CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINSUMMER, 1974

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WALTER HERBERTSan Diego OperaRICHARD KARPPittsburgh OperaJOHN M. LUDWIGWolf Trap FoundationGLADYS MATHEWCommunity OperaMRS. LOUDON MELLENOpera Soc. of Washington, D. CRUSSELL D. PATTERSONKansas City Lyric TheaterMRS. JOHN DEWITT PELTZMetropolitan OperaIAN POPPERUniversity of California. L. A.GLYNN ROSSSeattle Opera AssociationJULIUS RUDELNew York City OperaGEORGE SCHAEFERSaint Paul Opera AssociationGEORGE SCHICKManhattan School of MusicMARKSCHUBARTLincoln CenterLEONARD TREASHEastman School ot MusicGIDEON WALDROPThe luilliard School

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINVolume 16, Number 4 Summer, 1974

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

AMERICAN OPERAS

The Metropolitan Opera Guild and its Educational Department commissioned theReverend Al Carmines, composer and poet, to write a one-act opera for studentsfor performances by the Metropolitan Opera Studio. He chose an American his-torical subject and THE DUEL has Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton as itsmain characters. The fifty-minute opera has seven soloists and eight instrumentalistsand was premiered by the Studio at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 22.Subsequent performances in New York schools are booked through the LincolnCenter Student Program.

Composer Paul Reif (The Artist and Portrait in Brownstone) wrote the music andlibretto after his own story idea for THE CURSE OF MAUVAIS-AIR. A delightfulspoof of about 40 minutes, it is conceived for four soloists who alternate in a dozenparts, a narrator and piano accompanist. To reduce production problems to aminimum, the composer supplies a stage manual, indicating that the mini-opera canbe produced without sets, with few props, simple costumes and lighting effects. Thepremiere of the work took place on May 9 at the Cubiculo Theatre in New York,performed by the Gregg Smith Singers, who will repeat the work during theAdirondack Festival at Lake Placid this summer.

The Lenox Arts Center in Wheatleigh, Mass., will again present a premiere per-formance of a new music-theatre piece by Stanley Silverman and Richard Fore-man, the creators of Elephant Steps and Dr. Selavy. The work is the previouslymentioned HOTEL FOR CRIMINALS, commissioned by the National OperaInstitute, and scheduled for a first performance on August 20. — During the samefestival, two other world premieres are scheduled: Charles Wuorinen's "Profile ofa Composer" which will include scenes of a new, as yet unnamed opera, andMOURNING PICTURES by composer Susan Ain with a book by Homer Moore.

Stanley Silverman is also collaborating with playwright Arthur Miller on a musicalUP FROM PARADISE. The play is a revised version of The Creation of theWorld and Other Business which opened in New York for a brief run last season.The musical will try out in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan during thesummer and will be brought to New York by the Music Theater Performing Group,the Winter chapter of the Lenox Arts Center (see above).

Twenty-nine-year-old Thomas Pasatieri has completed his eleventh operatic work.THE PENITENTES has a libretto by Anne Howard Bailey, who is responsible forthe libretti of Deseret and Rachel; the setting is a small village in New Mexico'sSangre de Cristo Mountains. The three-act, seven-scene opera will be premieredat the Aspen Music Festival on August 3, and will feature Joan Diener (Kismet,Man of La Mancha) in her first operatic role.

The Lake George Opera Festival will also present a world premiere this summer.Its choice is THE CHILD (La Nina) by Cuban-born composer Jose Raul Bernardo,now a resident of the U.S.A. Called "An Operatic Poem for the Theatre" withmusic, dialogue and ballet, it is based on an 1878 poem by Cuban Jose Marti It isset in Guatemala. The production, made possible through a National Opera Insti-tute grant, will open on the campus of SUNY at Albany on August 8.

The Italian/American summer festival abroad will offer a world premiere of anAmerican opera. A LETTER FOR QUEEN VICTORIA will be heard for the firsttime in Spoleto on June 15. The opera is the second collaborative effort of authorRobert Wilson and composer Alan Lloyd, who also conceived the twelve-hour"opera drama" The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin. The new work plays threehours and has a cast of "15-20 performers". (For complete season, see SummerPerformance Listing this issue.)

Opera/South has again chosen an opera by Mississippi-born composer WilliamGrant Still, this time for a premiere performance. BAYOU LEGEND is anoriginal story by Verna Arvay (Mrs. Still in private life) based on a folk tale fromthe Biloxi region. The composer wrote the work immediately following hisTroubled Island, first heard at the New York City Opera in 1949. Bayou Legend isscheduled to open November 15, 1974, in Jackson, Mississippi. Still's one-actopera Highway No. 1 USA was performed by Opera/South in November of 1972.

Krzysztof Penderecki has announced that he has chosen Milton's Paradise Lostfor his previously mentioned Bicentennial commission from the Lyric Opera ofChicago.

Walter Kaufmann, composer and faculty member at Indiana University, had hisone-act opera SGANARELLE performed for the first time in a fully staged pro-duction on May 18 by the Manhattan School of Music. Based on the Moliere playLe Medecin malgre lui, the opera was written under a 1960 Ford Foundationgrant and received a partial reading by the Metropolitan Opera Studio in 1961.The Brownlee Opera Theatre at the Manhattan School presented it on a doublebill with Milhaud's Pauvre matelot.

Mme. Leprince Beaumont's story THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST has beenmade into yet another opera, this time with music by Jeremiah Murray. The one-act, seven-scene opera for five singers and ballet was premiered by the Public OperaTheatre Company on May 8 in New York at the YMCA/Clark Center for thePerforming Arts. Also on the double bill was Mr. Murray's The Marriage Proposal,based on Chekhov's play, and first announced in the Summer '72 Bulletin.

March 9 marked the premiere date of Dominick Argento's JONAH AND THEWHALE in Minneapolis. The opera is published by Boosey and Hawkes.

THE STONE PRINCESS, a musical play for young people, had its first per-formance in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 29. The story is one from a collection offairytales, Tales of the Magic Mirror by Karl Bratton, who also wrote the operalibretto. Mr. Bratton is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire.The composer, Loretta Love, is Professor of Music at the University of Ne-braska. Mr. Bratton also adapted from the same source THE GIGGLING GOB-LIN, a musical play for young people. Composed by Scott Huston, faculty memberof the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, The Giggling Goblin waspremiered on June 2 at the Conservatory by members of the Creative Dramaticsand Creative Movement classes.

Canadian Charles Wilson is the fourth composer to convert the fairytale THESELFISH GIANT into a musical play for children. It was premiered in Torontoon December 20 at the St. Lawrence Centre with the Canadian Children's OperaChorus participating, and featuring Louis Quilico in the title role.

A children's opera performed during last summer's Cincinnati Pops Concertshas not been previously reported. ANDROCLES AND THE LION by John Eaton,composer of Myshkin, was given an improvisationally costumed and staged pre-miere with the lively participation of local children.

The University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, has given a $1,450 commissiongrant to Professor Gregory Levin of its music faculty for the completion of afull-length opera. The work is THE REBEL AND THE EMPIRE and it is basedon the novel Son of Judah by Dan Levin, the composer's father, who will alsowrite the opera libretto.

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AMERICAN PREMIERES

Among the summer festivals which annually offer unknown works is the briefbut enterprising Newport Festival in Rhode Island. The three chamber operas listedfor the 1974 season are all new to this continent. Scheduled for July 27 is thedouble bill of Alfredo Catalani's LA FALCE (The Scythe) with text by ArrigoBoito, for soprano, tenor and chorus, which was first performed at Milan's con-servatory in 1876 as an egloga or shepherd's song. The second premiere thatevening is Georges Douay's LES VALETS MODELES, an operetta for soprano andbaritone, which was premiered in Paris in 1875. On August 1, Newport hasscheduled the American premiere of Antonin Dvorak's one-act comedy TVURDEPALICE in an English translation by Alan Pryce-Jones entitled The ReluctantSweethearts. The cast consists of a soprano, mezzo, tenor, baritone, bass andchorus (the Swanhurst Choral Society).

In celebration of Ernst Krenek's 75th birthday (August 1975), the Portland OperaCompany announced its plans for the American premiere of the composer'sLIFE OF ORESTES with the first of three performances scheduled for November20, 1975. The opera will be presented in an English translation made by thecomposer himself who is now a U.S. citizen, residing in California. The worldpremiere took place in Leipzig in 1930. The Portland production is made possibleby a special grant from the Corbett Foundation.

An early 19th Century authentic Korean opera was performed by the Koreancommunity in Toronto last November. The opera is CHUN-HYAN-3EON com-posed by Jae Myung Hyan.

EUROPEAN PREMIERES

On February 15, London's University College Music Society gave the first per-formance of Peter Wishart's CLYTAEMNESTRA. The libretto is by Don Roberts.

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Belgian League for the Rightsof Man, the National Opera in Brussels scheduled the premiere of FIDELIO ANDTHE RIGHTS OF MAN by Ernst Poettgen. This work represents a combinationof some of the major scenes from Fidelio chosen particularly for their politicalimplications, and excerpts from the Bill of Rights and other international mani-festos. The evening was presented under the banner of "A Cry for Liberation".Fidelio and the Rights of Man was first heard in a tryout at the LudwigsburgFestival in Germany last year.

Both Kiel and Darmstadt in Germany presented new experimental music-theatrepieces this season. On January 3, Jiirgen Weimer's SCHOENE NEUE MUSIKand Manfred Niehaus' SYLVESTER were performed in Kiel on a double bill; thelatter work was first heard in Stuttgart on April 8, 1973. Darmstadt offered thepremiere performances of Niehaus' MET A together with Rolf Riehm's ZWEIPERSONEN STUECK on December 8, 1973.

The Royal Opera in Stockholm premiered A MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE bySwedish composer A. Janson on April 9, 1973. — On August 30. 1973, theHelsinki Opera in Finland gave the first performance of E. Rautavaara's comicopera APOLLO AND MARSYAS.

SELENE is the title of a one-act opera by T. Marco, premiered in Madrid inApril. — Opera Barga in Italy plans to produce the premiere of Joseph Castaldo'sTRA UMA during this summer.

The 1973 Prince Pierre de Monaco prize for best opera composition went to Polishcomposer Romuald Twardowski for his LORD JIM. American Hugh S. Robertsonreceived an honorable mention for his opera THE ATHEIST as did Polish com-poser Luciuk Juliusz for L'AMOUR D'ORPHEE.

Two new Russian operas not previously announced are J. Meitus' JAROSLAVTHE WISE premiered in the USSR on March 3, 1973, and A. Styrtcha's HEROICBALLAD with libretto by A. Gushelja, first performed in Odessa on March 22,1973.

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A number of new Bulgarian operas have also come to our attention. They includeLyubomir Pipkow's MOMCHIL performed at the Sofia Festival in June of 1973,Parashkev Hadjiev's MADCAP performed by the opera company in Varna, thesame composer's three-act MASTER WOODCARVER and Naiden Gerov's four-act YAN BIBIYAN both published by the Bulgarian State music publisher.

NEW ARTS CENTERS AND AUDITORIUMS

The Tennessee Arts Commission announced plans for a Cultural Center in down-town Nashville, to be completed in 1976. The complex will consist of a 28-storyState office building and the Cultural Center combining the following performingarts facilities: a 2,400-seat auditorium/music hall, a 1,000-seat "legitimate theatrewith proscenium stage" and an arena theatre/studio/rehearsal hall with 300 mov-able seats. Costs for the complex, which will also include a museum, is estimatedat $36 million.

A new concert hall is under construction in downtown Minneapolis. It will be thehome of the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra which performs at Northrup Audi-torium on the campus of the University of Minnesota, as does the MetropolitanOpera when it visits the city each Spring. Barry Hoffman was appointed managerof the new facility.

Syracuse, New York, will also be boasting a new auditorium. The Syracuse Sym-phony will open at the Onondaga County Performing Arts Center in Fall, 1975.

A number of universities are in the process of building new performing artsfacilities. The new College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas in Austin willsoon have a Performing Arts Center housing a 3,000-seat concert/opera hall, asmaller opera laboratory theatre and a 700-seat recital hall. — Carnegie-MellonUniversity's College of Fine Arts, originally planned to accommodate 350 students,now has an enrollment of over 1,000. Thus it is enlarging its arts complex at acost of $2.5 million, aided by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and also somefunds from HEW. — In April, the $10 million Ambassador Auditorium openedin Pasadena at the Ambassador College with a symphony concert under thedirection of Carl Maria Giulini. — De Anza College in Cupertino, Southern Cali-fornia, recently inaugurated the 2,500-seat De Anza Auditorium with a concertby the Glendale Symphony with Dorothy Kirsten as soloist. — The Sarah Law-rence College in Bronxville, N.Y., has a new Performing Arts Center designedby architects Warner, Burns, Toan and Lunde. A Studio Theater, the ReisingerRecital Hall, a Dance Workshop Theatre and a Performing Arts Library are allpart of the Center. — New York City College is progressing with its plans forthe $5.3 million Aaron Davis Hall which will house the Davis Center for thePerforming Arts. Completion is projected for 1976. Herman Krawitz, formerassistant manager of the Metropolitan Opera and an alumnus of the College, isthe Director of the Center. There will be a total of four theatres with the largesthaving a seating capacity of 800, with a conventional proscenium stage and anorchestra pit to accommodate 60 musicians. The architectural firms of AbrahamGeller & Associates and Ezra Ehrenkrantz & Associates are in charge of designs.

Canada's Stratford Festival announced plans for some structural changes of itsFestival Theatre for greater adaptability of the hall. Tanya Moiseiwitsch who,together with Tyrone Guthrie, was responsible for the original design, will super-vise the revisions. Changes such as making the balcony "mobile" to slide backand forth and eliminating the heavy columns will make the theatre better suitedto opera and concert performances. Opera has always been presented at thesmaller Avon Theatre.

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NEWS FROM OPERA COMPANIES

With the promise of the $1 million matching Federal grant, the METROPOLITANOPERA is doubling its efforts to raise the corresponding funds. Besides the moneyreceived from the radio audience, the company has also received a sizeable dona-tion from company members. Winifred Short, Met receptionist for the last thirtyyears, initiated a very successful fund drive among staff members and guestartists, —• money to be used towards the $1 million goal. — Other good financialnews came with Mr. Chapin's announcement of Mrs. DeWitt Wallace's pledge of$650,000 for two new productions for the coming season. (This money cannotbe used for matching funds towards the Federal grant.) Mrs. Wallace, co-founderof The Reader's Digest, who has in the past donated to cultural institutions and par-ticularly to the Metropolitan Opera, will underwrite the costs of Jenufa and BorisGodunov, Past productions donated by Mrs. Wallace were Werther and Parsifal.The company plans a total of six new productions for the 1974-75 season, in-cluding the double bill of Bluebeard's Castle and Gianni Schicchi premiered duringthe June Festival. The previously announced Death in Venice by Britten (withits original cast and production) and Rossini's Siege of Corinth round out the list.Of additional special interest will be the return of Wozzeck and the three per-formances of the complete Ring cycle, to be heard in its entirety for the first timesince the 1961-62 season. The originally planned new production of La Forza deldestino has been foregone in favor of new staging and restoration of the 1952-53sets and costumes in a further effort to economize without sacrificing artisticprinciples or more adventuresome programming.In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the death of Puccini, the company hasscheduled most of his popular works during the coming season (La Boheme,Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot). Theone opera conspicuously absent is Fanciulla del West, which had its world pre-miere at the Met. (See also Special Announcement on composers' anniversaries.)Thanks to the State legislature's granting of additional funds to the New YorkState Council on the Arts, and a flexible and willing Metropolitan Operamanagement, a last minute reinstatement of the free concert performances inthe city parks became possible. With a State Arts Council grant of $200,000, aNew York City grant of $140,000, and an additional contribution from the MillerBrewing Company, the Metropolitan Opera will again be accessible to millionsof New Yorkers in eight free concerts in the five city boroughs (see SummerListing).Other news from the Met includes the publication of its first and very attractivesubscription brochure (copies available upon request), and an announcement ofa 1974-75 edition of the greatly successful Souvenir Book, published by theMetropolitan Opera Guild for the first time earlier this season. The book containscolor and black-and-white photographs of all the season's productions and photosof the season's artists roster. It may be ordered from the Guild (1865 Broadway,New York 10023) for $3 plus 500 handling, or purchased at the MetropolitanOpera Gift Shop.In a further move to economize and modernize, the company is presently ex-perimenting with computer printed tickets. Trying a new method never beforeutilized for box-office operation, the company hopes to be able to eventuallyconvert all its tickets to this print-out method. The tickets are processed by thecompany's own computer and thus represent a substantial saving. Subscriptiontickets for the coming season will remain in the conventional format.

The NEW YORK CITY OPERA also has announced a total of six new produc-tions for the coming season. Included will be Idomeneo which premiered at theKennedy Center in May, and which will be brought to New York for the com-pany's Spring season. The first new production during the Fall will be ManonLescaut, an opera which will enjoy a more than usual number of American per-formances due to the national observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the deathof Puccini.A new production of Turandot will be offered for the first time during the com-pany's Winter season at the Los Angeles Music Center and will be heard in New

York during the Spring season. Also during the New York Fall season, audienceswill be treated to a new Fledermaus. Korngold's Die tote Stadt will join therepertoire in the Spring in a specially commissioned translation by the Martins,and a new production of Salome, produced in cooperation with the Opera Societyof Washington, will round out the new works next season. (Schedule of the Fallseason is published under Performance Listing 1974-75). A new production ofLucrezia Borgia is planned for Fall 75 as a special tribute to Beverly Sills.

After ten years of including operatic performances in their symphonic Winterseason, the Syracuse Symphony and its operatic branch are parting ways. TheOPERA THEATRE OF SYRACUSE is the successor, with Robert Porter asGeneral Manager.

In order to involve local and state business leaders in its activities, OPERA/SOUTH has formed its own bi-racial business committee. The first results weremost gratifying and tripled contributions from business and industry for thecoming season.

The idea of a Resident Artist Training Program is being implemented by moreand more professional companies. With Santa Fe leading the list — its ApprenticeProgram was established in 1958 — programs for young singers have taken variousforms, such as the Merola Training Program in San Francisco, junior touringensembles (the Met Studio, Boston, Baltimore, Houston, etc.) and training pro-grams as offered by the Chicago Lyric. Announcements from the CINCINNATISUMMER OPERA and from the VANCOUVER OPERA ASSOCIATION informus that these companies have also added a Resident Training program wherebyyoung singers on their way to a professional career will have the opportunity totrain with professionals, cover for principals and also sing compremario rolesand/or in the chorus. The Cincinnati program has been facilitated by a $20,000grant from the Ohio Arts Council. The Vancouver Opera has offered eight-monthcontracts to seven young Canadian singers who will receive both training andperformance opportunities during that period. The company also has joined to-gether with those in Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg forming OPERA WEST-CANADA under administrative director Brian Hanson, who is executive directorof the Vancouver company.

New York State Council on the Arts

As announced in a last minute insertion in the Spring issue of the Bulletin, asudden reversal of the New York State Legislature resulted in the restoration ofthe originally requested amount allocated to the N.Y. State Council for the Arts.Organized by the Concerned Citizens for the Arts, the show not only of hands butof actual bodies appearing at the Albany session debating state funding of thearts finally brought results — in fact, by the time the ultimate amount of aid wasconfirmed, the figure was higher than ever before proposed. As Eric Larabee,Executive Director of the New York State Council, recently stated, "who wouldever have believed only a few years ago that legislators would fight for the priv-ilege of having their name on a bill to support the arts?" But that is just whathappened in Albany, and the final appropriation amounts to $34.1 million. Asnoted in the Spring Bulletin, a significant development was the freeing of grantsfrom the restriction of program money and 50% of the grants under the newappropriation may go to major performing arts organizations for basic support.A further addition to the bill stipulates that grants must be disbursed geographicallyto reflect a per capita distribution of 750 per resident for each county. The ArtsCouncil hopes to make its grants in three areas: basic support to enable artsorganizations to continue their on-going services, program funding to enable themto further develop such services, and community arts funding to make availablesuch services in geographic areas hitherto lacking such services. In addition, aprogram is to be devised by the Arts Council for the eventual delegation of somefunding power to appropriate and qualified local authorities when dealing withgrants under $3,000.

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IN SUPPORT OF THE ARTS

The Associated Councils of the Arts, one of the prime movers in the U.S. onbehalf of the arts, is organizing a new group of private citizens, THE ADVO-CATES FOR THE ARTS. Hoping for a greatly diverse, national membershipthrough $15 tax-deductible donations, ACA plans to reach a large segment ofthe population dedicated and committed "to improve the quality of life". Thenew organization will work to increase federal, state, and local support for thearts, hoping to affect legislation pertaining to direct financial aid as well as comfortand tangible assistance to arts groups and artists, resulting in a more auspiciousclimate for the arts and ultimately in an "improved quality of life in the U.S.".A quarterly newsletter will serve to inform members of the Advocates for theArts of new developments, programs and progress. For further information andmembership forms write Advocates for the Arts, ACA, 1564 Broadway, NewYork, New York 10036.

The idea for the formation of the Advocates has been supported by the resultsof the recently published study AMERICANS AND THE ARTS, commissionedby the Associate Council of the Arts from the National Research Center for theArts, a division of Louis Harris Associates. The study bears out on a nationallevel what the first survey limited to New York State (see Summer '73 Blltn.)had already indicated: that the importance of the arts to the American peoplehad been vastly underestimated, last but not least by arts organizations and artiststhemselves. Maybe the most indicative result is the fact that 64% of all peoplequeried expressed their willingness to be taxed $5 for use towards the arts. (50%of this group were earners of $5,000.) 36% of all people interviewed were willingto support the arts with a $50 tax. More than 3,000 people over the age of sixteenwere interviewed in sessions lasting about one-and-one-half hours with a diversifi-cation of geographic and socio-economic areas represented. While it can be arguedthat an 89% recognition of the statement that "concerts, theatres and museumsare important to the quality of life" is an agreement with general platitudes, theindividuals' willingness to share their own hard earned money to make suchfacilities available is quite another matter. Questions about specific art formsindicated that 40% enjoy some form of classical music, but 30% stated that in-accessibility or lack of facilities was responsible for their non-attendance at publicconcerts. While a larger than expected group testified to public ignorance regardingthe costs of the performing arts and particularly the impossibility of the performingarts paying their own way, 80% expressed the belief that arts facilities are im-portant to the business and economy of the community. — The survey, fundedwith a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Philip Morris,Inc., will be published in book form later this year. Meanwhile, highlights areavailable in a small brochure for $2 from ACA Publications, Box 4764, Tulsa,Okla. 74104. It is a must on the shelf of any arts administrator.

Alvin H. Reiss, Editor of Arts Management, recently published the results of the1973 survey of philanthropy in the United States. The total of $24.5 billion rep-resents a 9% increase over the 1972 figure — an increase which is, of course,offset by the rise in the cost of living and continuous inflation. Following are thecategories which have benefited from donations, grouped in order of moniesreceived. Leading beneficiaries are religious institutions, which received 41% ofall contributions, followed by health and hospitals, education, social welfare, artsand humanities, and civic and public affairs. The arts and humanities portionamounted to $1.2 billion or 4.9%, showing a constancy in percentage over thelast two years. The most important source of contribution to culture was againthe individual donor; only 15% of all cultural philanthropy came from foundations.

Charles Mark, Editor of Arts Reporting Service, a very informed and informativebiweekly publication eminating from Washington, has added a new servicewhereby a daily 2-4 minute news report on the arts will be aired over variousstations of the National Public Radio network. NPR has a total of 163 memberstations which, at their own discretion, may add Mr. Mark's tape to news-broadcasts. We advise everyone to inquire of the NPR station in their area (WNYC

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in New York) whether and when these broadcasts are scheduled. Since the serviceis free to the station — the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporationfor Public Broadcasting support the project — any NPR station will carry the ArtsReporting Service news tapes if sufficient interest has been shown by local listeners.Besides reporting on news items, Mr. Mark is a very outspoken protagonist forthe arts and his occasional exposes of previously unknown situations are provoc-ative and stimulating. For further information on member stations in your localarea and on subscription to the ARS newsletter, write to Charles Mark, ARS, 9214Three Oaks Drive, Silver Spring, Md. 20901.

NEA Opera Program

Printed guidelines for the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS OperaProgram for the 1976 Fiscal Year are now available to opera companies. Devia-tions from previous years include the deadline date for filing applications beingchanged from July to October 1, 1974. Missing from the restrictions to eligibilityis the clause of "minimum budget of $100,000 for at least three years". This shouldexpand the group of opera companies eligible for federal assistance to include anumber of organizations not previously among the recipients of such grants. Ap-plicants are, of course, still restricted to fully professional ensembles (orchestra,chorus, and soloists) with high artistic standards, providing adequate rehearsalsand presenting at least three productions in six performances annually. In-cluded in the guidelines is the special Bicentennial clause making it again possibleto propose projects for the Bicentennial under this special support category if theprogram does not meet opera/ music guidelines. More stress than ever before ison the importance of the American composer and performer, endorsing in itsown way the recently published resolution adopted by the National Music Councilon this subject (see Spring Blltn.). Copies of the Opera Guidelines for Fiscal '76and Project Grant Application Forms are available from the Music Program,NEA, Washington, D.C. 20506.

NEA also instituted a new category under the heading of Special Project Program.This department, under the recently appointed administrator Stephen Sell, willhandle requests involving two or more art forms or program areas with nationalor regional significance and with professional standards. Under the Special ProjectProgram, grants will be awarded to non-profit organizations, not to individuals.No guidelines or application forms are yet available, however, project proposalsmay be submitted under this new category and should include full description ofthe proposal, a detailed budget, and all papers documenting the organization, asrequired under guidelines set up for other categories.

Bicentennial Notes

In a move to better cope with upcoming Bicentennial projects, the National En-dowment for the Arts has organized the following four step program. 1) It ap-pointed a ten-member Bicentennial Committee to advise the National Council forthe Arts and NEA on Bicentennial projects. 2) NEA is alloting about $15 millionout of its Fiscal '74 budget for Bicentennial-related grants to museums and per-forming groups to facilitate their planning or commissioning of new works. Sofar, two major orchestras have received grants to act as agents for commissioningcompositions to be performed by them and at least six other orchestras of com-parable standing during the Bicentennial year. The same program is under con-sideration for metropolitan size orchestras ultimately resulting in the commissioningof 15 new works with a guarantee of 320 performances. 3) The allocation of about$25 million out of the Fiscal '75 budget (if approved at $82 million) with anadditional $10 million out of private matching funds. 4) Approval of developmentgrants for state arts agencies Bicentennial programs. To date this has resulted in23 states having a part- or full-time Bicentennial arts coordinator.

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The National Symphony Orchestra in Washington announced that it has com-missioned eleven composers to write works for performance during the Bicen-tennial, including both the 1975-76 and 1976-77 seasons. Contrary to the generalphilosophy, three of the commissions were given to foreign composers, LuigiDallapiccola, Frank Martin, and Chilean Juan Orrego Salas.

Estimated to spend about $5 million, the newly formed WORLD THEATERFESTIVAL plans to bring forty-two of the world's leading theatre companies tothe United States during the Bicentennial. Included in this group are nationalcompanies such as the Comedie Francaise, the Vienna Burgtheater, the KabukiTheater of Japan and many ensembles never before seen on this continent aswell as various famous commercial theatre groups. They are to perform in four-teen major American cities.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS

The sixteenth General Assembly of the INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COUNCILwill convene in Toronto, September 26-29. This will be the second time thisprestigious group meets in North America; the first time was the 1968 Congressin New York City and Washington D.C. Prior to the General Assembly, theExecutive Committee is scheduled to meet September 24 and 25 in Calgary,Alberta, and following the Toronto sessions, delegates are expected to visit Mon-treal, Quebec City, and Ottawa, trips made possible with the aid of special sub-sidies from the Canadian government. The Toronto meetings will be held inconjunction with IMZ (Internationales Musik Zentrum) sound and TV groups. JohnRoberts is chairman for the General Assembly. — Last year, which marked thetwenty-fifth anniversary of the International Music Council, the General Assemblywas held in Lausanne, Switzerland, when Yehudi Menuhin was chairman of theconference.

To better reflect its membership, the International Association of Concert andFestival Managers has changed its name to INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OFPERFORMING ARTS ADMINISTRATORS. At a recent meeting in New York,members elected Walter Pierce of Boston's Celebrity Series president of ISPAA.He is succeeding Patrick Hayes of Washington, who held the post for a numberof years.

October 22-25 are the dates for the International Conference sponsored by theMUSIC LIBRARY ASS'N and the University of Ghent in Belgium. The Index ofNew Musical Notation, a project of the New York Public Library, will form thenucleus for discussion.

The AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE is establishing a newdivision for college and university orchestras, acknowledging the important positionthey have assumed in the overall pattern of American musical life and in recog-nition of their artistic achievements. This new membership category with specialservices to educational institutions will be under the chairmanship of Mrs. JohnA. Rapanos of Midland, Michigan. For further information address inquiries toher, College and University Division, ASOL, Box 66, Vienna, Virginia 22180. —Opera workshops at colleges and universities have played significant roles in thenational development of opera in the U.S. and, therefore, they have been anintegral part of COS, together with professional and community companies, sinceits founding.

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FOR SINGERS ONLY

NEWS OF COMPETITIONS

The Florida Atlantic Music Guild announced the formation of a Scholarship Committeefor the purpose of organizing a vocal competition. Eligible will be those singers residingor studying in Florida with age limits determined as follows: sopranos 18-27, mezzosand contraltos 19-28, tenors 20-28, baritones 20-32, and basses 20-33. The minimumrepertory required will be five operatic arias, one art song, and one aria from an oratorio.Application deadline is November 15 and forms are available from the ScholarshipCommittee of the Florida Atlantic Music Guild, Box 512, Boca Raton, Fla. 33432.Auditions will be held at Atlantic University in December. The first prize is a cashaward of $1,000.

Radio station WGN and the Illinois Opera Guild have announced some changes in theconditions for their successful Auditions on the Air competition. Age limit for all voicecategories has been set at 20-33; tapes or recordings must accompany the application.Live auditions will be held in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, but no longer inDallas. October 15 is the deadline for applications. First prize totals $3,000 in cash, aconcert over WGN, and an appearance as soloist with orchestra at a Grant Park summerconcert in Chicago. Forms are available from the Illinois Opera Guild Auditions Board,WGN Continental Broadcasting Co., 2501 Bradley Place, Chicago, Illinois 60618.

The University of Tennessee in Knoxville has established the Grace Moore GraduateFellowship for singers. It offers $1,000 cash, plus tuition and fees.

Most symphony orchestras offer a young performers competition, but not too manyinclude vocalists. The North Carolina Symphony Orchestra sponsors a Young ArtistsCompetition at Duke University. It is open to singers and string players under 30 whoare U.S. citizens or foreign students enrolled in U.S. colleges. Each category offers twocash awards ($750 and $400). Further information is available from the N.C. Symphony,Kathleen & Joseph Bryan Award, Box 2508, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. — The Phila-delphia Orchestra's Student Auditions include singers. Requirements state that only"accomplished singers" residing in Philadelphia or within a 50-mile radius are eligible.The age limit for students is 17-24, for juniors 13-16. For applications contact thePhiladelphia Orchestra Ass'n, 230 S. 15 Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19102. Auditions areheld in April. — Singers between the ages of 16 and 26 may participate in the Charleston(S.C.) Symphony and Music Study Club competition. Applications, available from theSymphony at 97 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, S.C. 29401, must be returned with taperecordings before October 1. The winner will perform with the orchestra and receive$250 in cash. — The Women's Ass'n of the St. Louis Symphony sponsors a competitionwhich is open to singers of 25 years or under, residing in or around St. Louis. Thecompetition is held in February and the winner will be invited to appear with theorchestra. Interested parties should contact Mrs. Bertram Tremayne, 58 Frederick Lane,Glendale, Mo. 63122.

The Festival Las Palmas in the Canary Islands is offering an International Voice Com-petition. Both festival and competition are under the directorship of Tito Capobianco.The Alejandro del Castillo competition will hold its preliminary auditions in Madrid inDecember 74 while the finals will take place in Las Palmas. (The festival will offer freetransport from Madrid to Las Palmas to all finalists.) There will be three cash prizesand performance opportunities during the festival. Inquiries may be addressed to OperaStudies Department, Philadelphia Musical Academy, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 or to IberMusica, Avda. Generalissimo 30-9E, Madrid, Spain.

The first International Song Contest of Athens, Greece, will be under the auspices ofthe Atheneum International Cultural Center (2, Pausaniou Street, Athens, T.T. 501,Greece). The competition requires repertoire in opera, oratorio and art songs; age limitsare 20-30 for women and 22-32 for men. Applications together with the registration feeof $15 must be received by November 20, 1974. The contest is scheduled for February20-24, 1975. The organization will arrange for a travel discount for students. There aretwo cash prizes, US $1,000 and $700, a silver medal and three merit awards.

Singers between the ages of 18 and 33 are eligible to participate during July in theInternational Competition for Opera Singers held in Italy. For further informationaddress Segretaria dell'Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno e Turismo, P. le Bettelone,37019 Peschiera del Garda, Italy.

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The Salzburg Mozarteum, a favorite summer school for American singers, also offerswinter classes and in this framework conducts a Competition for Voice open to foreignstudents. Dates of the next contest are January 23 - February 2, 1975. For furtherinformation write to Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria.

The International Music Academy of Maurice Ravel, located in St. Jean de Luz, offersa course for professional musicians under the age of 33 during the first three weeks ofSeptember. Instruction is given in voice, piano and string instruments in classes of nomore than twelve students. Emphasis is on French repertoire; the symphony orchestrafrom Bordeaux will be in residence. Scholarships are available to qualified students.Address inquiries to M. Luc Olivier Houdia, 52 Ave. de Breteuil, 75007 Paris, France.

The Institute of International Education now accepts applications for its 1975-76 pro-gram of graduate study or research abroad. Deadline for applications is October 15.Preference is given to applicants who have not had prior extended study or residenceabroad. HE handles all grants under the Fulbright-Hays Act as well as grants offeredby foreign governments for study in their country. For further details see the COSbrochure A wards for Singers.

In addition to some European summer opera courses mentioned in the Spring issue ofthe COS Bulletin, there is the International Lyric Festival of the City of Barga with itsspecial courses for opera singers, conductors and directors. Students of professionalcaliber will participate at the end of the season in the performances which this yearfeature Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, II Tabarro and Madama Butterfly as well as thepremiere of Trauma. For information address Segretaria di Opera Barga, Via dellaFornacetta 11, 55051 Barga/Lucca, Italy. — The Institute for Advanced Musical Studiesin Montreux, Switzerland, offers five-week master classes (7/14-8/17). Details and ap-plication blanks may be obtained from the Director of Admission, Institute of AdvancedMusical Studies, 1820 Montreux, Switzerland, or in the U.S., 455 Park Avenue, NewYork, N.Y. 10022.

WINNERS

The first prize of $2,500 of the Grinnell Vocal Competition in Detroit was won bysoprano SALLY WILEY, doctoral student at the University of Michigan. Runner-upwas mezzo soprano ASHLEY PUTNAM, also of the University of Michigan; shereceived $1,000.

The New York Concert Artists Guild chose a round dozen of young musicians forpresentation in debut recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall. There are eleven instrumentalistsand 26-year-old mezzo soprano KAREN JOHNSON.

Chicago's Auditions on the Air, sponsored by WGN and the Illinois Opera Guild,awarded its first prize of $3,000 and a concert appearance at Grant Park to sopranoKATHLEEN BATTLE. She is from Cincinnati and 25 years old. Second prize of $2,000went to 26-year-old soprano LYNN COLE-ADCOCK from Los Angeles.

The 14th Young Artists Competition held by the National Arts Club chose three sopranosas this year's winners: OLIVIA BUCKLEY, MARY ANN CHRISTY, and JANETPRANSCHKE. — A $400 cash prize was won by LORINE SUMMERS in the voicecategory of the Young Artists Competition sponsored by Sigma Alpha Iota and MuPhi Epsilon. — Soprano CYNTHIA CLAREY, a Juilliard graduate, won first prize inJanuary at the Young Artists Competition of the North Carolina Symphony in ChapelHill.

The Canadian Broadcasting Company's Talent Festival held its 1974 finals in April inVancouver at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. A 23-year-old baritone from Toronto,INGEMAR KORJUS, received the first prize of $3,000 and Vancouver's own sopranoINGRID SUDERMAN, the second prize of $2,000. The 1973 winners, not previouslyannounced, were soprano MARY LOU FALLIS, semi-finalist at the Met Opera NationalCouncil Auditions. (She had to forego participation in the finals due to illness but willbe back next season.) Montreal mezzo soprano MARIANA PAUNOVA tied for firstplace. Applications for participation in the 16th CBC Talent Festival are available fromCBC, Box 500, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5W 1E6.

Three members of the Opera Department of the University of Toronto were named1974 Canadian Opera Guild Scholarship winners. They are soprano CONSTANCE

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ADORNO, tenor STEPHEN YOUNG, and technician NEIL NEEDHAM.

SIDNEY JOHNSON, American tenor and 1967 winner of the Metropolitan OperaNational Council Auditions, was awarded the Salzburg Prize for the Promotion ofSingers by the International Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. ZOILA MUNOZof Peru was also thus honored and both received 10,000 Austrian Schillinge.

Fifty-three candidates from fourteen countries vied for prizes at the 1973 InternationalCompetition for Young Opera Singers in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Grand Prix and GoldRing and Medal went to Hungary's SYLVIA SAS. Other prizes in both women's andmen's categories were distributed to representatives from Bulgaria, the USSR, andRumania (in that order). One American singer who scored as a runner-up was MOLLYMELAHOURIS.

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FOR CONDUCTORS, COMPOSERS, ADMINISTRATORSA Young Conductors Competition has been initiated by the Baltimore Symphony underthe guidance of its music director, Sergiu Comissiona. It is open to U.S. citizens bornon or after June 30, 1944, who have not yet conducted a major orchestra. The compe-tition will be held July 10-15 (application deadline was May 30) during the orchestra'ssummer festival at the Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, Maryland, where thewinner will be invited to conduct one concert. A cash prize of $2,000 will also beawarded. Mo. Comissiona was himself winner of the conductor's competition in Be-sancon, France, in 1955.

The 22nd annual BMI Awards to student composers between the ages of 18 and 25resulted in prizes to fifteen ycung composers of whom six received them for the secondyear. Cash prizes vary from $300 to $2,500 with the money to be used towards furthereducation. Over the years a total of over 200 awards have been given.

Catholic University and the Opera Society of Washington, D.C., are collaborating on anadministrative and technical opera program for academic credit. Called Opera Practicum,university students may enroll in an internship program offering work in such areas aswardrobe and property departments, administration, box office, and the like.

Beginning this July, SUNY in Binghamton, N.Y., will offer a two-year program leadingto a Master's Degree in Business Administration in the Arts. It is the first N.Y. StateUniversity with such a program. Eligible to participate are students holding BA or BSdegrees.

The National Orchestra Ass'n will hold its Conducting Program together with the AspenMusic School in Colorado this summer. Music director Leon Barzin will be in charge.Ten young conductors were chosen by audition for participation in the nine-weekcourse and thirty grants were made available through the National Orchestra Ass'n tosome of its members for their participation in orchestra playing at Aspen.

NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATIONSGluck's Orfeo ed Euridice was performed at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock asOrfeo in an English translation by Blanche Thebom, director/producer of the operadepartment.

When 11 Trovatore is performed by the Augusta Opera Company in Georgia next Fall,it will be sung in a new English translation by Ross Yockey.

J.M. Cembala and M. Petrie, 7 Parkfield Rd., Bristol, England BS17 3NP, have madean English translation of Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor, also known as The HauntedCastle.

Robert Cowden, formerly with Jacksonville University, may be addressed at 35580Oakdale Drive, Livonia, Mich., 48154. He is listed in the COS Translation Directorywith an English version of Lortzing's Wildschiitz and has recently added a translationof Un Ballo in maschera, published by Kalmus.

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE INSIDE INFORMATION

This Fall, it will be twenty years since Central Opera Service was founded. Itstarted as a vision of our beloved Mrs. August Belmont who, in her inimitableenthusiasm and enterprise, succeeded in setting up this first national organizationto unite and serve all opera companies and workshops, whether large or small.In those twenty years COS has grown under the sponsorship of the MetropolitanOpera National Council, both in membership and in services. Whereas a news-letter of some mimeographed pages distributed to 100 members was a milestonefor opera on a national basis within the first year, the quarterly printed COSBulletin with an average of forty pages is today an integral part of every musiclibrary and is distributed to some 1200 members. Under the guidance of itsinitial chairman, Mrs. Mary Darrell, the first survey ever conducted and published onvarious aspects of opera in the USA was the Opera Manual published by COS in 1956.Later, under the chairmanship of Robert L. B. Tobin, its information was updated andextended to more areas and published in seven individual Directories, each of thema unique reference guide. To expand its services with each season beyond thosepreviously offered has been one of the goals of the organization. Aside from itspublications, COS can point with pride to many firsts: It was first in 1966, at theCOS National Conference in New York, to acquaint the arts community with thenewly formed National Council on the Arts, and the then Arts Councils ofAmerica, and in 1968, at the National Conference in San Antonio, with the thencreated Business Committee for the Arts. In 1973, COS was the first national artsorganization to develop a Bicentennial program. Now, with the celebration ofour own 20th anniversary at hand, we have added yet another service for thebenefit of our members and the opera community as a whole. It is a composers'anniversary survey and its initial results are published in the following pages. Wehope that we have served opera well and pledge to serve it ever better, and webelieve that Mrs. Belmont's vision of ONE opera community throughout thewhole nation is becoming a reality, thanks to her guiding spirit which will alwaysbe an inspiration to all of us.

Programs and registration forms for the CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE NA-TIONAL CONFERENCE scheduled for San Francisco October 16-18, 1974, havebeen mailed. Please note the deadline for ticket orders for the San FranciscoOpera's performances is September 16 and since requests are filled in the orderof their receipt early returns are recommended. The program promises to be mostinteresting and stimulating and advance registration indicates that we can expecta record attendance. You will, no doubt, want to be part of this gathering. Pleasesend your registration early. The office will be open throughout the summer toaccept your returns. Additional registration forms and programs available uponrequest.

A new, completely up-dated and checked address list of all OPERA COMPANIESAND OPERA WORKSHOPS IN THE U.S. AND CANADA is now availablefrom COS for $6.00. In 41 pages it lists over 1,000 performing organizations.

The Fall issue of the COS BULLETIN will carry an extensive BOOK CORNER,listing and reviewing an array of new interesting and/or informative volumes aswell as some indispensable reference books. Be certain not to miss it. — NewCOS members will also be welcomed at that time.

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In honor of the approaching 90th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera, anhistorical lecture is being offered by Mrs. John DeWitt Peltz, archivist of theMetropolitan Opera Association, and author of such varied books as MetropolitanOpera Milestones, Spotlights on the Stars, Behind the Gold Curtain, and TheMagic of the Opera. Mrs. Peltz, who for over twenty years was editor of OperaNews and as such also assisted with the formation of COS, has had a long andintimate association with the Opera House and its varied personalities. She willthus bring a personal touch to her perspective on its near-centenary. For furtherinformation address the Metropolitan Opera Guild Speakers Bureau, 1865 Broad-way, New York, N.Y. 10023, or Mrs. Peltz directly at the Metropolitan OperaArchives, Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. 10023.

With the above mentioned commemorative season approaching next Fall, a look atother opera companies with anniversary seasons was prompted. Thus, we find thatthe CINCINNATI SUMMER OPERA has announced its 40th season, the PITTS-BURGH OPERA its 35th, and the NEW YORK CITY OPERA has just celebratedits 30th anniversary. Two North Carolina companies and two in upstate NewYork will have their 25th anniversary in 1974-75. They are the NATIONALOPERA COMPANY of Raleigh, the CHARLOTTE OPERA COMPANY, theTRI-CITIES OPERA in Binghamton, and the ITHACA OPERA ASS'N. It isalso 25 years since Albert Schweitzer launched the ASPEN FESTIVAL. Boththe LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO and the HOUSTON GRAND OPERA arestarting their 20th seasons, the TOLEDO OPERA and the METROPOLITANOPERA STUDIO are going into their 15th, while California's SAN DIEGOOPERA and the OPERA THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY are readying for their10th anniversary. — Regrettably, the LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY, whichbrought many rarely-performed works to New York audiences, will be disbandingat the end of the coming season, its silver anniversary.

Of CoTo further aid opera companies in devising unusual programming, COS hasinstituted yet another service. Listed below are composers whose anniversaries areto be celebrated in 1974, 1975, and 1976. Special attention was given to thosewith operatic compositions. Anniversaries of birth and death are included andare marked as such with the actual date in parentheses. Living composers cele-brating special birthdays appear in bold. — By next Fall this list will be amendedto include the years 1977-1980.

1974de Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron; 175th anniversary of his death (5/19)Busoni, Ferruccio; 50th anniversary of his death (7/27)Cimarosa, Domenico; 225th anniversary of his birth (12/17)Cornelius, Peter; 150th anniversary of his birth (12/24) 100th of his death (10/26)Dallapiccola, Luigi; 70th Birthday (2/3)Halevy, Fromental; 175th anniversary of his birth (5/27)Herbert, Victor; 50th anniversary of his death (5/26)von Hofmannsthal, Hugo; 100th anniversary of his birth (2/1)Hoist, Gustav; 100th anniversary of his birth (9/21)Ives, Charles; 100th anniversary of his birth (10/20)Keiser, Reinhardt; 300th anniversary of his birth (1/9)Poulenc, Francis; 75th anniversary of his birth (1/7)Puccini, Giacomo; 50th anniversary of his death (11/29)Schoenberg, Arnold; 100th anniversary of his birth (9/13)Smetana, Bedrich; 150th anniversary of his birth (3/2)Spontini, Gasparo; 200th anniversary of his birth (11/14)Strauss, Richard; 25th anniversary of his death (9/8)

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1975Antheil, George; 75th anniversary of his birth (10/25)Barraud, Henry; 75th Birthday (4/23)Bizet, Georges; 100th anniversary of his death (6/3)Boieldieu, Adrien; 200th anniversary of his birth (12/16)Copland, Aaron; 75th Birthday (11/14)Duni, Egidio Romoaldo; 200th anniversary of his death (6/11)de Gagliano, Marco; 400th anniversary of his birth (date unknown)Hahn, Reynaldo; 100th anniversary of his birth (8/9)Honegger, Arthur; 20th anniversary of his death (11/27)Krenek, Ernst; 75th Birthday (8/23)Montemezzi, Italo; 100th anniversary of his birth (8/4)Orff, Carl; 80th Birthday (7/10)Ravel, Maurice; 100th anniversary of his birth (3/7)Reutter, Hermann; 75th Birthday (6/17)Salieri, Antonio; 150th anniversary of his death (5/7)Satie, Erik; 50th anniversary of his death (7/1)Scarlatti, Alessandro; 250th anniversary of his death (10/24)Still, William Grant; 80th Birthday (5/11)Strauss, Johann; 150th anniversary of his birth (10/25)Sullivan, Arthur; 75th anniversary of his death (11/22)Weill, Kurt; 75th anniversary of his birth (3/2); 25th of his death (4/3)

1976—200th anniversary, of the -Atmerican devolution

Alfano, Franco; 100th anniversary of his birth (3/8)Bellini, Vincenzo; 175th anniversary of his birth (11/3)Cavalli, Pier Francesco; 300th anniversary of his death (1/14)Egk, Wemer; 75th Birthday (5/17)de Falla, Manuel; 100th anniversary of his birth (11/3)Floyd, Carlisle; 50th Birthday (6/11)Gotz, Hermann; 100th anniversary of his death (12/3)Henze, Hans Werner; 50th Birthday (7/1)Hoffmann, E.T.A.; 200th anniversary of his birth (1/24)Shostakovich, Dimitri; 70th Birthday (9/25)Verdi, Giuseppe; 75th anniversary of his death (1/27)von Weber, Carl Maria; 150th anniversary of his death (6/5)Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno; 100th anniversary of his death (1/12)Zenatello, Giovanni; 200th anniversary of his birth (2/22)

APPOINTMENTS

At its last board meeting, the directors of the Metropolitan Opera elected WILLIAMROCKEFELLER President and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding George S. Moorewho became Chairman of the Board. Mr. Rockefeller, a partner in the law firm ofShearman & Sterling, first joined the Metropolitan Opera board as a representative ofthe Metropolitan Opera Guild in 1958. He follows in the footsteps of his stepfather,George Sloan, who was President of the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1946 andChairman of the Board from 1946 to 1955. FRANCIS GOELET, a member of theMetropolitan Opera board since 1954, was named to Mr. Rockefeller's former position,Chairman of the Executive Committee. Two members of the board of directors werenamed Vice-Presidents. They are J. WILLIAM FISHER of the Gramma Fisher Foun-dation and MICHAEL V. FORRESTAL, Chairman of the Board of the MetropolitanOpera Guild and a partner in the law firm with Mr. Rockefeller. ALTON PETERS wasnamed Secretary. Four others were named as new members to the board of directors:JOHN T. CONNOR, MRS. GILBERT HUMPHREY, JOHN D. LOCKTON, andMISS ALICE TULLY. MRS. LEWIS DOUGLAS was elected Director Emeritus.

ROBERT W. SARNOFF, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of theRadio Corporation of America, was chosen as Chairman of the Business Committee forthe Arts. He is succeeding Dr. Frank Stanton, former Chairman of CBS.

The troubled American Revolution Bicentennial Administration will have a new head in thefigure of the present Secretary of the Navy. JOHN W. WARNER will be the organi-zation's first Administrator, appointed by President Nixon. He will resign from theDefense Department as soon as Congress confirms his appointment. The White Housealso named ROBERT MILLER Special Assistant for the Bicentennial.

The Music Advisory Panel of the Michigan Council for the Arts has named MRS. JOHN(JUDY) RAPANOS of Midland its new Director succeeding W. W. Kent. Mrs. Rapanosis also President of the Michigan Orchestra Ass'n and heads the newly formed groupof college and university orchestras under the aegis of the American Symphony OrchestraLeague (see article on National Organizations).

JOSEPH BLOCH, pianist and faculty member of the Juilliard School, has been chosenas President of the Concert Artists Guild. He succeeds Leonard Altman.

The Tennessee Arts Commission has appointed MRS. WATKINS OVERTON ofMemphis as its Vice Chairman; she will also head the TAC Bicentennial Committee.

EDWARD ZAMBARA, Director of the Opera Department at the University of Tennes-see in Knoxville, is the Chairman of the TAC Opera Advisory Panel.

The Canadian Opera Guild announced the election of MRS. NORMAN O. COXALLas Chairman, succeeding Ms. Vida Peene, who was the founder of the 3,000-memberGuild. Mrs. Coxall will also function as Director of the Third Annual Conference ofOpera Guilds scheduled for next Fall in Toronto (see Spring Blltn.). She is on theBoard of Directors of the Canadian Opera Company, where Montague Larkin isPresident.

Mezzo soprano BLANCHE THEBOM, member of the board of directors of the Metro-politan Opera and of the National Opera Institute, was appointed Executive Directorof the Hot Springs Foundation of the Performing Arts in Arkansas. She was also namedDistinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she isDirector of the Opera Department.

The San Diego Opera Company has announced the appointment of TITO CAPOBIANCOas Artistic Director Elect beginning April '74. He will become the company's ArtisticDirector following the retirement of its present Artistic Director, Walter Herbert, at theclose of the 1976-77 season. Besides the many freelance engagements as stage director,Mr. Capobianco also heads the Opera Department at the Philadelphia Musical Academyand is Director of the Las Palmas Festival in the Canary Islands.

GENEVIEVE McGIFFERT, formerly Director of the Opera Workshop at Denver Uni-versity, is the new Music Director of the Peninsula Civic Opera in Newport News, Va.As we near the close of a season, announcements of changes in conductorial positionsmultiply. In addition to his assignment as Resident Conductor of the Cincinnati Sym-phony, ERICH KUNZEL will also become Music Director of the New Haven (Conn.)Symphony beginning next Fall. He succeeds Frank Brieff. — YURI KRASNAPOLSKYwill also hold a dual post when he becomes the new conductor of the Des Moines (Iowa)Symphony, while he continues in his present position as Music Director of the Omaha(Neb.) Symphony Orchestra. — MAURICE PERESS, who has been with the CorpusChristi Symphony for the last twelve years, has accepted the post of Music Director ofthe Kansas City Philharmonic where he signed a three-year contract. Although he hadto assume the Missouri position immediately, he also continues for one more seasonin Texas. — The Kansas City job became vacant when JORGE MESTER resigned todevote full time to the Louisville Symphony. — SKITCH HENDERSON, who resignedfrom the Tulsa Philharmonic, has been appointed Resident Conductor of Connecticut'sthree-year-old Stamford Symphony Orchestra. — Beginning with the 1975-76 season,GEORG SEMKOV, a Polish conductor who is presently conducting at the Royal Operain Copenhagen, will become the Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.He has been signed for three years and will succeed Walter Susskind, whose contract

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will terminate in 1975. — AINSLEE COX will start in his new post as Conductor ofthe Oklahoma City Symphony in the Fall of 1974. — The Wheeling (W. Va.) SymphonyOrchestra's new Music Director is JEFF HOLLAND COOK.Following are some changes in managerial positions. STYRK ORWOLL, for manyyears Manager of the Cincinnati Summer Opera, will be administering the Tri-CitySymphony in Davenport, Iowa. — The Grant Park Concerts in Chicago have namedSTANLEY ACKERMAN Manager for the summer concert series. He is replacingRichard Bass, who is now managing the concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. — ROBERTDRIVER, JR. former assistant stage director at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper andAssistant Director of the Kentucky Opera, was appointed Associate Manager of theKansas City Lyric Theater, where he will be working under Director Russell Patterson.For the last three years Mr. Driver studied for a doctoral degree in operatic literatureat Johns Hopkins University. — BOBBI WEDLAN joined the Kansas City Lyric asPublic Relations Director. — MRS. LUKE BANDLE, formerly Manager of the OperaSociety of Washington D.C., has joined the staff at the Wolf Trap Foundation asAssistant Director of Communications and Marketing, where she will be working withAlfred Stites, Director of that department.

Academia

Rice University in Houston, Texas, will be opening The Shepherd School of Music inSeptember '75. Conductor/composer SAMUEL JONES was named Director of theSchool, which will be for undergraduates exclusively for the first year, but will addgraduate student facilities later.

ROBERT SUDERBURG was chosen as the new Chancellor of the N.C. School of theArts in Winston-Salem. A composer and former professor at the University of Wash-ington, he will succeed composer Robert Ward, who was the school's second Chancellorfollowing Vittorio Giannini.

It was recently announced that PETER J. SCHOENBACH will be the new Dean andAdministrative Coordinator for the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. —CHARLES C. HIRT will head a new Choral Laboratory at the School of Music ofthe University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Additions to music faculties include ROBERT MURRAY, Artistic Director of the OperaUnder the Stars in Rochester, N.Y., as Associate Professor of Opera to Florida StateUniversity in Tallahassee. — MARK STARR, Music Director at the University ofWisconsin, will be the new Director of Orchestra and Opera at Stanford University inCalifornia. It is the position presently occupied by Sandor Salgo who retires at theend of this season after 24 years at Stanford. •— The School of Music at Ohio StateUniversity in Athens will have IRA ZOOK, JR. as its new Chairman of the VocalDivision. — Soprano BRENDA LEWIS, who has staged opera the last few years forthe New Haven Opera Co., will join the faculty of the University of Bridgeport, Conn.,where she will also be Director of the Opera Division. In addition, she will hold MasterClasses at Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Conn.

EuropeThe Teatro Comunale in Florence has a new Artistic Director in the person of CARLOMARINELLI, who administers the opera house together with General Manager NICOLAPINTO. — THEODOR GUSCHLBAUER, who was Music Director for the last fewyears in Lyons, France, is returning to his native Austria when he joins the OperaHouse in Linz as Music Director. He will assume his new position at the start of the1975-76 season, when he succeeds Peter Lacovich.

LOVRO VON MATACIC was named Chief Conductor of the Orchestre National deI'Opera de Monte Carlo. — PETER MAAG has signed a three-year contract as MusicDirector with the Teatro Regio in Turin. — San Francisco Opera guest conductor,REYNALD GIOVANINETTI, will join the Marseilles Opera as its Artistic Director.

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IN 1973-74 OPERA LOSTConductor KAREL ANCERL Czech, 65 years old, in Toronto 7/3/73. He had beenmusic director and conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 1968 and priorto this he had been director of the Czech Philharmonic for 17 years. He left his nativeCzechoslovakia during the Soviet occupation in 1968. An international figure, Mr.Ancerl appeared as guest conductor with such orchestras as the Vienna and BerlinPhilharmonic, the London Symphony, the Leningrad Symphony and the New YorkPhilharmonic.

Baritone WOLFGANG ANHEISSER German, in his early 40's, in Cologne 1/1/74. Aleading baritone at the Cologne Opera for the last few years, he was substituting for anailing colleague in a performance of Der Bettelstudent when a rope broke and causedhis fatal accident.

Scenic designer and artist BORIS ANISFELD Russian/ American, 94 years old, inStonington, Conn. 12/4/73. He studied in Odessa and made his first stage design in 1901for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe in St. Petersburg. The year 1911 took him to Paris forSadko, where he also designed for Nijinsky. He came to the Metropolitan Opera in1919 where he designed various world premieres and new productions of standard operasuntil 1924. In 1921 he made the original designs for the premiere of The Love for ThreeOranges for the Chicago Opera. From 1928 to 1968 he headed the School of AdvancedPainting at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Composer and writer KURT ATTERBERG Swedish, 86 years old, in Stockholm 2/15/74.Composer of ballets, symphonic music and various operas (Bdckahcisten, HarvardHarpolekare, Fanal, Aladin, and The Tempest), he was winner of the $10,000 prizeawarded in 1928 by Columbia Gramophone. He was also music critic for a Stockholmnewspaper and later for Opera News.

Poet W. H. AUDEN British/American, 66 years old, in Kirchstein, Austria 9/28/73.One of the leading and most important poets of this century, he also displayed a greatinterest in music, and opera in particular. He collaborated on a number of opera libretti(The Rake's Progress, Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers, and The Bassarids) as well as onEnglish translations of operatic texts (Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, various Mozart operas)with Chester Kallman.

Bass CHASE BAROMEO American, 80 years old, in Birmingham, Michigan 8/7/73.Born in Augusta, Georgia, he sang under Toscanini at La Scala, Milan, 1923-1926. Hewas a leading member of the Chicago Opera for ten years beginning in 1927 and ofthe Metropolitan Opera from 1935 to 1938. He was also heard in San Francisco andother major American cities. Later he joined the voice faculty of the University ofTexas and from 1952-61 he taught at the University of Michigan where he was namedprofessor emeritus.

Conductor and accompanist PAUL BERL Austrian/American, 67 years old, in NewYork 5/26/74. For the last 28 years, he had been on the faculty of the Mannes Collegeof Music where he headed the opera department. Only the previous month he conductedthe premieres of two new operas, a result of an opera competition which he instituted.He was also accompanist to such singers as Victoria de los Angeles and Erna Berger.He received a doctorate from the Vienna University and conducted opera in Germanyand Austria before coming to the United States in 1939.

Conductor WALTER BORN German, 63 years old, in Karlsruhe during performanceof Madama Butterfly 5/12/73. He had been first conductor at Karlsruhe, Germany,since 1945 and music director since 1962. 1953-61 he was also on the musical staff ofthe Bayreuther Festspiele.

Baritone ROGER BOURDIN French, 73 years old, in Paris 9/14/73. He made his debutat the Opera-Comique in 1922 and remained with the company into the 1960's. In 1942he also appeared with the Paris Opera, where in 1950 he created the title role inMilhaud's Bolivar. During the 30's he also sang at Covent Garden. He was married tosoprano Geori Boue.

Composer and impresario GIULIO CESARE BRERO Italian, 64 years old, in Milan12/20/73. In 1955 he founded the touring Compagnia dell'Opera Comica of Milan.Among his compositions are two operas, Novella (prem. Bergamo 1953) and La Madrina(RAI Rome 1973).

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Dramatic soprano VIKTORIA BRONIS American, 47 years old, in Kiel, Germany2/8/74. She made her debut in Lucerne, Switzerland, later became a member of theStockholm Opera and joined the Kiel Opera Company in 1967.

Music publisher IRVING BROUDE American, 63 years old, in New York 6/22/73.He was the president of Broude Bros. Ltd., a music publishing house which he andhis brother Alexander founded. The house handles classical music exclusively andrepresents some of the leading contemporary composers. His son Ronald is director ofthe company.

Composer, conductor, and administrator HENRI BUSSER French, 101 years old, inParis 12/30/73. He became a pupil of Cesar Franck and Ernest Guiraud, after showing histalent by composing a Mass when he was 12 years old. He won the Prix de Rome in1893 and became a protege of Charles Gounod. In 1902 he became a conductor at theOpera-Comique and from 1905 to 1939 he conducted at the Paris Opera. The followingtwo years he was director of the Opera-Comique and from 1946-1951 he was directorof the Paris Opera. Among his compositions are Les Noces corinthiennes (Paris 1922)and La Carosse du Saint Sacrement (Opera-Comique 1948). In the 50's he madeadaptations of Rameaux's Les Indes galantes and of Weber's Oberon for the Paris Opera.He married Yvonne Galle, a former opera singer, when he was 86, and lived until17 days before his 102nd birthday.

Cellist, composer, conductor and humanitarian PABLO CASALS Spanish, 96 years old,in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 10/22/73. The world renowned musician, who went intoself-imposed exile from his home country in protest to Generalissimo Franco's seizureof the government, became the symbol of the freedom seeking musicians of the world.After leaving Spain he founded the festivals in Prades and Perpignon where musiclovers and musicians came as on a pilgrimage. Born as the son of an organist, hesang, played the piano and violin when he was four, and took up the cello only when hewas 12. An example of his humbleness before the composers he most adored is thefact that while he started to rigorously study the Bach suites when he was 14 years old,he would not play them in public until he was 25. For the last 17 years he lived inPuerto Rico where, in 1957 at the age of 80, he married Marta Montanez and startedthe Casals Festival. Space does not allow a detailed account of his many achievementsbut mention must be made of his conducting, which he took up in the twenties and feltoften to be his first love in music making. As a composer his Hymn to the UnitedNations with words by W. H. Auden and the oratorio El Pesebre are among the bestknown of his works.

Philanthropist ALEXANDER FIELD CHISHOLM American, 74 years old, in CorpusChristi, Texas 3/12/74. A native New Yorker, Mr. Chisholm moved to Laurel, Miss, in1927 where he became a banker and oil executive. He and his wife discovered thetalents of the niece of one of their household employees and aided the child, and lateryoung girl, to a professional career in singing. They continued to support her studieswhen she was accepted at Juilliard. This talented protege was Leontyne Price.

Choreographer and director JOHN CRANKO British, 45 years old, on flight fromPhiladelphia to Stuttgart 6/25/73. (Following an apparent heart attack, the planemade an unscheduled landing in Dublin where he was pronounced dead on arrival.)Before becoming choreographer and director of the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, which hesubsequently turned into an internationally acclaimed ballet company, Mr. Crankowas a member of the Sadler's Wells company. He was greatly interested in opera and,besides dancing in opera ballets, he choreographed opera ballets and directed operaproductions. He was stage director for Peter Grimes at Covent Garden, and for Mid-summer Night's Dream at its world premiere at Aldeburgh. He also staged Die lustigeWitwe at the Stuttgart Oper.

Conductor, director and archivist HANS CURJEL German, 77 years old, in Zurich1/3/74. He was conductor in Diisseldorf and Berlin and became director of the KrollOper in Berlin while Klemperer was its music director. He left Germany when Hitlercame to power and held positions as archivist in Switzerland.

Industrialist, diplomat, and philanthropist LEWIS W. DOUGLAS American, 79 yearsold, in Tucson, Arizona 2/7/74. American Ambassador to the Court of St. James from1947 to 1950, he later maintained a residency in New York but lived mostly in

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Arizona, where his business interest was banking. In New York, he was a trustee ofthe Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and president of the Winston Churchill Foundation. Heis survived by Mrs. Douglas who has been a member of the board of directors of theMetropolitan Opera for many years and was recently named member emeritus. Shewas among the earliest members of the Metropolitan Opera National Council and waschairman of the development committee, as such helped founding the patron program forthe Met.Pianist, band leader and composer DUKE (EDWARD KENNEDY) ELLINGTONAmerican, 75 years old, in New York 5/24/74. A legendary figure in American jazzmusic as performer as well as composer, he bridged the styles from jazz to concertmusic in an unprecedented way. His first concert composition came in 1943, BlackBrown and Beige, a 50 minute piece which he introduced in a Carnegie Hall concert.Among his earlier most popular songs are Solitude, Sophisticated Lady and Mood Indigo.He wrote over 6,000 compositions, and received many honors, including an honorarydoctorate from Columbia University last year.Tenor, composer, and impresario RALPH ERROLLE American, 82 years old, inBirmingham, Alabama 9/2/73. He sang with the Chicago Opera in 1923-24 and withthe Metropolitan Opera during the following two seasons. Later he turned impresarioand as such was active in New York, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Birmingham. Hebecame director of the Atlanta Opera Arts Ass'n, producing twenty operas there. In1942 he was appointed director of the opera workshop at Louisiana State Universitywhere he remained until 1951. His compositions include two operas, Prince Elmar(Chicago 1934; also awarded the D. Bispham Memorial Medal) and The Messenger(Newark 1938).Composer and oboist ALVIN D. ETLER American, 60 years old, in Northampton,Mass. 6/13/73. His compositions were played by many leading American orchestras(N.Y. Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, etc.). He was an Andrew Mellon Professorof Humanities at Smith College, and prior to this had taught at U. of 111., Cornell U.,and Western Reserve U. He was twice recipient of Guggenheim fellowships.

Soprano and critic ALICE EVERSMAN American, 88 years old, in Fairfax, Va. 2/1/74.She studied at Peabody Conservatory and in Berlin and made her debut at the ChicagoOpera. She sang two roles at the Metropolitan Opera during the 1916-17 season. Latershe became music critic at the Washington Evening Star.

Music critic and author SIDNEY FINKELSTEIN American, 64 years old, in Brooklyn,N.Y. 1/13/74. He wrote ten books, among them Composer and Nation, How MusicExpresses Ideas, and Jazz, a People's Music, and innumerable articles on music. In theforties he joined the music staff of the Herald Tribune and in 1951 he began workingfor Vanguard Records where he remained until 1973.

Bass and author DAVID FRANKLIN British, 65 years old, in Worcester, England10/22/73. He made his debut at Glyndebourne in 1936 under Fritz Busch and sang atCovent Garden 1947-1950. After a major operation he was restricted to lecturing andteaching. He wrote the opera libretto for Tate's The Lodger.Writer and dancer TRUDY GOTH German/American, 60 years old, in Florence, Italy5/12/74. She studied modern dance with many leading dancers and performed in France,Italy and in the U.S.A. (Jacob's Pillow Festival and Broadway). In 1946 she foundedthe Choreographer's Workshop in New York. She wrote reviews and articles on musicand dance for Opera News, Dance Magazine, Variety, Aufbau and a number of Europeanpublications. She was also personal representative for Dimitri Mitropoulos.

TV producer and arts administrator DONALD HARPER American, 36 years old, inDowney, 111. 6/25/73, after long illness. He joined the N.Y. State Council on the Artsin 1969 and, the following year, became director of special programs. In the sixties, hedirected and later also produced TV documentaries and specials on the civil rightsmovement including one on Dr. Martin Luther King.

Soprano FANNY HELDY (MARGUERITE DECEUNINCK) Belgian, 85 years old,in Paris 12/18/73. She made her debut in Brussels in 1910, sang with the Opera-Comiquein 1917 and with the Paris Opera in 1920 for the first time. She took part in manypremieres at both houses. In 1923 Toscanini engaged her for La Scala in Milan whereshe remained three seasons and then joined Covent Garden. In 1939 she retired fromthe stage when she married Marcel Boussac, founder of the House of Dior.

Administrator GEORGES HIRSCH French, 79 years old, in Paris 5/14/74. A leader inthe French resistance during the war, he was appointed director of both the Paris Opera

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and the Opera-Comique from 1945-51. During this time he produced the unprecedentednumber of 135 revivals or new works at the Paris opera houses. He was reappointed in1956 for another term, however, a political controversy around the then chef de balletled to his resignation in 1959.

Music critic and educator NORA HOLT American, 89 years old, in Los Angeles 1/25/74.She was music editor and critic at New York's Amsterdam News for many years,joining that paper in 1943. She received a BS from a Kansas university and went onto Chicago Musical College where she became the first black American to receive aMaster of Music degree. In 1931 she studied with Nadia Boulanger in France andsubsequently did graduate work and taught at the University of Southern California.Her first job on a paper came in 1917 when she became the first music critic at theChicago Defender. At that time she also founded the National Ass'n of Negro Musiciansand published a magazine Music and Poetry.

Impresario SOL (SOLOMON ISAIEVICH) HUROK Russian/American, 85 years old,in New York 3/5/74. Considered the epitome of the flamboyant impresario, he wasresponsible for the growth of American interest in the ballet by offering Americanaudiences the best of foreign ballet companies. Although he left his native Russia whenhe was 18 years old to come to the United States, he was the first artist manager toestablish contact as soon as the iron curtain lifted to make arrangements for theexchange of artists between the U.S. and the USSR. Thus he was able to sign theBolshoi and Moiseyev Ballet companies as well as leading individual artists such asOistrakh, Richter, Rostropovich and many others. He also imported distinguished per-formers and performing groups from other foreign countries, and his list of Americanartists is equally impressive with Marion Anderson, Maria Callas, Arthur Rubinstein,and Isaac Stern to name but a few. Arriving in New York in 1906 with no money at all,he spent part of his first salary to hear Chaliapin and vowed to manage artists like himone day. A few years later he managed a national tour of Chaliapin on which he lost$150,000 but made up much of the loss with one performance of Pavlova. The BalletRusse de Monte Carlo was the first major foreign ballet company presented by him.In 1969 he sold his Concert Bureau, said to gross $8-10 million, to a conglomerate.However he remained in full control of all artistic decisions, representing 60 attractionsin over 2,000 concert dates that year alone.

Soprano and administrator ELSIE ILLINGWORTH British/American, 87 years old, inHuntington, N.Y. 7/18/73. She sang in concerts and also for British and American troupsduring W.W.I, and later in the U.S. in Chautauqua. In 1922 she joined manager ArthurJudson's Columbia Artists Mngt., from there moved to NBC Artists Service and thento the National Concert and Artists Corporation where she remained for 20 years assales representative. When Hurok, who was then an executive at NCAC, left to form hisown management in 1957, she went with him and was named vice president of thisorganization. She resigned from this position last year.

Real-estate broker and philanthropist KENNETH A. IVES American, 71 years old, inNew York 5/29/74. He was president of Kenneth Ives & Co., New York and Connecticut,a real-estate fconcern founded by his father, and served on many charitable and phi-lanthropic committees such as the N.Y. Association of the Blind, the American Friendsof the Bermuda Foundation and the Margaret Sanger Bureau. He was a member of theboard of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Association. (He was not related to thecomposer Charles Ives.)

Tenor RAOUL JOBIN Canadian, 67 years old, in Quebec 1/13/74. He studied inQuebec and Paris, sang first with the Opera-Comique and in 1930 made his debut withthe Paris Opera where he sang until 1940 and again after the war from 1946-52. Hewas a leading tenor at the Metropolitan Opera from 1940-1950 where he opened threeseasons and sang 14 roles in 97 performances. He also sang opera and concerts in manymajor American cities, as well as in Mexico, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. Hewas president of the Jeunesses Musicales Canada and a member of the Canada ArtsCouncil. His son Andre is a baritone with the N.Y. City Opera.

Conductor and composer OTTO KLEMPERER German, 88 years old, in Zurich 7/6/73.He was one of the worlds most famous and most admired conductors. Although hiscareer spanned seven decades, it was interrupted by severe illnesses which threatenedto terminate it. He started piano and violin at four and when 21 years old made his con-ducting debut in Reinhardt's production of Orpheus in the Underworld. Gustav Mahlerwas so impressed that he recommended the young conductor for a position at theGerman National Theater in Prague where Klemperer stayed from 1907-10. Then he

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moved on to Hamburg (4 years), Strasbourg (3 years), and the Kroll Oper in Berlinwhere he conducted many contemporary works but where, after 6 years, he was fired by theNazis. After his arrival in the United States in 1934 he conducted major orchestras inNew York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and became director of the Los Angeles Philhar-monic. In 1939 he had to undergo an operation for a brain tumor which left himpartially paralyzed and although he accepted a few engagements they were only withminor organizations. After W.W. II he went to Budapest as music director of the opera.In 1951 when travelling to Montreal for a guest engagement, he fell and broke his hipand was again unable to conduct for some years. When he resumed, he had to leadfrom a wheelchair. An engagement to conduct Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan in1959 came to naught when he was incapacitated due to a fire. That same year he wasappointed music director of London's Philharmonic Orchestra and for the remaining14 years he celebrated many triumphs with this orchestra and a devoted London public.Between 1961-70 he also conducted a number of productions at Covent Garden. In1970, he had a guest engagement in Israel where he accepted Israeli citizenship. Amonghis many compositions were also 5 operas.

Composer RUDOLF KUBIN Czech, 64 years old, in Ostrava 1/11/73. Among hiscompositions are the following three operas: Nasi furianti, The Girl from the Colony,and The Rowdies.

Composer and administrator MARIO LABROCA Italian, 76 years old, in Rome 7/1/73.A composer of chamber and orchestral music, he also wrote various scores for filmsand several books on music, including one on The Magic Flute. In 1936 he was namedartistic director and administrator of the Teatro Comunale in Florence where, duringthe 8 years of his stay, he also founded the Maggio Musicale. Then followed one yearof administration at La Fenice in Venice and one year at Milan's La Scala. From1948-58 he was one of the music directors of the Italian state radio (RAI). In 1959 hereturned to La Fenice and also instituted the famous Venice Biennale Festival.

Producer/director MAURICE LEHMANN French, 79 years old, in Paris 5/17/74. Asan actor he was a member of the Comedie Francaise. Later he was appointed generalmanager of the Paris Opera where he was noted for his lavish productions of Vienneseand French operettas. After W.W. II he reopened both the Paris Opera and Opera-Comique and managed both houses.

Composer and conductor BRUNO MADERNA Italian, 53 years old, in Darmstadt, W.Germany 11/13/73. Well-known as a composer, his latest work, the opera Satyricon,received its American premiere last year in Tanglewood, he also enjoyed a successfulcareer as a conductor on the international circuit. He made his American debut con-ducting opera at Juilliard where he also taught, and went on to lead the major orchestrasin New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Detroit.

Composer, conductor and educator QUINTO MAGANINI American, 77 years old, inGreenwich, Conn. 3/10/74. He was discovered by Walter Damrosch while playing inthe John Philip Sousa band and brought to New York at 19. He then studied withNadia Boulanger in Paris and Fontainebleau where he became president of the AmericanSchools of Fontainebleu, a position he held at the time of his death. His opera TheArgonauts received the 1927 Pulitzer Prize. Its subject is the California gold rush.

Composer and educator GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO Italian, 91 years old, inTreviso, Italy 8/1/73. Italy's most prolific contemporary opera composer, he pennedabout forty, many based on famous plays, and also wrote symphonic and chamber sizeworks. He also completed editions of the collected works of Monteverdi and of Vivaldi.His teaching positions included the Parma and Venice Music Conservatories, and theBenedetto Marcello School of Music in Venice. He was a member of the NationalInstitute of Arts and Letters in New York, the Academie de France, and the FlemishRoyal Academy of Belgium. Of all the operas, only // finto arlecchino was performed inthe United States.

Dramatic soprano BEATA MALKIN Russian/American, 82 years old, in New York9/25/73. After singing dramatic leading roles in Dresden and Berlin, she fled when Hitlercame to power in 1933. Before that time she also sang at La Scala, Milan, andin Vienna. In 1935 she sang in Russian operas under the baton of Efrem Zimbalist inNew York at the Mecca Temple (later the home of the N.Y. City Opera). At the onset

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of W.W. II she returned to her native Russia where she sang in provincial operahouses and only after the end of the war did she come back to New York and startteaching in 1946.

Singer EUGENIA MANETTI Italian/American, 86 years old, in New York 2/14/74.From 1918 to 1946 she was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and duringthe last years she was a volunteer assisting Mrs. Peltz in the Met archives.

Soprano SIMONE MANGELSDORFF German, 40 years old, in Cologne 11/26/73.She made her debut in Coburg, Germany, in 1961 and sang in German and Swiss operahouses. After 1965 she took leading roles in Cologne where she sang both the lyric anddramatic repertoire. In 1967 she sang in Salzburg and in 1968 Karajan brought her tothe Metropolitan Opera as Freia in his own production of Rheingold.

Impresario IOSEPH MANN American, 79 years old, in New York 6/6/73. He had beenmanager of the People's Symphony Concerts since 1914. The series began in 1900 tobring good music to students and workers at low cost; the original series offered singletickets as low as 5<*. Yet the series featured top soloists and also some well-known chamberensembles. In addition, Mr. Mann founded the Student Dance Recitals which at timesalso have offered programs with internationally famous dancers. Artists Service, a man-agement concern, was also under Mr. Mann's direction.

Soprano EDITH MASON (EDITH BARNES) American, 80 years old, in San Diego,Cal. 11/26/73. An internationally famous lyric soprano, she made her debut with theBoston Opera and in 1915 sang her first role at the Metropolitan Opera where sheremained for 66 performances in 3 seasons and returned there once more for the 1935-36season. In the twenties she also sang in Chicago and in 1927 made her debut at La Scalaunder the baton of Toscanini. She was also heard in 1930 at Covent Garden and in 1935in Salzburg. In 1941 she came out of retirement to sing one performance of Boheme forher husband who never heard her on stage. She was married five times, twice tothe same man, Maestro Giorgio Polacco. In April 1966 she was invited to participatein the Gala Farewell to the old Metropolitan Opera House.

Singer and director of music publishing ANN SWINBURNE MUNROE American, 87years old, in New York 11/17/73. She started in musical theatre where she rose tostardom, later turning to the concert stage. In 1916 she married Rudolph E. Schirmer,then head of Schirmer Music Publishers. After his death three years later she became adirector of the company and remained active with G. Schirmer until her resignation in1964.

Coach and accompanist ENZO DELL'OREFICE Italian/American, 86 years old, inNew York 6/29/73. He accompanied Enrico Caruso from 1910-13 and on the occasionof an American tour he settled in New York. He was active here as coach and alsoformed his own opera company in the thirties.

Soprano ROSETTA PAMPANINI Italian, 72 years old, in Corbola, Italy 8/2/73. Shemade her debut in Milan in 1921 and sang regularly at La Scala between 1925 and1937. Her tours brought her to most leading opera houses in Europe, Vienna, Paris,London, Berlin, as well as to Buenos Aires and to Chicago in 1931-32. After her re-tirement in 1942 she turned to teaching.

Tenor JULIUS PATZAK Austrian, 75 years old, in Rottach-Egern, Germany 1/26/74.He was a leading tenor from 1928-45 at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, and athis home theatre, the Vienna Staatsoper from 1945-58 when he retired. He originallyintended to become a conductor and studied in Vienna with Franz Schmidt. When hisvoice was discovered, he made his debut in Reichenberg in 1926, supposedly withoutever taking voice lessons. He appeared as guest with numerous European opera com-panies and sang in a number of world premieres. His repertoire encompassed some 70operatic roles. His only American engagement came in 1954 at the Cincinnati MayFestival.

Conductor TIBOR PAUL Hungarian/Australian, 64 years old, in Sydney 11/11/73.The Budapest trained musician came to Australia in 1950 where, in the following year,he began a life-long association with the Sydney Opera Company, interrupted onlybetween 1962-68 when he was principal conductor of Ireland's Radio Eireann Symphony.In 1971 he was also named conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra inSydney. In addition to his conducting, he was on the faculty of the New South WalesConservatory of Music for ten years.

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Contralto MARIE POWERS American, in her sixties, in New York 12/28/73. Shestudied music at Cornell University and voice with Schumann-Heink, and gave her firstconcert at New York's Town Hall in 1932. She went to Europe to gain operatic ex-perience, where Toscanini picked her for participation in a Wagner festival at La Scala,Milan. She married Count Crescentini and sang under the name of Maria Crescentiniin Europe, where she acquired a repertoire of 50 roles in 10 languages. She returned tothe United States at the outbreak of W.W. II and toured with the San Carlo Opera forsix years. Her breakthrough to stardom came when Menotti discovered her for TheMedium and she created the title role on Broadway in 1947. She also toured with thisproduction here and abroad and in 1950 sang in the premiere of Menotti's The Consul.She also appeared on Broadway in theatre productions with Sir Laurence Olivier andwith Anthony Quinn.

Conductor KLAUS PRINGSHEIM German, 89 years old, in Tokyo 1211171. Hestudied with Gustav Mahler and was music director for the Reinhardt Theater in Berlinin the twenties. In 1931 he went to Japan where he became the leading conductor forGerman and Italian opera and was awarded a medal by the Japanese Emperor for hiscontribution to music in Japan.

Mezzo soprano MARIANNA RADEV Rumanian, 61 years old, in Zagreb 9/17/73. Shemade her debut in Trieste in 1937 and later sang leading mezzo roles in most majorEuropean opera houses such as La Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, and Covent Garden.

Philanthropist and businessman FRANCIS FITZ RANDOLPH American, 84 years old,in New York 10/12/73. Senior partner in a New York investment firm, he was a boardmember of the Metropolitan Opera Guild since 1942 and the Guild's treasurer for 22years. From 1958-73 he was the Guild's representative on the board of directors of theMetropolitan Opera Ass'n.

Actress and singer FRANCOISE ROSAY (FRANCOISE BANDY DE NALECHE)French, 82 years old, in Paris 3/28/74. The world renowned actress, who played in over 100French and foreign films and starred in many important theatrical roles, received hertraining at the Paris Conservatoire. A little-known fact is that she began her stage careeras an opera singer and member of the Paris Opera.

Soprano HULDA LASHANSKA ROSENBAUM American, 80 years old, in New York1/17/74. A student of Ashforth and Sembrich, she made her concert debut in NewYork in 1918 and gave recitals and appeared as soloist with ensembles and orchestrasregularly for some twenty years. She also gave many concerts for charitable causes. Inspite of fine reviews she never sang with an opera company.

Conductor DOMENICO SAVINO American, 91 years old, in New York 8/8/73. Hewas music director of the CBS Symphony Orchestra as well as the Bell Telephone Hourwhere he accompanied many leading singers and instrumentalists.

Soprano FRANCA SOMIGLI (MARION BRUCE CLARK) American, 66 years old,in Trieste, Italy 5/16/74. While studying voice in Italy she took on an Italian stagename. In the late twenties she received a contract from La Scala where she sang forfive seasons. She also sang at the Rome Opera for four seasons and at the MaggioMusicale in Florence. In 1936 she sang in Salzburg under Toscanini where EdwardJohnson signed her for the Metropolitan Opera for 1936-37. She was married to GiuseppeAntonicelli, general manager of the opera in Trieste and a Metropolitan Opera con-ductor (1947-50).

Educator and administrator GRACE SPOFFORD American, 87 years old, in New York6/5/74. She started teaching piano at Peabody Conservatory of Music where she wasappointed dean. When the Curtis Institute of Music was founded in 1924 she becameits first dean and remained there until 1931. At that time she went as dean to the NewYork College of Music which bestowed upon her an honorary doctor of music degreein 1954. From 1935 until her retirement in 1954 she was director of the Music Schoolof the Henry Street Settlement and was named director emeritus for life. In 1953 shewas the U.S. representative at the UNESCO sponsored International Society for MusicEducation Congress in Belgium.

Violinist and conductor BENJAMIN STEINBERG American, 58 years old, in NewYork 1/29/74. He studied with Auer and Bernstein and made his concert debut at theage of 11. After completion of his studies he was soloist with many leading orchestrasunder world famous conductors. In 1941 he conducted his first concert, leading theYouth Administration Symphony. After conducting ballet companies, musicals and

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symphony concerts, he founded the first fully integrated symphony orchestra, theSymphony of the New World in 1965 and was its music director until 1971.Soprano LOUISE TAYLOR American, 89 years old, in New York 3/24/74. She sangthroughout Central and South America, also participated in a concert under the batonof Toscanini and in 1924-25 sang with the Chicago Opera.Mezzo soprano JENNIE TOUREL (DAVIDSON) Russian/French/American, in hersixties, in New York 11/23/73. Born "accidentally" in Montreal, her family left St.Petersburg during the Revolution and settled in Paris, where she received her musicaltraining. Studying with a soprano named Anna El-Tour, she adapted the name to makeit her own, and became in time an internationally famous star, particularly known forher unique and authoritative interpretation of French music and especially French artsongs. Her first professional engagement came in 1930 in Chicago; in 1931 she sangwith the Opera Russe in Paris and in 1933 a Carmen at the Opera-Comique, whichis often listed as her official debut. The performance was followed by a contract whichwas terminated when she had to flee, from Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940. Duringthat time she had made her first appearance at the Metropolitan Opera (1937). Shereturned to the United States in 1941 and in 1942 sang with Toscanini and the NewYork Philharmonic. In 1943 she returned to the Metropolitan Opera where she sangfor three seasons, also appearing as guest with the New York City Opera and theAmerican Opera Society. She also embarked on a most successful concert career spe-cializing in French and Russian literature. One of the many memorable concerts wasthe 1969 Carnegie Hall recital with Leonard Bernstein at the piano. Her last concertwas in April '73, her last opera appearance in Chicago October '73 in Fille du regiment.In 1951 she created the role of Baba in Rake's Progress at the premiere in Venice. Shealso taught for many years at Juilliard, Aspen Institute, and in Israel.Songwriter, publisher and impresario AL VANN Russian/American, 73 years old, inNew York 6/17/73. He was the founder and publisher of Music Journal.Mezzo soprano CONCHITA VELASQUEZ Spanish, 69 years old, in Madrid 2/18/74.She made her debut in Italy in 1928 and sang in various opera houses in Italy and alsotoured South America.

Composer SLAVA VORLOVA Czech, 79 years old, in Nachod, Czechoslovakia 8/24/73.Among her many compositions are the following five operas: The Golden Fledgling,Rozmarynka, Nachod Cassation, Two Worlds, and The Game Keeper's Wife.Soprano JENNIFER VYVYAN British, 49 years old, in London 3/28/74. She madeher debut with the English Opera Group in 1947, and in 1951 won first prize at theGeneva Voice Competition. She joined Sadler's Wells in 1952 and sang in Glyndebournestarting 1954. She was closely associated with contemporary opera and created four rolesin Britten operas: Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw (Governess), A Midsummer Night'sDream (Tytania), and Owen Wingrave (Mrs. Julian). The latter was in the BBC pro-duction heard in the United States last year when it was televised over PBS. She alsosang in premieres of various operas by Malcolm Williamson.

Composer, educator, writer ARNOLD M. WALTER Czech/Canadian, 71 years old, inToronto 10/5/73. He came to Canada in 1937 as music director of Upper CanadaCollege and later joined the faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.In 1952 he was named director of the faculty of music at the University of Torontowhere he remained until his retirement in 1968. He helped found the Canadian OperaCompany and served on the boards of directors of most major Canadian music organ-izations.Conductor, composer HUGO WINTERHALTFR Austrian/American, 64 years old, inGreenwich, Conn. 9/17/73. He was musical director of Columbia Records in the 1950's,and later occupied the same position with RCA.Baritone BRUCE YARNELL American, 37 years old, in a plane crash in northern LosAngeles County 11/30/73. He started his career in television dramas and musicals; mostnoteworthy among the latter were the New York revivals of Oklahoma, Carousel andAnnie Get Your Gun. In 1971 he joined the San Francisco Opera where he sang leadingroles for the last three seasons. He was to have been in the opening night production thisyear and had signed a contract to perform at Covent Garden in the Fall of 74. He alsoperformed with major American companies in Chicago, Cincinnati, Portland, Philadelphiaand Houston. He was married to soprano Joan Patenaude.

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1973-74 SEASON (cont.)All performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p."(with piano), — * following an opera title indicates new production. — Perform-ances and news items once announced will not be relisted at the time of per-formance.ARIZONA

The Desert Sands Jr. High School, Phoenix4/29/74 Love/Bratton's The Stone Princess prem.Glendale Community College, Mary Dulton, Dir., Glendale4/26, 27/74 The Barber of Seville Hines

ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock, Blanche Thebom, Dir. Opera3/27, 28, 29, 30, 31m/74 Gluck's Orfeo Eng. Thebom; c: McCoy; d: Thebom

CALIFORNIACalif. State Univ. at Los Angeles, Opera Workshop, H. Jackson, Dir.1/74 Gilbert & Sullivan's Thespis new vers. by E. MinorCulver City Community Opera, Culver City12/14, 18m, 18/73 Caldwell's A Gift of SongGuild Opera Co., J. R. Moss, Gen. Mgr., Los Angeles4/17-5/2/74 The Bartered Bride 12 pfs. in schools; c: Barnett; d: MaehamerSan Marino Community Church, San Marino12/9m, 9/73 Caldwell's The Night of the Star

COLORADOBoulder Civic Opera Workshop, J. Paton, Dir., Boulder5/24, 25, 31 6/1, 2/74 Gilbert & Sullivan's Utopia, Ltd.University of Colorado, K. Hata, Dir. Opera, Boulder2/28 3/1/74 The Magic Flute Eng. Martin7/12, 13/74 La Boheme Eng. Martin

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIANational Symphony & Univ. of Maryland Chorus & Chamber Singers, J. F.

Kennedy Center, Washington3/26, 27, 28/74 Dallapiccola's // Prigioniero c: DoratiN.Y. Chamber Soloists, J. F. Kennedy Center, Washington4/13/74 Acis and Galatea5/7/74 Bastien and BastienneN.Y. City Opera Co., J. F. Kennedy Center, J. Rudel, Art. Dir., Washington4/30 5/5/74 Ariadne auf Naxos Watson, Niska, Wise; Alexander; c: RudelSI 1, 3/74 Lucia di Lammermoor Welting; Carreras, Fredricks5/2, 4/74 La Boheme Malfitano; Molese, Darrenkamp5/4m, 5m/74 The Mikado5/23, 25m, 26/74 Idomeneo Hertz ed.5/24, 25, 26m/74 The Marriage of Figaro

FLORIDASenior Symphony Orchestra of Miami, L. Siegel, Mus. Dir., & Dade County

Project-Instep, Miami Beach Auditorium (see also Spring '74 Blltn.)5/30/74 La Traviata cone, pf., Morales; Papa, BennettUniversity of Southern Fla., Opera Dept., E. Anderson, Dir., Tampa5/2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11/74 Gianni Schicchi & The Telephone

ILLINOISSpringfield College in 111., Music Dept., Sr. Annunciata, Prod., Springfield4/5, 6, 7/74 Wilder's The Opening & Floyd's Slow Dusk c: Eldridge (recorded for

College Music Library)MARYLAND

Walter Johnson Opera Wksp., W. J. High School, Bethesda3/14, 15, 16/74 The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein Eng., w.o.

MASSACHUSETTSBerkshire Pro Musica, E. Levenson, Mus. Dir., at N. Adams State Coll., North

Adams5/2/74 Master Peter's Puppet Show & The Medium Hirsche, Cox, Kemper;

Carpenter, Koch; d: Murad; w. Robbins Family MarionettesHandel & Haydn Society, T. Dunn, Mus. Dir., Boston2/13, 15/74 Postcard from Morocco at Jordan Hall; c: Dunn; d: Johnson

MICHIGANUniversity of Michigan Opera Wksp., Ann Arbor (see also Spring '74 Blltn.)4/8/74 Opera Scenes, dirs: Hilgenbert & Summers

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1973-74 SeatonNEW YORK

Orange County Community College, Music Dept., M. Feman, Chmn., Middle-town

5/ 3, 4, 5/74 The Telephone & Sunday Excursion & Cox and Box w.o.Syracuse Symphony and Opera, S. Kallai, Mgr., Syracuse5/31 6/2/74 The Magic Flute

NEW YORK CITYAmerican Opera Theater Co., Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Bleecker &

Carmine Sts.5/24, 25/74 Madama ButterflyBel Canto Opera, at Madison Avenue Baptist Church4/20, 27, 28/74 Saint-Saens Henry VIII Lawton-Sherman, Basler; Byce; ace:

Peters; d: Coggi5/25, 26m/74 Thomas' HamletBlue Hill Troup, Ltd., C. D. Walker, Mus. Dir., Hunter College Playhouse4/17, 18, 19, 20m, 20/74 H.M.S. PinaforeChamber Music Society of the Am. Symphony Orch., Carnegie Hall4/14/74 L'Histoire du soldatCommunity Opera Inc., G. Mathew, Pres., at All Angels Church4/20m/74 Pagliacci & excerpts also 5/12/74 at Fulton Senior Center w.p.5/4m/74 Cavalleria rusticana & excerpts w.p.5125ml74 Faust w.p.Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, B. Hart, Cond.5/24/74 Die FledermausFirst Gilbert & Sullivan Quartet, Studio 58, 150 W. 58 St.4/17/74 G&S ScenesFour Star Opera Productions, Temple Israel5/25/74 FaustGilbert and Sullivan Society, Steinway Hall4/16/74 lolanthe 5/13/74 The ZooThe Gregg Smith Salon Concert at the Cubiculo Theatre5/9, 10/74 Reif's The Curse of Mauvais-Air prem. & Schubert's Hochzeitsbraten

& Smith's Aesop's Fables Rees, Setian, Gatti; Parker, Johnson, Garber, MuenzHunter College Opera Group, Hunter College Playhouse5/24, 26/7'4 The Abduction from the Seraglio Tourigny, Levin, Careccia, Tomas,

Winston, CampbellInterstate Opera Ass'n, E. Papay, Mus. Dir., St. Ignatius Loyola Acad.5/5, 19/74 ToscaInwood Chamber Opera Players, Susanne Edelman, Dir., Brooklyn5/23 6/5174 Opera Miniature & Hansel and Gretel abbr. vers.6/10/74 Excerpts from Mozart operasItalian Historical Society, Hunter College Assembly Hall5/5/74 "La Follia de New York" — All Puccini evening, Albanese; Consiglio,

Guarrera, HinesJuilliard American Opera Center, P. H. Adler, Dir. (see also Fall '73 Blltn.)5/2, 3, 4, 5m/74 Ariadne auf Naxos d: Freedman; ds: Yodice/RobertsLight Opera of Manhattan, W. Mount-Burke, Dir., Jan Hus Theatre4-5/74 The Pirates of Penzance 13 pfs.4-5/74 The Mikado 14 pfs.4-5/74 The Gondoliers 14 pfs.4-5/74 H.M.S. Pinafore 7 pfs.4-5/74 The Yeomen of the Guard 8 pfs.Lighthouse Music School Opera Workshop, 111 East 59 Street6/6/74 The ImpresarioManhattan Opera Group, International House Aud., 500 Riverside Dr.5/21, 22, 25, 26/74 Don GiovanniManhattan Theater Club, D. Shookhoff, Dir., E. 73 St4/12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 24, 25, 27/74 Les mamelles de Tiresias Greenwald; Best,

C. Walker; c: Mordden; d: AldenMaster Opera, Cami Hall5/31/74 Scenes from La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Otello

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Metropolitan Opera Studio, W. Nix, Dir. 1973-74 Season4/22/74 Carmines' The Duel prem. at Brooklyn Academy o£ Music, subsequent

pfs. in New York schools, under auspices of Met. Opera Guild5/7/74 Concert spons. A. E. Schoen-Rene Fund; Quivar; Britton; at Lincoln Center

LibraryMusic Theatre Experiment, Cubiculo Theatre4/29, 30/74 Yeat's The Cat and Moon & DiLello's PurgatoryMusical Arts Studio, Lincoln Center Library5/3/74 The Happy PrinceNew World Consort, St. Stephens Church, 120 West 69 Street5/5m/74 de la Halle's Play of Robin and MarionNew York City Center of Music & Drama6/4, 8, 9/74 The Merry Widow SpanishN.Y. Grand Opera Co., V. La Selva, Dir., B'nai Jeshorum Opera Theater4120174 La Traviata5/18, 19/74 ToscaN.Y. Lyric Opera, T. Booth, Cond., Universalist Church5/19, 21,22, 28/74 RigolettoN.Y. Philharmonic Rug Concerts, P. Boulez, Mus. Dir., Avery Fisher Hall6/12/74 Ligeti's Aventures et Nouvelles aventures & other selections, Bryn-Julson,

de Gaetani; Frisch6/16/74 Wozzeck Suite & other selections, NiskaOpera Circle, Ltd., Ansonia Hotel Theatre4/30 5/4m, 14/74 Hansel and GretelOrchestra da Camera, Alice Tully Hall5/llm/74 Philemon and Baucis marionette opera; Nicolo Marionettes, Brentwood

& Northport school choruses; c: FeldmanPerformers Committee for 20th Cent. Music, McMillan Th., Columbia U.4/17/74 Satie's Socrate & La Diva de I'empireQueens Opera Ass'n, J. Messina, Dir., at Frances Lewis Aud., Flushing5/11/74 Benefit Gala6/8/74 // Trovatore w.o. Queensborough Community Coll. ChorusThe Riverside Chamber Ensemble, Trinity School, at Alice Tully Hall5/12/74 Weber's Oberon cone, pf.; Meier, Walters; Sandor, Bender; c: NewlandStuyvesant Opera Co./Monteverdi Repertory Singers, Stuyvesant H.S.5/24, 25, 31/74 Don GiovanniTown Hall Presents, 113 West 43 Street5/11/74 School of Performing Arts — National Music Week ConcertThe Uptown Opera Co., C. Osborne, Dir.4/10, 21/74 Opera excerpts w.p.; Hocher; Trussel, Poor; ace: Williamson; at

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center & Ft. Tryon Jewish CenterThe Y Opera Laboratory, K. Newbern, Mus. Dir., 92nd St. YMHA5/25, 26/74 Opera Scenes, d: Thornhill

OHIOBowling Green State Univ., School of Music, C. Gigante, Dir., Bowling Green4/25/74 DePue's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde prem.The Cleveland Institute Preparatory Division, L. Husak, Dir.6/8/74 The Mikado abbr. vers.Springfield Civic Opera, M. Kommel, Prod. Coord., Springfield11/17/73 Amahl and the Night Visitors & The Old Maid and the Thief4/5/74 La Boheme Eng. Dietz7/12, 13/74 Cavalleria rusticana Eng. May & The TelephoneWilloughby School of Fine Arts, Columbus3/74 Hansel and Gretel Asman, Williams, Funk

OKLAHOMAOklahoma City Symphony & Opera Guild, R. Luke, Mus. Dir.4/27/74 Der Rosenkavalier Jung, Wildes, Anderson; Foldi, Clatworthy; c: Luke;

d: Osterhaus; ds: Wolf/VaronaPENNSYLVANIA

Haverford College, Dept. of Music, W. H. Reese, Dir., Haverford4/20/74 Britten's The Prodigal Son c: Reese; d: Butman/Filer

TENNESSEEChattanooga Opera Ass'n, Opera Caravan (see also Fall '73 Blltn.)3/11-15/74 The Telephone to schools

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1973-74 Season

Kingsport Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, W. Bertsch, Mus. Dir.4/20/74 Carmina burana w. Sullins College BalletNashville Symphony, T. Johnson, Cond., Nashville3/4, 5/74 Carmina burana Quinn

TEXASOpera at A & I Univ., R. C. Scott, Dir., Kingsville3/27/74 Frackenpohl's Domestic Relations w.o.4/19, 20/74 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng.

WYOMINGUniv. of Wyoming, Opera Theatre, R. Delp, Dir., Laramie12/1/73 Opera Scenes

CANADADalhousie University Music Department, P. May, Dir., Halifax, Nova Scotia3/74 The Marriage of Figaro ServantGilbert & Sullivan Society of Toronto, Hart House Theatre, Ontario3/24-6/1/74 Princess IdaLes Jeunesses Musicales, Montreal, tour co-spons. by Canada Council, Que.1973-74 The Magic FluteMohawk College, Opera Workshop, Hamilton, Ontario12/12, 13/73 Amahl and the Night Visitors 4 pfs.3/5/74 Opera excerpts3/12/74 The Medium 2 pfs.Opera du Quebec, pf. in Quebec & Montreal, Quebec4/29 5/2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 16, 18, 20/74 Les Pecheurs de perles (replacing Der fliegende

Hollander announced Fall '73 Blltn.)Place des Arts, Montreal Symphony, Montreal, Quebec4/29 5/2, 4, 6, 8, 11/74 Madama Butterfly Carson, Czolij; Nagy, Savoie; c:

Deslauriers; d: Symco; ds: Darling/MessToronto Cultural Festival, Korean Community, Toronto, Ontario11/73 Jae Myung Hyan's Chun-Hyang-Jeon 19th Cent. Korean opera, No. Am.

prem.Toronto Opera Society, G. Macina, Dir., Toronto, Ontario12/7-16/73 Norma (spons. Toronto Board of Education)Young Canadian Performers, Toronto Arts Foundation, St. Laurence Centre,

Toronto12/20/73 Wilson's The Selfish Giant prem.; Quilico; w. Can. Children's Opera

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, SUMMER 1974

ALASKAAlaska Festival of Music, R. Shaw, Mus. Dir., Anchorage6/8-20/74 Music, dance & theater, incl. Carmina burana

ARIZONASummer Music at Flagstaff, I. Solomon, Mus. Dir., Flagstaff (7/5-8/10/74)University of Arizona, School of Music, E. Conley, Dir., Tucson7/1/7'4 Opera scenes, w.p.7/8, 9/74 Dido and Aeneas & Angelique w.o.

ARKANSASInspiration Point Festival, I. Van Grove, Dir., Eureka Springs7/17-26/74 Cavalleria rusticana; Faust; Hansel and Gretel; Robin and Marion;

Noye's Fludde; The Green TintCALIFORNIA

Cabrillo Music Festival, D. R. Davies, Mus. Dir., Aptos (8/13-25/74)Carmel Bach Festival, S. Salgo, Mus. Dir., Carmel (7/15-28/74)Claremont Music Festival, G. Bernstein, Dir., Pomona College, Claremont

(6/23-8/3/74)Festival of Arts, Irvine Bowl, Laguna Beach (7-8/74)Georgetown Performing Arts Center, P. Menci, Art. Dir. (7/19-9/27/74)

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Summer 1974Hollywood Bowl Summer Festival, E. Fleischmann, Exec. Dir., Los Angeles7/9-9/14/74 Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony, Cleveland Symphony7/5/74 Mozart aria program; von Stade, Bishop7/6/74 Italian opera aria program; von Stade; Roger Wagner ChoraleMontalvo Summer Music Festival, Saratoga (7/12-8/2/74)Music Academy of the West, M. Abravanel, Mus. Dir., Santa Barbara

(7/1-8/24/74)8/74 FalstaffMusic from Bear Valley Festival, S. Comer, Adm. Dir., J. Gosling, Mus. Dir.,

Bear Valley (8/6-18/74)Music at Stern Grove, San Francisco (6/9-8/19/74)7/7, 21/74 Merola Opera Program participants, K. H. Adler, Mus. Dir.Music at the Vineyards, P. Masson Winery, Saratoga6/22, 23 8/3, 4, 24, 25/74 Concerts; S. Salgo, Mus. Dir.8/17, 18/74 Merola Opera Program perf.Ojai Music Festival, M. Tilson Thomas, Mus. Dir. (5/31-6/2/74)Redlands Bowl Music Festival, Redlands (7/2-8/23/74)San Francisco Opera's Brown Bag Opera, in City Parks and Plazas6-7/74 5 weeks, scenes from three operas w.p. alterntg.: Tosca; Pagliacci; The

Magic Flute; Cos] fan tutte; The Marriage of Figaro; Madama ButterflySan Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, C. Swanson, Mus. Dir., San Luis Obispo

(7/31-8/5/74)COLORADO

Aspen Music Festival & School, 25th Anniv. Season., J. Mester, Mus. Dir.,G. Hardy, Dean, Aspen (6/24-8/25/74)

8/3/74 Pasatieri's The Penitentes prem., Diener; c: Sipusch; d: PasatieriCentral City Opera Festival, D. Effron, Art. Dir., R. Lotito, Exec. Mgr.7/13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 26, 27/74 Rigoletto Eng.7/20, 23, 25, 27m, 28/74 A Midsummer Night's DreamColorado Opera Festival, D. Jenkins, Mng. Dir., at Colorado College,

Colorado Springs6/27, 28/74 lolanthe7/11, 12/74 The Marriage of Figaro7125,26/74 MacbethColorado State Univ., L. Day, Dir. Opera, Ft. Collins8/6, 7, 9, 10/ 74 Falstaff Eng.

CONNECTICUTBerkshire Quartet at Music Mountain, N. Rossi, Mus. Dir., Fallsvillage

(6/29-8/31/74)Goodspeed Opera Co., M. Price, Dir., East HaddamNo information available at this time.Hartt Opera Summer Rep., D. Mattran, Dir., W. Hartford6/27, 29 7/12, 18, 20, 27/74 Musical6/28 7/11, 13, 19, 25, 26/74 Help, Help, The Globolinks!Silvermine Chamber Music Festival, New Canaan (7/14-8/25/74)Yale Concerts in Norfolk, K. Wilson, Dir. (6/28-8/2/74)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIANational Symphony Orchestra, A. Dorati, Mus. Dir., J. F. Kennedy Centeu

Washington6/19, 20/74 Mozart opera w. Washington Civic Opera; c: Weilenmann; cone. pfs.SI 17174 Carmina burana Farley; Pruett, Goodloe; c: DePriest (see also 1973-74

Listing this issue)FLORIDA

New College Summer Music Festival, Sarasota (6/3-22/74)Pensacola Junior College, S. Kennedy, Dir. Opera, Pensacola7/11, 12, 13, 15, 16/74 Don Giovanni

HAWAIIHawaii Institute, F. Balazs, Mus. Dir., Honolulu (6/19-7/24/74)

ILLINOISGrant Park Concerts, S. Ackerman, Mgr., Chicago6/22-8/25/74 Orchestra concerts8/17, 18/74 Cost fan tutte cone, pfs., Sherrard, Barrett, Ender; Johnson, Diana,

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Summer 1974

The Midland Repertory Players, Kaye Shanahan, Dir., at "The Barn", Alton6/21, 22/74 Die Fledermaus7/12, 13/74 The Medium8/9, 10/74 Opera Scenes & PagliacciMississippi River Festival, St. Louis Symphony in resid., W. Susskind, Mus.

Dir., at Southern 111. U., EdwardsvUle (7/1-8/23/74)Ravinia Festival, J. Levine, Mus. Dir., Chicago Symphony in resid., Highland

Park (6/27-9/1/74)7/10, 13/74 La Traviata Sills; MacNeil; c: Levine; cone. pf.7/12/74 Der Ring des Nibelungen excerpts; Farrell; Thomas; cone. pf.112%IIA Viennese Night; Lear; Stewart; c: Allers8/3/74 Italian Opera Night; Arroyo; Tucker

INDIANAIndiana University, School of Music, C. Webb, Dean, Bloomington7/12, 13, 19, 20/74 The Gondoliers8/3, 9, 10/74 Eugene Onegin7/6, 25 8/11/74 Orchestra concerts with visiting conductors

IOWAMetro Summer Festival of Opera, R. Larsen, Art. Dir., Des Moines Indianola6/21, 25, 29/74 Falstaff6/22, 26, 30m/ 74 Madama Butterfly6/23m, 28/74 The CrucibleState U. of Iowa, Summer Fine Arts Festival Opera, H. Stark, Dir., Iowa City7/18, 20/74 La Boheme c: Stark; d: Catalano

MAINEBar Harbor Festival, Bar Harbor (7/18-8/17/74)Bay Chamber Concerts, Rockport Opera House, Camden (7/5-8/22/74)Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music, M. Raimondi, Mus. Dir., Northeast

Harbor (7/16-8/14/74)MARYLAND

Harford Theater Assoc, S. Lilienstein, Art. Dir., Bel Air (also at GoucherColl.)

6/22, 23, 28, 29, 30/74 Falstaff7/6, 7, 12, 13, 14/74 The Pearl Fishers7/19, 20, 21, 27, 28/74 L'ltaliana in Algeri8/3, 4, 9, 10, 11/74 The Good Soldier Schweik8/16, 17, 18, 24, 25/74 Die FledermausMerriweather Post Pavillion, Summer Festival, Columbia6/28-7/28/74 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in residence, S. Comissiona, Mus. Dir.,

also Young Conductors' CompetitionUniversity of Maryland, 8th Annual Fine Arts Festival, College Park7-8/7'4 Concerts; Opera Program excerpts; Marilyn Home

MASSACHUSETTSBaroque Music Festival, Aston Magna Foundation, A. Fuller, Dir., Barrington

(6/9-30/74)Berkshire Music Festival, Boston Symphony in residence, S. Ozawa, Art. Dir.,

Tanglewood, Lenox (7/5-8/25/74)8/11/74 Salome scene, Curtin & Treemonisha scene8/17/74 Eugene Onegin cone, pf., Beckman, Knight; Burrows, Stilwell, Berberian;

c: Oliver(Music Theatre Project suspended for 1974)Castle Hill Festival, Ipswich (7/13-8/10/74)College Light Opera Co., R. Haslun, Gen. Mgr., Falmouth7/4-9/2/74 H.M.S. Pinafore, Rose Marie, Die Fledermaus, Babes in Toyland,

lolanthe, My Fair Lady, Princess Ida, Jacques BrelLenox Arts Center at Wheatleigh, L. Austin & O. Smith, Dirs. (7/5-8/26/74)7/10-14, 17-20/74 Ain's Mourning Pictures prem.; d: Carney7/26-28/74 Profile of a Composer — Charles Wuorinen8/14-18, 20-25/74 Silverman's Hotel for Criminals prem.; d/ds: ForemanSoutheastern Mass. Univ. Music Institute & Festival, M. Meredith, Mng. Dir.,

N. Dartmouth6/24-8/3/74 Institute & Festival, J. Cobert, Mus. Dir.6/24-7/21/74 Opera Workshop, B. Goldovsky, Dir.

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Summer 1974

MICHIGANAnn Arbor May Festival, E. Ormandy, Mus. Dir. (5/1-4/74)Meadowbrook Festival, Detroit Symphony in resid., V. Ashkenazy, Art. Adv.,

at Oakland Univ., Rochester (6/24-8/18/74)National Music Camp, Interlochen (6/23-8/19/74)7/14, 20, 21, 28 8/4, 11/74 Opera Theatre, Katherine Hilgenberg, Art. Dir.7/31 8/1/74 The Pirates of PenzanceUniversity of Michigan, Summer Opera Workshop, Ann Arbor8/15-18/74 The Abduction from the Seraglio Eng. BlattUpper Peninsula Music Festival, Detroit Symphony, A. Ceccato, Mus. Dir.7/9-14/74 Concerts in Calumet, Ironwood, Escanaba; c: Ehrling/Hayman

MINNESOTACarleton Summer Music Festival, W. Wells, Dir., Northfield6/14-18/74 Ancient Voices of Children; The Fairy QueenSt. Paul Opera Co., G. Schaefer, Gen. Mgr., O'Shaughnessy Auditorium6/19, 22, 28/74 Carmen Williams, Peil; McCray, Foss6/21, 26, 29/74 Fisher's The Happy Prince & Gianni Schicchi Catani-Soviero;

Khanzadian, Beni7/10, 13, 19/74 Manon Eng.; Catani-Soviero; Johnson, Beni, Foss7/12, 17, 20/74 Egk's Engagement in Santo Domingo Am. prem., Eng. Brock7/26, 31 8/3/74 Siegfried Crader; McCray, Shinall; Eng. Porter

NEVADAChamber Music, Piper's Opera House, Virginia City (6/23-7/7/74)

NEW HAMPSHIREConcerts at Dartmouth College, Hanover (6/29-8/17/74)New Hampshire Music Festival, T. Nee, Mus. Dir., Centre Harbor7/7-8/17/74 Concerts, incl. The Barber of Seville cone. pf.

NEW JERSEYGarden State Arts Center, Telegraph Hill Park, Holmdel6/'26-91All'4 N.J. Symphony, ballet, pop concertsKean College of N.J., Music Dept, Union6/24-7/12/74 "The Opera Forum" F. Popper, mus. dir.; J. Hager, st. dir.; M.

Hirth, sc. ds.; G. MacLellan, consult, (courses for college credit)SynJon Theatre, Louisa Nadir, Dir. Opera, Union City7/18, 19, 25, 26 8/1, 2/74 The Old Maid and the Thief & The TelephoneWestminster Choir College, Art Song Festival, Princeton (6/23-28/74)

NEW MEXICOSanta Fe Opera, J. Crosby, Gen. Dir., Santa Fe7/5, 10, 13, 20 8/2, 13, 17, 22/74 La Boheme Shade; Lewis; c: Crosby; d: Ulfung;

ds: Schaeffler/Mess7/6, 12, 17, 31 8/8, 14, 20, 23/74 The Magic Flute c: Baustian; d: Hebert; ds:

Rechling/Kim7/19, 24, 27 8/6, 10, 15, 24/74 La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein c: Crosby;

d: Hebert; ds: Klein/Mess7/26 8/3, 7, 16/74 Lulu * Brooks; Lewis, Gramm, Foldi; c: Mauceri; d: Ulfung;

ds: Schemer/Sherrer8/1, 9, 21/74 Cavalli's L'Egisto adapt. Leppard; Am. prem.; Shade, Forst; Shirley;

c: Leppard; d: Cox; ds: Kleinsoloists: Brooks, Forst, Howard, Kraft, Shade, Shane, Shuttleworth; Atherton,

Bowman, Corena, Davison, Ellis, Garrard, Gibbs, Gramm, Holloway, Lewis,Malas, Perry, Shirley, Smith, Stilwell, Ulfung.

NEW YORKAdirondack-Champlain Music Festival, Lake Placid (7-8/74)7/29/74 Reif's The Curse of Mauvais-Air Gregg Smith SingersCaramoor Festival, J. Rudel, Mus. Dir., Katonah (6/22-8/25/74)7/12, 20/74 Countess Maritza Eng.; Costa, Petros; Velis, Reardon7/13, 19/74 The Impresario Eng. Cardelli & Prima la musica e poi le parole Eng.

Martin; Armstrong; Malas & Welting; Castel, Francis Robinson; d: Corsaro;ds: Evans

Chamber Music, Old Southeast Church, Brewster (6/23-8/4/74)

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Summer 1974Chautauqua Opera '74, Centenary Festival, L. Treash, Gen. Dir., Chautauqua

(6/27-8/25/74)7/5, 8/74 La Traviata Anderson; Greer, Walker7/12, 15/74 Barab's Philip Marshall prem.; Lovett; Uppman, Holgate7/19, 22/74 Don Giovanni Lee, Lovett; Ahlstedt, Morris, Booth, Li-Paz7/26, 27m, 29/74 West Side Story Johnson; Griffith8/2, 3m, 5/74 La Boheme Armstrong, Lovett; White8/9, 12/74 La Cenerentola Marsee; Ahlstedt, Fleck8/16, 19/74 Hanson's Merry Mount Meier; Kness, Ludgin, FleckLake George Opera Festival, D. Lloyd, Gen. Dir., Glens Falls & Albanyat Glens Falls:7/11, 13, 15m, 19, 24/74 Die Fledermaus7/18, 20, 22m, 26, 31/74 La Traviata7/25, 27, 29m/74 The Magic Flute8/1/74 The Barber of Sevilleat Albany (SUNY campus):8/3, 7, 13, 17/74 The Barber of Seville8/5, 9, 19/74 Die Fledermaus8/6, 10, 16/74 La Traviata8/8, 12, 14, 17m/74 Bernardo's The Child prem.8/ 10m, 15/74 The Magic FluteManhattan School of Music, Summer Music Center, Hartwick College,

Oneonta (7/7-8/17/74)New York State Community Theatre Ass'n, Thousand Island Summer

Theatre, Alexandria Bay6/29-8/18/74 Five musicals"Opera Under the Stars", R. Murray, Assoc. Prod., Rochester6/20, 22/74 Musical7/4, 6/74 The Student Prince71 IS, 20/74 The Telephone & Help, Help, The Globolinks!8/1, 3/74 AidaSaratoga Festival, C. Hankenson, Gen. Mgr., Saratoga Springs6/16-9/2/74 New York City Ballet; City Center Acting Co.; Philadelphia Orchestra;

Special Attractions8/27, 29/74 Boris Godunov Creed; Treigle, Schmorr, Kness, Malas; stgd.Summer Savoyards of Binghamton, K. Nelson, Prod., Binghamton8/74 Ruddigore 6 pfs., w.o., c: OsborneThe Touring Concert Opera Co., pfs. Roeliff Jansen Audit., Hillsdale5/25/74 Madama Butterfly Gordon, Chudy; Figols, Manzari, Veronica, Lizanne6/15/74 L'Elisir d'amore7120174 La Traviata8/17/74 Cavalleria rusticana & Goyescas all pfs. W.p.

NEW YORK CITYGuggenheim Memorial Concerts, R. F. Goldman, Cond., in city parks

(6/19-8/11/74)Metropolitan Opera in the Park, Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island,

Queens6/25, 28 7/2, 5/74 Turandot Ross/Bjoner, Amara/Norden; McCracken/Tucker/

Konya; c: Rich6/26, 29 7/3, 6/74 La Boheme Kirsten/Carson, Niska/Norden; DiGiuseppe/Morell;

MacNeil; c: BehrMostly Mozart Festival, W. Lockwood Jr., Dir., Avery Fisher Hall (7/22-

8/24/74)Naumburg Symphony Concerts, Central Park Mall5/27 7/4, 31 9/2/74 ConcertsNew York Philharmonic Promenade Concerts, A. Kostelanetz, Art. Dir.5/22-6/8/74 "Salute to the Musical Theater"New York Philharmonic, 10 Concerts in New York City Parks7/23, 24, 25, 27 8/7/74 c: Kostelanetz7/30,31 8/1, 3/74 c: Boulez8/6/74 c: Bernstein

NORTH CAROLINABrevard Music Festival, H. Janiec, Art. Dir., Brevard7/5-8/18/74 La Boheme, Falstaff, The Bartered Bride, Romeo and Juliet, Musical.

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Summer 1974

Eastern Music Festival, S. Morgenstern, Mus. Dir., Guilford College,Greensboro (6/22-8/3/74)

N.C. Summer Festival, at N.C. School of the Arts, Winston-Salem (6-7/74)OHIO

Blossom Music Center, Cleveland Orchestra in resid., L. Maazel, Mus. Dir.,Cuyahoga Falls (6/25-9/1/74)

Cincinnati Summer Opera, J. de Blasis, Gen. Dir., Music Hall6/26, 29 7/5/74 Roberto Devereux Sills, Marsee; Alexander, Fazah, Powers; c:

Rudel; d: Hicks; ds: Lee/Varona7/3, 6/74 La Perichole Costa; Billings, Patrick, Powers, Schmorr; c: Johnson; d:

de Blasis; ds: Scheffler/Mess7/10, 13/74 La Boheme Craig, Daniels; Gibbs, McKinney; c: Dudley; d: de Blasis;

ds: Stevens/Brown7/17, 20/74 Marion Lescaut Shade; Theyard, Romero, del Bosco; c: Schippers; d:

Fassini; ds: de Nobili/Tosi7/24, 26 8/3/74 Boris Godunov* Creed; Kness, Treigle, Malas; c: Duffallo; d:

de Blasis; ds: Mitchell/Mess7/27, 31/74 Vn Ballo in maschera Arroyo, Longwith; Bullard, Patrick; c: Behr;

d: Hicks; ds: GanoCleveland Institute of Music Opera Theater, A. Addison, Dir. (6/17-7/28/74)Lakeside Music Festival, R. Cronquist, Mus. Dir., Mansfield (6/22-9/2/74)8/17/74 Tosca Raitch; Knoll, Guarrera; stgd.Oberlin Music Theater, D. Bamberger, Dir.6/26-7/28/74 Madama Butterfly, Cosl fan tutle, Musical, The Gondoliers 6 pfs. eachOhio State University, R. Cronquist, Mus. Dir., Mansfield7/5/74 La Traviata

PENNSYLVANIAEdinboro Summer Festival, Erie Philharmonic in resid., H. Bauer, Dir.,

Edinboro (6/12-8/13/74)Ephrata Cloisters, Ephrata6/29-9/2/74 Vorspiel der neuen WeltPennsylvania Opera Festival, Opera Workshop Inc., R. Flusser, R. Karp,

Dirs., Pittsburgh8/18/74 La Rappresentazione di anima et di corpo8/23, 24/74 Cost fan tutteRobin Hood Dell Concerts, Philadelphia Orch. in resid., E. Ormandy, Mus.

Dir., Philadelphia (6/17-7/25/74)Temple University Music Festival & Institute, D. Stone, Art. Dir., Ambler6/28-8/11/74 Pittsburgh Symphony, Pennsylvania Ballet, Special Attractions7/10, 11/74 Carmen Dunn; Cassilly; c: Contino; d: Renan; ds: Boylen/Williams

RHODE ISLANDNewport Music Festival, G. Sauls, Dir., Newport (7/25-8/3/74)7/27, 30/74 Catalani's La Fake & Douay's Les Valets modeles Am. prems.8/1/74 Dvorak's Tvurde Police Am. prem.; Eng. Pryce-Jones (The Reluctant

Sweethearts)Rhode Island Bach Festival, R. Morris, Guest Cond., Providence (5/7-10/74)

TENNESSEESewanee Summer Festival, M. McCrory, Dir. Music Center, Sewanee

(6/21-7/28/74)University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, E. Zambara, Dir., Knoxville7/74 Susannah 2 pfs.

TEXASSpring Opera Festival of Houston Grand Opera, D. Gockley, Dir., Hermann

Park5/23, 25, 27 6/3, 7/74 Carmen* opera-comique vers., Eng.; Courad, Smith; Trussel,

Carlson; c: Rosekrans; d: Bakman; ds: Scheffler5/24, 26, 28 6/1, 6/74 The Abduction from the Seraglio Eng.; Robinson, Welting;

McDonald, Booth, Best; c: Jones; d: Schweizer; ds: Scheffler5/31 6/2, 4, 5, 8/74 The Threepenny Opera D. LeBrun, J. Castle; Cromwell, L.

Berry, E. Green; c: Lerner; d: Gralterio; ds: Schefflerall above are free pfs. staged at outdoor Miller Theater, Houston

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Summer 1974

James Dick Piano Festival, Round Top6/7-7/7/74 Houston Symphony Chamber Orchestra in residence; Master classes by

M. Forrester; Cleveland Quartet"Texas" Musical Drama, Palo Duro Canyon State Park6/19-8/24/74 Texas — A Musical Romance of Panhandle History nightly except

SundayVERMONT

Composers Conference & Chamber Music Center, Johnson State Coll.,Johnson (8/11-25/74)

Marlboro Music Festival, R. Serkin, Art. Dir., Marlboro (7/6-8/11/74)Mozart Festival, M. Kaplan, Dir., at Univ. of Vermont, Burlington7/21-8/3/74 First annual Mozart Festival, for study and performance of Mozart

worksSouthern Vermont Art Center, Manchester (7/6-8/24/74)Stowe Institute Chamber Music, Stowe (7/7-8/18/74)

VIRGINIANorfolk Theatre Center, S. Fedyszyn, Art. Dir., Norfolk Center Theatre7/8, 9/74 Cos] fan tutteRichmond Civic Opera, L. W. Batty, Acting President, Richmond7/31 8/2/74 Die Fledermaus Eng. KaninShenandoah Valley Music Festival, Orkney Springs/Woodstock (7/21-

8/10/74)Wolf Trap Farm Park & Fndt., J. Ludwig, Gen. Dir., Filene Center, Vienna6/17, 21/74 Carmen Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/18, 22m/74 Don Giovanni Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/19/74 Turandot Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/20/74 Der Rosenkavalier Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/22/7'4 Madama Butterfly Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/23, 24/74 Ragtime by Joplin & others; New England Conservatory7/2, 7/74 The Daughter of the Regiment Sills; c: Wilson; d: Mansuri; Wolf

Trap Co.7/25-28/74 Kismet c: Keene; d: Corsaro; Wolf Trap Co.8/29, 31/74 War and Peace c/d: Caldwell; Boston Opera Co.9/3/74 Transformations Minnesota Opera Co.9 j 411A The Newest Opera in the World Minnesota Opera Co.6/28 8/6, 20, 24/74 National Symphony Orchestra Concts; c: Rudel/Kostelanetz6/26, 27 7/19, 20 8/9, 14-17/74 Ballet Nights; Alwin Nikolai's/Eliot Feld/Jose

Limon/City Center Joffrey Ballet CompaniesConcerts with Filene Center Orch., American University, Wolf Trap Academy

Orch., Jazz Ensembles, Folk and Band Music, Film Music, Organ Music,Popular Ensembles

WASHINGTONCornish School of Allied Arts, S. Szekely, Dir., Seattle6/17-7/30/74 Opera Workshop, M. Nixon, Dir.Expo '74 Spokane Symphony, Spokane4/23, 25/74 Pagliacci Tucker & Gianni Schicchi Seattle Opera production7/8, 10/74 Aida Ruk-Focic, Warfield; McCrackenTamarack Music Festival, D. Thulean, Art. Dir., Cheney & Spokane6/24-7/6/74 Spokane Symphony, pfs. at Expo '74

WISCONSINPeninsula Music Festival, T. Johnson, Mus. Dir., Fish Creek/Ephraim

(8/10-24/74)Skylight Opera, C. Richardson, Dir., MilwaukeeNo information available at this time.Summer Arts Festival, Wisconsin Univ., A.A. Suppan, Dean, Milwaukee6/16-8/9/74 Chamber Music Series

WYOMINGGrand Teton Music Festival, L. Tung, Mus. Dir., Jackson Hole (7/18-

8/24/74)CANADA

Banff Festival of the Arts, Opera Dept., B. Turgeon, Dir., Banff, Alberta8/8, 10, 11/74 The Marriage of Figaro c: Balkwill; d: Lucas8/12, 13, 16, 17/74 Musical; also Simoneau, Heyward & Bernac Master classes

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Summer 1974

Elliot Lake Centre Festival, A. Schoep, Dir. of Opera, Elliot Lake, Ontario(6/24-7/19/74)

National Arts Centre, Festival Canada '74, Ottawa7/3, 6, 9, 11, 13/74 The Abduction from the Seraglio Eng.; Deutekom, Chorno-

dolska; Rouleau, Fitch, Kolk; c: Bernardi; d: Besch; ds: Stoddart7/18, 20, 24, 26/74 Don Giovanni Eng.; Thomson, Meier, Little; Monk, Plishka,

Relyea, J. Stewart; c: Bernardi; d: Besch; ds: Prevost7/25, 27, 30/74 Le Comte Ory Boky, Elias, Lavigne; Rouleau, Brecknock, Opthof;

c: Bernardi; d: Maestrini; ds: NeginShawnigan Lake Summer School & Festival, J. Johannesen, Dir., B.C.

(7/29-8/28/74)Stratford Festival, at Avon Theatre, Third Stage, Ontario (6/3-8/31/74)6/27-30 7/2-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-28, 30 8/1-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25, 27 9/1/74 Life in

Paris (La Vie parisienne) Eng. Gibson; Fallis, Ferguisson; Campbell; c: Armenian;d: Gascon; ds: Prevost/Barbeau

7/10, 12, 14, 17, 19/74 Wilson's The Summoning of Everyman d: Bawtree7/11, 13, 16, 18, 20/74 The Medium Forrester; c: Armenian; d: Bawtree

PUERTO RICOFestival Casals of Puerto Rico, A. Schneider, Mus. Dir., San Juan6/4-22/74 Festival Concerts; c: Chung/Janigro/Janis/Maag/Mata/Mehta/Vallicello

USA/ITALYFestival of Two Worlds, G. C. Menotti, Fnd. Dir., Spoleto, Italy6/14-7/12/74 86 events including Lulu c: Keene; d: Polanski; ds: Lindner; Manon

Lescaut c: Schippers; d: Visconti; ds: de Nobili; Tamu-Tamu Eur. prem.6/15/74 Wilson /Lloyd's A Letter for Queen Victoria prem.; c: deGroat; d: Wilson;

ds: Koluch

FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1974-75 SEASON

CALIFORNIALyric Opera Ass'n of Orange County, V. Sun, Exec. Dir., Laguna Beach9/74 La Traviata911A The Wizard of OzSan Diego Opera, see next pageSan Francisco Opera, K. H. Adler, Gen. Dir., War Memorial Opera House9/13, 18, 21, 24, 27 10/6m/74 Manon Lescaut* Price; Merighi, Capecchi; c: Gio-

vaninetti; d/ds: Zuffl9/14, 17, 20, 25, 29m/74 Parsifal Randova; Thomas, Stewart, Moll; c: Suitner; d:

Hager9/22m, 29 10/1, 4, 12/74 Salome Rysanek, Varnay; Hopf, Nimsgern, Neill; c:

Suitner10/2, 5, 8, 13m, 18 ll/23m, 27, 30/74 Madama Butterfly Scotto/Lorengar;

Carreras/King10/11, 15, 19, 25, 27m/74 Tristan mid Isolde Nilsson, Minton; Thomas, Moll; c:

Varviso; d: Haugk; ds: Weyl10/16, 22, 26m 11/1, 3m/74 La Cenerentola von Stade; Benelli, Montarsolo,

Capecchi; c: Pritchard; ds: Ponnelle10/23, 26, 29 ll /2m, 8/74 Massenet's Esclarmonde Sutherland, Tourangeau; Ara-

gall; c: Bonynge; d: Mansouri; Am. prem. of orig. vers.11/6, 8, 12, 17m, 22, 30m/74 Don Giovanni Tomowa-Simtow, Varady, Malone;

Tappy, Soyer, Dean; c: Pritchard; d: Everding11/13, 16, 19, 24m, 29/74 Luisa Miller Ricciarelli, Tourangeau; Pavarotti, Quilico,

Tozzi; c: Lopez-Cobos; d/ds: de Tomasi11/20, 23, 26, 28 12/lm/74 The Daughter of the Regiment Eng.; Sills, Turner;

Alexander, Malas; c: Guadagno; d: Mansouri; ds: Montresor10/16-18/74 Central Opera Service National Conference

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1974-75 Season

San Diego Opera, W. Herbert, Art Dir., K. Caswell, Mgr., 10th Anniv.10/30 11/1, 3/74 Manon Eng.; Neblett; Gibbs; c: Herbert; d: Hebert12/4, 6, 8/74 Lucia di Lammermoor Sutherland; Tagliavini, Darrenkamp; c:

Bonynge; d: Hebert1/15, 17, 19/75 A Village Romeo and Juliet Wells; Stewart, Holloway; c: Herbert;

d: Corsaro2/26, 28 3/2/75 The Valkyrie Eng.; Meier; Andrew, Tyl; c: Herbert; d: Hager4/9, 11, 13/75 La Boheme Eng.; Armstrong; Gibbs, Darrenkamp; c: Herbert; d:

BakmanSan Marino Community Church, San Marino12/8m, 8/74 Caldwell's The Night of the Star

CONNECTICUTNew Haven Opera Theatre, H. Glaz-Redlich, Dir., Hamden/New Haven10/12, 13/74 Dido and Aeneas w. Conn. Ballet & one-act opera2/75 Italian opera to be announced

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAOpera Society of Washington, I. Strasfogel, Dir., Kennedy Center, Washington10/11, 13m, 14/74 L'lncoronazione di Poppea Rogers; Titus12/9, 11#, 13, 15#/74 Die Walkiire Ruc-Focic/ #Haywood, Kovacs/#Green;

Brilioth/#Garrard, Tyl; #Eng. Porter2/7, 9m, 11/75 Salome Niska; Sarabia

FLORIDACivic Opera of the Palm Beaches, P. Csonka, Mus. Dir., Mary Campbell,

Exec. Coord., W. Palm Beach12/6, 8m/74 The Elixir of Love Eng.; Cook; McDonald, Foldi; c: Csonka; d:

deBlasis1/31 2/2m/75 Tosca Armstrong; Campora, Hecht; c: Csonka; d: deBlasis3/14, 16m/75 Hansel and Gretel Eng.; Daniels, Creed; Schmorr; c: Csonka; d:

deBlasisGreater Miami International Opera, R. Herman, Gen. Mgr., Miami & Ft.

Lauderdale1/18, 22, 25, 28#/75 Romeo et Juliette Mesple, Ewing; Corelli, Reardon, Diaz,

Anthony; c: Buckley; d: Melano; ds: Reppa2/10, 12, 15/75 Der fliegende Hollander Kubiak; Bailey, Konya, Tozzi; c: Peters;

d: Merrill; ds: Businger3/10, 12, 15, 18#/75 L'Elisir d'amore Blegen; Pavarotti, Sereni, Malas; c: Buckley;

d: Merrill; ds: O'Hearn/Riley4/7, 9, 12/74 Rigoletto Eda-Pierre, Noel; Cappuccilli, Macurdy; c: Buckley; d:

Melano; ds: Bardon/Hall# at Ft. LauderdaleFlorida Family Opera, div. Greater Miami Opera Ass'n, R. Herman, Gen. Mgr,.

Miami1/26/75 Romeo and Juliet Eng.; Cummings, Ewing; Bullard, Nolen, Davis, Anthony;

c: Buckley; d: Melano; ds: Reppa2/16/75 The Flying Dutchman Eng.; von Reichenbach; Hecht, McCray, Davis; c:

Peters; d: Merrill; ds: Businger3/16/75 The Elixir of Love Eng.; Seibel; Bullard, Lorey; c: Broome; d: Merrill;

ds: O'Hearn/Riley4/13, 17#/75 Rigoletto Eng.; Seibel, Noel; Fazah, Sandor, Davis; c: Buckley; d:

Melano; ds: Bardon/Hall# at Ft. Lauderdale

GEORGIAAugusta Opera Co., B. E. Evans, Gen. Mgr., Augusta9/11, 13, 15/74 // Trovatore Eng. R. Yockey; J. Yockey, James; Kness, Ellis1974-75 Cost fan tutte, tour to S. Carolina & Georgia

ILLINOISChicago Symphony Orch., G. Solti, Mus. Dir., Chicago/New York City12/74 Salome cone. pf.

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1974-75 SeasonLyric Opera of Chicago, Carol Fox, Gen. Mgr., Chicago9/20, 23, 27 10/2, 5, 8/74 Simon Boccanegra* Arroyo; Cappuccilli, Cossutta,

Raimondi, Clatworthy; c: Bartoletti; d: De Lullo; ds: Pizzi9/30 10/4, 7, 10, 12, 15/74 Peter Grimes* Kubiak, Chookasian; Vickers, Evans,

Little, Paige, Meredith, Nolen; c: Bartoletti; d: Evans/Anderson; ds: Toms10/11, 14, 17, 19, 21, 25/74 La Favorita Cossotto, Zilio; Kraus, Cappuccilli, Vinco,

Paige; c: Rescigno; ds: Lee10/18, 23, 26, 28 11/1, 6/74 Falstaff Ligabue, Bonifaccio, Chookasian, Zilio; Gobbi,

Alva, Stewart, Paige, Andreolli, Washington; c: Maag; d: Gobbi11/2, 4, 8, 11, 16, 19/74 Don Pasquale* Cotrubas/Bonifaccio; Kraus, Ganzarolli,

Sardinero; c: Bellugi; d: De Filippo; ds: Frigerio11/9, 13, 15, 23, 26 12/4/74 Madama Butterfly Krilovici/Hayashi, Zilio; Merighi,

Patrick, Paige, Van Ginkle; c: Bartoletti; d: Aoyama; ds: Lee11/22, 29 12/2, 7, 11, 14/74 Don Quichotte* Cortez; Ghiaurov, Evans, Paige; c:

Fournet; d/ds: Ustinov; Paris production11/27, 30 12/3, 6, 9, 13/74 Gbtterddmmerung* Nilsson/Lindholm, Altmeyer,

Reynolds, Caporale, Zilio; Cox, Mclntyre, Rundgren, Van Ginkel, Adams; c:Leitner; d: Lehmann; ds: Griibler

9/18-25/74 International Verdi Congress (see Spring '74 BUtn.)INDIANA

Indiana University, School of Music, C. Webb, Dean, W. Bain, Dir. OperaTheatre, Bloomington

9/21, 28 10/5, 12/74 La Boheme10/19, 26 11/2, 9/74 The Abduction from the Seraglio11/16, 23 12/7/74 Busoni's Doktor Faust2/1, 8, 15, 22/75 Eugene Onegin3/1,8, 15/75 Vanessa4/5, 12, 19, 26/75 Rigoletto

LOUISIANANew Orleans Opera House Ass'n, A. Cosenza, Gen. Dir., K. Andersson,

Mus. Dir.10/3, 5/74 Aida Galvany, Bernini; Lavirgen, Devlin, Tozzi10/31 11/2/74 Manon Lescaut Shade; Theyard, Guarrera, Beni12/5, 7/74 La Boheme Ricciarelli, Russell; Alexander, Holloway, Morris3/13, 15/75 Lohengrin Watson, Rankin; Berberian, Cochran, Shinall4/10, 12/75 Tosca Krilovici; Johns, Paskalis5/1, 3/75 Herodiade Galvany, Dunn; Bonhomme, Quilico, Plishka

MARYLANDBaltimore Opera Co. Inc., R. Collinge, Gen. Mgr., Baltimore10/31 11/2, 4/74 Der Rosenkavalier Lear, Anderson, Wise; Teschler; c: Comissiona2/13, 15, 17/75 Thais Neblett; Edwards, Berberian; c: Buckley; d: Hebert; ds:

Klein4/10, 12, 14/75 Tosca Cruz-Romo; Alexander, Quilico; c: Wilson; d: Tavernia

MASSACHUSETTSAssociate Artists Opera Co., £ . Triplet!, Gen. Dir., Boston11/15, 16/74 La Cenerentola12/14/74 Amahl and the Night Visitors 2 pfs.12/74 Hansel and Gretel tour Southern Mass.1/312/1/75 Salieri's Falstaff6/75 Owen's Mary Dyer (postponed from 6/74)

MICHIGANMichigan Opera Theatre, D. diChiera, Gen. Dir., Music Hall Center, Detroit10/74 La Traviata 11/74 Boris Godunov2/75 The Elixir of Love 4/75 Operetta to be announced

Mississippi, see next pageMISSOURI

Kansas City Lyric Theater, R. Patterson, Gen. Dir., Kansas City9/24, 26 10/2, 12, 25/74 Die Fledermaus Witkowska, Wilcox; Jones, Eddleman,

Hook9/25, 27 10/5, 22, 24/74 Transformations Vincent; Hardy, Marshall, Strummer9/28 10/3, 9, 15, 18/74 The Crucible Wilcox, Taylor; Foss, Davis10/1, 4, 10, 16, 26/74 The Magic Flute Brandt, Dickison, Franano; Price, Strummer,

Davis10/8, 11, 17, 19, 23/74 La Traviata Witkowska; Danner, Foss

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1974-75 Season

MISSISSIPPIOpera/South, D. Ardoyno, Gen. Mgr., Jackson State Univ.11/15, 17m/74 Still's Bayou Legend prem.4/19/75 The Flying Dutchman

NEBRASKAOmaha Opera Co., W. Matthews, Pres., Omaha11/22, 23/74 La Boheme Craig; Gibbs2/6, 8/75 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills; Novoa4/24, 26/75 Boris Godunov Treigle

NEW YORK CITYLittle Orchestra Society, Gala Farewell Season, T. Scherman, Mus. Dir.,

A very Fisher Hall10/16/74 Jenufa Hunt, Kniplova; Zidek; in Czech; all pfs. semi-staged11/13/74 Orfeo ed Euridice Dunn, Jordan, S. Noll12/18/74 L'Enfance du Christ Forst; Riegel, Souzay1/22/75 Daphne Carron, Allen; Kness, Charbonneau, Hindsley3/19/75 Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius B. Wolff; Riegel, MeredithMetropolitan Opera, S. G. Chapin, Gen. Mgr., Lincoln Center9/17, 23 10/2, 8, 19m, 26 11/1, 4/74 / Vespri siciliani9/18, 27 10/3, 9 12/24, 31/74 Madama Butterfly9/19, 28 10/5m, 11, 21, 29 11/7/74 Don Giovanni9/20, 25, 30 10/4, 12m, 15 11/2, 6, 9, 13, 21, 28 12/7, 13, 28m/74 Turandot9/21m, 26 10/1, 19, 26m 11/12, 18, 30 12/6, 9/74 Tosca9/21, 25 10/10, 16 11/16m, 22, 26 12/2, 10, 21, 27/74 L'ltaliana in Algeri9/28m 10/5, 14, 22, 30 11/8, 14, 23, 29 12/7m/74 Romeo et Juliette10/7, 12, 17, 23 ll/2m/74 Wozzeck10/18, 24, 28 ll/9m, 19, 25 12/4, 14m, 20/74 Death in Venice* Am. prem.; Pears,

Shirley-Quirk; c: Bedford; d: Graham; ds: Piper/Knode; ch: Ashton10/25, 31 11/5, 11, 16, 23m, 27 12/3, 14, 19, 23/74 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci11/15, 20, 30m 12/5, 12, 17, 21m/74 Jenufa* Kubiak, Varnay; Vickers, Lewis,

Reardon; c: Nelson; d: Rennert; ds: Schneider-Siemssen12/11, 18, 28/74 Bluebeard's Castle* & Gianni Schicchi* (see Spring '74 Blltn.)12/6#, 26, 30/74 Boris Godunov* Dunn; Theyard, Talvela, Velis, Plishka; c:

Schippers, d: Everding; ds: Lee/Hall12/25/74 Don Pasquale# Guild Benefit (also: 3/1/75 Gala & 4/7/75 The Siege of Corinth)1975 schedule and artists' roster in Fall '74 Blltn.New York City Opera, J. Rudel, Dir., N.Y. State Theater, Lincoln Center8/28 9/7, 15m/74 Lucia di Lammermoor8/29 9/12 10/5m, 10, 20m, 27m/74 Madama Butterfly8/30 9/5, 22m 10/16 1 l/9m/74 Carmen8/31 9/13, 17 10/3, 25/74 La Traviata9/lm, 4, 15 10/12m 11/2, 9/74 The Mikado9/1, 7m, 21 10/2, 18, 30/74 La Boheme9/3,6, 8m/74 Anna Bolena9/8, 10, 14m 10/6m, 8, 26/74 Manon Lescaut* Niska; Molese, Fredricks; c: Rudel;

d: Cosaro; ds: Eck9/11/74 Maria Stuarda9/14,24 10/22/74 Medea9/18, 21m, 27, 29m 10/6, 13, 15, 19m 11/7/74 Die Fledermaus* Eng. Martin;

Meier, Welting; Titus, Smith, Cossa, Malas; c: Bernardi; d: Freedman; ds: Evans/Aldredge

9/19, 22, 26 10/20/74 / Puritani9/20 10/1 11/3, 6/74 Faust9/25 10/5, 12, 24/74 Tosca9/28m 10/11, 19/74 Ariadne auf Naxos9129nA Roberto Devereux10/4, 13m, 23 ll /2m, 8/74 Don Giovanni10/7 11/5, 10m/74^ Village Romeo and Juliet10/9/74 L'Incoronazione di Poppea10/26m, 31/74 Pelleas et Melisande10/29 11/1, 10/74 Vn Ballo in maschera

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1974-75 SeasonOHIO

Dayton Opera Ass'n, L. Freedman, Dir., Memorial Hall, Dayton10/26/74 Tosca Fenn; Morell, Bardelli; c: Coppola1/18/75 Rigoletto Matsumoto; Khanzadian, Merrill; c: Coppola4/26/75 The Daughter of the Regiment Russell, DeCarlo; Duval, Bisson; c: Gross-

manToledo Opera Co., L. Freedman, Dir., Toledo10/19/74 1/25/75 5/3/75 same operas and casts as Dayton

OKLAHOMATulsa Opera Inc., J. Turner, Exec. Dir., Tulsa Municipal Theatre11/7, 9/74 Madama Butterfly3/13, 15/75 Rigoletto

OREGONPortland Opera Ass'n, S. Minde, Gen. Dir., Portland9/26, 28, 30/74 Rigoletto Wells; Orofino, Puglisi, Drake11/21, 23, 25/74 Der Freischiitz Meier, Clements; Bohm, Schenk; d: Koneman3/6, 8, 10/75 The Elixir of Love Stewart, Patrick, Foldi; d: de Blasis

(Corbett prod., set in American West)5/14, 17,20/75 Salome

PENNSYLVANIAPhiladelphia Grand Opera Co., M. Leon, Gen. Dir., C. Moresco, Art. Dir.10/25/74 Carmen Simon, Leider; Molese, Merrill11/22/74 La Boheme Fenn, Randazzo; Rampaso, Densen, Trolio, Shapp12/6/74 Die Fledermaus Schauler, Randazzo, Lanzillotti; Goodloe, Neubeck, Shapp,

Densen1/24/75 The Barber of Seville Robinson; Di Giuseppe, Guarrera, Li-Paz2/14/75 Tosca Ross; Rinaldi, Merrill3/14/75 // Trovatore Neblett, Casei; Tucker, Bardelli, Densen4/18/75 Samson et Dalila Dunn; Tucker, Schwartzman, NabacovPittsburgh Opera, Inc., R. Karp, Mus. & Gen. Dir., Pittsburgh10/10, 12/74 Otello Ruk-Focic; Cox, Tipton11/7, 9/74 La Fille du regiment Moffo; Duval12/5, 7/74 11 Trovatore Mathes, Rankin1/75 Manon Lescaut2/75 Mefistofete3/75 La Bohime

TEXASDallas Civic Opera, L. Kelly, Mgr., N. Rescigno, Mus. Dir., Dallas11/1, 3, 5/74 Lucrezia Borgia Sills, Troyanos; Carreras, Manuguerra; d: Capobianco;

ds: Bardon/Hall11/15, 17, 19/74 Tosca Kabaivanska; Luchetti, Carroli; d: Maestrini; ds: Hall11/27, 29/74 Mignon Home, Williams; Castellato, Zaccaria12/6, 8, 10/74 / Puritani Nunziata; Karus, Saccomani; d: CopleyHouston Grand Opera, D. Gockley, Dir., 20th Season, Houston10/8, 11, 12#, 13/74 Manon* Malfitano/Glenn; Burrows/Johnson, Ellis; c: Rose-

krans; d: Hebert; ds: Klein11/19, 22, 23#, 24/74 // Trovatore Arroyo, Chookasian; Paskalis1/21, 24, 25#, 26/75 Der Rosenkavalier* (Gramma Fisher Fndt.) Lear, von Stade,

Wise; Berry; c: deWaart; d: Cox; ds: Dalton2/18, 21, 22#, 23/75 La Boheme* Bruno, Marsee; Carreras, Stilwell, Morris; c:

Rosekrans; d: Bakman; ds: Scheffler3/18, 21, 23, 25/75 Lulu* Eng.; Brooks, Bible; Gramm; c: Foster; d: Corsaro; ds:

Chase4-5/75 Lucrezia Borgia Sutherland, Tourangeau; Brecknock, Devlin; c: Bonynge;

d: Mansouri; ds: Varona; Vancouver Opera production# American Series in English

WASHINGTONSeattle Opera Co., G. Ross, Gen. Mgr., Seattle9/11, 14, 18, 21, 25/74 Mefistofele Neblett; Alexander, Treigle10/31 11/2, 3 # , 6, 8 # , 9/74 The Barber of Seville Mesple; Gimenez, Stecchi, Foldi1/20 2/1, 5, 7 # , 8, 16#/75 Gbtterdammerung Bjoner; Cox3/6, 8, 9# , 12, 14#, 15/75 Manon Costa; Goeke5/8, 10, 14, 16#, 17, 18#/75 // Trovatore Ruk-Focic, Cvejic; Lavirgen, Jordachescu# National Series in English

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1974-75 SeasonWISCONSIN

Florentine Opera Co., J. Anello, Art Dir., Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee10/10, 12/74 Aida Tynes, Howard; Casellato-Lamberti, Shadur, Berberian, Kendall;

c: Anello; d: Lucas; ds: Wolf/Malabar11/21, 23/74 L'Elisir d'amore Montalvo; Flagello, Riegel, Edwards; c: Schermer-

horn; d: Lucas1/23, 25/75 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills; Carreras, Fredricks, Booth; c: Wendelken-

Wilson; d: Merrill; ds: Cristini/Wolf/Malabar3/13, 15/75 Manon Lescaut Shade; Montane, Opthof; c: Keene; ds: Wolf/Malabar5/1, 3/75 The Tales of Hoffmann Clements, House, Stokes; Meredith, Crofoot; c:

Anello; d: SymcoxCANADA

Canadian Opera Co., H. Geiger-Torel, Gen. Mgr., CKeefe Centre, Toronto,9/6, 14, 19, 25/74 Bluebeard's Castle* & L'Heure espagnole* Eng.; Vernon; Corbeil;

& Little; Crofoot, Arab/Belcourt, Kittask, Milne; c: Blum; d: Leberg9/7, 13, 18, 21m, 26 10/1/74 Der fliegende Hollander* Vinzing; Hindsley, Roar,

Wildermann; c: Bender; d: Alexander; ds: Laufer; 10/16, 17/74 Ottawa9/11, 14m, 20, 23, 28 10/10/74 Carmen Dunn, Zarou; Mauro, Monk; c: Feldbrill;

d: Jenssen; 10/3/74 student pf.9/12, 17, 21, 30 10/5m, 9, 11/74 La Traviata* Pellegrini; Bondino, Opthof; c:

Wolf-Ferrari; d: Guttman; ds: Darling9/24, 28m 10/2, 4, 7, 12/74 Boris Godunov* orig. vers.; Vernon; Belcourt, Garrard,

Wildermann, Turgeon/Barcza; c: Bender; d: Geiger-Torel; ds: Mitchell/Mess;10/10/74 student pf.

9/27 10/3, 5, 8, 12m/74 Faust Thomson; Bonhomme, Turgeon/Barcza, Hines; c:Barbini; d: Leberg; ds: Lawrence/Mess; 10/17, 19/74 Ottawa

1974-75 La Boheme tour; tour director: J. RubesEdmonton Opera Ass'n, I. Guttman, Art Dir., P. Hetu, Mus. Dir., Alberta10/12/74 Tucker/Merrill benefit concert10/31 11/2, 4, 6st.m/74 Carmen Howard, Shuttleworth; Bonhomme, Monk1/16, 18, 20/75 The Merry Widow Thomson, Forst; Titus, Corbeil3/13, 15, 17/75 Manon Lescaut Pellegrini; Mauro, Monk1974-75 Carmen "Opera in School" abridged to 70 schoolsManitoba Opera Ass'n, I. Guttman, Art. Dir., B. Lang, Adm. Dir., Winnipeg,11/21, 23/74 Carmen Stapp, Patenaude; Lavirgen, Opthof; c: Balkwill; d: Geiger-

Torel; ds: Maccarato/Mess2/13, 15/75 La Bohime Pellegrini, Collier; Di Giuseppe, Darrenkamp; c: Gamba;

d: Guttman; ds: Silver/Mess4/24, 26/75 Rigoletto Robinson, Forst; Paskalis, Bondino, Michalski; c: Barbini;

d: Guttman; ds: SchaeferNational Arts Centre, M. Bernard!, Mus. Dir., Ottawa12/3/74 L'Enfance du Christ Lavigne; Trepanier, Germain, Corbeil; c: Bernardi1/7/75 The Turn of the Screw Curtin, Shuttleworth, Morrison; Riegel; c: Bernardi;

semi-staged, (see also Canadian Opera Co., Toronto/ Ottawa)L'Opera de Quebec, G. Beaulne, Dir., Montreal/Quebec City, Quebec10/7, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 24#, 26#, 28#/74 Falstaff Forrester, Carson, Lebrun;

Quilico, Duval, Savoie; c: Decker/DesLauriers; d: Maestrini; ds: Prevost3/10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 27#, 29#, 31#/75 La Boheme Talarico, Boky; Garaventa,

Turgeon, Bisson, Corbeil; c: Beaudry; d: Maestrini5/24, 28, 31 6/4, 8/75 Tristan und Isolde Ligendza, Forrester; Vickers, Nimsgern,

Milne# in Quebec CitySouthern Alberta Opera Ass'n, A. Gray, Art Dir., Calgary, Alberta11/28, 30/74 Madama Butterfly Savridi, Forst; Campora, Gray; c: Silipigni; d:

Guttman4/17, 19/75 Faust Thomson; Bonhomme, HinesVancouver Opera Ass'n, R. Bonynge, Art. Dir., B. Hansen, Gen. Mgr.,10/24, 26, 30 11/2/74 Lucia di Lammermoor Robinson; Di Giuseppe, Opthof, Cor-

beil; c: Balkwill; d: Butler1/30 2/1, 6, 8/75 Rigoletto Turofsky, de Carlo; Davidson, Johns, Tessenyi; c:

Guadagno; d: Ayrton3/13, 15, 19, 22/75 Die Walkiire Malmborg, Napier; MacWherter, Tyl; c: Holt;

d: Geiger-Torel4/24, 26, 30 5/3/75 The Gondoliers Glass, Strauss; Oostwoud; c: Melzer; d: Hebert

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