in addition to the premiere of the Henze opera which is utilizing aspecially prepared film, two other films are scheduled on the program. Theyare recently produced American student films. The evening is part of Northwest-ern's Festival of the Arts, May 23-28.

Jeunesses Musicales at Mt. Orford, Quebec, will give the first North Americanperformance of OPERA DE POUSSIERE by the French composer, Marcel Lan-dowski. The first performance of this opera took place in Avignon in 1962.

EUROPEAN PREMIERES

New British operas include Cornelius Cardow's SCHOOLTIME COMPOSITIONS,a one-act work premiered by Focus Opera Group in London on March 11;also on the triple-bill of contemporary operas were Ligeti's Aventures et nou-velles aventures and Kagel's Sur scene. — On January 11 the All Saints Churchin London was host to the Sacred Music-Drama Society and its productions ofInglis Guhdry's THE THREE WISE MEN and Geoffrey Bush's THE EQUA TION.The latter is based on a play by John Drinkwater. — First performances duringBritish summer festivals are listed for June '68 at Aldeburgh: Birtwistle's PUNCHAND JUDY and Britten's THE PRODIGAL SON, and at Glyndebourne '69: Nich-olas Maw's THE RISING OF THE MOON. — The Scottish Opera Co. gave the firstperformance of Robin Orr's FULL CIRCLE in Perth on a double-bill together withStravinsky's L'Histoire du soldal.

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Di Lampedusa's famous novel, IL GATTOPARDO (The Leopard), forms the storyfor Angelo Musco's opera of the same title. Published by Ricordi, the opera waspremiered in Palermo on December 19, 1967. — Radio Italiano (RAI) is respon-sible for two unusual revivals during the last season. The one is PIEDIGROTTAby Luigi Ricci (1805-59) first performed in Naples in 1852, revived in December1967 under the baton of N. Sanzogno. The other, a more recent composition byPasquale Di Cagno, MAREMMA, composed in 1929, had its first performance byRAI in 1965. This spring it was heard in the first fully staged production in Bari.

Hamburg Opera announces two new works for late next season. Krzysztof Pender-ecki's newest opera, announced in the 9-10/67 COS Bulletin as The Devils of Lou-don, after John Whiting's play, has been renamed MOTHER JOHANNA OF THEANGELS and will be heard for the first time in June, 1969. Lars J. Werle wascommissioned by Hamburg to write DIE REISE; the premiere is scheduled forMarch, 1969. — German composer Mark Lothar (Schneider Wibbel, Rappelkopf)has written DER WIDERSPAENSTIGE HEILIGE after Paul Vincent Carroll TheWayward Saint. It received its first production in Munich's Theater am Gartner-platz on February 8. — Korean composer Isang Yun has written a companion pieceto his one-act opera, The Dream of Liu-Tung, named THE WIDOW OF THEBUTTERFLY. Berlin is contemplating the first performance.

As a result of an East Berlin State Opera commission, Alan Bush wrote JOE HILL,THE MAN which will be produced during the coming season. The libretto is byBarrie Stavis. — East Berlin's Komische Oper will present Siegfried Matthus'DER LETZTE SCHUSS, libretto by Gotz Friedrich after a story by Boris Lavren-yov. Matthus' other works include the opera Spanische Tugenden (Spanish Virtues).— The Bolshoi Opera's schedule this past season included the first performanceof Molchanov's THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Finnish composer Pylkkaenen re-cently completed an opera by the same name.

Danish composer Leif^Thybo was commissioned to write an opera for the Inter-national Heinrich Schutz Festival. The result is "a parable for church performance"called DIALOG scheduled to be performed at the Copenhagen Cathedral on May27. — Sylvano Bussotti will conduct his own opera, LA PASSION SELON SADE,in its first performance at the Royal Stockholm Opera in November, 1968.

Vienna's Theater an der Wien scheduled Erod's DIE SEIDENRAUPEN (The Silk-worm) for May 20. Featured in the premiere is soprano Jeanette Pilou. — JacquesBondon's LA NUIT FOUDROUYEE was premiered on February 10 in Metz,France.

RARELY PERFORMED OPERAS

Mozart's DIE SCHULDIGKEIT DES ERSTEN GEBOTES (K. 35), (The First Com-mandment), was revived by London's Handel Opera Society in March, together withMozart's "serenata drammatica". IL SOGNO DI SCIPIONE. At the Camden Fes-tival in February, London audiences heard Rossini's ELISABETTA, REGINAD'INGHILTERRA. Neither of these three operas has yet been presented in theUnited States. — The Vienna Chamber Opera has scheduled eleven performancesof Dittersdorfs BETRUG DURCH ABERGLAUBEN in June. Last January thesame company presented Paisiello's LA MOLINARA. — The Metropolitan OperaStudio, always ready to present rarely heard works (see The Other Opera in the6/67 Bulletin), recently presented excerpts of little-known Schubert operas at theLibrary Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Among the operas rep-resented in selections were: FREUNDE VON SALAMANKA, DES TEUFELSLUSTSCHLOSS, DIE VERSCHWORENEN, DIE BUERGSCHAFT. and DIEZAUBERHARFE. — American revivals of 17th century Italian operas this springinclude Cesti's ORONTHEA (1649) at Cornell University in Ithaca, Cavalli'sERISMENA (1655) at the University of California in Berkeley and the previouslyannounced ORMINDA at the Juilliard Schoolof Music.

NEW HALLS

Opening the new ATLANTA MEMORIAL CENTER on October 29 will be a jointproduction by the three resident companies: the Atlanta Opera, the Atlanta Balletand the Atlanta Repertory Theatre. They will perform Henry Purcell's KingArthur. The opera, first presented in the United States in New York in 1800,will be produced in an adaptation by Blanche Thebom, the Opera Company's ar-tistic director. It will be directed by Michael Howard, choreographed by DavidBlair, designed by Richard Gullicksen and conducted by Jonathan Sternberg, theOpera Company's newly appointed musical director. Performances will take placein the 800-seat theatre, the first completed part of the $13 million Center, whichwill be the permanent home of the Opera, Ballet and Theatre Companies. Afterthe Gala opening production, each of the three companies will continue its ownseason under the auspices of the Atlanta Municipal Theatre and its generaldirector, Christopher Manos. The Opera Company will produce four works duringthe first season, Tristan und Isolde, Salome, La Boheme and King A rthur.

Ground-breaking ceremonies for the FILENE CENTER at Wolf Trap Farm Parkwill beheld on May 27. The land is part of a national park for the performing artsin Vienna, Va. Also part of this park is Symphony Hill, the site of the futurepermanent home of the American Symphony Orchestra League. Filene Center willbe an open-air, fan-shaped, roofed concert hall with a seating capacity of 3,500.It is surrounded by sloping meadows which will accomodate additional listeners.The Hall is being designed by MacFadyen and Knowles, Architects, for use byopera and ballet companies, and by symphony and chamber orchestras. It willinclude full stage facilities, orchestra pit, dressing rooms, rehearsal and storagespace. It is hoped that the Center will be ready for a summer '69 opening. Itis approximately 15 miles from Washington, D.C. and will be the second summerarts center in the proximity of the nation's capitol. The other is the Merri-weather Post Pavilion of Music in Maryland.

On May 2 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY in Philadelphia dedicated the new TheodorePresser Hall, the $1.7 million home of its College of Music.

Jackson, Mississippi, opened the first building of its ARTS CENTER in April. Thenew auditorium will be the home of the Jackson Symphony.

The thirty-five-year-old BANFF SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS in Alberta will open anew 1,000-seat opera house and theatre this summer. It is part of a complex whichwill include a 300-seat theatre and three-story teaching building with classroomsand practice facilities for opera, concert, drama, ballet and musical theatre. De-signed by John Woodworth, a Canadian architect from Kelowna, B.C., the operahouse will be adaptable to symphony or drama with stage dimensions of 100 x 40feet, a moveable pit, a front-of-curtain stage extension, and the newest in lightand sound equipment. With these facilities, the School hopes to be able to in-stitute formal, full-term winter classes beginning with the 1969-70 term.

The CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES is going up in Manila Bay.The first building to be completed in the Spring of 1969 is the opera house-sym-phony hall, a 2,000-seat multi-purpose auditorium with an adjoining 450-seat the-atre for drama, chamber music, lectures and conferences. Also planned within theCenter's complex are museums and libraries. The moving force behind this plan isMrs. Ferdinand Marcos, wife of the President of the Philippines.

On January 24, a fire destroyed East Hall which housed Indiana University's 1,000-seat Opera Theatre. Since its opening in 1950, there have been 415 performancesof 86 operas and it was the University's major auditorium until this fall whenthe new Opera Theatre opened. The building was almost totally destroyed and withit a great deal of scenery and costumes, 47 pianos and other musical instruments.A new Musical Arts Center will be built on the site of East Hall to replace the 60practice rooms and larger rehearsal halls which were also destroyed.

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FINANCING THE ARTS

The great hope of many in the arts for federal aid will be dwindling in pro-portion to the cutback in funds for the National Council on the Arts. Of the$55 million requested by the Council, Congress is authorizing one fifth or $11million. If this figure receives the final approval of the Appropriations Com-mittee, the Senate, and the House, federally sponsored arts programs will haveto be greatly curtailed. More financial assistance will be sought from stateand local arts councils, from foundations, corporations and private individuals.Need for the Business Committee on the Arts will be more dramatic and we referour readers to the April '68 COS Bulletin and Mr. Mesney's speech on TheCorporate Challenge as a most informative directive.

Endowments for state arts councils vary greatly. New York has been allotted$1 million, New Hampshire $7,500, but even modest appropriations can be turnedinto considerable funds through wise distribution. At the same time more localarts councils are being formed, thus for instance in New York City where MayorLindsay has appointed a 26-man Cultural Council to "bequeath cultural activitiesand administer grants and expand the scope of the city's education program."Similarly, Westchester County recently appointed Olcutt Sanders as ExecutiveDirector of its Arts Council which has among its objectives the building of aWestchester Arts Center.

Relatively new to this field is the newly appointed Central Labor Arts Committeeof the AFL-CIO Demonstration Arts Project, which is exploring the possibilitiesof closer association with and assistance to the arts. The organization has chosenfour demonstration cities for a pilot program: New York, Minneapolis, Louisvilleand Buffalo. Meetings of representatives from labor unions and local arts or-ganizations have been held and the first results have already been reported. Mr.Harlowe Dean, National Coordinating Consultant, may be contacted at 2600Virginia Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. for further information.

Among recent grants from foundations to the arts and to music in particular are:from the Ford Foundation — $1,340,000 to the Music Educators National Con-ference for expansion of contemporary music projects over the next five years;$75,000 to the National Music Council to cover half of the Council's expensesin its participation in the Congress of the International Music Council; $30,000to NET for exploring better ways of presenting music on radio and television, and$30,000 to the Opera Association of New Mexico for the rebuilding of its operahouse in Santa Fe; from the Rockefeller Foundation — $81,000 to Temple Univer-sity's College of Music to establish a three year program of teaching fellowshipsin association with the Philadelphia Settlement Music School, and $20,000 to theUniversity of Colorado and the Denver Symphony for a symposium on contem-porary music; from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music — $9,000 forcostumes and sets for The Bartered Bride to the Lake Erie Opera Co., and $4,000to The Chamber Opera Society of Baltimore; from Woods Charitable Fund, Inc. —$1 million towards the construction of a new fine arts center at the University ofChicago; from General Motors — $25,000 to the Cleveland Orchestra towards itsnew summer home, the Blossom Music Center; from the Olivetti Underwood Cor-poration — $50,000 to Lincoln Center for the Center's Festival '68 and the par-ticipation of the Rome Opera; and last but not least, from the National Councilon the Arts $50,000 to the American Choral Foundation for a summer institute forchoral conductors.

While U.S. federal funds for the arts are diminishing, the British Minister forthe Arts, a non-existing post in the American cabinet, recently announced in theHouse of Commons an increase of one million pounds sterling in expenditures forthe arts-for the 1968—69 season over those of the previous year. The expected totalisM\ 5.3 million. Ticket prices at Covent Garden have been increased by about 10%as of May 1.

NEWS FROM OPERA COMPANIES

The American National Opera Company is the second casualty on the nationalscene of touring opera. After a two-year's existence, the Metropolitan OperaNational Company was dissolved due to the overwhelming deficit accrued in thatperiod. This happened one year ago. Immediately following, the AmericanNational Opera Company was formed by Sarah Caldwell, director of the BostonOpera. Bookings were handled by Sol Hurok, who had booked the MetropolitanOpera touring company and who was able to fill previously arranged dates withthe new company. Now, after one fall and one spring tour, the AmericanNational Opera Company has filed a petition under the Bankruptcy Act, listing itsliabilities as $840,000, its assets as $150,000. It still hopes to reorganize andresume touring which, as a spokesman said, was only postponed, not cancelled.

Meanwhile, the New York City Opera Company announced a reengagement at theLos Angeles Music Center for next fall. It will present 14 performances at theDorothy Chandler Pavilion immediately following its New York fall season at theState Theatre in mid-November. The San Francisco Opera Company will visit LosAngeles, also under the sponsorship of the Los Angeles Music Center Opera.Association, in March, 1969, performing at the larger Shrine Auditorium.

Following the success of opera in concert form on New York concert stages (TheAmerican Opera Society at Carnegie Hall and The Little Orchestra at PhilharmonicHall) London will initiate a similar program series. Michael Scott & Partnerswill present four rarely performed operas with international stars at London'sRoyal Festival Hall and Drury Lane Theatre alternately. The New PhilharmoniaOrchestra will be conducted by Richard Bonynge, Edward Downes and RichardLewis; the program is made up of Lucrezia Borgia with Monserrat Caballe,Nabucco with Elena Suliotis and Bons Christoff, Semiramide with Joan Suther-land and Marilyn Home and Le Prophete with Home and Nicolai Gedda.

Among the new productions for the 1969-70 season, the Metropolitan Opera willpresent Weber's Der Freischutz featuring Gundula Janowitz, Sandor Konya, WalterBerry and conductor, Karl Bfihm.

The New York City Opera's Spring '69 season will include Borodin's Prince Igorutilizing the sets and costumes originally designed by W. Steven Armstrong forthe University of Cincinnati production in December, 1967. Frank Corsaro willbe the stage director.

A new concert series was inaugurated in New York this spring. Reminiscent ofLa Belle Epoche.lhz Sunday Cafe' Concerts are a weekly feature at the HotelPierre, either at 2:30 p.m. as a brunch concert or at 3 p.m. as a tea concert.Prices, including both food and music, range from $11.00 for brunch to $7.00for tea. Programs feature a variety of musical ensembles, from duo pianists andstring quartets to chamber orchestras and the Metropolitan Opera Studio's pre-sentation of its Shakespeare in Opera and Song program.

This fall, a Festival of Fine Arts will be held concurrently with the OlympicGames in Mexico City. According to the latest figures 78 countries are ex-pected to participate in the cultural events; 65 countries are sending athletes tocompete in the games. Concerts, operas, ballets, plays, films and art exhibitionswill feature internationally famous individuals and ensembles. The latter willinclude the Berlin Opera and three Mexican opera companies as well as localorchestras and ballet companies. Visiting symphony and/or chamber orchestraswill come from Paris, Brussels, Rome, Venice, Manchester (Eng.), Buenos Aires,Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Leipzig. Representing the United States will be theMartha Graham and Merce Cunningham dance groups, the Phoenix Singers, theOratorio Society of Duquesne University, the LaSalle Quartet and the NewportJazz Festival. Ballet companies from 14 other countries will perform in classical,modern and folk style.

Instituting a new policy, the Vienna Staatsoper has cancelled all subscriptionsduring the Festival Weeks, May 19 through June 16. Maurice Feldman, American

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PR representative of the company announced that this will make twice as manytickets available to foreign.visitors. A total of 32 different operas will be pre-sented during this time, all with international stars.

On May 26 the Amato Opera Theatre, Inc. will celebrate its 20th anniversary witha "Luncheon-Party" at the Plaza Hotel. Since 1964 the Amato Opera has beenperforming in its own little theatre at 319 Bowery, New York.

SUMMER OPERA WORKSHOPSAnd News from Universities

Many summer festivals feature institutes or workshops as an integral part of the festival.Among the important ones are: Chautauqua Summer School, at Chautauqua, N.Y., DaytonaBeach, Fla. with Stetson Univ., DeLand, Fla., Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colo., BerkshireMusic Festival, Lenox, Mass., Congregation of the Arts at HopkinsCenter, Dartmouth College,Hanover, N.H., Meadowbrook Festival and School of Music with Oakland University,Rochester, Mich., The World of Arts, National Conference of Girl Scouts of America atPleasantville, N.Y., (music 7/1-11), Ambler Festival, with Temple University, Ambler, Pa.

Drake University's College of Fine Arts in Des Moines will hold an opera workshop from June12-30: the Drake Music Camp is scheduled for July 1-7.

Boris Goldovsky will again head the Opera Workshop at Oglebay Institute on the campus ofWheeling College in West Virginia. The four-week's course is scheduled for August 5 toSeptember 1. Assisting Mr. Goldovsky will be Fredric Popper, Arthur Schoep, Anthony Addi-son and Paul Berl. Fees for resident students are $350. - for non-resident students $220. -for auditors (with residence) $250. - and for non-resident auditors $120. A limited numberof scholarships are available. Mr. Goldovsky will also hold a summer workshop at Ohio StateUniversity in Columbus from July 8 to 20.

A summer Choral Institute has been established with the financial assistance of the NationalCouncil on the Arts. Under project director, Sheldon Soffer, two universities will be hosts tothe various classes. Planned for the training of choral conductors, the first 4 weeks' sessionwill be held at the University of Wisconsin (renaissance music 6/24-7/6, baroque music7/8-20) and at New York State University at Binghamton (classical and romantic music7/29-8/10 and contemporary music 8/12-24).

May 22-28 marks the Festival of the Arts at Northwestern University in Evanston, III. Thesecond annual Conference on the Arts and the Press is part of the Festival, occupying thefirst two days of the program. Martin Bernheimer from Los Angeles will speak about opera,Harold Schonberg from the New York Times will speak on music in general. The sessions arefree and open to the public.

On July 1st the Municipal University of Omaha will become a state institution and will hence-forth be known as the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The opera workshop will change itsname to Opera Theatre of the University of Nebraska and plans to add its first summer sessionsin 1969. It will be under the direction of Dr. Robert Ruetz, who previously had beenin charge of the workshop.

The Cleveland Institute of Music has scheduled an Opera Theatre Workshop for advancedvoice students and professionals from June 17 to July 6. The concluding performance will takeplace on July 8. The workshop is under the direction of Anthony Addison. Master classesin vocal repertoire will be led by Pierre Bernac between June 24 and 29. — Jenny Tourel willhold Master Classes from June 17 to July 6 at the University of Cincinnati College,Conservatory of Music. — The New England Conservatory of Music will again hold its work-shops at Castle Hill in Ipswich, Mass. The dates are June 23 to August 17. - The New EnglandConservatory's Institute will be held at Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass., beginning July 14 throughAugust 25. - The Southern Illinois University at Carbondale will accept students lor its summerOpera Workshop which begins June 16 and lasts six weeks.

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The Mid Atlantic Music and Arts Center will open June 23 and close August 4. It is locatedin the Pocono Mountains at Mountainhome, Pa. William Scheneman, the executive directorof the summer camp, announced that tuition for six weeks would be $500. - for three weeks,$300. - The Museum of Fine Arts Camp at Columbus, Ga., is open from June 9-30. - The Mid-western Music and Arts Camp will be held at the University of Kansas, at Lawrence, Ka.,between June 16 and July 28. - The summer session of the Eastman School of Music atRochester, N.Y., will be under the director Daniel J. Patrylak. The dates are June 24 toAugust 2. - The Hartt College of Music at Hartford, Conn., has summer music classes beginningJune 12 to July 26. A Summer Youth Music Program for High School Students has beenscheduled for August 11-25.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSThe National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc. has established national headquartersin New York at 250 West 57 Street, announced newly elected President, Dr. Berton Coffin.Mrs. Dodie Lefebre, the first professional staff member of the organization, is ExecutiveSecretary, a position made possible through the assistance of the New York State Councilon the Arts.

Arts Management, which publishes a bi-monthly newsletter for free distribution to artsorganizations (COS Professional Committee members receive complimentary copies) has movedits offices to 408 West 57 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. Mr. A. Reiss is the editor.

PUBLISHERS' NEWSTheodore Presser Co., announced the publication of Mary E. Caldwell's Christmas opera.The Night of the Star. The vocal score will be available for sale, orchestra materialand supplimentary organ parts for rental. Miss Caldwell's first Christams opera, A Giftof Song, will receive some special performances next season, celebrating the 150th anni-versary of Silent Night, on which Miss Caldwell's opera is based.

Alexander Broude, Inc., 120 West 57 Street, N.Y., announced the publication of P. Wester-gaard's Mr. and Mrs. Discobolos.

Boosey and Hawkes authorized Dr. Walter Ducloux to translate Love for Three Oranges;solo and chorus parts will be available. Dr. Ducloux also informs us that his own trans-lation of Strauss's Friedenslag made for and used by UCS, is not the only translation of thisrarely heard opera. The libretto published by Boosey and Hawkes contains another Englishtranslation.

Boosey and Hawkes, who in 1947 became successor to Serge Koussevitzky's publishing house,Edition Russe de Musique, recently deposited some of the most important music manuscriptsof this century with the Library of Congress. Included among these seven originals areStravinsky's Petrouchka, Oedipus Rex, Le Rossignol, Ravel's orchestration of Moussorgsky'sPictures at an Exhibition and Prokoviev's Classical Symphony. These manuscripts are placedwith those previously donated by the late Serge Kousevitzky when he established the SergeKoussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress nearly twenty years ago.

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APPOINTMENTS

The New York City Center of Music and Drama has announced the appointmentof NORMAN SINGER to the newly created post of General Administrator. Hewill be in charge of productions at both buildings, the State Theatre at LincolnCenter and the City Center's former Mecca Temple on West 55 Street. He will ad-minister the N.Y.C. OperaXo., N.Y.C. Ballet, the City Center Gilbert and SullivanCo., City Center Light Opera Co., City Center Drama Co., and the City CenterJoffrey Ballet. Mr. Singer taught at the Juilliard School of Music and laterbecame professor of music at Hunter College. He gained his experience in admini-stration at the Aspen Music Festival where he organized the music school and wasappointed Dean for eight years. For the last four years he has been Director of theHunter College Concert Bureau.

The Metropolitan Opera Association Board of Directors reelected LAUDERGREENWAY as Chairman of the Board and GEORGE S. MOORE as Presidentof the Association. JAMES F. JAFFREY was elected Treasurer to succeedGORDON HILL who retired after ten years. Two new Board members arePAUL HALLINGBY JR. and FRANCIS F. RANDOLPH, both of New York.New members of the Association are John T. Connor, William M. Sullivan andWilliam S. Youngman of New York, Mrs. DeWitt Wallace of Pleasantville, N.Y.,and Kate Ireland of Cleveland. — Mrs. HARRIET HEYWOOD GILPATRIC, Dir-ector of the Metropolitan Opera Guild since 1959, has resigned from her post, fol-lowing her marriage to Mr. Arch Patton. Succeeding her will be MRS. CHARLESF. (ALICE) DARLINGTON, a member of the Guild's Board of Directors for thelast fourteen years and Chairman of the Education Committee. Her husband isformer U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Gabon.

RUDOLF BING's contract as General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera hasbeen extended for another two years, until June 1972. Mr. Bing joined theMetropolitan Opera as its General Manager in 1950.

MARTIN BOOKSPAN, known to radio listeners as commentator on WQXR, hasbeen named Coordinator of Symphonic and Concert Activities for the AmericanSociety of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He is also Chairman ofthe Exhibition Committee for the Sixth Congress of the International MusicCouncil in New York in September.

Roger L. Stevens has appointed KURT HERBERT ADLER, General Directorof the San Francisco Opera Co., as a new member of the Music Panel of theNational Endowment for the Arts, headed by Aaron Copland. The Panel is pres-ently undertaking a study of arts management and audience development and hasbeen asked to make recommendations in these areas.

DR. HEINRICH REIF-GINTL, former Vice-Director of the Vienna State Opera,has been named temporary General Director of the company until a permanentappointment is made.

DR. WALTER DUCLOUX has informed us of his appointment as Director of anew Opera Theatre at the University of Texas in Austin; he will also be incharge of the University's orchestra. He is leaving his post as Director ofOpera at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles after 14 years. —The UCS has appointed Grant Beglarian as Dean of the School of the PerformingArts.

World renowned pianist, RUDOLF SERKIN, has been named Director of theCurtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, succeeding Efrem Zimbalist, who isretiring this summer.

ERNEST GRIEFF has been appointed Executive Director of the Mannes Collegeof M usic in New York.

The North Carolina School of the Arts has announced the appointment of threenew members to its Advisory Board: JEAN DALRYMPLE, Director of the N.Y.C.Drama Co., HELEN HAYES, "First Lady of the Theatre" and WILLIAM SCHU-MAN, composer and President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Othermembers of the advisory board are: Richard Adler, Sidney Blackmore, Agnes de

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Mille, Paul Green, Jose'Limon, Peter Mennin, Eugenie Ouroussow, Julius Rudeland James Pfohl. — A further appointment is that of NORMAN JOHNSON,Artistic Director of the Denver Lvric Opera, to Opera Director and Choral Con-ductor at the Winston-Salem art school. Mr. Johnson, formerly with the PeabodyConservatory in Baltimore and Associate Conductor at the Central City Festival,will retain his post with the Denver Opera.

RICHARD WOITACH, Assistant Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera for thelast nine years, has been appointed Musical Director of the Western Opera Theatre,the touring company of the San Francisco Opera. He succeeds Herbert Grossman.The National Council on the Arts, which has helped to form the W.O.T. througha grant of $105,000 two years ago, has alotted a grant of $100,000 for thecurrent season. This year the company toured California, Nevada, Arizonaand Oregon.

MICHAEL MANUEL, former co-General Manager of the Metropolitan OperaNational Company, has been named to the newly-created position of ProductionDirector of the Chicago Lyric Opera, announced Carol Fox, General Manager.His duties will be to coordinate and supervise the visual aspects of the produc-tions. Mr. Manuel had been a Stage Manager at the Metropolitan Opera and atCovent Garden before his association with the Metropolitan Opera National Co. —Mr. R. H. BALL, former Comptroller of Brummel Bros., was named ChicagoLyric's Business Manager, succeeding Mr. W. Farina, who retired.

ROBERT KEYS, who was brought from Covent Garden, Royal Opera, to Van-couver B.C. in 1966 to head the newly-created Opera Ensemble, the training andtouring group of the Vancouver Opera Association, has resigned. Mr. JAMESCRAIG, Associate Conductor at the Canadian Opera Co. in Toronto, was namedas his successor.

ERICH KUNZEL, Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,received the post of Associate Professor of Music at the College-Conservatoryof Music of the University of Cincinnati, where he will teach orchestral con-ducting and will be the Director of the CCM Orchestra.

The Symphony Orchestra of the Interlochen Arts Academy has named NICHOLASHARSANYI as its new Musical Director and Conductor.

Other academic appointments in the musical field include: tenor, JAMES WAIN-NER, former Director of the Opera Workshop at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio,to Associate Professor in voice at California State College at Hayward; — POLY-NA SAVRIDI, former soprano with the Metropolitan Opera National Co., to headof newly formed opera workshop at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; —NICHOLAS GOLDSCHMIDT. to Director of Music at the University of Guelph.Ontario; — and OTTO-WERNER MUELLER, to Music Director at the Universityof Wisconsin in Madison.

New appointments in the managerial field include: FRANK RATKA, formerAssistant Manager of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and later Manager ofthe Oklahoma City Symphony, to General Manager of the Syracuse Symphony andOpera, succeeding BENSON SNYDER who is now General Director of the WesternOpera Theatre; — WILLIAM DENTON, Manager of the San Diego Symphonyand Opera Co., to General Manager of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra beginningAugust 1. Robert Shaw is Musical Director.

HONORIS CAUSAOccidental College bestowed an honorary Doctor of Music degree on conductor ZUBINMEHTA. — The American Academy of Arts and Letters named the following composers asnew honorary members: ALBERTO G1NASTERA (Don Rodrigo, Bomarzo) and JOHNCAGE, and gave a special award to JACK BEESON (The Sweet Bye and Bye, LizzieBorden, Hello Out There). — The American Singer's Citation for 1968 was awarded tomezzo-soprano REGINA RESNICK by the New York Singing Teachers Association. Thesame organization also gave a special citation to DOUGLAS MOORE in acknowledgmentof his contribution to American vocal literature. — Brandeis University awarded its Crea-

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tive Arts Medal and a $1,000 stipend to composers VIRGIL THOMPSON (Mother of Us All.Byron, Four Saints in Three Acts}, RICHARD ROGERS, and EASLEY BLACKWOOD; aspecial medal was awarded to AARON COPLAND. — ROGER SESSIONS was namedCharles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University for 1968-69 where he will hold six lec-tures. Mr. Sessions is a 1915 graduate of Harvard. Other musicians previously holding thischair include Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith.

BOOKS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONSAn eighty page interpretive report on the Tanglewood Symposium MUSIC IN AMERICANSOCIETY has been published by the Music Educators National Conference and is availablefrom MENC, 1201 16th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 10036 for $2.00. — The AssociatedCouncils of the Arts in cooperation with the Pitman Publishing Corporation is publishingIN SEARCH OF AN AUDIENCE. The authors, Bradley Morison and Kay Fliehr, partnersin a Minneapolis consulting firm specializing in development for arts organizations, dealspecifically with the problem of "How an Audience was found for the Tyrone GuthrieTheatre". The book sells for $5.95 and can be ordered directly from Pitman Publishing,20 East 46th Street, New York 10017.

The ACA has also published a list of COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCILS in the U.S. andCanada with full-time directors. Ninety-nine councils are listed and are marked as 1)operating united fund campaigns, 2) operating or planning arts centers, 3) public agencyappointed by mayor, city or county agency (as opposed to private organizations).

The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities together with the U.S. Departmentof Health, Education and Welfare has published FEDERAL FUNDS AND SERVICES FORTHE ARTS. The 165 page brochure was compiled by Judith Gault and is available from theSupt. of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 for $1.00. —It lists grants, fellowships and loans available to individuals as well as arts programsof assistance to organizations; the latter are arranged by categories. A list of the 1967federal grants and the Annual Fiscal Report is also included.

The February issue of the USITT publication THEATRE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGYcontains floor plans, photographs of models and an accompaning article on the J.F. KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, now being built in Washington, D.C. The magazine is theofficial journal of the U.S. Institute of Theatre Technology and is published four timesannually. Subscription is available for $6.00 from USITT, 245 West 52 Street, New York 10019.

THE ARTS AT THE GRASS ROOTS, edited by Bruce Cutler, is a 250-page report of the firstconvention of the Cultural Arts Commission of Kansas. Published by the University of Kansasat Wichita, the report is available for $3.95.

The Business Committee on the Arts published its first newsletter in April, 1968, copies ofwhich were mailed to the COS professional committee. Extra copies may be requested fromBCA, P.M. Mesney, Editor, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York 10020. THE BCA NEWSis a quarterly publication.

Recent music books include Lehman Engel's THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE: AGONSI DERATION, CBS Legacy Collection, $15.00, and a new, revised edition of THE NEWMUSIC 1900-1960 by Aaron Copland, Norton Publishers, $5.50.

Among the many book clubs, the MUSIC EDUCATORS' BOOK SOCIETY may be of specialinterest to our readers. Its first offer is David Ewen's The Complete Book of ClassicalMusic, a 946 page reference work which retails at $14.95, for $2.99 for members. As withmost book clubs, there is no membership fee and the Music Educator's Book Society alsowaives the condition of minimum annual purchases. Membership is open to professionals inmusic; for details write to MEBS, A. Stevens, Membership Director, P.O. Box 35X, EnglewoodCliffs, N.J. 07632.

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The last issue of the CENTRAL OPERA SER VICE BULLETIN (Volume 10, Number 4) was areport of the Ninth National Conference held in San Antonio in April. All speeches arereprinted in only slightly condensed versions and we gratefully acknowledge the many com-plimentary comments regarding the "important information and valuable guidelines" presented.Extra copies are available for $2.00 from COS, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, NewYork 10023.

WINNERS .The National Semi-Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Auditions Ion March 29 established a new precedent, when at the end of the auditions, Rudolf Bing jannounced that two Metropolitan Opera contracts will be awarded at this time. There have |been times when at the Finals the award of a Metropolitan Opera contract has been withheld,hence the wording that at the Finals "a possible Met contract may be awarded". It hasnever happened that contracts were offered at the time of the Semi-Finals. But such was thecase in March. Judith Forst, 24-year old mezzo-soprano from Vancouver, B.C. and WilliamCochran, also 24, a tenor from Philadelphia, will join the Metropolitan Opera roster for the1968-69 season. Each also received a $2,000 study grant. Of the twenty-one semi-finalistsa total of eleven received $2,000 each. Besides the two mentioned above, the other winners were:sopranos Jacquelyn Benson (age 21, from College Park, Ga.), Ruth Welting (age 19, fromMemphis, Tenn.), Glenys Fowles (age 26, from Perth, Australia), Nancy Shade (age 21,from Bloomington, Ind.), Helen-Kay Eberley (age 20, from Sterling, 111.), Loretta Ziskin(age 22, from Cleveland, Ohio), Jessye Norman (age 22, from Ann Arbor, Mich.), PatriciaCraig (age 24, from Milwaukee, Wise.) and mezzo-soprano Gwen Jones (age 19, from Lawton,Okla.). Miss Welting, Miss Benson and also tenor Roman Osadchuk were invited to join theMetropolitan Opera Studio next year. Nine semi-finalists will compete on November 17 inthe finals for $6,500 in cash prizes and possibly another contract with the Metropolitan Opera.Miss Forst and Mr. Cochran will also sing in the Finals but will not participate in the compe-tition.

The Baltimore Civic Opera's annual auditions contest with the $1,000 Carling Brewing Com-pany Award was won by 20-year old bass, James Morris.

The Canadian Opera Women's Committee, Toronto, announced the following winners in thevocal category: sopranos Danielle Pilon and Margaret Zeidman, contralto Nancy Greenwood,tenors Ralph Oostwoud and Paul Trepanier, baritones Stephen Dahl, Peter Milne and Don-ald Rutherford. Stage direction and production awards went to James Colbeck, John Lebergand Ray Pierce.

WGN and the Illinois Opera Guild Auditions of the Air announced the 1968 winners. Firstprize went to tenor William Cochran (subsequently winning a Metropolitan Opera contract),the second prize was won by bass-baritone Andrew Poulimenos who won a New York CityOpera contract in January.

Winners of the 1968 National Arts Club prizes in voice were sopranp Joanne Mary Bruno andbass George Allan Reid.

The Lucrezia Bori Foundation has announced its first two awards: $1,000 to bass-baritoneRobert Termine of New York City, student at the Manhattan School of Music and winner ofthe 1967 Liederkranz Foundation award; $1,500 to the Third Street Music School Settlement Iof New York for scholarship aid. '

Mrs. Donna Carter, music major at the University of Georgia, won first prize in the Isouth-east regional vocal competition of the American Guild of Organists, held in NewOrleans.

Shari Anderson, soprano, won the tenth annual "Joy in Singing" award and was pre-sented in a solo recital at New York's Town Hall.

Students at the Cleveland Institute of Music competed for participation in a special concert.The winners in the vocal category were soprano Mary Michal Earl and soprano Young HeePark from Korea.

PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1967-68 SEASON (not previously listed)

CALIFORNIASchool of Performing Arts, W. Teutsch, dir., Opera, USIU, San Diego2/6,7,9,10,11/68 Hansel and Gretel Eng. BacheSan Fernando Valley State College, Opera Workshop, D. Scott, dir.11-12/67 Orff s The Wise Woman and the King

FLORIDAFlorida State Univ., School of Music, Fine Arts Fest., Tallahassee4/17,19/68 Olello Eng. Ducloux; Jeffrey; Tally-Schmidt, Collins; cond: Boda;

dir: Fallon; des: Riddle/VorceSan Carlo Opera, N. Russo, dir., Tampa (West Palm Beach)3/2/68 La Traviata Albanese; Barioni, Bardelli

IDAHOBoise College Opera Workshop, G. Standing, dir., Boise3/30,31/68 Captain Lovelock & The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

ILLINOISApollo Opera Co., Civic Opera House, Chicago1/21/68 Lucia di Lammermoor Anagnostou; Dionori, MagnusonBradley University Opera Workshop, E. Blanchard, dir., Peoria3/22,23/68 Gallantry & scenes from CarmenNorthern Illinois University Opera Workshop, E. Smith, dir.I 2/67 Telemann's PimpinoneNorthwestern University. Music School. G. Howerton, Dean, Evanston5/68 Henze's 1-act/l Country Doctor Eng. Balk, Am. prem. (see 1/68 Blltn.)

INDIANAIndiana University, Fort Wayne4/68 Madama Butterfly dir: Busch

IOWACedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, H. Denecke67-68 The Barber of Seville Eng. (prod: Turnau Opera)Drake University Opera Theatre, M. Hall, Des MoinesI1 /67 The Night Bell & Slow Dusk w.p.Simpson College, Opera Workshop, R. Larsen, dir., Indianola10/26,27,29/67 Sister Angelica & scenes2/9,10,11/68 The Consul5/5/68 6/1/68 Operatic scenes, Stuart, Goodloe, Riegel, RocheUniversity of Iowa, H. Stark, dir., Opera Workshop, Iowa City12/8/67 Henze's The Miracle Theatre, Eng. Balk; Am. prem. & Johnson's Escorial12/7/67 Operatic Scenes2/28,29 3/ 1,2/68 La Traviata

LOUISIANAOpera Guild, University of Southwestern La., G.S.B. Griffin dir., Lafayette1 I /67 Madama Butterfly 3 pfs.3/68 musical comedy 4 pfs.7/68 musical comedy 4 pfs.67-68 workshop prods: Gallantry, Sweet Betsy from Pike, operatic scenes

MASSACHUSETTSAmerican National Opera Company, S. Caldwell, dir., tourAlbuquerque: 3/16/68 Carmen, 3/17/68 ToscaTempe: 3/20/68 Tosca. 3/21/68 The Rake's Progress. 3/22/68 CarmenLos Angeles: 3/25/68 Falstaff, 3/26/68 Tosca. 3/27/68 The Rake s Progress.

3/29/68 Carmen, 3/30/68 Tosca, 3/30,31 4/1,6/68 Falstaff, 4/2/68 TheRake's Progress. 4/3/68 Tosca. 4/6/68 Carmen

San Diego: 4/4,5/68 The Rake's Progress

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1967-68 com.Boston Conservatory of Music, J. F. Stuart, dir., Opera3/19,20,22,23/68 // Tabarro & Suor Angelica & Gianni SchicchiOpera Company of Boston, S. Caldwell, dir.2/11/68 Tosca Bower; Arbizu, Fourie2/23/68 Lulu Budd; Koehn, Gramm2/27,29 3/2/68 Carmen Home; cond: Lewis3/9,11,13/68 La Traviata Sutherland3/12/68 Falslaff Bower, Bogard, Alberts, Simon, Peterson, Vrenios

MINNESOTACollege of St. Benedict, Music Dept., Sister Juettner, dir. St. Joseph67-68 The Marriage of Figaro w.p. and harpsichordMoorhead State College Opera Singers, E. Harris, dir., Moorhead67-68 Orpheus ed Euridice, The Music Master, Cosi/an tutteSt. Paul Opera Workshop, M. Metzger, founder-dir.67-68 Carmen w.p. and organUniversity of Minnesota Opera Workshop, P. Knowles, dir. Minneapolis67-68 Don Pasquale 3 pfs.

MISSOURICentral Missouri State College Opera Theatre, D. Scott, dir., Warrensburg12/67 Searle's The Diary of a MadmanKansas City Performing Arts Foundation, L. Kelly, dir.5/17,19,21/68 Medea Olivero; Prevedi; cond: RescignoWashington University Opera Studio, H. Blumenfeld, dir., St. Louis4/21,22/68 Bucci's The Hero (see 1/68 Blltn.)67-68 tour Rita

NEBRASKAUniversity of Omaha Opera Theatre R. Ruetz, dir., Omaha1/68/4cis and Galatea2/9,10,14,28/68 // Turco in Italia (3rd pf. Duchesne College, 4th pf. MTNA

National Convention, Detroit, Mich.)4/18,28 5/1,6/68 Operatic Scenes (3rd pf. at Nebr. Wesleyan Univ., Lincoln;

4th pf. at Omaha Playhouse)4/7/68 opera concert - district auditioners, Met. Opera National Council

Auditions

NEW HAMPSHIREUniversity of New Hampshire, Durham5/26/68 Handel's Saul w. Brooklyn College Fest. Chorus; cond: Kickok

NEW YORKRochester Philharmonic Orch., L. Somogyi, dir.3/30/68 Orpheus and Euridice Eng. Sarfaty; dir: Treash; des: WightmanState University College Opera Theatre, Mary Wallace, dir., Fred on i a11/17,18/67 Hello Out There & Sweet Betsy from Pike3/6,7,8,9/68 Falstaff Eng. Ducloux4/2,6,27/68 Opera Scenes

NEW YORK CITYAlfred E. Smith Center, 163 W. 97th Street, de Leeuw, dir.4/17/68 III act Siegfried cone. pf. Pazdera, Rice, Johnson; SedrelBlue Hill Troupe, Hunter College Playhouse, CD. Walker, dir.4/17-20/68 RuddigoreBrooklyn College Opera Theatre, K. Kope, mus. dir.4/26,27/68 Opera Scenes esario. & Salieri's Prima la musica poi leparole,

& Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri

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1967-68 com.Cosmopolitan Young Peoples Orchestra, Philharmonic Hall, cond: M. Rich5/25,28/68 Symphony cone, soloists Met. Op. Natl. Council Audition winners:

Johnson, PrachtDell'Orefice Opera Workshop, Bronx River Neighborhood Center2/23/68 Rigofetto3/30/68 Tosca (at Universalist Church of N.Y.)Opera Orchestra of New York, O'Shea Audit., West 77th St.3/12/68 Pagliacci cone, pf., Eve Queler, cond.F.B.N. Opera Workshop at Educational Alliance, E. Broadway, L. Fowler, dir.1/28 2/4,11/68 La Traviata1/17 2/28 5/1/68 Operatic Scenes3/27 4/10/68 Die Fledermaus (April pf. at Donnell Library)5/11,25,26/68 La BotiemeFord ham University, Collins Audit., Bronx Campus3/29/68 The Marriage of FigaroHunter College Opera Workshop, W. Tarrasch, dir.5/1,2/68 La Finta GiardinieraInwood Chamber Opera Players, S. Edelman, dir., Brooklyn4/19 5/31 /68 Arne's Thomas and Sally '•Kathryn Long Course, (Metropolitan Opera), J. Gutman, dir., G.R. Rogers Aud.4/18/68 PurcelFs Fairy Queen, Milhaud's L Abandon d'Ariane, Barber's A

Hand of Bridge Altman, Mandaccond: StrasfogelMannes College of Music, C. Bamberger, dir., Opera, P. Berl, cond.5/10-12/68 Rita & Suor Angelica (see 1/68 Blltn.)Metropolitan Opera Association Spring Tour, (by air) K. Bing, gen. mgr.4/22-27/68 Boston, War Memorial Audit. La Forza deldestino. Carmen, Luisa

Miller. Romeo et Juliette, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozzedi Figaro, Tosca4/29-5/4/68 Cleveland, Public Audit. Carmen, Luisa Miller. Romeo et Juliette,

La Forza del destino, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze di Figaro, Tosca5/6-11 /68 Atlanta, Fox Theatre, Carmen, Romeo et Juliette. La Forza del

destino, Luisa Miller, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozzi di Figaro, Tosca5/13-18/68 Minneapolis, Northrop Memorial Audit. Carmen, Luisa Miller,

Romeo et Juliette, La Forza del destino, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze diFigaro, Tosca

5/20-25/68 Detroit Masonic Temple Carmen, Romeo et Juliette, La Forza deldestino. Luisa Miller. Madama Butterfly, Le Nozzedi Figaro. Tosca

5/27-6/1/68 Philadelphia, Civic Audit. Carmen, Romeo el Juliette, La Forzadel destino, Luisa Miller. Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze di Figaro, Tosca

6/3-5/68 Memphis, Municipal Audit. Carmen, Romeo et Juliette, La Forzadel destino

6/6-8/68 Dallas, Fair Park Audit. Carmen, Romio et Juliette, La Forza deldestino, Luisa Miller

Metropolitan Opera Studio, Library-Museum, Lincoln Center, J. Gutman, dir.3/26/68 excerpts from Schubert operas, Robinson, Blanchard, Wildes; West,

Murray4/68 The Barber of Seville w. orch: tour (Dayton, Ohio, New Paltz, N.Y.)New York Bible Society at Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center4/7/68 Hines' / Am The Way Evangelista, Casei; HinesNew York City Opera Gilbert & Sullivan Co., F. Popper, art. dir., W. 55 St.first pf. dates only4/27/68 H.M.S. Pinafore5/1/68 The Mikado5/8/68 The Yeomen of the Guard5\j'15/68 PatienceNew York State Opera Society, Inc., C. Yost, gen. mgr.10/22/67 Aida at Palm Gardens3/17/68 // Trovatore at Community Center W. 89th St.Queens Opera Association, Inc., Francis Lewis Audit., Flushing5/25/68 Die Fledermaus Eng. Randazzo, Matisse; Bender; cond: SaffirRuffino Opera, Provincetown Playhouse2/ 18,24 3/1/68 Carmen 3/17/68 Norma2/23,25/68 L'Elisir d'amore 3/30,31 /68 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci3/2,3/68 Faust 4/13/68 // TrovatDre (Fashion Inst.)3/8/68 Falstaff (al Cooper Union) 5/6,20/68 The Marriage of Figaro3/10,23,24/68 La Boheme 5/13/68 Tosca3/10/68 Lucia di Lammermoor 6/22/68 The Magic Flute (Fashion Inst.)3/15/68 La Traviata

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1968-69 com.Salmaggi Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music5/4/68 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci cond: FioreVillage Light Opera Group, Fashion Institute4/27 5/3,4/68 RuddigoreWashington National Symphony, Philharmonic Hall4/14/68 Parsifal cone. pf. (Act I & III) Thomas, Uppman, Smith; cond:

MitchellThe Yeh Yu Chinese Opera, Fashion Institute3/23/68 excerpts Five Flower Cave & A Phoenix Returns to Her Nest

NORTH CAROLINANorth Carolina School of the Arts, R. Ward, pres., Winston-Salem5/9,10/68 Keith Gate's Migle and the Bugs (student prod.) & Gianni SchicchiUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro, R. Sander, dir. Opera Theatre11/21/67 Burge's Intervals4/5,7/68 The Magic Flute

OHIOCincinnati Symphony, M. Rudolf, art. dir.4/7/68 // Malrimonio segreto Tajo; des; ArmstrongOberlin College Opera Theatre, conds: Baustian, Moore3/14,16/68 Gianni Schicchi & Berio's Passaggio, Mandac

PENNSYLVANIACarnegie-Mellon Univ., Opera Workshop, R. Fellner, dir., Pittsburgh4/24,26,27/68 Manon Eng.Chamber Opera Society of Baltimore, Th. Conlin, mus. dir.6/68 Berkeley's Dinner Engagement 1st Am. prof. pf. & The Telephone

Adkins, Lois, LeVin, Page; Atherton, Barrichter, Gerbrandt; cond: ConlinState tour, 12 pfs., sponsored Md. Arts Council

Rittenhouse Opera Society, M. Farnese, art. dir., Philadelphia1/18,19,20 3/3/68 Luisa Miller at St. Jos. Col., Forman2/22,23,25/'68 The Devil and Daniel Webster &. Gianni Schicchi3/28/68 Pagliacci4/21/68 Cavalleria Rusticana at Phila. Civic Center5/2,3,4/68 Cosifan tutte Eng.

SOUTH CAROLINACharleston Opera Company2/23,24 3/1,2/68 Game of Chance & The Old Maid and the Thief

SOUTH DAKOTANorthern State Teachers College, J. Berggren, chmn. Music Dept., Aberdeen67-68 Wolf-Ferrari's Susanne's Secret w.p., also musical comedy

TENNESSEEMemphis Opera Theatre, M. Stone, mgr.2/29 3/2/68 Die Fledermaus

TEXASTexas Christian Univ., Opera Dept., F. Berens, dir., Fort Worth4/26,27/68 Cosifan tutte Eng. Martin

WISCONSINFlorentine Opera Company, J. Anello, dir., Milwaukee11/67 Tales of Hoffmann2/9,10/68 Rigoletto Hurley; Vrenios, Walker4/5/68 La Bohime Mantaloo, Armstrong; Barioni, NoelWisconsin State Univ., Carol Kelly, dir., Superior67-68 // Tabarro (also oratorio and musical comedy)Madison Civic Opera, R. Johnson, with Madison Symphony67-68 Die Fledermaus (6 pfs.), Hansel and Gretel (3 pfs.), Jumping Frog, (3 pfs.)

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Canadian Opera Company, tour, H. Geiger-Torel, dir., Toronto2-3/68 Don Pasquale Eng. Mead4-5/68 The Old Maid and the ThiefMoorehead State College, Music Dept. & Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Winnipeg1 /7,9/68 Orpheus and EuridiceStudio Children's Theatre at Toronto Workshop Prod.67-68 Hansel and GretelVancouver Women's Music Club & UBC Opera Workshop4/68 In a Garden & There and Back

PERFORMANCE LISTING, SUMMER 1968

ALASKAAnchorage Festival of Music, R. Shaw, dir.6/8-21/68 Cosifan tutte, II Matrimonio segreto (prod. U.C.L.A.)

ARKANSASInspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, Inc., Eureka Springs7/18-27/68 La Traviata, Cosifan tutte, Ten Maidens and No Men, Humel's

The Proposal & Down in the ValleySo. III. Univ., Opera Workshop, Marjorie Lawrence, dir., Hot Springs7-8/68 Summer Opera Workshop

CALIFORNIACabrillo Music Festival, G. Samuel, dir., Aptos8/16-25/68 program not availableCarmel Summer Festival, S. Salgo, dir.7/19-28/68 Bach FestivalThe Hollywood Bowl Festival, Los Angeles7/9-9/7/68 concerts Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; L.A. Philharmonic,

Z. MehtaMusic Academy of the West, M. Abravanel, dir., Santa Barbara7/9-8/24/68 The Marriage of FigaroMusic at the Vineyards, N. Fromm, dir., Saratoga6/22-8/25/68 Chamber Music, Camilla WilliamsMusic for Summer Evenings at San Diego Open-Air Theatre7/12-8/17/68 six concerts by San Diego Symphony OrchestraOjai Festival, L. Morton, dir.5/24-26/68 program not availableRedlands Bowl Festival7/26,27/68 The Mikado8/16/68 The Barber of Seville

COLORADOAspen Music Festival, Opera Workshop, E. Nagy, dir.8/1,2,3/68 La Boheme8/15,17/68 Walton's The Bear V.H. prem & Henze's The Country DoctorCentral City Festival, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company6/22-8/3/68 The Mikado, lolanthe, The Pirates of Penzance, The Yeomen of

the Guard, H.M.S. Pinafore

CONNECTICUTYale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk6/30-8/25/68 program not available

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Summer 1968 cont.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

New York Opera Festival, Carter Barren Amphitheatre, Washington, Salmaggiprod.

7/29-8/4/68 program not available

FLORIDAFlorida International Festival, Daytona Beach7/18-8/11 /68 London Symphony, cond: Previn

HAWAIIHonolulu Symphony Society, Starlight Concerts, R. La Marchina, mus. dir.7/6-9/14/68 summer festival8/17/68 Italian Opera Highlights E. Mandac, Ch. Davis (Met. Natl. Council

winners), D. Peterson, R. Allen

ILLINOISGrant Park Concerts, Chicago7/6,7/68 Carmen7/20,21/68 LaBoheme8/3,4/68 La Rondine8/10,11 /68 Andrea Che'nier8/24,25/68 La TraviataRavinia Park Festival, S. Ozawa, dir.6/27-8/18/68 Chicago Symphony

INDIANAUniversity of Indiana, Summer Festival, Bloomington7/27,31 8/3/68 Die Meistersinger von Nilrnberg Eng.

MARYLANDHarford Theatre Assn., Bel Air6/27-30 7/5-8/68 H.M.S. Pinafore7/1 1-14,18-21/68 R.S.V.P. & Gianni Schicchi7/25-28 8/1-4/68 The Magic Flute8/8-12, 15-18/68 The Telephone & The Medium8/22-25, 29-9/ I /68 The Three Penny OperaMerriweather Post Pavilion of Music, Columbia6-9/68 Washington National Symphony, H. Mitchell, cond.

MASSACHUSETTSBerkshire Music Festival, Tangelwood, Lenox (6/30-8/25/68)8/17/68 Berlioz' Romeo el Juliette cond; Munch; Elias; Siena, TozziSummer School of the New England Conservatory, Castle Hill, Ipswich6/23-8/17/68 Opera Workshop, Th. Philips, dir.Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Falmouth7/2-6/68 The Gondoliers7/9-13/68 The Merry Widow1116-20/68 Ruddigore7/23-27/68 La Perichole7/30-8/3/68 The Pirates of Penzance8/6-10/68 H.M.S. Pinafore8/13-17/68 Trouble in Tahiti & The Devil and Daniel Webster8/20-24/68 The Yeomen of the Guard

MICHIGANMeadow Brook Music Festival, S. Ehrling, dir., School of Music, J. Levine,

Rochester8/7/68 Rigoletto Peters; Peerce, MacNeil, FlagelloNational Music Camp, Interlochen6/23-8/19/68 program not available, opera included7/10-13/68 opera lectures, B. Goldovsky

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Summer 1968 com.

MISSOURISt. Louis Opera Theatre - on Mississippi River ShowboatJune '68 The Telephone & The MediumJune '68 The Abduction from the SeraglioWashington University Quadrangle, St. Louis7/8/68 Taiw/, The Magic Flute, Uianni Schicchi & Pagliacci

NEW HAMPSHIREHopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover7-8/68 Ginastera, Bentzen, Blackwell, composers; dir: di BonaventuraNew Hampshire Music Festival, Center Harbor7/11 -8/15/68 program not available

NEW JERSEYGarden State Arts Center, (5,000 seats) Woodbridge Telegraph Hill Pk.6/13,15/68 opening Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy, Van Cliburn, alsoCity Center Joffrey Ballet; nightly events at 9 p.m. except Sunday; prices:gen. adm. $2. - on grassy slopes. Reserved seats under roof: $6.90 - 3.50

NEW MEXICOSanta Fe Opera, J. Crosby, gen. dir. all new productions7/2,6,12 8/15,21,24/68 Madama Butterfly cond: Crosby, dir: Zorina; des:

Ter-Arutunian7/5,10,20 8/3/68 The Magic Flute Eng. cond: Baustian; dir: Hebert; des:

Rehling/Kim7/13,17 8/2,8,22/68 La Traviata cond: Crosby; dir: Mansouri; des: O'Hearn7/19,24,27 8/17,23/68 The Elixir of Love Eng. cond: Baustian; dir: Lockwood;

des: Mariani/George7/26,31 8/10/68 Der Rosenkavalier cond: Crosby; dir: Mansouri; des: Jannpo-

lis/Campbell8/7,9/68 The Bassarids Am prem., Eng. cond: Henze; dir: Henze; des: Ter-

Arutunian/Georee8/14,16/68 Schonberg's Jakobsleiter Am. prem. & Persephone cond:

Baustian; dir: Igesz/Zorina, des: Ter-Arutunian/Jannpolis/Georgeartists: Anderson, Armstrong, Brooks, Caplan, Kraft, Mandac, Niska, Raskin,Sarfaty, Shane, Valente, Vanni, Weathers, Wise, Zorina; Alexander, Beni,Best, Bressler, Burrows, Driscoll, Fortune, Glaze, Gramm, Harrower,Jamerson, Reardon, Stewart, Ulfung, Vrenios

NEW YORKCaramoor Festival, J. Rudel, art dir., Katonah (6/16-7/7/68)6/22,28/68 L'Incoronazionedi Poppea Raskin, Elgar, Bible; Valetti, MalasChautauqua Opera Association, L. Treash, dir.7/5,8/68 H.M.S. Pinafore7/12,15/68 La Traviata7/19,22/68 // Tabarro & Gianni Schicchi7/26,29/68 The Tales of Hoffmann8/2,5/68 SusannahS/9M/6S Don Giovanni8/16,19/68 Kiss Me KateArtists: Castle, Dornya, Godfrey, Kaufmann, Thomson; Barker, DiVirgilio,

Goeke, Harvuot, Kness, Price, Pliska, Shinall, Whitemus. dir: Whallon, ass't. mus. dir.: Woitach; asst. stg. dir.: Cowden;des: Struthers

Lake George Opera Festival, D. Lloyd, gen. dir., Glens Falls7/13,19,21,23 8/8,16,24/68 Rossini's Otello new Eng. trans.: Martha W.

England; Bible, Baldwin; Boyll, Lloyd7/18,20,26,28,30 8/7,10,22/68 The Merry Wives of Windsor7/25,27 8/2,13,18,21/68 Romeo and Juliet8/1,3,6,9,11/68 Amram's Twelfth Night prem.8/15,17,20,23,25/68/4 Midsummer Night's Dream mus. dir T. Martin

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Summer 1968 cont.Lyric Arts Opera, Panvini & Rice, dirs., at Port Jervis High School7/6/68 Carmen w.p.7/13/68 La Bofiemev/.p.7/27/68 Don Pasquale Eng. w.p.8/10/68 Madama Butterfly w.p.8/24/68 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin, w.p.Opera Under the Stars, L. Teash, dir., Rochester6/27,29/68 La Traviata7/11,13/68 The Marriage of Figaro&/\,3/6SLaBohemeassoc. stg. dir: Murray; des: StruthersSaratoga Springs Festival, C. Hankensen, gen. mgr. (7/4-8/25/68)8/10/68 Carmen Verrett, Elgar; Domingo, Hale; cond: Rudel, cone. pf.Turnau Opera Players, W. Pinner, prod., WoodstockJuly-August/1968 La Botieme Eng. (7/19,20/68 N.Y. State Univ., New Paltz)Die Fledermaus Eng. (7/26,27/68 N.Y. State Univ., New Paltz)The Abduction from the Seraglio (8/2,3/68 N.Y. State Univ., New Paltz)L'Enfant prodigue &. The Scarf (8/16,17/68 N.Y. State Univ., New Paltz)Don Pasquale (8/23,24/68 N.Y. State Univ., New Paltz)Operatic Excerpts (8/9,10/68 N.Y. Univ., New Paltz)Westchester Symphony Orchestra, Purchase7/1-27/68 Concerts and one opera at Manhattanville College

NEW YORK CITYLincoln Center Festival '68, S. Chapin, dir. (6/21-7/28/68)ROME OPERA (METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE)6/22,24,26,29/68 Le Nozzedi Figaro Ligabue, Sciutti, Casoni; Gobbi,

Panerai; cond: Giulini; dir: Visconti7/ 1,3,5,6/68 / Due Foscari Maragliano, Cioni, Zanasi; cond: Bartoletti6/25,28 7/2/68 Rossini's Otello Zeani, Bottion; cond: FranciMetropolitan Opera Summer Concerts in the Parks6/11,14,18,21,28/68 Carmen Elias/Resnik, Fenn/Pracht; Corelli/Morell/

Olvis, Diaz/Merrill; cond: Lombard/Senick6/12,15,19,22,26/68 Faust Fenn/Tucci, Baldwin; Peerce/Alexander/Morell;

Diaz/Hines/Tozzi; cond: Adler6/25,29/68 Samson et Dalila Warfield; McCrackenOpera in the Park, Central Park Mall (see also Met. Opera)6-7/68 Five performances by La Puma Workshop9/2/68 Naumburg Concert opera perf. to be announced

NORTH CAROLINABrevard Music Festival, H. Janiec, dir.7/5-8/18/68 The Telephone & The Medium

Samson and DalilaEastern Music Festival and Camp, Greensboro6/20-8/2/68 at Guilford College; program not available

OHIOBlossom Music Center, G. Szell, dir.7/19-9/1/68 Cleveland Orchestra, cond: Munch, Steinberg, Shaw,Copeland,

Ancerl, LaneCincinnati May Festival, M. Rudolf, dir.5/17-25/68 Cincinnati Symphony, cond: Rudolf, OrmandyCincinnati Summer Opera, S. Orwoll, mgr.6/26,29/68 // Trovatore Lang, Smith; Tucker, Polokoff6/28,30/68 Elixir of Love* Eng. Clements; Foldi, Kolk, Patrick7/3,6/68 Madama Butterfly Weathers, Williams; Bullard, Keenon7/5,7/68 Manon Fenn; Campora, Patrick7/10,13/68 Salome Weathers, Lang; Rayson, Stark7/12,14/68 Don Pasquale Peters; Guarrera, Tajo, Riegel7/17,20/68 Lucia di Lammermoor* Sills; Alexander, Cossa, Moscona7/19,21/68 Carmen Dunn, Cooper; Domingo, Guarrera7/24,27/68 La Traviata Moffo; Alexander, Cossa7/26,28/68 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng. Sills, Williams; Domingo, Treigle,

Castel * - new production

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Summer 1968 cont.Oberlin College Summer Festival, Oberlin (also see Falmouth, Mass.)7/8-8/3/68 program not availableOhio State University Opera Workshop, P. Hickfang, dir., Columbus7/8-20/68 Summer Workshop, B. Goldovsky, guest.

PENNSYLVANIAAmbler Music Festival and Institute, Temple University, Ambler6/26-8/24/68 Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia, Opera Workshop, etc.Robin Hood Dell Concerts, F. R. Mann, pres., Philadelphia6/17-7/25/68 Philadelphia Orchestra

TENNESSEESewanee Summer Music Center 6/23-7/28/687/25-28/68 Music Festival

VERMONTMarlboro Music School and Festival, R. Serkin, dir.6/24-8/18/68 Chamber Music

VIRGINIAReston Music Center, Reston6/30-8/24/68 program not available

WASHINGTONSeattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society, G.G. Gutteridge, dir.7/11-13 8/18-20/68 The Pirates of Penzance at Center Playhouse

WEST VIRGINIAOglebay Institute and Festival, Wheeling-Oglebay8/5-9/1/68 Boris Goldovsky Opera Workshop8/23/68 Cosifan tulle

WISCONSINPeninsula Music Festival, Fish Creek8/10-25/68 program not available

CANADABanff School of Fine Arts, Opera Division, E. Vinci, dir. Alberta7/3-8/12/68 Madama Butterfly, Riders to the Sea & excerpts Ballad of

Baby DoeJeunesse Musicales, MJ. Orford, Que.8/68 Landowski's Opera de Poussiere Am. prem.Montreal Symphony Orchestra7/3,8,10/68 Andrea ChenierStratford Festival, Ontario7/6-8/10/68 Rossini's Cinderella 17 pfs., Eng. Jacob; Kern; Pellerin, Savoie;

cond: Smith; dir: Campbell; des: HurryVancouver Summer Festival, G. Hilker, gen. mgr., Vancouver, B.C.7/15-23/68 Rosalinda Fenn

ITALYFestival of Two Worlds, G.C. Menotti, art. dir., Spoleto

6/27 7/2,4,7/68 Tristan und Isolde Barlow, Murphey; Heater; cond: Danon;dir: Menotti; des: Samaritani

7/6,9,1 1,13/68 The Saint of Bleeker Street cond: Schippers; des: Dayde'7/ 11-14/68 Berio's Laborintus II Juilliard Ensemble; cond: Berio; dir:

Arbasino; des: Aulenti

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FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1968-69 SEASON

CALIFORNIASan Diego Opera Company, W. Herbert, art dir.10/14+, 15+, 17,19/68 Rigoietto Elgar; Glossop11/12+ 14,16/68 La Boheme Venora4/21+, 22+,24,26/68 Don Quixote Treigle; des: Klein + = student matineeSan Francisco Opera Co., War Memorial Opera House, K.H.Adler, gen. dir.9/13,18,22+,28/68 Ernani* Price; Cioni, Glossop, Flagello, Nadler, Glover9/14,17,20,25,29+/68 // Barbiere di Siviglia Berganza, Cervena; Wixell,

Bottazzo, Evans, Rossi-Lemeni, Monk9/15+,21,24/68 Les Troyens Crespin, Lilova, Anderson; Chauvet, Berberian,

Grant, Serbo, Khanzadian9/27 10/1,9,12/68 Die Walkure* Kniplova, Crespin, Lilova; Thomas,

Hofmann, Wildermann10/4,19,27+ 11/29/68 Madama Butterfly Pilou, Anderson; di Virgilio, Wixell,

Crofoot. Grant. Fried10/5,8.13+/68 Erwartung* & one-act Milhaud's Discovery of America* &

Weill's Royal Palace* Am. prem. (pantomime vers.) Collier;-Todd; Tipton,Wilder'mann, Glover, Beattie, Crofoot, Monk;-Stevenson, Marks; Khan-zadian, Berberian

10/1 l,15,2O+,23 11/2/68 // Trovatore Bakocevic, Lilova, Nadler; Ilosfalvy,Braun, Berberian

10/18,22,26/68 Wozzeck Lear, Anderson; Evans, Lewis, Parly, Beattie, Khan-zadian

10/25,29 11/3+,6,9/68 Lucia di Lammermoor Rinaldi, Nadler; Pavarotti,Braun, Grant

11 /1,5,10+, 16/68 Salome* Silja, Cervena, Nadler; Lewis, Mazura, di Virgilio11/8,12,17+,20,23/68 Don Giovanni Tarre's, Zylis-Gara, Pilou; Siepi, Trama,

Holley, Mazura, Monk11/15,19,24+,27,30/68 Turandot Shuard, Marsh; Spiess, Berberian, Wixell,

Manton, Crofoot11/22,26 12/1+/68 Fra Diavolo* Costa, Anderson; Gedda, Beattie, Khan-

zadian;cond: Bernardi. Faldi, Ludwie. G. Patane. Perisson. Schuller. Stein; dirs:.Eberman, Erlo, Farruggio, G. Hager, P. Hager, Mansouri, Rott,Yannopoulos + = new productions

FLORIDAOpera Guild of Greater Miami, A. di Filippi, mgr: E. Buckley, mus. dir.l/20,22+,25/69 La Gioconda Bjoner, Davidson, Casei; Tucker, Ludgin,

Vokataitis2/17,19+,22/69 Faust Pilou, Creed; Labo, Treigle, Walker3/17,19+,22/69 La Forza del destino Gencer; Prevedi, Ausensi, Raimondi,

Foldi; at Dade County Audit; except + at Miami Beach Audit.

ILLINOISChicago Lyric Opera. Carol Fox. een. mgr.. 20 N. Wacker Drive9/30 10/4,9,12/68 Salome Weathers, Varnay; Kieffer, Hopf, Theyard,

Malone, Lorenzi, Fitch, Walker, Voketaitis, West; cond: Bartoletti10/2,5,7,14,18,23/68 Norma Suliotis, Cossotto; Kieffer, Cecchele, Malone,

Vinco; cond: Sanzogno10/11.16,19,25,28/68 Tosca Stella; Kieffer, Cioni, Lorenzi, Guelfi, Voketaitis,

Van Ginkel, Izzo, Smith; cond: Bartoletti10/21,26,30 11/1/68 Fa/j/a//"Kabaivanska, Marimpietri, Dominguez,

Malagu, Garaventa, Lorenzi, Andreolli, Gobbi, Mittelmann, Washington;cond:Sanzogno

11/2,6,9,11,15/68 Un Ballo in maschera Maragliano, Stahlman, Mattiucci,Cioni, Fitcn, Glossop, Washington, Van Ginkel, Combs; cond: Sanzogno

11/13,16,20,22,25/68 Le Rossignol Eda-Pierre. Dominguez, Malagu, Gara-venta, Walker, Fitch, Washington, Voketaitis, Van Ginkel, Izzo; cond:Fournet & Oedipus Rex Dominguez, Picchi, Walker, Gramm, Washington;cond: Fournet

11/29 12/2,6,11,14/68 Manon Lescaut Tebaldi, Tourangeau, Domingo, Lor-enzi, Andreolli, Rinaldi, Badioli, Izzo, Combs; cond: Bartoletti

12/4,7,9,13/68 Don Pasquale Grist, Kraus, Bruscantini, Badioli, Izzo; cond:Bartoletti

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1967-68 cont.Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, State's Sesquicentennial11 /68 Nixon's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky prem.So. Illinois University School of Music, State's Sesquicentennial, Carbondale11/68 Bottje's Reviled Patriot prem.

MINNESOTADuluth Symphony Orchestra, J. Hawthorne, mus..dir.9/68 La Traviata

NEW YORK CITYLittle Orchestra Society, Th. Scherman, dir., Philharmonic Hall, semi-staged pfs.10/15/68 Oskar Straus's,* Waltz Dream Stich-Randall; W. Lewis; st. dir.: R.

Herbert2/25/69 L'Enfant et lessortileges & archy andmehitable w. Pickwick Puppet

Theatre, J. Simon; narr: Henry Morgan; st. dir: N. Walker4/22/69 Strauss' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme new adapt, (w. original version

of Ariadne auf Naxos) Kuchta12/17/68,1/21/69,3/11/69 Orchestral ConcertsMetropolitan Opera Association, R. Bing, gen. mgr., Lincoln Center Plaza9/16/68-4/19/69 Adriana Lecouvreur, II Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, Don

Carlo, Don Giovanni, Faust, Die Frau ohne Schatten, La Boh erne. La Son-nambula. Die Meistersinger, Peter Grimes, Das Rheingold*. Rigoletto,Romeo et Juliette, Der RosenkavaHer*, Simon Boccanegra, Tosca*. II Tro-vatore*. Turandot, Die Walkure.Wozzeck * - new productiondates and artists will be listed in 9-10/68 Blltn.

TEXASDallas Civic Opera L. Kelly, gen. dir.11 /3,8,10/68 Orpheus in the Underworld Sciutti; Poretta11/15,18/68 Otello de Los Angeles, Vickers, Zanasi11/22,24,27/68 Donizetti's Anna Bolena Suliotis, Casoni; Tagliavini, Flagello,Fort Worth Opera Assn., R. Kruger, gen. dir.11/22,24/68 La Traviata1/17,19/69 Don Pasquale3/7,9/69 Turandot4/18,20/69 Romeo et JulietteHouston Grand Opera, W. Herbert, art dir.10/29 11/1,3/68 La Boheme Stratas; Cossutto12/10,13,15/68 Salome Weathers; Sergi1/7,10,12/69 The Barber of Seville Elgar; Milnes, Tyl2/4,7,9/69 Don Carlos Kabaivanska; Domingo, Saciuk, Meliciani; dir: Frusca5/6,9,11/69 Massenet's Don Quixote Casei; Treigle, Foldi

WASHINGTONSeattle Opera Assn., G. Ross, dir.9/11,14,18,21/68 Aida Lee, Cossotto; Vinco;cond: Katims; dir: Frusca11/13,16,20,23/68 Andrea Chenier Corelli; cond: Guadagno1 /22,25,29 2/1/69 Der Rosenkavalier Crespin, Sarfaty; Langdon; cond: Schick3/19,22,26,29/69 Tosca Kirsten: MacNeil; cond: Katims4/23,26,30 5/3/69 L'Elisird'amore Costa

CANADACanadian Opera Company, H. Geiger-Torel, gen. dir., Toronto, Ont.9/13,28,10/1,5,7,10/68 Aida cond: Barbini; dir: Geiger-Torel; des: Laufer/Day9/16,20,24/68 LouisRiel cond: Feldbrill; dir: Major; des: Laufer/Day9/21,26 10/2,4,8,12/68 Tosca cond: Barbini; dir: Major9/23,28 10/3,5,9,11/68 La Bohlme cond: Craig; dir: Fisher; des: Day/Hartman9/25,27,30 10/12/68 Salome cond: Krachmalnik; dir: Geiger-Torel; des:

Jackson/Messartists include: Brooks, Kouba, Krilovici, Lacambra, Lane, Piercey, Ride-out, Roslak, Thomson; Barrena, Brown, Duval, Glynne, Gray, Mauro,Pickett, Quilico, Rouleau, Rubes, Stark, Turgeon and others.

10/20-12/20/68 tour of The Barber of Seville

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1968-69 cont.Vancouver Opera Association, I. Guttman, art. dir.11/14,16,20,23,27/68 The Barber Of Seville Home; Sordello, Bisson; cond:

Lewis2/20,22,25,27 3/1,4/69 Faust Thomson; Molese, Cross5/1,3,6,8,10,13/69 Manon Brooks; Domingo, Savoie

NEW COS MEMBERSLt Col. James M. Alfonte, Winston-Salem, N.C.Mr. William V. Brigham, New York, N.Y.Boston,Public Library,Boston, Mass.Civic Opera Society of Huntsville, Inc. R. W. Johnson, Pres., Ala.Mr. Robert Driver, Bayrische Staatsoper, Munich, D.B.R.Duluth Symphony Ass n, H. Maddux, Opera Mgr., Duluth, Minn.Eastern Michigan Univ., Miss E. Lowe, Asst. Prol., Ypsilanti, Mich.Mrs. Jacquelyn Giles, Omaha, Neb.Mrs. Maryann C. Golding, New York, N.Y.Mrs. Eugene Heuer, Jr., St. Paul, Minn.Mrs. Eusebia Hunkins.Athens, OhioUniv. of Illinois Library, Urbana, III.Illinois State Univ., A. Peters, Normal. 111.Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Library, Indiana, Pa.Miss Carolyne James, Hartville, Wy.Mr. Don McAfee, New York, N.Y.Miss Mady Metzger-Ziegler, St. Paul, Minn.Omaha Civic Opera Society, D. Holland, Pres., Omaha, Neb.Opera Ass'n of Western Michigan, Mrs. H. White, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich.Mr. John Patton, Minneapolis, Minn.Penrose Memorial Library, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.Mrs. Arthur Rosenberg, Rochester, N.Y.Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana Opera Guild, G.S. Beaman, Dir., Lafayette, La.South Illinois Univ. Library, Edwardsville, 111.Miss Charlotte Straka, St. Paul, Minn.Mr.Robert L. Thomas, Jr., New York, N.Y.Univ. of Toronto Library, Toronto, Ont.Ralph D. White, II, McKinney, Tex.Univ. of Wisconsin, K. Moser, Dir. Opera. Madison. Wis.Wisconsin State Univ., Miss R. Kelly, Asst. Prof., Superior, Wis.Mr. Helmuth Wolfes, Cleveland, Ohio

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