CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINMAY-JUNE, 1971

NATIONAL CONFERENCE - WASHINGTON, D.C. - NOVEMBER, 1971

INDEX

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

NEW OPERA COMPANIES & ARTS COOPERATIVES

ART AND ARTS CENTERS

GOVERNMENT AND THE ARTS

WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT TAX PROGRAMS

NEW TRANSLATIONS, NEW SETS

FOUNDATION RESEARCH AND GRANTS

PERFORMANCE STATISTICS

SINGERS AND ACTORS AS STAGE DIRECTORS

EDUCATION, incl. Summer & Arts Admin. Courses

ANNIVERSARIES

BOOK CORNER; COLLECTIONS

COMPETITIONS & WINNERS

APPOINTMENTS

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE GUILD

NEW COS MEMBERS

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN

Volume 13, Number 5 May-June, 1971

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

AMERICAN OPERAS

HUCKLEBERRY FINN is Hall Overton's third opera. Based on Mark Twain'sstory, using some of his original text, the libretto by Judah Stampfler and thecomposer has been somewhat altered; Huck's age has been changed from 13 to 16years, his friendship with Jim has been particularly emphasized and Jim's characterhas become a figure of black consciousness. The two-act opera was premiered bythe Juilliard American Opera Center on May 20.

Besides his work on Black Widow for the Seattle Opera Company (see 1/71Blltn.), Thomas Pasatieri has also been commissioned by the National EducationTelevision to write an opera for NET Opera. It will be THE TRIAL OF MARYLINCOLN.

Stanley Silverman and Richard Foreman, who had collaborated on Elephant Steps(see 9/68 Blltn.), have now finished a second work called DREAM TANTRASFOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. Rather than calling it an opera, it issubtitled "A Musical Strategy for Twenty-eight Performers." It will be premieredat The Lenox Arts Center, a new music festival in the Berkshire mountains, onAugust 12, with 7 subsequent performances scheduled during August.

A new multi-media work by Meyer Kupferman entitled VISIONS AND GAMESwas heard for the first time on May 24 at an all Kupferman concert in New YorkCity. The performing group was the Sarah Lawrence Improvisation Ensemble.

Last year's tragedy at Kent State forms the basis of OPERA FLIES, a new workby Egyptian/American composer Halim El-Dabh. He is composer-in-residence atthe University but wrote the work on commission from the Hawthorne School inWashington where it was premiered in early May. It will be performed by thesame student cast when it comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music on June 2,and 3 and to the Anderson Theatre in Manhattan the same week. The three-actopera features seven main characters, three choruses, and ten orchestra musicians.The composer explained the musical style as neither rock, pop or serial but rather"somewhat African"; traditional symphonic instruments are used. The story isconveyed in a universal manner and not as a literal reenactment of events.

Herbert Six has written his second jazz opera, ALL CATS TURN GRAY WHENTHE SUN GOES DOWN. It was performed for the first time by the opera work-shop of the Henry Street Settlement Music School on May 21. The composer'sfirst opera, Without Memorial Banners, was premiered in Kansas City in 1966.

Forty-three-year-old American composer M. Witni wrote a one-act opera, THEDARK OF SUMMER. Scored for two-piano accompaniment, the 45-minutework features a cast of five. Musical material is available from the composer,c/o American Music Center.

AMERICAN PREMIERES

On March 28, the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia offered the Americanpremiere of MARKHEIM, a one-act opera by Italian composer Luciano Chailly.It is based on the short story of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson whichalso served American composer Carlisle Floyd as subject for his one-act operaMarkheim. The latter was premiered in New Orleans in 1966, the Chailly opera inSpoleto, Italy, in 1967. The composer is presently artistic director of Milan's LaScala; he writes in an atonal style.

Colorado College in Colorado Springs was the scene of the revival of IL CAVA-LIERE ERRANTE by Tommaso Traetta. The opera, premiered in Venice in1778, received its last known performance in Germany in 1804. Dr. Albert Seay,who was responsible for the revival, also wrote the English translation for thisAmerican premiere.

The New York premiere of Schoenberg's MOSES UND A RON is scheduled forNovember 1971 when the Chicago Symphony, under the baton of Georg Solti,will bring it to Carnegie Hall in a concert performance. Donald Gramm willrepeat his successful portrayal of Moses; he sang the role in the American premierein Boston. — It is interesting to note that the opera has never been performed inthe composer's homeland and that the Austrian premiere will take place at theVienna State Opera in May 1973 under Pierre Boulez.

FOREIGN PREMIERES

The Dutch entry for the television-opera competition in Salzburg 1971 is Ton deLeeuw's LITANY OF OUR TIME. The 40-minute opera uses as text variousitems selected from one issue of a London Times "read" against the backgroundof an airport waiting room. — The Austrian entry is TRIP, a hippie-opera byjazz composer Fatty George; it is presently being filmed in Vienna.

Andre Jolivet's Songe a nouveau rive was premiered at the Theatre de la Villein Paris on April 30. — Czech composer Jiri Dvoracek's THE ISLE OF APHRO-DITE had its first performances simultaneously in Opava, Czechoslovakia,and in Dresden, East Germany, on February 13. The composer wrote the librettobased on a play by Parnis.

THE PRISONER, by Finnish composer T. K. Pylkkanen, was performed at theSibelius Academy in Helsinki in the Fall of 1970 for the first time. Next Fall theAcademy will give the premiere of ESTHER, a one-act opera by Norwegian com-poser Ragner Soderlind, a joint commission by the Academy and the ScandinavianScholarship Fund.

Hans Werner Henze's latest work DAS FLOSS DER MEDUSA, an opera-oratorio,will receive its stage premiere in April 1972 in Nurnberg.— The Deutsche Operin West Berlin plans the premiere of a Mayuzumi opera called TEMPELBRANDfor the 1972-73 season. — A one-act opera, DEI A VU, by Hans Otte, waspremiered this Spring in Bremen at the Theater am Goetheplatz. It is written forone singer, film projection and loudspeakers, and the one act consists of fivescenes, each a variation on the original scene, hence the title Dijd. vu. It wasperformed on a triple-bill together with Nature morte for four women's voices andNoli me tangere for one soprano.

Antonio Tauriello's opera, LES GUERRES PICROCHOLINES, scheduled for apremiere by the Teatro Colon Chamber Opera in Washington, D. C , in May(see 3/71 Blltn.), was not completed in time for the company's U.S. tour. TheArgentinian company did present the two baroque operas originally scheduled.

EARLY OPERAS

The oldest known German Singspiel, SEELEWIG, is by Sigmund Gottlieb Staden,published in 1644 in a literary work. It will be presented in Kiel next season in anew version, with Michael Leinert adapting the libretto and George W. Schmoheadapting the music. — Reinhard Keiser's PRINCE JODELET (1726) will beperformed by the Bremen Radio and broadcast over the stations of the EuropeanBroadcasting Union this Spring.

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NEW OPERA COMPANIES

The first COLORADO OPERA FESTIVAL will be presented by the ColoradoSprings Opera Company in collaboration with the Opera Workshop at ColoradoCollege in Colorado Springs. The Festival will be held in June and July and willoffer three professional operatic productions including an American premiere ofan 18th century opera and an updated version of a 17th century work (yet anotherinstance of Easy Rider replacing the original knight on horseback); all perform-ances will be in English. At the same time, the Festival will offer accredited operacourses for undergraduates and graduate students and an apprentice program forthe beginning young professional. J. Julius Baird, founder and artistic directorof the Colorado Springs Opera, and Donald P. Jenkins, opera director at ColoradoCollege, are the co-directors of the Festival. Other artists doubling as performersand teachers are singer/stage director Herbert Beattie, stage director/choreographerHanya Holm, and set and costume designer Klaus Holm. With the Central CityFestival inactive this summer, the new Festival should be of particular interest.

Rafael de Acha has formed the NEW ENGLAND CHAMBER OPERA GROUPin Maiden, Mass. The new organization hopes to present young professional singersand some advanced students in operatic performances; the first production, atriple-bill of one-act operas, is planned for the Fall.

Edward J. Attarian, dentist, student of the Juilliard School, and former memberof the Detroit Opera Society, last summer founded the BATTLE CREEK OPERASOCIETY in Michigan. With much enthusiasm and elbow grease, the Society hasoffered four evenings of operatic excerpts, and one performance of Cavalleriarusticana at a local church. Performances of Pagliacci and Cost fan tutte areplanned for the Fall, — if a financial sponsor can be found. Association with themusic department of Kellogg College has also been under consideration.

NEW ARTS COOPERATIVES

Under the heading of "New Massive Grassroots Backing for the Arts and theHumanities", the Associated Councils for the Arts announces the formation ofthe CLEARINGHOUSE COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION ON THE ARTSAND THE HUMANITIES. At present there are fifteen committee members, eachrepresenting a major national organization, and thus, bringing to this new organi-zation an indirect constituency of several million people. Labor unions, educationalassociations, religious groups, girl and boy scouts, and women's associations arerepresented. The committee members hope to foster interest in national andcommunity cultural events through better understanding and more communicationbetween its constituents and the artistic community. Representatives from theNational Endowment have met with the Committee and they, too, look forwardto a stimulating exchange of ideas and information.

A similar group of executives, this time representing national arts organizations,has met and formed the loosely-structured COUNCIL OF NATIONAL ARTSORGANIZATION EXECUTIVES. The main purpose of this group is to exchangeinformation, plan cooperative programs and avoid duplication of efforts. CentralOpera Service is represented in this group.

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ART AND ARTS CENTERS

Among the many gifts received from different nations by the John F. KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts are tapestries and sculptures from France and artworks and furnishings for the concert hall lounge from Israel. The former consistsof two 6Vi x lO'/i ft. tapestries by Henri Matisse, executed by La ManufactureNationale des Gobelins, and two 1948 sculptures, Ocean Nymph and Autumn, byHenry Laurens; the latter includes a mural painting, a carved wood paneling tocover one wall and hand painted silk panels to cover the other three walls of thelounge. The art works will combine Biblical scenes with those of contemporaryIsrael. Israel's architect Raphael Blumenfeld is responsible for the overall designof the room.

Another Israeli artist, sculptor Yaacov Agam, designed the first outdoor sculpturefor the new Juilliard School building at Lincoln Center. It was recently donatedon behalf of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation by Mr. and Mrs. G. Jaffinand consists of three stainless steel branches. The artist calls it a "transformablesculpture" since the branches can be moved and thus create different patterns.New York City and Lincoln Center officials participated in the unveiling ceremonies.

Adjoining the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Penn-sylvania is the recently opened Annenberg Center for Communication Arts andSciences, a cultural center housing three theatres. The largest is the 900-seatZellerbach Theatre; the other two auditoriums seat 400 and 120 respectively. Thesmallest was designed for film screening.

Officials of the Filene Center at Wolf Trap Farm Park have announced the goodnews that July 1, 1971, is still the date of the official opening, in spite of abad fire on the construction site. Damages were estimated at $400,000.

In April, the University of Tennessee at Martin opened a new Fine Arts Building.The National Opera Company from Raleigh, N. C , participated in the openingweek Festival.

ART ADS

The Business Committee for the Arts, in cooperation with the Advertising CouncilInc., has produced a one-minute spot commercial, Art Is For Man's Sake. It isbeing distributed to 100 television stations throughout the country. Created byEdward H. Weiss Agency and designed as an animated cartoon, its message is"If you remove all that art and design contribute to the quality of man's life, manwould find himself up a tree." The cartoon shows a man in his home reading abook, listening to music, with a painting, sculpture, and modern design furniture;one by one these items are removed until the room is bare, the man is naked upa tree. The commercial is also available in a shortened version where man is sentup the tree in 30 seconds! Time and space for the showing, estimated to total$20 million in air time, will be contributed by the media.

Similarly, the Public Relations Advisory Committee of the Music EducatorsNational Conference has prepared short radio announcements promoting theimportance of music education. The third series has just been distributed to 6000AM and FM stations. The lightweight flexible disc is made of soundsheet andfeatures four 60-second spots and four 30-second spots. Selections include operaticexcerpts sung by Anna Moffo and Richard Tucker as well as light musical fareby Richard Rodgers and Clark Terry. The disc is called Music Belongs.

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GOVERNMENT AND THE ARTS

FEDERAL PROGRAMS

The first congressional committee hearings regarding the funding of the NA-TIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES forfiscal 1972 have begun. (For a preliminary report of the projected proceedings,please see the Minutes of the Central Opera Service meeting of April 2, whichinclude a presentation by Miss Popper on the subject. Free copies were sent to allmembers; additional copies are available for 500.) Due to the very limited timeavailable for the hearings and the many parties to be heard from, — the Sub-committee considered the complete bill of the Department of the Interior andRelated Agencies, of which the NFAH is a part — only three individuals reportedon the Arts. They were John MacFadyen, President of the Associated Councilsof the Arts, Barnet Fain of the North American Assembly of State and ProvincialArts Agencies, and Jack Golodner for the Council of AFL-CIO Unions of Scien-tific, Professional and Cultural Employees. Together they represented most of thearts organizations in the country and spoke on their behalf. Miss Nancy Hanks,Chairman of the NEA, had made her report earlier before the Senate. Statementsfrom AGMA and Actors' Equity were also read. All supported funding theauthorized total of $60 million for the NFAH with an additional $3.5 millionfor the agency's administration. The total is to be shared equally between the Artsand the Humanities programs. President Nixon has also urged full funding of thebills (see 1/71 Blltn.), however, past records reveal that the highest appropriationamounted to 70 percent of the originally authorized amount.

At the Senate hearing, Miss Hanks explained the proposed distribution of the funds,based on the authorized $30 million for NEA: $10.4 million would go for"expanded cultural resources development", of which $6 million are earmarkedfor the performing arts. Opera would be included in this category and Miss Hankssaid, "One of the Endowment's major hopes for the coming year will be to initiatean opera program. We had intended to do this last year but were unable to be-cause of the $1 million cut in our program monies." ($1.5 million is projectedfor opera for fiscal 1972.) "Guidelines for opera have already been established.For commissioning and producing new works, we will rely largely on the NationalOpera Institute which began operating this past year. Direct Endowment grantsto opera companies will be primarily for administrative improvement and publicservice programs — particularly those aimed at audience development." About$10 million would be allocated for "the broad dissemination of the arts", $5 mil-lion of this amount would be for the support of State Arts Councils, the other$5 million for the expansion of residency touring programs for the visual andperforming arts (exclusive of music). $5.6 million would go towards "the ad-vancement of our cultural legacy" to be dispensed in grants to individual artists,to the American Film Institute, and to various workshops in the performing arts.

The survey of major performing arts organizations, commissioned by the NationalEndowment for the Arts and conducted by the Economic and Social DevelopmentCouncil and Sureva Seligson, has been completed; the initial findings have beenpublished by the NEA in a booklet, called The Economic Aspects of the PerformingArts: A Portrait in Figures, available from the Superintendent of Documents,U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402 for 300. (All com-panies listed will receive complimentary copies.) Of the 187 professional non-profitcompanies with budgets over $100,000 which were surveyed, thirty-five were operaproducing organizations; the others were 101 orchestras, 31 theatre companies,and 20 dance companies. All figures are based on the 1969-70 season withprojected estimates for the 1970-71 season included. Total dollar figures andpercentages are indicated per category (theatre, opera, dance, symphony) in thefollowing six areas: expenditure, earned income, gross deficit, other income,net deficit, and attendance. Within the 35 opera companies, the MetropolitanOpera is listed separately "since its expenditures, income, and attendancewere almost equal to that of the other 34 major companies combined." The booklet

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has 24 pages and 15 charts. A more detailed report, also based on that survey butcovering many more areas, is in preparation for the NEA. (For news of othersurveys, see article on foundations.)

Another new book of great value to the National Endowment and to those con-sidering applying for grants is the ACA publication, Washington and the Arts, alsoprepared by Mrs. Seligson. For the first time, ongoing Endowment programs arelisted by program category, thus offering a handy reference guide not only tothe number of grants and the amounts involved, but also to the program commit-ment of the Endowment. Copies of this book are available from ACA for $6.50.They were distributed free to conference registrants in Washington.

Continuing its joint program with the Office of Education, the National Endow-ment for the Arts has awarded another $750,000 for teaching programs by pro-fessional artists in elementary and high schools. The program, which was begunin 1970 in 31 states (see 6/70 Blltn.), now encompasses 41 states. The largestslice of the recent grant went towards new dance programs and the Affiliate ArtistsInc. received $25,000 under the new grants for music programs in local schools.

NEW YORK STATE AND CITY PROGRAMS

The concerted efforts of the Concerned Citizens for the Arts (see 1/71 Blltn.) andthe people of New York State were able to stave off major cuts in the Stateappropriation of funds for the NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS.In spite of large cut-backs in many areas of the state budget, the total amountavailable for the arts for the next fiscal year will be $16.7 million, compared with$18 million the previous year. (The recommendation of the N.Y. State Com-mission on Cultural Resources was for $30 million.) The distribution of funds isslightly different than last year; a grant of $2.5 million was awarded directly tothe New York Public Library rather than through the Arts Council and $1.4 mil-lion was specified for "State Purposes for the Council" (administrative funds).Thus the Council has $13 million available for assistance programs to arts organi-zations which have been sent the 1971-72 questionnaires. As in the previous year,no grants will be given towards "capital expenditure, major equipment purchases,and studies leading to construction".

Due to the latest N.Y. City budget crisis, the elimination of as many as 3000 jobsmay be necessary, announced Mayor Lindsay. Among the first victims may bethe complete Department of Cultural Affairs with Dore Schary at its head. Mr.Schary resigned from his position as Commissioner of Cultural Affairs shortlybefore the Mayor's announcement. A total of 23 people would be laid off anda skeleton crew transferred to the Office of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairswhich, however, is also expected to undergo a trim in its budget.

Meanwhile the Cultural Council Foundation, jointly sponsored by the City andthe State, has announced 123 individual grants to artists amounting to $240,000.The grants range from $2000 to $5000. An element of public service is requiredfrom each recipient as well as N.Y. State residency and commitment to a professionalcareer in music composition, choreography, drama, film, painting, sculpture, etc.

Standard Oil of New Jersey has awarded $52,500 to six community arts councilsin the New York City area. The grants will be distributed by the Arts and BusinessCooperative Council of the New York Board of Trade which is an additionalrecipient of a $7,500 grant. In announcing the gift, Mr. C. C. Garvin Jr., executivevice president of Standard Oil, stated "The arts do not flourish alone in the concerthalls, opera houses, galleries, and museums but in neighborhood meeting places,schools and auditoriums." The following community organizations were the benefi-ciaries: the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts and Culture Ass'n., theChinatown Planning Council, the Harlem Culture Council, the Queens Council onthe Arts and the Staten Island Council of the Arts.

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WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT TAX PROGRAMS

The effects of two 1969 Tax Reform Acts and their influence on the arts arepresently under investigation. One act was aimed at tightening controls on founda-tions but it seems that it is also curtailing tax-free donations to non-profit arts organi-zations. Senator Charles Percy from Illinois suggested recently that the NationalEndowment for the Arts collect factual data on this subject and present it toCongress. COS suggests that pertinent information, such as letters or statementsattesting to the fact that tax restrictions contained in the 1969 amendments weredirectly responsible for receiving fewer donations, be sent to the NEA.

The second 1969 Tax Reform Act which is proving a hardship on artists, libraries,museums, and arts organizations, is that concerned with charitable material con-tributions to tax-exempt institutions. These institutions have built priceless col-lections through donations whose "fairly estimated value" was allowed as taxdeduction for the donor. The new law allows collectors and dealers to continuethis practice but limits the creator to a deduction of the value of the materialsused, only. The impact of this bill's detrimental effect was in evidence when IgorStravinsky, shortly before his death, decided to place some of his original manu-scripts on the open market for sale rather than donate them to a library or museum,as had been his intention. For tax deduction purposes, the invaluable manuscriptswould have been reduced to the price of paper and ink. (Ironically, the full valueof the manuscripts is restored by the Internal Revenue Service when evaluatingthe composer's estate.) In response to this, the Council of Creative Artists,Libraries and Museums was recently formed. It passed a resolution supportingchanges in the 1969 Reform Act, and is supporting a new bill, S.1212, introducedby Idaho Senator Church, which would allow the artist to deduct 50 percent ofthe fair market value of his creation when donating it to a tax-exempt institution.The Council represents 28 national organizations with a total constituency of over1 million people. Another new group with the same aim is the Conference ofAmerican Artists. The National Music Council has also passed a resolution sup-porting the Church bill, but hopes that it may be altered to allow full valuededuction.

A third tax law in need of change concerns the status of tax-exempt organizations.A new bill, S.I408, was introduced by Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, andis aimed at clarifying the ambiguous statement that restricts tax-exempt groupsfrom communicating "substantially" with Congress (501 C 3). With the exceptionof private foundations, which will remain restricted, the new law would allownon-profit organizations to be heard by Congress. Remaining restrictions will bespecified with greater clarity in order to avoid the unwitting loss of a group'stax-exempt status.

Letters regarding the above mentioned bills should be sent 1) to your own repre-sentative and senators, 2) to the senator who introduced the new bill, 3) to WilburMills of the Senate's Appropriations Committee, 4) to President Nixon. (COSwould appreciate hearing from you as to whether and to whom you have written.)It is important to let government know where you stand on these issues.

ADDITIONAL TRANSLATIONS, ADDITIONAL SETS

Ravel's L'Heure espagnol was performed at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, in a new English translation by Robert K. Evans. The newtext is available from the translator, c/o the Conservatory. Mr. Evans' previouslyannounced translation of Prince Igor is now available from Boosey and Hawkes.

Peter Wolf, Inc., of Dallas, Texas, informs us that, in addition to the sets listedin the COS Directory, the company also has sets for Elektra and for The MagicFlute available for rental.

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FOUNDATION RESEARCH AND GRANTS

The FORD FOUNDATION is embarking on a computerized study of 200 non-profit, professional, performing arts organizations including forty opera companies.Other fields to be surveyed are symphony, theatre and dance. Detailed question-naires have been distributed in order to collect financial data covering the pastfive years. Since these questionnaires are quite lengthy and complicated, the FordFoundation has offered $500 for each completed and returned questionnaire. Thein-depth study will result in a national economic data bank, to be updated annu-ally. The Foundation estimates the cost of this survey will amount to $618,150and hopes that it will benefit the performing arts organizations as well as thesupporters of the arts. The first general computerized report is expected to beready in 1972; it will be coded in such a manner that confidential budgetaryinformation will not be identifiable with individual organizations. (For othersurveys, see also article on Government and the Arts.)

Yet another survey of arts organizations has been commissioned by the BusinessCommittee for the Arts. This one will be conducted by the accounting firm ofTOUCHE ROSS & CO. for the purpose of establishing the present extent ofbusiness sponsorship and corporate contributions to arts organizations. This, inturn, should reveal guidelines and effective methods for soliciting contributionsfrom corporations. General results, based on replies to questionnaires, will bemade public without identification of donors or recipients. (A representative ofTouche Ross will be among the speakers at the COS National Conference inNovember.)

PERFORMANCE STATISTICS

While computers facilitate the compilation of statistics, they foster the generalsurvey-mania. Yet one must also recognize the help surveys offer in showingexisting and future trends. Previous articles concentrate on finances, this oneon repertory. The popularity of Verdi and Puccini in the United States has beenwell-documented by the annual surveys published in Opera News each November.The 1969-70 season's 10 most-performed operas featured four by Puccini, one byVerdi, three by Mozart, and one each by Rossini and J. Strauss. It is interestingto note in a recent survey, published by Opernwelt, that German tastes are muchless Italian-oriented. The most performed Verdi opera, Rigoletto, places twenty-first among 64 works, which include operettas and musicals as well as operas.Puccini's leading opera, Boheme, is in the twenty-eighth spot. Lest it be presumedthat Wagner is the German favorite son, it must be pointed out that his most-performed opera, Der fliegende Hollander, occupies the thirty-ninth place; RichardStrauss fares better with Rosenkavalier in seventeenth place. Of the 64 worksperformed in German opera houses last season, 35 were operas, 29 operettas ormusicals. The top ten were My Fair Lady (766), Merry Widow (300), Zauberflote(282), Nozze di Figaro (281), Fledermaus (262), Entfuhrung aus dem Serail(259), Hello Dolly (259), Land des Ldchelns (253), Zarewich (250), and Hoff-mann's Erzahlungen (242). Thus in Germany, as in the U.S., Mozart had threeoperas on the best seller list and J. Strauss, one.

Meanwhile, the current season's figures for the four major American opera houseshave become available. The Metropolitan Opera offered 27 operas in 292 perform-ances including on-tour and summer performances in New York. Of these, 16were by Italian composers (six by Verdi, three by Puccini), 6 by German andAustrian composers including two by R. Strauss and one by Mozart, and fiveoperas by French composers. — Offering a total of eleven works, the SanFrancisco Opera included three operas by Verdi, (Otello, Falstaff, Nabucco) —none among the most popular — and only one by Puccini, 3 German, 2 Frenchand one each by Mozart and Stravinsky (English). — Chicago's Lyric Opera

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with nine operas in its repertoire featured three Puccini operas, one by Verdi,one Rossini, one Donizetti, one Richard Strauss and two in English by Brittenand Bartok. — The New York City Opera in its combined Fall and Winter seasonsincluded a total of nineteen different operas: three by Verdi, three by Puccini, twoeach by Donizetti and by Rossini, four French operas, two by Mozart, and oneeach by Janacek, Britten and Ginastera.

The following has been compiled in response to a number of requests for a listingof American operas performed at the Metropolitan Opera since its founding:

The Pipe of Desire Frederick Converse 3/18/09 (1909-10 2 pfs.)Mono Horatio Parker 3/14/12 (1911-12 4 pfs.)Cyrano de Bergerac Walter Damrosch 2/27/13 (1913-14 5 pfs.)Madeleine Victor Herbert 1/24/14 (1913-14 4 pfs.)The Canterbury Pilgrims Reginald De Koven 3/8/17 (1916-17 6 pfs.)Shanewis Charles Wakefield Cadman 3/23/18 (1917-18 5 pfs.; 1918-19 3 pfs.)The Legend Joseph Carl Brail 3/12/19 (1918-19 3pfs.)The Temple Dancer John Adams Hugo 3/12/19 (1918-19 3 pfs.)Cleopatra's Night Henry Hadley 1/31/20 (1919-20 4 pfs.; 1920-21 3 pfs.)The King's Henchman Deems Taylor 2/17/27 (1926-27 6 pfs.; 1927-28 5 pfs.; 1928-29

3 pfs.)Peter Ibbetson Deems Taylor 2/7/31 (1930-31 6 pfs.; 1931-32 6 pfs.; 1933-34 3 pfs.;

1934-35 1 pf.)The Emperor Jones Louis Gruenberg 1/7/33 (1932-33 7 pfs.; 1933-34 4 pfs.)Merry Mount Howard Hanson 2/10/34 (1933-34 6 pfs.)In Pasha's Garden John Lawrence Seymour 1/24/35 (1934-35 3 pfs.)Caponsacchi Richard Hageman 2/4/37 (1936-37 2 pfs.)The Man Without a Country Walter Damrosch 5/12/37 (1936-37 4 pfs.; 1937-38 1 pf.)Amelia al ballo Gian Carlo Menotti 3/3/38 (1937-38 3 pfs.; 1938-39 3 pfs.)The Island God Gian Carlo Menotti 2/20/42 (1941-42 3 pfs.)The Warrior Bernard Rogers 1/11/47 (1946-47 2 pfs.)The Rake's Progress Igor Stravinsky 2/14/53 (1952-53 5 pfs.; 1953-54 2 pfs.)Vanessa Samuel Barber 1/15/58 (1957-58 6 pfs.; 1958-59 4 pfs.; 1964-65 5 pfs.)The Last Savage Gian Carlo Menotti 1/23/64 (1963-64 7 pfs.; 1964-65 3 pfs.)Anthony and Cleopatra Samuel Barber 9/16/66 (1966-67 8 pfs.)Mourning Becomes Electro Marvin David Levy 3/17/67 (1966-67 6 pfs.; 1967-68 3 pfs.)

SINGERS AND ACTORS AS STAGE DIRECTORS

An increasing number of singers have turned to directing opera, some partici-pating also as soloists in the productions. Regina Resnik has directed Carmen inHamburg and Elektra in Venice, singing leading roles in each production. TitoGobbi directed and sang in Tosca in Zurich and in Chicago, where he is alsostaging Barber of Seville and Gianni Schicchi. In Linz, Austria, Claude Heaterdirected and sang in Otdlo. Carmen was staged in Denver by Adelaide Bishopwho is presently working on Ariadne auf Naxos for the St. Paul Opera. BrendaLewis directed Cosl fan tutte in New Haven and Adele Addison staged Mavrain Cleveland.

In Dallas last season, two actors made their debuts as operatic stage directors. EllisRaab, founding director of New York's APA Repertory Theatre, directed Aida andJose Ferrer staged Don Giovanni. The latter will also be appearing in GianniSchicchi in Newark next season. Previous excursions by theatrical personalitiesinto the operatic field bring to mind Alfred Lunt's staging of Cost fan tutte andTraviata, Tyrone Guthrie's Peter Grimes, and Cyril Ritchard's Perichole, all atthe Metropolitan Opera.

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EDUCATION

After operating for seven years at the West End Presbyterian Church on West105th Street in New York, the BLOOMINGDALE HOUSE OF MUSIC, aneighborhood-oriented music school, will move into its own quarters next fall.A $30,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts has facilitated thepurchase of a building in the same area and this money as well as local contribu-tions and funds raised at a benefit concert will put the school on a financiallysounder footing. Founder/director David Greer and his 22 unsalaried professionalcolleagues expect to continue and expand the school's activities to involve the neigh-borhood's adults as well as the children.

The GROUP FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC at Columbia University will bedisbanded, according to a statement made by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer,Charles Wuorinen, one of the founders of the avant-garde group, and a teacherat Columbia. Jack Beeson, composer and chairman of the University's musicdepartment, said that rising costs were responsible for the disassociation.

The first and only INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES OF AMERICAN MUSIC willbe established at Brooklyn College. It will be headed by musicologist H. WileyHitchcock who plans to research 18th, 19th, and 20th century American musicincluding hymns, songs, marches, piano music, dances, minstrel show tunes,spirituals, and jazz. The Institute will become a repository of American music;it will also publish monographs and anthologies, and prepare a regular newsletter.It is further hoped that it will become involved in the musical plans for the 1976bicentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence (see 10/70 BUtn.)since Mr. Hitchcock is also the head of the bicentennial committee.

More Summer Courses (see also 3/71 Blltn.)

The N.Y. STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE at Fredonia offers summer musicworkshops between July 6 and August 21. Each workshop is one week long anddevoted to one particular aspect of music or music-making. Graduate credits areoffered for participation. A clinic for high school students is scheduled for August8-21. — COLBY COLLEGE at Waterville, Maine, is operating a Summer MusicSchool under director Dorothy Reuman, July 12-August 2 1 . — 1400 students ofmusic, drama, and art will participate in the BLUE LAKES FINE ARTS CAMPin Michigan this summer. The camp is located 15 miles north of Muskegum.—COLORADO COLLEGE at Colorado Springs offers its first summer opera work-shop which may be taken for college credit. It is offered in conjunction with thenew Colorado Springs Opera Festival which also includes an apprentice program(see this issue "New Opera Companies"). — August 8-20 is the length of theSummer Music Clinic at the UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS in California. It isopen to junior and senior high school musicians; Prof. James Jorgenson is thedirector. — MT. SAN JACINTO COLLEGE in Gilman Hot Springs, California,has scheduled summer courses in music. Mezzo-soprano Frances Bible is on thevoice faculty. — EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE at Cheney,Washington, holds a one-week workshop and masterclass June 21-July 3 at whichtime the Spokane Symphony will also be in residence.

More Arts Administration Courses (see also 1/70, 9/70 BHtn.)

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY is initiating two new programs this Fall. The Enter-tainment Arts as Business will offer introductory courses within the school'sBusiness and Management Division while a Master of Arts degree in PerformingArts Administration will be available from the Division of Music Education ofN.Y.U.'s School of Education. Initially, the latter course will be limited toten students with some previous experience in the operation of a performing artsorganization. Internship at N.Y.U.'s Town Hall will be a part of the curriculum.

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A new bill to create a N.Y. STATE INSTITUTE ON THE MANAGEMENTOF THE ARTS, introduced by N.Y. State Senator S. Greenberg, is presently underconsideration in Albany. The Institute should become part of the State UniversitySystem and offer classes which may be taken for credit in the sciences of artsmanagement, organize seminars with inter-disciplinary groups, and establish alibrary. An appropriation of $100,000 was requested for this purpose. A secondbill suggests the addition of N.Y. State honors graduate fellowships in the fineand performing arts and in the arts management sciences.

With the aid of a grant from the Samuel Fels Fund, DREXEL UNIVERSITYin Philadelphia is developing a graduate program in arts administration. Duringthe first year, 1971-72, workshops will be established to outline the new courses.

Existing programs in Arts Administration include those at the School of Dramaat YALE UNIVERSITY, the Business School at HARVARD UNIVERSITY,the Graduate School of Business Administration in cooperation with the Collegeof Fine Arts at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IN LOS ANGELES, andthe School of Business at the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN IN MADISON.

ANNIVERSARIES

Philadelphia is beginning its plans for sprucing up its historical landmarks as host cityto the U. S. BICENTENNIAL in 1976. Although a number of cities will preparecelebrations, the original American capital will, no doubt, be the focal point of allfestivities. It is fortunate that Philadelphia has the attractive and acoustically unre-proachable Academy of Music, built 113 years ago, to function as a music center forthe celebration.

Observing the 500th Anniversary of ALBRECHT DURER, Niirnberg has scheduledspecial performances of Mathis der Maler and Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg to coin-cide with some extraordinary Diirer exhibits, all part of the general festivities.

The EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC in Rochester, N.Y., will celebrate its 50thAnniversary this coming season. A number of new American works have been com-missioned for the occasion and four major symposia will be held between Novemberand April. The School has received a grant of $15,000 from the National Endowmentfor the Arts toward these special expenses. Concerts by internationally famous artistswill be presented in the newly renovated Eastman Theatre.

The SAN FRANCISCO OPERA looks forward to its Golden Anniversary in 1972,while the FORT WORTH OPERA is currently celebrating its Silver Anniversary Season.

Performing artists celebrating major anniversaries include Maestro FAUSTO CLEVAwho recently was honored on the occasion of his 50th Anniversary with the MetropolitanOpera, soprano DOROTHY KIRSTEN on her 25th Anniversary with the San FranciscoOpera, tenor RICHARD TUCKER (last season) and baritone ROBERT MERRILL(this season) on their Silver Anniversaries with the Metropolitan.

Special birthdays also offer opportunities for honors and celebrations. This year, theyinclude EUGENE ORMANDY who was feted on his 70th birthday, — coinciding withthe 70th Anniversary of the PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, — by President Nixon;GIAN CARLO MENOTTI who will celebrate his 60th birthday in Spoleto; AARONCOPLAND who conducted special concerts of his music for his 70th birthday celebra-tion; and Austrian operetta composer ROBERT STOLZ who was honored by ASCAPon his 90th birthday.

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BOOK CORNER

THE DREAM KING, Ludwig II of Bavaria, by Wilfred Blunt, is a handsomelydecorated, lightly written biography of Wagner's benefactor. Without his devotionand financial assistance, the composer may not have been able to continue duringhis most difficult time. It was with Ludwig's aid that the first performance ofTristan und Isolde was produced; Meistersinger, Rheingold, and Walkure werealso produced under the king's patronage. Later he lost interest in the composerand spent the rest of his short life in building monuments in stone rather than inmusic. Some of the most fantastic and costly castles were built for him. Exquisitephotographs of those castles and their appointments make this 264-page volumeparticularly attractive. Originally published by George Rainbird Ltd., London,it is part of the Studio Book Series of Viking Press, New York. Its price is $14.95.

A melodramatic novel of New York's musical world is FIFTY-SEVENTHSTREET by George Selcamm, a rather transparent pseudonym easily seen throughby phonetically spelling the name Selcamm backwards—Machlis. The characters inthe book represent a conglomeration of famous musicians, the action includes somany dramatic situations that several old-fashioned operatic plots could be basedon it. Yet, it is fun reading and the guessing game of who is who will certainlyadd to a connoisseur's entertainment. The price is $6.95 for the 344-page bookpublished by W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Another novel, — a fictitious musical whodunit — is MURDER AT THE MET,A Novel of Suspense, by Fred G. Jarvis, published by Coward-McCann, Inc.,New York. Mixing true characters mentioned by name with imaginary ones, theauthor attempts to create a fantasy in an all too real setting and here, too, createsan obvious, operatic melodrama. Available for $5.95.

Robert Lawrence, conductor and commentator, has written A RAGE FOROPERA, Its Anatomy as Drawn from Life. The slight volume of 175 pages offersthe reader glimpses into diverse operatic subjects, mostly described by the authorfrom a highly personal viewpoint. Sixteen pages of photographs offer additionalinterest. The publisher is Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, the price $5.95.

CRITICAL AFFAIRS, A Composer's Journal, is Ned Rorem's third book ofessays. As in the preceding volumes, the composer offers us sections of Journalentries alternating with essays and aphorisms containing his very personal thoughtson diverse subjects ranging from his own and other composers' music and inter-pretation to his view of various personalities. It is also reminiscent of Rorem'stwo volumes of Diaries. This latest work is once again original and evocative.Priced at $5.95, it is published by George Braziller.

REFERENCE BOOKS

THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE OPERA by David Ewen will be foundto contain a vast store of operatic facts. Although based on the first edition of theauthor's Encyclopedia of the Opera published in 1955, the latest edition offers notonly up-dated and additional information but presents it in a new and improvedformat. Both the print and the page size are larger and there is a more thoroughcross-reference. In addition to the listing of operas, their brief history andsynopses, entries include biographies of opera personalities, titles of famous arias,histories of famous opera houses and festivals, and definitions of operatic terms.A few subject matters are treated as special articles, thus the word opera sends theauthor into a 5-page discourse on the origin, history, and categories of opera. The759-page Encyclopedia has over 5,000 entries and is well worth the price of $15.It is published by Hill and Wang and is announced as the prolific author's seventy-fifth book.

A latecomer for the Beethoven bicentennial is the book THE RECORDINGS OFBEETHOVEN, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. However, the delay is justi-fied since the book includes reviews of the latest Beethoven recordings releasedduring the Beethoven year. They are reprints from those published in High Fidelity,a magazine, during the last year when a special effort was made to evaluate all

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existing and new Beethoven records. The critics include well-known musicalauthorities. This 185-page book forms an excellent reference guide; it is arrangedby category of composition (symphonies, concertos, etc.) and includes an Indexof Performers. Its price: $6.95 in hard cover, $2.95 in paperback.The University of Oregon has published ARCHITECTURE FOR THE EDUCA-TIONAL THEATRE by Horace W. Robinson. This very handsomely designed147-page volume is the result of a formal study begun at a conference in 1966by the author and a panel of architects, educators and theatre consultants. Thebook presents basic principles of academic theatre building, a common vocabulary,educational objectives and the basic architectural requirements for housing atheatre program in a variety of schools. Detailed recommendations on program,space and equipment as well as numerous architectural drawings make it a mostinformative handbook. It is available for $7.50.

The Business Committee for the Arts has published the third in a series of annualreports evaluating the art scene from a business point of view. The latest book,THE STATE OF THE ARTS AND CORPORATE SUPPORT, edited by GideonChagy and published for BCA by Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., advocates that the con-tinued success of arts organizations does not depend on more financial supportalone but, to a great extent, on better business management. Articles by suchauthorities as Robert O. Anderson, Chairman of BCA, Granville Meader, DonaldEngle, Hy Faine, and others are most enlightening, pointing out the dos and dont'sin arts administration. The $10, 192-page book also includes photographs andcomplementing charts.

See "Government and the Arts" for two other new books.

COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITSSome seven hundred vocal scores and over sixty orchestral scores from the estateof the late conductor, Giuseppe Bamboschek, were left to the library of theMetropolitan Opera.The music collection of the Voice of Firestone, owned by the Firestone Tire andRubber Company, was donated to the New England Conservatory of Music. Thecollection consists of printed music, 1600 original orchestrations and manuscripts,sound tapes, recordings, videotapes, and 485 half-hour kinescopes. The materialwill be used for educational purposes and for entertainment.Shortly before his death, Igor Stravinsky made it known that a collection of hismanuscripts, valued at about $3.5 million, would be offered for sale. Includedwere drafts and manuscripts for Le Sacre du printemps, L'Histoire du soldat,The Rake's Progress, Oedipus Rex, Les Noces, and many others. Earlier, thecomposer had donated some fifty original manuscripts to the Library of Congress,but the 1969 tax reform law prevented him from deducting a realistic marketvalue for any further donations (see article on "What You Must Know AboutTax Programs" in this issue).

The Metropolitan Opera installed two showcases on its parterre box floor where itexhibits costumes and memorabilia of famous singers of the past. The openingshow focused on two of the Metropolitan Opera's most famous singers, EnricoCaruso and Kirsten Flagstad. The rotating display will honor many other singersof the past.

A retrospective exhibition of theatre designs by Jo Mielziner will be on displayat the Wright/Hepburn/Webster Gallery in New York. Included are designs for284 major productions conceived over nearly fifty years. Many of these originalswill be for sale.Summer visitors to London will be able to view "Covent Garden, Twenty-fiveYears of Opera and Ballet", an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum. De-signed by Alan Tagg, the display encompasses front and back stage views, bothin pictures and actual models, films, scenery and costumes, lighting, documentsand programs. The exhibit will close October 10.

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COMPETITIONSThe Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition for Conductors was deferred this season.It will be reinstated next winter marking its tenth anniversary. The Women'sCommittee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies will again be the sponsor,but, henceforth, only one prize will be awarded rather than the previous three.The "Queen Marie-Jose Prize" competition for chamber music is open to com-posers of all nationalities with no age restrictions. Compositions should be of10-30 minutes duration, scored for 3-8 performers (some may double in instru-ments). Manuscripts and tapes must be submitted before May 31, 1972, to QueenMarie-Jose, Secretariat, 1249 Merlinge, Geneva, Switzerland.The Philadelphia Lyric Opera, 1518 Walnut Street, has established an InternationalSinging Competition. The first contest was held recently at the Academy ofMusic and four singers shared in the three awards. The first prize of $2000 and acontract with the company went to Philippine soprano Zenaida Luz; the secondprize was won by soprano Ellen Shade; and the third prize was shared by HarryDvorchak and Gwen Jones.

WINNERSRadio station WGN and the Illinois Opera Guild have announced the winners ofits joint Auditions of the Air competition. Soprano Jeannine Altmeyer receivedfirst prize — $2000 and a concert at Chicago's Grant Park. A soprano AnaRiera won the second prize of $1500. Both singers were previous winners at theMetropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.The American Opera Auditions announced the 1971 winners: soprano KarinKimble from Tulsa, soprano Bess Arlene from Hamilton, Ohio, tenor RafaelLeBron from San Jan, P.R., baritone John Pflieger from Milwaukee, and bassTom Fox from Cincinnati. The five young singers will go to Enghien-les-Bains,France, to perform in La Boheme this summer.The Minna Kaufmann Ruud Foundation awarded $1000 and $500 prizes to 8young women: sopranos Janet Graham from Hudson Falls, N.Y., Irene Gubrudfrom Canby, Minn., Syble Young from Palmerton, Pa., Nelsie Walker from NewYork City, Jean Barnes from Kansas City, Kan., Jacklyn Schneider from Norwich,Conn., and mezzos Maria Ewing from Detroit and Lynn Beckstrom from Pitts-burgh.Among the six young musicians who won this year's Concert Artists Guild'sawards was one vocalist, baritone Robert Christensen, former winner at theMetropolitan Opera National Council auditions.The fifth Emma Feldman Competition, this year open to singers, was held inPhiladelphia last month. The first prize of $1000 and two concert appearanceswas won by 32-year old Alan Wagner, a baritone from West Chester, Pa., thesecond prize of $400 went to 3 3-year old Korean tenor, Philip Cho, and the thirdprize of $200 to 30-year old soprano Maria Jacobi of Chicago. Three additional$ 100 prizes were awarded to mezzo Mertine Johns of Phialdelphia, soprano ReginaMcConnell of Norfolk, Va., and Japanese baritone Tsutomu Masuko of Evanston,111.In May 1971, the Amato Opera Circle named tenor Brian Donohue and tenor NeilShicoff as first and second prize winners. They were awarded $200 and $100respectively. Applications for the 1972 competition must be received beforeDecember 31, 1971 by the Amato Opera, 319 Bowery, New York.The National Capital Parks Service initiated a new program of Artists-in-Residenceto assist with engagements for civic and educational organizations in and aroundWashington, D.C. The first singer contracted under this program is sopranoLauretta Darsey Young.The 17th International Singing Competition in Toulouse, France, gave secondprize to American baritone William Parker. First and third prize in the men'sdivision went to Romanian tenor Dan Serbac and Japanese tenor Kawase Ryushi.In the women's division, Romanian Eugenia Moldoveanu, British Susan Morrisand Polish Bozena Betley were the winners.

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APPOINTMENTS

Goran Gentele, future General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, has announcedhis first major appointments. Internationally-renowned conductor RAFAELKUBELIK will become Music Director of the Metropolitan and SCHUYLER G.CHAPIN, formerly of Lincoln Center, was named Assistant Manager.

Mo. Kubelik has been music director and conductor of the Bayerische Rundfunkfor the last ten years, during which time he guest conducted other major orchestrasand opera ensembles. Recently, he appeared at La Scala in Milan, Geneva's operahouse, the Vienna State Opera, and Covent Garden where he was music directorfrom 1955-58. He held the position of music director of the Chicago SymphonyOrchestra from 1950-53 and has also led most major American symphony orches-tras. The Czech-born conductor, who is also a pianist and composer, will begin histhree-year Metropolitan Opera contract in the Fall of 1973, but will be availableas consultant prior to that time. The conductor will spend five months at theMetropolitan Opera and continue for three months each season at the BayerischeRundfunk. Mr. Gentele and Mo. Kubelik will share artistic responsibility inplanning repertory, new productions, casting, etc. This is the first time in thehistory of the Metropolitan Opera that a conductor has held this position andthe title of Music Director.

Mr. Chapin, who is also a trained musician, gathered his administrative experiencefirst as representative for Columbia Artists Management, then as artists andrepertoire director for Columbia Records' classical and theatre catalogs. In1964 he became Vice-President in charge of programming at Lincoln Centerwhere he established the Film Festival and the Lincoln Center Summer Festival.Since 1970 he has been associated with Leonard Bernstein as Executive Producerof Amberson Productions, makers of musical films for theatre, television, andvideo cassettes. Mr. Chapin will begin as Assistant Manager at the MetropolitanOpera in the Fall of 1972 concurrent with Mr. Gentele's assumption of his ownposition as General Manager.

The Metropolitan Opera Board of Directors has re-elected Chairman LOWELLWADMOND and President GEORGE S. MOORE. WILLIAM ROCKEFELLERwas named Chairman of the Executive Committee, JAMES C. HEMPHILLAssistant Treasurer, PAUL HALLINGBY Secretary, and MRS. ALEXANDERM. LAUGHLIN a new Vice-President. All other officers of the Board of Directorsand of the Members of the Association remained the same. Four new Boardmembers were chosen: Mrs. Kenyon Boocock, Thomas G. Chamberlain, FredericG. Donner, and Maurice F. Granville. The Metropolitan Opera National Councilelected its president, Alexander Saundrson, and vice-president, Warde B. Ogden,as representatives to the MOA Board; the Guild's new representative is LaurenceLovett.

The Metropolitan Opera Guild has elected MICHAEL V. FORRESTAL Chairmanof the Board and LAURENCE D. LOVETT President, the position Mr. Forrestaloccupied for the last four years. Mr. Forrestal, in turn, succeeds Mr. LangdonVan Norden.

BERTIL BOKSTEDT has been named successor to Goran Gentele as GeneralDirector of the Royal Opera in Stockholm for the 1971-72 season. Mo. Bokstedtjoined the company in 1954 as conductor, became Chief of Programming in1966 and, in addition, was made Director of the summer opera at Drottningholmin 1969.

In the Fall of 1972, EGON SEEFEHLNER will become Intendant of theDeutsche Oper in West Berlin. He has announced the engagement of conductorsZubin Mehta for 1973-74 and Georg Solti for three seasons beginning 1974-75.The latter will lead fifteen performances each season.

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RICHARD M. CISEK, Managing Director of the Minnesota Orchestra (formerMinneapolis Symphony), was appointed to the Advisory Music Panel of theNational Endowment for the Arts. Others on the Music Panel are Donald Engle,A. Beverly Barksdale, Van Cliburn, Willis Conover, Roger Hall, R. Philip Hanes,Jr., Robert Mann, Gian Carlo Menotti, Benjamin Patterson, Peter Mennin, DavidRockefeller, Jr., Max Rudolf, William Severns, Robert N. Sheets, Rise Stevens,Howard Taubman, William Thompson, and Alfred Wallenstein.

CORNELL MACNEIL has been nominated as President of the American Guildof Musical Artists (AGMA) to succeed current President George London. Mr.London, who is also artistic administrator at JFK Center, resigned from hisAGMA position effective at the end of his term, due to "a conflict of interest".

DONALD L. ENGLE, director of the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Musicsince its beginnings, has accepted the post of President of the Minnesota OrchestralAssociation (former Minneapolis Symphony), effective September 1, 1971. Thisis the second orchestra to employ a president on a full-time paid basis; the firstwas the N.Y. Philharmonic where Carlos Moseley has been president for the lastseason. Prior to his position with the Rockefeller Fund, Mr. Engle was managerof the Philadelphia Orchestra.

New conductorial assignments include SKITCH HENDERSON as Music Directorof the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra for 1971-73,— SAMUEL JONES as ChiefConductor of the Rochester (N.Y.) Philharmonic with WALTER HENDL asMusic Advisor, — FREDERICK PRAUSNITZ (formerly New England Con-servatory) as Music Director of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Symphony, — RALPH R.GUENTHER as Acting Music Director of the Fort Worth (Tex.) Symphony.

ROBERT PAGE, Choral Director at Temple University in Philadelphia, wasnamed Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, succeeding Margaret Hilliswho will continue as Conductor/Director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

Some recent appointees to managerial positions: 30-year-old DENIS LANGE-LIER, who has been with the Toronto Symphony for the last three years, will suc-ceed Pierre Beique as General Manager of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra;JACQUES R. CHABRIER was appointed Managing Director of the music pub-lishing house Chappell & Co., Ltd., London, where he will be in charge of boththe London and the New York offices; the appointment of LEO SULLIVAN asAssociate to Michael Sean O'Shea, Director of Publicity and Promotion at theJohn F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has been announced by WilliamMcC. Blair, Jr., General Director of the Center.

The following appointments to academic positions have been announced: sopranoEILEEN FARRELL as Professor to Indiana University's School of Music; —MICHEL LANGINIEUX, French actor and mime, has been named Director ofthe Opera Theatre at Stanford University in California; tenor GEORGE SHIRLEYwas appointed to the music faculty of Staten Island Community College; CECILB. WILSON has become Executive Assistant to Dean Kurzban to coordinate jointmusic programs of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Case Western ReserveUniversity; HOWARD R. RARIG will assume the new position of Director ofthe School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles;HAROLD BLUMENFELD will be Visiting Professor at Queens College of theCity University of New York for 1971-72 while on leave of absence from St.Louis' Washington University; JENNIE TOUREL will take charge of MasterClasses at the 1971 Summer Vocal Institute in Freiburg, Germany (see "SummerWorkshops" in 3/71 Blltn.).

BRUCE FOOTE, voice teacher and former Chairman of the Voice Departmentat the University of Illinois, was named Professor of Music at Southern MethodistUniversity in Dallas. Dr. Eugene Bonelli is Chairman of the Division of Musicand tenor Thomas Hayward is head of the Opera Theatre there.

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The University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, has signed DAMEALICIA MARKOVA, internationally known prima ballerina, as Professor ofBallet and the Performing Arts. She will also teach classes in stage movement andrelated subjects in the College Conservatory's Opera Department. She was Directorof the Metropolitan Opera Ballet from 1965 to 1969.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE GUILD

The METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD has established a new type of member-ship, Associate Membership. It is designed to offer Opera News to a group offifty or more at the reduced annual price of $9 (instead of $10). To enroll Asso-ciate Members, one check should be made out to the Metropolitan Opera Guildand sent to its offices at 1865 Broadway, New York, 10023, together with thelist of names and complete mailing addresses.

The 1972 Metropolitan Opera Guild Engagement Calendar is in preparation andmay be ordered from the Guild (see above address) for $3.00. The 1972 editionhas been redesigned to allow more space for notes and appointments, and includes,as always, attractive action and portrait photographs of Metropolitan Operaartists. It features over fifty pictures, twelve in full color.

NEW COS MEMBERS

Alicea, Miss Mercedes, New York, New YorkAmerican Institute of Musical Studies, R. Owens, Dir., Dallas, Tex.Armacost Library, Univ. of Redlands, CaliforniaBack, Robert, Performing Arts Research, West Hollywood, Calif.Battle Creek Opera Society, Dr. E. J. Attarian, Fndr./Dir., Mich.California State College at Hayward, Opera Workshop, Miss M. Heinmiller, Dir.,

Calif.College of the Desert, Opera Workshop, J. Kneebone, Dir., Palm Desert, Cal.Cooke, Maxwell E., Sarasota, FloridaCox, Mrs. J. B., Tulsa, OklahomaDarling, Robert, San Francisco, CaliforniaDoren, Richard E., New York, New YorkFoose, Thomas T., Brooklyn, New YorkForeman, Edward, Milwaukee, WisconsinMatinee Musical Club Opera Workshop, Mrs. F. H. Coughlin, Chmn., Alexandria,

LouisianaMcCall, Miss Myrtle E., WITF-TV, Channel 33, Hershey, Pa.New England Chamber Opera Group, R. de Acha, Dir., Maiden, Mass.Palm Springs Opera, S. Petroff, Gen. Dir., Palm Springs, Calif.Porter, John Stone, South Pasadena, CaliforniaSamsel, John R., New York, New YorkUniversity of Texas Library, Austin, TexasWright, Miss Carole, Bloomington, Indiana

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1970-71 SEASON (cont.)All performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p." (withpiano). — Performances and news items once announced will not be relisted at the timeof performance. — *denotes new production; m — denotes matinee.

CALIFORNIACalifornia State College at Hayward, Opera Workshop, Marilyn Heinmiller,

Dir.Fall 70 Carmen Eng. Goldovsky

Trouble in Tahiti & Opera ScenesSpring '71 The Impresario Eng. Previn

Hansel and GretelA Hand of Bridge & A Game of Chance

CONNECTICUTNew Haven Opera Society, H. Glaz, Dir.5/15/71 Le pauvre matelot & L'Histoire du soldat cond.: WynerNew London Symphony3/71 Tosca cone, pf.; Galvany; Lambrinos

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAThe Hawthorne School, Music Department, WashingtonMay '71 El-Dabh's Opera Flies prem. 4 pfs.6/2, 3/71 Opera Flies at Brooklyn Academy of Music, 6/4, 5 at Anderson

Theatre, N. Y.Inter-American Festival, Chamber Opera of Teatro Colon, at Lisner Audit.,

Washington5/24, 26/71 La Finta giardiniera cond.: J. E. Martini; dir.: M. Eisler; des.: R. Oswald5/25, 27/71 Lo Frate inamorato

INDIANAFort Wayne Philharmonic Opera and Orchestra, W. Roberts, Mgr.3/6, 7/71 The Coronation of Poppea Eng. Leppard; cond.: Queler; dir.: McGuire5/27, 31/71 Pagliacciat Granke Park Outdoor Theatre; cond.: Briccetti; dir.:

McGuireIOWA

Davenport Symphony Orchestra, Davenport4/24/71 Cavalleria rusticana cone, pf.; Niska, Baldwin; Stewart, Lambrinos

MASSACHUSETTSOpera Co. of Boston, Sarah Caldwell, Art. Dir., at Aquarius Theatre, Boston6/11, 13/71 Norma Sills, Wolff, Alberts; Alexander, Gramm; incl. special aria by

R. WagnerNEW YORK

Syracuse Symphony, Opera Ensemble, C. Custer, Dir.2/16/71 Operatic Scenes, st. dir.: de Blasis

NEW YORK CITYAssociation for the Furtherment of Bel Canto, S. Zucker, Dir.4/7/71 Don PasqualeCafe La Mama Troupe5/9-16/71 McDowell's A Dog's LifeCelestial Choral Ensemble of the Blind, Hilda Murray, Dir., Town Hall5/23/71 The Magic Flute Eng.; w.o., cone. pf.Clarion Concerts, N. Jenkins, Dir., Tully Hall4/'22/71 A. Scarlatti's II Primo omicidio Sciutti, Bonazzi; Berberian, BestCollegiate Chorale, A. Kaplan, Dir., Carnegie Hall5/8/71 Carmina burana & Beethoven Mass; Scovotti, Simon; Riegel, PatrickHenry Street Settlement Music School, Opera Workshop5/21, 22, 23/71 Six's All Cats Turn Gray When the Sun Goes Down prem.Juilliard School, American Opera Center, Lincoln Center5/20, 22/71 Overton's Huckleberry Finn prem.The Lighthouse Singers, Opera Workshop, R. Krause, Dir.6/10, 11/71 Gallantry & Gilbert & Sullivan excerptsLittle Orchestra Society, T. Scherman, Dir., Tully Hall5/6/71 Janacek program incl. The Diary of One Who VanishedNational Educational Television, PBS, Opera Theatre5/16/71 Britten's Owen Wingrave prem. (BBC prod.) Baker, Harper; Luxon,

Pears; cond.: Britten

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1970-71 Season

New York Children's Theatre Center, Town Hall5/7, 8/71 Carmen5/26/71 The Barber of SevilleNew York Philharmonic, P. Boulez, Cond., Lincoln Center4/22, 23, 24, 26/71 Beatrice et Benedict excerpts, cone, pf., Raskin, Veasey,

Killebrew; JenningsOpera Festival 1971, Provincetown Playhouse5/29/71 CarmenSarah Lawrence Improvisation Ensemble, M. Kupferman, Dir., N.Y. Shake-

speare Festival Public Theatre5/24/71 Kupferman's Visions and Games prem.; with "Pandora", a multi-media

conceitStuyvesant Community Opera at Stuyvesant Adult Center5/19/71 The Marriage of Figaro with the Monteverdi SingersTurnau Opera Workshop, W. Pinner, Dir., P.S. 875/5/71 Chanticleer & Scenes from French operas5/9/71 Suor Angelica & The Old Maid and the Thief

OHIOCincinnati May Festival, J. Rudel, Dir.5/14/71 La Forza del destino excerpts; Price; Alexander5/21/71 Giulio Cesare Sills; Treigle5/22/71 Britten's War Requiem Saunders; Reardon

PENNSYLVANIAThe Academy of Yocal Arts, V. Hammond, Dir., Philadelphia3/28/71 Chailly's Markheim Am. prem., & Scenes from La Fille du regimentCurtis Institute of Music, Opera Department, M. Rudolf, Dir., Philadelphia4/23, 24/71 Wolf-Ferrari's School for Fathers Eng.; St. dir.: Yannopoulos;

des.: RothOrchestra Pro Musica, at Academy of Music, Philadelphia5/3/71 "An Evening of Opera" Kabaivanska; diGiuseppe; cond.: Fiore

RHODE ISLANDRhode Island Philharmonic, F. Madeira, Dir., Provincetown4/3/71 La Traviata cone, pf., Naghiu

TEXASSouthern Methodist Univ., Opera Theatre, P. Vellucci, Art. Dir., T. Hayward,

Prod.4/1, 2/71 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin; H. Crohn, mus. dir.

PERFORMANCE LISTING, SUMMER 1 9 7 1

ALASKAAlaska Festival of Music, A.C. Roller, Dir., Anchorage6/11-24/71 Concerts

ARIZONASummer Festival, Flagstaff7/14-8/8/71 Symphony and chamber music concerts

CALIFORNIACarmel Bach Festival, S. Salgo, Mus. Dir.7/16-25/71 Blow's Venus and Adonis, also symphony and choral concertsCabrillo Music Festival, C. Chavez, Cond. & Mus. Dir., Aptos8/13-29/71 Symphony concertsClaremont Music Festival & Institute, Pomona College, Claremont6/21-7/31/71 Festival and Institute6/21-8/1/71 Scripps College Opera Workshop, V. Stuart, Dir. (registr. at

Pomona College)Hollywood Bowl, E. Fleischmann, Exec. Dir., Los Angeles7/6-9/11/71 Los Angeles Philharmonic, Z. Mehta, Mus. Dir.

La Traviata Sills; Domingo, Milnes; cond.: MehtaDie Fledermaus cond.: LeinsdorfExcerpts by Rossini; Home

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Summer 1971

Lyric Opera Assn. of Orange County, Miss V. Sun, Dir., Laguna Beach8/71 Opera in English; excerpts9/10, 11, 17, 19/71 The Music ManMusic Academy of the West, M. Abravanel, Dir., Santa Barbara7/5-8/28/71 Student concerts and recitals; opera workshop; master classes

Der FreischiitzMusic at the Vineyards, Paul Masson Vineyards, Saratoga6/26-8/29/71 Weekend concerts; opera by San Francisco Opera Merola ProgramMusic from Bear Valley Festival, W. Westover, Gen. Mgr.8/13-22/71 Music Festival; J. Gosling, mus. dir.Ojai Festival, G. Samuels, Dir.5/28-30/71 Concerts with Los Angeles PhilharmonicRedlands Bowl Music Festival, H. Farbman, Mus. Dir., C. Perlee, Coord.7/30/71 DonPasquale (6/29-8/20/71)8/20/71 The Merry WidowSan Francisco Western Opera at Windsor Vineyards6/20/71 Opera excerpts, C. Lewis, Emoed-Wallace; Sullivan, FleckSummer at Stanford, Encina Commons, Stanford University, Palo Alto6-8/71 Concerts, opera, jazz, danceThe Talent Bank of San Francisco, Mrs. A. Crapsey, Gen. Dir.6/19, 26/71 The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Rieschorfer; Andrews, Baker

Clark; cond.: Griswold; dir.: Rose; w. 2 ps.; at Montalvo Music Festival,Saratoga; at De Young Museum, San Francisco respect.

COLORADOAspen Music Festival and Institute, J. Mester, Mus. Dir.6/28-8/29/71 concerts, recitalsColorado Opera Festival & Opera Workshop, D. Jenkins, J. Baird, Co-Dirs.,

Colorado Springs6/23, 25, 26/71 Traetta's // Cavaliere errante Amer. prem; Eng. Seay7/7, 9, 10/71 // Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda & L'Histoire du soldat Eng.7/21, 23, 24/71 Otello Eng.

CONNECTICUTYale School of Music Festival & Workshops, Music Shed,

Norfolk (7/2-8/22/71)7/7/71 // Re pastore7/10/71 The Abduction from the SeraglioSilvermine Guild Chamber Music Festival, New Canaan7/11-8/29/71 Concerts

FLORIDANew College Summer Music Festival, P. Wolfe, Sarasota6/6-26/71 Concerts & workshops

ILLINOISGrant Park Concerts, Chicago, cone. pfs. (6/26-8/29/71)7/17, 18/71 Dido and Aeneas & L'Heure espagnol Wykoff; Riegel,

Goodloe; & Cooper7/24, 25/71 Der Freischiitz Smith-Meyer; Voketaitis8/28, 29/71 Die Fledermaus PatrickMississippi River Festival, Univ. of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville7/10-8/6/71 St. Louis Symphony, other groupsRavinia Festival, Chicago Symphony, Highland Park (6/24-9/5/71)7/15, 17/71 Rigoletto Moffo; Milnes, Alexander; cone. pf.8/5/71 "An Evening of Bel Canto" Sills8/6/71 Jesus Christ Superstar American Rock Opera Company; cone. pf.8/7/71 "Classical Viennese Concert" Sills

INDIANAIndiana University, Opera Theatre, W. Bain, Dean, Bloomington7/17, 21, 24/71 Fatstaff

MAINEBar Harbor Festival, F. Fortier, Art. Dir. (7/23-8/13/71)7/23/71 Cos} fan tutte Metropolitan Opera Studio8/6/71 "Festival Promenade" Altman; Rigg

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Summer 1971MARYLAND

Concerts Under the Stars, Baltimore (6/18-8/6/71)The Harford Theatre, S. LiUienstein, Art. Dir., Bel Air6/25, 26, 27 7/2, 3, 4/71 The Marriage of Figaro Eng.7/9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18/71 La TraviataEng.7/23, 24, 25, 30, 31 8/1/71 The Ballad of Baby Doe8/6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15/71 Don Pasquale Eng.8/20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29/71 The Rake's ProgressMerriweather Post Pavilion of Music, Columbia6/7-9/12/71 Washington National Symphony, ballet, pop concerts

MASSACHUSETTSBerkshire Music Festival, S. Ozawa & G. SchuIIer, Art. Dirs.,

Tanglewood, Lenox7/2-8/22/71 Boston Symphony in residence8/22/71 Damnation of Faust Marshall; Alexander, Flagello; Tanglewood

Festival ChorusCollege Light Opera Company, Falmouth7-9/71 Program not availableLenox Arts Center, L. Austin, O. Smith, Co-Dirs., Berkshire Hills7/1-9/6/71 Concerts, Workshops, Seminars, and Master Classes8/12-15, 19-22/71 S. Silverman's and R. Foreman's Dream Tantras for

Western Massachusetts prem.South Mountain Concerts, Pittsfield7/5-10/15/71 Concerts & chamber opera to be announced

MICHIGANAnn Arbor May Festival, E. Ormandy, Mus. Dir., at Univ. of Michigan4129-5 j 2171 Philadelphia Orchestra in residenceDetroit Discovery — Festival of the Arts, Y. Poole, Ford Auditorium8/71 Detroit Symphony OrchestraMeadowbrook Music Festival, S. Kallai, Mgr., Rochester6/24-8/15/71 Detroit Symphony in residence, S. Ehrling, mus. dir., also

dance companiesNational Music Camp, M. Utgaard, Art Dir., Interlochen6/27-8/23/71 Concerts, Opera, Workshop; A. Addison, dir.

MINNESOTASt Paul Opera Assn., I. Buketoff, Mus. Dir., G. Schaefer, Gen. Mgr.6/19, 23, 26 7/5, 9/71 Summer and Smoke prem. Peil, Harnes, Williams; Reardon

Titus; cond.: Buketoff; dir.: Corsaro; des.: Evans6/21, 25, 30 7/3/71 Die Fledermaus Eng.; Curtin, Williams; Khanzadian; cond.:

Me Arthur; dir.: Kuyber6/28 7/2, 10, 14/71 La Fanciulla del West Crader; McGray, Shinall; cond.:

McArthur; dir.: Kuyber7/7, 12, 16, 17/71 Ariadne auf Naxos Eng./Germ.; Curtin/Crader, Williams;

Brock; cond.: Buketoff; dir.: A. BishopMISSOURI

Opera Theatre of America, Inc., E. Murphy, Art. Dir., St. Louis6-9/71 at Forest Park & Goldenrod Showboat; to be announced8/71 August Opera Festival

NEW MEXICOSanta Fe Opera, J. Crosby, Gen. Dir.7/9, 17 8/17, 21, 25/71 Don Carlo Barker, P. Johnson/Davidson; Bonhomme, Shaw,

Gramm, Garrard; cond.: Crosby; dir.: Mansouri; des.: Darling7/10, 16, 24 8/4, 13, 26/71 The Magic Flute Bruno, Shane/Lebrun; Wakefleld/S.

Johnson, Uppman, Garrard; cond.: Baustian; dir.: Hebert; des.: Reehling/Kim7/23, 28 8/14, 20, 28/71 La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein* Bonazzi, Belling;

Wakefield, Gramm; cond.: Crosby; dir.: Hebert; des.: Klein/Mess7/30 8/7, 19, 27/71 The Marriage of Figaro teKanawa, Bruno, vonStade;

Uppman/Shaw, Gramm/Devlin, R. Best, Perry; cond.: Baustian; dir.: Hebert;des.: Klein

7/31 8/6, 11/71 Der fiiegende Hollander* Barker; Bonhomme, Garrard, Shaw;cond.: de Waart; dir.: Igesz; des.: Jampolis/Mess

8/12, 18/71 Villa-Lobos' Yerma* prem.; Lacamba, von Stade, Bonazzi; Wakefield,Uppman; cond.: Keene; dir.: Langton; des.: de Chirico

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Summer 1971NEW HAMPSHIRE

Congregation of the Arts, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover7/6-9/4/71 Chamber MusicNew Hampshire Music Festival, T. Nee, Mus. Dir., Center Harbor7/11-8/21/71 Semi-staged Opera pfs.; Orchestral and Chamber Music

NEW JERSEYGarden State Arts Center, Telegraph Hill Park6/9-9/2/71 Concerts and ballet (incl. N. J. Symphony, B. Sills soloist 7/27, 28/71)

NEW YORKAdirondack-Champlain Festival, £ . Michell, Art. Din, Lake Placid7/3-9/4/71 Concerts in Lake Placid, Schroon Lake, Burlington, Blue Mountain

Lake, SaranacLake, Old Forge, Plattsburgh (N.Y.)Caramoor Festival, J. Rudel, Art Dir., Katonah (6/19-7/18/71)6/19 7/3/71 // Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda &Dido and Aneas* Forrester,

Valente, Bonazzi; Velis, Stilwell; cond.: Rudel; dir.: Hebert; des.: Evans7/9, llm/71 Curlew River Velis, Metcalf, Clatworthy, Berberian; cond.: Rudel;

dir.: Hebert; des.: Evans7/16/71 Henze's El Cimarron (Opera Oratorio) N.Y. prem.; EastmanChatauqua Summer Festival & Institute, L. Treash, Gen. Dir., Opera Theatre7/16, 17, 19/71 The Mikado7/23, 26/71 Tosca7/30, 31 8/2/71 The Italian Girl in Algiers8/6, 9/71 Aida8/13, 14, 16/71 Cavalleria rusticana & Angelique8/20, 21, 23/71 MusicalLake George Opera Festival, D. Lloyd, Mus. Dir., Glens Falls7/20, 21/71 The Mother of Us All Center Opera Company prod.7/23, 24/71 Faust Counter Faust Center Opera Company prod.7/29, 31 8/2m, 6, 14m, 20, 25, 28m/71 L'lnfedelta delusa Catani-Soviero/Barnes,

Fling; Vrenios, Walker/Taylor; cond.: Callaway; dir.: Besch; des.: Dunham8/5, 7, 9m, 11, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23m, 27/71 La Boheme Eng.; Brooks/Barnett,

Christopher/Fling; Danner/Taylor, Gardner, Barker, Devlin; cond.: Callaway;dir.: Corsaro; des.: Dunham

8/12, 14, 16m, 18, 21m, 24, 26, 28/71 The Italian Girl in Algiers Williams/Lueders,Spacagna/ Barnes; Vrenios, Beni, Steele, Termine; cond.: Hegyi; dir.:Besch; des.: Dunham

Saratoga Performing Arts Center, R.T. Leach, Exec. Dir., Saratoga Springs7/6-8/28/71 New York City Ballet; Philadelphia Orchestra8/14/71 Carmina burana Witkowska; Riegel, Metcalf; Saratoga-Potsdam Chorus8/20/71 The Damnation of Faust Marshall; Alexander, Flagello; Tanglewood

Festival Chorus8/21/71 Opera excerpts Treigle; Saratoga-Potsdam Chorus & Berkshire Boy Choir8/27/71 The Merry Widow Boky, Clements; Walker, Reardon; Capitol Hill

Choral Soc.State University of New York at Albany, Opera Workshop (6/7-25/71)Schedule not available

NEW YORK CITYHunter College Opera Assn., Center Opera Company7/31 8/1/71 Faust Counter Faust8/3, 4/71 The Mother of Us AllMetropolitan Opera Assn., R. Bing, Gen. Mgr., in N.Y.C. Parks6/15, 18, 25, 30/71 Cavalleria rusticana Ross/DePaul, von Stade/Grillo;

Tucker/Di Giuseppe, Manuguerra/Christopher/Polakoff; cond.: Adler6/16, 19, 23, 29 7/3/71 Faust Kabaivanska/Witkowska/Boky, Forst/Myhal/Grillo;

Alexander/DiGiuseppe/Shirley, Tozzi/Diaz/Macurdy, Walker/Cossa/Christopher; cond.: Rich/Behr

6/22, 26 7/2/71 Fidelio Borkh, Boky/CIements; Spiess/Nagy, Meredith,Macurdy/Dobriansky, Karlsrud/Diaz; cond.: Strasfogel

Mostly Mozart Festival, Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center8/2-28/71 Program to be announcedNaumburg Concerts, Central Park Mall5/30-9/6/71 5 Concerts

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Summer 1971Tully Hall Sampler, Lincoln Center (6/5-20/71)6/10/71 "An Evening of Vocal Chamber Music" Metropolitan Opera Studio6/17/71 The Kathryn Long Singers of the Metropolitan Opera, Robinson; Shirley,

Goeke; Chamber Orchestra; cond.: Strasfogel6/20/71 "Vienna to Broadway" Metropolitan Opera Studio

NORTH CAROLINAEastern Music Festival at Guilford College (6/17-7/29/71)Brevard Music Center & Festival, H. Janiec, Dir.7/2-8/15/71 Don Pasquale Pagliacci & The Unicorn in the Garden

Lucia di Lammermoor H.M.S. Pinafore11 Trovatore Musical

OHIOBlossom Music Center Festival & Kent State University, Kent6/22-9/5/71 Cleveland Orchestra in residence, P. Boulez, mus. adv.Briar Knoll Festival Opera Company, L. Jones, Dir., Loveland6/9, 12/71 Madama Butterfly Adams, McMannis; Marshall; cond.: Grimm6/23, 26/71 La Boheme Adams, McMannis; Marshall, Jones; cond.: Blue7/14, 17/71 Tosca Adams; Marshall, Hill; cond.: Grimm7/27, 30/71 Faust Shockley; Marshall, Jones; cond.: HowardCincinnati Summer Opera, S. Orwoll, Dir., at the Zoological Gardens6/30 7/2/71 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills7/1, 3/71 La Boheme Niska7/7, 10/71 Rigoletto Scovotti; Buzea, Quilico7/9, 11/71 Of Mice and Men* Cooper; Patrick, Moulson7/14, 17/71 Romeo and Juliet* Shelle; W. Lewis7/16, 18/71 Carmen Casei7/21, 24/71 The Barber of Seville Peters; Patrick7/22, 23, 25/71 Vienna Volksopern BalletOberlin College Music Theater, R. Lazarus, Dir., Oberlin717-817171 Opera and Musical Comedy; Season re-instated; program to be

announcedPENNSYLVANIA

Ambler Festival and Institute of Temple Univ., D. Stone,Art. Dir. (6/15-8/8/71)

7/18, 20/71 Jesus Christ Superstar cond.: Engel7/23, 24/71 Death of the Bishop of Brindisi & The Medium8/6, 7/71 The Mother of Us All, Faust Counter Faust Center Opera Co. prod.Also concerts by Pittsburgh Symphony in residenceEphrata Cloisters, Ephrata6/26-9/4/71 Vorspiel der neuen Welt music dramaPennsylvania Opera Festival & Workshop, Inc., Mrs. A. Keister, Pittsburgh7/25-8/21/71 Opera courses and production at Winchester-Thurston School;

R. Woitach, mus. dir.; R. Flusser, st. dir.Robin Hood Dell, Philadelphia6/21-7/29/71 Philadelphia Orchestra in residenceThe Merry Widow Boky (1 pf. at Saratoga Festival, N.Y.)

RHODE ISLANDThe Newport Music Festival, G. Sauls, Gen. Dir., R. I. Arts Foundation7/29-8/7/71 Chamber music, recitals, films7/29, 31/71 Cendrillon Metropolitan Opera Studio8/7/71 Lattes' // etait une bergere text by Rivoire; chamber opera;

Metropolitan Opera StudioTENNESSEE

Sewanee Summer Music Center, Miss M. McCrory, Dir., Sewanee6/20-7725/71 Classes and concerts, high school and college level

TEXASHouston Opera in the Park, free series7/71 The Medium

VERMONTComposers' Conference and Chamber Music Center, Bennington8/15-29/71 Concerts

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Summer 1971Marlboro Music Festival, R. Serkin, Art. Dir.7/10-8/15/71 Chamber Music and Festival Concerts; P. Casals guest cond.;

composers-in-residence: L. Kirchner, P. Chihara, T. TakemitsuSt. Michael's College, Fine Arts Department, W. Tortolano, Chin., Winooski7/7-21/71 Chamber ConcertsSouthern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester7/3-8/29/71 Music eventsUniversity of Vermont, Burlington7/7'-26/71 Lane Summer Series

VIRGINIAWolf Trap Farm Park, Filene Center, Vienna (7/1-9/11II1)7/20, 24/71 Faust Niska, Creed; DiGiuseppe, Darrenkamp, Treigle; cond.: Rudel;

dir.: Corsaro; des.: Lee/Varona7/21, 23, 25/71 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills; Molese, Fredericks, Hale; cond.:

Wilson; dir.: Capobianco/Denda; des.: Eck/Varona7/22, 24m/71 La Traviata Brooks; J. Stewart, Cossa; cond.: Keene; dir.:

Corsaro; des.: Fletcher/Campbell7/27, 28/71 The Mother of Us All Center Opera Company prod.7/29/71 Faust Counter Faust Center Opera Company prod.8/12-17/71 Cavalcade of Musical Theater

WASHINGTONTamarack Music Festival, Eastern Washington State College, Cheney6/21-7/3/71 Spokane Symphony Orchestra, D. Thulean, mus. dir., also workshop

and master classesWEST VIRGINIA

Oglebay Institute, Opera Workshop, B. Goldovsky, Dir., Wheeling8/1-21/71 Opera workshop; A. Schoep, F. Popper, assoc. dirs.8/18/71 The Old Maid and the Thief & The Telephone

WISCONSINMusic Under the Stars, Milwaukee County Park Commission7/10, 11/71 "A Night at the Met" Ross; Alexander, Meredith8/6, 7/71, Madama Butterfly Niska; Stewart; cond.: Anello

also 4 pairs of symphony concertsPeninsula Music Festival, Fish Creek8/7-21/71 Symphony concertsSummer Arts Festival, Wisconsin U., A. A. Suppan, Dean, School of

Fine Arts, Milwaukee6/21-8/1/71 Chamber music concerts

CANADABanff School of Fine Arts, Opera Div'n., J. Craig, Dir., Alberta7/5-8/14/71 WorkshopsThe Center for Continuing Education, A. Schoep, Dir., Elliot Lake, Ontario6/28-8/27/71 Opera WorkshopsStratford Festival, Miss A. Gingras, Mus. Admin., Ontario7/4-8/29/71 Chamber music and recitals7/18/71 Concert, Vickers7/25/71 Vocal recital, Souzay8/10, 13, 14, 18, 21, 22/71 Hansel and Gretel The Montreal Marionettes

PUERTO RICOFestival Casals, P. Casals, Mus. Dir., A. Schneider, Asst. Dir., San Juan5/28-6/14/71 Symphony and chamber music concerts

ITALYSpoleto Festival of Two Worlds, G. C. Menotti, Dir.6/24/71 Boris Godunov

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FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1971-72 SEASONCALIFORNIA

Sao Francisco Opera Assn., K. H. Adler, Gen Dir., War MemorialOpera House

9/10, 19m, 25, 29 10/3m, 8/71 Marion* Sills; Gedda, Ulfung, Monk, Berberian;cond.: Perisson; dir.: Capobianco; des.: Mitchell

9/11, 14, 17, 22, 26m/71 Der Rosenkavalier Jurinac, Ludwig, Donath; Jungwirth,Burrows; cond.: Varviso; dir.: P. Hager; des.: Bauer-Ecsy

9/12m, 15, 18, 21, 24 10/2, 24m/71 Madama Butterfly Kubiak, Vanni; Burrows,Yarnell; cond.: Levine; dir.: Farruggio; des.: Businger

10/1, 6, 9, 12, 17m/71 Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg* Saunders; Adams, King,Evans, Flagello; cond.: Suitner; dir.: Hager; des.: Oswald

10/5, 10m, 15/71 A Midsummer Night's Dream Vyvyan, Cantelo; Tear,Brannigan; cond.: Bedford; dir.: Graham: des.: Luzzati (English OperaGroup prod.)

10/13, 16, 19, 22, 31m/71 Eugene Onegin Lear, Garabedian; Stewart, Burrows,Berberian; cond.: Mackerras; dir.: Hager; des.: Walter

10/23, 26, 29 11/3, 13, 28m/71 II Trovatore Price, Lilova; King, Wolansky;cond.: Cillario; dir.: Hager; des.: Skalicki

10/27, 30 11/2, 5, 7m/71 Un Ballo in tnaschera Arroyo, Dalis, Donath; Pavarotti,Wixell; cond.: Mackerras; dir.: Faggioni; des.: Burlingame

11/6, 9, 14m, 19/71 Lulu Silja, Cervena; Ulfung, Reardon; cond.: Von Dohnanyi;dir.: Hager; des.: Bauer-Ecsy

11/12, 16, 21m, 24, 27/71 Maria Stuarda* Sutherland, Tourangeau; Burrows,Opthof; cond.: Bonynge; dir.: Capobianco; des.: Pizzi

11/17, 20, 23, 26/71 // Tabarro & Carmina Burana Price; Bacquier; cond.:Sanzogno; dir.: Faggioni; & Matsumoto; Wixell: cond.: Sanzogno; dir.: G.Hager; des.: Ponnelle

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAJohn F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, G. London, Art. Adm.

Washington9/10/71 Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci prem. Diaz9/14/71 Ariodante Verrett; dir.: Capobianco

FLORIDAFamily Opera of Miami, P. Csonka, Mus. Dir., Dade County Audit.12/5m/71 Cinderella4/30m/72 The MikadoOpera Guild of Greater Miami, A. diFilippi, Art. Dir. & Gen. Mgr.,

E. Buckley, Cond.1/24, 29/72 La Boheme at Dade County Audit.: 1/26/72 at Miami Beach Audit.;

Scotto, Sena; Pavarotti, Sardinero, Smith, Darrenkamp2/14, 19/72 Manon Lescaut at Dade County Audit., 2/16/72 at Miami Beach Audit.;

Kubiak; Tucker, Sordello, Michalski3/13, 18, 21/72 Aida at Dade County Audit., 3/15/72 at Miami Beach Audit.;

Arroyo, Cossotto; Domingo, Paskalis, Vinco4/5, 6/72 The Merry Widow at Dade County Audit., 4/8/72 at Miami Beach Audit.;

Eng.; Fenn, Christensen; Reardon, Blanc, Harrold, Billings; cond.: McArthur;Benefit Prod.

ILLINOISLyric Opera of Chicago, Carol Fox, Gen. Mgr.9/24, 27, 29 10/2, 8, 11/71 Semiramide* Sutherland, Home, Cooper; Bottazzo,

Malas, Ferrin, Estes; cond.: Bonynge; dir.: Sequi; des.: Samaritani/Hall10/4, 6, 9, 15, 20/71 Rigoletto Rinaldi; Kraus, Cappuccilli, Vinco; cond.:

Bartoletti; dir.: Sequi; des.: Pizzi10/13, 16, 18, 22, 30/71 Tosca* Martin/Kubiak; Bergonzi, Gobbi; cond.: Sanzogno;

dir.: Gobbi; des.: Pizzi10/23, 27, 29 11/5, 8/71 Werther* Troyanos, Miranda; Kraus, Enrissie; cond.:

Fournet; dir.: Mansouri; des.: Ghiglia11/3, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20/71 Don Carlo Jones, Cossotto; Cossutta, Mimes, Ghiaurov;

cond.: Bartoletti; dir.: Mansouri11/13, 17, 19, 22, 27, 29/71 Das Rheingold* Hoffmann, Altmeyer, Boese, Rebman;

Hofmann, Neidlinger, Holm, Paskuda; cond.: Leitner; dir.: Lehmann: des.:Griibler

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11/26 12/4, 8, 11, 13, 17/71 // Barbiere di Siviglia Home; Garaventa, Prey, Malas;cond.: Bartoletti; dir.: Gobbi; des.: Hall

12/3, 6, 10, 15, 18/71 Salome Silja, Cervena; Ulfung, Nienstedt, Little, Meredith;cond.: von Dohnanyi; dir.: Lehmann; des.: Wagner/Darling

LOUISIANANew Orleans Opera House Assn., A. Cosenza, Gen. Dir., K. Anderson,

Mus. Dir.9/30 10/2/71 La Boheme Tucci; Buzea, Patrick, C. Corbeil11/4, 6/71 The Pearl Fishers Robinson; Duval, Cossa, Corbeil12/2, 4/71 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills; Alexander, Torigi, Berberian2/24, 26/72 Aida Ross, Berini; Vickers, Shinall, Plishka3/23, 25/72 Don Giovanni Schauler, Thomson; Diaz, Beni, Vrenios, Roy4/13, 15/72 Samson et Dalila Dunn; King, Schwartzman

MARYLANDThe Baltimore Opera Co., Inc., R. Ponselle, Art Dir., R. J. CoIIinge, Gen. Mgr.10/28, 30 11/1/71 Manon Maliponte; Campora; cond.: Commissiona2/17, 19, 21/72 L'Elisir d'amore Clements; DiGiuseppe, Malas, Darrenkamp; cond.:

Guadagno4/13, 15, 17/72 Vn Ballo in maschera Lippert, Nadler; Fredricks; cond.: Buckley

NEW JERSEYOpera Theatre of New Jersey, A. Silipigni, Art Dir., Newark11/12/71 Fedora Olivero; Campora, BardeJli; 11/14/71 at War Memorial

Auditorium, Trenton1/11/72 Norma Sills; Kissopoulos, DiAmorim; 1/13/72 at War Memorial

Auditorium, Trenton3/5/72 La Boheme Evangelista; Di Stefano, Plishka4/30/72 Gianni Schicchi & Pagliacci Ferrer & Heimall

NEW YORK CITYClarion Concerts, N. Jenkins, Mus. Dir., Tully Hall2/8/72 Opera excerpts from unpublished mss. by Rossini, Verdi, Donizetti, von

Weber, Raimondi; Brooks; White; ChorusLittle Orchestra Society, T. Scherman, Mus. Dir., Tully Hall11/2/71 La Voix Humaine & Italian arias Olivero3/7/72 Schumann's ManfredNew York City Opera Co., New York State Theatre, J. Rudel, Gen. Dir.,

J. White, Mng. Dir.9/2, 5m, 9, 12, 18 10/9/71 The Makropoulos Affair Niska; Theyard, Clatworthy;

cond.: Susskind9/3, 5, 7, 10, 23/71 Louise91 Am, 12m, 17, 22/71 La Traviata91 A, 11, 16, 19, 24/71 La Boheme9/8, 25 10/10, 16/71 The Marriage of Figaro9/llm, 14, 18m, 20 10/3/71 Vn Ballo in maschera9/15, 26 10/1, 8/71 Albert Herring* Faull, Creed; Stewart, Cossa; cond.: Bernardi;

dir.: Besch; des.: Evans9/19m, 21, 25m 10/2m/71 Madama Butterfly9/26m, 28 10/2, 6, 10m/71 Tosca9/30 10/3m, 5, 23 ll/6m, 14/71 Cost fan tutte Eng.: R. & T. Martin; dir.: Ball10/7, 9m, 14, 16, 20, 23m, 27, 29/71 Carmen* Davidson; Molese, Hale; cond.:

Rudel dir.: Capobianco; des.: Varona10/12, 17, 21, 24m, 26 11/7, 10, 13m/71 Mefistofele10/13, 15, 17m ll/7m, 11/71 Roberto Devereux10/19, 31m 11/3, 5, 9/71 Le Coq d'or Neblett; Malas; cond.: Susskind10/22, 24, 28, 30m 11/4/71 Giulio Cesare Sills; Hale; cond.: Rudel10/30 11/12/71 II Barbiere di Siviglia10/31 11/2, 14m/71 Susannah* Niska; Treigle

NORTH CAROLINAThe Charlotte Opera Association, J. R. McRae, Gen. Dir.10/25/71 La Boheme Eng.2/7/72 The Barber of Seville Eng.4/24/72 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng.

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PENNSYLVANIAPhiladelphia Grand Opera Co., A. Terracciano, Gen. Mgr.10/22/71/4taa Ross, Dunn; Tucker, Meliciani, Moscona11/19/71 La Traviata Peters; Campora, Schwartzman12/3/71 The Merry Widow Costa; Campora2/18/72 Madama Butterfly Sato, Lanzilotti; Pastine3/10/72 Carmen Cortez; Barrena, Guarrera4/28/72 Tosca Fenn; Tucker, Guarrera

TEXASDallas Civic Opera, L. Kelly, Gen. Mgr.11/5, 7, 13m/71 La Favorita* Verrett; Merighi, Raimondi; cond.: Rescigno; dir.

Dalla Corte; des.: HallTwo other productions to be announcedHouston Grand Opera Assn., Walter Herbert, Gen. Dir.10/5, 8, 10/71 Carmen Baltsa; Bonhomme, Shinall11/9, 12, 14/71 Tosca Kubiak; Quilico, Spiess1/18, 21, 23/72 Boris Godunov Casei; Treigle2/22, 25, 27/72 Help! Help! the Globolinks & The Medium4/11, 14, 16/72 Tannhduser Barlow; Anheisser, Thomas

CANADAVancouver Opera Assn., I. Guttman, Art Dir., B. Hanson, Adm. Dir.9/30 10/2, 6, 9/71 // Trovatore2/17, 19, 22m, 24, 26/72 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci4/27, 29 5/3, 6/72 Turandot

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