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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE COMMITTEE R. L. B. TOBIN, National Chairman The National Council JULIUS RUDEL, Co-Chairman New York City Opera National Council Director! MRS. AUGUST BELMONT MRS. FRANK W. BOWMAN E. H. CORRIGAN, JR. MRS. NORR1S DARRELL HOWARD J. HOOK, JR.

GEORGE HOWERTON ELIHU M. HYNDMAN MRS. JOHN R. SAVAGE JAMES SCHWABACHER. JR.

Profeuional Committee MAURICE ABRAVANEL RICHARD KARP Salt Lake City Symphony Pittsburgh Opera KURT HERBERT ADLER PAUL KNOWLES San Francisco Opera University of Minnesota VICTOR ALESSANDRO GLADYS MATHEW San Antonio Symphony Community Opera ROBERT G. ANDERSON MRS. LOUDON MELLEN Tulsa Opera Opera Soc. of Wash., D.C. WILFRED C. BAIN ELEMER NAGY Indiana University Hartt College of Music ROBERT BAUST1AN MME. ROSE PALMAI-TENSER Santa Fe Opera Mobile Opera Guild MORITZ BOMHARD RUSSELL D. PATTERSON Kentucky Opera Kansas City Lyric Theatre JOHN BROWNLEE MRS. JOHN DEWITT PELTZ Manhattan School of Music Metropolitan Opera PAUL CALLAWAY GEORGE SCHICK Opera Soc. of Wash., D.C. Metropolitan Opera STANLEY CHAPPLE MARK SCHUBART University of Washington Lincoln Center EUGENE CONLEY MRS. L. S. STEMMONS No. Texas State Univ. Dallas Civic Opera WALTER DUCLOUX LEONARD TREASH University of S. California Eastman School of Music PETER PAUL FUCHS LUCAS UNDERWOOD Louisiana State University College of the Pacific ROBERT GAY GID WALDROP Northwestern University Juilliard School of Music BORIS GOLDOVSKY MRS. J. P. WALLACE Goldovsky Opera Theatre Shreveport Civic Opera WALTER HERBERT MRS. PAUL P. WILSON Houston Grand Opera Mid-South Reg. Director LUDW1O ZIRNER University of Illinois

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN 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 of Michael White's METAMORPHOSIS on May 3. The three-act opera is based on Franz Kafka's story of the same title, rewritten into a verse-play by Milton Goldberg who also is responsible for the opera libretto. The composer teaches at Philadelphia's M usic Academy. Henri Pousseur, professor of music at New York University in Buffalo, is the composer of VOTRE FAUST. The Belgian born composer collaborated with French novelist, Michel Butor, on the libretto which presents the Faust theme in a contemporary setting. Audience participation in form of voting for one of four possible endings of the opera is one of its innovations. The work was performed on March 17 in a concert version by the Buffalo Philharmonic as part of Buffalo's Festival of the Arts. The team of Lutz Mayer, composer, and Edward Devanny, librettist, collaborated again on a new opera, THE PARANOID PARAKEET. The premiere is scheduled for the opening of the new Fine Arts Building at N.Y. State University-Cortland College and will be a joint production by the University's Drama and Music Departments. A previous opera by Messrs. Mayer and Devanny is called Refuge. Matt Doran, composer of the The Committee, has written THE LITTLE HAND SO OBSTINA TE. Excerpts of this new opera with a libretto by Sonia Brown were performed recently by the Music Department of Mount St. Mary's College. The Opera Theatre of the University of Arizona in Tucson presented the first performance of Henry Johnson's THE MOUNTAIN on December 12, 1967. Two more performances followed. The libretto is by David Grozier. THE MAGIC LAND OF OPERA by Martin Kalmanoff is suggested as opera education for young audiences. Appearing to a child in a dream sequence, leading figures from twelve of the most famous grand operas discuss their parts and sing some of the best known melodies from their respective operas. Gladys Mathew, President of Community Opera in New York and member of the COS Professional Committee, wrote the libretto for MIDAS, "a poetic opera in three acts." The story is based on early Greek history and myths relating to the dynasty of Midas and Gordius in Lydia and Phrygia. The music is by the late British composer Stanley Wilson, who completed the work with a two piano accompaniment. Musical material has been chosen according to the text, i.e. Lydian and Phrygian modes have been adapted to modern composition. The opera requires a large 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 new opera based on the life of Beatrice Cenci.

THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE by Bertolt Brecht will form the basis for a musical-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 through Opera Canada of three other works commissioned for the Centennial Year. They are: 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 LANDING by Trevor Jones with a libretto by Donald Wetmore, first performed in Halifax in November, 1967.

AMERICAN PREMIERES Carl Orff s Bernauerin received it's first American performance at the University of Missourr-in Kansas City on March 21. The opera, under the title of THE BALLAD OF AGNES BERNAUER, was sung in an English translation by Fritz Kracht who was also in charge of stage directions. The story, which plays in 15th century Bavaria, is based on supposedly true events. The performance in Kansas City presented a collaborative effort of the University's Drama and Music Departments with technical assistance from the University's radio station. The orchestra included a 16-piece percussion ensemble. Also on March 21 the Opera Workshop of Boston University gave the American premiere of Satie's GENEVIEVE OF BRABANT. This fall the San Francisco Opera will present two American "firsts" within one triple-bill. ROYAL PALACE by Kurt Weill will be produced in a pantomime version by Gunther Schuller scored for six solo voices and a women's chorus. It will also include a ballet. The premiere of the original version took place in Berlin in 1927. On the same program, the California company will present the American stage premiere of a one-act version of Darius Milhaud's Christopher Columbus under the title of DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. The third work on this evening of contemporary operas will be Schonberg's Erwartung. Also on the schedule of San Francisco's 1968 season are revivals of two rarely performed operas, Fra Diavolo and Les Troyens; Die Walkure will be presented in a new production. The American premiere of Hans Werner Henze's one-act opera, THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, will take place at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., within an unusual frame of presentation. "The Artist as Myth-Maker" is the title of the evening and in addition to the premiere of the Henze opera which is utilizing a specially prepared film, two other films are scheduled on the program. They are recently produced American student films. The evening is part of Northwestern's Festival of the Arts, May 23-28. Jeunesses Musicales at Mt. Orford, Quebec, will give the first North American performance of OPERA DE POUSSIERE by the French composer, Marcel Landowski. 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 nouvelles aventures and Kagel's Sur scene. — On January 11 the All Saints Church in London was host to the Sacred Music-Drama Society and its productions of Inglis 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 during British summer festivals are listed for June '68 at Aldeburgh: Birtwistle's PUNCH AND JUDY and Britten's THE PRODIGAL SON, and at Glyndebourne '69: Nicholas Maw's THE RISING OF THE MOON. — The Scottish Opera Co. gave the first performance of Robin Orr's FULL CIRCLE in Perth on a double-bill together with Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldal. — 2—

Di Lampedusa's famous novel, IL GATTOPARDO (The Leopard), forms the story for Angelo Musco's opera of the same title. Published by Ricordi, the opera was premiered in Palermo on December 19, 1967. — Radio Italiano (RAI) is responsible for two unusual revivals during the last season. The one is PIEDIGROTTA by Luigi Ricci (1805-59) first performed in Naples in 1852, revived in December 1967 under the baton of N. Sanzogno. The other, a more recent composition by Pasquale Di Cagno, MAREMMA, composed in 1929, had its first performance by RAI 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 Penderecki's newest opera, announced in the 9-10/67 COS Bulletin as The Devils of Loudon, after John Whiting's play, has been renamed MOTHER JOHANNA OF THE ANGELS and will be heard for the first time in June, 1969. Lars J. Werle was commissioned by Hamburg to write DIE REISE; the premiere is scheduled for March, 1969. — German composer Mark Lothar (Schneider Wibbel, Rappelkopf) has written DER WIDERSPAENSTIGE HEILIGE after Paul Vincent Carroll The Wayward Saint. It received its first production in Munich's Theater am Gartnerplatz on February 8. — Korean composer Isang Yun has written a companion piece to his one-act opera, The Dream of Liu-Tung, named THE WIDOW OF THE BUTTERFLY. 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 by Barrie Stavis. — East Berlin's Komische Oper will present Siegfried Matthus' DER LETZTE SCHUSS, libretto by Gotz Friedrich after a story by Boris Lavrenyov. Matthus' other works include the opera Spanische Tugenden (Spanish Virtues). — The Bolshoi Opera's schedule this past season included the first performance of Molchanov's THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Finnish composer Pylkkaenen recently completed an opera by the same name. Danish composer Leif^Thybo was commissioned to write an opera for the International Heinrich Schutz Festival. The result is "a parable for church performance" called DIALOG scheduled to be performed at the Copenhagen Cathedral on May 27. — 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 Silkworm) for May 20. Featured in the premiere is soprano Jeanette Pilou. — Jacques Bondon'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 Commandment), was revived by London's Handel Opera Society in March, together with Mozart's "serenata drammatica". IL SOGNO DI SCIPIONE. At the Camden Festival in February, London audiences heard Rossini's ELISABETTA, REGINA D'INGHILTERRA. Neither of these three operas has yet been presented in the United States. — The Vienna Chamber Opera has scheduled eleven performances of Dittersdorfs BETRUG DURCH ABERGLAUBEN in June. Last January the same company presented Paisiello's LA MOLINARA. — The Metropolitan Opera Studio, always ready to present rarely heard works (see The Other Opera in the 6/67 Bulletin), recently presented excerpts of little-known Schubert operas at the Library Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Among the operas represented in selections were: FREUNDE VON SALAMANKA, DES TEUFELS LUSTSCHLOSS, DIE VERSCHWORENEN, DIE BUERGSCHAFT. and DIE ZAUBERHARFE. — American revivals of 17th century Italian operas this spring include Cesti's ORONTHEA (1649) at Cornell University in Ithaca, Cavalli's ERISMENA (1655) at the University of California in Berkeley and the previously announced ORMINDA at the Juilliard Schoolof Music.

NEW HALLS Opening the new ATLANTA MEMORIAL CENTER on October 29 will be a joint production by the three resident companies: the Atlanta Opera, the Atlanta Ballet and the Atlanta Repertory Theatre. They will perform Henry Purcell's King Arthur. 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 artistic director. It will be directed by Michael Howard, choreographed by David Blair, designed by Richard Gullicksen and conducted by Jonathan Sternberg, the Opera Company's newly appointed musical director. Performances will take place in the 800-seat theatre, the first completed part of the $13 million Center, which will be the permanent home of the Opera, Ballet and Theatre Companies. After the Gala opening production, each of the three companies will continue its own season under the auspices of the Atlanta Municipal Theatre and its general director, Christopher Manos. The Opera Company will produce four works during the first season, Tristan und Isolde, Salome, La Boheme and King A rthur. Ground-breaking ceremonies for the FILENE CENTER at Wolf Trap Farm Park will beheld on May 27. The land is part of a national park for the performing arts in Vienna, Va. Also part of this park is Symphony Hill, the site of the future permanent home of the American Symphony Orchestra League. Filene Center will be 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 by opera and ballet companies, and by symphony and chamber orchestras. It will include full stage facilities, orchestra pit, dressing rooms, rehearsal and storage space. It is hoped that the Center will be ready for a summer '69 opening. It is approximately 15 miles from Washington, D.C. and will be the second summer arts center in the proximity of the nation's capitol. The other is the Merriweather Post Pavilion of Music in Maryland. On May 2 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY in Philadelphia dedicated the new Theodore Presser Hall, the $1.7 million home of its College of Music. Jackson, Mississippi, opened the first building of its ARTS CENTER in April. The new auditorium will be the home of the Jackson Symphony. The thirty-five-year-old BANFF SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS in Alberta will open a new 1,000-seat opera house and theatre this summer. It is part of a complex which will include a 300-seat theatre and three-story teaching building with classrooms and practice facilities for opera, concert, drama, ballet and musical theatre. Designed by John Woodworth, a Canadian architect from Kelowna, B.C., the opera house will be adaptable to symphony or drama with stage dimensions of 100 x 40 feet, a moveable pit, a front-of-curtain stage extension, and the newest in light and sound equipment. With these facilities, the School hopes to be able to institute 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-symphony hall, a 2,000-seat multi-purpose auditorium with an adjoining 450-seat theatre for drama, chamber music, lectures and conferences. Also planned within the Center's complex are museums and libraries. The moving force behind this plan is Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos, wife of the President of the Philippines. On January 24, a fire destroyed East Hall which housed Indiana University's 1,000seat Opera Theatre. Since its opening in 1950, there have been 415 performances of 86 operas and it was the University's major auditorium until this fall when the new Opera Theatre opened. The building was almost totally destroyed and with it 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 60 practice 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 proportion 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 $11 million. If this figure receives the final approval of the Appropriations Committee, the Senate, and the House, federally sponsored arts programs will have to be greatly curtailed. More financial assistance will be sought from state and local arts councils, from foundations, corporations and private individuals. Need for the Business Committee on the Arts will be more dramatic and we refer our readers to the April '68 COS Bulletin and Mr. Mesney's speech on The Corporate 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 turned into considerable funds through wise distribution. At the same time more local arts councils are being formed, thus for instance in New York City where Mayor Lindsay has appointed a 26-man Cultural Council to "bequeath cultural activities and administer grants and expand the scope of the city's education program." Similarly, Westchester County recently appointed Olcutt Sanders as Executive Director of its Arts Council which has among its objectives the building of a Westchester Arts Center. Relatively new to this field is the newly appointed Central Labor Arts Committee of the AFL-CIO Demonstration Arts Project, which is exploring the possibilities of closer association with and assistance to the arts. The organization has chosen four demonstration cities for a pilot program: New York, Minneapolis, Louisville and Buffalo. Meetings of representatives from labor unions and local arts organizations have been held and the first results have already been reported. Mr. Harlowe Dean, National Coordinating Consultant, may be contacted at 2600 Virginia 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 Conference 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 expenses in its participation in the Congress of the International Music Council; $30,000 to 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 opera house in Santa Fe; from the Rockefeller Foundation — $81,000 to Temple University's College of Music to establish a three year program of teaching fellowships in association with the Philadelphia Settlement Music School, and $20,000 to the University of Colorado and the Denver Symphony for a symposium on contemporary music; from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music — $9,000 for costumes and sets for The Bartered Bride to the Lake Erie Opera Co., and $4,000 to 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 of Chicago; from General Motors — $25,000 to the Cleveland Orchestra towards its new summer home, the Blossom Music Center; from the Olivetti Underwood Corporation — $50,000 to Lincoln Center for the Center's Festival '68 and the participation of the Rome Opera; and last but not least, from the National Council on the Arts $50,000 to the American Choral Foundation for a summer institute for choral conductors. While U.S. federal funds for the arts are diminishing, the British Minister for the Arts, a non-existing post in the American cabinet, recently announced in the House of Commons an increase of one million pounds sterling in expenditures for the arts-for the 1968—69 season over those of the previous year. The expected total isM\ 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 national scene of touring opera. After a two-year's existence, the Metropolitan Opera National Company was dissolved due to the overwhelming deficit accrued in that period. This happened one year ago. Immediately following, the American National Opera Company was formed by Sarah Caldwell, director of the Boston Opera. Bookings were handled by Sol Hurok, who had booked the Metropolitan Opera touring company and who was able to fill previously arranged dates with the new company. Now, after one fall and one spring tour, the American National Opera Company has filed a petition under the Bankruptcy Act, listing its liabilities as $840,000, its assets as $150,000. It still hopes to reorganize and resume touring which, as a spokesman said, was only postponed, not cancelled. Meanwhile, the New York City Opera Company announced a reengagement at the Los Angeles Music Center for next fall. It will present 14 performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion immediately following its New York fall season at the State Theatre in mid-November. The San Francisco Opera Company will visit Los Angeles, 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 (The American Opera Society at Carnegie Hall and The Little Orchestra at Philharmonic Hall) London will initiate a similar program series. Michael Scott & Partners will present four rarely performed operas with international stars at London's Royal Festival Hall and Drury Lane Theatre alternately. The New Philharmonia Orchestra will be conducted by Richard Bonynge, Edward Downes and Richard Lewis; the program is made up of Lucrezia Borgia with Monserrat Caballe, Nabucco with Elena Suliotis and Bons Christoff, Semiramide with Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Home and Le Prophete with Home and Nicolai Gedda. Among the new productions for the 1969-70 season, the Metropolitan Opera will present Weber's Der Freischutz featuring Gundula Janowitz, Sandor Konya, Walter Berry and conductor, Karl Bfihm. The New York City Opera's Spring '69 season will include Borodin's Prince Igor utilizing the sets and costumes originally designed by W. Steven Armstrong for the University of Cincinnati production in December, 1967. Frank Corsaro will be the stage director. A new concert series was inaugurated in New York this spring. Reminiscent of La Belle Epoche.lhz Sunday Cafe' Concerts are a weekly feature at the Hotel Pierre, 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 $7.00 for tea. Programs feature a variety of musical ensembles, from duo pianists and string quartets to chamber orchestras and the Metropolitan Opera Studio's presentation of its Shakespeare in Opera and Song program. This fall, a Festival of Fine Arts will be held concurrently with the Olympic Games in Mexico City. According to the latest figures 78 countries are expected to participate in the cultural events; 65 countries are sending athletes to compete in the games. Concerts, operas, ballets, plays, films and art exhibitions will feature internationally famous individuals and ensembles. The latter will include the Berlin Opera and three Mexican opera companies as well as local orchestras and ballet companies. Visiting symphony and/or chamber orchestras will come from Paris, Brussels, Rome, Venice, Manchester (Eng.), Buenos Aires, Moscow, Prague, Warsaw and Leipzig. Representing the United States will be the Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham dance groups, the Phoenix Singers, the Oratorio Society of Duquesne University, the LaSalle Quartet and the Newport Jazz 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 subscriptions during the Festival Weeks, May 19 through June 16. Maurice Feldman, American — 6—

PR representative of the company announced that this will make twice as many tickets available to foreign.visitors. A total of 32 different operas will be presented during this time, all with international stars. On May 26 the Amato Opera Theatre, Inc. will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a "Luncheon-Party" at the Plaza Hotel. Since 1964 the Amato Opera has been performing in its own little theatre at 319 Bowery, New York.

SUMMER OPERA WORKSHOPS And 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., Daytona Beach, Fla. with Stetson Univ., DeLand, Fla., Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, Colo., Berkshire Music 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 at Pleasantville, 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 June 12-30: the Drake Music Camp is scheduled for July 1-7. Boris Goldovsky will again head the Opera Workshop at Oglebay Institute on the campus of Wheeling College in West Virginia. The four-week's course is scheduled for August 5 to September 1. Assisting Mr. Goldovsky will be Fredric Popper, Arthur Schoep, Anthony Addison 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 number of scholarships are available. Mr. Goldovsky will also hold a summer workshop at Ohio State University in Columbus from July 8 to 20. A summer Choral Institute has been established with the financial assistance of the National Council on the Arts. Under project director, Sheldon Soffer, two universities will be hosts to the various classes. Planned for the training of choral conductors, the first 4 weeks' session will be held at the University of Wisconsin (renaissance music 6/24-7/6, baroque music 7/8-20) and at New York State University at Binghamton (classical and romantic music 7/29-8/10 and contemporary music 8/12-24). May 22-28 marks the Festival of the Arts at Northwestern University in Evanston, III. The second annual Conference on the Arts and the Press is part of the Festival, occupying the first 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 are free and open to the public. On July 1st the Municipal University of Omaha will become a state institution and will henceforth be known as the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The opera workshop will change its name to Opera Theatre of the University of Nebraska and plans to add its first summer sessions in 1969. It will be under the direction of Dr. Robert Ruetz, who previously had been in charge of the workshop. The Cleveland Institute of Music has scheduled an Opera Theatre Workshop for advanced voice students and professionals from June 17 to July 6. The concluding performance will take place on July 8. The workshop is under the direction of Anthony Addison. Master classes in vocal repertoire will be led by Pierre Bernac between June 24 and 29. — Jenny Tourel will hold 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 workshops at Castle Hill in Ipswich, Mass. The dates are June 23 to August 17. - The New England Conservatory's Institute will be held at Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass., beginning July 14 through August 25. - The Southern Illinois University at Carbondale will accept students lor its summer Opera 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 located in the Pocono Mountains at Mountainhome, Pa. William Scheneman, the executive director of 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 Midwestern 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 at Rochester, N.Y., will be under the director Daniel J. Patrylak. The dates are June 24 to August 2. - The Hartt College of Music at Hartford, Conn., has summer music classes beginning June 12 to July 26. A Summer Youth Music Program for High School Students has been scheduled for August 11-25.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc. has established national headquarters in 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 Executive Secretary, a position made possible through the assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts. Arts Management, which publishes a bi-monthly newsletter for free distribution to arts organizations (COS Professional Committee members receive complimentary copies) has moved its offices to 408 West 57 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. Mr. A. Reiss is the editor.

PUBLISHERS' NEWS Theodore 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 material and supplimentary organ parts for rental. Miss Caldwell's first Christams opera, A Gift of Song, will receive some special performances next season, celebrating the 150th anniversary 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. Westergaard'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 translation of Strauss's Friedenslag made for and used by UCS, is not the only translation of this rarely heard opera. The libretto published by Boosey and Hawkes contains another English translation. 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 manuscripts of this century with the Library of Congress. Included among these seven originals are Stravinsky's Petrouchka, Oedipus Rex, Le Rossignol, Ravel's orchestration of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Prokoviev's Classical Symphony. These manuscripts are placed with those previously donated by the late Serge Kousevitzky when he established the Serge Koussevitzky 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 appointment of NORMAN SINGER to the newly created post of General Administrator. He will be in charge of productions at both buildings, the State Theatre at Lincoln Center and the City Center's former Mecca Temple on West 55 Street. He will administer the N.Y.C. OperaXo., N.Y.C. Ballet, the City Center Gilbert and Sullivan Co., City Center Light Opera Co., City Center Drama Co., and the City Center Joffrey Ballet. Mr. Singer taught at the Juilliard School of Music and later became professor of music at Hunter College. He gained his experience in administration at the Aspen Music Festival where he organized the music school and was appointed Dean for eight years. For the last four years he has been Director of the Hunter College Concert Bureau. The Metropolitan Opera Association Board of Directors reelected LAUDER GREENWAY as Chairman of the Board and GEORGE S. MOORE as President of the Association. JAMES F. JAFFREY was elected Treasurer to succeed GORDON HILL who retired after ten years. Two new Board members are PAUL HALLINGBY JR. and FRANCIS F. RANDOLPH, both of New York. New members of the Association are John T. Connor, William M. Sullivan and William S. Youngman of New York, Mrs. DeWitt Wallace of Pleasantville, N.Y., and Kate Ireland of Cleveland. — Mrs. HARRIET HEYWOOD GILPATRIC, Director of the Metropolitan Opera Guild since 1959, has resigned from her post, following her marriage to Mr. Arch Patton. Succeeding her will be MRS. CHARLES F. (ALICE) DARLINGTON, a member of the Guild's Board of Directors for the last fourteen years and Chairman of the Education Committee. Her husband is former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Gabon. RUDOLF BING's contract as General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera has been extended for another two years, until June 1972. Mr. Bing joined the Metropolitan Opera as its General Manager in 1950. MARTIN BOOKSPAN, known to radio listeners as commentator on WQXR, has been named Coordinator of Symphonic and Concert Activities for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He is also Chairman of the Exhibition Committee for the Sixth Congress of the International Music Council in New York in September. Roger L. Stevens has appointed KURT HERBERT ADLER, General Director of the San Francisco Opera Co., as a new member of the Music Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts, headed by Aaron Copland. The Panel is presently undertaking a study of arts management and audience development and has been 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 permanent appointment is made. DR. WALTER DUCLOUX has informed us of his appointment as Director of a new Opera Theatre at the University of Texas in Austin; he will also be in charge of the University's orchestra. He is leaving his post as Director of Opera 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 Performing Arts. World renowned pianist, RUDOLF SERKIN, has been named Director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, succeeding Efrem Zimbalist, who is retiring this summer. ERNEST GRIEFF has been appointed Executive Director of the Mannes College of M usic in New York. The North Carolina School of the Arts has announced the appointment of three new members to its Advisory Board: JEAN DALRYMPLE, Director of the N.Y.C. Drama Co., HELEN HAYES, "First Lady of the Theatre" and WILLIAM SCHUMAN, composer and President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Other members of the advisory board are: Richard Adler, Sidney Blackmore, Agnes de — 9—

Mille, Paul Green, Jose'Limon, Peter Mennin, Eugenie Ouroussow, Julius Rudel and James Pfohl. — A further appointment is that of NORMAN JOHNSON, Artistic Director of the Denver Lvric Opera, to Opera Director and Choral Conductor at the Winston-Salem art school. Mr. Johnson, formerly with the Peabody Conservatory 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 the last 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. through a grant of $105,000 two years ago, has alotted a grant of $100,000 for the current season. This year the company toured California, Nevada, Arizona and Oregon. MICHAEL MANUEL, former co-General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera National Company, has been named to the newly-created position of Production Director of the Chicago Lyric Opera, announced Carol Fox, General Manager. His duties will be to coordinate and supervise the visual aspects of the productions. Mr. Manuel had been a Stage Manager at the Metropolitan Opera and at Covent Garden before his association with the Metropolitan Opera National Co. — Mr. R. H. BALL, former Comptroller of Brummel Bros., was named Chicago Lyric's Business Manager, succeeding Mr. W. Farina, who retired. ROBERT KEYS, who was brought from Covent Garden, Royal Opera, to Vancouver B.C. in 1966 to head the newly-created Opera Ensemble, the training and touring group of the Vancouver Opera Association, has resigned. Mr. JAMES CRAIG, Associate Conductor at the Canadian Opera Co. in Toronto, was named as his successor. ERICH KUNZEL, Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, received the post of Associate Professor of Music at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, where he will teach orchestral conducting and will be the Director of the CCM Orchestra. The Symphony Orchestra of the Interlochen Arts Academy has named NICHOLAS HARSANYI as its new Musical Director and Conductor. Other academic appointments in the musical field include: tenor, JAMES WAINNER, former Director of the Opera Workshop at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio, to Associate Professor in voice at California State College at Hayward; — POLYNA SAVRIDI, former soprano with the Metropolitan Opera National Co., to head of 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 University of Wisconsin in Madison. New appointments in the managerial field include: FRANK RATKA, former Assistant Manager of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and later Manager of the Oklahoma City Symphony, to General Manager of the Syracuse Symphony and Opera, succeeding BENSON SNYDER who is now General Director of the Western Opera Theatre; — WILLIAM DENTON, Manager of the San Diego Symphony and Opera Co., to General Manager of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra beginning August 1. Robert Shaw is Musical Director.

HONORIS CAUSA Occidental College bestowed an honorary Doctor of Music degree on conductor ZUBIN MEHTA. — The American Academy of Arts and Letters named the following composers as new honorary members: ALBERTO G1NASTERA (Don Rodrigo, Bomarzo) and JOHN CAGE, and gave a special award to JACK BEESON (The Sweet Bye and Bye, Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There). — The American Singer's Citation for 1968 was awarded to mezzo-soprano REGINA RESNICK by the New York Singing Teachers Association. The same organization also gave a special citation to DOUGLAS MOORE in acknowledgment of 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; a special medal was awarded to AARON COPLAND. — ROGER SESSIONS was named Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University for 1968-69 where he will hold six lectures. Mr. Sessions is a 1915 graduate of Harvard. Other musicians previously holding this chair include Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith.

BOOKS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS An eighty page interpretive report on the Tanglewood Symposium MUSIC IN AMERICAN SOCIETY has been published by the Music Educators National Conference and is available from MENC, 1201 16th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 10036 for $2.00. — The Associated Councils of the Arts in cooperation with the Pitman Publishing Corporation is publishing IN SEARCH OF AN AUDIENCE. The authors, Bradley Morison and Kay Fliehr, partners in a Minneapolis consulting firm specializing in development for arts organizations, deal specifically with the problem of "How an Audience was found for the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre". 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. and Canada 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 agency appointed 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. Department of Health, Education and Welfare has published FEDERAL FUNDS A N D SERVICES FOR THE ARTS. The 165 page brochure was compiled by Judith Gault and is available from the Supt. 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 programs of assistance to organizations; the latter are arranged by categories. A list of the 1967 federal grants and the Annual Fiscal Report is also included. The February issue of the USITT publication THEATRE DESIGN A N D TECHNOLOGY contains floor plans, photographs of models and an accompaning article on the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, now being built in Washington, D.C. The magazine is the official journal of the U.S. Institute of Theatre Technology and is published four times annually. 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 first convention of the Cultural Arts Commission of Kansas. Published by the University of Kansas at Wichita, the report is available for $3.95. The Business Committee on the Arts published its first newsletter in April, 1968, copies of which were mailed to the COS professional committee. Extra copies may be requested from BCA, P.M. Mesney, Editor, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York 10020. THE BCA NEWS is a quarterly publication. Recent music books include Lehman Engel's THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE: A

GONSI DERATION, CBS Legacy Collection, $15.00, and a new, revised edition of THE NEW MUSIC 1900-1960 by Aaron Copland, Norton Publishers, $5.50. Among the many book clubs, the MUSIC EDUCATORS' BOOK SOCIETY may be of special interest to our readers. Its first offer is David Ewen's The Complete Book of Classical Music, a 946 page reference work which retails at $14.95, for $2.99 for members. As with most book clubs, there is no membership fee and the Music Educator's Book Society also waives the condition of minimum annual purchases. Membership is open to professionals in music; for details write to MEBS, A. Stevens, Membership Director, P.O. Box 35X, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 07632.

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

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The National Semi-Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Auditions on March 29 established a new precedent, when at the end of the auditions, Rudolf Bing announced 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 has never happened that contracts were offered at the time of the Semi-Finals. But such was the case in March. Judith Forst, 24-year old mezzo-soprano from Vancouver, B.C. and William Cochran, also 24, a tenor from Philadelphia, will join the Metropolitan Opera roster for the 1968-69 season. Each also received a $2,000 study grant. Of the twenty-one semi-finalists a 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, from Memphis, 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.), Patricia Craig (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 the Metropolitan Opera Studio next year. Nine semi-finalists will compete on November 17 in the 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 competition.

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The Baltimore Civic Opera's annual auditions contest with the $1,000 Carling Brewing Company Award was won by 20-year old bass, James Morris. The Canadian Opera Women's Committee, Toronto, announced the following winners in the vocal category: sopranos Danielle Pilon and Margaret Zeidman, contralto Nancy Greenwood, tenors Ralph Oostwoud and Paul Trepanier, baritones Stephen Dahl, Peter Milne and Donald Rutherford. Stage direction and production awards went to James Colbeck, John Leberg and Ray Pierce. WGN and the Illinois Opera Guild Auditions of the Air announced the 1968 winners. First prize 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 City Opera contract in January. Winners of the 1968 National Arts Club prizes in voice were sopranp Joanne Mary Bruno and bass George Allan Reid. The Lucrezia Bori Foundation has announced its first two awards: $1,000 to bass-baritone Robert Termine of New York City, student at the Manhattan School of Music and winner of the 1967 Liederkranz Foundation award; $1,500 to the Third Street Music School Settlement of New York for scholarship aid. Mrs. Donna Carter, music major at the University of Georgia, won first prize in the south-east regional vocal competition of the American Guild of Organists, held in New Orleans. Shari Anderson, soprano, won the tenth annual "Joy in Singing" award and was presented 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 Hee Park from Korea.

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1967-68 SEASON (not previously listed) CALIFORNIA School of Performing Arts, W. Teutsch, dir., Opera, USIU, San Diego 2/6,7,9,10,11/68 Hansel and Gretel Eng. Bache San Fernando Valley State College, Opera Workshop, D. Scott, dir. 11-12/67 Orff s The Wise Woman and the King FLORIDA Florida State Univ., School of Music, Fine Arts Fest., Tallahassee 4/17,19/68 Olello Eng. Ducloux; Jeffrey; Tally-Schmidt, Collins; cond: Boda; dir: Fallon; des: Riddle/Vorce San Carlo Opera, N. Russo, dir., Tampa (West Palm Beach) 3/2/68 La Traviata Albanese; Barioni, Bardelli IDAHO Boise College Opera Workshop, G. Standing, dir., Boise 3/30,31/68 Captain Lovelock & The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ILLINOIS Apollo Opera Co., Civic Opera House, Chicago 1/21/68 Lucia di Lammermoor Anagnostou; Dionori, Magnuson Bradley University Opera Workshop, E. Blanchard, dir., Peoria 3/22,23/68 Gallantry & scenes from Carmen Northern Illinois University Opera Workshop, E. Smith, dir. I 2/67 Telemann's Pimpinone Northwestern University. Music School. G. Howerton, Dean, Evanston 5/68 Henze's 1-act/l Country Doctor Eng. Balk, Am. prem. (see 1/68 Blltn.) INDIANA Indiana University, Fort Wayne 4/68 Madama Butterfly dir: Busch IOWA Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, H. Denecke 67-68 The Barber of Seville Eng. (prod: Turnau Opera) Drake University Opera Theatre, M. Hall, Des Moines I1 /67 The Night Bell & Slow Dusk w.p. Simpson College, Opera Workshop, R. Larsen, dir., Indianola 10/26,27,29/67 Sister Angelica & scenes 2/9,10,11/68 The Consul 5/5/68 6/1/68 Operatic scenes, Stuart, Goodloe, Riegel, Roche University of Iowa, H. Stark, dir., Opera Workshop, Iowa City 12/8/67 Henze's The Miracle Theatre, Eng. Balk; Am. prem. & Johnson's Escorial 12/7/67 Operatic Scenes 2/28,29 3/ 1,2/68 La Traviata LOUISIANA Opera Guild, University of Southwestern La., G.S.B. Griffin dir., Lafayette 1 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 MASSACHUSETTS American National Opera Company, S. Caldwell, dir., tour Albuquerque: 3/16/68 Carmen, 3/17/68 Tosca Tempe: 3/20/68 Tosca. 3/21/68 The Rake's Progress. 3/22/68 Carmen Los 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 The Rake's Progress. 4/3/68 Tosca. 4/6/68 Carmen San Diego: 4/4,5/68 The Rake's Progress

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Boston Conservatory of Music, J. F. Stuart, dir., Opera 3/19,20,22,23/68 // Tabarro & Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi Opera Company of Boston, S. Caldwell, dir. 2/11/68 Tosca Bower; Arbizu, Fourie 2/23/68 Lulu Budd; Koehn, Gramm 2/27,29 3/2/68 Carmen Home; cond: Lewis 3/9,11,13/68 La Traviata Sutherland 3/12/68 Falslaff Bower, Bogard, Alberts, Simon, Peterson, Vrenios MINNESOTA College of St. Benedict, Music Dept., Sister Juettner, dir. St. Joseph 67-68 The Marriage of Figaro w.p. and harpsichord Moorhead State College Opera Singers, E. Harris, dir., Moorhead 67-68 Orpheus ed Euridice, The Music Master, Cosi/an tutte St. Paul Opera Workshop, M. Metzger, founder-dir. 67-68 Carmen w.p. and organ University of Minnesota Opera Workshop, P. Knowles, dir. Minneapolis 67-68 Don Pasquale 3 pfs. MISSOURI Central Missouri State College Opera Theatre, D. Scott, dir., Warrensburg 12/67 Searle's The Diary of a Madman Kansas City Performing Arts Foundation, L. Kelly, dir. 5/17,19,21/68 Medea Olivero; Prevedi; cond: Rescigno Washington University Opera Studio, H. Blumenfeld, dir., St. Louis 4/21,22/68 Bucci's The Hero (see 1/68 Blltn.) 67-68 tour Rita NEBRASKA University of Omaha Opera Theatre R. Ruetz, dir., Omaha 1/68/4cis and Galatea 2/9,10,14,28/68 // 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 HAMPSHIRE University of New Hampshire, Durham 5/26/68 Handel's Saul w. Brooklyn College Fest. Chorus; cond: Kickok NEW YORK Rochester Philharmonic Orch., L. Somogyi, dir. 3/30/68 Orpheus and Euridice Eng. Sarfaty; dir: Treash; des: Wightman State University College Opera Theatre, Mary Wallace, dir., Fred on i a 11/17,18/67 Hello Out There & Sweet Betsy from Pike 3/6,7,8,9/68 Falstaff Eng. Ducloux 4/2,6,27/68 Opera Scenes NEW YORK CITY Alfred E. Smith Center, 163 W. 97th Street, de Leeuw, dir. 4/17/68 III act Siegfried cone. pf. Pazdera, Rice, Johnson; Sedrel Blue Hill Troupe, Hunter College Playhouse, CD. Walker, dir. 4/17-20/68 Ruddigore Brooklyn 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. Rich

5/25,28/68 Symphony cone, soloists Met. Op. Natl. Council Audition winners: Johnson, Pracht Dell'Orefice Opera Workshop, Bronx River Neighborhood Center

2/23/68 Rigofetto 3/30/68 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 Traviata 1/17 2/28 5/1/68 Operatic Scenes 3/27 4/10/68 Die Fledermaus (April pf. at Donnell Library) 5/11,25,26/68 La Botieme Ford ham University, Collins Audit., Bronx Campus

3/29/68 The Marriage of Figaro Hunter College Opera Workshop, W. Tarrasch, dir.

5/1,2/68 La Finta Giardiniera Inwood Chamber Opera Players, S. Edelman, dir., Brooklyn

4/19 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: Strasfogel Mannes 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, Tosca 4/29-5/4/68 Cleveland, Public Audit. Carmen, Luisa Miller. Romeo et Juliette, La Forza del destino, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze di Figaro, Tosca 5/6-11 /68 Atlanta, Fox Theatre, Carmen, Romeo et Juliette. La Forza del destino, Luisa Miller, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozzi di Figaro, Tosca 5/13-18/68 Minneapolis, Northrop Memorial Audit. Carmen, Luisa Miller, Romeo et Juliette, La Forza del destino, Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze di Figaro, Tosca 5/20-25/68 Detroit Masonic Temple Carmen, Romeo et Juliette, La Forza del destino. Luisa Miller. Madama Butterfly, Le Nozzedi Figaro. Tosca 5/27-6/1/68 Philadelphia, Civic Audit. Carmen, Romeo el Juliette, La Forza del destino, Luisa Miller. Madama Butterfly, Le Nozze di Figaro, Tosca 6/3-5/68 Memphis, Municipal Audit. Carmen, Romeo et Juliette, La Forza del destino 6/6-8/68 Dallas, Fair Park Audit. Carmen, Romio et Juliette, La Forza del destino, Luisa Miller Metropolitan Opera Studio, Library-Museum, Lincoln Center, J. Gutman, dir.

3/26/68 excerpts from Schubert operas, Robinson, Blanchard, Wildes; West, Murray 4/68 The Barber of Seville w. orch: tour (Dayton, Ohio, New Paltz, N.Y.) New York Bible Society at Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center

4/7/68 Hines' / Am The Way Evangelista, Casei; Hines New York City Opera Gilbert & Sullivan Co., F. Popper, art. dir., W. 55 St.

first pf. dates only 4/27/68 H.M.S. Pinafore 5/1/68 The Mikado 5/8/68 The Yeomen of the Guard 5\j'15/68 Patience New York State Opera Society, Inc., C. Yost, gen. mgr.

10/22/67 Aida at Palm Gardens 3/17/68 // Trovatore at Community Center W. 89th St. Queens Opera Association, Inc., Francis Lewis Audit., Flushing

5/25/68 Die Fledermaus Eng. Randazzo, Matisse; Bender; cond: Saffir Ruffino Opera, Provincetown Playhouse

2/ 18,24 3/1/68 Carmen 2/23,25/68 L'Elisir d'amore 3/2,3/68 Faust 3/8/68 Falstaff (al Cooper Union) 3/10,23,24/68 La Boheme 3/10/68 Lucia di Lammermoor 3/15/68 La Traviata — 15 —

3/17/68 Norma 3/30,31 /68 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci 4/13/68 // TrovatDre (Fashion Inst.) 5/6,20/68 The Marriage of Figaro 5/13/68 Tosca 6/22/68 The Magic Flute (Fashion Inst.)

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Salmaggi Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music 5/4/68 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci cond: Fiore Village Light Opera Group, Fashion Institute 4/27 5/3,4/68 Ruddigore Washington National Symphony, Philharmonic Hall 4/14/68 Parsifal cone. pf. (Act I & III) Thomas, Uppman, Smith; cond: Mitchell The Yeh Yu Chinese Opera, Fashion Institute 3/23/68 excerpts Five Flower Cave & A Phoenix Returns to Her Nest NORTH CAROLINA North Carolina School of the Arts, R. Ward, pres., Winston-Salem 5/9,10/68 Keith Gate's Migle and the Bugs (student prod.) & Gianni Schicchi University of North Carolina at Greensboro, R. Sander, dir. Opera Theatre 11/21/67 Burge's Intervals 4/5,7/68 The Magic Flute OHIO Cincinnati Symphony, M. Rudolf, art. dir. 4/7/68 // Malrimonio segreto Tajo; des; Armstrong Oberlin College Opera Theatre, conds: Baustian, Moore 3/14,16/68 Gianni Schicchi & Berio's Passaggio, Mandac PENNSYLVANIA Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Opera Workshop, R. Fellner, dir., Pittsburgh 4/24,26,27/68 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: Conlin State tour, 12 pfs., sponsored Md. Arts Council Rittenhouse Opera Society, M. Farnese, art. dir., Philadelphia 1/18,19,20 3/3/68 Luisa Miller at St. Jos. Col., Forman 2/22,23,25/'68 The Devil and Daniel Webster &. Gianni Schicchi 3/28/68 Pagliacci 4/21/68 Cavalleria Rusticana at Phila. Civic Center 5/2,3,4/68 Cosifan tutte Eng. SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston Opera Company 2/23,24 3/1,2/68 Game of Chance & The Old Maid and the Thief SOUTH DAKOTA Northern State Teachers College, J. Berggren, chmn. Music Dept., Aberdeen 67-68 Wolf-Ferrari's Susanne's Secret w.p., also musical comedy TENNESSEE Memphis Opera Theatre, M. Stone, mgr. 2/29 3/2/68 Die Fledermaus TEXAS Texas Christian Univ., Opera Dept., F. Berens, dir., Fort Worth 4/26,27/68 Cosifan tutte Eng. Martin WISCONSIN Florentine Opera Company, J. Anello, dir., Milwaukee 11/67 Tales of Hoffmann 2/9,10/68 Rigoletto Hurley; Vrenios, Walker 4/5/68 La Bohime Mantaloo, Armstrong; Barioni, Noel Wisconsin State Univ., Carol Kelly, dir., Superior 67-68 // Tabarro (also oratorio and musical comedy) Madison Civic Opera, R. Johnson, with Madison Symphony 67-68 Die Fledermaus (6 pfs.), Hansel and Gretel (3 pfs.), Jumping Frog, (3 pfs.) 16

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CANADA Canadian Opera Company, tour, H. Geiger-Torel, dir., Toronto 2-3/68 Don Pasquale Eng. Mead 4-5/68 The Old Maid and the Thief Moorehead State College, Music Dept. & Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Winnipeg 1 /7,9/68 Orpheus and Euridice Studio Children's Theatre at Toronto Workshop Prod. 67-68 Hansel and Gretel Vancouver Women's Music Club & UBC Opera Workshop 4/68 In a Garden & There and Back

PERFORMANCE LISTING, SUMMER 1968 ALASKA Anchorage Festival of Music, R. Shaw, dir. 6/8-21/68 Cosifan tutte, II Matrimonio segreto (prod. U.C.L.A.) ARKANSAS Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, Inc., Eureka Springs 7/18-27/68 La Traviata, Cosifan tutte, Ten Maidens and No Men, Humel's The Proposal & Down in the Valley So. III. Univ., Opera Workshop, Marjorie Lawrence, dir., Hot Springs 7-8/68 Summer Opera Workshop CALIFORNIA Cabrillo Music Festival, G. Samuel, dir., Aptos 8/16-25/68 program not available Carmel Summer Festival, S. Salgo, dir. 7/19-28/68 Bach Festival The Hollywood Bowl Festival, Los Angeles 7/9-9/7/68 concerts Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; L.A. Philharmonic, Z. Mehta Music Academy of the West, M. Abravanel, dir., Santa Barbara 7/9-8/24/68 The Marriage of Figaro Music at the Vineyards, N. Fromm, dir., Saratoga 6/22-8/25/68 Chamber Music, Camilla Williams Music for Summer Evenings at San Diego Open-Air Theatre 7/12-8/17/68 six concerts by San Diego Symphony Orchestra Ojai Festival, L. Morton, dir. 5/24-26/68 program not available Redlands Bowl Festival 7/26,27/68 The Mikado 8/16/68 The Barber of Seville COLORADO Aspen Music Festival, Opera Workshop, E. Nagy, dir. 8/1,2,3/68 La Boheme 8/15,17/68 Walton's The Bear V.H. prem & Henze's The Country Doctor Central City Festival, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 6/22-8/3/68 The Mikado, lolanthe, The Pirates of Penzance, The Yeomen of the Guard, H.M.S. Pinafore CONNECTICUT Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk 6/30-8/25/68 program not available

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Summer 1968 cont.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA New York Opera Festival, Carter Barren Amphitheatre, Washington, Salmaggi prod. 7/29-8/4/68 program not available FLORIDA Florida International Festival, Daytona Beach 7/18-8/11 /68 London Symphony, cond: Previn HAWAII Honolulu Symphony Society, Starlight Concerts, R. La Marchina, mus. dir. 7/6-9/14/68 summer festival 8/17/68 Italian Opera Highlights E. Mandac, Ch. Davis (Met. Natl. Council winners), D. Peterson, R. Allen ILLINOIS Grant Park Concerts, Chicago 7/6,7/68 Carmen 7/20,21/68 LaBoheme 8/3,4/68 La Rondine 8/10,11 /68 Andrea Che'nier 8/24,25/68 La Traviata Ravinia Park Festival, S. Ozawa, dir. 6/27-8/18/68 Chicago Symphony INDIANA University of Indiana, Summer Festival, Bloomington 7/27,31 8/3/68 Die Meistersinger von Nilrnberg Eng. MARYLAND Harford Theatre Assn., Bel Air 6/27-30 7/5-8/68 H.M.S. Pinafore 7/1 1-14,18-21/68 R.S.V.P. & Gianni Schicchi 7/25-28 8/1-4/68 The Magic Flute 8/8-12, 15-18/68 The Telephone & The Medium 8/22-25, 29-9/ I /68 The Three Penny Opera Merriweather Post Pavilion of Music, Columbia 6-9/68 Washington National Symphony, H. Mitchell, cond. MASSACHUSETTS Berkshire Music Festival, Tangelwood, Lenox (6/30-8/25/68) 8/17/68 Berlioz' Romeo el Juliette cond; Munch; Elias; Siena, Tozzi Summer School of the New England Conservatory, Castle Hill, Ipswich 6/23-8/17/68 Opera Workshop, Th. Philips, dir. Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Falmouth 7/2-6/68 The Gondoliers 7/9-13/68 The Merry Widow 1116-20/68 Ruddigore 7/23-27/68 La Perichole 7/30-8/3/68 The Pirates of Penzance 8/6-10/68 H.M.S. Pinafore 8/13-17/68 Trouble in Tahiti & The Devil and Daniel Webster 8/20-24/68 The Yeomen of the Guard MICHIGAN Meadow Brook Music Festival, S. Ehrling, dir., School of Music, J. Levine, Rochester 8/7/68 Rigoletto Peters; Peerce, MacNeil, Flagello National Music Camp, Interlochen 6/23-8/19/68 program not available, opera included 7/10-13/68 opera lectures, B. Goldovsky

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Summer 1968 com.

MISSOURI St. Louis Opera Theatre - on Mississippi River Showboat June '68 The Telephone & The Medium June '68 The Abduction from the Seraglio Washington University Quadrangle, St. Louis 7/8/68 Taiw/, The Magic Flute, Uianni Schicchi & Pagliacci NEW HAMPSHIRE Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover 7-8/68 Ginastera, Bentzen, Blackwell, composers; dir: di Bonaventura New Hampshire Music Festival, Center Harbor 7/11 -8/15/68 program not available NEW JERSEY Garden State Arts Center, (5,000 seats) Woodbridge Telegraph Hill Pk. 6/13,15/68 opening Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy, Van Cliburn, also City 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 MEXICO Santa Fe Opera, J. Crosby, gen. dir. all new productions 7/2,6,12 8/15,21,24/68 Madama Butterfly cond: Crosby, dir: Zorina; des: Ter-Arutunian 7/5,10,20 8/3/68 The Magic Flute Eng. cond: Baustian; dir: Hebert; des: Rehling/Kim 7/13,17 8/2,8,22/68 La Traviata cond: Crosby; dir: Mansouri; des: O'Hearn 7/19,24,27 8/17,23/68 The Elixir of Love Eng. cond: Baustian; dir: Lockwood; des: Mariani/George 7/26,31 8/10/68 Der Rosenkavalier cond: Crosby; dir: Mansouri; des: Jannpolis/Campbell 8/7,9/68 The Bassarids Am prem., Eng. cond: Henze; dir: Henze; des: TerArutunian/Georee 8/14,16/68 Schonberg's Jakobsleiter Am. prem. & Persephone cond: Baustian; dir: Igesz/Zorina, des: Ter-Arutunian/Jannpolis/George artists: 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 YORK Caramoor Festival, J. Rudel, art dir., Katonah (6/16-7/7/68) 6/22,28/68 L'Incoronazionedi Poppea Raskin, Elgar, Bible; Valetti, Malas Chautauqua Opera Association, L. Treash, dir. 7/5,8/68 H.M.S. Pinafore 7/12,15/68 La Traviata 7/19,22/68 // Tabarro & Gianni Schicchi 7/26,29/68 The Tales of Hoffmann 8/2,5/68 Susannah S/9M/6S Don Giovanni 8/16,19/68 Kiss Me Kate Artists: Castle, Dornya, Godfrey, Kaufmann, Thomson; Barker, DiVirgilio, Goeke, Harvuot, Kness, Price, Pliska, Shinall, White mus. dir: Whallon, ass't. mus. dir.: Woitach; asst. stg. dir.: Cowden; des: Struthers Lake George Opera Festival, D. Lloyd, gen. dir., Glens Falls 7/13,19,21,23 8/8,16,24/68 Rossini's Otello new Eng. trans.: Martha W. England; Bible, Baldwin; Boyll, Lloyd 7/18,20,26,28,30 8/7,10,22/68 The Merry Wives of Windsor 7/25,27 8/2,13,18,21/68 Romeo and Juliet 8/1,3,6,9,11/68 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 School

7/6/68 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., Rochester

6/27,29/68 La Traviata 7/11,13/68 The Marriage of Figaro &/\,3/6SLaBoheme assoc. stg. dir: Murray; des: Struthers Saratoga 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., Woodstock

July-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, Purchase

7/1-27/68 Concerts and one opera at Manhattanville College NEW YORK CITY Lincoln 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: Visconti 7/ 1,3,5,6/68 / Due Foscari Maragliano, Cioni, Zanasi; cond: Bartoletti 6/25,28 7/2/68 Rossini's Otello Zeani, Bottion; cond: Franci Metropolitan Opera Summer Concerts in the Parks

6/11,14,18,21,28/68 Carmen Elias/Resnik, Fenn/Pracht; Corelli/Morell/ Olvis, Diaz/Merrill; cond: Lombard/Senick 6/12,15,19,22,26/68 Faust Fenn/Tucci, Baldwin; Peerce/Alexander/Morell; Diaz/Hines/Tozzi; cond: Adler 6/25,29/68 Samson et Dalila Warfield; McCracken Opera in the Park, Central Park Mall (see also Met. Opera)

6-7/68 Five performances by La Puma Workshop 9/2/68 Naumburg Concert opera perf. to be announced NORTH CAROLINA Brevard Music Festival, H. Janiec, dir.

7/5-8/18/68 The Telephone & The Medium Samson and Dalila Eastern Music Festival and Camp, Greensboro

6/20-8/2/68 at Guilford College; program not available OHIO Blossom Music Center, G. Szell, dir.

7/19-9/1/68 Cleveland Orchestra, cond: Munch, Steinberg, Shaw,Copeland, Ancerl, Lane Cincinnati May Festival, M. Rudolf, dir.

5/17-25/68 Cincinnati Symphony, cond: Rudolf, Ormandy Cincinnati Summer Opera, S. Orwoll, mgr.

6/26,29/68 // Trovatore Lang, Smith; Tucker, Polokoff 6/28,30/68 Elixir of Love* Eng. Clements; Foldi, Kolk, Patrick 7/3,6/68 Madama Butterfly Weathers, Williams; Bullard, Keenon 7/5,7/68 Manon Fenn; Campora, Patrick 7/10,13/68 Salome Weathers, Lang; Rayson, Stark 7/12,14/68 Don Pasquale Peters; Guarrera, Tajo, Riegel 7/17,20/68 Lucia di Lammermoor* Sills; Alexander, Cossa, Moscona 7/19,21/68 Carmen Dunn, Cooper; Domingo, Guarrera 7/24,27/68 La Traviata Moffo; Alexander, Cossa 7/26,28/68 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng. Sills, Williams; Domingo, Treigle, Castel * - new production — 20 —

Summer 1968 cont.

Oberlin College Summer Festival, Oberlin (also see Falmouth, Mass.) 7/8-8/3/68 program not available Ohio State University Opera Workshop, P. Hickfang, dir., Columbus 7/8-20/68 Summer Workshop, B. Goldovsky, guest. PENNSYLVANIA Ambler Music Festival and Institute, Temple University, Ambler 6/26-8/24/68 Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia, Opera Workshop, etc. Robin Hood Dell Concerts, F. R. Mann, pres., Philadelphia 6/17-7/25/68 Philadelphia Orchestra TENNESSEE Sewanee Summer Music Center 6/23-7/28/68 7/25-28/68 Music Festival VERMONT Marlboro Music School and Festival, R. Serkin, dir. 6/24-8/18/68 Chamber Music VIRGINIA Reston Music Center, Reston 6/30-8/24/68 program not available WASHINGTON Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society, G.G. Gutteridge, dir. 7/11-13 8/18-20/68 The Pirates of Penzance at Center Playhouse WEST VIRGINIA Oglebay Institute and Festival, Wheeling-Oglebay 8/5-9/1/68 Boris Goldovsky Opera Workshop 8/23/68 Cosifan tulle WISCONSIN Peninsula Music Festival, Fish Creek 8/10-25/68 program not available CANADA Banff School of Fine Arts, Opera Division, E. Vinci, dir. Alberta 7/3-8/12/68 Madama Butterfly, Riders to the Sea & excerpts Ballad of Baby Doe Jeunesse Musicales, MJ. Orford, Que. 8/68 Landowski's Opera de Poussiere Am. prem. Montreal Symphony Orchestra 7/3,8,10/68 Andrea Chenier Stratford Festival, Ontario 7/6-8/10/68 Rossini's Cinderella 17 pfs., Eng. Jacob; Kern; Pellerin, Savoie; cond: Smith; dir: Campbell; des: Hurry Vancouver Summer Festival, G. Hilker, gen. mgr., Vancouver, B.C. 7/15-23/68 Rosalinda Fenn ITALY Festival 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 CALIFORNIA San Diego Opera Company, W. Herbert, art dir.

10/14+, 15+, 17,19/68 Rigoietto Elgar; Glossop 11/12+ 14,16/68 La Boheme Venora 4/21+, 22+,24,26/68 Don Quixote Treigle; des: Klein

+ = student matinee

San Francisco Opera Co., War Memorial Opera House, K.H.Adler, gen. dir.

9/13,18,22+,28/68 Ernani* Price; Cioni, Glossop, Flagello, Nadler, Glover 9/14,17,20,25,29+/68 // Barbiere di Siviglia Berganza, Cervena; Wixell, Bottazzo, Evans, Rossi-Lemeni, Monk 9/15+,21,24/68 Les Troyens Crespin, Lilova, Anderson; Chauvet, Berberian, Grant, Serbo, Khanzadian 9/27 10/1,9,12/68 Die Walkure* Kniplova, Crespin, Lilova; Thomas, Hofmann, Wildermann 10/4,19,27+ 11/29/68 Madama Butterfly Pilou, Anderson; di Virgilio, Wixell, Crofoot. Grant. Fried 10/5,8.13+/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; Khanzadian, 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, Khanzadian 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 Virgilio 11/8,12,17+,20,23/68 Don Giovanni Tarre's, Zylis-Gara, Pilou; Siepi, Trama, Holley, Mazura, Monk 11/15,19,24+,27,30/68 Turandot Shuard, Marsh; Spiess, Berberian, Wixell, Manton, Crofoot 11/22,26 12/1+/68 Fra Diavolo* Costa, Anderson; Gedda, Beattie, Khanzadian; cond: Bernardi. Faldi, Ludwie. G. Patane. Perisson. Schuller. Stein; dirs:. Eberman, Erlo, Farruggio, G. Hager, P. Hager, Mansouri, Rott, Yannopoulos + = new productions FLORIDA Opera Guild of Greater Miami, A. di Filippi, mgr: E. Buckley, mus. dir.

l/20,22+,25/69 La Gioconda Bjoner, Davidson, Casei; Tucker, Ludgin, Vokataitis 2/17,19+,22/69 Faust Pilou, Creed; Labo, Treigle, Walker 3/17,19+,22/69 La Forza del destino Gencer; Prevedi, Ausensi, Raimondi, Foldi; at Dade County Audit; except + at Miami Beach Audit. ILLINOIS Chicago Lyric Opera. Carol Fox. een. mgr.. 20 N. Wacker Drive

9/30 10/4,9,12/68 Salome Weathers, Varnay; Kieffer, Hopf, Theyard, Malone, Lorenzi, Fitch, Walker, Voketaitis, West; cond: Bartoletti 10/2,5,7,14,18,23/68 Norma Suliotis, Cossotto; Kieffer, Cecchele, Malone, Vinco; cond: Sanzogno 10/11.16,19,25,28/68 Tosca Stella; Kieffer, Cioni, Lorenzi, Guelfi, Voketaitis, Van Ginkel, Izzo, Smith; cond: Bartoletti 10/21,26,30 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, Garaventa, 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, Lorenzi, Andreolli, Rinaldi, Badioli, Izzo, Combs; cond: Bartoletti 12/4,7,9,13/68 Don Pasquale Grist, Kraus, Bruscantini, Badioli, Izzo; cond: Bartoletti — 22 —

1967-68 cont.

Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, State's Sesquicentennial 11 /68 Nixon's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky prem. So. Illinois University School of Music, State's Sesquicentennial, Carbondale 11/68 Bottje's Reviled Patriot prem. MINNESOTA Duluth Symphony Orchestra, J. Hawthorne, mus..dir. 9/68 La Traviata NEW YORK CITY Little 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. Herbert 2/25/69 L'Enfant et lessortileges & archy andmehitable w. Pickwick Puppet Theatre, J. Simon; narr: Henry Morgan; st. dir: N. Walker 4/22/69 Strauss' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme new adapt, (w. original version of Ariadne auf Naxos) Kuchta 12/17/68,1/21/69,3/11/69 Orchestral Concerts Metropolitan Opera Association, R. Bing, gen. mgr., Lincoln Center Plaza 9/16/68-4/19/69 Adriana Lecouvreur, II Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, Don Carlo, Don Giovanni, Faust, Die Frau ohne Schatten, La Boh erne. La Sonnambula. Die Meistersinger, Peter Grimes, Das Rheingold*. Rigoletto, Romeo et Juliette, Der RosenkavaHer*, Simon Boccanegra, Tosca*. II Trovatore*. Turandot, Die Walkure.Wozzeck * - new production dates and artists will be listed in 9-10/68 Blltn. TEXAS Dallas Civic Opera L. Kelly, gen. dir. 11 /3,8,10/68 Orpheus in the Underworld Sciutti; Poretta 11/15,18/68 Otello de Los Angeles, Vickers, Zanasi 11/22,24,27/68 Donizetti's Anna Bolena Suliotis, Casoni; Tagliavini, Flagello, Fort Worth Opera Assn., R. Kruger, gen. dir. 11/22,24/68 La Traviata 1/17,19/69 Don Pasquale 3/7,9/69 Turandot 4/18,20/69 Romeo et Juliette Houston Grand Opera, W. Herbert, art dir. 10/29 11/1,3/68 La Boheme Stratas; Cossutto 12/10,13,15/68 Salome Weathers; Sergi 1/7,10,12/69 The Barber of Seville Elgar; Milnes, Tyl 2/4,7,9/69 Don Carlos Kabaivanska; Domingo, Saciuk, Meliciani; dir: Frusca 5/6,9,11/69 Massenet's Don Quixote Casei; Treigle, Foldi WASHINGTON Seattle Opera Assn., G. Ross, dir. 9/11,14,18,21/68 Aida Lee, Cossotto; Vinco;cond: Katims; dir: Frusca 11/13,16,20,23/68 Andrea Chenier Corelli; cond: Guadagno 1 /22,25,29 2/1/69 Der Rosenkavalier Crespin, Sarfaty; Langdon; cond: Schick 3/19,22,26,29/69 Tosca Kirsten: MacNeil; cond: Katims 4/23,26,30 5/3/69 L'Elisird'amore Costa CANADA Canadian 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/Day 9/16,20,24/68 LouisRiel cond: Feldbrill; dir: Major; des: Laufer/Day 9/21,26 10/2,4,8,12/68 Tosca cond: Barbini; dir: Major 9/23,28 10/3,5,9,11/68 La Bohlme cond: Craig; dir: Fisher; des: Day/Hartman 9/25,27,30 10/12/68 Salome cond: Krachmalnik; dir: Geiger-Torel; des: Jackson/Mess artists include: Brooks, Kouba, Krilovici, Lacambra, Lane, Piercey, Rideout, 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: Lewis 2/20,22,25,27 3/1,4/69 Faust Thomson; Molese, Cross 5/1,3,6,8,10,13/69 Manon Brooks; Domingo, Savoie

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