May - CPANDA: Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive

CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN
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May, 1965
NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES
Ludwig Lenel, in-residence composer at Muhlenberg College, Pa., will
have his second opera, THE BOSS , premiered by Muhlenbergfs opera workshop. The one-act work will be presented on May 13, 14, and 15 together
with Wolf-Ferrari's "Secret of Suzanna". The Opera Workshop, started
in 1960, became a joint college-community venture in 1962 and, in addition to its annual Spring performances at the college, has performed for
local clubs and organizations in the community and in surrounding areas.
In 1963 the group premiered Lenel's "Young Goodman Brown".
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Henry Papale, 28-year old composer from Pittsburgh, based his most recent opera on Gogol's THE NOSE, choosing the same subject matter as
did Shostakovich. Other works by Mr. Papale include THE BALLOON, a
one-act "abstract tragedy" with a cast of four, scored for chamber
orchestra or piano accompaniment, and two children's operas, THE ONLY
GREEN PLANET, a two-act space musical for seventh and eighth graders,
and THE PRINCE AND THE SHOVEL-TOOTHED WITCH to be performed by an
adult cast. This 35-minute opera recently won first prize at the Penn
State Children's Dramatic Radio Show competition. Por further information contact Mr. Papale at 521 Collins Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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After the copyrights expired on Gilbert and Sullivan works in 1961,
George Rowell and Kenneth Mobbs, two British Savoyard specialists,
combined Gilbert's play "Engaged" with various unknown musical numbers
by Sullivan. The result was ENGAGEDI OR CHEVIOT'S CHOICE which was
first performed at the Bristol Opera School in England three years ago.
On April 23 it was premiered in the United States by the Village Light
Opera Group, Ltd., a New York company dedicated to Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta.
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Another recent adaptation of original words and original music have been
presented by the Manhattan School of Music - The Pour Winds Theatre
Group on April 30 and May 1.
Entitled THE TRIUMPH OF DELIGHT, the
fully-staged Elizabethan masque combines sixteenth century masques by
Ben Jonson with airs and dance pieces of the same period, incorporating
folk tunes and songs by such composers as Campion, Dowland and Byrd.
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-2Designs for the decor were by Mosca, Jenny Egan functioned as artistic
director, Antonino Lizaso as musical director, Maria Karnilova as
choreographer; Robert Cotton is the general manager of the group.
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Italian composer, Antonio Bibalo's THE SMILE AT THE FOOT OP THE LADDER
after Henry Miller's story (see Sept.f64 Bulletin) was premiered at the
Hamburg Stateopera on April 6. The cast under Theodore Bloomfield's
baton included Heinz Blankenburg, Ruth-Margaret Puetz and Kerstin Meyer;
stage director was Egon Monk. The opera as well as the performance were
well received.
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In Pebuary, the Cologne Opera in Germany staged an interesting premiere
in the form of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's DIE SOLDATEN. Written in the
Wozzeck tradition but transcending both its musical and dramatic idiom,
the opera poses many production problems. The story is based on an
eighteenth century play by Jakob Michael Lenz about the distruction of
the innocent through fate and circumstance and it unfolds on various
levels and in various periods simultaneously. Parts of the premiere
performance were previously taped and transmitted over loudspeakers
placed throughout the opera house. Part of the orchestra,which was
placed in back and below the stage ,was also amplified over the loudspeakers. Filmed sequences were mixed with live action on stage.
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The St. Pancras Festival in London included in its spring schedule the
British premiere of Verdi's first opera OBERTO. Because of the rezoning of the City of London,the St. Pancras Festival is threatened in
its existence after the current season. It is hoped that this imaginative group, which has mounted many rare works and British premieres
(this season "II Retorno d'Ulisse in Patria" and "The Lodger") will
be able to continue.
EUROPEAN OPERA CENTERS WITH VARYING PURPOSES
All indications point to Geneva as the new center of Herbert van Karajan's
future operatic activities. There have been rumors, supported by
published interviews with the conductor, that he plans to bring together
many famous opera companies for periodic guest engagements at the new
Geneva opera house. He further envisions exchange visits by these
companies and TV tapings as well as recordings of the choice productions.
The extent of these plans is not specified at this time but it seems
quite certain that Berlin and Milan (Karajan has close ties in both
cities) will participate.
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-3A "service center" for operatic personnel has been established in Munich,
Germany. Headed by Armand McLane, Kurt Saffir, and Donald Arthur from
the U.S. and Bernard Brook-Partridge from Great Britain OPERA INTERNATIONAL e.V. will be an information center for singers, directors,
designers, etc. seeking employment in Europe. Membership dues vary with
different countries and are partially dependent on postal rates: US$10.
includes air-mail postage for publications, membership in Germany is DM25.
Under its editor Jane Hunter, Opera International published its first
Journal in April. This publication will appear bi-monthly and contains
original articles as well as reprints from American or German music
publications, European reviews of members' performances and general news
items. The first Annual Guide is in preparation and will include information on living conditions in Central Europe, audition practices,
theatres and theatre routines in Central Europe, the "Fach" system of
casting, European laws and changes of laws pertaining to the foreign
artist, glossary of theatrical and musical terms in German and English.
The non-profit organization will answer inquiries by its members but will
not act as artist's agent or placement bureau. For further information
write to Opera International e.V., Residenzstrasse 13/lV, 8 Munich 2,
Germany.
ARTS CENTERS AND NEW AUDITORIUMS
The Nassau (Long Island, N.Y.) County Board has approved the amount of
$9.5 million for the designing and construction of the 14,000-seat coliseum, the first structure in the proposed $46 million JOHN F. KENNEDY
CENTER near Mitchel Field, N.Y. A 2,100-seat concert and opera hall is
the next project. Byron Belt has been appointed County Director of the
Performing and Fine Arts; the California architectual firm of Welton
Becket and Associates, responsible for the Los Angeles Music Center, has
been commissioned to submit the designs.
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The Washington, D.C., JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS recently received one of its major grants ($500,000) from the Joseph P.
Kennedy Jr. Foundation. In order to acquire the $15.5 million Congressional appropriations the Center must raise another $600,000 by public
subscription before June 1. The Center will house three auditoriums
under one roof, with seating capacities of 2,700, 2,000, and 1,000 respectively.
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The Metropolitan Opera, while on its annual tour visit to Boston in April,
played for the first time in the recently opened WAR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM.
The 5,800-seat house is equipped for opera, concerts, film showings, as
well as sport events and exhibitions. Some of its new mechanical features include acoustical ceiling panels, a slotted stage floor which
allows scenery stored below the stage to be raised on to the stage directly, removable seats on the auditorium's floor and tracked partitions
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-4that convert part of the large hall into smaller meeting or exhibition
areas. Amplification is used for opera performances.
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San Francisco's Mayor John Shelley has proposed a $29 million bond issue
for an improved and partially new cultural center. The four-part program
proposes to rehabilitate the War Memorial Opera House replacing the 3,200
seats in the auditorium, furnishing new technical equipment and enlarging the stage and pit; the addition of a 1,000-seat auditorium in the
Veteran's Building; the construction of a new musical arts building to
house a 2,200-seat auditorium for the San Francisco Ballet and available
also for recitals, chamber music and drama; the redesigning of the San
Francisco Museum of Art into a modern facility.
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Detroit has joined the long line of cultural-center-planners and it envisions a 200-acre area (half of this for landscaped park land and apartment housing) at a total cost of $250 million. The present Art Institute,
Historical Museum, main Public Library, Wayne State University and the
new Medical Center are to be the core of the new development. A Natural
History Museum, a Museum of Science and Technology, a Theatre Arts Center,
a Musical Arts Center and a Planetarium are to be added. Charles A.
Blessing, director of the City Planning Commission, presented the 20-year
plan to the Community Council for approval.
BOOKS AND LIBRARIES, RECORDS AND TAPES
The eighty-two year history of the Metropolitan Opera House on thirtyninth Street will be reviewed in the GOLDEN HORSESHOE. Over 300
photographs in color and in black and white will be representative of
every phase of the opera house's history, artistically as well as
architectually and historically. Pictures of most of the Met's famous
singers and of celebrities, artists and companies who have performed
at the opera house are included. Some photographs have never before
been published. "Golden Horseshoe" was prepared by Frank Merkling, editor
of Opera News, and his associates at the Metropolitan Opera Guild's magazine. Viking Press announces the publication date as September 27,
coinciding with the last opening night of the Metropolitan at its present
home. The pictorial history will sell for $16.50. By special arrangement Central Opera Service can offer the book to COS members at a prepublication price of $13.50 for orders received before August 31. Please
use coupon below for identification as COS member.
SPECIAL OFFER TO CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE MEMBERS: (good before Aug.31 only)
Please fill in coupon and mail with your remittance to:
"Golden Horseshoe" Room 305, 1425 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10018
Please reserve
copies of GOLDEN HORSESHOE at COS members' price of
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NAME
ADDRESS
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-5The Institute of International Education, 809 United Nationa Plaza, New
York, N.Y. has published a revised, fourth edition of the two-volume
set of HANDBOOKS ON INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. One volume is for U.S. nationals interested in studies abroad listing systems and institutions of
higher education in nearly 100 foreign countries. It includes American
institutions abroad with undergraduate programs, special programs for
teachers, teen-age exchanges, summer seminars and study groups. The
second booklet reports on the same programs in the U.S. open to foreign
nationals. The books can be bought separately for $3.50 or the set
for $6.
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The NEW YORK OPERA LIBRARY INC., 305 East 45 Street, New York 17, N.Y.,
under its director Timothy Mulligan, has issued its new Record Catalogue.
Listings are arranged in two parts, imported and domestic recordings,
the latter including opera tapes* N.Y.Opera Library also publishes a
monthly newsletter in which it offers its subscribers space for "Want Ads";
a maximum of fifty words costs$2.
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It seems that the NY Public Music Libraries on 42 Street and 58 Street will
not be able to complete their move to Lincoln Center f s Library-Museum this
Spring (see Sept* f 64 Bulletin). The libraries have been closed in
preparation of the move since January and February respectively but
financial difficulties have put a temporary halt to the actual moving.
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A new French record label MONDIOPHONIE was established to further interest in French opera. Artists of the Grand Opera and the Opera Comique Co. have offered their services on a profit sharing basis rather
than on a straight fee or royalty arrangement. The company's first release is Massenet's "Werther", distributed in the U.S. by Columbia
Records; further operas to be recorded are "Manon" and "Les Huguenots".
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Composers Recordings Inc. has reissued the former Westminster disk of
Hugo Weisgall's one-act opera "THE TENOR". Other operas appearing on this
label are "Nausicaa" by Peggy Glenville-Hicks and "The Crucible" by
Robert Ward.
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MurLyn Recording and Educational Products Corp., 17 East 45 Street, New
York, N.Y., offers MUSICAL VOCAL TAPES to assist the singer in the
study of Arias and Art Songs. The two-track tapes have prerecorded
accompaniment on the upper track while the singer records his voice on
the lower track. Both tracks can be played separately or simultaneously;
the lower track can be erased and rerecorded. Tapes of popular Italian
arias and French and German Art Songs are available for various voice
categories.
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-6DESERET by Leonard Kastle, a three-act opera with a Mormon theme,was
recorded on sound track and 16mm black and white film at its premiere
on NBC TV in 1961. Warren Steibel, agent for the work, offers the
audio tape for viewing and listening to those seriously interested in
producing the opera. He may be contacted at 405 East 54 Street, New York,
N.Y.
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
The Contemporary Music Project of the MUSIC EDUCATORS NATIONAL CONFERENCE
is sponsoring a seminar-conference on Comprehensive Musicianship. Scheduled for April 22-25 at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., the
seminar's title is "The Foundation for College Education in Music".
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The fifth annual meeting of the MARYLAND MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION was
held at the Sheraton-Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, Md., on April 30 and
May 1.
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The University of Cincinnati will be host to a week long program of an
EXPOSITION OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN MUSIC. There will be lectures,
seminars and concerts with Max Rudolf, director of the Symphony Orchesta,
conducting on May 7, 8 and 9. On May 9 and 10 Carlisle Floyd's "The
Sojourner and Molly Sinclair" will be performed by the College-Conservatory.
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A conference on THEATRE ARCHITECTURE, sponsored by the United States
Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), was held at Indiana University
in Bloomington on April 30 and May 1 and 2. Some 400 participants from
all parts of the U.S. and Canada were expected,representing all phases
of the musical theatre (theatre planners and architects, music administrators and educators, lighting and acoustical engineers, etc.). Among the
subjects discussed were "Opera Houses on Campus", "Preliminary Programming for Arts Facilities","New Technical Developments for the Theatre", and
"Theatre Performance Facilities in Secondary Schools".
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A CLASSIS FOR THE CREATIVE PATRONS OF MUSIC is being arranged by the American Symphony Orchestra League to coincide with the organization's Summer
Institute of Orchestral Studies (see Summer Workshops). (The term"Classis"
stems from the classical days of Rome and refers to a consulting together
of persons of highest rank.) Scheduled for July 4-14,the meetings will
be held on picturesque Monterey Peninsula in California. It is the first
venture of this kind and ASOL hopes to assist the music patron (board
and committee member) to better understand the creative and recreative
artist and the functions and functioning of a symphony orchestra. Almost
equal time will be devoted to Arts Administration, listening to rehearsals and concerts and to vacation activities. For further information
write to ASOL, P.O.Box 66, Vienna, Va. 22180
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-7The first national meeting of ARTS COUNCIL OF AMERICA (see April '65
Bulletin) has been scheduled for June 16-19 in Washington, D.C. to coincide with the American Symphony Orchestra League's annual NATIONAL LEAGUE
CONFERENCE. (Previous ASOL conferences included sessions for members of
the Arts Councils of America, formally the Community Arts Councils Inc.)
Sessions will be held concurrently and attendance for both conferences is
estimated at 700. The conference theme will be "The Arts: A Central
Element of a Good Society" and discussions will be based on the recently
published Rockefeller Panel Report. For registration information write
to ASOL, P.O. Box 66, Vienna, Virginia
22180.
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The MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, with headquarters at the Library of Congress
in Washington, has recently met in Dallas and appointed Irvin Lowens
president. Speakers at the meeting included composers Gunther Schuller
and Robert Ward, conductor Donald Johanos, music critic John Rosenfield
and U.S. Registrar of Copyrights, Abraham Kaminstein. The next meeting
is scheduled for July 8 and 9 in Detroit in conjunction with the annual
meeting of the American Library Association of Detroit.
SEMINARS AND MASTER CLASSES
Beginning May 29 through June 9, Nadia Boulanger will hold a seminar for
composers, conductors, instrumentalists, and vocalists at- the CRANE
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC at the New York State University College in Potsdam, N.Y. Participation will be on a selective and invitational basis;
applications may be submitted to Dr. Helen M. Hosmer. A limited number
of auditors will be admitted. Works by the following composers have been
chosen for analysis: Bach, Beethoven, Bjorlin, Dowland, Faure, Haydn,
Hindemith, des Pres, Monteverdi, Mozart, Schuetz, Sermizy, and Stravinsky,
This will mark the sixth visit of Mile. Boulanger to Potsdam's Crane
Music Department; the first one was in 1939.
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Lotte Lehmann, another almost legendary figure of artist-teacher, held a
Master Class at New York's Town Hall on April 21. The evening was a
benefit for the MANHATTEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC. Twelve voice students of the
school sang Lieder by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and
Wolf. Analyzing each performance, Mme. Lehmann demonstrated her method
of teaching and conveyed her interpretation of each song.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF OPERA will be the title of an adult education course planned by C.W. Post College together with the Metropolitan
Opera Guild for next fall. The evening courses will be held on the
campus of the Long Island College and will be open to the general public.
Further details may be obtained from the Educational Dept., Metropolitan
Opera Guild, 1425 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
American opera composer, Douglas Moore, has just completed a two-month
course and master class at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA in Tampa.
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-8FIRST LOOK AT THE 1965 - 66 SEASON
The AMERICAN OPERA SOCIETY and its director Sven Oxenburg have announced
the following repertory for the coming season: Donizetti's "Roberto
Devereux", Britten's "Billy Budd", Boito's "Mefistofele" and Verdi's
"Giovanna d'Arco". A Spanish zarzuela (operetta) will still be announced.
Among the singers to appear with the AOS are Mmes. Berganza, Caballe,
H o m e , Stratas, Tebaldi, and Messrs. Evans, Flagello, Gedda, Ghiaurov,
Kraus and Lewis.
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The CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY'S season in Toronto will open September 17.
A total of twenty-four performances is scheduled. Four of the six operas
to be presented will be new productions: "Turandot", "The Barber of
Seville", and a double-bill of "Mavra" and "Salome"; "Rigoletto" and
"La Boheme" will complete the repertoire. The touring company will
travel through Eastern Canada in early 1966 with the opera-comique version of "Carmen" in English. The group's artistic director is Herman :
Geiger-Torel.
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Mrs. Jackson G. Henderson, president of the CHARLOTTE OPERA ASSOCIATION,
informed us of next season's repertoire: "La Boheme" in November, "La
Forza del Destino" in February, and "An Evening with Roger and Hammerstein" in March. John Richard McCrae is general director, Henry Janiec
music director. Each opera will be performed twice, a youth matinee on
Saturday (also serving as dress rehearsal) and the evening performance
on the following Monday.
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Carol Fox, director of the CHICAGO LYRIC OPERA, announced the ten-opera
repertoire for the 1965 season (October 11 - December 8 ) . The company
opens with Boito's "Mefistofele" (Tebaldi, Ghiaurov,Kraus) and will
present "Wozzeck" in English (Pilarczyk, Evans, Meredith) for the first
time in Chicago. The remaining operas are "Rigoletto" (Scotto, MacNeil,
Kraus), "L'Heure Espagnole" (Berganza, Kraus, Bruscantini) together
with "Carmina Burana" (Martelli, Kraus, Bruscantini), "Samson et Dalila"
(Bumbry, Vickers), "La Boheme" (Freni, Corelli, Bruscantini, Cesari,
Tadeo), "Madama Butterfly" (Scotto, Cioni), "Simon Boccanegra"
(Ligabue, Cioni, Gobbi), "Aida" (Price/Lee, Cossotto, Casellato, Vinco).
Pino Donati and Bruno Bartoletti will conduct.
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The CONCERT OPERA ASSOCIATION of New York, which has annually presented
rarely-heard works in concert form,will suspend its operation for next
season. Thomas Scherman, director of COA and of the Little Orchestra
Society, will be taking a sabbatical during the 1965-66 season.
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The DALLAS CIVIC OPERA and its producer, David Kelly, will present two
performances of Handel's "Giulio Cesare" next season (see April Bulletin,
Kansas City Foundation). The cast will include Lydia Marimpietri, Ordia
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-9Dominguez, Ezio Flagello, Mario Petri, Cesare yaletti, and Nicola Zaccaria. Other operas scheduled by the Dallas Civic Opera are "Tosca"tand
"La Traviata" in the 1958 Zefirelli production featuring Mile. Caballe.
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The operas to be performed by the INDIANA UNIVERSITY OPERA WORKSHOP in
Bloomington include "Don Pasquale", "The Magic Flute", "Macbeth",
"The Dialogue of the Carmelites", and one performance each of "Der
Rosenkavalier" and "Parsifal". All other operas will be performed
three or four times. A seventh work is still to be announced. Dean
Wilfred Bain is general manager of opera productions with Ted Jones as
his assistant; Tibor Kozma and Wolfgang Vacano are the conductors, Ross
Allen and Hans Busch the stage directors; Mario Cristini and Andreas
Nomikos are in charge of scenic designs; Ingrid Insull is the head costumer.
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LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS will sponsor the first International University Choral Festival. Starting September 20 there will
be six concerts in all with the final one combining twenty ensembles
representing fourteen foreign countries. While in the U.S. the foreign
performers will be cared for by the Center's Educational Fund which is
also arranging for the groups' visits to Washington, D.C. and to various
universities. It is hoped that this program will stimulate other artistic
exchanges at university level.
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Rudolf Bing, general manager of the METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION,
announced the complete repertoire of twenty-five operas for the 1965-66
season and some of the new members of the company. The twenty-nineweek season in New York will open on September 27 with a new production
of "Faust" (the opera which opened the first season in the present house
in 1883). Jean-Louis Barrault will make his American debut as operatic
stage director, Jacques Dupont will be responsible for the designs and
Georges Pretre will conduct. The cast will include Gabriella Tucci,
Nicolai Gedda, Cesare Siepi and Robert Merrill. On the second evening
a new production of Tchaikovsky's "Pique Dame" will be heard in Goldovsky's English translation; Henry Butler will stage the work, Robert
O'Hearn will design it and Thomas Schippers will conduct the cast which
includes Teresa Stratas, Regina Resnick, Rosalind Elias, Jbm Vickers,
John Reardon and William Walker. "Tannhaeuser" will feature Birgit
Nilsson singing both Venus and Elisabeth in the same performance and the
debut of Thomas Stewart. Others in the cast will be Wolfgang Windgassen
and Arturo Sergi; Joseph Rosenstock will conduct. Other operas at the
Metropolitan Opera next season will be "Manon Lescaut", "Parsifal",
"Arabella", "L'Elisir d'Amore", "La Fanciulla del West", "La Perichole"
(with Cyril Ritchard), "Andrea Chenier", " Un Ballo in Maschera", "II
Barbiere di Seviglia", "La Boheme", "Don Carlo", "Trovatore", "Don
Giovanni", "Fidelio", "Aida", "Falstaff", "Rigoletto", "Lucia di
Lammermoor", "Madama Butterfly", "Tosca", "Samson et Dalila", and
"Salome". Artists who will make their debut with the company besides
the above mentioned,are sopranos Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, mezzos
Teresa Berganza and Ruza Pospis, tenors James King, Ion Piso and Gianni
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-10Raimondi, and basses Nicolai Ghiaurov and Nicola Gyuzelev, and conductors
Zubin Mehta and Francesco Molinari-Pradelli. - Closing night is scheduled for April 17. A Gala Concert is planned for this, the last evening
in the opera house on 39th Street.
The December 1964 issue of the Bulletin announced seven new productions
planned by the METROPOLITAN OPERA for its first season at Lincoln Center,
which will open September 16, 1966. Two more operas to be presented in
new productions are "Elektra" and "La Gioconda". The Strauss opus will
be conducted by Thomas Schippers and Herbert Graf may return to stage it;
the Ponchielli opera will be under the baton of Pausto Cleva, Margaret
Wallmann will be the stage director and Beni Montresor the designer. In
addition to the artists announced in December, the following will return
to or make their debut with the company in the 1966-67 season: Mmes.
Bjoener, Dalis, Ludwig, Moffo, Nilsson, Rysanek and Tebaldi; and Messrs.
Berry, Corelli, Evans, King, Konya, Merrill, MacNeil, Prevedi, Thomas
and Vickers; stage directors Michael Cacoyannis and Franco Zefirelli and
conductors Colin Davis and Georges Pretre.
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The METROPOLITAN OPERA NATIONAL COMPANY'S roster for its first season
(1965-66) includes 31 soloists; sopranos: Barone, Niska, Peil, Roberto,
Savridi; mezzos: Berse, Davidson, Friederich, Kerbill, Pearl, Tourangeau,
Zschau; tenors: Bennett, Cowden, Craig, Di Giuseppe, Di Virgilio, Lacona,
Paige, Talley-Schmidt; baritones: Bottcher, Farrar, Fiorito, Patrick,
Shinall, Van Way; basses: Dobriansky, Gonzalez, Kermoyan, yan Ginkel, and
Vokataitis. The repertoire, as previously announced, consists of "Carmen",
"Cenerentola", "Madama Butterfly", and "Susannah" and stage directors and
designers for each work (in the above order) are Ducreux and Dayde,
Rennert and Montresor, Aoyama and Cho Lee, and Quintero and Hays. Conductors are La Marchina and Krachmalnick. Dates and places to be visited:
9/20-10/2 Butler Univ.,Indianapolis 10/4,5 Scottish Rite Cathedral,Ft.Wayne
10/6,7 Univ.of Illinois, Champaign 10/8,9 Univ.of Wisconsin,Madison
10/11,12 Cincinnati Music Hall
10/13-16 Music Hall, Cleveland
10/18-23 Fisher Theatre, Detroit
n/l-20 State Theatre, New York City
11/22-28 Music Hall Theatre,Boston
11/30 Palace Theatre, Albany
12/1,2 Stanley Theatre, Utica
12/3,4 Capital Theatre, Ottawa
12/6-11 Place des Arts, Montreal
12/13-18 O r Keefe Center, Toronto
12/27-1/2 Brooklyn Academy,New York 1/4-8 Mosque Theatre, Newark
1/10-12 Univ. of N.C., Raleigh
l/l3 Auditorium, Ashville
1/14,15 Ovens Auditorium, Charlotte 1/17,18 Civic Auditorium, Jacksonville
1/19,20 Peabody Audit.,Daytona Beach 1/21,22 Bay Front Center,St.Petersburg
1/24,25 Florida State U.,Tallahassee 1/26,27 Ellis Auditorium, Memphis
1/28,29 Municipal Audit.,Birmingham l/31 Three Arts Theatre,Columbus,Ga.
2/1-3 Louisiana State U.,Baton Rouge 2/4,5 So.Methodist Univ., Dallas
2/6 Music Hall Houston
2/8,9 Univ.of Texas, Austin
2/10-12 Arizona State Univ.,Phoenix 2/14-23,26,27 Music Center, Los Angeles
2/24 Civic Auditorium,San Diego
3/l Claremont College,Claremont
3/2 Granada Theatre,Santa Barbara
3/3 Memorial Auditorium, Fresno
3/4-6 Community Theatre, Berkeley
3/8,9 Memorial Audit.,Sacramento
3/11,12 Public Audit.,Portland,Oreg. 3/14 Capitol Theatre, Yakima,W a sh.
3/15-17 Opera House, Seattle
3/18,19 Queen Elizabeth Th.,Vancouver,BC
3/21,22 No.Alberta Audit.,Edmonton
3/23,24 So.Alberta Audit.,CAlgary
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4/13,14 Purdue Univ., Lafayette
4/27,28 Civic Auditorium, Knoxville
5/19 Columbia, S.C.
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3/29 Wayne State College, Wayne,Nebr.
4/25,26 Indiana Univ., Bloomington
5/2-7 National Theatre,Washington,DC.
5/20 Augusta, Ga.
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The NEW YORK CITY OPERA COMPANY, too, is heading for the last season at
its present home and Julius Rudel, general director, has announced most
of the operas of the 1965 fall season's repertoire. Opening night on
September 23 will feature the American premiere of Prokofiev's "Angel
of Fire" (see Jan.'65 Bulletin), based on Valery Bryusov's story "The
Fiery Angel" published in 1908. The opera had its premiere in Paris in
1954. Set in the period of the Inquisition,the story concerns a young
girl who becomes a nun and who is ultimately brought to trial for dealing
with evil spirits. The other novelty will be the world premiere c£
"Miss Julie" by American composer Ned Rorem. The opera was commissioned
by the N.Y.City Opera Co. under a Ford Foundation grant and it is the
eighth opera so commissioned and performed by the City Opera Co. Kenward
Elmslie, who was also responsible for the libretto of "Lizzie Borden",
based his libretto for "Miss Julie" on the Strindberg play of the same
name; a countess falls in love with the valet and ultimately commits
suicide. The opera will have its first performance on November 4. The
season's schedule will also include "Carmen", "Madama Butterfly",
"La Boheme", "La Traviata", and "Cavalieria Rusticana" with"Pagliacci".
The 1966 Spring season, which will see the N.Y.City Opera Company at
its new home in the New York State Theatre at Lincoln Center (see Jan.
•65 Bulletin), will include a new production of Robert Kurka's "The Good
Soldier Schweik".
*******
Edith Mugdan, director of the NORTH SHORE FRIENDS OF OPERA, New York,
is planning a five-opera season. The varied fare will include "The
Magic Flute", "Hansel and Gretel", "L'Elisir d'Amore", "The Taming of
the Shrew" and "La Traviata".
*******
For its second season, the Ohio LAKE ERIE OPERA THEATRE chose for its
1965 repertory "The Abduction from the Seraglio" and "The Love for
Three Oranges", both to be sung in English. Since the Cleveland Orchestra will again be in the pit, both operas will be presented at Severance
Hall in September, preceding the symphony season. Louis Lane is musical
director, Howard Whittaker executive producer and Miss Dorothy Humel is
president of the Lake Erie Opera Theatre.
*******
The SAN FRANCISCO OPERA has published its 1965 catalogue and following
is the complete list of operas and artists for the company's forty-third
season. September 10 through November 3 marks the group's season at
the War Memorial O p era House; the dates at the Los Angeles Music Center
are November 5 through 28 with guest appearances in Berkeley on October 17,
in Sacramento on November 1, and in San Diego on November 10, 17 and 24.
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-12The company will present the West Coast Premiere of Alban Berg's "Lulu"
(in English) and will give "Don Giovanni" and "Un Ballo in Maschera" in
new productions; "Andrea Chenier" has been chosen to open the season.
Other operas are "Die Meistersinger", "Pledermaus" (in English), "La
Boheme", "La Fanciulla del West". "La Porza del Destino", "II Barbiere
di Seviglia", "Lohengrin", "Tosca", "Ariadne auf Naxos'% (prologue in
English),and "Pelleas et Melisande". General Director Kurt Herbert Adler
announced the following artists roster: Mmes: Amara, Bessel, Cervena,
Collier, Costa, Grist, Hillebrecht, Kailer, Kirsten, Lear, Lorengar,
Meneguzzer, Price, Tebaldi, Todd, Turner, Vanni and White; Messrs:
Bastianini, Blankenburg, Blankenheim, Corelli, Dupree, Poldi, Fredricks,
Fried, Giosso, Glover, Harvey, Hecht, Imdahl, Jobin, Konya, Lewis, Ludgin,
Manton, Menci, O'Leary, Resnick, Stewart, Sullivan, Thomas, Trama, Vinay,
West, Wolansky, and Young; conductors: Bellugi, Ludwig, Martinon, MolinariPradelli, and Stein; stage directors: Butler, Farruggio, Hager, Mansouri;
designers: Bauer-Ecsy, Burlingame, Colangelo, Jenkins, Siercke, Skalicki
and Smith.
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TOLEDO and DAYTON (Ohio) OPERA COMPANIES are again pooling their resources and will present "Tosca" and "Carmen" in both cities.
*******
The VANCOUVER OPERA ASSOCIATION will offer "Madama Butterfly" with Miette
Sieghele in October and as the first operatic event of the 1966 British
Columbia Centennial Celebration "II Trovatore" in February. The Verdi
opera will feature Irma Gonzales, Marilyn H o m e and Chester Ludgin. As
its third annual event, the VOA announces two Gala Operatic Concerts with
Renata Tebaldi in her first Vancouver appearance.
*******
Leonard Bernstein will make his debut at the Vienna Staatsoper next
season where he will conduct a new production of "Falstaff". His collaborator will be Visconti and Fischer-Dieskau will sing the title role.
NEW COS MEMBERS
Boston Music Co., Miss Katherine Cummings, 116 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
Florentine Opera Guild, Mr. Walter Kroening, 5500 W. Capitol Drv.,Milwaukee
Mr. Robert Frankenberger, 460 Hawarden Road, Springfield,(Del. Co) Penn.
Miss Olive Fredricks, 2112 Linden Avenue, Mishawaka, Indiana
Muhlenberg College Opera Workshop, Ludwig Lenel, Muhlenberg College,
Allentown, Penn.
Mr. Victor A. Nelson, 13110 Woodworth Road, East Cleveland, Ohio
Mrs. Howard C. Smith, 3031 West Pine Valley Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia
Mr. Arthur Stern, 220-67 73rd Avenue, Baysie, New York
Miss Corinne Swall, Box 184, Kentfield, California
Mr, George Wehner, 69 Cranberry Street, Brooklyn, New York
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-13PARTIAL LISTING OF SUMMER WORKSHOPS
The ASPEN (Colo.) MUSIC SCHOOL extends over a two-month period, June 28August 29; students may also register for one month, July or August,only.
Composers-in-residence, David Diamond and Darius Milhaud, will be joined
by British composer Michael Tippett for a symposium on twentieth-century
music. The vocal faculty includes Adele Addison and Jennie Tourel. For
further information write Gordon Hardy, Aspen Music School, Aspen, Colorado
or before June 1, 111 West 57th Street, New York 19.
The BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER, part of the Berkshire Music Festival in Lenox,
Mass., will be open from June 27 to August 22 (This year's courses do not
include an operatic workshop). The Festival's dates are July 2 - Aug. 22.
The BREVARD MUSIC CENTER in North Carolina, under the management of
Converse College for the first time (see February Bulletin), has added
an Opera Workshop to be headed by Craig Hankenson. Mr. Hankenson, formerly
with the San Francisco Opera Co., hopes to prepare and perform three operas
during the term of the workshop (June 28 and August 8 ) . For further
details contact the Music Department, Converse College, Spartanburg, S. C.
CHATHAM COLLEGE in Pittsburgh, Pa., will hold a Summer Opera Workshop
beginning August 1st through August 28th.
The summer workshop of the EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC in Rochester, N.Y.
will be held starting June 28 to August 6. It is under the direction of
Dr. Walter Hendl.
An Orchestral and Choral Conductors 1 Workshop will be held at OAKLAND
UNIVERSITY, Rochester, Mich. Sixten Ehrling, conductor of the Detroit
Symphony, and Robert Shaw, associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra,
will head the faculty and the workshop will use both the Detroit Symphony
as well as the Oakland University facilities. It is organized in conjunction with the Meadowbrook Music Festival, also under Mo. Ehrling's
direction. Twenty conductors are to be chosen from the applicants to
participate in the workshop, and academic credit will be awarded. Applications should be addressed to Dr. Walter S. Collins, Dean, Meadowbrook School of Music, Oakland University, Rochester, Mich. The
Orchestral Conductors' Program runs from July 6 - August 14, the Choral
Conductors' Program from July 6 - July 31.
The OGLEBAY INSTITUTE Opera Workshop at Oglebay Park, Wheeling, W. Virginia
(August 2 - 3 0 ) , is again under the guidance of Boris Goldovsky. On MO.
Goldovsky's staff are Arthur Schoep, associate director, and Fredric Popper,
Anthony Addison and Ross Reimueller. Through a grant from the Martha
Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, a limited number of scholarships are
available to gifted students. The National Federation of Music Clubs
again offers one full scholarsh ip to a proficient pianist for training
in operatic coaching. For more details write to Mrs. Chase Greer, Dir.
of Special Activities, Oglebay Institute.
The 1965 SUMMER INSTITUTES OF ORCHESTRAL STUDIES under the auspicies of
the American Symphony Orchestra League are scheduled for the West Coast
(Monterey Peninsula, Pacific Grove, California) for June 28 - July 17
and in the East (Orkney Springs Hotel, Orkney Springs, Va) for Aug.2 - 22.
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-14The West Coast Institute will also be host to "A Classis for the Creative
Patrons of Music" (see page 6) and will devote the last two days of the
meeting to a special conductors Workshop on Handel's "Messiah". The
Eastern Institute will be presented in association with the Shenandoah
Valley Music Festival Committee; both Summer Institutes are under the
artistic direction of Dr. Richard Lert. Conductors interested in participating should contact the American Symphony Orchestra League,
Symphony Hill, P.O. Box 66, Vienna, Virginia.
Because of the extensive listing of SUMMER FESTIVALS and the ;
PERFORMANCE FORECAST for the 1965 - 1966 season, the usual
Performance Listing of the current season (not previously listed)
is omitted in this BULLETIN.
The next issue will carry the final
Performance Listing of the 1964 -1965 season.
I N D E X
Subject
Page
NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES
1
EUROPEAN OPERA CENTERS WITH VARYING PURPOSES . . 2
ARTS CENTERS AND NEW AUDITORIUMS
3
BOOKS AND LIBRARIES, RECORDS AND TAPES
4
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
6
SEMINARS AND MASTER CLASSES
7
FIRST LOOK AT THE 1965-66 SEASON
8
(American Opera Society, Canadian Opera Co.,
Charlotte Opera Assn., Chicago Lyric Opera,
Concert Opera Assn., Dallas Grand Opera Assn.,
Indiana University, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan
Opera Assn., Metropolitan Opera National Co.,
New York City Opera Co., North Shore Friends of
Opera, Ohio Lake Erie Opera Assn., San Francisco
Opera Co., Toldedo and Dayton Opera Companies,
Vancouver Opera Assn., Bernstein-Vienna Stateopera)
NEW CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE MEMBERS
12
PARTIAL LISTING OF SUMMER WORKSHOPS
13
APPENDIX:
SUMMER FESTIVALS IN THE U.S.A. 1965
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-ISUMMER FESTIVALS IN THE U.S.A. 1965
ALASKA
Alaska Festival, Anchorage
6/15 - 7/1 Robert Shaw, cond., soloists: Endich,Kopleff; McCoy,Berberian
ALBERTA
Banff School of Fine Arts, Ernesto Vinci,dir.Music Dept.. Banff
July - Aug. "L'Elisir d'Amore" w. M.Pellegrini, 1965 Natl.Council Audit.
"Amelia Goes to the Ball" opera workshop prod.
winner
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The Vancouver International Festival, Vancouver
Program not available at this time
CALIFORNIA
Cabrillo Music Festival, Aptos
W/Ti. "La Voix Humaine"
8/28,29 Haydn's "Orfeo and Euridice"
Carmel Bach Festival, Sandor Salgo, mus.dir., Carmel
7/16-25 Monteverdi's "Orfeo" ,
Handel's "Acis and G a latea"
Festival of Opera, H.Greathouse,art.dir., Laguna Beach, Irvine Bowl
8/20,21 "Carmen"
8/27,28 "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "Pagliacci"
9/3,4 "Die Fledermaus"
Music at the Vinyards, Paul Masson Mountain Winery, Saratoga
6/19,20 "Doctor Miracle" prod, by Opera-Comique of San Francisco
Ojai Festival, Ingolf Dahl,mus.dir., Ojai
5/21 - 23 Music Festival
Redlands Bowl, Redlands
7/9,10 "The Merry Widow"
7/23,25 Hines' "I Am the Way"
8/6,7
"H.M.S.Pinafore
8/27
"Madama Butterfly"
Stanford University,Summer Festival of the Arts,"The Mozart Era".Palo Alto
6/22 - 8/14 Opera da Camera di Milano (Am.debut; "Cosi Fan tutte",
"La Serva Padrona", "Livietta e T r acollo", Duni's "L'Isola dei pazzi"
8/1-14 New York City Opera Co. "Abduction from the Seraglio", "Don
Giovanni", "The Marriage of Figaro"
COLORADO
Central City Opera House Assn., E.Buckley, mus.dir.^Central City
6/26 - 7/31 three operas in repertory fashion; premiere dates listed
6/26 "Manon" Eng. Mead; Malbin, Jennings;Anthony,Bullard, Kolk
7/3 "The Barber of Seville" Eng. Martin;Brooks, LaBianca;Ludgin,Litten
7/10 "Lakme"
Eng.Mead; Brooks, LaBianca;Anthony, Bullard
assoc.conds:Johnson, Stahl; desgn: Rinfret; costumes: S.Mess
Music Festival of Aspen & Aspen Summer School, Aspen
8/6,8
"Ariadne auf Naxos"
8/20,21 "L'Histoire du soldat" and "Mavra"
CONNECTICUT
The Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam; Albert Selden, mng.dir.
6/28-7/17, 8/9 -8/14 "Man of LaMancha" bu Mitch Leigh,lyrics Joe Darion
7/26-8/7 "Purple Dust" by Mitch Leigh, after O f Casey play
8/23-9/4 "Chu Chem" by Ted Allen,lyrics Haines & Wohl; casts include
Martyn Green, Robert Rounseville
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Salmaggi productions, Washington
775
"La Traviata"
7/6 "Rigoletto"
7/7
"La Boheme"
7/8 "Carmen"
7/9
"Aida"
7/10 "Madama Butterfly"
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SUMMER FESTIVALS 1965, cont.
ILLINOIS
Grant Park Concerts, Edward Gordon, mng., Chicago
7/17,18 "The Marriage ot Figaro" cond;Rudel
7/31, 8/l "Tosca" Ross; Verreau,Milnes; cond:Rich
8/8,9 "Rosenkavalier" excerpts; Bower, Vanni, Peil;cond:Rich
INDIANA
Indiana University, Dean W.Bain, Bloomington
6/26 7/3,10,17 "The Merry WidowfT
7/28,31 8/1,4,6,7 "Carmen"
MASSACHUSETTS
BerkshireTFestival, Lenox, Erich Leinsdorf, mus.dir.
8/20,21,22 "Lohengrin" uncut version, one act presented each night;
Amara, Gorr; Konya,Hines,Dooley; Boston Symphony,cond:Leinsdorf
MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
5/6-9 Philadelphia Orchestra, cond:Ormandy; soloists include Price,
Forrester, Siepi, Dickie
Meadowbrook Music Festival, Oakland University? Rochester
7/8-8/14 Detroit Symphony, cond:Ehrling, Shaw
NEW JERSEY
'Monmouth Opera Festival, Deal
77TI "La Traviata11
7/18 "Lucia di Lammermoor"
7/25 "Carmen" Dunn, Guarrera
NEW MEXICO
The Santa Fe Opera Co., John Crosby, gen.dir., Santa Fe
6/30 7/3,9 8/7,20,28 "La T r ayiata" Stahlman;Whitesides/Shirley,Justus
7/2,7,17 "The Barber of Seville" Vanni;Davis,Justus,Harrower,Franke
7/10,14,30 8/14,25 "Madama Butterfly" Allen,Vanni;Arnold/Shirley,Justus
7/16,21,24 "Lucia di Lammermoor" Scovotti;Shirley,Whiteside,Davis,Harrower
7/23,28,31 "Arabella" Stahlman,Christensen,Jeffrey,Toscano,Kraft; Craig
Franke, Reardon, Immel,Harrower
8/4,6 Henze's "The Stag King" American Prem., Allen,Toscano; Shirley,
Franke, Whitesides,Gramm
8/11,13 Shostakovich's "The Nose" American Prem., Christensen,Toscano;
Arnold,Franke,Whitesides,Reardon,Immel,Beni,Best
8/18,27 "The Marriage of Figaro" Allen,Jeffrey,Vanni,Kraft;Franke,Reardon
Conductors: Crosby,Kunzel,Baustian; Directors rMoriarty,Mansouri,Alexander,
Hebert,Lockwood. — All operas will be sung in English except "Lucia".
New features of the theatre include a roof over pit and orchestra seats,
and an added balcony.
NEW YORK
Caramoor Festival, Katonah, Julius Rudel, art.dir.
6/19 Mahler's "Das Kiagende Lied"
6/26 Orff's "Die Kluge" Eng.
Chautauqua Opera Assn., John D. Howell,dir., Chautauqua
7/16,19 "La Boheme" Catani; DiVirgilio,Goodloe,Fleck;Eng.Martin;cond:
7/23,26 "A Night in Venice" condrWoitach
Rich
7/30 8/2 "Samson and Delilah" Eng., Grillo
8/6,9
"Cosi Fan Tutte"
8/13,16 "Andrea Chenier"
The Long Island Festival, Metropolitan Opera at C.W.Post College
7/31 "La Boheme" Kirsten; Morell
8/8 "The B a rber of Seville" Peters
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NEW YORK cont
Lake George Opera Festival,Glens Falls
7/15,17,20,26 8/5,10,16 9/3 "Cosi Fan Tutte"
7/22,24,27 8/2,6,26 9/l "The Telephone" and "Pagliacci"
7/29,31 8/3,9,13,24,28 9/2 "La Boheme"
8/12,14,17,20,25 9/4 "Rigoletto"
8/19,21,23,27,31
9/5 Giannini's "The Taming of the Shrew"
Following the untimely death of its founder-director, Fred Patrick,
David Lloyd has assumed responsibilities of artistic director and
Thomas Martin those of musical director. The company will perform in a
new, air-conditioned, 875-seat auditorium in Glens Falls.
Turnau Opera Co., Warren Wilson,dir., Woodstock
7/9,10,12,13
"La Boheme"
7/16,17,19,20,23,24,26,27
"Cosi Fan Tutte"
7/30,31 8/2,3 Blacher's "The Tide" and "Abstract-' Opera No.l"
8/6,7,9,10 Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice"
8/13,14,16,17 Banfield's "Lord Byron's Love Letters"
8/20,21,23,24
"The Turk in Italy"
8/27,28,30,31
"Don Pasquale"
NEW YORK CITY
Metropolitan Opera Summer Concerts, Lewisohn Stadium
6/21 "Gala Opening Concert" Tebaldi; condrCleva
6/23 "Great Moments from Opera" Prevedi,Diaz; cond:Adler
6/25 "La Traviata" Moffo; Morell,Marsh; condrSchick
6/26 "Rodger & Hammerstein Night" conds: Rodgers, Allers
6/28 "Newport Jazz Festival" Brubeck, Ellington
6/30 "Salute to Britain" Gracie Fields, Martyn Green;cond:Strasfogel
7/2
"Madama Butterfly" Albanese, Baldwin;Morell,Walker;condrSchick
7/3
"Music of America" Anderson,West Point Band;cond:Fiedler
7/5
'Newport Folk Festival" Bikel, Seeger
7/7
"Mediterranean Night" and "Pagliacci" Milanov,Vickers; condiGieva
7/9
"Carmen" Resnik, Bower; Konya, Diaz; cond: Rich
7/10 "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Quartet"
7/12 "Van Cliburn" condrSchick
7/14 "Night of Russian and German Music" Hines, Konya;cond:Rosenstock
7/16 "La Boheme" Albanese, Bower;Morell,Guarrera,Diaz;cond:Behr
7/17 "Latin American Night" Valdez,Fernandez,Perez;cond:Munar
7/19 "Great Moments from Opera" condrBehr (soloists to be announced)
7/21 "Music of Richard Strauss" Schwarzkopf; condrRosenstock
1/23 "Lucia di Lammermoor" Peters;Peerce,Marsh,Macurdy; condtAdler
7/24 "Vienniese Night" Schwarzkopf; condrBoskowsky
7/26 "The Mysterious East" Amara,Bower;Verreau; condrRich
7/28 "Ballet Night"
7/30 "Tosca" Kirsten; Tucker,Cassell;condrRosenstock
7/31 "Regards to Broadway" cond:Allers
8/2
"Verdi Requiem" Amara, Elias; Tucker,Macurdy; cond:Cleva
8/4
"Great Moments from O p era" condrAdler (soloists to be announced)
8/6
"Rigoletto" Peters,Dunn; Peerce, MacNeil; cdndrStrasfogel
8/7
"George Gershwin Night" Wild,Warfield; condrLewis
There will be a new shell and new amplification system at Lewisohn
Stadium. New direct buses will leave for and from the Stadium. Prices
range from 50£ to $4.50. - All performances will use the Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra (also those of Jazz and Popular music) and many will
also feature the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Mail orders accepted at MOA
1425 Broadway, Room 418, New York 18.
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NEW YORK CITY cont.
Naumburg Concerts, Central Park Mall
9/6 "L'Elisir d'Amore" cond: Buckley
New York Philharmonic, Festival of French and American Music,L.Foss,dir.
7/21,22 "The Damnation of Faust" Arroyo;Verreau,Uppman,Bogue;condrMunch
7/28 "The Tender Land" Clements,Turner;Cassilly,Treigle;cond:Copland
OHIO
CTncinnati Summer Opera, Styrk Orwoll, mn^..Cincinnati
6/23,26 "La Forza del Destino"* Ross;Consiglio,Milnes,Moscona;cond:Guadagno
6/25,27 "La Boheme" Romano, Pavek; Garaventa; condrZiino
6/30 7/2 "Tosca" Kirsten;Gismondo, Milnes; condrGuadagno
7/l,3 "Carmen"* Madeira; Cassilly,Treigle; condrZiino
7/7,10 "Manon" Maliponte; Morell,Guarrera; condrGuadagno
7/9,11 "Trovatore" Arroyo,Dalis; Gismondo,Polakoff;condrZiino
7/14,17 "The Barber of Seville" Eng.; Clements;Foldi,Milnes;cond:Strasfogel
7/16,18 "Aida" Ross, Dalis; Consiglio, Bertolino; condrZiino
7/21,23,25 "Tales of Hoffmann"* Eng.,Sills,Bonazzi;Nagy,Treigle; Guadagno
7/22,24 "Rigoletto" Meneguzzer;Barioni,Rayson; condrStrasfogel
* New productions directed by Capobianco, designed by Nomikos
OKLAHOMA
University of Oklahoma, Opera Theatre
7/21 "Girl Crazy"
ONTARIO
Stratford Festival of Canada, Louis Applebaum,mus.dir., Stratford
Eight weeks of opera in repertory fashlon;date indicates first performance
7/2 Kurt Weill's "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" Eng., North
American Prem., Martha Schlamme; dirrJean Gascon; desrJackson - 34 perfs.
7/6 "The Marriage of Figaro" Eng., dirr Gascon; des: Negin - 31 performs.
AMERICA-ITALY
g Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Iatly
6/24 - 7/18
"Otello" cond. and st.dirrSchippers
"L'Histoire du Soldat" and Tosatti's "Una Partita Pugni" dirrRobbins
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