CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN MAY-JUNE, 1969

TENTH NATIONAL COS CONFERENCE — OCTOBER 9, 10, 11, 1969 — MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

INDEX NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

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GREATER EFFICIENCY, MORE MONEY

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NEW THEATRES

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A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE

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MORE SUMMER WORKSHOPS

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BOOK CORNER

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MANUSCRIPTS AND PUBLISHED WORKS

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PUBLICITY COMPETITIONS AND WINNERS

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APPOINTMENTS

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NEW COS MEMBERS

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1968-69 cont.

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, Summer 1969 ( U . S . )

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, Summer 1969 (Foreign)

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FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1969-70

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE COMMITTEE ROBERT L. B. TOBIN, National Chairman GEORGE HOWERTON, National Vice-Chairman National Council Directors MRS. AUGUST BELMONT MRS. FRANK W. BOWMAN MRS. LYLE H. FISHER E. H. CORRIGAN, JR. HOWARD J. HOOK, JR. MRS. NORRIS DARRELL EL1HU M. HYNDMAN Professional Committee JULIUS RUDEL, Chairman New York City Opera 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 BAUSTIAN MME. ROSE PALMAI-TENSER Santa Fe Opera Mobile Opera Guild MORITZ BOMHARD RUSSELL D. PATTERSON Kentucky Opera Kansas City Lyric Theater JOHN BROWNLEE MRS. JOHN DEWITT PELTZ Manhattan School of Music Metropolitan Opera STANLEY CHAPPLE GEORGE SCHICK University of Washington Metropolitan Opera EUGENE CONLEY MARK SCHUBART No. Texas State Univ. Lincoln Center WALTER DUCLOUX MRS. L. S. STEMMONS University of Texas Dallas Civic Opera PETER PAUL FUCHS LEONARD TREASH Louisiana State University Eastman School of Music ROBERT GAY LUCAS UNDERWOOD Northwestern University University of the Pacific BORIS GOLDOVSKY GIDEON WALDROP Goldovsky Opera Theatre Juilliard School of Music WALTER HERBERT MRS. J. P. WALLACE Houston Grand Opera Shreveoort Civic Opera LUDWIG ZIRNER ' University of Illinois

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May-June, 1969

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES AMERICAN OPERAS Pop, rock, multi-media, and light shows have all started to leave their mark on opera. Among the recently announced new productions conceived in these new media is LONG HAIR?, a Festival Production performed by the Kansas City Performing Arts Foundation on May 16. It consisted of three parts. The first was Rossini's one-act opera, The Marriage Contract, up-datedly taking place in "hippie 20th century"; the second was a semi-abstract ballet entitled Love-In, combining classic and rock dance and music. The last part of the evening, entitled Concert Divertimento, combined all elements of the aforementioned: classic music with rock accompaniment, opera and folk-rock singers, and dance which included excerpts from Hair. The major uniting force of the evening was Ellis Raab, founder and artistic director of New York's APA Repertory Company; soloists in the Rossini opera included Graziella Sciutti, Sesto Bruscantini and Upo Benelli and in the Concert Divertimento Teresa Zylis-Gara and folk-singer Odetta. Two days later a multi-media production erupted in Seattle, coincidentally also made up of three different parts. The evening, sponsored by the Allied Arts of Seattle, Inc. and presented by the Seattle Opera Assn. under the title THE LIVELY ARTS, featured not only instrumental and vocal music and dance, but also sculpture and lights. Mantra, the curtain-raiser, had a jazz-rock score by Peter Phillips which accompanied three singers, six dancers choreographed by Mary Staton, a light show conceived by the Retina Circus, and sculpture by Doris Chase. The second part, Entre nous, was created in a chamber mood for two dancers and three instrumentalists, while the finale, Sinfonietta Opus 1, employed six dancers, an original film by Robert Brown and Frank Olvey, and the Retina Circus' structural light sculpture referred to as "light painting". Last but not least, it featured music by Benjamin Britten. Edward Gorey's bizarre story, THE WILLOWDALE HANDCAR or THE RETURN OF THE BLACK DOLL, was set to music by Frank Wigglesworth, professor of music at New York's New School for Social Research, where the one-act opera was premiered in May. Replacing the conventional set, the production featured the strong, original drawings by Gorey projected onto a screen; the singers were costumed. Overton's The Enchanted Pear Tree and Blitzstein's Triple Sec were also performed on this triple bill. The two creators of the rock opera, CRESSIDA, have all the proper credentials for their respective jobs: Gait MacDermot is the composer of the Broadway hit Hair, and Joseph Papp is the producer/director of New York's Shakespeare Festival. The latter will create the libretto, adapted from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. The rock opera/musical is slated for production next season at Mr. Papp's non-profit "Public Theatre" in downtown Manhattan, where Hair was first shown. The Center Opera Company offers for persual the score, a tape recording and photos of the recently premiered opera, HORSPFAL, by Eric Stokes. Parties considering a production of the work should contact COC, John Ludwig, Mng. Dir., 803 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 55403, or the composer, c/o Music Department, U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455. — 1—

Cincinnati must have a special spot in its heart for Robert Browning's Pied Piper of Hamelin. During the May Festival the Cincinnati Symphony premiered Peter Mennin's Pied Piper written especially for the orchestra. We now learn of a commission by the Ohio Music Education Assn. to Jean Berger to write a one-hour opera also based on the Browning poem. It will be performed in Cincinnati during the May 1970 Festival. Errata Siegmeister's THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS mentioned in the 3/69 Blltn. as having been premiered by St. Louis' Washington University in 1963 actually had its premiere at Louisiana State University in March of this year. The St. Louis performance was of Dublin Song, an earlier work, which is only slightly related to the new opera.

OPERAS BY AND/OR FOR YOUTH W. H. Auden has written an operatic text based on the French medieval legend and Anatole France's story of Le Jongleur de Notre Dame. Its form is that of a medieval play with musical numbers connected by narration, its title is THE BALLAD OF BARNABY. Mr. Auden wrote it for the Wykeham Rise School, a girl's school in Washington, Conn., where the poet's friend, Charles Turner, is music director. Subsequently, Mr. Turner assigned ten students to write the music under his supervision. The first performance of this originally conceived forty-minute "playe" took place at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, Conn, on May 23 with the composers participating. The style of the work is somewhat reminiscent of The Play of Daniel for which Mr. Auden also wrote the narration and of its sequel, The Play of Herod, for which Archibald MacLeish recently wrote a narration. Medieval France is the background also for the Ethel Leginska-Mark Twain opera, JOAN OF ARC, premiered on May 10 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre by the new Los Angeles Lyric Opera (Irwin Parnes, general director, Bogidar Avramov, conductor). The score is founded on authentic, medieval French melodies which were researched by Clara Gabrilowich, Mark Twain's daughter. The Blessed Sacrament Boys Choir was engaged for the performance. HUMPTY DUMPTY is a forty-minute opera, which was performed by young people for young people at the Music Festival of Coventry, England, on March 29. The opera is by composer Richard Rodney Bennett with a libretto by Beverly Cross, the same team that concocted The Mines of Sulphur. The children's opera is set against a British historical background (Cromwell) and according to Opera contains many "singable, rhythmic tunes". It also features a youth brass band. Judith Vander (Mrs. Arthur) of Ann Arbor, Michigan, notifies us of her new children's opera THE SNOW QUEEN based on the Anderson fairy tale. It is written for six singers, five dancers and four actors, scored for chamber orchestra and plays 45 minutes. For further information contact the composer at 2303 Walter Drive. AMERICAN PREMIERES The first American performance of Roger Sessions' MONTEZUMA, scheduled for May by the Boston Opera Company, has been postponed until October 19. Gunther Schuller will conduct, Sarah Caldwell will stage the work; Oliver Smith designed the sets and costumes which were unveiled in Boston last month. The cast will include Carol Bogard, Donald Gramm, Salvador Novoa, Jaroslav Kachel and Simon Estes. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, A Morality in Prologue, Four Acts and Epilogue by Ralph Vaughn Williams, had its first American performance on April 28 in Provo, Utah. Produced by Brigham Young University's Opera Workshop, this religiously allegorical opera is based on John Bunyan's novel by the same name written in 1675. The opera had its world premiere in 1951 at The Royal Opera in London. 2

The Newport Music Festival will feature the American premiere of Pauline Viardot-Garzia's CENDRILLON on August 7, a performance believed to be the first public one anywhere. The score of the salon opera was found recently in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It features eight singers, accompanied by piano and percussion. Mile. Viardot-Garcia, known primarily as a concert and opera singer, created a number of mezzo-soprano roles in premieres of operas by Meyerbeer and Gounod. FOREIGN OPERATIC PREMIERES Daniel Lesur's ANDREA DEL SARTO (see 5/66 Blltn.) was premiered at the Marseille (France) Opera on January 24 with Andre Turp, Gabriel Bacquier and Andree Esposito in the leading roles. — Danish composer Karl Aage Rasmussen wrote a one-act opera KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, based on Samuel Beckett's play. It was performed this winter for the first time in Aarhus, Denmark, on a double bill with Swedish composer Gunnar Valkare's Nomo. — The New Opera Company in London, England, gave the premiere performance of British composer John Joubert's UNDER WESTERN EYES at the Camden Festival on May 29. — Word reaches us of two new Czech operas, both based on English language texts: Longfellow's poem HIAWATHA with music by Jaroslav Vogel, and THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURE OF ARTHUR ROW after Graham Greene's novel The Ministry of Fear with music by Ivan Jirko. The Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires gave the premiere of Perusso's LA VOZ DEL SILENCIO on a double bill with Dallapiccola's Volo di notte. The two one-act operas were performed on November 23, 1968. — The Music Department of the University of Dehli in India commissioned its visiting professor, Herbert Haslam, to write an opera for performance at its Fine Arts Center. The premiere of the work, entitled CARNIVAL OF EDEN, took place at the University in February. Sidney Simon of 34 Tavistock Place, London WC 1, England, is looking for a composer interested in setting his libretto IN SPLENDID ISOLATION to music. The story concerns the Arab-Israeli conflict "as seen from the triple view point of British neutrality and humanitarism, Islam and Zionism".

FOR GREATER EFFICIENCY, FOR MORE MONEY An experiment well worth watching is the formation of the CO-ORDINATED ARTS SERVICES of Ontario, Canada. Seven performing arts organizations, the Canadian Opera Co., the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival at Niagra-on-theLakes, the National Ballet Guild, the Toronto Symphony, the Theatre Toronto, and Toronto's new St. Lawrence Center, have joined together for greater efficiency and economy. Research is currently under way to explore areas of joint operation, and consultants have been engaged to study the feasability of a computerized, centralized box office system, of joint educational programs, of centralized technical facilities and of a joint personnel office to handle technical as well as administrative staff. This office should supervise the training and distribution of personnel and arrange for consolidation of staff group insurance, fringe benefits, pension plans, etc. An administrative office is also suggested to direct joint fund raising. (This, incidentaly, is one area in which joint efforts have been tried before in a number of cities.) Joint publicity, promotion and public relations as well as joint representation at government offices re: tax exemption, customs duty rates, postal rates, etc. are also envisaged. The organizational structure of the Co-ordinated Arts Services consists of an operating committee made-up of one board and one staff member from each art organization and ex-officio representatives from the Canada Council, the Province of Ontario Arts Council and the City Council of Toronto. Working with a budget of $100,000 for the first year, Lawrence M. Baldwin, Chairman of CAS, and Executive Director, James Norcop, formerly manager of the Vancouver Opera Co., have contracted the services of consultant firms in the respective fields. So far a season ticket center and a mailing service have been established. Offices of the new organization are at 49 Wellington Street East in Toronto.

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The dire need for more efficient ticket services was also stressed at two recent conferences: the meeting of the NEW YORK CULTURAL LEAGUE on May 5 in New York City and the National Conference of the ASSOCIATED COUNCILS OF THE ARTS in St. Adele, Quebec, on May 21-24. The facility of making a flight reservation was contrasted with the difficulty of obtaining a seat for a theatre, opera or concert performance where the "no reservation" rule still prevails. Discussions of finances form, of course, a vital and often frustrating part of all meetings of arts organizations and it was thus also at the two meetings mentioned above. The plight of companies in the U.S. was made especially clear at the ACA meeting in Quebec where a report was heard on the support of Canadian arts groups by the Canada Council. Accordingly, the National Council of the Arts in Washington would have to spend $300 million annually to match the spending of the Canada Council using comparative figures of population and budget. One fact was reiterated time and again at the meetings: The importance of the constituents being informed on what is happening in arts legislation and of their keeping in touch with their congressmen or senators regarding the need for financial support to the arts. Only if these representatives are made aware of the local needs and their constituents' support, will they in turn be willing to support those bills, (see also No Contest Over Priorities, 3/69 Blltn.) When financial assistance was discussed at a recent meeting of the COS Committee and members of the Metropolitan Opera National Council, the general consensus was that, although aid must come from sources including the federal government and national foundations, the major burden should be born by local government and local businesses. Following the reports of the serious financial dilemmas of some major arts centers, the BUSINESS COMMITTEE ON THE ARTS called representatives of four of those centers to meet with executives of some of the country's largest corporations. The meeting was held on April 24 and, although no specific action has as yet been announced, a first major step has been taken in initiating talks. The speed with which the meeting was arranged proves the realization on the part of BCA of the urgency of the situation and spurs the hope for positive results in the near future. One bright note on the horizon was the announcement by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs of a reduction of its originally announced cut of funds from 24% to 18%. SMALL IDEAS FOR FUND RAISING Lecture series arranged by women's committees or opera guilds have proven to be financially successful in many ways. They provide, first of all, an immediate income from ticket sales. Secondly, they offer a favorable atmosphere for recruiting new committee or guild members, especially when preceded or followed by a social gathering, and finally they arouse the curiosity and interest of the audience resulting in better attendance and support of the opera company. The nature of these lectures varies greatly. The San Diego Opera Co., for instance, presented "What's Going on at the Met" (Francis Robinson), "Wagner's Ring" (Jan Popper), and "Massenet's Don Quichotte" (stage director, William Adams). The last lecture was given in conjunction with the production of the opera. Lectures may also be in the form of operalogues. Most of these are educational and serve to familiarize the audience with a work, often, as in San Diego, one that is rather unfamiliar and is included in the current local repertoire. The Metropolitan Opera Guild presented the Metropolitan Forum where a discussion of Die Frau ohne Schatten (Boris Goldovsky) was followed by the Met's production the next month. However, the Forum also included operalogues of such unknown works as Meyerbeer's Robert, le Diable (Robert Lawrence) not currently in the Met repertoire and not likely to be at a later date. Operalogues may also form the beginning of an opera company as is the case in Columbus, Georgia (see 3/69 Blltn.).

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The Cleveland Institute of Music offered its donors as special attraction a free Open House conducted tour of its facilities under working conditions. Eleven classes were in session during a special evening called "CIM Through the Looking Glass", and each member of the CIM Council could choose the three half-hour sessions he wanted to attend. Refreshments were also served. The Metropolitan Opera Guild continues to offer regular tours of the Opera House at Lincoln Center under the knowledgeable guidance of Mary Ellis Peltz. The charge is $2.50; Guild members pay $1.50. A novel idea for sponsoring scholarships comes also from the Cleveland Institute of Music: WEWS-TV will present a one-hour telecast of performances by CIM faculty members, e.g. Vronsky and Babin, and by students, including some from the opera workshop. A short film, sponsored by WEWS, showing the many activities of the Institute, will also be featured on the program. The fee paid by the National City Bank for the program's sponsorship plus a substantial cash contribution by WEWS itself will be donated to the Institute's scholarship fund. Hunter College initiated another idea for attracting donations, this one for the establishment of the Regina Resnik Scholarship Fund. A portfolio of ten signed lithographs by Arbit Blatas depicting Miss Resnik in some of her most famous roles will be given to donors of $200 or more. The lithographs were printed in a limited edition. In recognition of John Brownlee's devotion to the opera theatre and workshop, the Manhattan School of Music has established The John Brownlee Opera Theatre and Workshop Fund to insure the permanence of these two institutions. Contributions to this fund may be sent to the school at 238 East 105 Street, New York, N.Y. 10029.

NEW THEATRES Lincoln Center celebrated its next to last opening when it inaugurated the GUGGENHEIM BAND SHELL in Damrosch Park on May 22. (The last will be that of the Juilliard School in September.) Located just south of the Metropolitan Opera House and west of the N. Y. State Theatre, it is bordered by Amsterdam Avenue and 62 Street. It was conceived in 1959 by Robert Moses, then park's commissioner of New York, as part of a slum-clearing project. He, as well as present park commissioner August Heckscher, together with representatives of the Guggenheim and Damrosch families (Oscar Straus and Marya Mannes) presided over the opening ceremonies. The shell is in the form of a half Spanish onion; an audience of 4,500 can be accommodated on benches in the park. There will be no charge for the use of the facilities and permits for performing groups may be obtained from the N.Y. City Park Department. Another new summer festival facility will be opened on the Edwardsville campus of Southern Illinois University. This will become the summer home of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of its conductor, Walter Susskind. Named the MISSISSIPPI RIVER FESTIVAL, it will offer weekend concerts in a tent accommodating close to 2,000 listeners. Construction on the much disputed Sidney Opera House has been resumed and assistance has been sought from an Austrian engineering firm which will supply all stage and technical equipment. Waagner-Biro AG of Vienna, who is responsible for the designs, innovations and renovations at the Vienna Staatsoper, a stage renowned for its modern facilities and versatility, will deliver and install fully mechanized stage fittings on the stage floor as well as in the rigging loft of the Australian opera house. A circular revolving stage with a 47-foot diameter will also house two elevators, with maximum rise of 33 feet. There will be two other stage lifts

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and one for the pit. A complex flying system was designed for the loft. Comparable equipment is also being constructed for the Drama Theatre of the Sidney House. Other stages fitted by Waagner-Biro include the Vienna Burgtheater, Salzburg's Neues Festspielhaus, and Geneva's Opera House. The "unveiling concert" for the KANNERT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois took place on April 19 in the 2,000-seat Great Hall. It was designed and built by Max Abramovitz, with acoustician Cyril Harris (Met Opera) in charge of sounds, and all is well in Urbana, according to the New York Times. The sounds are bright and clear, and the appearance is pleasant and functional, not plush yet not too stark: "a plain-spoken, honest look of a Middle Western Arts Center". This is in accordance with the wishes of Herman Krannert, the Indianapolis industrialist who sponsored the project and carried the largest share of the $21 million financial burden. The other halls in the four-theatre Center seat 965, 679 and 400 respectively. Scenery shops and technical facilities are shared by all theatres as is the lobby. The surface materials are mostly wood and plaster and the predominating colors are beiges, browns and rusts. There is no carpeting in the Great Hall.

A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE As has become the custom of the COS Bulletin, the last issue of one season also carries a First Performance Listing for the following season. Thus this issue lists the first dates of the 1969-70 season on page 26. However, crystal gazing beyond these dates, we see for the Fall 1970, four new productions at the Chicago Lyric Opera: Der Rosenkavalier with Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry, Turandot with Birgit Nilsson, La Traviata with Monserrat Caballe, and Billy Buidd with Geraint Evans and Richard Lewis. The 1971 season will include a new production of Rossini's Semiramide with Joan Sutherland. The Metropolitan Opera is also looking ahead two years in its announcement of a new Tristan und Isolde for the 1971-72 season. It will star Birgit Nilsson with Erich Leinsdorf as conductor. During the 1970-71 season the Metropolitan will complete its Der Ring des Nibelungen with the new Karajan production of Gdtterddmmerung. Performances of special interest scheduled for next season and not yet mentioned in a COS Forecast (see 1/69 Blltn.) include the New Orleans Opera Company's production of Verdi's Attila on October 9—there have been a flurry of European revivals in the last few years, however, the only recorded performance in the U.S. is its American premiere in 1850—and Maria Callas's return to the American music scene for participation in the Verdi Requiem to be produced by the Dallas Civic Opera on November 26 and 28. New productions at the San Francisco Opera will include Janacek's Jenufa and at the Pittsburgh Opera Montemezzi's Amore dei tre re. The San Diego company will produce Orff's The Moon. Among next season's concert performances of rarely heard operas are Clarion Concerts' presentation of Simone Mayr's Medea in Corinto and the American Opera Society's program of Rossini's Le Siege de Corinthe with Beverly Sills, who scored a personal triumph in this work at Milan's La Scala this Spring, Goldmark's Die Konigin von Saba, Spontini's La Vestale, and a Spanish zarzuela. The New York City Opera will return to the Los Angeles Music Center for sixteen performances between November 19 and December 7, immediately following its New York season. Chicago's Lyric Opera will perform outside its home town for the first time when the company visits Ames, Iowa, in December 1969. There it will present Madama Butterfly under the sponsorship of Mr. J. W. Fisher.

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ADDITIONAL SUMMER OPERA WORKSHOPS (see also 3/69 Blltn.) Appel Farm Art and Music Center, N.J. Courses and workshops 6/29-8/23. Bemidgi State College, Bemidgi, Minn. Choral workshop 8/17-22. Center for Continuing Education, Elliot Lake, Ont., Canada. Opera Workshop, Dir.: A. Schoep; assist, dir. F. Popper. 7/7-8/1/69 Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Ohio. For high school students 6/16-7/19; Carl Orff workshop 8/4-8; General music workshops 8/11-15. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, N.Y.C. Courses and workshops 6/16-8/21. Ithaca College, N.Y. Choral conducting, performance practice, Lieder interpretation courses 8/11-22. Jeunesses Musicales Canadiennes, Mt. Orford, Que. Three 3-week sessions 6/28-8/31. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Summer Arts Study Center 6/15-8/2. National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan. Opera Theatre Workshop, U. of Mich. Division, A. Addison, Dir., 6/22-8/17. Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston, Va. Courses 6/29-8/10. Seattle University, Washington. International choral and organ workshop 6/16-20. Sewanee Summer Music Center, Sewanee, Tennessee. Courses and workshops 6/22-7/27. Weber State University, Ogden, Utah. NATS vocal workshop, one week.

Summer Courses Abroad (see also 3/69 Blltn.) Ball State University, Muncie, Ind., sponsors tour of European Music Festivals (England, Wales, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Holland). 6/25-8/19. Eight hours of academic credit. Bayreuth Festival, Germany, features seminars during an International Youth Festival 8/8-30. Participation is open to young people between 18 and 25; the fee is $26.00. As stated in the 3/69 Blltn. the Friedelind Wagner Master Classes have been discontinued. Ithaca College, N.Y., sponsors European trip (England, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Germany, France) for six semester hours of academic credit. 6/29-8/10. Jeunesses Musicales' International Congress will be held in Budapest, Hungary, 7/16-23. The J. M. Chronicle of Montreal arranges tours, round-trip from Montreal, 7/1-26 with various stops in other European centers for $590. or $690. depending on the route. Ohio Northern University sponsors "The World's Crossroads of Learning Tour" for academic credit in music and German language. Opera Barga. International Course for Young Opera Singers in Barga, Italy. 7/21-8/17. Three weeks studies and rehearsals, one week performances with chamber orchestra at Barga Opera House. (Cambiale di matrimonia & Re Pastore). Music director Peter Gelhorn, stage director David Gauld. Write: General Administrator, Opera Barga, 55051, Barga, Italy. Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md. Organ Department. Organ study tour to Holland, Denmark, Germany (incl. Eastern zone), Austria and Switzerland. 8/3-24. Syracuse University, N. Y. Howard Boatwright, Dean School of Music. Participation at l'Ecole Hindemith at Vevey, Switzerland. 6/10-8/1. Union Theological Seminary, School of Sacred Music, sponsors study sessions at New College, Oxford, England. 7/7-18. NEW WORKSHOPS ABROAD If there was one thing missing in that capital of opera, Vienna, it was an American opera workshop. This omission has been rectified, and this winter the AMERICAN OPERA WORKSHOP offered its first production, The Medium, a fitting choice considering that this work is a favorite among American workshops in their native land. For their second production co-directors Carol Pagelson and Barry Brisk chose a doublebill of A Hand of Bridge and Trouble in Tahiti. Performances with piano accompaniment take place at the Josefssaal. Another new workshop/company in Vienna is THE LIVING THEATRE under the direction of Chinese/American Georg Chan. It offered a performance of Amahl and the Night Visitors earlier this season.

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BOOK CORNER Reflections of a Music Publisher, the subtitle of THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC by Ernst Roth, would seem a better title for this informed and informative as well as entertaining book. The word business in today's art world seems to conjure up visions of donations and support, and, although Mr. Roth's "business" includes accounts of the business side of music publishing, of copyright and performing rights, the book includes a highly personalized analysis of contemporary musical styles as well as reminiscences of some of the world's greatest contemporary composers. The author, who was born in Prague, was head of the publications department of Universal Edition, Vienna, for ten years where he dealt with Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, and many other musical giants. In 1938 he joined London's Boosey and Hawkes where he now is Chairman. The exceedingly readable book, together with some of Hans Heinsheimer's memoirs, furnishes a vivid record of European and American publisher-composer relations in our time. The omission of an index is, however, regrettable. The 269-page book is published by Oxford University Press, New York, and sells for $7.50. SERIOUS MUSIC—AND ALL THAT JAZZ by Henry Pleasants is truly An Adventure in Music Criticism as Mr. Pleasants himself paraphrases the book, which is a sequel to his The Agony of Modern Music. Mr. Pleasants is not always quite pleasant about the contemporary music scene, especially Serious music with a capital S. He writes with the honesty of a man of many years experience in the business and with the extra chuckle (or is it sometimes a sneer) of the professional critic. He sees the most promising development of music in the areas of countryfolk-blues-pop music and the most successful endeavors of contemporary composers in the film and TV media, financially as well as artistically. Simon and Schuster has published the 255-page book which is available for $5.95. Michael and Mollie Hardwick are the authors of ALFRED DELLER, A Singularity of Voice, published by Frederick A. Praeger, New York. It is the biography of the British countertenor from his humble beginnings as a self-taught musician making his living in the furniture trade, to his rise to fame in the 1950's when composer Michael Tippett discovered the singer. Mr. Tippett also contributed the foreword. Mr. Deller is one of the few existing countertenors (John Ferrante also comes to mind) and it is remarkable that, as the book states, his son Mark possesses the same type of voice. The book is available for $6.50. SACRED AND PROFANE is a new biographical novel about Mozart by David Weiss. Leaning heavily on factual material which is documented by a detailed 5-page bibliography, this 639-page book, published by William Morrow & Co., is a well conceived and carefully handled mixture of much fact and little fiction. The price is $7.95. Mr. Weiss is also the author of Naked Came I, a novel on Auguste Rodin's life. MUSIC THEATRE IN A CHANGING SOCIETY, The Influence of the Technical Media, is a very informative 143-page publication, edited by Jack Bornoff, Executive Secretary of the International Music Council. The booklet represents the summations of discussions and lectures held at various meetings of the International Music Council. The chapters are arranged by subject matter and include all phases of musical theatre (opera), its presentation on stage, film, radio and television, and its various contemporary forms. Also included are sections on oriental influences and tribal music, pantomime, dance and abstract music. The book printed in France is available in the U.S. from UNESCO Publications Center, P. O. Box 433, New York, N.Y. 10016 for $3.00. Brochures and Periodicals BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) in cooperation with the American Symphony Orchestra League has published its ninth ORCHESTRAL PROGRAM SURVEY. It lists a reported total of 5,280 concerts performed during the 1967-68 season by 417 American and Canadian orchestras, including 105 school and training orches—8—

tras. The COS-Opera News survey showed 622 opera companies and workshops offering a total of 5,222 performances during the same period. While the orchestras included 2,727 different compositions, the opera companies ran up a total of 348 works, (see Opera News 11/23/68). The BMI survey gives a detailed listing for various categories; World Premieres, American Premieres, Standard Works Most Peformed (Glinka's Russian and Ludmilla Overture leads this list with 117 performances), Twentieth Century Works Most Performed (Bernstein's West Side Story excerpts was heard 132 times), Works Most Performed Since 1940, Composers Most Performed (Mozart tops this list of Standard with 1363 performances. Stravinsky the Contemporary list with 416 performances). Closing the survey is a table of all orchestras. The National Association of Schools of Music has published its 1968 DIRECTORY containing specific information on faculty, degrees and affiliations of all its member schools. The brochure may be ordered for $1.50 from NASM, 1424 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.—The same organization also publishes MUSIC IN HIGHER EDUCATION, a guide to NASM members' statistical information, mostly in chart form, pertaining to size of enrollment, budgets and salary information, etc. This 58-page booklet sells for $4.00. The Scientific Library Service, 31 East 10 Street, New York, N.Y. 10003, has recently published two catalogues of available books and music: RARE AND EARLY MUSIC, Books and Scores 1501-1840 and MUSIC BOOKS, 1820-1969. The price lists include a description of each item and information on edition, rarity and condition. THE PERFORMING ARTS REVIEW is a new periodical published four times a year by Law-Arts Publishers, Inc. to fill a need as The Journal of Management and Law of the Arts. Joseph Taubman is the editor. Each issue will consist of approximately 100-200 pages and will sell for $3.50. Annual subscription is $10.00 which may be sent to Performing Arts Review, 453 Greenwich Street, New York, N.Y. 10013. Volume 1, no. 1 will be ready in early June and will run close to 200 pages.

MANUSCRIPTS AND PUBLISHED WORKS The original manuscript of LA G1UDITTA, an oratorio by Alessandro Scarlatti, was found in the National Historical Park Library in Morristown, N.J. The Music Department of the College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J. 07961, will make the manuscript score available to musicologists upon request. John La Montaine's THE SHEPHERDES PLAYE has been published by Galaxy Music Publishers, 2121 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10023, and has been recorded by Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI). Eric Salzman's recently premiered THE NUDE PAPER SERMON is available on Nonesuch Records. Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016, lists new publications: Gordon Crosse's PURGATORY, a one-act opera based on Yeats' play,—vocal score with German and English texts available for $11.50.—William Walton's one-act opera, THE BEAR, vocal score with English and German texts $11.50; English libretto $1.20.—BORIS GODUNOV, original version edited by Paul Lamm in accordance with autographed manuscript, with English text only (translation by David Lloyd-Jones), vocal score paperbound $26.00, hard cover $30.80, chorus parts $4.40, libretto $1.50. Full orchestral score with Russian, German and English texts in preparation.

PUBLICITY A recent issue of the magazine "Oklahoma Today," supported by the State's Industrial Development and Park Department, prominently featured the achievements of its professional opera company and of its university and college opera workshops. The lead article with a number of photographs was entitled "Enjoyment of —9—

Opera in Oklahoma". Regrettably this local pride in artistic achievement is a rare gem, and opera producers are urged to make certain that their organization is well represented in any state promotion. Supply pictures and stories! Two posters are in the news. One is by Marc Chagall and it is a detail of his mural on the north side of the Metropolitan Opera foyer entitled "Les Sources de la Musique". The first Metropolitan Opera-Chagall poster commemorated the opening of the house at Lincoln Center; the new one commemorates Mozart's Die Zauberflote for which M. Chagall designed the sets and costumes. The new poster, depicting a flute- or Schalmeien-playing angel surrounded by animals, is predominantly blue and measures forty by twenty-six inches. It is available by mail order from the Metropolitan Opera for $35 plus sales tax and 650 for postage and handling, or it may be purchased at the Metropolitan Opera gift shop. It was printed in a limited edition by Mourlot in France. Saul Steinberg donated a poster design to the Spoleto Festival. Originally conceived as part of a series of designs based on Gogol's The Nose, it shows a head and torso in profile—nose in hand. It is on white background and the material used for the figure is a paperbag. The inscription in black print reads "Spoleto Festival 1969".

COMPETITIONS AND WINNERS The HERBERT VON KARAJAN FOUNDATION announced a competition for young conductors. It will take place in Berlin September 20-28, coinciding with the Berliner Festwochen. Further information may be obtained from Sekretariat des Dirigenten Wettbewerbs, 1 Berlin 15, Germany. The JULIUS RUDEL AWARD, briefly mentioned in the 1/69 Blltn., is offered for an artistic administrative apprenticeship for 1-3 years, working directly under and with Mr. Rudel at the New York City Opera. Although there is no official age limit, a young person in his twenties would bs a likely candidate. Some experience with singers and instrumentalists (coaching, directing, conducting and/or performing) is required as is familiarity with the contents and requirements of the basic international operatic repertory. Typewritten applications in triplicate should be sent directly to Julius Rudel, New York City Opera, New York State Theatre, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10023. The International Music Fraternity, DELTA OMICRON, offers an award of $300 and a performance to a woman composer for the best composition of a song cycle for solo woman's voice. Entries must be submitted before August 1, 1970 (nineteen-seventy) to Dr. M. E. Drake, Chairman Composition's Competition, Philadelphia Musical Academy, 1617 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. * * * Of the twenty-three young singers competing in the Semi-Finals of the METROPOLITAN OPERA NATIONAL COUNCIL AUDITIONS, ten were awarded $2,000 study grants and the assurance of their participation in the National Finals at the Metropolitan on November 2. The winners are five sopranos: Kristi Vensand of Winnipeg, Elaine Cormany of New York City, Margaret Garrett of Sidney, Australia, Mary Foster Strebing of New York City, Eugenie Chopin Watson of Baton Rouge, and Gilda Cruz Romo of Fort Worth; one mezzo-soprano: Frederica von Stade of New York City; one tenor: Perry Price of West Vancouver, B.C.; one baritone: Fernando Barabino of Bloomington, and one bass-baritone: James T. Johnson of Los Angeles.—Three semifinalists were also invited by assistant manager John Gutman to join the Metropolitan Opera Studio. They are Miss von Stade, Miss Vensand and soprano Barbara Hocher of Boston. The CORBETT FOUNDATION of Cincinnati made a good catch in its first year of fellowship programs for young singers. Four auditioners were chosen by Guenther Rennert for a two-year's study and training program at the studio of the Bavarian State Opera: sopranos Jane Wright and Elaine Cormany (also winner at the Metropolitan Opera semi-finals), mezzo-soprano Carol Weiss and bass-baritone Robert Termine (winner of the Bori Scholarship, the Liederkranz and Kosiuszko Foundation Award). After a three-month German language course in Hamburg, the singers will begin their vocal and stage training in Munich on October 1.—Another group of seven singers was selected to participate in final auditions at the Hamburg Opera where they will sing for Intendant, Dr. Rolf Liebermann, in September. They are soprano Jesseye Norman of Augusta, Ga., mezzo-sopranos Susan Marsee from Malibu, Cal., and Linda Matousek of Muncie, Ind., — 10 —

tenors Gary Glaze and Grayson Hirst both from New York City, baritone Steven Kimbrough from Princeton, N.J. and bass Franklin Summers from New York City. These singers were chosen in four-day auditions from forty-three applicants. The judges were Dr. Liebermann, Dr. Egon Seefehlner of the West Berlin Opera and Robert Schulz, German agent for opera singers. Mr. Schulz chose eight singers who will have auditions arranged by him at various German opera houses. These singers are sopranos Sharon Bennett, Emily Derr of New York, Ronna Jurow of Calif., Jacklyn Schneider of New York, and tenors Sidney Johnson of New York (former Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions winner), William McDonald from Bloomington, Ronald Naldi from Memphis and Rico Serbo from San Francisco. Finally, Dr. Seefehlner selected the following singers for his two-year studio training program in Berlin: soprano Katherine Hindrelet of San Diego, mezzo-soprano Lucy Peacock of Texas (semi-finalist at Met Auditions), contralto Pamela MacFarland from Virginia and tenor David Knudson of Jefferson, Wise. Through this program 23 singers will travel to Europe next Fall, all expenses paid, for training or intensive auditioning. An additional program of the Corbett Foundation for the furtherance of studies for young opera singers is the fellowships offered to singers for participation in the courses at the Aspen Music Festival this summer. The AMERICAN OPERA AUDITIONS in Cincinnati chose four singers for participation in its training program in Mantua, Italy. They are soprano Ana Riera, mezzo-soprano Gwynn Cornell, tenor Michael Cousins and baritone Leslie Guin. The final performance at the end of the studies will be Madama Butterfly. The MINNA KAUFMANN-RUUD FOUNDATION, administered by Chatham College in Pittsburgh, awarded five $1,000 prizes to young women singers. Among them Elaine Cormany (see Met Auditions and Corbett Foundation winners), also sopranos Mary Strebing (Metropolitan finalist) and Rose Taylor and mezzo-sopranos Anita Terzian and Edna Garabedian George. The KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD MEMORIAL AWARD and the Board of Directors of Community Funds Inc. in cooperation with its advisers, Edwin McArthur and Reginald Allen announced three winners for the 1968-69 season: Patricia Guthrie soprano from New York City and semi-finalist at the Metropolitan Opera Auditions ($1,000), Donna Roll, soprano from Brookline, Mass. ($500) and David Stone, pianist from Bloomington, also $500 for studies as coach and opera conductor. The CANADIAN WOMEN'S CLUB of New York named soprano Lise Joanisse from Ottawa as this year's winner of the CWC grant given towards vocal studies in New York. The ANNA E. SCHOEN-RENE GRANT of $1,000 was won by baritone Fernando Barabino, who was also selected to participate in the Metropolitan Opera Finals in November. The AMATO OPERA CIRCLE, a club affiliated with New York's Amato Opera Co., has established an Annual Opera Scholarship Competition. The Finals were held on May 25 and bass Saverio Barbieri received first prize consisting of a two-semester study and public performances, and sopranos Priscilla Hopkins and Doris Scott each won a one-semester study and performances. Paula Page, former winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, of the Geneva International Voice Competition and the 'sHertogenbosch Competition, has been signed by the Hamburg Opera for another three-year term. The INTERNATIONAL BACH SOCIETY awarded the Roslyn Tureck Vocal Award for a concert presentation at Town Hall to mezzo-soprano Nancy Deering of New York City. The 1969 International Voice Competition in Geneva awarded two second prizes, no first prize. The winners are Heidi Riess-Berthold from Leipzig, East Germany, and Franjo Petresanec from Yugoslavia; student prizes went to two German singers, Heinz Rech and Adalbert Kraus. On June 3 the School of Music at NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY will give an Honors Concert with soloists chosen from the student body through competitive auditions. Billie Kay Tye and Steven Swanson were the two vocal soloists participating in the concert.—Edward Payne was the winner of the student competition at the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC for participation in the April 30 Special Student Recital.

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APPOINTMENTS Executive/Administrative MORTON D. MAY, Chairman of May Department Stores and Director of the St. Louis Symphony, is expected to be named Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., succeeding its first chairman, Roger L. Stevens, who held this position for the last four years. John McFadyen, architect and Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Associated Councils of The Arts, has been proposed as Executive Administrator of the National Endowment. While Mr. May's position would be part time only, Mr. McFayden's would be full time in charge of all administrative affairs. He has been associated with arts councils since their inception. LAUDER GREENWAY and GEORGE S. MOORE were reelected by the Metropolitan Opera Board of Directors to their respective positions of Chairman and President of the Association. Newly elected at the meeting in May was a third vice-president, GRANT G. SIMMONS, JR., and three new members of the Board of Directors: MRS. EDGAR TOBIN, MR. LEON HESS and MR. WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN. Mr. Stanley Hawks and Mr. Kenyon C. Bolton will remain as the Metropolitan Opera National Council's representatives. The voting members of the Lyric Opera of Chicago elected EDWARD F. BLETTNER, former vice-president, to the position of President of the Board of Directors, succeeding Daggett Harvey. Carol Fox is General Manager of the company that is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this Fall. GEORGE SCHICK, conductor and administrator, has been named President of the Manhattan School of Music, succeeding the late John Brownlee. Mr. Schick was born in Prague where he was on the staff of the Opera and the Conservatory. In 1939 he came to the U.S. where he was first associated with the San Carlo and the New York City operas; from 1950-56 he was associate conductor with the Chicago Symphony, a position followed by a two-year association with NBC-Opera. He joined the Metropolitan Opera ten years ago and was named musical consultant to the management and musical director of the Metropolitan Opera Studio in 1963. Mo. Schick will begin his tenure at the Manhattan School at the time of the school's expansion and move to the former Juilliard School building. After sixty years in music publishing, Arthur A. Hauser, President of Theodore Presser Co., announced his retirement. Musician, teacher and businessman ARNOLD BROIDO has been appointed as his successor. Prior positions held by Mr. Broido include that of Director of Publications and Sales at Frank Music Co., and Director of Music Industries Council and also of the Music Educators National Conference. MIMI BENZELL was named Director of the Nassau County Office of the Performing and Fine Arts in Garden City, L.I., N.Y. HUBERT DORIS, Chairman of the Music Department at Barnard College and Professor of Music at Columbia University, was appointed Acting President of the Mannes College of Music for the coming school year. Stefan Bauer-Mengelberg, President for the last three years, has accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Southern California where he will be Chairman of the Conducting Department and Director of Orchestra. He will remain a trustee of the Mannes College. Mr. Doris will be on a one-year leave of absence from Barnard and Columbia. London's Royal Opera (Covent Garden) has appointed JOHN TOOLEY as its new General Administrator. Mr. Tooley has been on the staff of the opera house since 1955. LOUIS DUCREUX is succeeding Bernard Lefort as General Manager of the Marseille Opera in France. YEHUDI MENUHIN and IAN HUNTER have founded the Windsor Festival at Windsor Castle in England. Both have resigned from the Bath Festival. Mr. Menuhin is currently President of the International Music Council.

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Conductors After two years as Musical Director of the Houston Symphony, ANDRE PREVIN will not return there next season. His many outside commitments have been cited as reason for not renewing his contract. The Symphony has engaged seven guest conductors for the 1969-70 season with the largest share of concerts going to ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. A resident of Paris, Mr. Almeida has guest conducted in New York (American Opera Society and Lewisohn Stadium), Philadelphia and San Francisco. Other guest conductors in Houston will be Houston's conductor emeritus Sir John Barbirolli, Hans Schwieger, Jussi Jalas, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Sixten Ehrling and the orchestra's associate conductor Clyde Roller. JOSE ITURBI has resigned from his post as Conductor and Music Director of the Calgary (Alberta) Philharmonic after one season. Mr. Iturbi had continued his Hollywood residency for the last year, commuting for each concert. GEORGE SOLTI, who will begin his engagement as Musical Director of the Chicago Symphony in October of this year and who is under contract with London's Royal Opera until 1971, has just signed a three-year contract with the London Philharmonic. Beginning in 1971, he will conduct the orchestra for a minimum of two months annually. CHARLES MACKERRAS has been signed as Musical Director of the Sadler's Wells Company for both the London resident and the touring company. He is succeeding Mario Bernardi, who was previously appointed Music Director of the new Canadian National Art Center. Mr. Mackerras has been chief conductor with the Hamburg Opera since 1965, a position taken over by MAREK JANOWSKI, formerly with the Cologne Opera Company. LEON BARZIN has been named conductor of the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Frederick Prausnitz. Mr. Barzin has been special consultant to NEC President, Gunther Schuller, for the last year. PIERRE BOULEZ was just announced as the new conductor of the New York Philharmonic, beginning in the Fall of 1971. He received a three-year contract.

Honoris Causea CHARLES M. SPOFFORD, Vice-President and Director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Metropolitan Opera and Trustee of the Juilliard Musical Foundation, was honored by the Cultural League of New York and its President, Richard Barr, for "his outstanding contribution as a private citizen in advancing the cultural life of New York City".—LEONARD BERNSTEIN received a citation from the Music Educators National Conference in recognition of his and CBS' contribution to music education through the broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts.—The New York University's Alumni Association bestowed on LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI the Alumni Award and Citation for "his outstanding contribution to the cultural life of New York City". FRANCIS ROBINSON, Assistant Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, N.J.— Tenor JAN PEERCE received his third honorary doctorate from Combs College in Philadelphia. His previous degrees were given to him by the Mannes College of Music, and the New York College of Music, now part of NYU.—BORIS GOLDOVSKY, producer, conductor, author and lecturer together with HAROLD SPIVACKE, chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress, received honorary Doctor of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Goldovsky delivered the commencement address entitled "Bringing Music to Life—The Role of the Artist in a Changing Society".—ULYSSES KAY was honored by Illinois Wesleyen University with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

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The 1969 Pulitzer Prize in Music went to Prague born composer KAREL HUSA for his latest string quartet. The composer is Professor of Music and Director of the Orchestra at Cornell University.—Brandeis University announced the recipients of its Awards in the Creative Arts,—medals, citations and $1,000 cash. Thus honored in the field of music and opera were composer ERNST KRENEK and stage designer BORIS ARONSON. Included among the citations in recognition of younger artists, was one in music given to composer HENRY WEINBERG. KURT HERBERT ADLER, General Director of the San Francisco Opera, received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany. This was Mr. Adler's second German decoration; it was presented to him by the German Consul General in San Francisco.—Mme. EUFEMIA GIANNINI GREGORY, voice teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music, was named A Cavalier in the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity by the Italian Republic. The New York Singing Teacher's Ass'n. bestowed the 1969 Distinguished American Singer Citation on tenor GEORGE SHIRLEY.—Baritone JOHN REARDON, a graduate from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., was awarded the Rollins Decoration of honor on the occasion of his participation in a concert for the Alumni Fund of Pi Kappa Lambda. Thirteen recipients of the New York State Awards in the Arts were chosen by the N. Y. State Council of the Arts. Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson made the presentation at the State Theatre at Lincoln Center. No single individual was chosen and the awards went to museums, libraries, universities, to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Arts, the List Foundation (for sponsorship of art posters) and to the Xerox Corporation (for sponsorship of high quality network television programs). The citation read in part "for efforts of people collectively and individually who care about the quality and appearance of our State". A Black Academy of Arts and Letters was formed recently and among the fifty founding members were the following musicians: conductor Henry Lewis, and band leader and composer Duke Ellington.

NEW COS MEMBERS Atlanta Chamber Opera Society, J. Porter, Dir., Georgia Raimonde and Charlotte Aubrey Singers, Johnstown, Pennsylvania Austrian Institute, New York, N.Y. Harold Bauer, Peoria, Illinois Mrs. Judith D. Breneman, Albany, California Cantata Academy of Detroit, A. Stephan, Dir., Ann Arbor, Mich. Cleveland Concert Associates, Inc., J. Gidwitz, Dir., Ohio Firestone Conservatory of Music, Miss H. Montoni, Dir., U. of Akron, Ohio Mrs. Hudson Grotzinger, Loveland, Colorado Jackson Opera Guild, Inc., Mrs. J. H. White, Dir., Mississippi Miss Elinor Kaye, New York, N.Y. Gerald Landon, Kew Gardens, N.Y. Thomas Siklos, New York, N.Y. Theatre Development Fund, H. Southern, Exec. Dir., New York, N.Y. Mrs. Arthur Vander, Ann Arbor, Michigan James J. Weber, New York, N.Y.

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1968-69 season, cont. All performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p.'M (with piano). — Performances and news items once announced will not be relisted at the time of performance.—*denotes new production; m—denotes matinee. ALABAMA Birmingham Civic Opera Assn., Mrs. M. McCIung, Prod. 1/69 Faust with Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 3/28, 29, 30/69 The Consul (during Birmingham Festival) (no pf. of La Boheme, as erroneously listed in last Bulletin.) CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Lyric Opera, I. Parnes, Gen. Dir., at Wilshire Ebell Theatre 5/10/69 Leginska/Twain's Joan of Arc cond.: Avramov Los Angeles Philharmonic, Z. Mehta, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Bluebeards Castle cone. pf. Pasadena Symphony, R. Lert, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Fidelio cone. pf. Western Opera Theatre, "Reading of Contemporary Operas" in San Francisco 5/26/69 Argento's Christopher Sly 2 cone. pfs. Nolen, Boyll; cond.: Woitach (see also 1/69 Blltn.) CONNECTICUT Wykeham Rise School, Music Department, C. Turner, Dir., Washington 5/23, 25/69 The Ballad of Barnaby mus.: WRS students; lyr.: W. H. Auden; cond.: Turner; prem. FLORIDA Brevard Symphony Orchestra, J. Kreines, Mus. Dir., Cocoa 1968-69 Aida cone. pf. ILLINOIS Knox-Galesburg Symphony, D . Daniels, Mus. Dir., Galesburg 1968-69 La Boheme cone. pf. Northwestern University Opera Workshop, R. Gay, Dir., Evanston 5/24/69 The Good Soldier Schweik Bowker; cond.: Paynter; dir.: Ball/Lane (see also 1/69 Blltn.) Peoria Symphony Orchestra, H. Bauer, Dir., Peoria 3/21, 24/69 Hanseland Gretel Reisler, Flanigon, Peterson; cond./dir.: Bauer IOWA Sioux City Symphony, L. Kucinski, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Porgy and Bess cone. pf. 1968-69 The Barber of Seville stgd. MARYLAND Baltimore Civic Opera (correction) cancelled Otello due to symphony strike (rescheduled Fall 1969) Chamber Opera Society of Baltimore, T. Conlin, Art. Dir. 5/15, 18/69 The Secret Marriage (replacing Don Pasquale) Doenges, Gerber; Beni, Gerbrandt, Paige; cond.: Conlin; dir.: Emoed; des.; Haynes; Eng.: J. B. Peltz & J. Lucas MICHIGAN Piccolo Opera Company of Detroit Mrs. M. Gordon, Dir. 10/19/68 Hansel and Gretel 2 pfs. Eng.: Limbacher-Gordon 10/21, 22, 23, 24, 25/68 The Music Master 10 pfs. Eng.: Piccolo Op.; tour in Ohio, w.p. 11/12/68 KalmanofFs Victory atMasada prem., w. orch. 5/7, 13/69 Victory at Masada cone. pf. w.p. 11/24/68 Hansel and Gretel 2 pfs. in Midland 12/12/68 Hansel and Gretel 2 pfs. in Grand Rapids w.p. 2/25, 27, 28/69 The Impresario 7 pfs. w.p. in Michigan 3/22, 7/1/69 Rumpelstiltskin 2 pfs. w.p. in Twin Lake & Kalamazoo 71II69 Die Fledermaus Eng.: Limbacher Saginaw Symphony, G. Grau, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 La Boheme cone. pf.

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1969-70 season MINNESOTA Center Opera Company, J. Ludwig, Mng. Din, at Macalester College 6/7, 14, 20, 21/69 Orff's The Wise Woman and the King Eng.: Balk/Marshall Brandt; Bowers, Boesing; cond.: Marshall; dir.: Balk (replacing Bluebeard's Castle & I'Heure espagnole) Duluth Symphony, J. Hawthorne, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Amahl and the Night Visitors cone. pf. 1968-69 Monteverdi's Orfeo cone. pf. MISSOURI Kansas City Performing Arts Foundation, Festival Production, L. Kelly, Dir. 5/16/69 LONG HAIR?: The Marriage Contract (in hippie setting), Love-In, Concert Divertimento (replacing Cost fan tutte)

NEW MEXICO Univ. of New Mexico Opera Studio, T. Philips, Dir., Albuquerque 4/12/69 The Old Maid and the Thief

NEW YORK Adelphi University Opera Workshop, L. Rasmussen & R. Flusser, Co-Dirs., Garden City 5/15, 16, 17, 18m/69 The Magic Flute Eng. Buffalo Philharmonic, L. Foss, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Amahl and the Night Visitors cone. pf. New York State Univ. at Stony Brook, L. I., Stravinsky Festival 4/27/69 Les Noces Allen, Patches; Shadley, Frisch; cond.: Craft Rochester Philharmonic, L. Somogyi, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Die Walkure, Act I, cone. pf. Syracuse Symphony, K. Kritz, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Cavalleria rusticana & Gianni Schicchi 1968-69 Madama Butterfly NEW YORK CITY American Opera Society, A. Oxenburg, Dir., at Carnegie Hall 5/14/69 Les Huguenots Sills, Gulin, Creed; Poncet, Diaz, Hecht; cond.: Giovanninetti (rescheduled from 11/27/68). Brooklyn College Opera Theatre, K. Kope, Dir., at Whitman Auditorium 4/26, 27m/69 // Trittico (replacing Hary Janos) Clark Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Workshop 5/24, 25/69 The Old Maid and the Thief & The Medium Columbia College Arts Festival, Wollman Auditorium 5/8 9, 10, 11/69 Montemezzi's Amore dei tre re cond.: De Rugeriis; dir.: Lanier. Traficante: Dobriansky, Hyer, Kim Community Opera Inc., G. Mathew Pres., W. Spada, Mus. Dir. 4/20/69 Leoni's L'Oracolo at Brooklyn Museum 5/ 30/69 The Jealous Husband at Lincoln Center Library-Museum Cubiculo Theatre, 414 West 51 Street 4/26m, 27m 5/3m, 4m, 10m, llm/69 Francis Barnard's The Masque of Maska prem. & Offenbach's 66 Down Town Glee Club, G. Mead, Cond., Carnegie Hall 5/8/69 George Mead's The Broker's Opera FBN Opera Workshop, L. Fowler, Dir., at Educational Alliance 5/11, 18, 25/69 Mignon 5/19/69 at Donnell Library Hunter College Opera Workshop, D . Lloyd & W. Tarrasch, Co-Dirs. 5/28, 29/69 scenes {La Boheme, Cost fan tutte) Juiiliard Opera Theatre, T. Capobianco, Dir. 5/16/69 excerpts (La Boheme, Werther, Pagliacci) Lighthouse Singers & Opera Workshop, Woodhaven Blvd., Elmhurst 5/22, 28/69 Dido and Aeneas & excerpts Master Institute Chorus, Miss C. Longstreth, Dir., at McMillan Theatre, Columbia Univ. 5/14/69 Dido and Aeneas & excerpts Masterwork Chorus, D . Randolph, Cond., Philharmonic Hall 5/2/69 Carmina Burana w. 2 p., 5 percussion; cone. pf. New School for Social Research, F. Wigglesworth, Prod. 5/28, 29/69 Wigglesworth's The Willowdale Handcar or Return of the Black Doll prem. & The Enchanted Pear Tree & Triple Sec 4 pfs.

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1968-69 season New York City Center of Music and Drama, West 55 Street 5/28-6/15/69 Fiesta in Madrid a zarzuela; an. & dir.: Capobianco; J. Penagos, C. Turner New York State Opera Society, C. Yost, Dir., at Community Center 4/20/69 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci (see also 1/69 BUtn.) Queens Lyric Opera, at Flushing H. S., Northern Blvd. & East Union Street 5/17/69 Aida Ruffino Opera, C. Ruffino, Dir., at Provincetown Playhouse 4/7/69 The Barber of Seville 4/14, 21/69 The Marriage of Figaro 4/28, 5/5, 12/69 Faust — 6/21/69 at Town Hall 5/26/69 Tosca 6/2/69 Cost fan tutte Young Artists Opera, V. Mauret, Dir., at O'Shea Auditorium 5/4/69 Die Fledermaus

NORTH CAROLINA University of North Carolina Opera Theatre, R. Sandier, Dir., Greensboro 11/19/68 Riders to the Sea 3/27-30/69 Falstaff Eng.: Ducloux; cond.: Jarrett OHIO Kent State University, Opera Workshop, 3/7/69 The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore University of Akron Opera Workshop, Miss H. Montoni, Dir. 5/2/69 scenes 5/9, 10, 12/69 Musical; prod, by Speech and Music Depts. for A.U. Fine Arts Festival OKLAHOMA Tulsa Philharmonic, F. Autori, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 The Telephone cone. pf. 1968-69 La Serva padrona cone. pf. Tulsa University Opera Department, D. Wright, Dir. 5/8-11/69 Suor Angelica Eng. & Trial by Jury

PENNSYLVANIA The Raimonde Aubrey Singers, Johnstown 3/17/69 opera excerpts Temple University Opera Workshop, J. Lucas, Dir., Philadelphia 4/11, 12/69 Musical 4/17, 18/69 Dido and Aeneas & Gianni Schicchi

RHODE ISLAND Rhode Island Philharmonic, F. Madeira, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Pagliacci

SOUTH CAROLINA Bob Jones University, Opera Workshop, D. Gustafson, Dir., Greenville 5/23, 27/69 Commencement concert (La Traviata, Act III) Spartanburg Symphony, H. Janiec, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 The Marriage of Figaro cone. pf.

UTAH Brigham Young University, Opera Workshop, Provo 4/28/69 Williams' Pilgrim's Progress, a Morality in Prologue, Four Acts and Epilogue Am. prem. Utah Spmphony, M. Abravanel, Mus. Dir. 1968-69 Die Walkure Act 1, cone. pf. WASHINGTON Seattle Opera Assn., sponsored by Allied Arts of Seattle, Inc. 5/18/69 The Lively Arts: Mantra, Entre Nous, Sinfonietta Opus 1 prem. Western Washington State College, Opera Workshop, Miss M. Terey-Smith, Dir., Bellingham 5/14, 15/69 Dido and Aeneas & Galatea Elettronica prem.

CANADA University of Manitoba, School of Music, R. Irwin, Dir., Winnipeg 2/14, 15, 17/69 The Telephone & The Medium

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, Summer 1969 (U.S. and Canada) ALABAMA Univ. of Alabama Opera, Miss S. Debenport, Dir., University 8/10/69 Little Red Riding Hood ALASKA Anchorage Music Festival 6/12-26/69 program not available ARKANSAS Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, I. Van Grove, Art. Dir., Eureka Springs 7/16-25/69 Don Giovanni, The Gondoliers, Ruth (Van Grove), Ten Maidens— No Man (Von Suppe—Van Grove) CALIFORNIA Cabrillo Music Festival, G. Samuel, Art. Dir., Aptos 8/15-24/69 chamber music and symphony concerts Carmel Bach Festival, S. Salgo, Mus. Dir. 7/18-27/69 symphony and chamber music concerts, organ recitals vocal concerts (Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Magnificats by Bach, Lassus and Monteverdi) 7/22/69 Purcell's Fairy Queen Hollywood Bowl Symphonies under the Stars, Z. Mehta, Dir., Hollywood 7-8/69 Los Angeles Philharmonic, cond.: Mehta and guests Music Academy of the West, Summer Festival, Abravanel & Singher, Dirs., Santa Barbara 7/8-8/23/69 Festival concerts 8/16, 18, 20/69 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng. Martin; Cochran; des.: Gibson Music at the Vineyards, at Paul Masson Winery near Saratoga 6/28, 29 8/2, 3 9/6, 7/69 concerts (no opera) Music for Summer Evenings at San Diego Open-Air Theatre 7-8/69 San Diego Symphony concerts Ojai Festival, Ojai 5/23, 24, 25/69 concerts (program not available) Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival, C. Perlee, Dir. (6/24-8/22/69) 7/29/69 Hansel and Gretel Eng.: Bache 8/12/69 Trial by Jury S122169 La Boheme Eng.: Martin San Fernando Valley State College, Opera Workshop, D . Scott, Dir., Northridge 6/21, 22, 27, 28/69 Don Pasquale 7/18, 19, 22, 25, 26/69 The Tales of Hoffmann San Francisco Opera Guild Talent Bank, P. Donovan, Dir. 6/21/69 La Finta Giardiniera (6/27, 28/69 out of town) Eng.: Page 7/26/69 Pimpinone (7/29, 30/69 out of town) Eng.: Baker Santa Monica Civic Opera Assn., Inc., J. Garrotto, Dir., Santa Monica 8/23/69 La Traviata Stanford Summer Festival of the Arts, Stanford University 6/24-8/17/69 concerts, recitals, theatre, chamber music, Joffrey Ballet, New York Pro Musica, Bach-rock Yuba College Opera Workshop, D . Butler, Dir., Marysville 7/31 8/1, 2/69 The Medium COLORADO Aspen Music Festival, G. Hardy, Exec. Vice-Pres. (6/23-8124169) 7/24, 26/69 Boito's Mefistofele 7/31 8/ 2/69 Rita & Milhaud's Fiesta & La Vida breve 8/7, 9/69 The Abduction from the Seraglio 8/14, 16/69 scenes Central City Opera, E. Buckley, Mus. Dir. J. Lucas, St. Dir. 6/21-7/26/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. & Tosca Eng. 43 pfs. Colorado Springs Opera Assn., J. Baud, Dir. 7/69 The Impresario Eng. Cardelli Colorado State College, Opera Guild, C. Schmitz, Dir., Greeley 7/31 8/1/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng.: Dent.

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Summer 1969 CONNECTICUT Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam 7/69 Leon/da Silva/Drake On Time a review Yale University Concerts at Norfolk, G. Meier, Cond. 7/4-8/23/69 symphony and chamber music concerts DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Carter Baron Amphitheatre, Washington 7-8/69 jazz and folk concerts (opera discontinued) FLORIDA Florida International Festival, Daytona Beach 7/25/69 H.M.S. Pinafore by Miami Opera Guild 7/24-8/19/69 London Symphony Orchestra, cond.: Previn New College Music Festival and Summer School, Sarasota 6/2-21/69 concerts and classes Pensacola Junior College Opera Workshop, C. O'Bannon, Dir., Pensacola 7/29, 30, 31 8/1/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng.: Martin HAWAII Honolulu Symphony Society, Starlight Concerts 7-8/69 program not available ILLINOIS Grant Park Concerts, R. Bass, Dir., Chicago (6/25-8/24/69) 7/19, 20/69 Cavalleria rusticana cone. pf. Mississippi River Festival, W. Susskind, Art. Dir., at So. HI. Univ. Campus, Edwardsville 6/20-8/6/69 St. Louis Symphony; popular attractions Ravinia Festival, Chicago Symphony, S. Ozawa, Mus. Dir. (6/25-9/15/69) 6/28/69 The Damnation of Faust cone. pf. Marshall; diVirgilio, Flagello 7/20/69 Bluebeard's Castle cone. pf. Szonyi; Farago; cond: Kertesz 7/31 8/2/69 Madama Butterfly cone. pf. Arroyo, Love; Tagliavini, Patrick; cond.: Lombard 8/7,9/69 Aida cone. pf. Arroyo, Chookasian; Tucker, Milnes; cond.: Patane Univ. of Illinois Opera Group, L. Zirner, Dir., Krannert Center, Urbana 8/1, 2/69 The Barber of Seville Eng.: Martin INDIANA Ball State University, Opera Workshop, J. Campbell, Dir., Muncie 7/11/69 La Boheme Act III, Eng.: Martin 8/15-18/69 Musical Indiana University, Musical Theatre, W. Bain, Dir., Bloomington 7/26, 31 8/ 2/69 11 Trittico Eng. KANSAS Kansas State College, Opera Workshop, L. Siegle, Dir., Pittsburgh 6/23-28/69 Musical 7/16, 18/69 The Impresario 7/22-26/69 Musical LOUISIANA New Orleans Recreation Dept. Workshop, A. Cosenza, Dir. 7/21-24/69 Falstaff Eng., w.p. Univ. of Southwestern La. Opera Guild, G. S. Seaman-Griffin, Dir., Lafayette 7/22-25/69 Musical 8/7/69 scenes, B. Goldovsky, guest dir. MAINE Bar Harbor Festival, F. Fortier, Art. Dir. (7/25-8/8/69) 7/25/69 La Traviata with Brooklyn Lyric Opera; Turano; Myrvik, Christopher; A. Sherman, Dir. MARYLAND Harford Theatre Association, Bel Air 6/27, 28, 29 7/3, 5, 6/69 The Bartered Bride 7/11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20/69 The Barber of Seville 7/25, 26, 27 8/1, 2, 3/69 The Gypsy Baron 8/8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17/69 Madame Butterfly SI22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31/69 Carmen Merriweather Post Pavillion of Music, Columbia 6/22-9/15/69 Washington National Symphony, cond.: H. Mitchell and guests

Summer 1969 MASSACHUSETTS Berkshire Music Festival, Boston Symphony, E. Leinsdorf, Dir., Tanglewood (7/4-8/24/69) 7/12/69 Die Entfilhrung aus dent Serail cone, pf., Sills, Elgar; Shirley, Siena 7/26/69 Otello cone, pf., Niska; Cassilly, Milnes 8/11, 17/69 Wozzeck cone, pf., cond.: Leinsdorf 7/10, 17 8/2, 17, 21, 24/69 Different Opera Scenes Castle Hill Festival, Ipswich 7-8/69 concerts (program not available) MICHIGAN Interlochen Center for the Performing Arts, National Music Camp 6/24-8/17/69 symphony and chamber orchestra concerts 7/25/69 Opera Workshop prod., dir: A. Addison Meadowbronk Summer Festival & Oakland U. Summer School, Rochester 7/3-8/31/69 Detroit Symphony, dir: S. Ehrling and guests 7/30/69 // Trovatore Tucci, Barbieri; Tucker, MacNeil, Berberian; cond.: Levine; cone. pf. MISSISSIPPI Univ. of Southern Missippi Opera Theatre, C. Ware, Dir., Hattiesburg 7/17-21, 7/29-8/2/69 2 Musicals MISSOURI Opera Theatre of St. Louis, R. Snyder, Mgr., E. Murphy, Mus. Dir. SHOWBOAT OPERA FESTIVAL 6/2, 3/69 The Marriage of Figaro SI 9, 10/69 The Old Maid and the Thief & A Game of Chance 7/23/69 The Barber of Seville (at Milwaukee Summer Fest.) ST. LOUIS AUGUST FESTIVAL at Washington U. Quadrangle 8/15, 16/69 Don Giovanni Eng.: Shade 8/22, 23/69 The Italian Girl in Algiers Eng. 8/29, 30/69 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng.; Shane; Cossa NEBRASKA Univ. of Nebraska Opera Company, J. Zei, Dir., Lincoln 8/17, 19, 20/69 Un Ballo in maschera Eng.: Fuchs Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, R. Ruetz, Mus. Dir., Opera Theatre 8/1/69 Gianna Schicchi Eng.: Grossman & Hin und Zuriick Eng.: Farquhar 6/29, 30/69 scenes NEVADA Nevada Opera Company of Reno, T. Puffer, Dir. 7/5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13/69 Die Fledermaus 7/25, 26, 27 8/1, 2, 3/69 Don Pasquale 8/14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24/'69 Madame Butterfly Eng.: Puffer NEW HAMPSHIRE Congregation of the Arts, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover 6/29-8/23/69 concerts and symposia; mus. dir.: M. di Bonaventura; composers in residence: Sessions, Dallapiccola, Gerhard Hanover Opera Workshop, Miss R. Morton, Dir. SI23169 Cost fan tutte New Hampshire Music Festival, T. Nee, Dir., Center Harbor (7/10-8/14/69) 8/12, 14/69 The Magic Flute cone. pf. NEW JERSEY Garden State Arts Center Festival, Holmdel 6/12-8/30/69 Philadelphia, Washington, New York, New Jersey Symphony Orchestras; also ballet, musicals, pop. attractions (no opera) Monmouth Opera Festival, Monmouth program not available Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co., C. Wolfson, Mus. Dir. 8/5/69 Trial by Jury; 7/15/69 in Hillsdale Waterloo Village Music Festival, Stanhope 6/21-8/16/69 Casals Chamber Orchestra, Washington National Symphony; recitals NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Festival 6/6-21/69 program not available

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Summer 1969 Santa Fe Opera, J. Crosby, Gen. Dir., Opera Assn. of N. M. 7/5, 11, 16 8/21, 23/69 Tosca 7/9, 12, 18, 26/69 Cosi fan tutte 7/19, 25 8/16/69 The Magic Flute 8/1, 6, 9, 15/69 Le Rossignol & Help! Help! The Globolinsks Am. prem. 8/2, 8, 13/69 Salome 8/14, 20/69 The Devils of Loudun Am. prem. soloists: Best, Blegen, Bryn-Jones, Burrows, Cross, Davidson, Dooley, Endich, Gramm, Harrower, Kraft, Lacambra, Molnar, Niska, Reardon Scovotti, Shirley, Stewart, Townsend, Ulfung, Vanni, Watson, Wise, Workman, Yarick; Cond.: Crosby, Meier, Baustian, Skrowaczewski; St. Dir.: Menotti, Balk, Hebert, Swinarski, Mansouri, Gregory; Sets and Cos.: Kim, Nikolais, Conklin, Campbell, Reehling, Ter-Artunian, Jampolis NEW YORK Caramoor Festival, J. Rudel, Mus. Dir., Katonah 6/21 7/3/69 Semele cone. pf. Sills, Bonazzi; Ferrante, Simoneau, Berberian, Devlin 6/22 7/13/69 Curlew River Velis, Clatworthy, Metcalf, Berberian 6/27, 28/69 An Entertainment for Elizabeth with N.Y. Pro Musica, prem. Dir.: J. White;Text: J. Hollander 6/29 7/6/69 The Prodigal Son U.S. prem.; Velis, Clatworthy, Metcalf, Landston; dir.: Hebert; cos.: Evans Chautauqua Opera Association, L. Treash, Dir. 7/11, 14/69 The Pirates of Penzance 7/18, 21/69 The Magic Flute Eng. Martin 7/25, 26, 28/69 Carmen Eng. Martin 8/1, 4/69 The Old Maid and the Thief & Pagliacci Eng. Machlis 8/8, 9, 11/69 La Bohime Eng. Treash 8/14, 15, 18/69 The Student Prince Lake George Opera Festival, D. Lloyd, Dir., Glens Falls 7/14m, 18, 31 8/2, 16/69 Albert Herring II17, 19, 21m, 25 8/14, 16m/69 Don Pasquale Eng. Goldovsky, (8/3 see Manchester, Vt.) 7/24, 26, 28 8/1, 13/69 Gianni Schicchi & L'Heure espagnole Eng. Renan 8/7, 9, 11, 15/69 Ariadne auf Naxos Eng. Mead 8/12/69 Robert Baksa's Aria da capo world prem. 7/26, 29/69 opera galas (7/29 in Saratoga, E. Ormandy, cond.) Lyric Arts Opera, Inc., Miss G. Panvini, Port Jervis Festival 7/12/69 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci w.p. 7/19/69 La Traviata w.p. 7/26/69 Rigoletto w.p. 8/2/69 Madama Butterfly w.p. in Stroudsburg, Pa. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, C. Hankenson, Mgr. (7/3-8/24/69) 8/14/69 Verdi's Requiem Arroyo, Forrester; Lewis, Paul; cond: Ormandy with Philadelphia Orchestra Opera Under the Stars, L. Treash, Art. Dir., E. McArthur, Mus. Dir., Rochester 7/3, 5/69 Madame Butterfly Eng. 7/17, 19/69 The Barber of Seville Eng. 7/31 8/2/69 7/ Trovatore Schroon Lake, Adirondack and Champlain Festival 7/5-10/4/69 program not available Turnau Opera Players, Woodstock no performances this year NEW YORK CITY Metropolitan Opera Assn., R. Bing, Gen. Dir., in N . Y. C. parks 6/10, 13, 17, 20, 27/69 La Traviata Moffo; Tucker/diGiuseppe/Shirley, Merrill/ Walker/Mimes; cond.: Cleva 6/11, 14, 18 ,24/69 Aida Tucci/Amara, Dalis; Konya, MacNeil/Guarrera, Giaiotti/ Macurdy/Michalski, Plishka; cond.: Adler 6/21, 25, 28/69 Rigoletto Peters/Boky, Grillo/Love; Tucker, MacNeil, Macurdy, Michalski; cond.: Cleva New York Philharmonic in the Parks, co-sponsored Schlitz Brewing & N. Y. C. Parks Department 7/29-8/22/69 12 pfs. of 3 programs; conds.: Krips, Kurtz, Ancerl

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Summer 1969 Naumburg Symphony Concerts, Centra] Park Mall 5/30/69 solo: B. Valente; cond.: Brieflf 7/4/69 solo: I. Kipnis; cond.: Neel 7/31/69 solo: Z. Zeitlin; cond.: Rich 9/1/69 Werther cone, pf., Belling; Riegel; cond.: Buckley New York Opera Theatre, L. Fowler, Dir., at YMHA, Greater Flushing 7/3, 5, 7, 9/69 La Boheme 7/10, 12 8/14, 16/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. 7/17, 19 8/21, 23/69 La Traviata 7/24, 26 8/28, 30/69 Carmen Ruffino Opera Association, c/o Provincetown Playhouse, C. Ruffino, Dir. 6/30 7/7/69 Lucia di Lammermoor 7/1/69* La Bohime II14, 19/69 Die Fledermaus (2nd pf. Danbury, Conn.) 7/15*, 21/69 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci 7/21/69 Cos) fan tutte 7/28*, 29*/69 Rigoletto 8/4*, 12*/69 Carmen 8/11*, 26*/ 69.4ida 8/25/69 Tosca * — pf. at Monticello, N. Y. NORTH CAROLINA Brevard Music Festival, H. Janiec, Mus. Dir., McCrae, St. Dir. Brevard 7/5/69 The Elixir of Love 7/11/69 Rigoletto 7/18 / 69 Musical 8/1/69 The Magic Flute 8/8/69 Tosca 8/16/69 The Mikado 8/17/69 Carmina Burana Eastern Music Festival, at Guilford College, Greensboro (6/26-7/31/69) 7/3/69 La Traviata cond.: Morgenstern OHIO Blossom Music Festival, Cleveland Orchestra, G. Szell, Mus. Dir., Cuyohoga Falls (6/14-8/31/69) Pop. concerts (6/17-7/6), Festival concerts (7/10-8/17), N.Y.C. Ballet (8/21-24)— Gianni Schicchi by Lake Erie Opera Theatre Cincinnati Summer Opera Assn., Inc., S. Orwoll, Gen. Mgr. 7/2, 6/69 La Bohime Moflfo, Cooper; Campora, Darrenkamp, Nabokov 7/5, 9/69 // Pirata* Caballe; Marti, Patrick 7/11, 13/69 Rigoletto Costa, Pearl; Campora, Milnes, Nabokov 7/16, 19/69 La Forza del destino Lang, Pearl; Marti, Milnes, Ferenz, Smith 7/18, 20/69 The Elixir of Love Eng. Martin; Costa, Cooper; Kolk, Foldi 7/23, 25, 27/69 Faust Moynagh, Pearl; Alexander, Treigle, Darrenkamp 7/24, 26/69 Carmen Carol Smith, Altman; Olvis, Shinall 7/12/69 Gala "A Farewell Salute to the Zoo" stars of today and yesteryear * — new production Great Composers Festival, Lakeside 8/1-30/69 concerts, pop. concerts, ballet 7/29/69 Carmen Oberlin College-Conservatory, Music Theatre, R. Lazarus, Dir. 7/9-12/69 Musical 7/16-19/69 H.M.S. Pinafore 7/23-26/69 Carmen Eng. Martin 7/30-8/2/69 The Three Penny Opera Eng. Blitzstein 8/6-9/69 Ormindo Eng. Dunn 8/13-16/69 La Boheme Eng. Martin Ohio State University Opera Institute, Columbus (7/21-8/9/69) 8/8, 9/69 Die Fledermaus dir: Hickfang; guest dir.: Goldovsky PENNSYLVANIA Robin Hood Dell, Philadelphia 6/16-7/24/69 Philadelphia Orchestra conds.: Barenboim, Kostelanetz, Ancerl Temple University Music Festival & Institute, Ambler (6/24 8/9/69) 7/16/69 Don Pasquale dir.: Lucas 7/30/69 The Consul dir.: Lucas; cond.: Engel

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Summer 1969 RHODE ISLAND Newport Music Festival, G. Sauls, Dir., spoils, by R. I. Arts Foundation 8/7, 8/69 The Barber of Seville Eng. 8/7/69 Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon dir.: H. Butler; Am. Prem. Portsmouth Opera Festival 7/26-8/23/69 program not available SOUTH CAROLINA Converse College — Contemporary Music Festival, Spartanburg 7-8/69 program not available TENNESSEE Oak Ridge Festival, Oak Ridge 7-8/69 program not available Sewanee Music Center Festival, Sewanee 6/24-7/27/69 weekend concerts Oberlin Music Theatre, dir.: R. Lazarus VERMONT Marlboro Music Festival, R. Serkin, Art. Dir. 6/25-8/17/69 concerts, recitals; principal guest cond.: P. Casals (no opera) Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester 7/20/69 "Famous Arias from Famous Operas" by Lake George Opera Quartet 8/10/69 Don Pasquale by Lake George Opera Festival Co. VIRGINIA Shenandoah Valley Music Festival, R. Lert, Art. Dir., Woodstock 8/6, 9, 13, 15, 16/69 concerts WASHINGTON Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society, G. G. Guttridge, Dir., at Center Playhouse 7/10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19/69 Patience University of Washington, Festival Opera, S. Chappie, Dir., Seattle 8/20, 22/69 Don Pasquale Eng.: Dent WEST VIRGINIA Oblebay Institute, B. Goldovsky, Art. Dir., Oglebay Park, Wheeling 8/15, 19, 29/69 scenes cone. pf. w.p. 9,121169 Gianni Schicchi w.p. West Virginia Festival of the Arts at Fairmont State College, Fairmont 6j'28169 Honegger's King David 2 pfs. WISCONSIN Milwaukee World Festival 7/18-27/69 The Barber of Seville by St. Louis Opera recitals, ballet Peninsula Music Festival, T. Johnson, Mus. Dir., Fish Creek 8/9-24/69 concerts (no opera) WYOMING Fort Lewis College, Opera Festival (7/7-26/69) 7/11, 14, 17/69 Otello Barri; des.: College's Indian Dept., with Wyoming Symphony. Opera Gala PUERTO RICO Casals Festival, San Juan 5/28-6/11/69 concerts & recitals CANADA Banff School of Fine Arts, U. of Calgary, Alberta (7/2-8/11/69) 7/28 8/2/69 Cost fan tutte and tour 8/4, 9/69 musical Jeunesses Musicales Canadiennes, Orford Arts Centre, Mt. Orford, Quebec 6/28-8/31/69 concerts, seminars, classes Stratford Festival, V. di Bello, Mus. Dir., S. Silverman, Mus. Conslr. (6/10-10/11/69) 7/4-8/3/69 S. Silverman's The Satyricon Gardner; Creley; cond.: Smith; choreog.: Gordon; des.: Annals; project: Sprott 7113/69 The Abduction from the Seraglio cone. pf. in German with English dialogue; Carson, Boky; Simoneau, Macurdy; narr.: Thomas; cond.: Schick 7/31/69 Elephant Steps cond.: Smith Vancouver Summer Festival, Vancouver, B.C. program not available

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EUROPEAN FESTIVALS, SUMMER 1969 AUSTRIA Bregenzer Festpiele 7122-8/20169 Stolz's Hochzeit am Bodensee, L'Elisir d'amore Rinaldi; Alva, Taddei; cond.: Amaducci dir.: Crivelli; sets based on designs by Sanquirico 1832 Salzburg Festival (7/26-8/30/69) 7/26 8/2, 5, 20, 23, 30/69 Der Rosenkavalier*. Ludwig, Troyanos, Mathis; Adam; cond.: Bohm; dir.: Hartmann; des.: Otto 7/28 8/6, 11, 17, 23, 26/69 Cost fan tutte* Rothenberger, Elias; cond.: Ozawa; dir. & des.: Ponnelle 7/30 8/4, 9, 17, 22/69 Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo cond.: Marzendorfer, dir.: Graf 7/31 8/7, 12, 19,24/69 Bastien und Bastienne* & La Serva padrona* cond.: Hager; dir.: Stros 8/1, 4, 14, 18, 25, 29/69 Don Giovanni cond. & dir.: Karajan; des.: SchneiderSiemssen & Wakhevitch 8/3, 8, 15, 19, 24/69 // Barbiere di Siviglia cond.: Abbado; dir. & des.: Ponnelle 8/9, 13, 16, 28/69 Fidelio cond.: Bohm; dir.: Rennert; des.: Heinrich Vienna State Opera, Centennial (5/24-6/22/69) 5/25m/69 Missa Solemnis cond.: Bernstein 619169 Arabella 5/25/69 Fidelio cond.: Bohm 6/10/69 Das Rheingold 5/26/69 Don Giovanni 6/11/69 Cost fan tutte 5/27/69 Ariadne auf Naxos 6/12/69 Die Walkure 5/28/69 Le Nozze di Figaro 6/13/69 Faust 5j 29169 Dantons Tod 6/14/ 69 Wozzeck 5/30/69 Un Ballo in mashera 6/15/69 Siegfried 6/1/69 Turandot 61 \6j69 Die Zauberflote 6/2/69 Simon Boccanegra 6/17/69 Jenufa 6/3169 Der Rosenkavalier 6/18/69 Gotterddmmerung 6/4/69 Tristan und Isolde 6/19/69 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail 6/5/69 Salome 6/20/69 Lulu 6/6/69 Don Carlos 6/ 21 / 69 Falstaff 6/7/69 La Forza del destino 6/22/69 La Bohitne 61 SI69 Elektra BELGIUM Flanders Festival — see Holland

FINLAND Helsinki Festival (5/15-29/69) 5/16, 18/69 Ariadne auf Naxos by Berlin State Opera; cond.: Apelt 5/17/69 Cost fan tutte by Berlin State Opera; cond.: Freyer 5/19/69 Mierkanto's Juha cond.: Soderblom 5/20, 24/69 Boris Godunov Talvela; cond.: Jalas 5/21/69 Don Giovanni Krause; cond.: Jalas 5/22/69 Elektra Valkki, Tyrkko; cond.: Jalas FRANCE Aix-en-Province Festival (7/11-31/69) 7/11, 18, 24, 29/69 Don Giovanni 7/15, 23, 28/69 Cost fan tutte II17/69 The Burning Fiery Furnace by English Opera Group 7/19/69 The Prodigal Son by English Opera Group 7/21, 26, 30/69 // Barbiere di Siviglia

GERMANY Augsburg Open-Air Festival 6/21-7/27/69 Guillaume Tell, Nabucco Bayreuth Festival (7/25-8/28/69) 7/25 8/5, 8, 19, 23, 27/69 Der fliegende Hollander Jones/Rysanek; King, Mclntyre; cond.: Varviso; dir.: Everding, des.: Svoboda 7/26 8/6, 21, 26/69 Parsifal Jones cond.: Stein; dir.: Wagner/J-ehmann; des.: Wagner 7/27 8/4, 7, 9, 20, 24, 28/69 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg cond.: Klobucar, dir. & des.: Wolfgang Wagner 7/28 8/11, 25/69 Tristan und Isolde cond.: Bohm; dir.: Wagner/Lehmann; des.: Wagner 7/29, 30, 8/1, 3, 13, 14, 16, 18/69 Der Ring des Nibelungen cond.: Maazel; dir. & des.: Wagner/Hotter

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Summer 1969 Schwetzingen Festival 5/15/69 Klebe's Das Mdrchen by Deutsche Opera am Rhein; prem. Wiesbaden Festival (5/1-6/11/69) 5/1, 12/69 Die schweigsame Frau 5/2/69 Un Ballo in maschera Stella; Konya 5/11/69 Tannhauser Griimmer; Imdahl 5/17, 18/69 Werther or Le Comte d'Ory by Opera Comique, Paris 5/23, 26/69 Nabucco by Bratislava Opera 5/24/69 Suchon's The Whirlpool prem. by Bratislava Opera 5/31/69 Otello Watson; Del Monaco 6/7, 9, 11/69 Lucia di Lammermoor by Teatro Communale, Bologna 6/8/69 Mose by Teatro Communale, Bologna GREAT BRITAIN Aldeburgh Festival (6/7-29/69) 6/7, 16, 23/69 Purgatory & Crosse's The Grace of Todd prem. cond.: Atherton 6/10, 13, 20/69 ldomeneo cond.: Britten 6/12, 19, 26/69 The Prodigal Son cond.: Britten 6/29/69 The Fairy Queen cond.: Britten; cone. pf. Bath Festival Chorus 6/18/69 LaDamnation de Faust cond.: Davis Edinburgh Festival (8/24-9/13/69) MUSIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE art. dir.: A. Goehr; mus. dir.: D. Atherton 8/25-30/69: // Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Naboth's Vineyard (Goehr), Nazredin (Goehr), Pharsalia (Iain Hamilton) prem., and Little Mahagonny (Weill). FLORENCE OPERA COMPANY 8/25, 28 9/1, 8/69 Maria Stuarda 8/26, 30 9/3, 6, 9, 13/69 Rigoletto 8/29 9/5, 11/69 Malipiero's Sette Canzoni & Dallapiccola's// Prigioniero 9/4, 6, 10, 12/69 // Signor Bruschino & Gianni Schicchi Glyndebourne Festival (first dates listed) 5/25/69 Werther 5j'26/69 Cost fan tutte new prod. 6/13/69 Pelleas et Melisande 6/29/69 Don Giovanni Windsor Festival, Y. Menuhin, Dir., at Windsor Castle 9/17-27/69 The Merry Wives of Windsor

HOLLAND Flanders Festival, Ghent and Brussels 7/8/69 A Midsummer Nighfs Dream (By English Opera Group), Le Nozze di Figaro, The Cunning Little Vixen, Katya Kabanova, La Traviata, and The Fairy Queen (Purcell) cond.: Britten; cone. pf. Holland Festival 6/17, 20, 22/69 Cosl fan tutte cond.: Gibson 6/18, 21, 24, 25/69 Das Rheingold cond.: Hollreiser; dir.: Graf 7/1-9/69 (6 pfs.) Andriessen/de Leeuw/Mengelberg/Schat/van Vlijmen's Reconstruction prem. conds.: the 5 composers 7/3, 4, 5/69 Le Rossignol (& Petroushka) cond.: Fournet ITALY Arena di Yerona 7/16, 19, 24, 27 8/1, 7, 10, 14, 17/69 Turandot II18, 20, 26, 318/3, 6, 9, 12, 15/69 Aida 8/2, 5, 8, 13, 16/69 Don Carlo Festival of Two Worlds, G. C. Menotti, Art. Dir., Spoleto (6/20-7/13/69) 6/28 7/1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13/69 The Medium & El Retablo diMaese Pedro 7/3, 5, 8, 10, 12/69 L'ltaliana in Algeri ballet, chamber music Maggio Musicale di Firenze (5/2-6/30/69) Fidelio Jurinac; Aida Verrett; Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail Eddy Teatro dell'Opera, Baths of Caracalla, Rome 7-8/69 program not available

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Summer 1969 NORWAY Bergen International Festival 5/21-6/4/69 orchestra concerts (no opera this year) PORTUGAL Gulbenkian Festival, Lisbon (5/16-6/7/69) 5/16, 18, 19/69 Alcina 5/27, 28/69 El Retablo de Maese Pedro & Hin und Zuriick & Chailly's // Mantello 5/31 6/1/69 La Damnation de Faust

SWITZERLAND Lucerne 31st Annual International Festival of Music 8/13-9/7/69 visiting orchestras; recitals Zurich Festival (5/31-7/6/69) 5/31 6/4, 8/69 II Re Cervo 6127, 29/69 Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail

FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1969-70 Season

CALIFORNIA San Diego Opera Co., W. Herbert, Mus .Dir., San Diego 10/9, 11/69 Pagliacci & Orff's The Moon Eng. Nagy, Patrick 11/13, 15/69 Tannhauser Eng.; Barlow, Martin; Sullivan, Reardon, Price 2/19, 21/70 Faust Eng.; Thomson; Turgeon, Treigle 4/70 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng. 2 pfs. Sills, Williams; Cox, Treigle, Castel also 7 studt. mat. sponsored by S. D. Guild San Francisco Opera, K. H. Adler, Gen. Dir., War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco 9/16, 19, 24, 28 10/4/69 La Traviata Pilou; cond.: G. Patane 9/17, 21, 26/69 Ariadne auf Naxos prol. in Eng.; cond.: Schuller 9/20, 23 10/1, 12 11/28/69 La Boheme cond.: Coppola/Perisson 9/27, 30 10/3, 8/69 Fidelio Jones; King; cond.: Ehrling 10/7, 10, 15, 19/69 L'Elisir d'amore Grist; Pavarotti, Bruscantini; cond.: Patane 10/11, 14, 17, 26/69 Gdtterddmmerung cond.: Suitner 10/18, 21, 24, 29 11/30/69 Aida cond.: Perisson 10/22, 25, 28, 31/69 The Magic Flute Eng.; cond.: Mackerras 11/1, 4, 7, 9, 12/69 La Forza del destino cond.: Patane 11/5, 8, 11, 16/69 La Cenerentola* Berganza, Cervena; Capecchi, Bottazzo; cond.: Mackerras 11/14, 18, 22/69 Pelleaset Melisande cond.: Perisson 11/21, 25, 29/69 Jenufa* Eng.; Weathers, Dalis; Cassilly, Ulfung; cond.: Gregor major female artists: Berganza, Dalis, Deutekom, Dvorakova, Grist, Jones, Kirsten, Lilova, Marks, Martin, Pilou, Shuard, Weathers; major male artists: Berberian, Bergonzi, Blankenburg, Bottazzo, Bruscantini, Burrows, Cassilly, Chauvet, Esparza, Farrar, Grant, Gui, King, Mazura, Pavarotti, Spiess, Thomas, Tozzi, Ulfung, Ward, Wixell. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington Opera Society, R. Pearlman, Gen. Mgr., Washington 10/17, 19, 22/69 Le Comte d'Ory 11/28, 30 12/3/69 The Turn of the Screw w. slide and film projection 3/6, 8, 11/70 La Boheme 5/70 to be announced FLORIDA Dade Family Opera of the Miami Opera Guild, P. Czonka, Mus. Dir., Miami 11/30/69 Hansel and Gretel

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2969-70 Season Opera Guild of Greater Miami, A. di Filippi, Art. Dir., E. Buckley, Mus. Dir., Miami 1/26, 28, 31 2/3/70 La Traviata Caballe; Marti, Quilico, Caruso; st. dir.: Stivanello 2/16, 18, 21,24/70 Rigoletto Peters; MacNeil, Morell 3/16, 18, 21/70 Don Carlo Orlandi, Rankin; Prevedi, Cappuccilli, Ward, Giaiotti ILLINOIS Lyric Opera of Chicago, Carol Fox, Gen. Mgr., Chicago 9/26, 29 10/3, 8, 11/69 Moussorgsky's Khovanshchina* Carson, Pospinov-Baldani; Theyard, Bodurov, Andreolli, Ghiaurov, Mittelmann, Shtokolov; cond.: Bartoletti; dir.: Benois & Frisell; des.; Benois (for La Scala, Milan); also 1 studt. mat. 10/1, 4, 6, 10, 15, 18/69 Macbeth* Bumbry; Marti, Guelfl, Estes; cond.: Bartoletti; dir.: Campbell; des.: Hall 10/13, 22, 25, 27, 31/69 Madama Butterfly Weathers, Krebill; Cioni, Andreolli, A. Rinaldi, Van Ginkel; cond.: Quadri 10/21, 24, 29 11/3, 15/69 Der fliegende Hollander Silja, Curry; Cox, Stewart, Talvela; cond.: von Dohnanyi; dir.: W. S. Wagner 11/1, 5, 8, 14, 17/69 / Puritani M. Rinaldi, Curry; Kraus, Cappuccilli, Washington; cond.: Ceccato 11/12, 21, 24 12/3, 6/69 Don Giovanni* Watson, Ligabue, Raskin; Kraus, Gobbi, Evans, VanGinkel, Washington; cond.: Leitner; dir.: Gobbi; des.: Hall; also 1 studt. mat. 11/19, 22, 26 12/1, 12/69 El Amor brujo* & Cavalleria rusticana Cossotto, Krebill; Tagliavini, Guelfl; cond.: Bartoletti; dir.: Novaro; des.: Luzzatti & Ghiglia; also 1 studt. mat. 11/28 12/5, 8,10, 13/69 // Barbiere di Siviglia Home, Curry; Garaventa, Bruscantini, Evans, Vinco; cond.: Pritchard KENTUCKY Kentucky Opera Assn., M. Bomhard, Dir., Louisville 10/31 11/1/69 Lucia di Lammermoor Eng. 12/5, 6/69 Romeo et Juliette Eng. 1/70 (exact date not yet set) Don Pasquale Eng. 2/6, 7/70 Madama Butterfly Eng. 3/13, 14/70 Le Rossignol & L'Heure espagnole Eng. LOUISIANA New Orleans Opera House Assn., K. Andersson, Mus. Dir., Municipal Auditorium 10/9, 11/69 Verdi's Attila* Diaz; dir.: Cosenza; des.: Dorr 10/23, 25/69 Don Pasquale 11/13, 15/69 La Boheme 12/13, 15/69 Arabella* 2/19, 21/70 Tosca 3/19, 21/70 A Masked Ball 4/9, 11/70 The Medium* MARYLAND Baltimore Civic Opera, R. Wonderlic, Exec. Prod., R. Ponselle, Art. Dir., Baltimore 10/30 11/1, 3/69 Otello Curtis-Verna;Nagy, Quilico; cond.: P. H. Adler; dir.: Igesz 2/12, 14, 16/70 Don Pasquale Scovotti; di Giuseppe, Malas, Uppman; cond.: Muller; dir.: Lucas 5/21, 23, 25/70 Rigoletto Clements; Morell, Milnes; cond.: Muller; dir.; Lucas MICHIGAN Musical Performing Arts Assn. & Flint Symphony, W. Byrd, Mus. Dir., Flint 3/6, 7/70 The Barber of Seville Eng. NEW YORK CITY American Opera Society, A. S. Oxenburg, Dir., at Carnegie Hall (all cone, pf.) 11/5/69 Rossini's The Siege of Corinth Sills 1/21/70 A Zarzuela (title to be announced) Caballe 3/26/70 Goldmark's Die Konigin von Saba Verrett 4/22/70 Spontini's La Vestale Gulin Clarion Concerts, N. Jenkins, Mus. Dir., at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center 1969-70 Mayr's Medea in Corinto N. Y. prem.; Galvany, Patenaude, Stark: Cathcart, White, Palmer; cone. pf.

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1969-70 Season Little Orchestra Society, T. Scherman, Mus. Dir., at Philharmonic Hall 10/14/69 Orff's Prometheus Am. prem., Lorand; C. Alexander; semi-staged 1/26/70 Hoist's At the Boar's Head & Riders to the Sea Sanders; Hookman, Renan 12/69 L'Enfance du Christ (benefit pf). 12/14/69 Britten's The Prodigal Son N. Y. prem. (at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center) Metropolitan Opera Assn., R. Bing, Gen. Mgr., Lincoln Center 1969-70 repertoire and first dates and casts (other dates in next issue) 9/16/69 (opening) Aida Price, Cossotto; MacCracken, Merrill; cond.: Schippers 9/27/69 Andrea Chenier Arroyo, Chookasian; Corelli, Merrill, Corena; cond.: Franci 3/12/70 Ariadne auf Naxos Rysanek, Grist, Lear; King, Berry, Uppman; cond.: Bohm 2/11/70 Boris Godunov* Kabaivanska, Forst; Ghiaurov/Siepi, Gedda, Dooley, Tozzi, Corena; cond.: Mehta; dir.: Merrill; des.; O'Hearn 10/24/69 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci* Cossotto, Casei; Domingo, Colzani, Moffo; McCracken, MacNeil; cond.: Schippers; dir. & des.: Zeffirelli 9/17/69 Eugene Onegin Eng., Lear, Grillo; Shirley, Stewart, Tozzi; cond.: Skrowaczewski 9/19/69 La Fanciulla del West Collier; Domingo, MacNeil; cond.: Schippers 1/17/70 Der Freischiitz* Janowitz, Mathis; Konya, Macurdy; cond.: Bohm; dir.: Schenck; des.: Heinrich 12/20/69 Hansel and Gretel Eng., Stratas, Elias, Chookasian; Velis, Walker; cond.: Allers 9/20/69 LuisaMiller Caballe, Madeira; Bergonzi, Milnes, Giaiotti; cond.: Cleva 10/11/69 Macbeth Suliotis; Milnes, Alexander, Tozzi; cond.: Molinari-Pradelli 3/3/70 Norma* Sutherland, Home; Bergonzi, Siepi; cond.: Bonynge; dir.: Deiber; des.: Heeley 3/30/70 Le Nozze di Figaro Zylis-Gara, Stratas, Elias; Siepi, Krause, Corena; cond.: Krips 12/12/69 Orfeo ed Euridice* Bumbry, Tucci, Peters; cond.: Varviso; dir.: Sparemblek; des.: Gerard 3/16/70 Romeo et Juliette Freni, Baldwin; Corelli, Reardon, Macurdy; cond.: Lombard 1/27/70 Der Rosenkavalier Rysanek, Grist, Ludwig; Berry, Gedda, Knoll; cond.: Bohm. 11/6/69 Samson et Dalila Bumbry; Vickers, Bacquier, Macurdy, Michalski; cond.: Cleva 11/20/69 Siegfried* Nilsson, Grist, Chookasian; Thomas, Stewart, Stolze, Keleman, Ridderbusch; cond. & dir.: von Karajan; des.: Schneider-Siemssen/ Wakhevitch 9/16/69 Tosca Tebaldi; Prevedi, Colzani, Corena; cond.: Molinari-Pradelli 4/16/70 La Traviata Tucci; Alexander, Sereni; cond.: Molinari-Pradelli 10/3/69 // Trovatore Price, Dalis; Corelli, Sereni, Vinco; cond.: Molinari-Pradelli 12/4/69 Die Walkiire Nilsson, Janowitz, Ludwig; Vickers, Stewart, Ridderbusch; cond.: von Karajan 111 170 Die Zauberflote Raskin, Popp; Gedda, Prey, Dooley, Hines; cond.: Skrowaszewski New York City Opera, J. Rudel, Gen. Dir., at State Theatre, Lincoln Center 9/10-11/16/69 Rigoletto (opening), Lucia di Lammermoor*, Boito's Mefistofele*, Orff's Songs of Catullus (Catulli Carmina)*, Faust, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, The Marriage of Figaro, Manon, Prince Igor, The Ballad of Baby Doe, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Bomarzo, Capriccio, L'Heure espagnole. New York City Opera, J. Rudel, Gen. Dir. & Music Center Opera Assn., in

Los Angeles 11/19-12/7/69 Boito's Mefistofele*, Lucia di Lammermoor*, The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Igor, Manon, Rigoletto, 11 Trittico (11 Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi), The Ballad of Baby Doe 2 pfs. each OKLAHOMA Tulsa Opera Co., Jeanette Turner, Gen. Mgr., Tulsa 11/6, 8/69 Aida Tucci, Lazzarini; Tucker, Meliciani, Giaiotti; cond.: Moresco 3/12, 14/70 // Barbiere di Siviglia Garfi; Tajo; cond.: Moresco

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1969-70 Season SOUTH CAROLINA Bob Jones University Opera Assn., D . Gustafson, Mus. Dir., Greenville 3/26, 28/70 Tosca Niska; Moulson, Meredith 5/22, 26/70 The Elixir of Love Eng.

TEXAS Dallas Civic Opera, L. Kelly, Dir., Dallas 11/1, 7, 9/69 Aida* Suliotis; cond.: Rescigno; des.: Hall 11/13, 14/69 Don Giovanni Stich-Randall, Zylis-Gara, Sciutti; Diaz, Bennelli; dir./ des.: ZefRrelli 11/26, 29 12/2/60 Verdi Requiem Callas, Verrett; Flagello; cond.: Rescigno Houston Grand Opera Co., W. Herbert, Mus. Dir., Houston 10/21, 24, 26/69 Turandot 12/9, 12, 14/69 Rigoletto 1/6, 9, 11/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Gianni Schicchi* 2/17, 20, 22/70 The Ballad of Baby Doe* 5/5, 8, 10/70 The Tales of Hoffmann 12 studt. mat., 3 out-of-town pfs. WASHINGTON Seattle Opera Assn., G. Ross, Gen. Dir., Seattle 9/18, 20, 24, 26#, 27/69 Die Fledermaus Eng., Fenn, Patina, Mavrikos; Reardon, Torigi; cond.: Katims 10/30 11/1, 5, 7 # , 8/69 Turandot w. film projct; Nilsson; Veronelli; cond.: Buckley 1/22, 24, 28, 30# 2/1/70 Floyd's Of Mice and Men* prem.; Moulson, Patrick; cond.: Coppola; dir.: Corsaro; des.: Klein 3/19, 21, 25, 27#, 28/70 La Forza del destino Molnar; Manuguerra; cond.: Veltri 5/7, 9, 13, 15#, 16/70 Salome Barlow; Ludgin, Stark; cond.: W. Martin # denotes National Series with young, American singers in English for popular prices CANADA Canadian Opera Company, H. Geiger-Torel, Gen. Dir., Toronto, Ont. 9/12, 17, 22, 27 10/9, 11/69 La Forza del destino* Krilovici, Dunn; Novoa, Garrard, Beresford; cond.: Barbini; dir.: Besch 9/15, 19, 27, 30 10/2, 8, 11/69 Die Fledermaus Eng.; Andrew; Opthof, Little; cond.: Feldbrill 9/20, 24 10/3/69 Elektra* Varnay, Dunn, Schauler; Mundt, Stark; cond.: Bender; dir.: Geiger-Torel 9/23, 26 10/4, 6/69 Turandot Lippert, Thomson; Cassilly, Rubes; cond.: Barbini; dir.: Major 10/2, 9/69 student mat. 9/25, 29 10/1, 4, 7, 10/69 Rigoletto Koszut-Okruta; Duval, Quilico; cond.: Bernardi; dir.: Major Les Grands Concerts, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, F. P. Decker, Art. Dir., Montreal, P.Q. 3/3, 4/70 La Vida breve cone, pf., Gulin, Tourangeau; Bonhomme, Moreno; cond.: de Burgos Vancouver Opera Assn., I. Guttman, Art. Dir., Vancouver, B.C. 101'69 Salome Kouba, Rankin; Cassel; cond.: Kresimir; des.: Darling 12/69 L'Elisir d'amore Clements 2/70 La Boheme Salemka; Cossa 4/70 Un Ballo in maschera Tinsley; cond.: Bernardi

All performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p." (with piano). — Performances and news items once announced will not be relisted at the time of performance.—*denotes new production; m—denotes matinee.

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