CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINSponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council • 147 West 39th Street • New York, N.Y. 10018 • PE 6-1200

January t 1965

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

Two more books by famous American authors are being set to music.Hawthorne's GENTLE BOY has been chosen by Harold Blutnenfeld,artistic director of the St. Louis Opera Theatre, for the storyof his opera by the same name. Gale Hoffman is responsible for.the libretto.. Commissioned by the St. Louis New Music Circle, thework will be premiered at the Bicentennial Celebration of the Cityof St. Louis in 1966. Former compositions of Mr. Blumenfeld in-clude "Elegy for a Nightingale", prize-winning work for chorus andorchestra, "Expansion" for woodwind quintet, "Miniature Overture"(both performed in St. Louis), and a full-length opera "Amphitryon4". The librettist has written "Blood Moon" with dello Joio and"Medusa" with von Einem.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the haunting story by Emily Bronte, has inspiredyet another composer . (Carlisle Floyd fs version was premiered inSanta Fe in 1958). Richard Barri of New York City informs us thathis version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS is conceived in three acts, fourscenes, with arias, duets, concerted numbers and accompanied reci-tatives "bolstered with modern harmonization".

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Denison University will give the first performance of MartinKalmanoff's VIDEOMANIA, the newest satire on American TV. (One. of thebest known operasin this field is Douglas Moore's "Gallantry", atake-off on TV soap-opera and commercials).

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European premieres of interest include:-Ildebrando Pizetti's CLITENNESTRA at La Scala, Milan, with FlorianaCavalli in the title role. Of the sixteen operas written by Pizetti,"Murder in the Cathedral" is the one best known in this country.-The Sadler's Wells Company premiered on November 30th the last ofArthur Benjamin's operas TARTUFFE. Alan Boustead scored the workafter notes from the composer who had completed the vocal score only.Cedric Cliffe wrote the libretto based on the Moliere play. Theperformance was presented with Oliver Messel's set, originally de-signed for Glyndebourne's "Ariadne auf Naxos", and Mr. Bousteadconducted;.

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-Austrian composer Paul Kont will see two of his operas come tolife in first performances this summer. VOM MANNE UND VOM WEIBEwill be presented during the Vienna Pestwochen in June and FORTHE TIME BEING, with words by W. H. Auden, will be heard in Salz-burg in August during the TV Opera World Congress.-THE ANGEL OF FIRE, a rarely performed opera by Serge Prokofiev,was given a new production at the Opera-Comique in November.Written in 1922, excerpts were first presented in Paris by SergeKoussevitzky in 1928, but the complete work was not seen on stageuntil 1955 when it was performed at La Fenice in Venice. NoAmerican performance is recorded unless, of course, one considersthe Festival of Two Worlds' performance in 1959 an American premiere.The Paris performance was based on the composer's final version withthe revisions on which Serge Kossevitzky collaborated. Based on*& short story by Valery Bryusov, the plot is set in 15th centuryGermany.

NEWS FROM OPERA COMPANIES AND WORKSHOPS

On January 15th a new California opera company, OPERA WEST, willgive its initial performance at the Little Theatre of the Legionof Honor in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. The company's general di-rector, Mrs. Charles Robinson, announced that evenings of two orthree short operas with piano accompaniment will be presented inthe Bay Area. With two performances of each production scheduled,the company will have two complete casts for each work and there-by offer new opportunities to young, talented singers. Scheduledfor the first evening is a triple bill consisting of Lualdi's"Madcap Harlequin", Mascagni's "Zanetto" and Bizet's "Djamileh".On January 29 and 30 the company will present Bucceri's "Marken"together with Pergolesi's "Music Master". Operas will be sung inEnglish with Nino Cornel, the company's musical director, responsiblefor some of the translations. Ticket prices range from $3 forevening performances to $2 for matinees. For further infornationcontact Opera West, 2950 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, California.

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The LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY has announced the appointment ofPeter Ebert, son of Carl Ebert, and in his own right a successfuloperatic stage director in Germany, Italy, England, and in LosAngeles,as its artistic director. Los Angeles born, Henry Lewis,assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and operaticg aest conductor in San Francisco and Canada, has been named musi-cal director. They succeed Francesco Pace, former general director.Beginning with this Spring season the company will perform at thenew Los Angeles Music Center, (see Art Centers).

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Montreal's mayor, M. Jean Drapeau, and conductor, Wilfred PeUetier,have taken the first steps toward the formation of a permanentopera company for Montreal's PLACE DES ARTS. Outlining a budgetfor the proposed company, M. Drapeau suggested an amount of about4 million dollars, with funds to be raised from private contributions,federal, provincial and city governments, the Canada Council andincome from ticket sales and reproduction rights. Ticket priceswere suggested to be scaled for a $3 average; seating capacityof the Place des Arts is 3,000. This season 3 operas in a totalof twelve performances will be presented at the theatre; "Carmen"and "Traviata" under the Montreal Symphony Society's managementwith Zubin Mehta conducting and Irving Guttman stage director, and"Madama Butterfly" under the auspicies of the Montreal Opera Guildand Mme. Pauline Donalda. A threat to the formation of the newcompany and the performance schedule for this season is the cur-rent dispute between the Canadian branch of Actor's Equity andthe French Union des Artistes. In the meantime planning is goingahead for operatic events to be offered during the Montreal World'sFair in 1967 and visits by the Vienna State Opera, Milan's LaScala, Paris Opera, London's Covent Garden and the MetropolitanOpera are being considered. M. Drapeau hopes to have his companysecurely established at that time and that it will actively parti-cipate in the festivities.

*******The Music Department of the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, underthe guidance of Welton Marquis, has opened an opera workshop.French Tickner from California is its director. As a result theVancouver Opera Company is considering the formation of a juniortouring group in affiliation with the newly created workshop.

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The Opera Workshop at McGILL UNIVERSITY in Montreal has receiveda grant of $lt000 from the Lyric Opera Society-Canada."The money willbe used for scholarships and prizes for promising young singers.At the same time, Luciano della Pergola, director of the workshop,announced an extension of its activities to include in addition toits annual evening of operatic scenes one production of a completeopera. This year's choice fell on "Don Pasquale".

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Dean Wilfred Bain of Indiana University - largest and most activeof all American opera workshops - and Rolf Liebermann, generaldirector of Hamburg's State Opera, have arranged for an annualexchange of two very talented students. Herr Liebermann sends twosingers who had some preliminary voice training to Blootningtonwhere they receive complete instructions on a scholarship (voicelessons, music theory, piano, languages,acting, and stage crafts),and enough cash to live on. In return, they give instructions invoice to students who do not major in that subject. The Germansingers must have marked operatic potential and be able to provethat they do not have the means to finance proper studies.-

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(Germany has no state subsidy or foundation assistance for singers.)This year's travel arrangements were made with one of the steam-ship lines who allowed free passage when the singers agreed toassist with entertainment. - American students sent to Hamburg aretrained in all phases of stage direction and stage design. Theyspend an equal time of their apprentice year in the scenic workand paint shop, on stage and backstage. A certain amount of ac-tual work is expected of them, and for this they receive an apprenticepay. This privately concluded international arrangement is now inits second year and has proven a great success. It may be an in-spiration to other similiar organizations.

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The CONNECTICUT OPERA ASSOCIATION has received a Ford FoundationGrant in the amount of $103,000. This will enable the group to in-crease the number of araiual productions from four to six.

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The METROPOLITAN O£H,?J. has announced the appointment of Peter Kelleyas administrator of its summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium. Theseven-week summer series which begins in June is, for the first time,in the managerial hands of the Metropolitan Opera under the super-vision of Rudolf Bing, the company's gen. rap: Mr. Kelley, who studiedmusic at Indiana University, has been active in the music field andwas associated with the Frank Loesser interests for the last sixyears.

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Mrs. Fred So Haggerson, who has been volunteer chairman of theLong Island Arts Center for the past three years, has resigned fromthis post and from the board of directors. Norman E. Blankman con-tinues as president of the organization.

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The METROPOLITAN OPERA STUDKKsee also December Bulletin), with arepertory of "Cosi Fan Tutte", "Don Pasquale" and "La Cenerentola",has just completed a tour through Iowa—the eighteenth state inwhich it has played. On January 21 the group will participate inthe 700th anniversary celebration of Dante Alighieri by the PoetrySociety of America with a performance of Verdi's "Laudi all VergineMaria". Written to Dante's words, it is the last of the composer'sQuattro Pezzi Sacri. On January 29, a quartet of the Studio'ssingers will return to the Library of Congress, where they sang inthe Festival of Contemporary Music honoring the late Mrs. ElizabethSprague Coolidge in October, to perform a selection of operaticduets and trios.

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ARTS CENTERS AND MUSIC BUILDINGS

The riew LOS ANGELES MUSIC CENTER has had an auspicious beginning,attracting nation wide interest and publicity. Time Magazine fea-tured it as its cover story on December 18, including pictures andmention of various new university-owned music buildings (MonticelloCollege, University of Illinois, Arizona State University and But-ler University). The New York Times dispatched its number-onecritic and papers throughout the country carried stories of the Pavilion'sopening night. We were delighted to hear from all sources of the hall'stremendous success. "A masterful combination of warmth and tastefulluxury", "a delight for the ear" and "a superb musical instrument" sumup the general feeling about the new hall. Participants at theCentral Opera Service National Conference in May of last year wereamong the first to get a glimpse of the new house and to hear afirst-hand report on all its functions when John C. Knight, LosAngeles architect of Welton Beckett, Ass., addressed the meetingand showed color slides.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has just announced that ithas signed with its seventh constituent and that the NEW YORKCITY CENTER OF MUSIC AND DRAMA will move into the New York StateTheatre in the Spring of 1966. There has been some dispute overthe legal rights of the performing group with regards to the StateTheatre but all difficulties have been ironed out and the companywill sublease the theatre from Lincoln Center for twenty-fiveyears with an additional twenty-five-year option. The company willhave the right to book outside attractions in consultation withLincoln Center and determine ticket price scales with the hope ofcontinuing its established top price of $4.95. The New York CityBallet Company is currently performing in the theatre and the operacompany will present its first season there in Spring 1966. TheCity Center will be in charge of operation of the State Theatre,but agreed to make it available for some events sponsored byLincoln Center, e.g. the International Festival of the Arts in 1967.The Theatre will also be available for 12 weeks to the Music Theatreof Lincoln Center, headed by Richard Rogers, and for three weeksto the Metropolitan Opera National Company. - The New York CityCenter will retain control over its present building, the formerMecca Temple on 55th Street,where it will continue to present itsLight Opera Company (musical comedy), Gilbert and Sullivan and possiblyits Drama Company which there is talk of reviving. Many of the greatforeign attractions, like the Comedie Francaise or the Moscow ArtTheatre, will continue to occupy the theatre on Fifty-fifth Streetwhen in New York.

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The SARATOGA (N.Y.) PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (see May 1962 Bulletin),has received its greatest boost from a pledge of 1.1 million dollarsby the Rockefeller Brother's Fund and three individual Rockefellers.Work on the grounds began last June and construction of the 5,000seat amphitheatre started in October. It was announced that

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7,000 additional people will be able to hear the concerts from thesurrounding lawns. John MacFadyen of Vollmer Associates, formerdirector of the New York State Arts Council, has designed the coveredtheatre and is responsible for the construction. He is also incharge of landscaping the Festival site,which is on a 1500-acreSaratoga Springs Reservation owned by the State of New York. Com-pletion is set for summer 1966 when the first Saratoga Festivalis scheduled to be inaugurated with the New York City BalletCompany and the Philadelphia Orchestra as resident participants.

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After renovation at a cost of $750,000, Newark's, N.J. , forty-yearold MOSQUE THEATRE was re-opened last Fall under new management.Symphony Hall Inc. with Mac Septee and Felix Gerstman as its of-ficers, will present concerts, ballet, and recitals in the 3,365seat house. Opera presentations, either by a guest company orby a new resident group to be formed, are being considered. The63-foot stage would offer ample space for staging grand opera.

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In September 1964 OBERLIN COLLEGE opened its new Conservatory ofMusic building. The $4,350,000 project was designed by MinoruYamasaki.

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A commission has been founded for the preliminary planning of aNATIONAL ARTS CENTER in Ottawa. A small opera house is to bepart of the Center.

EUROPE - FESTIVALS

Cleveland's KARAMU THEATRE has been invited to participate in anInternational Theatre Festival sponsored by the Berliner Litera-risches Colloquium. Karamu's performance on January 27 of thisyear will be televised and shown on three different German TVstations. While in Germany the company, under its musical directorHelmut Wolfes and producer Benno Frank, will also perform in AmericaHouses in Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Mannheim and Frankfurtas guests of the U.S. State Department. The tour will wind up inParis with three performances at UNESCO headquarters. The operasto be shown are two contemporary American works, "Little Red RidingHood" by Seymour Barab and "Sweet Betsy from Pike" by Mark Bucci.

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September 16 to October 4, 1965 will mark the first COMMONWEALTHARTS FESTIVAL to be held in England. All 22 Commonwealth membersare expected to participate with samples of representative art inmusic, drama, poetry or the visual arts. There will be four hostcities, London, Liverpool, Cardiff, and Glasgow and all offerings

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are to visit the four centers. A musicological seminar on re-gional music will be held simultaneously in Liverpool. TheFestival will be financed by the British Government, county coun-cils of the four host cities and by British industry. Ian Hunter,director general for the festival, has been travelling extensivelythese last months, listening, watching, weeding, and booking.

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THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC FESTIVALS with headquarters inGeneva, Switzerland, has issued its initial calender for summer1965. Following is a complete reprint of the 29-member list forthe benefit of Central Opera Service members planning a trip toEurope.

5/1-31/65 Wiesbaden; 5/10-6/30/65 Florence; 5/12-6/4/65 Prague;5/14-30/65 Bordeaux; 5/15-6/9/65 Copenhagen; 5/15-6/4/65 Portugal;5/15-6/4/65 Helsinki; 5/19-6/5/65 Bergen; 5/22-6/20/65 Vienna;end of May-beginning of July./ Zurich; 6/9-20/65 Bath; 6/9-20/65Strasbourg; 6/15-7/15/65 Holland; 6/24-7/8/65 Granada; 6/24-7/l8/65Spoleto; July-August Athens; 7/10-8/24/65 Dubrovnik; 7/ll-8/l/65Aix-en-Provence; 7/17-8/15/65 Munich; 7/25-8/30/65 Bayreuth;8/1-31/65 Santander; 8/l4-9/9/65 Lucerne; 8/22-9/ll/65 Edinburgh;9/1-16/65 Stockholm; 9/2-12/65 Besancon; 8/25-^4.5/65 Ghent;9/21-29/65 Warsaw; 9/23-10/3/65 Perugia; 9/26-lb/l2/65 Berlin.

NEW AFFILIATIONS IN MANAGERIAL AND COMMERCIAL FIRMS

The SUi'JvY-BIRCHARD COMPANY and the Civic Music Association havejoined forces with the concert and opera management of Eric SemonAssociates. Some years ago the Summy-Birchard Company boughtNational Concert Artists Co.,(NCAC), and its affiliated bookingorganization Civic Music. As a result of the merger, Eric SemonAssociates will move to 31 West 57th Street at the end of January.

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UTILITIES AND INDUSTRIES CORP. has contracted to purchase MILLSMUSIC INC. and its affiliated companies, both here and abroad, fora total of 5 million dollars. Utilities and Industries Corp.,formerly the New York Water Service Corp., has for the lastyears used some of its capital for acquisition of enterprise in-terest (private investment banking). In announcing the forth-coming purchase, Richard Rosenthal, president of U. & I., statedthat policies and interests of Mills Music will be continued andwherever possible may be enlarged, and that his corporation'sinterest in the music field will not be confined solely to theacquisition of Mills Music. Mr. Rosenthal is a native of Winnipeg,Manitoba, a Rhodes Scholar, well-known lecturer and advisor to stateand federal agencies. He also heads the Richard and Hinda Rosen-thal Foundation which has established a number of various awardsin the arts,.

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The BROOKS - VAN HORN COSTUME COMPANY has expanded its holding byacquiring the Brooks Uniform Company. In November,1962, the BrooksCostume Company of New York and the Van Horn Costume Company ofPhiladelphia merged (see Bulletin Nov. f62). Arthur Gerold, presidentof the organization located at 16 West 61 Street, N.Y., announcedthe purchase and made it known that headquarters for the UniformCompany will be at 3 West 61 Street with a branch showroom at200 East 26th Street, N.Y. Brooks-Van Horn is among the largestcostume companies in the country and services all entertainment media.

NEW TRANSLATIONS

When the Metropolitan Opera National Company goes on tour next sea-son, it will present CARMEN in a new English translation. Fashi«edafter the original opera-comique version, John Gutman, assistantmanager of the Metropolitan Opera, is putting his skills to the job,Mr. Gutman, who has translated some fifteen operas into English,said he will keep the spoken dialogue to the absolute minimum ne-cessary to the action.

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George and Phyllis Mead will be the translators of Massenet'sMANON and Delibesf LAKME when the two operas are performed at Cen-tral City, Colorado, this summer. The MANON translation is avail-able from G. Schirmer.

AUDITIONS

The JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC will hold auditions for orchestralinstrumentalists (Naumburg Scholarship) and for advanced singerswith operatic potential (Satterlee Scholarship) in Los Angeles andin Dallas. Christopher West, director of the Juilliard Opera Theatre,will be on hand to hear the applicants on February 15 in Californiaand on the seventeenth in Texas. Singers of advanced level,preferably with some performance experience, and with professionaloperatic aspirations and potential are sought. Auditionte appli-cations should be addressed to: Mr. Edward T. Paul, Southern Calif.Chapter, Juilliard Alumni Assoc, 4900 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles,California, and to Mrs. Betty Lief Sims, Juilliard Associatesof North Texas, 6430 Prestonshire Lane, Dallas, Texas respectively.

Gladys Mathew of COMMUNITY OPERA INC., 160 West 73rd Street, N.Y.C.,announces auditions held on January 18 when singers will be selectedfor lead and secondary roles and for the chorus in the company'sforthcoming productions of "Gianni Schicchi", "Der Rosenkavalier"and for a new musical.

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BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

With the talk of the "cultural explosion" getting ever louder, withmore and more surveys being conducted in the arts(TwentiethCentury Fund and Rockefeller Brothers' Fund, seeDec'63 Bulletin),with financial surveys telling us that the country's outlay forall phases of the arts has hit a new high of 3 billion dollarsin 1964 and that a 7 billion dollar forcast for 1970 is a fairestimate, the time is right for Alvin Toffler's THE CULTURECONSUMER. No sooner was the book off the press, telling us ofmore Arts Centers, Arts Councils, symphony, opera and drama presenta-tions, and last but certainly not least, of greater sums of moneyspent on the arts, than the voice of skeptics, the professionals,could be heard with the ever persistent argument of Quantity isnot Quality and to what shameful use some of the centers are beingput, that interest in the arts is a social game and sincere en-thusiam and devotion is as rare to find today as it ever was."The Culture Consumer--A Study of Art and Affluence in America"is published by the St. Martin's Press and is available at book-stores for $5.00.

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Columbia University Press is the publisher of THE FIRST HUNDREDYEARS OF WAGNER'S "TRISTAN" by Elliot Zuckerman.

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MOZART THE DRAMATIST by Brigid Brophy shows Mozart against thebackground of his time and his contemporaries. The book hascaused some controversy among Mozart scholars as to Miss Brophy'spsychological approach to the composer, but is generally recognizedas a valuable addition to Mozart biographies. Published in \2ngland by.Faber for abt.$6.

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LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 1960 Broadway, New York,New York 10023, has published "A Teacher's Guide to Lincoln Center".This 14-page booklet is designed to assist educators and studentsin making full use of the performing arts resources of LincolnCenter and its associated institutions. It is free upon request.A SOUVENIR BOOK OF LINCOLN CENTER is available;.from the LincolnCenter Gift Shop at the above address for $1.00 (add 25<i if mail-ing is required). The book is fully illustrated and follows thedevelopment of the Center from the time of its conception to thepresent.

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MUSICAL AMERICA'S ANNUAL ARTISTS ISSUE is now available for $6.00and copies can be ordered from Musical America, 165 West 46th Street,New York, New York 10036. It includes listings of North AmericaArtist Managements, U.S. Arts Councils, U.S. and Foreign Festivals,Managers, Orchestras, Opera Companies, plus Music Organizations,Music Publications, and Publisher and Record Companies and a survey

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of the 1964-65 season arranged by the North American cities.

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The latest issue of AGMAZINE, official organ of the American Guildof Musical Artists, lists seventy-two operatic groups as AGMA mem-bers. Twenty-nine of these have recently renewed contracts withimproved conditions for the artists and one organization is a newmember. The magazine also gives information on the new five-yearcontract AGMA signed with the Metropolitan Opera Assn. in 1964.

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Indiana University's new publication YOUR MUSICAL CUE is theofficial Bulletin of the Music School. Eight annual issues areplanned, scheduled to appear about two weeks before the open-ing of each opera and containing articles about the opera andits production. The magazine, increased in size and scope overthe former publication by Indiana University, is also a newscarrier for the newly formed Society of the Friends of Music ofIndiana University.

The 1965 National Convention of the AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRALEAGUE is scheduled for June 15-19 in Washington, D.C.

COS IS PLEASED TO WELCOME THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERSCalifornia State College at Hayward, James R. Minser, Dir., Opera

Workshop, 25800 Hillary Street, Hayward, Calif.Detroit Civic Opera Co.,Inc.,Mrs. Jerene G. Macklin,Pres, 549 HagueAvenue, Detroit, Mich. 48202

General Music Publishing Co.Inc.,Paul Kapp, 53 E. 54St., N.Y 22, N.Y.North Texas State University, Eugene Conley,Dir.,Opera Workshop,Denton,Tex,

INDEX

Subject . . „ PageNEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES 1NEWS FROM OPERA COMPANIES AND WORKSHOPS . . . .2ARTS CENTERS AND MUSIC BUILDINGS 5EUROPE - FESTIVALS 6NEW AFFILIATIONS IN COMMERCIAL FIRMS 7NEW TRANSLATIONS, 8AUDITIONS. „ 8BOOKS AND MAGAZINES 9NEW MEMBERS. 10PERFORMANCE LISTING 11

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ALBERTAThe Edmonton Profess iona l Opera Assn.10/16,17/64 HCosi Fan T u t t e "

CALIFORNIAOpera West, Mrs. C.Robinson,gen.di r . ,2950 Val le jo S t . , San Francisco1/13,16/63 L u a l d l ' s HMadc'ap Harlequin" , Mascagni 's "Zanet to" , B i z e t ' s"Djamileh"1/29,30/65 Buccer i ' s "Marken", P e r g o l i s i ' s "Maestro d i Musica"Perf . a t L i t t l e Thea t re , Lincoln Park; Nino Cowel,mus.dir . , 2 p.accomp.Repertory Opera Workshop> A .Wi l son ,d i r . , San Francisco12/6,13/64 ' Operat ic scenes ( "Luc ia" , "Aida" , "But te r f ly" , "Cos i" e t c . ) , w . p .Rivers ide Opera Co . , Mrs. R. Colfcins,pres.2/26,27/65 "Manon Lescaut" Eng.DuclouxSan Francisco C h i l d r e n ' s Opera, Norbert & Heddy Gingold, at Marine MemorialrO/IS,25/64 "Three L i t t l e j i t t e r b u g s " 12/6/64 "Snow White and 7 Dwarrs"1/10,17/65 "The Magic Lamp" 2/7,14/65 "Puss in Boots"3/14,21/65 ' ' L i t t l e Red Riding Hood" 4/25/65 "Snow White and Rose Red"5/16,23/65 "The Emperor's New Clothes 6/6/65 same at L.A.Wilshire Ebe l lSpring Opera of San Franc isco , Robert MacKenzie , p r e s .5/25/65 opening n i g h t . "The Cruc ib l e " , "R igo l e t t o " , "Madaraa B u t t e r f l y " ,"Cosi Fan T u t t e " , "L'Heure Espagnole" & "Bluebeard 's C a s t l e " (da tesand c a s t s to be announced)

CONNECTICUTHaven Opera Company, Herta G laz -Red l i ch ,d i r .p py, ,

2/6/65 "II Matrimonio Segreto" Gimi Beni; st.dir:Beni;cond:Gustav MeierDELAWARE

The Wilmington Opera S o c i e t y , Wilmington P l ayhouse ,D .R i t t enhouse , chmn .4/2,3 ,4/65 "Carmen" s t . d i r : Jamieson; cond:Rairigh

FLORIDAFlorida State Universi ty, Opera Guild of Tallahassee3/19,20/65 "The Tales o± Hoffmann" s t . d i r : Co l l in s ; cond:Sedore;desgn:

HAWAII MohrHonolulu Opera Company, G . B a r a t i , m u s . d i r .1964-65 "The Barber o± S e v i l l e " , "Carmen"

ILLINOISSouthern I l l i n o i s Universi ty, Carbondale2/13,14/65 "Faust"

INDIANAIndiana Universi ty, Bloomington (changes in schedule)12/5,12/64 1/9,16/65 "Simon Boccanegra" Eng.Ducloux

MASSACHUSETTSBoston Opera Group, S .Ca ldwe l l , d i r .1/11,13/65 "Abduction from the S e r a g l i o " Eng .Ca ldwel l ; S i l l s ; Hoekraan2 / 5 , 7 / 6 5 "Semiramide" S u t h e r l a n d , Home; cond:Bonynge2 /19 ,21 /65 Nono's " I n t o l e r a n z a " American prem.3 /10 ,12 /65 "The Ta les of Hoffmann" S i l l s , Moulson;Evans(af ter F e l s e n -s t e i n ' s Berlin production)3/24,26/65 "Boris Godunov" Christoff (original version)

MISSOURISouth West Missouri State College,R.Ruetz,dir.,Opera W'shop, Springfield2/19-22/63 H0rpheus and EuridiceH s t . d i r : Osborne —7/30,31 8/1/65 "L 'El is i r dTAmore"

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Omaha Civ ic Opera Soc ie ty , I n c . , Joseph Levine,rous.dir .1/28,30/65 "Lucia d i Lamraermoor" P . B r o o k s ; J . C r a i n ; s t . d i r : S h o e p4 /1 ,3 /65 "The Marriage of F igaro" M.MackayjL.Sgarro; s t . d i r : R o s s

NEW MEXICOEastern New Mexico Un ive r s i t y , Don W. Moore, P o r t a l e s5/65 "The Marriage of Figaro"

NEW YORKAdelphi U n i v e r s i t y , L. Rasmussen, d i r . O p e r a Theat re^ Garden C i t y2 / 4 - 7 / 6 5 "The Merry Wives of Windsor" s t . d i r : V a l e n t iS t a t e U n i v e r s i t y of New York a t Buf fa lo , A.Sapp,chmn.smusic d e p t .11 /21-23/64 f fBastien und B a s t i e n n e " , "Hin und Zurueck","The S t r o n g e r "l / 6 5 Susan LaMothe's "The Kitchen S ink"3/65 Music week: Maur ic io K a g e l ' s "Sur Scene" , Roger Reynolds ' "TheEmperor of Ice Cream" and operas by John Bergano,Paul Zukovsky,Henry Wicke

NEW YORK CITYAmato Opera Showcase, 319 Bowery ( c o n t . from O c t . B u l l e t i n )3/5,6,11,12,13/65 "Rigoletto"3/19,20,25,26,27/65 "The Magic Flute"4/2,3,8,9,10/65 "Tosca"4/16,17,22,23,24/65 "Faust"4/30, 5/1,6,7,8/65 "The Barber of Seville"5/14,15,20,21,22/65 "II Trovatore"Barnard College, Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Minor Latham Playhouse12/9-12/64 "Patience" ;

Brooklyn College, Karoly Kope,mus.dir.,Gershwin Hall1/7-9/65 Haydn's "The Apothecary", Weill's "Der Jasager"The Clark Center Opera Workshop, N.Ornest,dir., YWCA, 840 Eighth Ave.l/l6,17/65 "The Magic Flute" :

Feb.l start new 15-week courses, one for the production of "Faust",one for operatic scenesCommunity Opera Inc., spec.perf. at Central Presbyterian Church, Park-642/7/65 Arias and operatic scenesHenry Street Settlement Playhouse1/30,31/65 "II Campanello", "The Old Maid and the Thief"6/4-6/65 "The Bartered Bride"Hunter College Concert Bureau, Park Ave.-69 St.1/^5/65 Lucas Foss' "Echoi" (lecture and perf.)J^l l^ard Opera Theater, Christopher West,dir., 130 Claremont Ave.1/28,30/65 "Fidelio" Eng.Machlis4/29, 5/1/65 Hans Werner Henze's "Elegy for Young Lovers" American prem.M a " > */^ t a t l School of Music and Columbia Univ. Orchestra,McMillan Theatrei v 5 J ° h n P h i l i P Sousa's "El Capitan" Howard Shanet cond.,H.Ross,chor.J />Sau;w^SchOP1 ° f M u s i c» J o h n Brownlee,dir., 238 E 105 St.l/2^,3u/65 Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" perf .by singers ofopera workshop; st .dir:Basil Langtonl??" e l5f3 l ef e ?"e^a Workshop> C.Bamberger,dir.,157 I1 /19,2O/05 Vivaldi 's "Oliropiade" f i r s t American perf.Matinee Opera Co.. at .Sailor'c <;n,,o w^hn» M ,̂., n-.^v.

157 E 74 Sts Oliropiade f i r s t American perf.

Opera Co., at Sa i lor ' s Snug Harbor, New Brighton, S . I ./ / "Rigoletto" s t . d i r rPericone ; mus.dir rDellicare

Messina Opera Co., J.Messina,pres.. Brooklyn (add to Dec.Bulletin)10/31/64 "Cavalieria Rusticana" and "Pagtlacci" 11/21/64 "Aida*'Spring f65: "Rigoletto", "Manon Lescaut","Trovatore", "Gianni Schicchi1

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New York C i ty Opera Company, J u l i u s R u d e l , g e n . d i r .3 /4 ,7 ,24 4/3/65 "Kater ina Ismailova"#(East Coast prem.) Schau le r ,E lga r ,Troyanos; Cass i l ly ,Chapman,Paul ,Fr ied;cond:Rude1;di r rCorsaro;des :Armstrong3/5 ,6* ,6 ,13* ,13 ,14*/65 "Porgy and Bess"Bryant /Smith ,Bash,Brice; F r i e r s o n /Mosley,Long,Randolph; Johnson; Gerber; Saxe3 /7* , 19 4 /3 /65 "The Ballad of Baby Doe" S i l l s /Brooks , Turner /Bib le ,Green-spon; Casse l l /Fredr icks ,Wentwor th /Pau l ,Krause ; Baus t ian;des :Oenslager3/11,14,20,21*,26,27*/65 "Die Dre igroschenoper"# cas t t o be announced;condrRudel; d i r r R o t t ; des:Roth; cost:Morley3/12,17/65 "A Midsummer N i g h t ' s Dream" Bib le , Witkowska,Willauer,Klein-man;Malas ,Bea t t i e ,Hinds ley ,Mi l le r ,Metca l f ; Wilson; B a l l ; F le t scher3 / l8 ,28*/65 "The Sain t of Bleeker S t r e e t " # Sena,Jennings,Wolff; DiGiuseppe ,Pau l ,Ledbe t te r ,Smi th ; La Selva; Menot t i ; Randolph3/21,27 4/2/65 " I I Tabar ro" Todd ?Turner; Chapman,Krause. "Suor Angel ica"Turner , Je f f rey ,Greenspon ,E lgar . "Gianni Sch icch i " E lgar ,Turner ,Brooks ;T r e i g l e , S m i t h , P a u l ; Rudel; West; Ter-Arutunian3/25 4/4*/65 "Lizzie Borden'W (World prem.) L e w i s , F a u l l , E l g a r ; B e a t t i e ,Fredr icke ,Krause ; condrCoppola3/28 4/1/65 "Susannah" Clements ,Greenspon,Evans,Precht ; T r e i g l e , C a s s i l l y ;cond :Rudel/Popper; d i r :Rudel ;des rSylber t3/31 4 /4 /65 "Oedipus Rex" B i b l e ; C a s s i l l y , S m i t h , P a u l . "Carmina Burana"E l g a r ; Du Pree,Reardon; Rudel; Bu t l e r ; Sy lber t# i n d i c a t e s New Product ions inc lud ing premieres ; * matinee performancesNew York Pro Musica, Noah Greenberg , d i r . , St .George ChurchDec . '64 "The Play of Dan ie l " , "The Play of Herod" 6 p e r t . e a c h

OHIODenison U n i v e r s i t y , Granv i l l e2 /18 ,19 ,20/65 Kalmanoff's "Videomania" (see Premieres)

ONTARIORoyal Conservatory of Music, Dean Boyd Neel , Toronto2/11,13/65 " I I Matrimonio Segre to"4 /1 ,3 /65 W i l l a n ' s "Deidre of the Sorrows"

PENNSYLVANIAP i t t s b u r g h Opera Co . , Richard Karp ,mus .d i r .11/19/64 "La Gioconda" F a r r e l l , Rankin; Ba r ion i , Ber to l ino1/14,15/65 "Carmen" V e r r e t t ; C r a i n , Sorde l lo2/11,13/65 "La T r a v i a t a " Cos ta ; Romani, AusensiSuburban Opera Soc i e ty , Dr .S .Beryl L u s h , p r e s . , Chester10/11/64 "La Traviata"11/22/64 "La Boheme"1/10/65 "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci"2/21/65 "Tosca"4/11/65 "Rigoletto"

QUEBECMontreal Opera Gui ld , Mme.Pauline Donalda, a t the Place des Arts1/13,15,17/65 "Madama B u t t e r f l y "Montreal Symphony Orches t r a , Zubin Meh ta ,mus .d i r . , ( s ee a l s o O c t . B u l l e t i n )2 /8 ,15 ,18 ,22 /65 "La T r a v i a t a " Di Gerlando,Zeani;Verreau,Ludwig; s t . d i r :Guttman; de s :R in f r e t ( s e t s from Canadian Opera Co.)

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Converse Col lege , Spartanburg11/19-22/64 Contemporary Music F e s t i v a l , 1 perf . of Beacon's "A Treein the P la in"

TEXASEl Paso CollegeCommunity Opera, Martin Mayer,mus.dir.3/25,26,27,28/65 "LlTVida Breve"May '65 "Don Giovanni"North Texas Sta te Univers i ty , Eugene Conley,dir .Opera Workshop, Denton12/17/64 Opera Scenes "La Boheme", "Butterfly","Manon","Aida","Tosca"San Antonio Grand Opera F e s t i v a l , V.Alessandro,mus . d i r . AjSt ivane l lo t s t »dir,3/13/65 "La Gioconda" Farrel l ,Rankin,Kramarich; Tucker ,Barde H i ,Moscona.3/14/65 "Faust" Guiot,Altman; Cass i l l y ,Tre ig l e ,Mi lnes ( a l l sets :P.Wolf)3/20/65 "Madama Bu t t e r f ly" Kirsten,Altman; Morre11,Milnes,Fried3/21/65 "Lohengrin" Yeend,Rankin; Sull ivan,Patterson,Moscona,MilnesTexas Chr i s t i an Univers i ty , Fort WorthFeb. '65 "Suor Angelica" and "Amelia Goes to the Bal l "

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