CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINSUMMER, 1973

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NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

NEW OPERA COMPANIES Here and Abroad

NEW THEATERS

FINANCES AND SUPPORT

BY POPULAR DEMAND: MORE CULTURE

CONFERENCES

MUSIC PUBLISHERS, MUSICAL COLLECTIONS

TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS

APPOINTMENTS

AWARDS AND WINNERS

BOOK CORNER

NEW COS MEMBERS

ACROSS THE OPERA BOARD National COS Conferencs

OBITUARIES (1972-73)

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, Summer 1973

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Honorary National Chairman

ROBERT L. B. TOBIN

National ChairmanELIHU M. HYNDMAN

National Co-ChairmenMRS. NORRIS DARRELL CEORCE HOWERTON

National Council Directors

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Professional Committee

KURT HERBERT ADLERSan Francisco OperaPETER HERMAN ADLERNET OperaVICTOR ALESSANDROSan Antonio SymphonyROBERT C. ANDERSONTulsa OperaWILFRED C. BAINIndiana UniversityGRANT BEGLARIANUniversity of So. CaliforniaMORITZ BOMHARDKentucky Opera AssociationSARAH CALDWELLOpera Company of BostonROBERT J. COLLINGEBaltimore Opera CompanyEUGENE CONLEYNorth Texas State UniversityJOHN CROSBYSanta Fe OperaWALTER DUCLOUXUniversity of TexasPETER PAUL FUCHSLouisiana State UniversityROBERT GAYNorthwestern UniversityBORIS GOLDOVSKYGoldovsky Opera Theatre

WALTER HERBERTSan Diego OperaRICHARD KARPPittsburgh OperaJOHN M. LUDWIGMinnesota Opara Co.GLADYS MATHEWCommunity OperaMRS. LOUDON MELLENOpera Soc. of Washington, D. C.RUSSELL D. PATTERSONKansas City Lyric TheaterMRS. JOHN DEWITT PELTZMetropolitan OperaIAN POPPERUniversity of California. L. A.CLYNN ROSSSeattle Opera AssociationJULIUS RUDELNew York City OperaGEORGE SCHAEFERSaint Paul Opera AssociationGEORGE SCHICKManhattan School of MusicMARK SCHUBARTLincoln CenterLEONARD TREASHEastman School of MusicGIDEON WALDROPThe Juilliard School

ATTENTION!

July 27, 1973 is the deadline for applications for grants under the nextOpera Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Guidelines have just been released, and application forms are availablefrom NEA. Support will cover projects after September 1, 1974 and beforeAugust 31, 1975.

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINVolume 15, Number 4 Summer, 1973

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

AMERICAN OPERASJohn Eaton's one-hour television opera MYSHKIN, based on Dostoevsky's TheIdiot, was shown for the first time over public television on April 23. The videotapewas seen in a preview at the Central Opera Service Conference last October atIndiana University where the composer is a faculty member. (See Fall '72 Blltn.for Conference Report.) The tape was made at the television studio of the Uni-versity under the guidance of Herbert Seltz, program supervisor; it was directedby Ross Allen.Jeremiah Murray's one-act opera MARRIAGE PROPOSAL was premiered at theClark Center for the Performing Arts in New York by the Public Opera TheatreCompany on February 1. The story was adapted from Chekhov.

On May 12, the Bay Chamber Ensemble gave the first performance of GordonBush's THE HERMIT at the Brooklyn Bay Ridge Union Church. The half-hourchamber opera with a libretto by Robert Lallamant is written for four soloistsaccompanied by a string quartet, piano and percussion.INNER VOICES by David Barnett, a one-act opera, was first heard in New Yorkon December 17.Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, gave the first performance ofWESTCHESTER LIMITED, a one-act chamber opera by Garry E. Clark with alibretto by Norman James. The opera, featuring four soloists, was performedon March 23.Another chamber opera premiered recently at a college opera workshop is THEDEATH OF TINTAGILES. It was composed by Gregory Isaacs who teaches atSimpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where the opera was first heard on May 4.The two-act four-scene work is based on a play by Maeterlinck.

Joyce Barthelson, well-known for her children's operas, enjoyed two premiereperformances recently. Her one-act opera FEATHERTOP was performed onFebruary 14, and her latest work, THE KING'S BREAKFAST, was given a firstperformance by the Community Opera on February 26 in New York. The latteris based on the book Catherine Parr, and its two main characters are Henry VIIIand Catherine Parr, his sixth wife. It was presented on a double-bill with Hollings-worth's The Mother, a New York first performance.

HOMMY, a Latin rock opera by Larry Harlow, was performed at New York'sCarnegie Hall on March 30. With Latin rhythms played by a large symphonyorchestra, it tells the story of a blind, deaf and mute boy, much like the Britishrock opera Tommy. The continuity of the work, which consists primarily of setpieces and songs, is achieved through the use of a narrator.

The premiere of Julia Smith's children's opera DAISY, based on the life of thefounder of the Girl Scouts, has been rescheduled by the Opera Guild of GreaterMiami. It will take place on November 3, sponsored by the Educational Depart-ment of the Guild.

Corrections

Thomas Pasatieri's SEAGULL, announced in the Spring Bulletin as a commissionby the Houston Grand Opera, is based on the famous Chekhov story and not, aserroneously reported, on the current bestseller by Bach.

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The following adjustments in total performance figures of contemporary operaslisted in OPERA REPERTORY U.S.A. (Winter Bulletin) should be noted: 11 pfs.for Mourning Becomes Electra, 6 pfs. for Four-Note Opera, and, according toMr. Kalmanoff, a total of 484 additional performances of his works between1966 and 1972, including 374 of his children's opera Young Tom Edison. —To beadded under standard repertory is 1 performance of Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice.

AMERICAN PREMIERES

Benjamin Britten's OWEN WINGRAVE, originally written for television, had itsfirst staged performance at Co vent Garden on May 10, featuring the same cast asthe TV production. The first American performance will take place this summerin New Mexico on August 9 presented by the Sante Fe Opera. Subsequent per-formances are scheduled for the 17th and 22nd, and the cast will include EleanorSteber, Alan Titus and Donald Gramm.

The Metropolitan Opera has just announced plans to present the Americanpremiere of Britten's latest work, DEATH IN VENICE (see Spring '73 Blltn.).The opera will have its world premiere in Aldeburgh June 16 and its first Londonperformance in October '73. October 18, 1974 will mark the date of the Americanpremiere, which will present Peter Pears and John Shirley-Quirk, members ofthe original cast, in their Metropolitan Opera debuts. The Gramma FischerFoundation, which sponsored the British production, is also responsible for theAmerican performances. It will be conducted by Rafael Kubelik.

Sandor Szokolay's BLOOD WEDDING, premiered in Budapest in 1964, washeard for the first time in the U.S. on May 17. It was produced by the MusicDepartment of Ohio State University in Columbus.

The Caramoor Summer Festival in Katonah, N.Y., will feature the Americanpremiere on one of the earliest operas extant. It is Marco da Gagliano's LADAFNE, first performed in Mantua in 1608. It will be produced by the N.Y. ProMusica Antigua who will present it first in Spoleto, Italy, during the Festival ofTwo Worlds; the Caramoor performances are scheduled for July 20 and 21.

The Metropolitan Opera Studio in its summer appearances at the Newport MusicFestival has established the practice of offering rare French chamber operas intheir American premieres. This year the company will open the Festival on July 25with the first U.S. performance of Francois Devienne's LES VISITANDINES,premiered in Paris in 1792. The two-act opera, which has a harp accompaniment,will be performed at The Breakers. — A second French opera, a "Salon Opera aDeux," is UNE MARIAGE D'AUTREFOIS by Georges Douay. It will be per-formed here for the first time on August 2 on a program with a concert duet foroboe and piano and a classical ballet Pas de Deux. The opera is published byAlphonse Leduc, Paris.

Bruno Maderna's SATYRICON will receive its first American performance inTanglewood on August 2. Ian Strasfogel, director of the Music Theatre Project ofthe Berkshire Festival, staged the work at a recent performance in Holland andwill again be the stage director at Tanglewood. On the same program will beDavies' Eight Songs for a Mad King and Wolfgdngerl, a collage of Mozart's lesser-known vocal music devised by Strasfogel and translated by Gustavo Motta.

EUROPEAN PREMIERES

The venerable Ernst Krenek is writing a twenty-minute composition for the ViennaTV workshop. It will be realized under the composer's direction and is meant toserve as a model for TV opera.

July 17 will mark the premiere of Josef Tal's latest opera MASSADA. The three-act work by the German-born Israeli will be heard first in Jerusalem and repeatedfour days later in Tel Aviv.

Two new French operas were premiered in April in smaller French opera houses.The one-act LE BONHEUR DANS LE CRIME by Andre Casanova was per-formed in Toulouse on April 8 on a double-bill with Charpentier's Beatris and

featured the American soprano Regina Sarfaty. — LES TROYENNES, composedby 30-year-old Polish-born French composer Joanna Bruzdowicz, had its premiereon April 7 at the Theatre Gerard Philipe in Saint-Etienne.The Sadler's Wells Company, with financial assistance from the Gulbenkian Foun-dation, commissioned Gordon Crosse to write an opera for premiere in London.The British composer chose as his subject THE STORY OF VASCO, and the workwill be performed by Sadler's Wells next season. — The prolific British composerJohn Joubert has been commissioned by the Queen Elizabeth Boys School inBarnet, Herts, England, to write an opera for the 400th anniversary of the foundingof the school. The opera by the South African-born composer is called THEPRISONER; the libretto by Stephen Tunnicliffe is based on Tolstoy's Too Dear. —The first British performance of the rarely-heard FRANCESCA DA RIMINI byRachmaninov will take place in Chester on June 23.Hungarian avant-garde composer Gyorgy Ligeti was commissioned by the Stock-holm Opera to write an opera based on Michel de Ghelderode's THE BALLADOF MACABRE THINGS. The first performance is planned for November 1976.On April 29, Renato de Grandis' fifth opera, DAS WAHRHAFTE ENDE DESDON GIOVANNI, was premiered in Bonn, Germany. The one-act opera by theSpanish composer, now residing in Germany, was heard with Pagliacci. — FIATLUX is the title of a new musical theatre piece by Mauricio Kagel which will bepremiered at the German Theatre in Hamburg in May 1974.Italian composer Giorgio Ferrari's latest opera / MANTICI, will be performedfor the first time this summer during the Opera Festival in Barga, Italy. TheFestival also offers opera courses for singers; registration for Americans is handledthrough Chatham College in Pittsburgh.March 7-17 marked the "Modern Week of the Bavarian Opera" in Munich. Onthe program under this heading were Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu, Kagel's Staats-theater and Repertoire, Ligeti's Epitaph, Fortner's Elizabeth Tudor, GerhardHumel's Die Folterungen der Beatrice Cenci and Walter Haupt's Laser and hismost recent Sensus. Some of these theater pieces were presented in the auditoriumof the Experimentierbiihne which accommodates 80 people on foam rubber reclin-ers and is equipped with the latest electronic and film apparatus for the realizationof a total theater experience. — The conventional opera house in Kiel, Germany,also features an Experimentierbuhne where the following five short music-theaterpieces were presented in December: Dieter Schnabel's Nostalgic Mauricio Kagel'sPas de cinq, Gerhard Riihm's Gehen, Burkhard Rempe/Michael Leinert/MaxLehner's Szene fur Sanger, and John Cage's Theatre Piece.East Berlin's Staatsoper commissioned Hermann Meyer to write a one-act operafor premiere by the company. It is entitled REITER IN DER NACHT and con-cerns racial tensions in South Africa.

NEW OPERA COMPANIESThe MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE is the name of the fully professional com-pany which has evolved from the Overture to Opera group. The latter was foundedtwelve years ago by the Detroit Grand Opera Ass'n to preview scenes of the operasscheduled for Detroit performances of the Metropolitan Opera on tour. Later,under the directorship of Dr. David diChiera, the group gave fully-staged perfor-mances under the auspices of the Music Department of Oakland University inRochester and also offered chamber operas on tour in neighboring schools. Thenewly formed professional company will perform opera in English in Detroit andthe surrounding area as well as in other Michigan cities such as Flint, GrandRapids, Midland and Kalamazoo. David diChiera is the artistic director of thecompany which will have the Music Hall Theatre in Detroit as its home base.Overture to Opera will be continued as the educational branch of the MichiganOpera Theatre.It seems as if Los Angeles will have another new opera company this Fall. HueyWeathersby, baritone and impresario, announced the formation of the SOUTHERNCALIFORNIA LYRIC OPERA which will perform in the 6500-seat Shrine Audi-

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torium. The first production, Madama Butterfly with Atsuko Azutna and HarryTheyard, is scheduled for November 10. Zoltan Rozsnyai, former conductor of theSan Diego Symphony, is music director and Kent Kimball general director. Twomore productions for next season will be announced later.The ASOLO OPERA GUILD in Sarasota, Florida, which has sponsored localperformances by the Turnau Opera Players for fourteen seasons, is, for the firsttime, assembling its own opera company. As in the past, performances will takeplace in the lovely 280-seat Asolo Theatre in the Ringling Museum. The companyplans to open in January '74 with Fledermaus, to be followed by Cost fan tutteand Orfeo ed Euridice.Marguerite Ruffino, Director of the Rhode Island Opera Theatre at BarringtonCollege, R.I., has announced the founding of ARTISTS INTERNATIONALE inProvidence. Miss Ruffino is artistic director of the new company, with ThomasBooth as musical director. The company gave its first performance in March andplans three productions for next season. Among participating artists announced areMary Costa, Sandra Warfield and James McCracken. Miss Ruffino will take leadingroles in two operas next year (see Performance Listing).The Sacramento (Calif.) Symphony Orchestra and the Sacramento Opera Guildare joining forces to plan a first local opera production for 1974.

NEW COMPANIES ABROADThe often delayed opening of the Sydney Opera House is now becoming a reality,with the first production, Prokofiev's War and Peace, conducted by EdwardDownes, staged by S. Wanamaker (replacing Peter Ustinov), designed by T.Lingwood, scheduled to open September 28. The adjoining concert hall will beopened the following evening with a concert by the Sydney Symphony of theAustralian Broadcasting Co., conducted by Charles Mackerras. Mo. Mackerraswill also conduct the second opera production, The Magic Flute, October 22, whileMo. Downes will be back in the pit for Tannhauser on October 27. Subsequentproductions will include Le Nozze di Figaro, Puccini's Trittico and the VerdiRequiem. The official opening ceremonies will take place on October 20 whenQueen Elizabeth II is expected to be present.

Following the two opening productions at the Paris Opera under the new RolfLiebermann regime (see Fall '72 Blltn), announcements were made regardingother new productions, some planned for the remainder of the current season, somefor next season. Horst Stein and August Everding will be in charge of musical andstage directions for the new Parsifal featuring Josephine Veasey and Helge Brilioth,and // Trovatore will have a dual cast of Santunione/Arroyo, Verrett/Cossotto,Cossutta/Domingo and conductors Muti/Rudel. A new Boheme will be directedby Gian Carlo Menotti, Don Quichotte by Peter Ustinov; Moses und Aron willbe conducted by Georg Solti, Cost fan tutte by Josef Krips, and Elektra, featuringNilsson, Rysanek and Ludwig, by Karl Bohm. An approximate total of 280 per-formances is planned per season, with three operas and three ballets scheduled onsix evenings a week. A free performance is scheduled for July 14, Bastille Day.The regional orientation and consolidation of French opera companies is continu-ing (see Summer and Fall '72 Blltns.). The latest additions are L'OPERA DEPROVENCE, an extension of the former Theatre de la Cite des Papes into ayear-round company serving Avignon, Montpelier and Nimes, with Michel Leducremaining as director, and LE THEATRE LYRIQUE DU MIDI with Lamalou-les-Bains as its home base, serving Beziers, Sete, Perpignon and Narbonne. Thisyear Lamalou will also feature its first summer festival, devoted to operettas.Lamalou's mayor, Paul Coste-Floret, is the president of the Theatre Lyrique duMidi.For the first time, the Sadler's Wells Company will be performing in London duringthe summer months. Performances of the Ring Cycle are scheduled for July 31through August 25.A recent announcement by Lord Harewood, director of Sadler's Wells, andAnthony Besch, director of the New Opera Company of London, promises arenewed close collaboration between the two organizations, with representativesof each company on the other's board of directors. The New Opera Company,which has presented thirteen world premieres among the thirty-four works it has

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produced, was founded fifteen years ago. Joint efforts will produce the first per-formance of Infidelio (see Spring Blltn.) and British premieres of Szymanovsky'sKing Roger in 1974 and Ginastera's Bomarzo in 1975 (information courtesyOpera).Moscow, home of the Bolshoi Opera and the Stanislavsky/ Nemirovich DantchenkoTheatre Opera Company has added a third operatic organization, the MoscowChamber Musical Theatre. Boris Pokrovsky is the director, and first season pro-ductions will include Shostakovich's The Nose and Shchedrin's Not for Love Alone(see COS Directory of Foreign Contemp. Operas).On many occasions, the COS Bulletin has reported various American community-oriented arts projects. We now hear of the following in Germany, where membersof the opera ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera have joined together in an effort toserve their community. The singers, who also administer the concert series, offertheir services free of charge for these Sozialkonzerte, performing at homes for theaged and in prisons, even paying the cost of their own transportation. They reportthat the response has been very enthusiastic and most gratifying. Following theirexample, some members of the orchestra are planning to present free evenings ofchamber music.The Royal Opera in Stockholm is currently celebrating its 2OOth anniversary andplans to present several new Swedish operas during the 1973-74 season as part ofthe celebration. During the subsequent season the house will close for extensiverenovations, with the company continuing to perform at an alternate location, asyet undecided.

NEW THEATERSA new Performing Arts Center will be opened in Danville, Ky., next Fall. Builton the campus of the Center College of Kentucky, it is a gift from Mr. A. ChaunceyNewlin. The auditorium has a flexible seating arrangement which allows for theintimacy of a lecture or recital with 250 seats, or for opening the hall to either1000, or to its full capacity of 1500 seats. There is a hydraulic pit accommodatingapproximately 50 musicians. Floyd Herzog is the general manager of the Center,and he is presently negotiating with the Kentucky Opera for a possible openingproduction of Otello on September 22.

The twelve-year-old Grand Teton Music Festival, offering symphonic and chambermusic concerts in Jackson Hole, Wy., will open this year's five-week festival July 24in a new concert hall. Designed by Robert Corbett with the assistance of acousticalconsultant Christopher Jaffe, the new auditorium will seat 800 with a potential for400 additional seats; the stage size is 40 by 70.The Rebekah Harkness Foundation has purchased the former RKO ColonialTheatre on Broadway near 62nd Street, just two blocks away from Lincoln Center,for use by the Harkness Ballet. The theater, most recently used by WABC fortelevision tapings, will be completely renovated and converted into a 1250-seatauditorium especially adapted to all the needs of a ballet company. It will be thefirst theater thus equipped and also the first one primarily devoted to dance. TheHarkness Company will present three three-week seasons annually and will rentthe theater the rest of the time, either to other ballet troupes (preference was indi-cated for foreign or ethnic dance groups), or non-ballet companies.

One of New York's landmarks, a reminder of some of the loveliest music onsummer evenings, will soon be demolished to make room for a $90 millionacademic center. It is the venerable Lewisohn Stadium, dedicated in 1915, wherethe late Minnie Guggenheimer initiated a summer concert series in 1918. Many ofmusic's greatest performers were heard there and many seasons featured opera inconcert form, including several Metropolitan Opera performances in 1965 and '66.The new building on that location will be part of the City College of New York.

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FINANCES AND SUPPORTAlready involved with preparations for its Twentieth Anniversary season in 1974,the Lyric Opera of Chicago has just published a very encouraging financial reportfor 1973. After contributions, the company was left with a surplus of $13,412, arare phenomenon in the performing arts in general and in opera in particular. Thefigures are especially significant since they indicate that ticket sales covered a littleless than 49% of the overall budget — this in spite of near record attendance (seeSpring Bulletin). Anticipating inflation as well as a special Gala season, fund rais-ing goals for 1974 have been set 30% above the amount realized in 1973.

A recent grant from the National Opera Institute facilitated a new production ofUn Ballo in maschera. It was first presented in Omaha in April and will subse-quently be used by opera companies in Memphis, Cincinnati, Houston and Kan-sas City.

OPERA America's negotiations with music publishers attempting to establish astandardization of royalty rates for copyrighted operas has been indefinitely sus-pended. The demands of some publishers for 6% of gross box office receipts werefound unacceptable as a basis for standardization of fees.—OPERA Americaalso informs us that the arrangement made with the U.S. Customs Bureau toimport rental costumes duty-free (see Spring Bulletin) does not include operaticsets — at least not as yet.

Corporations and Foundations

No doubt, the steady increase in corporate grants to arts organizations is in greatpart the result of relentless work by the Business Committee on the Arts and theawakening of cultural groups to the need for a more business-like approach tothe management of their affairs. At the Sixth Annual Meeting of BCA held recentlyin New York, Senator Claiborne Pell, co-author of the bill for federal support of thearts, urged the business community to set its 1976 goal of corporate support tothe arts at $250 million. He explained that federal support for the arts for thatyear hopefully will be appropriated at $200 million and that its disbursement willbe contingent on the arts community raising matching funds. Dr. Frank Stanton,Chairman of BCA, reported that corporate grants to the arts have risen from $22million in 1965 to $140 million in the current year.

The BCA newsletter recently reported a novel idea to stimulate more supportfor the arts. Companies are offering to match one-to-one or one-and-a-half-to-oneany donations made by employees to artistic or educational organizations. Corpora-tions such as Xerox, Gulf & Western, and Cerro are participating in this project.

Following are just a few examples which may inspire more opera companies andcorporations to explore programs of assistance for mutual benefit. Local banksseem to be leading the list this time with a repeat grant from the Crocker-CitizensNational Bank to the San Francisco Opera, and a joint grant from the WorthenBank and Trust Co., the Commercial National Bank of Little Rock, and theArkansas Bank and Trust Co. of Hot Springs aiding in the production of Carmento be presented under the sponsorship of the Arkansas Arts Center and the Uni-versity of Arkansas and the direction of Blanche Thebom. The Ward Supply Com-pany contributed the flat-bed truck, tractor, and driver needed for the outdoorperformances. — The fellowship program of the Wolf Trap Foundation and Com-pany (see Awards and Winners) is in part supported by the Foundation's Associateswith some individual fellowships sponsored by BMI, the Service League of North-ern Virginia, the Virginia Commission of the Arts and Humanities, the Vienna(Va.) Rotary Club, Local 22 of the International Alliance of Theatrical StageEmployees, and various private foundations. — The Educational and Cultural Fundof the Electrical Industry sponsored a performance of The Abduction from theSeraglio given for members of its union at the Electric Industry Center Auditorium,and the Music Performance Trust Fund of the Recording Industries has also beena generous source of funds for performances by professional companies.

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A study, Foundation Support of the Arts, conducted by Harlan F. Lang and pub-lished by Arts Management, offers new insight into foundation giving. 222 founda-tions in 30 states with total assets of $4 billion were surveyed, not including theatypical Ford and Rockefeller foundations. The three most important facts revealedby the study and the conclusions which can be drawn from them are 1) the majority ofgrants are made in the $1000 category, indicating that foundations are willing toassist in realizing a project rather than insisting on underwriting one completeproject, 2) only 20% of the foundations surveyed have given support to only oneart form, and some have diversified their grants to include all surveyed art forms —opera, symphony, theater, dance and museums — so that foundations giving to oneform of the arts are likely candidates to approach for grants to another, and 3) atwo-year comparison revealed the most encouraging of all facts — that 45% of thefoundations had given to the arts for the first time — presenting a great challengeto directors and managers to discover new sources of support by making newconverts to the cause of corporate giving to the arts.

BY POPULAR DEMAND: MORE CULTURE - MORE SUPPORT

Here is proof positive that the arts should receive more support: more people wantmore art, more culture. That is the thrust of the report made by Eric Larrabee,Executive Director of the New York State Council of the Arts, and Joseph Farrell,President of the National Research Center of the Arts, following the survey con-ducted by the National Research Center, a division of Louis Harris and Associates.This pioneering, in-depth study called Arts and the People is the result of a polltaken throughout New York State. The "heady statistics" prove 1) it is high timethat arts organizations and artists do away with their apologetic and defensiveattitudes towards their activities and needs, 2) that there is a much larger audiencefor the arts than has been estimated by arts organizations themselves, 3) that it isnot only the affluent and highly educated that want and use arts facilities, 4) thatpeople feel that more arts facilities are needed as well as 5) more and better artseducation.

Here then are some of the facts and figures which not only make good reading, butalso make the best argument for more and wider support for the arts. 52% of thepublic opted for more and better cultural facilities in the community, 68% forcultural activities in which they can participate. Percentages for the type of facil-ities wanted were as follows: theater 26%, arts and crafts workshop 21%, 17%each for a good concert hall and a good sports stadium alike! (Until now we werealways told that the popular demand for sports steamrolls the arts into a corner.)In fact, cultural facilities were given higher priority than schools, housing and parks.

The next surprise came in the area of public respect and esteem for artists andartistic professions. Musicians run a close fourth after scientists, doctors andlawyers, but ahead of bankers and businessmen! Of equal significance is the changedattitude of parents towards children choosing the arts as a profession, the choicenow being looked upon very favorably.

A very strong support for more arts education in schools is a logical developmentfrom these positive attitudes, and majorities from 54 to 78% requested that thearts become part of the regular curriculum with credit being given for such courses.The study showed that exposure to some of the arts during childhood, either in thehome or in school, is the best conditioning for later appreciation of and participa-tion in the arts.

It is reassuring to hear that 56% preferred live music to records, radio or TV, and68% opted for live presentations of the performing arts versus television. The needfor more touring productions has been substantiated by the request for more per-formances within the home community in order to facilitate attendance (59%).30% of the public stated that inconvenient curtain time was the reason for theirnon-attendance, and 29% said it was due to high ticket prices. To remedy thesesituations, it was suggested that organizations compromise by offering differentcurtain times on different dates and widening the range of ticket prices.

Since the survey was released so close to our publication deadline, space limitationsdo not allow more extensive quotations from this fascinating report. But we urgeevery arts administrator to get a copy for study — he will be better informed, betterequipped to argue his cause, and simply delighted to find his previous argumentssubstantiated. Arts and the People may be ordered from Cranford-Wood, Inc.,310 E. 75 St., New York, N. Y. 10021, at $5 a copy.

CONFERENCESJune 27 and 28 are the dates of the Second International Conference of OperaGuilds. The Women's Guild of the St. Paul Opera Ass'n is hosting the meetingswhich will be held at the St. Paul Hilton. The agenda promises interesting speakersand informative panel sessions on such subjects as youth programs, fund raisingand opera promotion, while attendance at performances of the St. Paul Opera willhighlight the evenings. Reservations may be made through Mrs. John Donahower,2 Crocus Lane, St. Paul, Minn. 55110.

"Public Policy and the Arts" is the title of this year's National Conference of theAmerican Symphony Orchestra League. It is scheduled for June 12-15 at theStatler Hilton in Washington, D.C., and its major thrust will be government supportfor the arts and for music in particular.

The annual Business Meeting of the membership of the Associated Councils of theArts will be held in Aspen, Colo., July 24-26. ACA will not hold a NationalConference this year.

The 1973 Convention of the U.S. Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) tookplace at the Bel Aire East Hotel in St. Louis, March 11-14. The Program Chairmanwas Richard Palmer of Washington University in St. Louis where a new performingarts theater is under construction. Sessions were also held at Cowell Hall, theEdison Theatre, and the Loretta Hilton Center.

The American Council for the Arts in Education announced this year's Conferencefor May 16-20 at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. The title of theConference is "The Arts as Education."

The National Federation of Music Clubs, sponsors of the annual National MusicWeek, celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of this observance this year. Under thetheme of "Focus the Spotlight on Music," the Golden Anniversary Week wascelebrated May 6-13.

The International Music Council and the Internationales Musik Zentrum haveannounced their joint 1973 Congress to be he'd in Vienna, September 23-26. Itwill be entitled "Fifty Years of Music over the Airwaves."

The National Music Council's Annual Membership Meeting will be held on June 7in New York. It will be preceded on June 6 by meetings of special committees oncommunications, community affairs, government relations, international affairs,music education, and performance. A representative of COS is a member of theperformance committee.

The Music Critics Association is sponsoring four music critics' training institutesthis summer, planning times and topics to coincide with summer music festivals.The first program, offered jointly with the Northwestern University School ofMusic, will concern itself with "The Orchestra and the Conductor" from June 25to July 24, at the time of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. From July 7 throughAugust 5, "The Contemporary Composer and his Work" will be the topic dis-cussed at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, while "Solving the Problems ofOpera Reviews" will be covered August 1-15 during the Santa Fe Opera season.The fourth institute, "19th Century Performance Practice," will meet August 8-17at the University of Maryland in College Park in conjunction with the InternationalPiano Festival and Competition. For further information and registration, contactDr. Elliott W. Galkin, 2211 Midridge Rd., Timonium, Md. 21903.

NEWS FROM MUSIC PUBLISHERS, MUSICAL COLLECTIONS

Thomas Pasatieri's one-act music drama Calvary has been published by BelwinMills Publishing Corp., which also has the rights to most of the composer's otherstage works.Associated Music Publishers announces the addition of Tom Johnson's Four-NoteOpera to its catalogue.Alan Hovhannes' The Travellers, an opera in one scene, will be published byPeters Edition.Orion Master Recordings has released a recording of the two major scenes of RoyTravis' The Passion of Oedipus, an opera premiered at UCLA in 1968. The twoscenes were recorded with the Royal Philharmonic in London with Jan Popperconducting.Northwestern University has announced the acquisition of one cf the most impor-tant, comprehensive and valuable private music collections, the MoldenhauerArchives from Vienna. The two-part collection consists of music manuscripts,letters, documents and memorabilia of composers from 1) the 17th to 19th cen-turies, including Gluck, Haydn, Schubert and Brahms, and 2) the 20th century,including Debussy, Mahler and Strauss. Dr. Moldenhauer wrote two books onAnton Webern, and a special section of the collection consists of most of the com-poser's manuscripts. Arrangements to hold the next Webern Festival and Congressat Northwestern have also been made.The Lilly Library and the Music Research Center at Indiana University were giventhe Fritz Busch Collection of musical manuscripts, tapes, and annotated orchestralscores and parts, including some rare scores. Recording this, the University haspublished an attractive brochure including a Catalogue of Annotated Scores. Thepresentation of the gift was made by Prof. Hans Busch, Mrs. Martial Singher, andCountess Gisela von Moltke, children of the late conductor.The Music Division of the Library of Congress received a large part of the collec-tion of sound recordings assembled by Joseph B. Strohl. The gift consists of about3000 discs and cylinders with over 400 recorded before 1908 by The Gramaphoneand Typewriter Co. of London, some pre-1900 Berliners and many other very rareitems. Among the early opera recordings are Pathe discs of an early 1900 perform-ance of Carmen by the Opera Comique and a 1902 Victor Talking Machine Co.record with Pagliacci's Prologue sung by Emilio de Gargorza accompanied bythe Sousa Band.The Pierpont Morgan Library, a treasure trove of musical manuscripts and letters,recently acquired the autograph manuscript of Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor(The Impresario) from the Louis Koch estate in Switzerland.Of the 339 Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1973, four went to composers:VINCENT PERSECHETTI (at Juilliard School), HARVEY SOLLBERGER (atColumbia University), LOUIS WEINGARDEN and KAREL HUSA (at CornellUniversity). Other grants made in the musical field went to REGINALD ALLEN(Pierpont Morgan Library) for A History of Gilbert and Sullivan Text, and DR.CHARLES ROSEN (SUNY at Stony Brook) for Relationship of Romantic Musicand Nineteenth Century Theories of Language and Style.

Opera Brain at Indiana U.

The Winter '73 Musical Cue, published by Indiana University's School of Music,announces the first computerized opera catalogue. 137 operas have been coded,and selection can be made through forty-four different categories. These includeTypes of Ensembles and Respective Numbers, Recorded Time Span of Chorus,Ensembles by Voice Categories, by Tessitura, Operas with Speaking Roles, withMute Roles, Requiring Dancing, Requiring Stage Band, and 35 others. A sampleof information print-out is also supplied, and, to the layman in computer science,it seems to require another computer for translation. However, once you havemastered the art of converting numbers into facts, the opera brain at Indiana Uis well worth picking. It was conceived and programmed by John P. Nagosky.

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TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONSAndrew Porter, British musicologist, author and translator, has added a new Don Carlosto his many translations. It was sung in this version at the Welsh National Opera in May.Mr. Porter has been music critic for The New Yorker this season while on a one-yearleave of absence from his post as music critic of The London Times. He is returningto London this summer.British conductor Edward Downes has made an English translation of Shostakovich'sThe Nose for performances this Spring by London's New Opera Co.Cavalli's Rosinda was performed in March in Oxford and London with a score preparedby Jane Glover, an Oxford University music graduate. Miss Glover based her adaptationon the autograph manuscript in the Marciana Library in Venice. It was sung with anEnglish text translated by Anne Ridler.Kalman's operetta Griifin Maritza was performed in an English version at the BlossomMusic Festival in Ohio last summer.Donizetti's Anna Bolena was translated by Royce Isham, chairman cf the Music Depart-ment at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark., for a performance there inMarch.The University of Wisconsin recently gave a performance of Rigoletto in a new Englishtranslation by Albert J. Puhek. This version is available from the translator at 1217S. 10th St., Milwaukee, Wis. 53204. He has also don& a translation of Pagliacci.Rafael de Acha has translated two one-act operas, Rossini's Cambiale di matrimonio(Marriage by Contract) and Mozart's L'Oca del Cairo (The Goose from Cairo).New research into the history of Le Nozze di Figaro has turned up changes in a 1789version. Ernst Marzendorfer is presently reinstating two additional arias and continuopassages for harpsichord, cello and bass accompaniment. This music will be insertedwhen the opera is published in the new Complete Edition of Mozart's Works.

Musical Material for SaleThe Colorado Springs Opera Ass'n, Box 2393 Colorado Springs, Colo. 80901, offers thefollowing material for sale, (vs, cp, and op indicates that several copies of vocal scores,chorus parts and orchestra parts are available, FS indicates full score.)Mozart: The Impresario vs; Bastien and Bastienne vs; The Marriage of Figaro vs.Pergolesi: La serva padrona vs.Rossini: The Barber of Seville vs, cp.Donizetti: Elixir of Love vs, cp; Don Pasquale vs.Verdi: La Traviata FS, vs, cp, op; A Masked Ball vs, cp; // Trovatore vs, cp; Rigoletto

FS, vs, cp, op.Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana vs, cp.Leoncavallo: Pagliacci vs.Puccini: La Boheme vs; Madame Butterfly vs, cp; Sister Angelica vs; Tosca vs.Gounod: Faust vs, cp, op.Bizet: Carmen FS, vs, cp, op.Massenet: Manon vs, cp.Offenbach: La Perichole vs, lib.; The Tales of Hoffmann FS.von Flotow: Martha vs.Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretcl FS, vs, cp, op.Strauss: Fledermaus vs, cp.Lehar: The Merry Widow vs.Smetana: The Bartered Bride vs, cp.Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers vs; The Mikado vs, cp.Weill: Down in the Valley vs, cp.Moore: Ballad of Baby Doe vs, cp; Devil and Daniel Webster vs, cp.Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors vs, cp; The Medium vs; The Telephone vs.Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti vs.Foss: Jumping Frog of Calaveras County vs.

CorrectionIn "Sets and Costumes for Rent" in the Spring '73 Bulletin, the new address of MalabarLtd. should have been listed as follows: 14 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario M5T IV6,Canada.

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APPOINTMENTSSCHUYLER G. CHAPIN, who has been Acting General Manager of the Metro-politan Opera for the past year, has been appointed General Manager for the nextthree years. He joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1971 as assistant to the thenGeneral Manager-Elect Goran Gentele. Following Mr. Gentele's death last summer,he was named Acting General Manager for one year. The 50-year-old New Yorkerstudied music at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass., but decided todevote his talents to the administrative side of the musical profession. In 1951 hejoined Columbia Artists Management, became a tour manager, and in 1959 wasnamed head of the classical department of Columbia Records. Thus he has hadgreat experience in dealing with both performers and composers. In 1964 hebecame Vice-President in charge of programming at Lincoln Center, his firstexperience in the role of impresario. In this position he was responsible for estab-lishing the highly successful Lincoln Center Film Festival and the Lincoln CenterSummer Festival which presented the Rome and Hamburg operas. At the timeof his appointment at the Met, he was Executive Producer of Leonard Bernstein'sAmberson Productions, makers of musical films for the theater, television, andvideo cassettes. He married the former Elizabeth Steinway in 1947 and they havefour sons. — This Fall Maestro Rafael Kubelik assumes the new position of Metro-politan Opera Music Director. — At the election of officers of the Association,Lowell Wadmond was reelected Chairman of the Board and George S. Moore,President. Five new members were elected to the Board of Directors, GoddardLieberson, James Marcus, Edward S. Reid, James S. Smith, and Arthur K. Watson,and eight individuals were named new Members of the Association, Maria Jeritza,Thomas Brush, Andrew Kershaw, David Peck, John T. Sargent, and Messrs. Lieb-erson, Marcus and Watson.

Dr. JAMES KILLIAN JR. has been named Chairman of the Corporation forPublic Broadcasting, and, in New York, ROBERT KOTLOWITZ, former EditorialDirector of WNET, was appointed Director of Programming. He will have overallresponsibility for local and national programs originating from WNET, includingthe NET Opera Theatre.

EZRA LADERMAN has been elected President of the American Music Center,succeeding Hugo Weisgall, whose term expired this Spring.

HUGH DAVIDSON, former music administrator of Ottawa's National ArtsCentre, has been named head of the music section of the Canada Council.

Following the resignation of James Browning as Executive Secretary of the Ameri-can Music Center and the same position at the National Music Council, the latterorganization appointed MRS. LESLIE KALLMAN to the position of ActingExecutive Secretary. Mrs. Kallman is also Editor of the NMC Bulletin, which, forthe first time, is including photographs and other illustrations.

MAX RUDOLF, who made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1947 and was amember of its administration from 1950 to 1958, will return to the company nextseason to conduct Elisir d'amore and also some performances of Don Giovanni. In1958 Mr. Rudolf became Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony and for thelast two years headed the Opera Department of the Curtis Institute. He has resignedfrom this position, which will be assumed by stage director Dino Yannopoulos.Mo. Rudolf has also accepted the position of Artistic Advisor to the Dallas Sym-phony for 1973-74, where LOUIS LANE, Resident Conductor of the ClevelandOrchestra, will be Principal Guest Conductor.

PETER HERMAN ADLER, Director of the WNET Opera Theatre, will alsohead the American Opera Theatre of The Juilliard School. This is the companycreated for the advanced opera student/performer, founded to give professionally-styled performance opportunities to young singers. It is hoped that the singers willbe engaged on a minimum pay and/ or fellowship basis. Approximately thirty-twosingers are to make up the ensemble, and auditions will be held in New York inJune, July, and September. Three productions are planned for next season, TheBartered Bride, Boheme and Ariadne auf Naxos in its original version with theMoliere play. It was also announced that a graduate fellowship in opera conducting

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and another in opera coaching have been established, and applications are beingaccepted from young musicians with some experience in coaching and accom-panying.

The Opera Guild of Greater Miami has just announced the appointment ofROBERT HERMAN, former Metropolitan Opera Assistant Manager, as GeneralManager. He succeeds Lorenzo Alvary as of July 1, 1973.

Dr. WALTER DUCLOUX was named Music Director and conductor of theAustin Symphony Orchestra, a position he will occupy in addition to heading theOpera Department at the University of Texas in Austin, where he is a professorof music and drama.

The National Opera and Symphony of Mexico recently announced the appoint-ment of GREGORY MILLAR as Artistic Director, replacing Carlos Chavez, whoresigned. Mr. Millar will also continue as conductor and music director of theTucson Symphony.

KASUYOSHI AKIYAMA was selected by members of the American SymphonyOrchestra to be music director of that organization for the 1973-74 season. Theorchestra gave no performances this year due to the retirement of founder LeopoldStokowski (see Spring '73 Blltn.), but through continuing contributions by orches-tra members and various grants it will resume activities next season.

KURT KLIPPSTATTER, resident conductor of the Memphis Opera Theater, willbecome the Music Director and Conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestrain Little Rock, succeeding Francis McBeth.

Beginning in the Fall of 1973, PETER EROES will be the new Music Director ofthe San Diego Symphony; he was guest conducting the orchestra this season.

The Inspiration Point Fine Arts Festival in Eureka Springs, Ark., has namedJOHN EDWARD NILES as conductor of its summer series.

Canadian conductor PIERRE HETU has signed a three-year contract as MusicDirector and Conductor of the Edmonton (Alberta) Symphony.

Leading the news in the managerial field is the retirement of HELEN M. THOMP-SON, manager of the N.Y. Philharmonic since 1970 and former Executive Vice-President of the American Symphony Orchestra League. Mrs. Thompson startedas executive secretary with ASOL in 1950 and remained with the League until shejoined the Philharmonic in 1970. Succeeding her is HAROLD LAWRENCE whohas been Manager of the London Symphony Orchestra for the last five years. Hewill begin in his new position July 1; Mrs. Thompson has been retained as a con-sultant until October 15.

Following the death of Aurelio Fabiani, stage director IAN STRASFOGEL, Gen-eral Director of the Opera Society of Washington and of the Music Theatre Projectin Tanglewood, was also named Artistic Director for the Philadelphia Lyric Opera.Eleanor Morrison, appointed Managing Director, will be in charge of administra-tive details. Mr. Strasfogel plans to bring two Washington productions to Phila-delphia with the other four productions either originating in Philadelphia or beingrented from other companies (see Performance Listing).

The Cincinnati Summer Opera announced the appointment of stage directorJAMES DE BLASIS as General Director of its 1973 summer season. He succeedsStyrk Orwoll who has been director for the last nine years and who resigned forhealth reasons.

AcademiaSIXTEN EHRLING, conductor of the Detroit Symphony until the end of thisseason, will become head of the orchestra department at The Juilliard Schoolbeginning next Fall. Mo. Ehrling is also conducting at the Metropolitan Opera.

Dr. ALBERT COHEN, Chairman of the Department of Music at SUNY atBuffalo, has accepted the same position at Stanford University in California.Prior to his three years in Buffalo, Dr. Cohen was on the faculty of the Universityof Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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Rudolf Serkin, Director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, has an-nounced the appointment of DINO YANNOPOULOS as head of the OperaDepartment. Mr. Yannopoulos, who had been a stage director at the Institute,succeeds Max Rudolf (see above); David Effron will be Music Director andMargaret Harshaw will be on the voice faculty.Next season, GUSTAV MEIER, professor and conductor at Yale University, willjoin the faculty of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.EARL RIVERS has been appointed Music Director of the Advanced OperaWorkshop at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.Dr. NATHAN GOTTSCHALK has been chosen to direct the Festival Orchestraof the Chautauqua Music School in Chautauqua, N.Y., this summer.

European AppointmentsALAIN LOMBARD will not assume the position of Music Director of the L'Operadu Rhin in Strasbourg next fall. He resigned from this position before actuallyassuming the duties, but he will fulfill his previously accepted conducting assign-ments of four operas with the company. He will at the same time become MusicDirector of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Strasbourg and will lead this ensembleon a U.S. tour.Beginning this Fall, FRANZ ALLERS, of My Fair Lady fame, will become ChiefConductor and Music Director of the Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz in Munich.He will be succeeding Ulrich Weder who will be the new Music Director of theLiibeck Oper.JOHN WINTHER, former Director of the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen,has been named General Manager of the Australian Opera Co.The Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich has renewed GUENTHER RENNERT'scontract as General Director and Administrator for another three years. He willbe working with Wolfgang Sawallisch, the new Music Director (see Spring Blltn.).Welsh National Opera Company's Musical Director, JAMES LOCKHART, willassume this same position in Cassel, Germany; he will be succeeded in England byRICHARD ARMSTRONG.London's New Philharmonia Orchestra has appointed RICCARDO MUTI as itsprincipal conductor, a position formerly held by Otto Klemperer. Mo. Muti is alsoprincipal conductor at Florence's Maggio Musicale.Italian conductor ARMANDO GATTO will be Artistic Director of the Arena diVerona this summer for the first time, and GIAN CARLO DEL MONACO, sonof Mario del Monaco, will be chief producer and assistant to the administrator atthe Ulm Oper in Germany.

NEW AWARDS AND WINNERSThe new Senior Symphony of Miami, in cooperation with the Miami BeachFinancial Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n, has established a music competition, theFinancial Federal Showcase. Prizes of $250 will be awarded in four categories —voice, piano, strings, and wind/ brass — and the four winners will then competefor a $1000 first and $500 second prize. All four winners will be presented withthe Miami orchestra in concert as well as over radio and TV. For further infoma-tion, contact Mr. Laurence Siegel, Music Director, Sr. Symphony of Miami, c/oFinancial Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n, Public Relations Office, 401 LincolnRd., Miami Beach, Fla. 33139.See Appointments (Peter Herman Adler) for information on auditions for singersfor Juilliard's American Opera Center and the new fellowship program for operacoaches and conductors.The Wolf Trap Company, consisting of forty singers and sixteen dancers chosenin nationwide auditions, will offer $1500 fellowships to twenty-six of the par-ticipants.The Auditions of the Air, sponsored by WBN and the Illinois Opera Guild inChicago, have been restricted to singers "who did not yet sing leading roles withmajor opera companies." As always, the age limit is 20-34, applications and tapes

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must be submitted before October 15, and live auditions are held in New York,Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago. This year's winners of the Chicago Auditionsof the Air are soprano LINDA ZOGHBY from Tallahassee, Fla., and tenorDAVID KUEBLER from Forest Park, 111.The Baltimore Opera Co. just announced the winners of its 1973 competition,sponsored by the Carting Brewing Co. Soprano JEANETTE HALL-WOOD fromBuffalo took the first prize of $1500, soprano BONITA GLENN from New YorkCity the second prize of $1250, and baritone FORREST LOREY from Astoria,N.Y., the third prize of $1000. Furthermore, $750 and $500 were won by ANNYERVANIAN from Saddle Brook, N.J., and LIETTE JUNEAU from Montreal,respectively.SUSAN DAVENNY WYNER, soprano from New Haven, Conn., was the re-cipient of the Joy of Singing Award in New York, and soprano ZENAIDA LUZwon the First International Opera Competition sponsored by the PhiladelphiaLyric Opera. — Two sopranos, KATHERINE AGRESTE and MIRIAM VOUT-SIS, won the 1973 Young Artists Concert Awards, sponsored by the N.Y. SingingTeachers Ass'n. — The 19th International Voice Competition in Holland awardedfirst prize to American baritone ROBERT CHRISTESEN, who also won first prizeat the International Singing Competition in Toulouse, France, and second prize atthe International Music Competition in Munich. He was a finalist at the 1972Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.Four young singers have been accepted into the Saint Paul Opera's expandedArtists-in-Residence program. In May, JEANNE DISTELL, soprano, JEANNEPILAND, mezzo, JONATHAN RIGG, tenor, and HARLAN FOSS, baritone,will visit fifteen public schools in the Twin Cities, offering lecture-demonstrationsand conducting workshops in voice and stage techniques. In June, the singers willperform with the St. Paul Opera in its regular season, with the House of HopeChoir at church services and at various local clubs; they will also entertain atlocal Bocci Balls.Tenor ROBERT JOHNSON is the latest addition to the roster of the AffiliateArtists Program. He is a member of the N.Y.C. Opera and will be in residenceat the University of Pittsburgh. This year four new performing artists were ac-cepted, 2 actors, 1 dancer, and Mr. Johnson. The A.A. program is sponsored bythe Sears-Roebuck Foundation (for the last five years), the National Endowmentfor the Arts, and by other individual grants. There are presently 18 singers in theseven-year-old program which supplies communities across the country with per-forming artists.Two mezzo-sopranos, SARA HELEN BLISS and JIMMIE LU NULL, have beenchosen for graduate internships in voice by Carnegie Mellon University in its jointprogram with the Pittsburgh Opera. Both singers will receive tuition and a livingstipend for two years and participate in professional productions of the operacompany.

Composers and ConductorsThe American Music Center's program of financial assistance to composers forexpenses of copying and reproducing scores and parts has been revised and is nowoffered with the following limitations: only composers under 45 years are eligible,maximum individual grants are $2000, repeat grants are limited to three, with atleast two years between grants, and the total of all three not to exceed $3500.These grants are available for works with at least seven performers and a minimumplaying time of ten minutes. Furthermore, the composer must have a commitmentby a professional ensemble for at least one public performance.25-year-old Italian-born GUIDO AJMONE-MARSAN of Chevy Chase, Md., wontwo major conductor's competitions this year. He received the first prize of $2500and an engagement to conduct the Chicago Symphony in the Georg Solti Competi-tion for Conductors, and a contract as Associate Conductor of the London Sym-phony for next season as the winner of the Ruppert Conducting Competition inLondon. There were two runners-up in the Solti Competition, David Ramadanofffrom Fort Lee, N.J., and Gerhardt Zimmermann from Macomb, 111. Each re-ceived $1000.

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BOOK CORNER

Joseph Wechsberg is no stranger to music lovers and to operaphiles in particular,nor to gourmets or world travellers. It seems that he is expert in all these fields andin a few more, but what makes his writings on these subjects especially enjoyableis his individual mixture of knowledge, warmth and wit. And he brings thesequalities to his latest book THE OPERA, published by The Macmillan Company.In its 312 pages, the book offers some operatic history, stories about composersand their operas, facts on some major operatic premieres and productions and onmajor opera houses as well as some highly personal evaluations of works andtrends. This is an excellent book for the novice and the initiated opera lover andwill be enjoyed equally well by the expert. Its price is $7.95.

In THE MAGIC OF OPERA, J. Merrill Knapp, Professor of Music at PrincetonUniversity, gives us one of those rare books, a history and analysis of opera,scholarly in its authenticity and knowledge and yet popular in its accessibility.All facets of opera are discussed in its 371 pages, from early history and basicrequirements to contemporary works and their productions. Even the attractivechoice of graphics must be commented on. The publisher is Harper and Row, theprice $10.

In need of a gift idea for an opera buff? GRAND OPERA, The Story of theWorld's Leading Opera Houses and Personalities may be just the answer. Beautifullyillustrated with 130 black and white as well as 16 color plates of photographsand reproductions of etchings, drawings and cartoons, the book traces the historyof thirty-two major opera houses in twelve countries. Woven into the text arestories and anecdotes of important premieres and star singers associated with eachtheater. The book is edited by Anthony Gishford who, together with HaroldRosenthal, Tony Mayer, Horst Koegler, Patrick Carnegy, and Richard ComynsCarr, wrote the text. The introduction is by Benjamin Britten. Priced at $14.95,Grand Opera is published by The Viking Press Inc. A helpful index is included inthe 272-page book. (Regrettably, the title and the stereotype photo on the jacketare misleading, giving the impression of yet another popular opera book for theshelf; only the subtitle offers a clue to the real contents of the book.)

OPERA, A Modern Guide, by Arthur Jacobs and Stanley Sadie should prove tobe a helpful guide to the opera layman, much as the Kobbe Complete OperaBook is to the expert. It offers synopses and simple analyses of sixty-six operasby thirty-one composers and includes some musical examples. The 492-page bookis published by Drake Publishers Inc. in New York and sells for $9.95.

The first of two volumes, THE OPERAS OF VERDI, From Oberto to Rigoletto,has been published by Praeger Publishers. Julian Budden, opera producer at BBCand a Verdi scholar, has done extensive in-depth studies of the first seventeenVerdi operas, unearthing new material and presenting it in this excellent 524-pagebook which should be obligatory reading and serve as a reference work for operapeople—producers, directors, singers, instrumentalists. This volume is priced at$20; the second volume is in preparation.

Due to the infrequent inclusion of a Book Corner in this publication, the threebooks on Stravinsky published almost simultaneously last Fall have not beenmentioned in the Bulletin. Meanwhile much has been written about them — andabout their authors — and, therefore, this Corner will keep comments to aminimum. It must be said at the start that each of the three is unique, and readers— laymen, musicians or music scholars — will enjoy each for its particular merits.Robert Craft's STRAVINSKY: Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948-1971 publishedby Alfred Knopf (424 pages, price $12.50) is conceived in the form of a journal.It presents Stravinsky the composer, the traveller, the man of the world, throughthe eyes of his friend, collaborator and critic, and thus encompasses an entiresocial and musical era. — If, as it was pointed out in some reviews, a few of thedates or places in Lillian Libman's AND MUSIC AT THE CLOSE, Stravinsky'sLast Years, do not always match Mr. Craft's, Miss Libman's book presents a warmand touching account of the last years of the master, and it is a worthy and inter-

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esting document. The 400-page biography is published by W. W. Norton & Co.and is priced at $9.95. Both books contain photographs. — The third book is bya Pulitzer Prize-winning author and is again a highly personal portrait. It is PaulHorgan's ENCOUNTERS WITH STRAVINSKY, A Personal Record, publishedby Farrar Straus and Giroux, (330 pages, price $7.95). Mr. Horgan speaks ofhis first boyhood encounter with Stravinsky — through reading about the composerand hearing his music and the impact of his first actual meeting. He recounts ingreat detail the many hours he spent with Stravinsky, especially during the com-poser's sojourn in Santa Fe. It is remarkable to note that a giant of a man andan artist, who among many other qualities was also known for his sharp wit andcynicism, would inspire his friends and contemporaries to these accounts of over-whelming lofe and devotion.

Herbert Kupferberg, author of Those Fabulous Philadelphians, has now writtenTHE MENDELSSOHNS: Three Generations of Genius. In this interesting biog-raphy he traces the family from Moses Mendelssohn, grandfather of the composer,philosopher, writer, and translator of Shakespeare, to Felix Mendelssohn and hisfamily. Through it we also get a view of life in Germany in the 18th and 19thcenturies, and Jewish life in Central Europe. The 272-page book is availablefor $8.95; it is published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

The centennial of Enrico Caruso's birth is being celebrated in various ways. Amongthem is the publication by Stein and Day of a new biography CARUSO by StanleyJackson and the Vienna House Edition reprint of the 1922 biography ENRICOCARUSO by Pierre V. R. Key and Bruno Zirato. The latter carries the immediacyof the man and artist, having been published the year after his death. The 455-pagebook contains illustrations and myriad listings, including one of all the tenor'sengagements between 1894 and 1921. It is richly cloth-bound and is available for$12.50. — The new biography by Jackson also offers a lovingly written and livelyaccount of the tenor, his life and his contemporaries. It provides more recentlydiscovered facts, famous anecdotes, and some lesser-known stories as well. The302-page book, with some photographs (rather poorly reproduced), sells for $7.95.

There is hardly another art form in which the cult of hero- or heroine-worship ispracticed to the degree we find in opera. Thus DIVAS by Winthrop Sargeant willprobably become a familiar sight in many operatic-minded households. It offerspersonal and professional data as well as many anecdotes on six "Superstars," JoanSutherland, Marilyn Home, Beverly Sills, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price and EileenFarrell. Five of the six portraits are revisions of articles previously published inThe New Yorker. Researched and written by the well-known and respected authorand music critic, the entertaining and informative 192-page book contains a seriesof photographs of each singer. It is published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,Inc. and is priced at $7.95.

CECIL BEATON: Memoirs of the 40's, published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., fallsinto somewhat the same category of books. However, it offers a very personalaccount of famous people as recounted by the renowned designer and photographer.Speaking of his years spent in New York and Hollywood, with a brief overture ofpostwar years in London and Paris, Mr. Beaton gives his reader sometimes touch-ing, sometimes entertaining glimpses into the world of the "rich and famous" —with a major portion of the book devoted to Greta Garbo and the author's affairwith her. He does not write of the period when he was designing for the Metro-politan Opera (Don Pasquale 1955, Vanessa 1958 and Turandot 1961), but somelovely costume and set sketches for ballet and theater and many attractive photo-graphs are included in the 310-page book priced at $10.

A well-researched and affectionately written account of the life and art of NIJIN-SKY has been published by Simon and Schuster. Richard Buckle, ballet critic andauthor of seven other books on art, has dedicated this picture of the Diaghilev erato Cecil Beaton. The handsomely-illustrated 482-page book follows Nijinsky fromhis first engagements at the Mariinsky Opera through his triumphs with the BalletRusse (including its American tour), and thus it touches upon the lives of Stra-vinsky, Debussy, Chaliapin, Bakst, Gontcharova and numerous others. Its priceis $12.50.

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It is a well-known fact that no comedian is as entertaining as some musicians canbe when they get together to tell their stories. In FACING THE MUSIC, AnIrreverent Close-Up of the Real Concert World, Henry Temianka, violinist andconductor, has recorded some of his own experiences together with some of hiscolleagues'. If once in a while one finds an old friend among the stories, this isquite agreeable too, but many of them will be new to most readers who will find itdifficult to put down the light and delightful 272-page book. Many of the world'sleading musicians appear in more or less irreverent poses (in word and in photo-graphs, too), but the book is written with warm humor, and you laugh with themand not at them. Published by David McKay Company Inc., it offers a fewpleasant hours for $6.95.

THE CASTRATO by TV, film and radio script writer Lawrence Louis Goldmanis a novel, supposedly based upon the life of the most famous castrato, Farinelli.The author's limited familiarity with the operatic subject and his superficialtreatment of the musical and social history turn this book into yet another sexnovel rather than a serious study of a fascinating historical topic. $7.95 is theprice of the 264-page book.

THE THEATRE IN ASIA by A.C. Scott represents a most perceptive studyof the old and the new in theater in India, China, Japan and the Islamic World.The author, presently director of theater studies at the University of Wisconsin, hasspent fifteen years in Asia and imparts his knowledge in an easily accessible andreadable style. The 289-page book, published by MacMillan Publishing Co., shouldbe of interest to anyone in the theater. Its price is $8.95.

Technical and Reference Books

Two theater craft books have recently been published, each paying tribute to amaster in his field. THE MAGIC OF LIGHT, published by Little, Brown and Co.in collaboration with Theatre Arts Books, is devoted to The Craft and Career of JeanRosenthal, Pioneer in Lighting of the Modern Stage. In its beautiful execution andinformative professionalism, it is a worthy monument to one of the greatest con-tributors to modern stagecraft. The copiously illustrated 256-page book sells for$15. — The other volume is THE SCENOGRAPHY OF JOSEF SVOBODA, andagain the man to whom it is devoted needs no further introduction to operapeople. Although the Czech designer made his American debut only this Fall,when he designed Carmen for the Metropolitan Opera, his name is firmly estab-lished in European opera houses. Format, layout, and the innumerable illustrationsas well as the extremely informative text are in keeping with the high standardsassociated with the artist himself. The 200-page, $25 book, conceived and writtenby Svoboda's compatriot Jarka Burian, has been published by the WesleyanUniversity Press in Middletown, Conn.

Appleton-Century-Crofts recently published three excellent guides for the theater.All three books offer lucid texts further enhanced by sketches, schematic drawingsand photographs. In its 456 pages, STAGE MAKEUP by Richard Corson includes,in addition to detailed basic information with illustrations, also such informationas wig-making, properties of the various materials to be used for facial masks,extensive color charts, and guides for authentic period hairstyles. Its price is $9.45.— Samuel Selden and Tom Rezzuto are responsible for ESSENTIALS OF STAGESCENERY, a 263-page guide which leads the novice from the original concept ofscenic design through actual design, building, painting and installation and movingof stage sets. Again, photographs and diagrams assist in the comprehension of thetext. The book is available for $10.95. — The third in this series is ESSENTIALSOF STAGE LIGHTING by Hunton D. Sellman. In 214 pages the principals ofstage lighting are discussed, equipment and its uses explained, and manufacturerslisted. Drawings illustrate the function and possible combinations of various lightingdevices, and photographs show the final results. This guide shows effects achievedby simple systems as well as by sophisticated modern electronic means. The bookis priced at $9.95.

The CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF OPERA, edited by Harold Rosen-thai and John Warrack and first published in 1964, has now been reprinted in a

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paperback edition. With over 3000 entries, it is a most welcome addition to inex-pensive yet first class reference books; its price, $3.50.The title of AMERICAN OPERA LIBRETTOS, a book by Andrew Drummondpublished by Scarecrow Press, Inc., is rather misleading, since it is limited tothose American operas premiered by the New York City Opera between 1948and 1971. There is a synopsis of each story, excerpts from reviews, and the author'spersonal evaluation of these forty works. Unfortunately, the introductory chapterswhich deal with the development of theater and drama fail to make the distinctionbetween writing for the theater and writing for opera — the major problem facingan opera librettist. The list of operas studied is buried in the middle of the book, andstrangely enough does not mention the librettists at all (no list of librettists andtheir works can be found). The 277-page book is available for $7.50.Billboard Publications has issued a revised and enlarged edition of THIS BUSI-NESS OF MUSIC by Sidney Shemel and M. William Krasilovsky, available for$15. This comprehensive 575-page directory seems to have all the answers toquestions on copyright laws here and abroad, contracts with publishers, unions, etc.Charts and sample forms for applications, contracts, et al., are part of the in-structive text.The Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin in Madisonpublished ADMINISTRATION IN THE ARTS: An Annotated Bibliography ofSelected References, compiled by Professor Arthur Prieve and Ira W. Allen.Listing books and articles on arts management published between 1958 and 1972,the 117-page bibliography may be ordered from the Center for $5.The first ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC IN CANADA will be completed in 1976with the help of a grant from the Floyd Chalmers Foundation. It will be publishedsimultaneously in English and French, with Kenneth Winters, Toronto, in chargeof the English edition, and Gilles Potvin, Montreal, in charge of the French. HelmutKallman in Ottawa is the research editor for both editions.An Italian language GUIDA ALL'OPERA, edited by Giocchino Lanza Tomasi,has been published by Mondadori. The two-volume, 900-page guide carries mono-graphs on 89 popular operas. It will sell here for about $25.

ReprintsVienna House Inc., book publishers in New York, have undertaken to reprint a numberof extremely interesting and valuable out-of-print music books in English. Bound inattractive heavy linen with gold lettering and using a high-quality paper, the series con-centrates on collections of letters. The following titles have been included:HANS VON BULOW, The Early Correspondence (1841-55), edited by his widow, trans-

lated into English by Constance Bache; first published 1896; 266 p.; $8.50.CLARA SCHUMANN, An Artist's Life from Diaries and Letters, by Berthold Litzmann,

translated by Grace E. Hadow; first published 1913; 2 volumes, illustrated; 938 p.;$25.

CLARA SCHUMANN, JOHANNES BRAHMS, Letters (1853-96), edited by BertholdLitzmann; first published 1927; 2 volumes; 609 p.; $18.

RICHARD WAGNER, Letters to His Dresden Friends (1841-68), translated by J. S.Shedlock; first published 1890; 512 p.; $12.50.

RICHARD WAGNER, Family Letters (1832-74), translated by William Ashton Ellis;first published 1911; 307 p.; $9.50.

RICHARD WAGNER, Letters to Mathilde Wesendonck (1852-70), translated by WilliamAshton Ellis; first published 1905; 386 p.; $12.

RICHARD WAGNER, The Bayreuth Letters (1871-82), translated by Caroline V. Kerr;first published 1912; 364 p.; $10.50.

RICHARD WAGNER, Letters to Minna Wagner (1842-63), translated by WilliamAshton Ellis; first published 1909; 2 volumes, 872 p.; $23.

FREDERIC CHOPIN, Collected Letters (1816-49), collected by Henryk Opienski, trans-lated by E. L. Voynich; first published 1931; 420 p.; $12.

Another recent reprint is CHERUBINI, Memorials Illustrative of his Life and Work byEdward Bellasis. Part of the Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series, the 356-page "newedition of 1912" contains illustrations and ample musical examples. It is priced at $15.

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NEW COS MEMBERSArkansas, University of, Miss Blanche Thebom, Little Rock, Ark.Armstrong, Neil, Banff, Alberta, CanadaArtists Internationale, M. Ruffino, Art. Dir., Providence, R.I.Berkshire Pro Musica, E. Levenson, Dir., Becket, MassachusettsBishop, Adelaide, Bethesda, MarylandBoudreaux, Barbara, Sacramento, CaliforniaBreeskin, Barnett, Miami Beach, FloridaBryan College Library, Dayton, TennesseeByers, Montgomery, New York, N.Y.Campbell, Beverly, Yuma, ArizonaCrawford, Dawn, Houston, TexasCrawford, Mrs. Jean, Colorado Opera Festival, Colorado Springs, ColoradoDana School of Music, Opera Workshop, D. Vogel, Dir., Youngstown, OhioDavis, Ronald, New York, New YorkDilworth, Helen, Sacramento, CaliforniaDiMassa, Denise, Orange, ConnecticutEliasen, Mikael, New York, New YorkEngelberg, Sebastian, Bergenfield, New JerseyFessler, Paul K., New York, New YorkGarrett, Penny, Monroe, LouisianaGinn, Sophie, Berea, OhioHayes, Marvin, Malibu, CaliforniaHenry, Robert, Prairie View, TexasHepner, Dr. Lee, Hamilton, OntarioHess, Benton, Dorchester, MassachusettsHeymann, Margaret, Long Island City, New YorkImmaculate Heart College, School of Music, Theresa DiRocco, I.H.M., Los Angeles,

CaliforniaIsham, Bernice, Coalinga, CaliforniaJackson, Mary Tyler, Chicago, IllinoisLewando, Olga, New York, New YorkLewando, Ralph, New York, New YorkLiden, Irene E., San Antonio, TexasMacWilliams, Robert, Boston, MassachusettsMcCressen, Mrs. H. j . , Texarkana, TexasMesler, Raymond C , Tampa, FloridaMid-Hudson Opera Theatre, Barbara Arico, Pres., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.Millikin Opera Theater, R. Collins, Dir., School of Music, Millikin University,

Decatur, IllinoisMohawk College, Patricia Hepner, Hamilton, OntarioMorton, Ruth, Hanover, New HampshireOrchard Foundation, Robert H. Orchard, Pres., St. Louis, MissouriPage, Willis, Jacksonville, FloridaPennsylvania, University of, Library, Philadelphia, Pa.Peress, Maurice, Corpus Christi, TexasPitman, Robert G., Milwaukee, WisconsinSarah Lawrence College, Library, Bronxville, New YorkSeattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society, G. Gutteridge, Art. Dir., WashingtonSommers, Chet, Willmar, MinnesotaSouthwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TexasSunter, Robert, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, OntarioToledo, University of, Lyric Opera, T. East, Dir., Toledo, OhioWarenskjold, Dorothy, Sherman Oaks, CaliforniaWest Virginia Opera Theater, D. Riggio, Mus. Dir., Montgomery, W. Va.Whallon, Evan, Columbus, Ohio

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE NATIONAL CONFERENCE

NEW YORK CITY OCTOBER 14-16, 1973

ACROSS THE OPERA BOARD

For the first time: a joint meeting of opera board membersand general managers and artistic directors.

Oct. 14 pm Registration (at Hotel)

Private Reception (Special Invitation)

Oct. 14 mat Ariadne auf Naxos (N.Y. City Opera)

Oct. 14 eve La Boheme (N.Y. City Opera)

Oct. 15 am WelcomeThe Where And How Of Support

Corporate, Foundation, GovernmentLuncheon, Guest Speaker

Oct. IS pm The Board MeetsBoard and Management Representatives, with Experts in LegalMatters, Labor Relations, Accounting, Artistic Matters

Oct. 15 eve // Trovatore (Metropolitan Opera)(no pf., N.Y. City Opera)

Oct. 16 am Community Programs — Community InvolvementOpera Programs Across the Country, in the Streets, in Schools,in Parks, Audience Development

Luncheon, Guest Speaker

Oct. 16 pm DemonstrationNew Ideas, New Techniques

Oct. 16 eve Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera)Ariadne auf Naxos (N.Y. City Opera)

Already a number of distinguished and exciting speakers have accepted.

Detailed programs with names will be available in the Fall.

Conference headquarters: The New York Sheraton Hotel, 7th Ave-56 St.Special hotel reservation cards will be mailed upon receipt of registration.

Invitation to October 14 reception will be mailed to registrants in September.

Registration fee . . . $10 Luncheon 10/15 . . . $8.50 Luncheon 10/16 . . . $8.50(When registering please give title and affiliation)

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IN 1972-73 OPERA LOST...Impresario GIORGIO D'ANDRIA Italian/American, 72 years old, in New York 7/5/72.He was director of the National Opera Co. and arranged numerous festivals in Centraland South America. He was also manager for various singers here and in Italy.

Tenor FERNAND ANSSEAU Belgian, 82 years old, in Brussels May '72. He made hisoperatic debut in Belgium in 1913 and sang at Covent Garden in the Twenties. 1923-28he was heard in Chicago and San Francisco. He retired from active singing in 1939 andtaught at the Brussels Conservatory.Conductor and educator EMANUEL BALABAN American, 78 years old, in New York4/18/73. He started his career as accompanist to Mischa Ellman, Efrem Zimbalist andErica Morini, conducted at the Dresden Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic and New YorkPhilharmonic among others. From 1929 to 1944 he was Director of Opera at the East-man School of Music; 1953-56 he was on the faculty of the Berkshire Music Center;and in 1947 he joined the Juilliard School where he taught until this year.

Painter and set designer EUGENE BERMAN Russian/American, 73 years old, in Rome,Italy 12/14/72. He studied in Paris and came to the U.S. in 1935. His first design for theMetropolitan Opera was for Menotti's The Island God in 1942, and between 1951 and1957 he designed sets and costumes for Rigoletto, Forza del destino, The Barber ofSeville, Otello and Don Giovanni. In 1957 he moved to Rome. His paintings have beenshown in most art capitols of the world.Composer RENZO BIANCHI Italian, 84 years old, in Genoa, Italy 12/26/72. Amonghis compositions are four operas, Fausta, Ghismonda, Proserpina and Gli Incatenati,all performed in Italy. After 1950 he was a member of the artistic council of Milan'sLa Scala.Composer HAVERGAL BRIAN British, 96 years old, in Shoreham, England 11/28/72.Among his many compositions are five operas (unperformed). In 1971 England honoredhim as Composer of the Year.

Author and editor WALLACE BROCKWAY American, 67 years old, in New YorkHIS 172. Together with the late Herbert Weinstock, he was author of The World ofOpera, Men of Music, and The Opera, A History of Its Creation and Performance. Hewas co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians and also published researchbooks on other subjects.

Accompanist and composer LAWRENCE BROWN American, 79 years old, in NewYork 12/25/72. He was accompanist for Roland Hayes and played for him at a com-mand performance in London in 1921. From 1925 until 1963 he accompanied PaulRobeson. He also wrote songs and made arrangements of folk songs.

Composer JOHN BARNES CHANCE American, 39 years old, in Lexington, Ky.8/16/72. He was on the faculty of the University of Kentucky and had received a num-ber of awards for his compositions.

Composer and musicologist GIULIO CONFALONIERI Italian, 76 years old, in Flor-ence, Italy 6/29/72. He composed two operas of which one, Rosapina, was performedin Italy. He was also a music critic and made adaptations and orchestrations for someearly operas. In the 50's he was director of the vocal school at La Scala.

Tenor RICHARD CROOKS American, 72 years old, in Portola Valley, Cal. 9/30/72.World-renowned singer, both in opera and on the concert stage, he made his professionaldebut in 1922 in a concert performance as Siegfried under Walter Damrosch's baton,then went to Europe where he sang leading roles in Germany, Holland, Belgium andSweden. Upon his return to the United States, he joined the Metropolitan Opera, singingnine roles in some sixty performances from 1933 to 1943. For fourteen years he was afeatured singer on the Voice of Firestone radio program and was referred to as theAmerican John McCormack.

Opera patron and civic leader MRS. CHARLES (ALICE) DARLINGTON American,66 years old, in Mount Kisco, N.Y. 3/24/73. She was active in the Metropolitan OperaGuild for many years and in 1968 became its Managing Director for three years. Herhusband, a former executive of the Mobil Oil Corporation, was also Ambassador toGabon in Equatorial Africa, and with him she co-authored a book on their Africanexperiences. She was a founding member of the Society of Memorial Sloan-KetteringCancer Center, Chairman of its Social Service Committee, and President of the Board ofEducation of the Bedford Center School District.

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Conductor ROBERT DENZLER Swiss, 80 years old, in Zurich 8/25/72. He was MusicDirector of the Zurich Opera from 1934-1947, conducted opera in other theaters inSwitzerland and in Germany.

Baritone DONALD DICKSON American, in New York 9/21/72. He sang at the Metro-politan Opera in 1937 and 1938 and with opera companies in Washington, Philadelphiaand other cities. He was also a successful radio performer.

Tenor and impresario ARTURO DI FILIPI Italian/American, 78 years old, Miami6/27/72. He came to the United States in 1912 and sang concerts and opera in NewYork and Chicago. In 1941 he founded the Opera Guild of Greater Miami which givesannual performances with international stars. Under his directorship it became one ofthe major opera companies in the country, adding an educational program, and givingperformances in Ft. Lauderdale and in surrounding communities.

Impresario and promoter AURELIO FABIANI Italian/American, 78 years old, inPhiladelphia 4/26/73. In 1915 he joined the Chicago Civic Opera Orchestra as a violin-ist; later he turned wrestling promoter. In 1957 he founded the Philadelphia Lyric OperaCompany and became its General Manager. It offers six to ten productions annuallyalways featuring some of the most acclaimed opera stars. It is also among the majorAmerican opera companies.

Composer RUDOLF FRIML Czech/American, 92 years old, in Hollywood, Cal.11/12/72. He studied composition with Dvorak, came to the United States for the firsttime in 1901 as accompanist to Jan Kubelik, and settled here in 1906. He turned to com-posing and his specialty became the operetta. His most successful compositions includeThe Firefly, Vagabond King, Three Musketeers, and Rose-Marie. He wrote over thirtyoperettas.

Soprano YVONNE GALL French, 87 years old, in Paris, July 72. She made her debutat the Paris Opera in 1908 where she sang leading roles until 1935. She also sang atvarious opera houses throughout Europe, and in Chicago from 1918 to 1921.

Director and Metropolitan Opera General Manager GOERAN GENTELE Swedish,54 years old, in Sardinia 7/18/72. See Fall '72 Bulletin.

Stage director and impresario HERBERT GRAF Austrian/American, 70 years old, inGeneva, Switzerland 4/5/73. In 1934 he had his first American assignment as a stage directorin Philadelphia. In 1936 he began his association with the Metropolitan Opera which lasteduntil 1966 when he staged his last opera there. Meanwhile, he became head of the OperaDepartment at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1949 and remained there until his de-parture for Zurich to become General Manager of the Zurich Opera for two years. In1965 he assumed the same position in Geneva, remaining until last year. He was a gueststage director at many internationally famous opera houses and also wrote three bookson opera: The Opera and Its Future in America, Opera for the People, and ProducingOpera for America.

Composer and conductor MANFRED GURLITT German, 82 years old, in Tokyo, April'72. Among his compositions are four operas, Die Heilige, Nana, Soldaten and Wozzeck,all performed in Germany (see COS Foreign Contemporary Opera Directory). Hestudied with Humperdinck and Muck, was Director of the Bremen Opera 1914-27 andBerlin Radio 1927-33. In 1939 he settled in Japan, conducting symphony concerts andthe Fujiwara Opera where he introduced many major European operas. In 1953 heorganized the Gurlitt Opera Society.

Opera singer LADY GUTHRIE (Judith Bretherton) Irish, 67 years old, in Newbliss,County Monaghan, Ireland 7/25/72. She was the widow of Sir Tyrone Guthrie whom shehad married in 1961. She was a former opera singer and also the author of some plays.

Composer ALOIS HABA Czech, 79 years old, in Prague 11/21/72. Best known forintroducing quarter-tone and sixth-tone music, he also wrote an opera, Die Mutter, basedon that musical principal. It was premiered in Munich in 1931.

Founder/president of composer's copyright organization PAUL HEINECKE German/American, 87 years old, in Teaneck, N.J. 12/23/72. In 1931 he founded the Society ofEuropean Stage Authors and Composers (SESAC) safeguarding members' copyrights.The organization was later expanded to include some American composers and ar-rangers and is now estimated to control about 300,000 copyrights.

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Conductor JASCHA HORENSTEIN Russian/German/American, 74 years old, in London4/2/73. Born in Kiev, he studied in Germany with Busch and Schrecker. From 1929to 1933 he was Music Director of the Dusseldorf Opera. Guest engagements took himto Russia, Palestine, Australia, Scandinavia, Mexico and Venezuela. In 1941 he came tothe United States, and in 1943 he conducted the N.Y. Philharmonic at LewisohnStadium. His last U.S. performances were with the American Opera Society in 1964 andwith the American Symphony Orchestra in 1969. After the war he returned to Europe,conducting Wozzeck at the Paris Opera in 1950. His last performance was Parsifal atCovent Garden in March of this year.

Tenor DAVID HUGHES Welsh, 44 years old, in London 10/19/72. He started in thepopular field and made his operatic debut singing with the Scottish Opera in 1964. Thesame year he also sang in Glyndebourne. In 1968 he became a member of Sadler's Wells.

Choral conductor WILLIAM JONSON American, 51 years old, in New York 11/21/72.He began as assistant to Robert Shaw for the Collegiate Chorale, which he also con-ducted on occasion. He later founded his own choral group, the Choral Arts Society.In 1952 he conducted Four Saints in Three Acts on Broadway and in Paris, and from1953-56 was one of the conductors of the international touring company of Porgy andBess. He also conducted it at the N.Y.C. Opera where he was on the musical staff from1958-65. The following year he was chorus master with the Metropolitan Opera NationalCompany on tour.

Music publisher Dr. ALFRED A. KALMUS Austrian/British, 83 years old, in London9/24/72. He was with Universal Edition, Vienna, from 1909 to 1922, then joined thePhilharmonia Edition of pocket scores. In 1936 he founded Universal Edition-Londonwhich became a part of Boosey and Hawkes during the war. He re-opened UE-Londonin 1949, and among young British composers, he represented R. R. Bennett and H.Birtwistle.

Conductor ISTVAN KERTESZ Hungarian/German, 43 years old, off the coast ofHerzlia, Israel, due to accidental drowning 4/17/73. He was among the most giftedyoung conductors of our time and had established an international reputation before hewas 30 years old. He was a serious contender for the position of Music Director of theN.Y. Philharmonic to succeed Bernstein and for the Cleveland Orchestra to succeedSzell. When he was 25 years old, he became conductor of the Budapest State Opera. Twoyears later he moved to Germany where his talent was immediately recognized, and hebegan major engagements with the leading opera houses. In 1967 he conducted his 500thopera performance and the following year his 500th concert. In the U.S. he was MusicDirector of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and appeared frequently as guest conductorin New York and other American music centers.

Conductor/composer PAUL KLETZKI Polish/Swiss, 72 years old, in Liverpool 3/6/73.After conducting concerts and opera throughout Europe (on Toscanini's invitation atLa Scala in 1946), he was appointed Music Director of the Dallas Symphony in 1958.He remained there until 1961 and 1967-70 was head of the Orchestre Suisse Romande.He guest-conducted many leading U.S. orchestras, appeared regularly with the IsraelPhilharmonic and was in rehearsal with the Liverpool Philharmonic when he was stricken.

Composer and educator RENE LEIBOWITZ Polish/French, 59 years old, in Paris8/ 28/12. In the Forties, he lectured on composition, and among his students were com-posers Henze and Boulez. He also wrote a book entitled Schoenberg and His School.

Musicologist and librettist JAN LOWENBACH Czech/American, 92 years old, in GlensFalls, N.Y. 8/13/72. He had been active in the establishment of the Czechoslovak copy-right law and the Performing Rights Society in Prague. He was an editor of a Praguemusic review and an organizer of the Society of Contemporary Music. He lived in NewYork from 1941 to 1946 when he was Cultural Advisor to the Czech InformationService. After two years as chief of the Music Department of the Czechoslovak Ministryof Arts and Education, he returned to the U.S. in 1948. He also wrote two opera libretti,The Gentleman in White (Kricka), and The Soldier and the Dancer (Martinu).

Conductor and composer SIR ERNEST MACMILLAN Canadian, 79 years old, inToronto 5/6/73. He was conductor of the Toronto Symphony from 1931 to 1956 andDean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto from 1927 to 1952. Hewas Chairman of the Canadian Music Council and President of CAPA. His manyactivities for the advancement of music in Canada earned him the title Statesman ofCanadian Music. In 1935 he was knighted by King George V.

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Contralto JEAN MADEIRA American, 53 years old, in Providence, R.I. 7/10/72. Sheoriginally studied piano and at the age of 12 played a Beethoven Piano Concerto withthe St. Louis Symphony. While attending Juilliard she changed to vocal studies, makingher debut in Chautauqua, N.Y., in 1943. In 1948 she joined the Metropolitan Opera,where she sang until her untimely death. She made her European debut in Stockholm in1954, later singing with triumphal success in Vienna and London. She was also heard inMunich, Bayreuth, Milan, Paris, Brussels, Salzburg and Buenos Aires.

Conductor FRITZ MAHLER Austrian/American, 72 years old, in Winston-Salem, N.C.6/18/73. He studied conducting under Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, beginning hiscareer as an assistant conductor of the Vienna Volksoper. After leading orchestras inGermany and Denmark, he came to the U.S. in 1936 where he conducted both concertsand opera. For 11 years he was director of the Opera Department of the JuilliardSummer School. From 1947 to 1953 he was Music Director of the Erie PhilharmonicOrchestra and from 1953 to 1964 conducted the Hartford Symphony.

Manager MARVIN MCDONALD American, 78 years old, in Atlanta 4/27/73. He wasone of the founders of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the All-Star Concert Serieswhich brought the Metropolitan Opera to Atlanta for the first time. He was also managerof the Atlanta Music Club from 1930 to 1961. 1951-52 he was President of the NationalAssociation of Concert Managers.

Tenor LAURITZ MELCHIOR Danish, 82 years old, in Santa Monica, Cal. 3/18/73.One of the giants of operatic history, a true Heldentenor, and one of the most reveredsingers of his time, he started as a baritone in 1913 and sang in that range for threeyears. In 1918 he changed to tenor roles, but his first big success did not come until1924 in London as Siegmund (Walkiire) under Bruno Walter. From there he went on toBayreuth and the international opera circuit. He sang his first performance at theMetropolitan Opera in February 1926 (Tannhauser) and continued with the companyuntil 1950, the year Rudolf Bing became general manager. He sang in over 1000 per-formances of Wagnerian operas all over the world.

Soprano MILO MILORADOVICH American, 71 years old, in New York 10/27/72. In1932 she won the Naumburg Music Foundation Award and made her debut in Liege,Belgium. Later she sang in opera performances in New York and appeared also as asoloist in orchestral concerts and as a recitalist.

Soprano RITA OTWAY (Mrs. Wilfred Seagram) British/American, 85 years old, inGreenwich, Conn. 10/25/72. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and beganher singing career with the D'Oyly Carte Company. In the Twenties she toured theU.S. with The Merry Widow and also appeared on the theater stage.

Composer and educator HALL OVERTON American, 52 years old, in New York11/24/72. Among his many compositions are three operas, The Enchanted Pear Tree,performed by the Juilliard Composers Forum in 1950, Pietro's Petard, a one-act workperformed by the After Dinner Opera, and his last opera, Huckleberry Finn, premieredby the American Opera Center at the Juilliard School in 1971. In 1960 he joined thefaculty of Juilliard where he taught until last year.Painter and set designer EMIL PREETORIUS German, 89 years old, in Munich 1/27/73.In 1921 he designed his first set for the operatic stage (Iphigenie in Tauris) in Munichunder Bruno Walter. After this he designed for the opera houses in Berlin and Dresden,and from 1932 to 1941 was scenic director at Bayreuth. After 1945 he was Presidentof the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.Tenor SERGEI HADAMSKY Polish, 80 years old, in London 1/28/73. In the UnitedStates he sang with the Manhattan Traveling Company and, in 1931, with the PhiladelphiaGrand Opera under Stokowski. In later years he taught in London.

Tenor HELGE ROSWAENGE Danish, 75 years old, in Munich 6/19/72. A majoropera and Lieder singer in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, he sang in Berlin from1926-49, Vienna 1936-49, Salzburg 1933-39, and also in Bayreuth. Because of his Naziaffiliation, he did not sing in the United States until 1967, when he gave a Lieder recitalin New York.

Patron NONIE PHIPPS SCHIPPERS (Mrs. Thomas Schippers) American, 34 years old,in New York 1/6/73. She was a granddaughter of the late W. R. Grace, former Mayorof New York, and the late Henry Phipps, founder of the Grace shipping firm andpartner of Andrew Carnegie. In 1965 she married conductor Thomas Schippers. Asevere illness was responsible for her untimely death.

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Conductor HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT German, 73 years old, in Hamburg 5/28/73.Founder and Music Director of the famous Norddeutsche Rundfunk Orchester inHamburg, he was also in great demand as a guest conductor, both for opera andsymphony. In 1935 he became principal conductor of the Hamburg Opera, and between1942 and 1945, he directed the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. He toured twice in the UnitedStates leading his own NDR Orchestra.

Conductor ALEXANDER SMALLENS Russian/American, 83 years old, in Tucson, Ariz.11 / 24/72. Although he came to the United States when he was six months old, he didnot become a U.S. citizen until he was 29. His first professional engagement was withthe Boston Opera Co. from 1911 to 1914 and with its touring group from 1915-17. Forthree years he was associated with the Chicago Opera where he led the Americanpremiere of The Love for Three Oranges. From 1923-30 he was Music Director of thePhiladelphia Civic Opera and also guest conducted in Berlin, Madrid and Buenos Aires.He became the opera conductor for many of the country's leading symphony orchestras,conducting the world premiere of Four Saints in Three Acts in 1934, and Porgy andBess in 1935. He remained affiliated with the Gershwin opera in performances hereand abroad and estimated to have conducted more than 1000 performances of it,including a 1956 tour to the Soviet Union.

Music critic DONALD S. STEINFIRST American, 68 years old, in Pittsburgh 8/22/72.He had been the music critic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1938. From 1961-68he was Executive Director of the Three Rivers Arts Festival and also taught musiccriticism at Duquesne University.

Soprano MAXINE STELLMAN American, 66 years old, in Brattleboro, Vt. 6/25/72. In1937 she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions on the Air and joined the companywhere she sang compremario roles until 1950. She then became a voice teacher.

Soprano HELEN TRAUBEL American, 73 years old, in Santa Monica, Cal. 7/28/72.The great Wagnerian soprano made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1937 in thepremiere of Damrosch's Man Without a Country. In 1939 she sang her first Wagnerianrole (Sieglinde) at the Met and quickly became famous. In 134 performances in NewYork she sang all three Briinnhildes, Isolde, and other dramatic Wagnerian parts. Shealso sang at major opera houses in Europe and in Buenos Aires. Due to her love forlighter music, she accepted engagements in radio, film, and night clubs, and this led tothe termination of her Met contract in 1953. After her retirement she turned to teachingand, in addition to her private pupils, was affiliated with Indiana University.

Conductor and educator JAMES VANDSBURGER German/American, 79 years old,in Chicago 8/8/72. He conducted opera in Breslau, Saarbriicken and Berlin before com-ing to the United States in the Thirties. In 1935 and 1936, he conducted at the ChicagoOpera and later taught in Chicago.

Assistant conductor UMBERTO VEDOVELLI Italian, 60 years old, in New York11/15/72. He was a native of Naples where he also conducted at the San Carlo Opera.In 1963, after having been a member of Milan's La Scala for twelve years, he becamean assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera.

Soprano (and sometimes mezzo) THELMA VOTIPKA American, 74 years old, inNew York 10/24/72. She studied at Oberlin Conservatory and at 24 sang the Countessin Figaro with the American Opera Company. In 1935 she joined the MetropolitanOpera where she became one of the company's mainstays. She sang about forty support-ing roles in over 1000 performances until her retirement in 1961. She returned to thecompany briefly in the 1962-63 season to help out when a former colleague was ill.During the last years she taught voice in New York.

Actress and stage director MARGARET WEBSTER British, 67 years old, in London11/13/73. The world famous actress, member of the Old Vic Company, accepted herfirst assignment as stage director for an opera in 1950 when she undertook the stagingof Bing's opening production of Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Later she alsostaged Aida at the Met.

Baritone ROBERT WEEDE (Wiedefeld) American, 69 years old, in Walnut Creek,Cal. 7/9/72. In 1927 he won a Federation of Music Clubs singing contest which led tohis first professional engagement. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in1937 and sang his last performance there in 1948. He was also a member of the N.Y.C.Opera, the Chicago Lyric, and, for twenty years, the San Francisco Opera. In additionto his operatic assignments, he starred on Broadway in The Most Happy Fella andMilk and Honey.

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Conductor, composer and educator PAUL T. WHITE American, 77 years old, inRochester, N.Y. 5/31/73. Conductor of the Rochester Civic Orchestra and a facultymember at the Eastman School of Music until his retirement in 1965, he also guestconducted the Rochester Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the CincinnatiSymphony. In his youth he studied violin with Ysaye and conducting with Goosens.

Administrator WILLIAM T. WYLIE Canadian, in Ontario 4/22/73. He had beenGeneral Manager of the Stratford Festival since 1968, and a scholarship fund is beingestablished there in his memory.

Manager/impresario BRUNO ZIRATO Italian/American, 88 years old, in New York11/27/72. He was private secretary to Enrico Caruso from 1915 until the tenor's deathin 1921. From 1922 to 1928, he was Business Manager of the Musical Digest in NewYork, and it was during this period that he began to function as the personal managerof leading singers and conductors. He also represented major West Coast operacompanies as well as those in Milan and Buenos Aires. He later joined Columbia ArtistsManagement, becoming Vice President in 1936. He remained with CAMI until 1956when he was appointed Managing Director of the N.Y. Philharmonic, a position he helduntil his retirement three years later. He had been affiliated with the orchestra fromthe days of Toscanini in 1927, and in 1947 had become co-manager with Arthur Judson.

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1972-73 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.ARKANSAS

John Brown Univ., Opera Workshop, R. Isham, Chmn., Siloam Springs3/29, 31/73 Anna Bolena Eng.: Isham

CALIFORNIALos Angeles Valley College Opera Workshop, H. Fellin, Dir., Van Nuys12/15, 16/72 Amahl and the Night Visitors w.p.6/1, 2, 8, 9/73 Patience w.o.Palm Springs Opera Co., L. Pons, Pres., Palm Springs12/11/72 Die Fledermaus1-2/73 Hansel and Greie! in schools

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAAmerican University, Music Dept., Washington4/29/73 Hin und zuriick A.U. Singers5/1/73 Barab's A Game of Chance & Rorem's Dialogues & Barber's A Hand of

BridgeGEORGIA

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, F. Ratka, Gen. Mgr.10/12, 14, 15/72 The Marriage of Figaro11/16, 17, 19/72 Oedipus Rex Eng. e. e. cummings1/25, 27, 28/73 Porgy and BessAugusta Opera Co., I Strasfogel, Art. Dir., N. Gleason, Exec. Dir.2/23/73 Gallantry w.p. (see also Summer '72 Blltn.)

INDIANAFort Wayne Philharmonic Orch., T. Briccetti, Mus. Dir., Ft. Wayne4/2/73 Levy's Escorial & The MediumIndiana Univ. at South Bend, M. Esselstrom, Cond., South Bend10/72-4/73 Hansel and Gretel 21 pfs. at elementary schoolsIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis3/2/73 H.M.S. Pinafore cone. pf.4/19/73 Madame Butterfly cone. pf.

IOWASoutheastern Community College, T. Flatt, Dir., West Burlington4/5, 6, 7, 10/73 Play of Robin and Marion Eng. Van Grove6/7,8,9, 10/73 Musical

KENTUCKYLouisville Orchestra, J. Chester, Cond.2/2, 3/73 Balada's Maria Sabrina oratorio/opera

MARYLANDEastern Opera Theatre of the Baltimore Opera3/13-16/73 Rita Lee: Edwards, Hall; at Andover H.S., Linthicum; Patterson H.S.,

Baltimore; 5/15-18 8 pfs. at Parkvilie Sr. HS. (see Spring Blltn. for details)Washington College, Opera Workshop, Chestertown3/23/73 Clark's Westchester Limited prem.

MASSACHUSETTSBoston Symphony Orchestra, S. Ozawa, Mus. Adv., Boston4/6/73 Carmina burana Quinn; with balletNew England Chamber Opera Group, Inc., R. deAcha, Art. Dir., Newton

Centre4/6/73 Mavra & Busoni's Harlequin Eng., at Dartmouth College, N.H.; also Mavra

& Carmen scenes in Wayland, Mass.New England Conservatory Opera Theatre, G. Schuller, Pres., Boston5/14-17*, 19, 20, 22/73 The Rake's Progress *open rehearsal and preview pfs.

MICHIGANOpera Ass'n of Western Mich. & Grand Valley State College, Allendale3/30, 31 4/6, 8m/73 The Barber of Seville

MINNESOTANorthfield Arts Guild. Opera Workshop, B. McWilliams, Dir.4/26, 27/73 Riders to the Sea & Gianni Schicchi w.p.

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1972-73 SeasonNEW JERSEY

Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co., J. Edson, Bus. Mgr.(see Fall 72 Blltn.)

4/28 5/11, 12, 16, 18, 19 7/17/73 The Mikado at Franklin J.H.S. & on tourNEW YORK CITY

Bay Chamber Ensemble, Union Church of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn5/11/73 Williamson's The Happy Prince & Gordon Bush's The Hermit prem. Irving,

Smedley; ChildsBel Canto Opera, Madison Ave. Baptist Church, E. 31 St.4/7/73 A Night of Bel Canto Favorites5/ 13m, 19/73 Poulenc's Dialogues of the CarmelitesBlue Hill Troupe, Hunter College Playhouse4/18, 19, 20/73 lolantheBronx Opera Co. & Hunter Arts, M. Spierman, Cond., at Bronx H. S. of

Science4/27, 28/73 Don Giovanni Eng.; 5/11, 12/73 at Hunter CollegeBrooklyn College Opera Theater, Workshop, Little Recital Hall5/9m, 9/73 ScenesChurch of St. Margaret of Corona, Riverdale Ave., Bronx5/20m/73 Die Meistersinger scenesCommunity Opera, Inc., G. Mathew, Pres., at Donnell Library12/20/72 A Gift of Song w.p.2/26/73 Barthelson's The King's Breakfast prem. & The Mother w.p.4/1/73 Opera Excerpts, at Seamen's Church InstituteComposers' Showcase at Whitney Museum of American Art5/16/73 Silverman's A Midsummer Night's Dream & Oedipus the King narr.:

Burgess; cond.: GagnonContemporary Music Series, Musical Arts Studio, J. Gutman, Dir., N.Y.

Cultural Center4/25/73 excerpts Diary of One Who Vanished, Lord Byron, others; Wildes, Nelson;

Hirst, Howard; w.p.Eastern Opera Theater of N.Y., D. Westwood, Mng. Dir., at Pace College4/26, 27/73 The Marriage of Figaro Johnson; Geis; cond.: Pinto (see also Spring

73 Blltn.)Eugenio Maria DeHostos Intermediate School 318K, Children's Opera

Workshop4/8/73 The Second Hurricane at Carnegie Recital Hall, R. W. Jones, Dir.Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Steinway Hall, 111 W. 57 St.4/10/73 H.M.S. Pinafore, puppet versionGoldovsky Opera Theatre, 20th Anniversary tour, B. Goldovsky, Dir.Winter 72-73 RigolettoGoldovsky Opera Theatre and Institute (see Fall 72 Blltn.)Spring 73 Studio 95, Six Opera Programs at Nassau County Library, dir.: PopperHeights Chamber Music Society, First Presbyterian Church, B'klyn Heights5/30/73 Bastien and Bastienne cone. pf.Hunter College Opera Theater, Hunter College Playhouse, Park Ave.5/29, 30/73 Manon LescautInternational Diamond Jubilee Gala, at Metropolitan Opera House5/21/73 in honor of Sol Hurok; participating artists: Dame Margot Fonteyn,

R. Nureyev; Roberta Peters, Mary Costa, Shirley Verrett and othersInwood Chamber Opera Players, S. Edelman, Dir., w. L.I.U. Experimental

Theater4/12, 13/73 The Impresario6/3173 Opera excerpts on the Promenade, B'klyn HeightsLight Opera of Manhattan, W. Mount-Burke, Prod. Dir., Jan Hus Playhouse9/6-10 11/1-5/72 2/28-3/4, 28-30 4/1 5/23-27773 H.M.S. Pinafore*9/13-17 10/11-15 11/29-12/3/72 1/3-7 1/31-2/4/73 The Gondoliers9/20-24 10/18-22 12/13-17/72 1/10-14 2/7-11 3/14-18 4/11-15 5/2-6/73

The Mikado9/27-10/1, 25-29 11/15-19 12/6-10/72 Ruddigore10/4-8 11/8-12 12/27-31/72 1/24-28 3/21-25 4/25-29 5/16-20/73

The Pirates of Penzance11/22-26 12/20-24/72 1/17-21 2/14-18 3/7-11/73 lolanthe4/4-8, 18-22 5/9-13/73 Patience*

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1972-73 SeasonManhattan School of Music, John Brownlee Opera Theater (see Fail 72 Blltn.)5/12, 13m/73 // Tabarro & Gianni Schicchi cond.: A. CoppolaMannes College Opera Workshop, P. Bed, Dir.5/8/73 Opera Scenes by Mannes StudioMasterwork Chorus and Orchestra, D. Randolph, Cond., at Philharmonic Hall5/11/73 Carmina burana & Durufle's Requiem Darling, Steffan; Morrison, MetcalfMasterworks Laboratory Theater, Spencer Memorial Church, B'klyn Heights5/18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27/73 Mozart as Dramatist, scenesMusical Arts Studio, Trinity Church, Broadway & Wall St.5/1, 2m/73 Carl Weigl's miniature opera The Pied Piper6/6, 7/73 Bastien and BastienneN.J. Symphony Orchestra, H. Lewis, Mus. Dir., Newark/NYC3/73 Prince Igor Act II; Home; Krause; cone, pf.; 3/21 Carnegie Hall, N.Y.C.N.Y. Grand Opera Co., V. La Seiva, Riverside Plaza Hotel, Grand Ballroom5/23/73 La Boheme Kadvan, Telep; Theyard, Fiorito, Fleetwood, Dean, DiLeva

dir.: Florio; des.: BartoliniNew York Lyric Opera, Great Hall, Universalist Church, CPW & 76 St.5/17, 20m, 22, 24/73 Die FledermausOpera Laboratory, 92nd St. Y, Buttenweiser Hall6/3m, 3/73 ScenesOpera Workshop, J. LaPuma, Dir., Community Center Auditorium

(see Spring 73 Blltn.)3/21/73 LaFavorita3/28/73 Andrea Chenier4/11 5/10/73 Norma4/25/73 Don Carlo5/2/73 Aida5/9/73 Rigoletto5/17/73 La Forza del deslino51 IS 173 La Traviata5123173 L'Elisir d'amore6/6/73 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci; 6/9 at Damrosch Park, Lincoln CenterOrchestra da Camera, H. Grossman, Cond., Tully Hall3/22/73 The Old Maid and the Thief & Cherubini Requiem in C minor w. Opera da

Camera, Brentwood and Northport chorusesOrchestra of the City of N.Y., J. Zadikov, Mus. Dir., Noontime Interludes6/6, 7/73 Bastien et Bastienne Mahoney; Glaze, Hawkins, Musical Arts Studio,

J. Gutman, Dir.; cond.: Zadikov; dir.: Butler; 2 pfs. at Trinity Church, 2 pfs. atCommunity Church of N.Y. 6/7 WNYC-FM

Public Opera Theatre Co., at Clark Center2/1, 2/73 Murray's Marriage Proposal prem.; w.p.; Hurney; Grossman, HarrellSan Marino Opera Group, Community Center, 170 W. 89 St.5/20/73 AidaSecond Presbyterian Church, Harold Stover, Choirmaster4/16/73 Vaughan Williams' The Shepherds of the Delectable MountainsStuyvesant Community Opera, Monteverdi Rep. Singers, at Church of the

Covenant5/4, 12/73 Rigoletto cond.: Higginbotham; dir.: Sweeney6 /1 , 2, & 173 Iris7/13, 21/73 ToscaUptown Concert Series, McMillin Audit., Columbia University6/3m/73 Helios and Goodbyes & Hello Out ThereYa Chi Chinese Opera Club, Fashion Institute Theater4/21/73 Two Chinese OperasYoung Artists Opera, Y. Mauret, Dir., Community Center Audit., W. 89th St.10/29m/72 The Marriage of Figaro cond.: Booth12/3/72 La Boheme2/l lm, 25 4/1/73 Die Fledermaus4/29m/73 L'ltaliana in Algeri

OHIOCincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, U. of Cincinnati5/20m, 21, 22/73 Purcell's The Judgment of Paris, realiz.: C. MacClintock; cond.:

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1972-73 SeatonOhio State University, Opera Department, P. Hickfang, Dir., Columbus5/17, 19/73 Szokolay's Blood Wedding Am. prem.Wittenberg Univ., Opera Theater, M. Chang, Dir., Springfield5/11, 12, 13/73 The Consul

OREGONPortland State University Opera Workshop, J. Ellis, Portland3/5/73 Impresario Eng. Cardelli & Gallantry5/15, 24/73 Man in the Moon cone. pf.

PENNSYLVANIAAcademy of Vocal Arts & New School of Music5/11/73 // Cambiale di matrimonio Eng. Hammond; cond.: Bamberger; dir.: FruscaPhiladelphia Grand Opera, M. Leon, Gen. Dir., (see Fall 72 Blltn.)4/6/73 La Boheme Vermocchi, Friedrich-Donner; Molese, Wilder; cond.: MorescoPhiladelphia Lyric Opera, special concert pf. (see Summer 72 Blltn.)1/30/73 Die Zauberflote Farley, Shane; Hirst, Uppman, Macurdy; cond.: Ling TungPhiladelphia Musical Academy Opera Studies Program, T. Capobianco, Dir.12/9, 10/72 Opera Scenes w.p.2/11/73 Suor Angelica w.p.4/1, 4, 8, 11/73 Pasatieri's Calvary w.p.1972-73 L'ltaliana in Algeri

RHODE ISLANDArtists Internationale Opera Co., M. Ruffino, Art. Dir., Providence .3/17/73 Carmen Dunn; Khanzadian

TENNESSEEChattanooga Opera Ass'n, Opera Caravan3/5-9/73 La Serva padrona w. grant from Tenn. Arts Commission & Allied Arts

Fund of Greater ChattanoogaChattanooga Symphony Orch., R. Cormier, Mus. Dir.2/73 Amahl and the Night Visitors 3 pfs.Nashville Symphony, War Memorial Auditorium12/72 Amahl and the Night Visitors prod.: Indiana Univ.

TEXASHouston Grand Opera Spring Festival, D. Gockley, Gen. Dir., rev. schedule5/25, 27 6/1, 7/73 La Rondine5/26 6/8, 9/73 Hugh the Drover5/30, 31 6/2, 3/73 L'Histoire du soldat & Impresario (replacing The Good Soldier

Schweik)WASHINGTON

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, M. Katims, Mus. Dir., L. Deal, Gen. Mgr.3/12, 13/73 Bluebeard's Castle Eng. Kallman/Siki; Lane; Estes; cond.: Katims

WEST VIRGINIAWest Virginia Opera Theater, D. Riggio, Mus. Dir., Montgomery2/15 3/12/73 The Telephone2/25 3/9, 30/73 The Telephone & Pagliacci5/14-18/73 The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

WISCONSINUniv. of Wisconsin, Opera Workshop, Madison5/5, 7, 8*/73 Rigoletto Eng. Puhek; *rec. for rebroadcast State Broadcasting Service

CANADANational Arts Centre, The Charlottetown Festival, Ottawa, OntarioSI72-26/73 Michel Conte & Arthur Samuels' BalladeUniv. of Alberta, Opera Division, R. H. Wilson, Dir., Edmonton3/73 L'Incoronazionc di Poppea Leppard vers.

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, SUMMER 1973ALASKA

Alaska Festival of Music, R. Shaw, Art. Dir., Anchorage6/13-29/73 Festival Orchestra & Chorus, St. Paul Chamber Orch., International

Folk Dance Festival, chamber music, ballet, organARKANSAS

Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, I. Van Grove, Art. Dir., Eureka Springs6/17-8/27/73 Opera Workshop; cond.: Niles

CALIFORNIACabrillo Music Festival, C. Chavez, Mus. Dir., Aptos (8/17-26/73)Carmel Bach Festival, S. Salgo, Mus. Dir. (7/16-29/73)Claremont Music Festival, G. Bernstein, Mus. Dir., 6/25-8/4/737/25-29/73 American Music Week, incl. Salzman's Nude Paper SermonHollywood Bowl Summer Festival 73, E. Fleischmann, Exec. Dir.6/30-9/22/73 Concert series, Los Angeles Philharmonic in residence7/19/73 The Damnation of Faust7124173 Trouble in Tahiti7/28/73 Don Giovanni8/25/73 LaBoheme

Casts incl. Crespin, Lear, Lorengar, Norman, Ricciarelli, Sills; Flagello, Pavarotti,Stewart, Treigle; cond.: J. Levine

Mozart Festival Ass'n, Box 311, San Luis Obispo 8/2-5/73Music Academy of the West, M. Abravanel, Mus. Dir., Santa Barbara7/2-8/25/73 Master classes, recitals, concert series8/18, 20, 22/73 Romeo et JulietteMusic from Bear Valley, J. Gosling, Founder8/8-19/73 Cos) fan tutte Eng.; Stabile, Harris; Brown; concert series; Lollipop

concerts for childrenMusic at the Vineyards, S. Salgo, Mus. Dir., Paul Masson Vineyards, Saratoga6/30 7/1/73 Arias & Songs; Matsumoto; Harness, Yarnell; other concerts to 8/26/738/11, 12/73 Merola Opera Program performancesOjai Festival, M. Tilson Thomas, Mus. Dir.6/1-3/73 Glendale Symphony in residenceRedlands Bowl Summer Music Festival, Golden Anniversary (6/26-8/24/73)7/20/73 Carmen OSEM Opera Co., S. Petroff, prod.7/27/73 The Mikado prod.: Dr. E. C. Tritt8/3/73 tlansel and Gretel Pacific West Coast Opera Co.; special children's nightSan Francisco Symphony at Stern Grove (6/17-8/19/73)7/73 Opera pf. by S. F. Opera Co. with auditions winners

COLORADOAspen Music Festival & School, J. Mester, Mus. Dir. (6/25-8/26/73)7/22/73 Berlioz' Romeo et Juliette DeGaetani; McCollum, Paul; cond.: Mester7/26/73 Gianni Schicchi pf. by Central City Opera, Aspen Opera Orch. for opening

of 1973 Colorado Festival of the Arts & Humanities8/2/73 Opera Workshop production, H. W. Balk, Dir.Central City Opera House Association, E. McArthur, Art. Adm. (6/30-7/15/73)6/30 7/lm, 3, 5m, 6, 7m, 8m, 11, 13, 14/73 The Barber of Seville7/7, 10, 12, 14m, 15m/73 Falstaff7/26/73 Gianni Schicchi in AspenColorado Opera Festival, D. Jenkins, Mng. Dir., Colorado Springs6/28, 29/73 The Italian Girl in Algiers Starr; Beck, Beattie; cond.: Jenkins; dir.:

Hanya Holm7/12, 13/73 The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny cond.: Jenkins; dir.:

Beattie7/26, 27, 28m*/73 The Magic Flute Starr; Beattie, Beck; cond.: Jenkins; dir.: Beattie

•special children's pf.Univ. of Northern Colo., School of Music, H. Skinner, Dir., Greeley7/19, 20, 21/73 La Bohime8/2,3,4/73 Musical

CONNECTICUTYale Concerts in Norfolk, T. Nelson, Dean, Music Shed (6/29-8/5/73)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAWashington Civic Opera Ass'n, F. Fall, Dir., Washington5/30, 31/73 The Gypsy Baron & Rusalka Eng. Martin; excerpts6/29, 30/73 Tosca Eng. Gutman; cone. pf.

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Summer 1973FLORIDA

Pensacola Junior College Summer Opera, S. Kennedy, Dir.7/12, 13, 14/73 The Mikado

ILLINOISGrant Park Concerts, Chicago (6/23-8/26/73)6/30 7/1/73 Fioravanti's Cantatrici villane8/18, 19/73 Don Pasquale cone. pf.Mississippi River Festival, W. Susskind, Mus. Dir., Ed wards v Hie

(7/14-8/29/73)7/28/73 Madama Butterfly cone, pf., St. Louis SymphonyRavinia Festival, J. Levine, Mus. Dir., E. Gordon, Exec. Dir., Highland Park7/11, 14/73 Norma Sills, Troyanos; Alexander, Morris; cone. pf.8/17/73 Viennese Night; Peters; cond.: Bernet8/31 9/1, 2, 4-9, 11-16, 18-23/73 Berlin w Broadway with Kurt Weill Lenya

INDIANAIndiana University Opera Theater, School of Music, Bloom ington7/13, 14, 19, 20/73 Musical7/28 8/3, 4/73 The Tales of Hoffmann cond.: Vacano; dir.: Busch; des.:

RothlisbergerKENTUCKY

Univ. of Kentucky, Opera Workshop, P. Jenness, Dir., Lexington7/14, 15/73 Dido and Aeneas cone. pf.8/2, 3/73 The Apothecary & Comedy on the Bridge Eng. Kaye/Schmolka

MAINEBar Harbor Festival, F. Fortier, Art. Dir. (7/13-8/18/73)Ouisisana, R. deAcha, Mus. Dir., Center Lovell6/20-9/3/73 Cosl fan tutte; The Beautiful Galatea & Trouble in Tahiti

MARYLANDThe Harford Opera Theater, S. Lilienstein, Art Dir., Bel Air6/22, 23, 24, 29, 30 7/1, 6, 7, 8/73 The Tales of Hoffmann7/13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22/73 The Turn of the Screw7/27, 28, 29 8/3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12/73 Rigoletto8/17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26/73 The Mother of Us All8/31 9/2, 7, 9/73 The Flying Dutchman (at alternate theater) w.o.Drucker, Gerber, Lee; Lambrinos, Lankston, Riley; cond.: Lilienstein; dirs.: Kondek,

Thornhill, D. BambergerMASSACHUSETTS

Baroque Music at Aston Magna, A. Fuller, Art. Dir., Great Barrington6/9, 10m, 16, 17m, 23, 24m/73 chamber concerts6/23, 24m/73 Rameau's Castor ct Pollux excerpts w. Baroque Dance Ensemble,

S. Wynne, Dir.Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, S. Ozawa & G. Schuller, Art. Dirs., Lenox7/6-8/26/73 Boston Symphony Orchestra in residence; conds.: Ozawa, Ormandy,

Steinberg, Thomas, Davis, Foster, Fiedler, dePriest, deBurgos, MutiBoston Summer Opera Theatre, Inc., R. Butler, Mgr., pfg. at Peabody School7/27, 28 8/2, 3, 4/73 Der Freischiitz Eng.Lenox Arts Center, Austin & Smith, Co-Dirs., Lenox7/3-8/26/73 New music-theater productions, concertsMusic Theatre Project, Ian Strasfogel, Dir., Berkshire Festival, Tanglewood8/2, 5, 6/73 Maderna's Satyricon Am. prem. & Wolfgdngerl devised by Strasfogel,

trans. Motta & Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad KingUniv. of Massachusetts, Opera Workshop, B. Goldovsky, Dir.,

North Dartmouth7-8/73 2-week opera workshop

MICHIGANAnn Arbor May Festival, E. Ormandy, Mus. Dir., Ann Arbor5/2-5/73 Philadelphia Orchestra; University Choral Union, T. Johnson, Cond.Meadow Brook Music Festival, W. W. Kent, Mng. Dir., Rochester7/14-8/29/73 Detroit Symphony in residence; conds.: Ehrling, Previn, Ceccato,

Iwaki, FiedlerNational Music Camp, A. Addison, Dir., Interlochen (7/24-8/20/73)Univ. of Mich., School of Music, Opera, J. Blatt, R. Herbert, Dirs., Ann Arbor8/16, 17, 18, 19/73 The Secret Marriage Eng. Witherspoon (see Spring 73 Blltn.)

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MINNESOTA Summer 1973St Paul Opera Ass'n, G. Schaefer, Gen. Mgr., I. Buketoff, Mus. Dir.,

40th Anniversary Season6/20, 22, 28, 30/73 The Crucible Williams, Rogers; Ludgin, Brock; dir.: A. Bishop6/21, 23 7/11, 13/73 La Boheme Haywood; Khanzadian, Edwards; cond.: Hess;

dir.: Kuyber6/27, 29 7/12, 14/73 A Village Romeo and Juliet Peil; Johnson, Titus7/18, 20, 26, 28/73 Die Walkure Eng. Porter; Crader, Williams; McCray, Shinall;

cond.: McArthurSummer Music Center, D. R. Davies, Dir., Bemidji State College

_ 7/29-8/20/73 St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in residenceMISSOURI

Northeast Missouri State Univ., Div. of Fine Arts, D. Jorgenson, Head7/3, 5/73 H.M.S. Pinafore

NEW HAMPSHIREConcerts at Dartmouth College, Hanover (7/10-8/21/73)New Hampshire Music Festival, Center Harbor (7/8-8/18/73)New Music In New Hampshire Festival, Chocorua, Stafford's-in-the-Field

(7/3-8/73)White Mountains Art & Music Festival, Franconia College, Franconia7/16-8/19/73 also at Waumbek Inn, Jefferson

NEW JERSEYGarden State Arts Center, Telegraph Hill Park6/3-9/23/73 N.J. Symphony in residence; ballet; pop concerts; opera, see belowOpera Theatre of N.J., A. Silipigni, Art. Dir., at Garden State Arts Center7/3/73 The Merry Widow Costa; Campora, Castel; dir.: Lucas7/4/73 La Boheme Albanese, DiGiglio; Tucker, Fredricks; dir.: Lucas

NEW MEXICOSanta Fe Opera, J. Crosby, Gen. Dir., Santa Fe (7/6-8/25/73)7/6, 11, 14, 28 8/14/73 La Boheme* Bruno, Shane; Burrows, Ellis; cond.: Crosby;

dir.: Ulfung7/7, 13, 21, 25 8/11/73 The Marriage of Figaro Vanni, Malfitano, Forst; Devlin,

Malas/Gramm7/18, 20 8/1, 10, 16, 25/73 The Merry Widow* Wilson; Burrows, Malas; cond.:

Crosby; dir.: Hebert; in Germ. w. Eng. dialogue7/27 8/4, 15, 23/73 Der fliegende Hollander Dooley, Malas; cond.: Segal8/3, 8, 18, 24/73 Le Rossignol & L'Enfant et les sortileges Shane, Bruno, Forst;

Devlin; dir.: Hebert8/9, 17, 22/73 Britten's Owen Wingrave* Am. prem.; Kraft, Steber, Vanni; Titus,

Driscoll, Gramm; cond.: Nelson; dir.: GrahamNEW YORK

Caramoor Festival, J. Rudel, Mus. Dir., Katonah (6/23-8/26/73)7/7, 13/73 Cherubini's Medea Niska, Bible, French; Cassilly, Gill; cond.: Rudel;

dir.: Corsaro; des.: Evans7/20, 21/73 da Gagliano's La Dafne prod. N.Y. Pro Musica Antiqua, G. Houle,

Mus. Dir., Am. prem.; dir.: Woodman; chor.: Hilton; des.: LoquastoChautauqua 7 3 , 1 . Treash, Gen. Dir., Opera, Chautauqua (6/28-8/26/73)7/6, 9/73 Carmen Simon, Lovett; di Virgilio, Griffin7/13, 16/73 The Rape of Lucretia Piland, Bogart; Holgate, Stephens, Ahlstedt7/20, 23/73 Falstaft Fleck; Samuelsen, Griffin, Ahlstedt7/27, 30/73 Weill's Street Scene Thomson; Price, Fleck8/3, 4m, 6/73 Madame Butterfly Lovett, Piland; diVirgilio, Griffin8/10, 13/73 L'Heure espagnole & Angelique Blum, Silvers; Griesinger, Bias8/17, 20/73 Die Walkure Crader, Meier, Walters; Booth, McCray, White. All pfs.

in EnglishLake George Opera Festival, D. Lloyd, Gen. Dir., Glens Falls7/18, 21, 27 8/4m, 14, 18/73 Tosca Eng.; Di Giglio; Beni, Burchinal, di Virgilio,

Guarrera, Hedlund, Reese7/22, 29 8/5, 12, 19/73 Opera on the Lake7/26, 28 8/3, 8, 11, 16/73 The Barber of Seville Treadway-Carroll; Beni, Burchinal,

Davis, Guarrera, Nolen, Price; also at Lake Placid Center for Music, Drama & Art8/2, 4, 10, 15, 18m/73 Rigoletto Eng.; Gerber, Treadway-Carroll, Wilcox; Burchinal,

Davis, Hedlund, Johns8/9, l lm, 13, 17/73 The Crucible Gerber, Malfitano, Treadway-Carroll, Wilcox,

Williams; Burchinal, Davis, Lloyd, Price, Reese33

Summer 1973Long Island Opera Showcase, Inc., B. Hart, Dir., Franklin Square5/23/73 Opera Cameos at Roosevelt Field Mall7/4/73 La Boheme at Syosset-Woodbury Community Park7/7/73 The Tales of Hoffmann at Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Long Beach7/11 8/18/73 Rigoletto at Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Long Beach9/1/73 La Traviata at Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Long Beach"Opera Under the Stars", R. Murray, Assoc. Prod., Rochester6/29, 30/73 Vaughan Williams' The Poisoned Kiss7/27, 28/73 The Saint of Bleecker StreetSaratoga Springs Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs7/15-9/2/73 Philadelphia Orchestra, N.Y.C. Ballet, N.Y.C. Acting Co. in residence8/30, 31 9/1, 2/73 American Song Festival

NEW YORK CITYCarnegie Hall Corp. and City of New York, Carnegie Hall6/11-22/73 "Salute to Puerto Rico" 6/19, 21, 22 pfs. by Festival Casals7/9/73 Treemonisha NY prem., New Jersey Symphony Orch., cond.: LewisLight Opera of Manhattan, W. Mount-Burke, Prod. Dir., Summer Festival5/30-6/3, 20-24 7/11-15 8/8-12, 29-9/2/73 H.M.S. Pinafore6/6-10 8/1-5/73 The Pirates of Penzance6/13-17 7/4-8/73 Patience6/27-7/1, 25-29 8/23-26/73 The Mikado7/18-22 8/15-19/73 The GondoliersMetropolitan Opera Ass'n, S. Chapin, Gen. Mgr., in NYC parks6/26, 29 7/4, 7/73 Die Fledermaus Sheep Meadow, Manhattan; Prospect Park,

Brooklyn; Botanical Gardens, Bronx; Cunningham Park, Queens6/27, 30 7/3, 6/73 Tosca Staten Island; Crocheron Park, Queens; Sheep Meadow,

Manhattan; Van Cortland Park, BronxMostly Mozart Festival, VV. Lockwood, Prog. Dir., Philharmonic Hall

(7/30-8/26/73)8/7/73 Handel's Acis and Galatea N.Y. Chamber SoloistsNaumburg Symphony Orchestra, Central Park Mall5/28 7/4, 31 9/3/73 Free concerts in the ParkNew York Philharmonic Rug Concerts, P. Boulez, Mus. Dir., Lincoln Center6/13/73 Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children de Gaetani6/17/73 L'lncontro improviso excerpts & Renard Best, Johnson, Michalski, ShiesleyOpera Company of Nassau, V. La SeJva, Art. Dir., at Eisenhower Park7/7/73 Madama Butterfly all pfs. at Lakeside Theatre7/21/73 La Boheme8/12/73 The Barber of Seville8/25/73 TurandotStuyvesant Community Opera, Monteverdi Rep. Singers, at Church of the

Covenant7/13, 21/73 Tosca 8/10, 17/73 La Boheme

NORTH CAROLINABrevard Music Center, H. Janiec, Dir., w. Converse College, Spartanburg7/6-8/19/73 La Forza del destino, The Tales of Hoffmann, Carmen, The Merry

Widow, Trial by Jury, MusicalEastern Music Festival, S. Morgenstern, Mus. Dir., Greensboro6/23-8/4/73 Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra in residenceNorth Carolina Summer Festival, Winston-Salem (6/27-8/4/73)7-8/73 The Merry Widow, 3 Musicals, at NC School of the Arts

OHIOBlossom Music Festival, L. Maazel, Mus. Dir., Cuyahoga Falls6/20-9/3/73 Cleveland Orchestra in residence; National Ballet, Pops ConcertsCincinnati Summer Opera, J. de Blasis, Gen. Dir., Music Hall (6/30-7/28/73)6/30 7/3/73 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng.; Cook, Grillo, Russell; Alexander, Treigle,

Schmorr7/6/73 Hansel and Gretel* Eng.; Shelle, Marsee, Love; Schmorr, McDevitt7/7/73 Concert: Tebaldi, Corelli7/11, 14/73 Aida* Arroyo, C. Smith; King, Quilico, Booth7/13, 15/73 Rigoletto* Peters, Godfrey; Riepel, Manuguerra7/18, 21/73 La Rondine Neblett, Cutsforth; Livings, Drake7/25, 28/73 The Daughter of the Regiment Eng.; Sills, Bonazzi; Kolk, Foldi; des.:

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PENNSYLVANIA Summer 1973Ephrata Cloisters, Ephrata6/30-9/1/73 Vorspielder neuen Welt musical dramaThe Opera Workshop, Inc., Pennsylvania Opera Festival, R. Flusser, Gen.

Mgr., Pittsburgh7/28-8/25/73 summer workshop, Skitch Henderson, Mus. Dir.Robin Hood Dell Concerts, Philadelphia Orch., E. Ormandy, Mus. Dir.

(6/18-7/26/73)6/18/73 Rigoletto Pelers; Pavarotti, Quilico, Morris; cond.: Levine6/28/73 Countess Maritza Niska, Creed; Reardon, Velis; cond.: AllersTemple Univ. Music Festival & Institute, H. Wedeen, D. Kanter, Dirs., Ambler6129-8112173 6-week opera workshop, 7/31 8/2/73 The Spanish Hour & The Scarf7/11, 13/73 Madama Butterfly Kirsten6/29 7/4, 12, 21, 26 8/4/73 Concerts: Sills; Allen; Tebaldi & Corelli; Brahms

Requiem; Haydn Creation; Home; Pittsburgh Sym.RHODE ISLAND

Newport Music Festival, G. Sauls, Mus. Dir., Newport (7/25-8/5/73)7/25, 29/73 Devienne's Les Visitandines Am. prem.; Met Opera Studio artists8/2, 4m/73 Douay's Une Manage d'autrefois Am. prem.; Met Studio artists7/26am/73 Pitched Camp salon entertainment; w. Met Studio artists7/26, 28am 8/ lam/73 Annals of Song, concerts w. Met Studio artists

TENNESSEESewanee Summer Music Center, Martha McCrory, Dir. (6/22-7/29/73)

TEXASDallas Summer Stage, L. Lane, Principal Cond.5/31-7/12/73 Dallas Symphony Orchestra & Dallas Civic Ballet"Texas" Musical Drama, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Canyon6/21-8/25/73 Texas—A Musical Romance of Panhandle History

VERMONTVermont Summer Arts Center, B. Jacobs, S. Flor, Dirs., Stowe7/8-8/19/73 Stowe Institute

VIRGINIAWolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, J. Leavitt, Exec. Dir., Vienna

(6/15-9/16/73)7/10/73 Medea, Caramoor festival prod.7/19-25/73 Musical, dir.: Coppola8/16, 18/73 Don Pasquale dir.: Menotti9/6, 8/73 The Saint of Bleecker Street dir.: Rizzo

WEST VIRGINIAOglebay Institute, B. Goldovsky, Dir. Opera, Wheeling7-8/73 4-week opera workshop

WISCONSINPeninsula Music Festival, T. Johnson, Mus. Dir., Fish Creek8/11-25/73 9-concert series

WYOMINGGrand Teton Music Festival, L. Tung, Mus. Dir., Teton Village7/24-8/25/73 20 programs incl. "Music in the Present Tense," R. Ruggeri (con-

temporary series); opening new theaterCANADA

Banff Festival of the Arts, Banff Center School of Fine Arts, Alberta8/10, 11/73 The Magic Flute cond.: A. Stromberg8/4-18/73 FestivalFestival Canada 73, National Arts Centre, Ottawa (7/3-30/73)7/3, 6, 10, 12, 14/73 Don Giovanni Eng.; Meier, Thomson, Little; Monk, Plishka,

Brecknock; cond.: Bernardi; dir.: Neville; des.: Prevost7/17, 19, 21, 25, 27/73 La belle Helene Boky, Kelly: Duval, Corbeil, Bisson; cond.:

H&u; dir.: Buissonneau; des.: Pritchard7/24, 26, 28/73 Cost fan tutte Eng.; Elias, Wells, Little; Monk, Stewart, Berberian;

cond.: Bernardi; dir.: Macdonald; des.: JacksonStratford Festival 73, A. Gingras, Mus. Adm., Ontario 7/7-8/25/738/15-26/73 Pannell's Exiles prem.7/20 8/12/73 Full day music program; "Music at Midnight" concert series

PUERTO RICOFestival Casals, P. Casals, Mus. Dir., San Juan5/28-6/15/73 Festival Orch., conds.: Casals. Rainis, Schneider, Tevah, deBurgos

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FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1973-74 SEASON

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.

CALIFORNIAPalm Springs Opera Co., L. Pons, Pres., Palm Springs11/73 The Tales of Hoffmann Act I, in schools12/10/73 Madame Butterfly1/19/74 ToscaSan Diego Opera, W. Herbert, Gen. Dir., San Diego9/9, 12, 15/73 Mefistofele Shade, Creed; Marti, Treigle; dir.: Capobianco; N.Y.C.

Opera prod.; cond.: Torkanowsky10/31 11/2, 4/73 Carmen Eng.; A. Howard, Hinds; duPre, Timberlake; dir.:

Roesch; des.: Gates11/28, 30 12/2/73 The Marriage of Figaro Eng.; Meier, Shelle; Fredricks, Treigle;

dir.: deBlasis2/6, 8, 10/74 Das Rheingold Eng. Porter; Cariaga, Krooskos; Parly, Fried, Ward,

Foldi; dir.: London; des.: Naccaiato3/27, 29, 31/74 Tosca Eng.; Galvany; Mauro, Holmes; dir.: HebertSan Francisco Children's Opera Ass'n, Inc., N. Gingold, Dir.11/4/73 Little Red Riding Hood12/16/73 A Date with Santa1/27/74 The Emperor's New Clothes3/10/74 Sinbad the Sailor4/21/74 Sleeping Beauty5/19/74 Snow White and the Seven DwarfsSan Francisco Opera, K. H. Adler, Gen. Dir.9/7, 12, 16, 21, 26, 29/73 La Favorita* Ludwig; Pavarotti, Bruson, Giaiotti; cond.:

Cillario; dir.: Deiber9/8, 11, 14, 19, 30 10/2/73 Die Fledermaus Eng.; Sutherland, Blegen; Ulfung,

van Way, Malas; cond.: Bonynge; dir.: Mansouri9/15, 18, 23, 28 10/3, 7/73 Rigoletto* Nawe; Aragall, Milnes; dir./des.: Ponnelle9/22, 25 10/5, 10, 14/73 Cost fan tutte Harwood, vonStade; Davies, Stilwell, Evans;

cond.: Pritchard; dir./des.: Ponnelle10/6, 9 ,12, 17, 21/73 Tannluiuser Rysanek; Thomas, Stewart; cond.: Suitner; dir.:

Hager10/13, 16, 19, 24, 28/73 Boris Godunov Lear; Remedios, Talvela, Ulfung10/20, 23, 26 11/3/73 Elektra Steger, Dalis; Ulfung, Stewart; cond.: Suitner, dir.:

Hager10/27, 30 11/4, 9/73 Peter Grimes* June; Thomas, Evans; cond.: Pritchard; dir.;

Evans11/2, 7, 10, 20, 22, 25/73 La Traviata Sills; Ochman, Mastromei; dir.: Capobianco11/8, 11, 14, 17, 23/73 Don Carlos Jones, Veasey; Remedios, Mittelmann, Talvela;

cond.: Varviso11/13, 16, 18, 21, 24/73 La Boheme Carreras, MazzieriSouthern California Lyric Opera, H. Weathersby, Exec. Dir., Los Angeles11/10/73 Madama Butterfly Azuma; Theyard; cond.: Rozsnyai

CONNECTICUTConnecticut Opera Ass'n, F. Pandolfi, Exec. Dir., Hartford10/16/73 Carmen Cortez, Armstrong; Bonhomme, Timberlake11/14/73 // Trovatore Cruz-Romo, Killebrew; Tucker, Shinall12/15/73 / Puritani Deutekom; Gedda, Fredricks, Plishka2/20/74 Un Ballo in maschera Caballe, Lanzilotti; Marti, Modenos3/4/74 Maria Stuarda Sutherland, Tourangeau; Alexander, Opthof; cond.: Bonynge4/30/74 La Fille du regiment Sills, deCarlo; Duval, Malas

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAWashington Civic Opera Ass'n, F. Fall, Dir., Washington9/14, 15/73 Romeo and Juliet Eng.; cone. pf.12/73 Help, Help the Globolinks!5/74 Suor Angelica Eng.6/74 The Magic Flute Eng. Martin

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Opera Society of Washington, Ian Strasfogel, Gen. Dir.9/21, 22, 23, 24/73 Macbeth* Tinsley/Galvany; Serabia/Shadur, Plishka/Little;

cond.: Conlon; dir.: Strasfogel12/7m, 7, 8, 9, 10, l lm, 11/73 // Barbiere di Siviglia von Stade/Ewing; Holloway/

Ellis, Devlin, Brewer, Foldi; cond.: Conlon; dir.: Cox; des.: Conklin; 12/7m, 8,10, l lm in Eng., w. alternate cast

1/17,20, 26/74 Gluck's Alceste* cond.: Gibson; dir.: Strasfogel1/21, 23, 25, 27/74 Gianni Schicchi* Eng. & 11 Tabarro* cond.: Gregor; dir.:

Strasfogel4/19, 20, 21, 22/74 Manon* Mondak/Malfitano; cond.: Foster; dir.: Hebert; des.:

Klein

FLORIDAOpera Guild of Greater Miami, L. Alvary, Gen. Mgr.1/21, 23, 26/74 Andrea Chenier Cruz-Romo, Lanzilotti, Myhal; Bergonzi, Manu-

guerra, Catania; 1/29 Ft. Lauderdale2/9, 13, 16/74 Lucia di Lammermoor Sutherland; Alexander, Opthof, Morris,

Sandor; cond.: Bonynge; 2/19 Ft. Lauderdale3/11, 13, 16/74 The Crucible Wolff, Harris; Ludgin, Stamford, Smith4/1,3, 6/74 Les Pecheurs de perles Maliponte; Gedda, Cossa, SmithSan Carlo Opera of Florida, Miss N. Rnsso, Dir., Tampa11/3/73 La Traviata Peters; Campora; cond.: Coppola; dir.: Laurenti3/9/74 Madama Butterfly

GEORGIAAugusta Opera Co., I. Strasfogel, Art. Dir., N. Gleason, Exec. Dir.9/5, 7, 9/73 La Traviata Eng. Machlis

HAWAIIHawaii Opera Theatre, Honolulu Symphony Society, R. La Marchina,

Mus. Dir.10/7m, 10, 13/73 Mefistofele Shade; Molese, Treigle; des.: Mitchell/George10/21m, 24, 27/73 The Tales of Hoffmann Shade; Molese, Treigle; des.: Lee/Varona4/7m, 10, 13/74 Otello

ILLINOISChicago Lyric Opera, Carol Fox, Gen. Mgr.9/21, 24, 28 10/3, 6, 8/73 Maria Stuarda Caballe, Cortez; Tagliavini, Gramm, Ellis;

cond.: Bartoletti; dir.: De Lullo; des.: Pizzi9/29 10/1, 4, 12, 15, 17/73 Manon* Zylis-Gara; Kraus, Patrick, Gramm, Paige;

cond.: Fournet; dir.: Deiber; des.: Dupont10/10, 13, 19, 22, 27/73 Tosca Martin; Tagliavini, Gobbi, Tajo; cond.: Bartoletti;

dir.: Gobbi; des.: Pizzi10/20, 24, 26 11/2, 5, 7/73 La Fille du regiment Sutherland, Resnik, Tourel; Kraus,

Malas, Paige; cond.: Bonynge; dir.: Sequi, des.: d'Anni10/31 11/3, 6, 9, 12, 15/73 Siegfried* Nilsson, Chookasian, Redick; Cox, Adam,

Neidlinger, Unger; cond.: Leitner; dir.: Lehmann; des.: Griibler11/14, 17, 19, 24 12/6, 12, 14/73 Carmen Cortez, Krilovici/Wells; King, Saccomani;

cond.: Lopez-Cobos; des.: Zuffi11/23, 26, 30 12/5, 8, 10/73 Der Rosenkavalier Ludwig, Minton, Donath, Zilio;

Sotin, Merighi; cond.: Leitner; dir.: Neugebauer; des.: Schneider-Siemssen11/28 12/1, 3, 7, 11, 15/73 La Boheme Cotrubas, Zilio; Pavarotti, Patrick, Wash-

ington, Tajo; cond.: Bartoletti; dir.: De Lullo; des.: Pizzi

INDIANAIndiana Univ. Opera Theater, School of Music, C. Webb, Dean, Bloomington9/22, 29 10/6, 13/73 Tosca10/20, 26, 27 11/3/73 The Mother of Us All11/13 12/1, 8/73 Lohengrin2/2, 9, 16, 23/74 Carmen3/2, 23, 29, 30/74 The Marriage of Figaro4/13, 20,27/74 WozzeckIndianapolis Symphony Orchestra, I. Solomon, Mus. Dir., Indianapolis11/3/73 Samson and Delilah cone. pf.1/19/74 Otello cone. pf.4/5/74 La Vida breve cone. pf.

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KENTUCKYKentucky Opera Ass'n, M. Bomhard, Dir., Louisville9/28, 29/73 Otello11/2, 3/73 The Abduction from the Seraglio1/11, 12/74 Susannah Shade, Whitesides; Ludgin3/1, 2/74 Tosca

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

Dir.10/18, 20/73 LaJuive Galvany, Shane; Tucker, Bullard, Plishka11/1, 3/73 Rigoletto Armstrong, deCarlo; Alexander, Milnes, Dworchak12/6, 8/73 Faust Neblett; Gedda, Diaz, Opthof3/7, 9/74 Carmen Davidson, E. Shade; Py, Devlin4/4, 6/74 Ariadne auf Naxos Watson, Wise, Pearl; Cox5/2, 4/74 La Traviata Brooks; diGiuseppe, Quilico

MARYLANDBaltimore Opera Co., Miss R. Ponselle, Art. Dir., R. J. Collinge, Gen. Mgr.11/1, 3, 5/73 Carmen Simon, Neblett; diVirgilio; cond.: Buckley; dir.: Lucas2/14, 16, 18/74 VElisir d'amore Clements; diGiuseppe, Darrenkamp, Malas; cond.:

Guadagno4/4, 6, 8/74 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Krilovici & Craig; LaVirgine, R. Ed-

wards; cond.: Wendelken-Wilson; dir.: RizzoMICHIGAN

Michigan Opera Theatre, D. DiChiera, Gen. Dir., Detroit10/6, 10m, 12, 13/73 Rigoletto Eng.; Runnell; Marsh11/2, 7m, 9, 10/73 Madame Butterfly Eng.; DuPark, Inselman; Roe1/18, 23m, 25, 26/74 The Merry Widow Christensen; Reardon

MINNESOTADuluth Symphony Ass'n Opera, F. Caleb, Gen. Mgr.9/14, 16/73 Lucia di Lammermoor Theyard

MISSISSIPPIMississippi Opera Ass'n, Barbara White, Prod. Dir., Jackson11/20/73 Pagliacci3/14, 16/74 Don Pasquale Eng. Mead

MISSOURIKansas City Lyric Theater, R. Patterson, Gen. Dir.9/18, 22, 28 10/4, 10/73 The Sweet Bye and Bye* Rogers, Anthony, Seibel, James;

Jones, Hook; cond.: Patterson; dir.: Balk; des.: Israel9/19, 25, 29 10/5, 11/73 La Perichole* Eng.; Wilcox; Hook, Eddleman, Davis,

Jones; cond.: Charry; dir.: Eddleman; des.: de Rosier9/20, 26 10/2, 6, 12/73 The Flying Dutchman* Eng.; Anthony; Dunlap, Davis,

Knoll; cond.: Patterson; dir./des.: Darling9/21, 27 10/3, 9, 13/73 Tosca* Eng.; Fraction; Schwisow, Justus; cond.: Charry;

dir.: Lazarus; des.: de RosierNEBRASKA

Omaha Opera Co., Win. Matthews, Pres., A. Kopp, Mus. Dir.11/16, 17, 19m/73 Tosca Galvany; McCray, Ludgin2/14, 16/74 The Marriage of Figaro Neblett, Shelle, Marsee; Fiorito, Treigle4/4, 6, 8m/74 The Elixir of Love Peters; Glaze, Malas

NEW YORK CITYAmerican Symphony Orchestra, K. Akiyama, Mus. Dir., at Carnegie Hall3/25/74 Boris Godunov excerpts; J. Hines, Rutgers Univ. Chorus, cone. pf.Chicago Symphony, G. Solti, Mus. Dir., at Carnegie Hall5/1/74 Bluebeard's Castle Troyanos; Kelemen; cone. pf.Detroit Symphony, R. de Burgos, Cond., at Carnegie Hall10/30/73 Carmina burana Welting; Best, Binder, Univ. of Mich, chorus, cone. pf.New York Philharmonic, P. Boulez, Mus. Dir., Lincoln Center11/8, 10, 12/73 The Damnation of Faust Hamari; Hollweg, Stewart, Paul; w. West-

minster Choir; cond.: Boulez12/13, 14m, 18/73 Schumann Scenes from Goethe's Faust Blegen, Bryn-Julson,

Killebrew, Parker; Burrows, Prey, Shirley-Quirk, w. Camerata Singers4/25, 27/74 Monteverdi's // Ballo delle ingrate & Hindemith Mathis der Maler

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1973-74 Season

Metropolitan Opera Ass'n, S. Chapin, Gen. Mgr., Lincoln Center9/17, 22, 27 10/5, 8, 15, 23 11/10, 13, 24m, 28/73 // Trovatore9/18,21,26 10/6m, 11,20,24 11/3,8 12/31/73 Carmen9/19, 28 10/4, 10, 20m, 27 11/8 12/27/73 Salome9/20, 29m 10/13, 19, 26, 31/73 L'Elisir d'amore9/22m, 29 10/3, 9, 26 11/19, 26 12/4, 15m, 21/73 Die Zauberflote9/24 10/6, 16, 25, 29 11/7, 16, 23/73 Madama Butterfly9/25 10/1, 12, 18 ll/3m, 21,27 12/5, 13, 22m, 28/73 Rigoletto10/2, 13m, 17 11/1, 6, 17m, 22 12/1, 7, 15/73 La Traviata10/22, 27m, 30 11/2, 5, 9, 12, 15/73 Les Troyens* Ludwig, Verrett, Blegen, Dunn;

Vickers, Lewis, Riegel, Quilico, Macurdy; cond.: Kubelik; dir.: Merrill; des.:Wexler

11/10m, 14, 17, 20, 30 12/8m, 20, 24/73 L'laliana in Algeri* Home, Robinson;Alva, Uppman, Corena; cond.: Otvos; dir./des.: Ponnelle

11/29 12/3, 8, 11, 14, 19, 22/73 Les Contes d'Hoffmann* Sutherland, Tourangeau;Domingo, Stewart, Plishka; cond.: Bonynge; dir.: Hebert; des.: Klein

12/lm, 6, 12, 17, 29/73 Simon Boccanegra12/10, 26/73 LaBoheme12/18, 29m/73 Manon Lescaul12/25/73 // Barbiere di Siviglia1974 schedule and artists' roster in Fall 73 Blltn.New York City Opera, J. White, Mng. Dir., J. Rudel, Dir., N.Y. State Theater8/29 9/9m, 15m, 18/73 Roberto Devereux8/30 9/2m, 15, 28/73 Les Contes d'Hoffmann8/31 9/6, 22m, 29 10/7m 11/10/73 La Traviata9/lm, 4, 12 11/4/73 Maria Stuarda9/1,7, 11 10/21m, 26 11/4/73 Carmen9/2, 8, 23 10/5, 23, 31/73 Madama Butterfly9/5, 16, 21 10/14, 17, 28m/73 La Boheme9/8m, 16m, 30m 10/6m/73 L'lncoronazione di Poppea9/9, 14, 19/73 Der Rosenkavalier9/13, 23m, 25/73 A Village Romeo and Juliet* Eng.; Wells; Stewart; cond.:

Bernardi; dir.: Corsaro; des.: Chase/Aldredge9/20, 29m 10/4, 14m, 16, 24/73 Ariadne auf Naxos* Ger. & Eng.; Niska/Meier,

Neblett, Wise; Alexander, Cossa, Devlin; cond.: Rudel; dir.: Ball9/22,26 10/2, 11/73 Tosca9/27 10/6, 12, 27/73 Don Giovanni9/30 10/13, 20m 11/2, llm/73 Cavalleria rustkana & Pagliacci10/3, 7, 10, 13m, 18/73 Anna Bolena* Sills; Di Giuseppe, Hale; cond.: Rudel;

dir.: Capobianco; des.: Lee/Varona10/9, 20, 27 ll/4m, 9/73 Faust10/19, 27m 11/3, 6/73 Rigoletto10/21,25 11/1/73 Manon10/28, 30 11/7, 10m/73 The Magic Flute Eng.11/3m, 8, 11/73 11 Barbiere di SivigliaOpera Orchestra of New York, Inc., Eve Queler, Mus. Dir., Carnegie Hall1/20/74 LesPecheurs de perles Gedda; cone. pf.3/6/74 Donizetti's Parisina Am. prem.; cone. pf.Pittsburgh Symohony, W. Steinberg, Mus. Dir., at Carnegie Hall10/31/73 Die Walkure Act II final scene; Dernesch; Hale

NORTH CAROLINACharlotte Opera Ass'n, C. Rosekrans, Mus. Dir., J. R. McRae, Gen. Dir.10/26, 28/73 Tosca Galvany; Alexander, Shinall; dir.: Patacchi2/1, 3/74 Un Ballo in maschera Cruz-Romo, Rolandi; Novoa, Schwartzman; dir.:

Hicks4/5, 7/74 Faust K. Armstrong; Riegel̂ Timberlake, Voketaitis; dir.: Guttman

OHIODayton Opera Ass'n, L. Freedman, Mng. Dir.10/27/73 Manon Costa; DiGiuseppe, Sordello, Ramey, Metcalf, Graham; cond.:

Woitach1/26/74 Madama Butterfly Niska, Kraft; Gibbs, Justus, Astor, Gustern; cond.:

Coppola4/27/74 // Trovatore Galvany, Warfield; McCracken, Opthof, Nabokov

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Toledo Opera Ass'n, L. Freedman, Gen. Dir. 1973-74 Season10/20/73 Manon for casts, see Dayton Opera1/19/74 Madama Butterfly5/4/74 // Trovatore

OKLAHOMATulsa Opera Inc., Mrs. J. Turner, Mgr., Tulsa11/1, 3/73 // Trovatore Zylis-Gara, Lanzelotti; Casellato-Lamberti, MacNeil; cond.:

Moresco3/14, 16/74 Romeo et Juliette Shelle, Creed; Luchetti, Stilwell, McDevitt; cond.:

Moresco; dir.: de BlasisTnlsa Philharmonic Orchestra, Skitch Henderson, Mus. Dir.11/26/73 L'Histoire du soldat with Tulsa Civic Ballet

OREGONPortland Opera, S. Minde, Mus. Dir., Portland9/27, 29/73 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng.; Cutsforth, Creed, Shelle; Riegel, Treigle;

dir.: deBlasis11/15, 17/73 La Boheme Cutsforth; R. Bjorling, Gray, Robison, Lewis3/28, 30/74 Don Pasquale Cutsforth; J. Walker, Drake, Robison5/9, 11/74 Ariadne auf Naxos Eng./Germ.; Vanni, Koszut, Rogers; Paige, Manton,

PENNSYLVANIAPhiladelphia Lyric Opera, Ian Strasfogel, Art. Dir.11/13/73 Macbeth Tinsley; Serabia, Plishka; cond.: Conlon; dir.: Strasfogel; Opera

Society of Washington prod.1/8/74 Puccini Gala2/5/74 Gianni Schicchi Eng. & // Tabarro Op. Soc. of Wash. prod.2/26/74 Maria Stuarda Sutherland, Tourangeau; Alexander, Opthof, Corbeil; cond.:

Bonynge; dir.: Capobianco; des.: Pizzi; San Francisco Op. prod.4/2/74 La Boheme Pavarotti; cond.: D'Almeida4/30 5/3/74 The Marriage of Figaro Shelle; Treigle, Fredricks; dir.: deBlasis; des.:

HeymannPhiladelphia Musical Academy Opera Studies Program, T. Capobianco, Dir.12/7, 9773 Salieri's Falstaff3/29, 31/74 The Barber of Seville5/10, 12/74 Tauriello's Gargantua world prem.Pittsburgh Opera, Inc., R. Karp, Gen. Dir.10/18, 20/73 // Barbiere di Siviglia Miller; Duval, Modenos, Foldi, Moscona11/15, 17/73 Faust Shade; Hines12/6, 8/73 Don Giovanni Eng.; Mathes; Stewart, Corbeil, Plishka1/17, 19/74 // Tabarro & Pagliacci Thomson; Lavirgen, Opthof, Bisson2/14, 16/74 Fidelio Silja; Hopf, Tipton, Plishka, Corbeil3/28, 30/74 La Traviata Koszut; Alexander, Opthof

RHODE ISLANDArtists Internationale Opera Co., M. Ruffino, Art. Dir., Providence9/22/73 La Boheme Costa, Spacagna; Khanzadian, Oliver, Thomas; cond.: Booth1/19/74 Madama Butterfly Ruffino, Freedman; Guarrera, Duval; cond.: Booth5/11/74 // Trovatore Warfield, Ruffino; McCracken, Cosindas; cond.: Booth; dir.:

FlorioTEXAS

Dallas Civic Opera, L. Kelly, Gen. Dir.11/2, 4, 6/73 Le Coq d'or Scovotti, Bible; Johns, Trussel, Carlsen, Gramm; cond.:

Rescigno; dir.: Quintero; des.: Lee/Hall11/16, 18, 20/73 Le Nozze di Figaro de los Angeles, Sciutti, Kern; Bruscantini,

Evans; cond.: Rescigno; dir.: London; des.: Hall11/30 12/4, 8/73 Andrea Chenier Ligabue, Chookasian; Vickers, Carroli; cond.:

Rescigno; dir.: Maestrini; des.: HallFort Worth Opera Ass'n, R. Kruger, Gen. Mgr.11/30 12/2/73 Lucia di Lammermoor Wise; Duval, Opthof, Dworchak; dir.: Igesz;

des.: Christini/Mess1/18, 20/74 The Marriage of Figaro Wells, Clements, Creed; Devlin, Treigle,

Powers, Schmorr; dir.: de Blasis; des.: Heymann/Mess3/8, 10/74 Salome Kouba, Kraft; Nagy, Sundquist, Clatworthy; dir.: Hebert; des.:

Wolf/Mess4/5, 7/74 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Galvany; di Giuseppe, Quilico & Thom-

son; Lewis, Quilico, Darrenkamp; dir.: Lucas; des.: Wolf/Mess4/21, 23, 24/74 Hansel and Gretel

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Houston Grand Opera, D. Gockley, Gen. Dir. 1973-74 Season10/9, 12, 13, 14/73 Macbeth Tinsley11/13, 16, 17, 18/73 The Marriage of Figaro Wise, Palmer, vonStade; Devlin, Luxon1/22, 25, 26, 27/74 La Traviata Sills; Quilico, Luchetti; dir.: Caldwell; des.:

Senn/Pond3/5, 8, 9, 10/74 Pasatieri's The Seagull* world prem., Lear, von Stade; Stilwell,

Reardon; dir.: Corsaro; des.: Klein3/26, 29, 30, 31/74 La Perichole Eng.4/16, 19, 21/74 Mefistofele Treigle

WASHINGTONSeattle Opera Co., G. Ross, Gen. Dir., Tenth Anniversary Season9/13, 15, 19, 22/73 La Fille du regiment Moffo; Bullard11/8, 10, 14, 17/73 Rigoletto Mesple; Morell, Manuguerra, Lishner1/31 2/2, 6, 9/74 Cost fan tutte Meier, Simon, Adams; Nelson, Tajo3/7, 9, 13, 16/74 Siegfried* Green; Becker5/9, 11, 15, 18/74 Gianni Schicchi Eng. & Pagliacci Cutsforth, Cole; Drake &

Reale; Tucker, Nurmela, TitusSeattle Symphony Orchestra, M. Katims, Mus. Dir., 70th Anniversary Season12/10/73 Berlioz' L'Enfance du Christ

WEST VIRGINIAWest Virginia Opera Theater, D. Riggio, Mus. Dir., Montgomery9/21, 23, 29, 30/73 The Telephone & Pagliacci

WISCONSINFlorentine Opera Co., J. Anello, Dir., Milwaukee10/11, 13/73 // Trovatore Neblett, Warfield; Morell, Milnes; cond.: Schermerhorn;

dir.: Gratale11/15, 17/73 Tosca Ross; Molese, Meredith; cond.: Anello; dir.: Capobianco3/14, 16/74 Otello Fenn; McCracken, Paskalis; cond.: Schermerhorn; dir.:

Yannopoulos5/2, 4/74 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Krilovici; Lewis & Montalvo, Malamood,

Walker, cond.: Anello, dir.: PitmanCANADA

Canadian Opera Co., H. Geiger-Torel, Gen. Dir., Toronto, Ontario9/7, 12, 15, 20/73 Gdtterddmmerung* Bjoner, B. Collier, Chookasian; Cox,

Tessenyi, Gray, Wildermann; cond.: Bender; dir.: Geiger-Torel; des.: Laufer/Day9/8, 14, 26/73 Heloise and Abelard* prem.; Thomson; Belcourt, McManus, Monk;

cond.: Feldbrill; dir.: Major; des.: Laufer/Mess; 10/17, 19 in Ottawa9/13, 15m, 21, 24, 27m 10/4m, 9, 13/73 // Barbiere di Siviglia Kern; Corbeil,

Walker, Opthof, Milne; cond.: Barbini; dir.: Fisher; des.: Lord9/18, 22m, 27, 29 10/1, 3, 5, 13m/73 The Merry Widow Salemka, Little; Belcourt,

Crofoot, Reardon, Rubes, Barcza; cond.: Feldbrill; dir.: Major; des:; Laufer/Day9/19, 22, 28 10/2, 6m, 11/73 Rigoletto Pellegrini, Forst; Bondino, Quilico, Gray,

McManus; cond.: Barbini; dir.: Symcox; des.: Schafer9/25, 29m 10/4, 6, 10, 12/73 Fidelio Jedig, Zarou; Cox, Walker, Kittask, Wilder-

mann; cond.: Bender; dir.: Alexander; des.: Laufer/Day; 10/18, 20 in OttawaEdmonton Opera Ass'n, L. Moore, Gen. Mgr., Alberta11/1, 3, 5/73 Faust Yarick, Forst; Alvares, Plishka; cond.: Des Laurier; dir./des.:

Darling1/17, 19, 21/74 La Traviata Moffo; Carreras, Janulaskis; cond.: Rosenkranz; des.:

Darling dir.: Guttman3/21, 23, 25/74 Turandot Tinsley; Marti, Corbeil, Hayashi; cond.: Hetu; des.:

Darling dir.: Guttman3/22/74 Caballe in concertManitoba Opera Ass'n, I. Guttman, Art Dir., B. Lang, Adm. Dir., Winnipeg11/14, 17/73 La Traviata Thomson; Jennings, Braun; cond.: Gamba; dir.: Guttman1/24, 26/74 Tosca Krilovici; Mauro, Paskalis; cond.: Gamba; dir.: GuttmanVancouver Opera Ass'n, B. Hanson, Gen. Mgr., British Columbia10/25, 27, 31 11/3/73 Don Carlos Tinsley, Lavigne; Moulson, Opthof, Gross; cond.:

Guadagno; dir.: Lucas; des.: Naccarato2/14, 16, 19m, 21, 23, 26/74 Carmen Davidson, Bonhomme; Myrvold; cond.:

Akiyama; dir.: Guttman; des.: Naccarato4/25, 27, 30 5/2, 4/74 La Traviata Pellegrini; Mauro, Cossa; cond.: Sipusch; dir.:

Guttman; des.: Darling/ Mess

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