CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINSEPTEM BER-OCTOBER, 1967

COS NATIONAL CONFERENCE—APRIL 11-12, 1968, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council

Central Opera Service • Lincoln Center Plan • Metropolitan Opera • New York, N.Y. 10023 • 799-3467

CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE COMMITTEE

R. L. B. TOBIN, National ChairmanThe National Council

JULIUS RUDEL, Co-ChairmanNew York City Opera

National Council Directors

MRS. AUGUST BELMONT

MRS. FRANK W. BOWMAN GEORGE HOWERTONE. H. CORRIGAN, JR. ELIHU M. HYNDMANMRS. NORRIS DARRELL MRS. JOHN R. SAVAGEHOWARD J. HOOK, JR. JAMES SCHWABACHER, JR.

Professional Committee

MAURICE ABRAVANEL RICHARD KARPSalt Lake City Symphony Pittsburgh OperaKURT HERBERT ADLER PAUL KNOWLESSan Francisco Opera University of MinnesotaVICTOR ALESSANDRO GLADYS MATHEWSan Antonio Symphony Community OperaROBERT G. ANDERSON MRS. LOUDON MELLENTulsa Opera Opera Soc. of Wash., D.C.WILFRED C. BAIN ELEMER NAGYIndiana University Hartt College of MusicROBERT BAUSTIAN MME. ROSE PALMAI-TENSERSanta Fe Opera Mobile Opera GuildMORITZ BOMHARD RUSSELL D. PATTERSONKentucky Opera Kansas City Lyric TheatreJOHN BROWNLEE MRS. JOHN DEWITT PELTZManhattan School of Music Metropolitan OperaPAUL CALLAWAY GEORGE SCHICKOpera Soc. of Wash., D.C. Metropolitan OperaSTANLEY CHAPPLE MARK SCHUBARTUniversity of Washington Lincoln CenterEUGENE CONLEY MRS. L. S. STEMMONSNo. Texas State Univ. Dallas Civic OperaWALTER DUCLOUX LEONARD TREASHUniversity of S. California Eastman School of MusicPETER PAUL FUCHS LUCAS UNDERWOODLouisiana State University College of the PacificROBERT GAY GID WALDROPNorthwestern University Juilliard School of MusicBORIS GOLDOVSKY MRS. J. P. WALLACEGoldovsky Opera Theatre Shreveport Civic OperaWALTER HERBERT MRS. PAUL P. WILSONHouston Grand Opera Mid-South Reg. Director

LUDWIG ZIRNERUniversity of Illinois

The Central Opera Service is pleased to announce the new (September1967) Edition of the List of Opera Producing Companies and Workshopsin the United States and Canada. Also available is a Supplement, listingcompanies by categories (Major, Professional, Summer, Touring, andWorkshops, with two or more productions) indicating the number of annualproductions and performances.

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINVolume 10, Number I September-October, 1967

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

AMERICAN OPERAS

The phenomenon of women composers in opera is still a rarity, although withinrecent years, a few American women have emerged successfully (Radie Britain,Mary Caldwell, Joyce Barthelson, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Eusebia Hunkins,Beatrice Laufer, Jeanellen McKee, Julia Perry and Julia Smith). Margaret Gar-wood, faculty member of the Philadelphia Musical Academy since 1953 and ofthe Settlement Music School of Philadelphia since 1960, has had many of hercompositions performed. She has just finished her first opera, THE TROJANWOMEN, a one-act, 40-minute work. Commissioned by the Suburban OperaCompany in Chester, Pa., the company will present the premiere on October 22.The libretto, by Howard Wiley, was originally conceived in cantata form and isincluded in a book of his poems.

Yet another new Canadian opera on a historical subject was presented in Mayduring the Canadian centennial celebrations. THE LOYALISTS, composed byDouglas Major who is assistant conductor with the New Brunswick Symphonyand with libretto by Mrs. Frances Parkhill and John Holmes, depicts the plightof the British colonists disfranchised by the American Revolution. The firstperformance took place in St. John, New Brunswick, on May 18.

The May-June 1966 Bulletin reported on four operas commissioned by theCanadian Broadcasting Company for this year's celebration. At that time titlesand details were not available although the subject matter, Canadian history, wasspecified. Here is the information in brief: Murray Adaskin's GRANT, WARDENOF THE PLAINS, with libretto by Winnipeg's poetess Mary Bayer, premieredin May on CBC, with the hero, half Scottish, half Indian, telling the story ofthe 1816 massacre of Seven Oaks. — Kelsey Jones' SAM SLICK, with librettoby Mrs. Jones, premiered in July by CBC (live performance see June 1967Bulletin) concerns the colorful Yankee clockmaker, peddler and rogue who set-tled in Nova Scotia. — THE BR1DESHIP, by Robert Turner with libretto byGeorge Woodcock, was produced and sent over CBC from Vancouver. A boat-load of one hundred brides sent from England to Victoria in 1862 during theCariboo gold rush is the basis of the plot. — The last production in this serieswill be premiered in October and will feature WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIEby Harry Somers {The Luck of Ginger Coffee). The libretto is by William Kil-bourn after the prize-winning biography The Firebrand.

AMERICAN PREMIERES

CROESUS by Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739) was the fifteenth of twenty operaswritten by this prolific German composer. Although early records are incom-plete, the opera seems to have been premiered in Hamburg in 1711 and presentedthere again in a revised version in 1730. Alfred Loewenberg's Annals calls it"One of Reiser's best works" but information of further performances is scantand indicates that there has not been an American production. On December 5Newell Jenkins will present the complete three-act opera in concert form inGerman at Town Hall, New York, in which appears to be the American premiereof Croesus. Musical materials will have to be returned to Germany immediately

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following the performance for a new production of the opera in Wuppertal laterthis season.

Haydn's ORLANDO PALAD1NO (premiered in Austria in 1782) is anotheropera which enjoyed great success in its day, but which never reached theseshores. Austrian born musicologist Karl Geiringer, whose books include one onHaydn, has prepared a new edition of the opera. A reading of excerpts was heldin Boston in 1961. Now Dr. Carl Zytowski, Mr. Geiringer's colleague on the musicfaculty at the University of California in Santa Barbara, has written an Englishtranslation of the libretto. The opera will have its first American performance inSanta Barbara on December 1. Further performances are scheduled for the fol-lowing two days, coinciding with a meeting of the American MusicologicalSociety at the University. Dr. Zytowski will also function as stage director andsing the title role.

The Little Orchestra Society's season will again feature operas not previouslyheard in New York. In fact, two of the four operas will be presented in Americanpremieres, Busoni's TURANDOT, and Orff's ANTJGONAE, while Janacek'sTHE MAKROPOULOS AFFAIR will be a New York first.—New York's otherconcert-opera organization, the American Opera Society, performing at Car-negie Hall, is concentrating this season on rarely heard early operas, although nofirst performances are included.

FOREIGN PREMIERESIt seems only natural that Germany, the country with the greatest number ofopera houses per capita, will include premieres of operas by non-German com-posers (e.g., The Visitation by American Gunther Schuller and Die Doppelgan-gerin by Meyerowitz). In January 1968 the Bavarian State Opera in Munichwill give the first performance of A PENNY FOR A SONG by British composerRichard Rodney Bennett, whose most recent success was The Mines of Sulphur,The new opera will be directed by Gunther Rennert and conducted by ChristophDohnanyi, son of the composer. During the "Week of Contemporary Opera" inApril 1968, the Bayrische Staatsoper plans to present a new opera, yet unnamed,by Hans Werner Henze with a libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann and the premiereof KING UBU by Krzysztof Penderecki. Munich's Theater am Gartnerplatz willperform the premiere of Mark Lothar's DER WIDERSPENST1GE HEILIGE.— Penderecki can look forward to another German premiere when the HamburgState Opera will perform his THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN (after Huxley) in theSpring of 1969. Also in Hamburg will be the premiere of British composerHumphrey Searle's HAMLET (designs by Theo Otto and directed by WilliamSchuh) and German composer Giselher Klebe's DIE JUNGFRAU VONORLEANS. Klebe was recently introduced to American audiences when theHamburg company brought his Jacobowsky and the Colonel to New York. Be-sides the Joan of Arc theme, he is also working on Goethe's MAERCHEN,commissioned by the Siiddeutsche Rundfunk. The first performance is plannedduring the 1968 Rhein-Schwetzingen Festwochen.

Rudolf Mors, conductor in Bielefeld, Germany, is the composer of VINETA,an opera to be premiered in Bielefeld later this season. Die Biihnen der Landes-stadt in Kiel, Germany, will present a new opera by Dieter Schonbach, DIESIEBEN STATIONEN VOM STERN and in March 1968, the WurttembergStaatsoper in Stuttgart will produce Carl Orff's PROMETHEUS, originallyscheduled for last season.—The German Opera Studio in Berlin gave an experi-mental presentation of two short operas by Viennese, avant-garde composerGerhard Lampersberger, DESPERATO, a ten-minute piece and DIE FAHRTZUR INSEL NANTUCKET, a pop art opera with syllables replacing an intel-ligible text. The third work on the program presented in May was Martinu'sZweimal Alexander.

This Spring a triple bill of contemporary operas was seen in Trieste. It featuredthe premieres of Giulio Viozzi's LA GIACCA D ANN AT A and Mario Buganelli'sUNA DOMENICA and included de Banfield's ALISSA.— The Teatro CarloFelice in Genoa gave the first performance of Chailly's VASSILIEV.

News of operatic premieres from England includes William Walton's THEBEAR, Berkeley's THE CASTAWAY, performed at the Aldeburg Festival this

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summer and a new opera by Nicholas Maw (One Man Show), THE RISINGOF THE MOON, commissioned by the Glyndebourne Festival for productionnext summer. The comedy is set in Ireland in 1875 and has a libretto by BeverlyCross. —Peter Shoffer's historical drama ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN willbe adaptated to form an opera by Ian Hamilton. — On July 5, London's PiccolaOpera gave the premiere of Richard Stoker's JOHNSON PRESERV'D; Jill Wattwrote the libretto.

Another operatic version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights was heard inRouen, France, on April 16. LES HAUTS DE HURLEVANT was composed byThomas Stubbs. The dramatic adaptation for the opera with prologue and sevenscenes was conceived by Philippe Heriat. — On June 10 LA NOIRCEUR DULAIT, an opera by Claude Prey, was premiered in Strassbourg.

Caroline Lloyd, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and for the last fifteen yearsa resident in Caracas, Venezuela, is the composer of DONA BARBARA, an operapremiered this summer in Caracas. The performance was part of the 400thanniversary celebration of the founding of the South American city. The librettowas adapted from a novel by Romulo Gallegos, a former president of Venezuela,describing life in the country's lowlands (Llanos).

News from Tel Aviv, Israel, comes of a new two-act comic opera by MenachemAvidom called THE CROOK. The book is by humorist Efraim Kishon. This isMr. Avidom's second opera; his first, Alexandra, was performed in Israel tenyears ago.

CORRECTIONS

Joan of Arc at Rheims by Henry Rauscher, alias Henry S. Humphreys, CincinnatiEnquirer's music critic, will be premiered in Cincinnati on March 17, 1968. ElaineBonazzi will be featured in the title role but did not commission the work, as waserroneously stated in the June 1967 Bulletin.

Miss Jeanette Turner is manager of the Tulsa Opera, Inc., Mr. W. A. Baden is presi-dent of the Board of Directors, Mr. Robert Anderson is a member of the Board ofDirectors and a member of the production committee.

NEW COMPANIES, NEW CENTERS

Although at times caught up in rivalry, California's two major cities, San Fran-cisco and Los Angeles, have agreed to form a partnership for their opera presen-tations. A five-year plan beginning in 1969 was announced by the San FranciscoOpera Company and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Association,—a groupwhich until now has booked out-of-town companies (Metropolitan Opera NationalCompany, New York City Opera) into Los Angeles, but has not itself, producedopera. The first year the San Francisco Opera Company will produce one monthof opera under the auspices of the Los Angeles Company in Los Angeles at theShrine Auditorium. This is planned for March 1969. The following year a newproduction contributed by the Los Angeles Company is contemplated; this pro-duction will be premiered in Los Angeles in the spring and will be included inthe subsequent San Francisco fall season. It is hoped that in this second seasonperformances can be at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center.Succeeding years should bring further active participation from the SouthernCalifornian group and after five years the two organizations hope to be in a per-manent equal partnership. Pooling their resources should result in the creationof one of the world's strongest opera companies.

For some years Atlanta's Municipal Theater has been presenting Grand OperaIn the Park, produced in an amphitheatre with seating capacity of over 6,000.Now that the completion of the Atlanta Memorial Cultural Center is approaching,—the opening is scheduled for the fall of 1968—the Municipal Theatre plans

to extend its operatic activities to include a winter season. To this end it hasappointed a new artistic director for opera, mezzo soprano Blanche Thebom.Miss Thebom's first responsibility was a production of Aida in the park in August.Within this coming year she will form a resident opera company which will playin one of the Center's two auditoria.

Meanwhile, another city in Georgia has formed its own company. It is theAugusta Opera Company with B. E. Evans as president. For its inaugural per-formance the company will present La Boheme in September. Two performanceson consecutive days are scheduled.

In contrast to the Atlanta Center, where all halls (opera, concert, theatre andmuseum) will be under one roof, Birmingham, Alabama, recently chose a moresprawling design for its Center. Following a contest conducted by the BirminghamCivic Center Authorities in conjunction with the American Institute of Architects,the contract was awarded to the Philadelphia architectural firm Geddes BrecherQuails Cunningham. The $25 million Center will be constructed on a four-blocksite on the fringe of the downtown area and will accommodate a 3,000-seatconcert hall, a sports coliseum, an exhibition hall and a 1,300-seat theatre. Thesefour buildings will be arranged around a large reflecting pool and connected bypartly covered promenades and different level terraces. A restaurant, administra-tion areas and a small amphitheatre are also included in the design as well asunderground parking. Completion is scheduled for early 1971, in time for Birm-ingham's centennial celebration.

Summer residences for leading American orchestras are as necessary for theannual income of the musicians as they are for the increasing demand of aculture-seeking, money-spending audience. To mention some of the major organ-izations: the Boston Symphony in Tanglewood, the New York Philharmonic atProm concerts at Lincoln Center and in the city's parks (replacing LewisohnStadium), the Philadelphia Orchestra in Saratoga Springs, the Detroit Symphonyat Meadow Brook Festival in Rochester, Michigan, the Chicago Symphony atRavinia in Chicago and at Fair Lane Festival in Dearborn, Michigan. Now twonew sites can be added to the festival-studded map. On July 14 the NationalSymphony of Washington, D.C., inaugurated its new summer home in Columbia,Maryland. Halfway between Washington and Baltimore, Columbia is beingdeveloped by James W. Rouse as a planned city. Ten acres were donated to theNational Symphony Orchestra and on it was built the Merriweather Post Pavilionof Music. The 3,000-seat shed, covered but with open sides, was designed byGehry, Walsh & O'Malley, architects, in consultation with acoustician, ChristopherJaffe. Another 2,000 people can be accommodated on the surrounding lawns.The other summer home will not be ready before 1968. The Blossom MusicCenter will belong to the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and will be locatednear Kent, Ohio. A proposed music institute which will be incorporated intothe festival, will also be under the artistic direction of George Szell and will beadministered by the Kent State University.

More universities are adding new buildings for their music departments. LastApril, Duquesne University in Pittsburgh dedicated its $1% million School ofMusic building and Indiana University in Bloomington hopes to complete itsnew Musical Arts Center in 1970 for the university's sesquicentennial. The build-ing will house a 1,500-seat opera theatre, classrooms, studios and rehearsal roomsfor chorus, orchestra and ballet. Costs are estimated at $6.7 million.

After more than half of the construction was complete on the Sidney OperaHouse, original designs by Danish architect Joern Utzon had to be abandoned.Now under supervision of new architects who redesigned the building, work willbe resumed in the near future, but estimates for completion of the house arestill uncertain and vary between 1970 and 1972. The new design allows for a2,500-seat concert hall and a smaller hall for opera, seating about 1,500 with apit for 70-80 musicians.

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SUMMER CASUALTIES

The big fire at Santa Fe this past summer has become history. It happened on thenight of the American premiere of Hindemith's Cardillac. It was discovered at4 a.m., but spread faster than it could be fought and two hours later, the com-plete theatre had burned down. With tremendous spirit and determination thecompany rose to the challenge of not abandoning the season and with the excep-tion of the repeat performance of Cardillac (the music was destroyed in the firealong with costumes, sets and some of the musical instruments), not a singleperformance was missed for the remainder of the summer. Required instrumentswere flown in from San Antonio, La Boheme was given in contemporary dressand some quickly constructed sets were substituted for those destroyed in thefire. A high school gymnasium served as home. At the same time the first designsfor a new theatre were submitted and this month construction was begun.McHugh and Kidder, architects of the original theatre, are responsible for thenew design, in cooperation with acoustical consultants Bolt Beranek and New-man. Although the general concept will remain true to the original theatre builtin 1957 and enlarged in 1965, there will be a number of improvements. The areaof the theatre itself will be larger with more space for backstage and storagerooms, the stage will be widened by about 20 feet to about 50 feet at theproscenium, the wooden benches will be replaced by theatre-type seats and exten-sive fire precautions like sprinkler system, more adequate water supply and fire-proof materials, will be provided. The total cost is estimated at $1.3 million;insurance settlement will total approximately $230,000.

The Lake Erie Opera Company is the second opera organization to cancel its1967-68 fall season because of a breakdown in union negotiations. When thecompany was first conceived in 1964, one of its purposes was to offer moreemployment to the members of the Cleveland Orchestra. Consequently the operaseason of two productions with six performances was planned for September,preceding the regular symphony season. During the spring and summer, man-agement-union negotiations for a new contract were futile and both the sym-phony and opera seasons were cancelled. Meanwhile a settlement with the unionwas reached, though too late for the opera company to perform this year. — TheChicago Lyric Opera has cancelled its 1967 season because of union demands(see 3/67 Bulletin), a season which used to include about forty performancesfeaturing nine different productions.

Ginastera's Bomarzo was to have the South American premiere in its nativeArgentina on August 4. Just two weeks before, on July 20, Buenos Aires' MayorSchettini announced the cancellation of the performance on grounds that it wasimmoral. The opera was first performed by the Opera Society of Wash-ington, D.C., last May and will have its New York premiere this winter by theNew York City Opera.

The previously announced premiere of Hugo Weisgall's new opera, Nine Riversfrom Jordan, scheduled by the New York City Opera for September, was post-poned because it "is not yet ready for production." No new date was announced.Replacing the work in the fall season will be Beeson's Lizzie Borden.

The previously announced visit of the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Companies toNew York's Lincoln Center contracted for April 1968 may be in jeopardy. Fol-lowing the Israel-Arab War, the Soviet Government cancelled this summer's U.S.tour by the Bolshoi Ballet on short notice. The tour, under the auspices of theUnited States-Soviet cultural exchange agreement, has its financial and bookingarrangements provided by impresario Sol Hurok. Although no further mentionwas made of next year's tour, terms may have to be renegotiated.

SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS

Two airline companies have announced major gifts to musical organizations.Eastern Air Lines will give $500,000 to the Metropolitan Opera over the nextfour years to be used towards the four new productions of the complete Ringdes Nibelungen. Die Walkiire is the first of the operas to be presented in Novem-ber of this year. Herbert von Karajan will conduct and direct. Trans WorldAirlines has announced a contribution of $150,000 towards a European tourof the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the summer of 1968. With expensesestimated at $500,000 and returns expected to amount to about half of this sum,the State Department support of $100,000 will cover the remaining cost. In1960 the Ford Motor Company also gave a grant of $150,000 to the Philharmonictowards a European tour.—The Bristol-Meyers Corporation awarded $300,000on a matching basis to Educational Broadcasting Channel 13 in New York.—The Schlitz Brewing Company was the sponsor of the New York PhilharmonicConcerts in the city's parks during the summer.

The Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, was the recipient of $1 millionfrom the Samuel Rubin Foundation. The money was set up in a fund to guaranteethe American participation in the Festival for the next ten years. The Italiangovernment is co-sponsoring the Festival.

McCall's magazine explored a new way of making each donated dollar count.Instead of giving a direct donation, the magazine will sponsor benefit film show-ings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a ballet film made by the New York CityBallet Company. One or more exclusive showings are contracted for twenty-eightcities across the country with an option for forty-two more cities. Proceeds willbe turned over to the resident symphony orchestra, the respective beneficiary.It is estimated that $1 to $2 million will be raised in this manner.

Donations for special projects included $500 from the Kulas Foundation to theCleveland Institute of Music for the purchase of tickets for students and facultyto musical events in the city. — The San Francisco Opera Company received theorchestra material and conductor's scores for the complete Ring des Nibelungenas well as the orchestra material for The Magic Flute from Wilfred Allen Taylor,a retired San Francisco businessman.

The two-year old National Council on the Arts has announced its recommen-dation for Congress to appropriate $139 million next year for the most exten-sive Federal arts program in the country's history. The amount Congress ap-proved for the first year in 1965 was $21 million. Federal monies spent in thearts within these two years supported many varied causes, from establishing oraiding arts councils to support of the visual arts, music, theatre, dance, film, TVand radio. In the breakdown of figures of the recent recommendation, $17.6million would go toward music, including orchestras, opera and choral groups.The most recent grant announced by the National Council is $500,000 towardsa $10 million artist's center on New York's lower West Side. Co-sponsoring thislow-income housing for approximately five hundred painters, composers, sculp-tors, choreographers and film makers, is the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

The Canada Council, the Canadian agency which dispenses federal grants to thearts, recently announced twenty-three recipients who will share the total of $2million of this year's government appropriations for the fine arts.

INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

Rome's Piccolo Teatro Musicale will be touring the United States next Spring underColumbia Artists Management. The forty-member company under director RenatoFasano is specializing in Italian baroque opera and its repertoire includes works byRossini, Paisiello, Pergolesi, Cimarosa and Fioravanti.

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Milan's "La Scala" was the one foreign company which has not previously announcedits schedule. Appearing in Montreal between October 5-16, the operas to be presentedare Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi in a new production to be unveiled in Montrealfor the first time with Scotto and Aragall; // Trovatore with Malaspini, Cossotto, Ber-gonzi and Cappucculli; Nabucco with Suliotis, Lane, Guelfi, Ghiaurov and finally,La Boheme with Sighele, Collier, Raimondi, Panerei and featuring von Karajan asconductor.

EDUCATION

North Carolina School of the Arts, now in its third year, has enrolled 340 stu-dents in music, dance and drama for the current semester. Approximately halfof the students are at college level, the other are high school students with sev-eral at junior high school level. All students are accepted by auditions only.

New York University is again offering "The Opera: Lecture and Performance."The $45 course comprises four evening lectures on operas performed by theNew York City Opera Company with subsequent visits to the performances. Atotal of four $5.95 opera tickets is included in the tuition fee.

Natalie Limonick, acting director at UCLA Opera Workshop, writes us whatwe believe may be of interest to all our readers: "Liaison work is beingestablished between UCLA Opera Workshop and the Public Schools. I contactthe music teachers and principals and any time we can utilize the school chil-dren in our productions, we do so. The teachers meet with me to go over tempi,etc. They teach school choruses or glee clubs. We select the best and integratethem into our production (e.g. Shepherd's Chorus in Amaht). They performwith us when we present the opera at their school and we invite them to joinus when we produce the opera on campus. In addition we tour our productionto jr. and sr. high schools. We are very grateful to Mr. N. Rossi, Music andDrama Consultant for Los Angeles Public Schools for his superb cooperation."

A new experiment in teaching the humanities is getting a trial run this year atthe University of California in Berkeley. Project EPOCH, (Educational Pro-gramming of Cultural Heritage) offered its first course to teachers this summer,combining multi-media and multi-projection in a newly designed environment.This room features "demonstrations," "exhibits" and "information retrieval files"on three different levels, promising new teaching strategies. Research and thesummer pilot program was made possible by a federal grant under Title MI.

OPERA FOR YOUTH

The Seattle Opera Company has found various means of offering opera to stu-dents. The engagement of young, lesser known singers for one performance ofeach scheduled opera has by now become an established routine (see 9/66 Bul-letin). This year six additional performances will be made available to studentsthrough a grant under Public Law 89-19 (Title III). Under the same law spon-sorship of a state tour of The Barber of Seville is planned for March 1968. Un-der the Summer Youth Program, a number of performances of Down in theValley were offered in culturally deprived areas of the city in August as partof the President's Council of Youth Opportunity. —Federal Funds under TitleIII will also make it possible for "Overture to Opera" to visit twenty-one citiesin Northern Michigan next spring. Dr. Di Chiera of Oakland University will beresponsible for the program presented under the auspices of Oakland Universityand the Detroit Grand Opera Association.

The Metropolitan Opera Studio is booked for eighty performances in schools be-fore the end of the year. Three productions are offered, Cosi fan tutte, The Bar-ber of Seville and "Shakespeare in Opera and Song." The company also offers lateafternoon concerts featuring arias, songs and ensembles at the Library and Mu-seum for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; on November 14 it will presentits first program of popular music at the Overseas Press Club in New York.

This summer the University of Minnesota Summer Session and the Center OperaCompany in Minneapolis cooperatively presented a summer workshop for be-ginners and advanced students. The six-week course was under the direction ofH. Wesley Balk.

MEETINGS, SEMINARSA three-day seminar sponsored by the Associated Councils of the Arts was heldin June in Warrenton, Va. One of the major developments resulting from themeeting was the formation of a new organization called the Assembly of StateAgencies. Although an autonomous organization of State Councils, it will, atleast at the outset, operate under the auspices of the ACA. The purpose of thenew unit is "to stimulate closer cooperation among state agencies, to provide aforum for discussions and recommendations and to create standards in this rela-tively recent area of activity." John Hightower, executive director of the NewYork State Arts Council, the oldest of the organizations established in 1960, wasvoted interim committee chairman. He will select twelve committee membersrepresenting all U.S. regions as well as Canada and Mexico.

In May a meeting of privately sponsored National Arts Organizations was calledby Donald Swinney, president of the United States Institute of Theatre Tech-nology, to explore areas of mutual interest. The possibility of forming an or-ganization to embrace all represented groups was discussed and rejected. It wasdecided that it would only add to the confusion of already existing organiza-tions. But, much common interest was found to exist and it was decided to meetperiodically for discussion. Hosting the meetings will alternate between the var-ious arts organizations, who as a composite body will be known as President'sCouncil. The next meeting will be under the sponsorship of the ACA in No-vember.

The New York Cultural Showcase arranges a two-week city wide festival begin-ning with a full day symposium for 1,000 of the city's leaders in the arts andsciences at the Waldorf Astoria on October 2. The Showcase Festival Fortnightwill feature events by over 150 organizations.

"Music in American Society" was the all embracing title of a symposium heldat Tanglewood July 23 to August 2. The meetings were sponsored by the MusicEducators National Conference in cooperation with the Berkshire Music Cen-ter, the Theodore Presser Foundation and the Boston Conservatory of Fine Arts.

In May a symposium on Contemporary American Music was held at IndianaUniversity at Terre Haute. It was facilitated through the assistance of the Rocke-feller Foundation. — The State College of Iowa in Cedar Falls is arranging aMusic Theatre Conference for High School Teachers for November 18. JaneBirkhead, director of the opera department, will be in charge.

AVAILABLE SETS AND COSTUMESThe Lake Erie Opera Theatre (11125 Magnolia Dr., Cleveland, Ohio) offerssets for rental for the following operas: Love for Three Oranges and The Bar-tered Bride. — The Baltimore Civic Opera Co. (R. Collinge, mgr. dir., H E .Lexington St.) in conjunction with the Peabody Conservatory of Music are will-ing to rent or sell sets for Rossellini's La Guerra and for Gianni Schicchi. They

were designed by Edward Haynes for a small to medium-size stage. — Thenow defunct North Shore Friends of Opera (Mrs. Edith Mugdan, 84 ProspectAve., Douglaston, N.Y.) would like to sell sets and costumes to Madama But-terfly, Turk in Italy, Giannini's The Taming of the Shrew and costumes onlyfor L'Elisir d'Amore, Hansel and Gretel and The Merry Wives of Windsor. —The Robert Howery Studio, scenic designs, (B. Williams, gen. mgr., 6315 Atwell,Houston, Texas) can supply sets and costumes for the following operas: Otello,Rigoletto, 11 Trovatore, Lucia di Lammermoor, Pagliacci, 11 Tabarro, MadamaButterfly, Der Rosenkavalier and Carmen. Included in the above list are somesets previously available from Rexford Harrower, Inter-Opera. Howery Studioalso has sets only (no costumes) for: Aida, Der fliegende Hollander, Le Coq d'Orand The Gypsy Baron. If required, the company will also supply lighting anda technical director.

PUBLICATIONS

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE by HermanE. Krawitz is a very attractive small book (66 pages) featuring color and black andwhite photographs, as well as diagrams of the opera house. Named "The OfficialGuidebook of the Metropolitan," it serves the regular opera patron by better ac-quainting him with the house and the one time visitor by supplying him with a color-ful souvenir. It is available for $2 at the publication desk in the Metropolitan Operafoyer and from book and music stores and by mail from the Metropolitan OperaGuild. Saturday Review is the publisher.

Other recent books of interest include THE GREAT CONDUCTORS by Harold Schon-berg, music critic of the New York Times. He traces the history of conducting byshowing period and national trends and features biographical sketches of conductorsand composers. This illustrated volume is published by Simon and Schuster and sellsfor $7.50.'— Appleton-Century, N.Y. is the publisher of OPERA IN CHICAGO byRoland Davis, priced at $12.50.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE WESTERN WORLD by Emanuel Winternitz,curator of instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features numerous out-standing color plates complementing Mr. Winternitz' informative text. This handsomevolume sells for $30. MrGraw-Hill is the publisher.

Jass Enterprises, P. O. Box 1771, Grand Central Station, New York, 10017, offers theJASS GUIDE TO P.D. MUSIC, a 232 page brochure listing music in public domain(no longer covered under copyright law). Included in this list arranged by titles aresongs, both popular and classical, instrumental pieces and operas. The Guide is avail-able for $2.50.

OVERVIEW is the title of a projected monthly digest of music criticism to be pub-lished by the Music Critics Association, Inc. No original articles are planned for themagazine which will concentrate on reprinting music articles and reviews with spe-cial emphasis given to American activities. MCA received a grant of $67,200 fromme National Council for the Arts for development of the new magazine; publicationis contemplated for 1969. Irving Lowens, music critic of the Washington (D.C.) Eve-ning Star was appointed chairman of the board of directors; additional board mem-bers are Dr. Boris Nelson, president of MCA and music critic of the Toledo Blade,Harold Schonberg of the New York Times, Thomas Willis of the Chicago Tribuneand Miles Kastendieck, formerly with the New York World Journal Tribune.

HONORIS CAUSA

On March 20, 1967, George London presented A.G.M.A.'s Annual Merit Award toJohn Brownlee, also nominated as Honorary President of AGMA by the Boardof Governors. — Darius Milhaud received an honorary degree of Doctor of Musicfrom Cleveland Institute of Music at the June 15th Commencement. — The Ameri-can Symphony Orchestra League honored American Telephone and Telegraph's "BellTelephone Hour" for "distinguished service to music and the arts." — On April 16,1967, Brandeis University honored men and women in the arts including composersRoss Lee and Claudio Spies. — American Composers' Alliance gave its annual LaurelLeaf Awards "for distinguished service to contemporary music" to three organiza-tions, the 32 year old performing group Composers Forum, the 10 year old FrommMusic Foundation and the 13-year-old radio station WBAl-FM.—

AWARDS AND WINNERS

On Sunday, November 5 at 8 p.m., the Finals of the Metropolitan Opera NationalCouncil Auditions will be held in the Metropolitan Opera House. The nine winnersof the Semi-Finals (see 4/67 Blltn.) will compete for three prizes and a possible con-tract with the Metropolitan Opera. As usual, tickets are available from the AuditionsProgram of the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Lincoln Center Plaza, NewYork, N.Y. 10023. A voluntary contribution of $5 for a single or a pair of tickets issuggested. Requests are filled in the order in which they are received.

At the San Francisco Opera Auditions, the James Schwabacher $1,000 Award waswon by Nina Hinson, 25-year-old mezzo-soprano from Los Angeles; the FlorenceBruce $750 Award was won by Sheila Marks, soprano from Seattle, Washington. Bothare eligible for contracts with the San Francisco Opera, the Spring Opera or the West-ern Opera Theatre. Also chosen from the ten finalists were Marji Tucker, 24-year-old soprano from Albuquerque, New Mexico and William Neill, 25-year-old tenorfrom Austin, Texas as runners-up. The $500 William Kent Jr. Memorial Award waswon by Morris Crisci, 23-year-old tenor from San Diego. All finalists participated inthe seven-week Merola Opera Training Program. The $1,000 Gropper Memorial Awardwent to Texan tenor William Neill after his participation in the Merola Opera Program.— Carol Ann Curry and Maurice Brown shared the CBC Talent Festival's 1967 $1,000vocal prize.

1967 Jeunesses Musicales of Canada had three categories, one voice and two instru-mental. There were eighty entries in the vocal category but no first prize was awarded.Second prize of $2,000 and a concert with the Montreal Symphony went to Annon-Lee Silver, soprano, from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. — This year's International MusicCompetition in Montreal had twelve winners from four countries with awards totaling$23,500 and a concert of the four top winners in Montreal on June 3. First prize of$7,500 went to Marina Krilovici, 24-year-old dramatic soprano from Rumania; sec-ond prize went to Yuri Mazurok, 35-year-old baritone from the Soviet Union; thirdprize of $2,500 went to 1966 Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition winnerGwendolyn Killebrew, 25-year-old mezzo-soprano from Philadelphia. Other Ameri-cans were fifth prize winner ($1,500) 27-year-old soprano Gwendoline Sims; ninthprize winner of $500, 26-year-old baritone Frank McDevitt, and twelfth prize win-ner of $500, Bruce Brewer, 25-year-old tenor.

The Third International Competition of Young Opera Singers in Sofia, Bulgaria, waswon by American soprano Joy Davidson. — The ninth annual Winifred Cecil 1967Joy in Singing contest was won by Tokyo soprano Yoshiko Ito. The prize was a TownHall recital on May fifth. — New York soprano Esther Hinds won first prize in thewomen's voice category of the National Federation of Music Clubs 1967 Young Ar-tists Auditions; oratorio division winner was Carol Stuart, soprano from Minnesota.Each won $1,500. — Jeanette Scovotti, who established the Fred Patrick MemorialFund giving financial assistance to promising young singers, has awarded a studygrant to coloratura Pettine Croul of New Zealand. — In Paris, the Union des Fem-mes Artistes Musiciennes winners were French soprano Sylvia Valot and Argentiniansoprano Anna Maria Miranda who each won first prizes of 2,500 francs, Argentiniantenor Riccardo Cassinelli who won second prize of 1,000 francs and French baritoneGabriel Chalasenet who won third prize. A special Britten award went to RosanneCreffield, from Great Britain.

Affiliated Artists Inc., has widely expanded since its inception (see Jan. 1966 Bul-letin). Performing artists are appointed to colleges and universities as artists-in-resi-dence with an obligatory minimum of eight weeks of teaching and performing onthe campus; the remainder of the time is free for concertizing. — This year, the fol-lowing will be artists-in-residence through AAI: soprano Elizabeth Cole at MaunaoluCol., Paia, Hawaii; soprano Kay Griffel at Coe Col., Cedar Rapids, Iowa; JulianPatrick at Rocky Mt. Col., Billings, Mont.; soprano Mary Beth Piel at Alma Coll.,Mich.; soprano Karen Roewade at Maryville Col., Maryville, Tenn.; baritone EugeneHolmes at Tougaloo Col., Miss.; baritone Richard Allen at Gustavis Adolphus Col.,St. Peter, Minn.; tenor Gerald Siena at Fla. Presbyt. Col., St. Petersburg, Fla.; bass-baritone Noel Jan Tyl at Emory Univ., Atlanta, Ga.; and dancer Ethel Winter atHood Col., Frederick, Md.

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PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

President Johnson has appointed to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Cen-ter for the Performing Arts Robert Lehman, New York banker; Jack Valenti, Presi-dent of Motion Pictures Ass'n; Charles Alston, professor at City College; and RobertMillonzi, Executive Committee member of the Buffalo Philharmonic. He re-appointedchairman, Roger L. Stevens, Richard Adler and Arthur Schiesinger, Jr. — MichaelV. Forrestal, son of the late James Forrestal, Sec. of Defense, has been named presi-dent of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, succeeding Langdon Van Norden who heldthe post for the past 14 years. Mr. Van Norden was elected Chairman of the Board.The Guild was founded 32 years ago by Mrs. August Belmont. — August Heckscherhas named New York artist, Mrs. Doris Freedman, as special assistant for culturalaffairs in his New York City Administration of Recreation and Cultural Affairs. Mrs.Freedman is the daughter of Irwin S. Chamin, architect-builder and executive inKeystone Associates, the company which demolished the old Metropolitan OperaHouse. — Three composers, William Bergsma from Seattle, Gunther Schuller fromCleveland and Robert Ward from North Carolina, have been elected to membershipin the National Institute of Arts and letters. — The National Federation of MusicClubs at its 34th Biennal Convention held in New York in April with 1,000 mem-bers attending elected as president Mrs. Maurice Honigman of Gastonia, North Caro-lina, succeeding Mrs. Clifton Muir of Florida. Also elected were Merle Montgomeryfrom New York as first vice president, Mrs. Fank Vought from Virginia as record-ing secretary and Philip Plank from Maryland as treasurer. — Maurice Feldman,New York public relations counsel, was appointed representative of the Vienna StateOpera in connection with its guest appearance at Expo '67 in September. — HughSouthern, formerly with the National Repertory Theatre Foundation and the Reper-tory Theatre of Lincoln Center, has the new position of management associate withthe San Francisco Opera. — A new member of the Board of Directors of the As-sociated Council of die Arts is C. Bagley Wright, director of Seattle's Space NeedleCorporation, of MacMillan Bloedel and Powell River, Ltd., of the National Bank ofCommerce and president of the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

The new president of the San Francisco Spring Opera is J. Peter Cahill, past presi-dent of the Symphony Foundation, who succeeds R. D. Mackenzie, now Chairmanof the Board. The administrative vice president of the Spring Opera is Charles Nobleand artistic vice president is James Schwabacher, Jr. — Advertising executive ArthurS. Meyerhoff has been appointed chairman of the "Build San Diego Opera Fund,"a drive for $150,000 in private contributions. — Byron Kelley is the executive di-rector of the New Jersey Council on the Arts. -— A. J. Fletcher, founder and presi-dent of the National Grass Roots Opera Foundation, Inc., was appointed by the Gov-ernor of North Carolina to the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina School ofthe Arts and chairman for opera in the North Carolina Arts Council. — The Man-hattan School of Music appointed David S. Cooper as executive director, MartinSokoloff as administrative director and Stephen Jay as associate dean. — The Boardof Trustees of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the National Music Camp in In-terlochen, Mich, have elected Karl Haas as president, succeeding the late Joseph E.Maddy. Mr. Haas is also chairman of the Michigan State Council of the Arts anddirector of fine arts at radio station WJR in Detroit.

George London has been elected the new president of the American Guild of MusicalArtists, succeeding John Brownlee. — Hamilton Southam has been appointed directorof the $40 million National Arts Center in Ottawa, scheduled to open in the Springof 1969. — New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller presented the 2nd annual awardby the N.Y. State Council of the Arts for contributions to enhance the State's artisticcondition. Among the thirteen recipients in music were The Lake George Opera Co.,Kleinhans Music Hall of Buffalo, N.Y. City's Park Department and the SaratogaPerforming Arts Center. — The new assistant director of the Brooklyn Academy ofMusic is Lloyd Hezekiah, formerly assistant director of the Repertory Theatre of theBedford Stuyvesant Youth and Action-Cultural Arts Division. — Jennie Tourel, re-cently named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters for her contribution toFrench music and opera, has been appointed to the faculty of the Hartt College ofMusic in Hartford, Conn., where she will present a series of master classses. Alsoappointed to the Hartt College of Music faculty is tenor William Diard. — JerroldRoss is the new head of Music Education Division at New York University Schoolof Education. — Vernor Wicker, now teaching at Bemidji State College, has beenappointed Resident and Singer at Concordia College starting September, 1967. —Wolfgang Rennert, brother of Gunther Rennert, who is director at the Bavarian StateOpera, is now musical director of the Theater am Gartnerplatz in Munich. — C. F.Peters Corporation, 375 Park Ave. South, New York, N.Y. has been appointed soleagent in the United States and Canada for the German music publisher Hanssler-Verlag.

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FINAL PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1966-67 SEASON

ALABAMABirmingham Southern College Opera Workshop, M. D. McClung, dir.Fall '66 Sister Angelica; The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 8 pfs.

ARIZONAUniversity of Arizona Opera Theatre, E. Conley, dir., Tucson10/20, 21, 22/66 Elixir of Love Eng. Martin1/19/67, 5/19/67 Operatic Scenes4/21, 22, 23/67 The Tales of Hoffmann5/23/67 John Davis' The Pardoner's Tale7/11, 12/67 Sunday Excursion & scenes

ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas Opera Workshop, K. L. Ballenger, dir., Fayetteville4/12, 13, 14, 21, 25/67 The Old Maid and the Thief7/67 Two musical comedies

CALIFORNIAAmerican Opera Co., B. Goldman, dir., Los Angeles3/11, 12/67 // Trovatore cond: Lessing; dir: RogersCalifornia Lutheran College Opera Workshop, G. Muser, dir.,

Thousand Oaks1/13, 14, 15/67 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin1/27, 28, 29/67 Amahl and the Night VisitorsChico State College Opera Workshop, James Kinnee, dir., Chico1/12/67 Operatic scenes4/5, 6, 7/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. Dietz-KaninCollege of Marin Opera Workshop, Festival Theatre, L. Snyder, mus. dir.,

Larkspur1/6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22/67 Tale for a Deaf Ear & Trouble in Tahiti4/21, 22/67 Suor Angelica Eng. MachlisEducational Opera Assn., J. A. Ford, exec, dir., Burbank10/66-4/67 Don Pasquale Eng. Reese 23 pfs. in schools w.p. (abt. 1 hour)Fresno Opera Assn., N. Iacovetti, mus. dir., Fresno11/4, 5/66 La Bohime Eng. Martin4/21, 22/67 The Bartered Bride Eng. FarquharGuild Opera Company, J. R. Moss, bus. admin., Los Angeles5-6/67 La Cenerentola Eng. Gallagher, 13 pfs.Humboldt State College, Opera Workshop, Dr. L. Wagner, dir., Arcata1/67 Hansel and Gretel w.p.5/67 The Impresario, There and Back & In a Garden w.p.Lamplighters—Opera West Foundation, S. Beman, exec, v.p., San Francisco11/20, 27/66, 5/13/67 Cost fan tutte Eng. Mead1966-67 Repertory fashion Gilbert and SullivanLong Beach City College Opera Workshop, W. Gard, dir., Long Beach3/16, 17, 18/67 Trouble in Tahiti cond: A. EndoMerola Opera Program, sponsored by San Francisco Opera Co.7/30/67 Carmen Eng Martin, at Stern Grove8/12, 13/67 Dido and Aeneas & Angelique at Paul Masson VinyardsMusk Academy of the West, Mrs. "V. Cochran, exec, dir., Santa Barbara8/12, 14, 15/67 La BohimeNorthern California Methodist Conference, Stockton6/17/67 Johnson's play Roger William and Mary music Don Mueller, prem.Opera Career Workshop, Immaculate Heart Coll., M. S. Warenskjold, dir.,

Los Angeles1/6, 7/67 Lakmi Eng. Baker w.p.4/14, 15, 16/67 The Maid as Mistress Eng. Stoessel & act I The Magic FluteRiverside Opera Assn., F. Calkins, gen. dir., H. Wolf, mus. dir.5/19, 20/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. MartinSan Diego State College Opera Workshop, Lyman Hurd III, dir.1/6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15/67 H.M.S. Pinafore w.p.5/12, 13, 19, 20/67 Albert Herring w.orch.San Fernando Valley State College Opera Workshop, D. W. Scott, dir.,

Northridge11/66 Musical 6 pfs.4/7, 8, 9, 14, 15/67 Cavalleria Rusticana & Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters7/21, 22, 25, 28, 29/67 La Traviata

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San Francisco State College Opera Theatre, Dewey Camp, urns. dir.11/18/66 Iphigenia in Tauris Eng. Camp & Lardner3/10, 11, 17, 18/67 Cosi fan tutte Eng. MartinSan Jose State College Opera Workshop, £ . C. Dunning, dir., San Jose5/5, 6/67 The Long Christmas DinnerSanta Barbara Civic Opera Co., W. B. Collier, dir.7/6/67 Madama Butterfly N. Lynn, Mackay; Lachona, GilbertSanta Monica Civic Opera Assn., J. Garotto, mgr.11/27/66 Andrea Chenier2/6/67 Die Fledermaus4/8/67 Rigoletto6/10/67 Musical8/27/67 La Forza del destinoSonoma State College Opera Workshop, Peggy Donovan, dir., Rohnert Park5/4, 5, 6/67 L'Heure Espagnole Eng. Wolff & Manage aux Lanterns Eng. Kahn,

w. 2 p.University of Calif, at Los Angeles Opera Workshop, Natalie Limonick, dir.12/6, 8, 10, 11, 12/66Amahl and the Night Visitors w. 2 p.2/28 3/2, 6, 10, 15 4/7/67 Cosi fan tutte Eng. Martin, w. 2 p.2/4, 11, 12, 18, 25 3/5, 11, 18/67 Babar, the Elephant6/2, 3, 4/67 Eugene Onegin Eng. Reese, w. orch.

COLORADOColorado State College Opera Guild, C. Schmitz, dir., Greeley8/10, 11/67 Gianni Schicchi Eng. GrossmanColorado State University Opera Dept., Fort Collins2/9, 10, 11/67 Rigoletto Eng. MachlisColorado Woman's College Opera Workshop, A. Schoep, dir., Denver6/22/67 Livietta and Tracollo Eng. Goldovsky & Old Maid and the ThiefUniversity of Denver Opera Workshop, Miss G. McGiffert, dir.3/2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11/67 Cosi fan tutte5/67 Lockwood's Requiem for a Rich Young Man video tape for KRMA

CONNECTICUTDelphi Opera Group, J. Brainerd, dir., New Canaan1966-67 Cosi fan tutte w. Greenwich Symphony, 2 pfs.

" " Pergolesi's The Music Master in Stamford" " Faust 2 pfs. in Bridgeport

The Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam8/21-9/2/67 IolantheMusic Vale Opera Co., Mitchell College, New London7/18, 20, 22/67 Madama Butterfly8/1, 3, 5/67 Cosi fan tutteSimsbury Light Opera Co., J. L. Emerson, pres., Simsbury4-5/67 The Mikado 9 pfs.

FLORIDAOpera Arts Assn. Inc., Dolores McReynolds, art. dir., Merrit Island3/17/67 La Traviata Eng. Martin revised schedule5/28/67 Hansel and Gretel Eng. Bache7/7, 8/67 Carmen Eng. Martin

DELAWAREWilmington Opera Society, E. W. Kjeilmark, Jr., pres.11/66 The Merry Widow 3 pfs.4/28, 29, 30/67 La Bohime

GEORGIAAtlanta Municipal Theatre, C. Manos, gen. mgr., Opera in the Park8/29, 31/67 Aida B. Thebom, dir.Berry College, Department of Music., H. M. Savige, Mount Berry4/21, 22/67 The Medium w.p., harpsichord, bass, perc.

HAWAIIChaminade College Opera Workshop, M. S. Warenskjold, dir., Honolulu8/4, 5, 6, 7/66 Cosi fan tutte Eng. Warenskjold8/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. Warenskjold, 4 pfs.Honolulu Symphony Opera Festival, G. Barati, mus. dir., summer schedule7/21, 22/67 The Gypsy Baron Eng. Martin, Todd; Sullivan

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IDAHORicks College Music Department, Chester Hill, Rexburg12/7, 8, 9, 10/66 Die Fledermaus Eng. MartinUniversity of Idaho Opera Workshop, Dorothy Barnes, dir., Moscow12/66 Operatic scenes5/19, 20/67 The Devil Take Her w.p.

ILLINOISAmerican Opera Co., Anna Del Preda, gen. dir., Chicago10/1/66 1/14/67 La Traviata12/10/66 Rigoletto3/11/67 Un Ballo in maschera5/20/67 Aida6/3/67 // Trovatore6/11/67 Cavalleria Rusticana & PagliacciChicago Symphony Orchestra, June Festival, Orchestra Hall6/15, 17/67 Dido and Aeneas concert pf., Forrester, Orantes, Kopleff; cond:

JanigroLithuanian Opera of Chicago, A. Kuchunas, art dir.5/20, 21/67 Garzina Sukis; VokataitisNorthern Illinois University Opera Workshop, E. Smith, dir., DeKalb4/12, 14, 16, 17, 19/67 The MediumSouthern Illinois Univ. Opera Productions, Marjorie Lawrence, dir.,

Carbondale2/24, 25, 26/67 Carmen Eng. Martin

INDIANABethel College Opera Guild, Elliott Nordgren, Misbawaka5/20/67 Down in the ValleyFort Wayne Philharmonic Opera Company, E. L. Higgins, mgr.5/26, 27/67 Don Pasquale Eng.

IOWADrake University Opera Workshop, Marion Hall, dir., Des Monies4/21, 22/67 Secret Marriage Eng. Bird-Witherspoon & The Cloak Eng. Machlis,7/2/67 Double Trouble w.o.University of Northern Iowa, Opera Theatre, Jane Birkhead, dir. Cedar Falls11/16, 17, 19, 20/66 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin4/26, 27, 28, 30 5/1/67 MusicalUniversity of Iowa Opera Workshop, H. Stark, dir., Iowa City4/29/67 Le Roi I'a dit Eng. Orton-Stark-Pecile8/1, 2, 4, 5/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. Dietz-Kanin

KANSASFort Hays Kansas State College, Division of Music, Hays2/24, 25/67 Amelia Goes to the BallKansas State University Opera Theatre, T. Golecke, mus. dir., Manhattan2/17, 18/67 Riders to the Sea & The TelephoneKansas State College, Opera Theatre, L. W. Siegle, dir., Pittsburp2/22, 24/67 The Barber of Seville Eng Martin5/19/67 The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County & Game of ChanceJune-July/67 Two MusicalsTabor College Opera Workshop, Robert Jones, dir., Hillsboro2/28 3/2/67 Comedy on the Bridge Eng. Schmolka & What Men Live By

KENTUCKYMargaret Hall School, T. J. Oliver, Versailles5/15/67 The Play of DanielWest Kentucky University, Dr. H. Carpenter, Bowling Green3/29, 30, 31 4/1/67 Carmen Eng. MartinUniversity of Kentucky Opera Theatre, Sheila House, dir., Lexington11/18-20/66 Thompson's Solomon and Balkis & Rita3/2-5/67 The Medium7/19-23/67 Street Scene

LOUISIANALouisiana State University Opera Theatre, P. P. Fuchs., dir., Baton Rouge11/16, 17/66 Cosi fan tutte Eng. Martin2/20, 22/67 Iphigenia in Tauris

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Shreveport Symphony Society Repertory Opera Co., J. Shenaut, mus. dir.1/9, 11/67 Rigoletto Eng. Machlis1/23, 25/67 Mack's Nora prem.2/6, 8/67 La Boheme Eng. Dietz (2/9 in Grambling, La.)2/28 3/1/67 Carmina Burana & BalletUniv. of Southwestern La. Opera Guild, W. Ducrest, gen. mgr., Lafayette2/15, 16, 18/67 Faust Eng. Fuchs4/26, 27, 28/67 The Merry Widow Eng. Hassall-Lazarus-Brown7/18, 19, 20/67 Musical

MARYLANDMontgomery Junior College, G. Muller, dir. opera, Rockville12/16/66 Amahl and the Night Visitors3/16, 17, 18/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. MartinUniversity of Maryland Opera Workshop, College Park2/15, 16, 18/67 La Boheme Eng. Martin

MASSACHUSETTSCambridge Opera, Inc., Campbell Johnson, art. dir., 11 Garden Street10/22/66 The Old Maid and the Thief1/67 Bastien and Bastienne & Der Schauspieldirektor2/25/67 The Telephone & II Tabarro Eng. Machlis3/10, 11/67 Rigoletto Eng. Martin8/25, 26/67 Italian Girl in Algiers Eng. Martin

MICHIGANDearborn Opera Theatre, K. Hansen, coordinator, Dearborn8/8/67 Bastien and Bastienne Eng. Bartusek-BairMeadow Brook Festival, Detroit Symphony, R. Shaw, cond.8/3/67 Oedipus Rex concert pf.University of Michigan Opera Workshop, J. Blatt, dir., Ann Arbor11/17, 18, 21, 22/66 Don Pasquale Eng. Blatt2/23, 24, 25, 26/67 Faust Eng. Blatt8/3, 4, 5/67 Don Giovanni Eng. MartinWayne State University Opera Workshop, H. Begian, mus. dir., Detroit5/25/67 The Pearl Fishers Eng. Cole

MINNESOTACollege of St. Benedict, Sister Mary H. Juettner, St. Joseph5/11-15/67 The ConsulDuluth Symphony Assn., H. Herz, mus. dir., Duluth9/16, 18/66 CarmenMankato State College Opera Workshop, J. Berg, dir. Mankato3/8, 9, 10, 11/67 Cosi fan tutte Eng. MartinMoorhead State College Opera Singers, Dwayne Jorgenson, dir., Moorhead5/11, 12, 13/67 Don Giovanni Eng. DentSt. Paul Opera Workshop, Mady Metzger, dir., St. Paul1966-67 Suor Angelica; The Bartered Bride; Cavalleria Rusticana; 2 MusicalsUniversity of Minnesota, Opera Workshop, Dolores Langdon, dir., Duluth5/5, 6/67 Riders to the Sea & GallantryUniversity of Minnesota, Opera Workshop, P. Knowles, din, Minneapolis12/2, 3/66 Burge's Intervals & A Hand of Bridge6/3, 4 5/67 Don Pasquale Eng. Mead

MISSISSIPPIMississippi College Opera Workshop, W. G. Claxton, dir., Clinton4/16/67 Impresario5/7, 8/67 Norma

MISSOURICentral Missouri State College, Opera Theatre, D. Scott, WarrensburgMay 67 Cosi fan tutteCulver-Stockton College Opera Workshop, C. Olson, assist, dir., Canton5/11, 12, 13/67 Cosi fan tutte Eng. Martin w.p.Southwest Mo. State College Opera Workshop, D. Emanuel, dir., Springfield11/19, 20, 21/66 Sister Angelica Eng. Withers2/10, 11, 12, 17, 18/67 La Traviata

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NEW HAMPSHIREThe Hanover Opera Workshop, Mrs. R. Morton, dir., at Hopkins CenterMay 67 Faust w.p.University of New Hampshire Opera Workshop, W. E. Orr, dir., Durham11/17, 18/66 Scenes from Boris Godunov & Fidelio w.p.4/10, 11/67 La Serva padrona w.p.

NEW JERSEYMonmouth Conservatory of Music Opera Workshop, F. Molzer, dir.,

Little Spring11/18, 19, 20/66 Rita Eng. Mead & Gallantry6/2, 3, 4/67 La Serva padrona Eng. Furgiuele & A Game of ChanceMonmouth Opera Festival, Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park6/18/67 Carmen Pospinov, Dale; Lacona, LambrinosThe Paterson Lyric Opera Theatre, A. Boyajian, art dir., Paterson10/23 11/13/66 Carmen all with piano4/14, 22/67 La Traviata5/20/67 Macbeth7/14, 15/67 ToscaPrinceton Chamber Orchestra, Gordon Andrews, mgr., Princeton4/26/67 Orefo ed Euridice concert pf.Trenton State College Opera Workshop, B. Steele, dir., Trenton12/1/66 The Barber of Seville Eng. Martin12/2, 3/66 Cavalleria Rusticana Eng. May & scenes3/16, 17, 18/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin

NEW MEXICOEastern New Mexico Uni. Opera Workshop, D. W. Moore, dir., Portales12/1, 2, 3/66 Pagliacci & Amahl and the Night Visitors w.p.5/11, 12, 13/67 The Bartered Bride w.orch. (revised schedule)

NEW YORKOpera Theatre of Rochester, Ruth Rosenberg, gen. mgr., Rochester10/29/66 6/19 7/10/67 Pagliacci2/18 7/3/67 Birthday of the Infanta w.p.8/7/67 The Beggar's OperaOpera Under the Stars, L. Treash, art. dir., Rochester, revised schedule6/21, 24/67 Don Pasquale cond: Genhart; dir: Treash; des: Struthers7/12, 15/67 The Crucible cond: Hollenbach; dir: Murray7/26, 29/67 The Merry Wives of Windsor cond: Genhart; dir: MurrayThe Summer Savoyards, Mitchell Rothman, dir., Binghamton8/11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20/67 The GondoliersVassar College Music Department, A. Pearson, chmn., Poughkeepsie2/25/67 L'Incoronazione di Poppea Eng. Proctor- Gregg

NEW YORK CITYBarnard College, The Collegium Musicum, Ellen Terry1/12, 13, 14/67 Acis and Galatea4/27, 28, 19/67 The Medium w.p.Brooklyn College Music Department Opera Theatre, K. KSpe, dir.11/5, 6/66 La BohimeYllbd Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica 3 pfs.5/67 Cosi fan tutte 3 pfs.Manhattan Opera Co., G. Caley, dir., at NYC parks8/8, 15, 28/67 Tosca Eng. Gutman8/14, 19, 9/12/67 Andrea Chinier Eng. Siegal-Lyman8/21, 29/67 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci8/27 9/13/67 Aida Eng. DuclouxMaster Institute of United Arts, P. Meyer, mus. dir., 310 Riverside Dr.6/11/67 Operatic scenes w.p.Messina Opera Co., Jamaica, corrected schedule10/28/66 Aida 5/3, 5/67 La Bohime12/3/66 Lucia di Lammermoor 5/10/67 Carmen3/11/67 Rigoletto 5/12/67 Tosca4/29/67 Cavalleria Rusticana & PagliacciN.Y.C. Park's Department Theatre Workshop, W. H. Brown, mus. dir.,

East River Amphitheatre8/30, 31, 9/1, 2/67 Schuman's Mighty Casey & Hindemith's Let's Build a Town &

Weill's He Who Says YesY Choral Society, I. Rubenfeld, art. dir., 1395 Lexington Ave.5/21/67 Judas Maccabeus

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NORTH CAROLINAEast Carolina Opera Workshop, Greenville1/27, 28/67 Der Freischiitz Eng.4/21/67 Riders to the Sea & Comedy on the BridgeUniversity of North Carolina Opera Theatre, W. Mason, dir., Chapel Hill2/4, 5/67 Don Giovanni Eng. own5/2, 3/67 ReginaUniversity of North Carolina Opera Theatre, P. Hickfang, Greensboro4/6, 7, 8, 9/67 Un hallo in maschera Eng. Fuchs7/15/67 La Boheme Eng. Martin (workshop prod.)

NORTH DAKOTAUniversity of North Dakota Opera Co., Ph. Hisey, dir., Grand Forks4/27, 28, 29/67 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin

OHIOBluffton College Opera Workshop, Bluffton3/3, 4/67 H.M.S. Pinafore concert formColumbus Symphony Orchestra, A. McCracken, mgr., Columbus4/19/67 Bom Godunov concert excerpts, Eng. Gutman; Hines, Kelly, BeattieOberlin Conservatory Opera Theatre, Daniel Harris, dir., OberUn11/10, 12/66 Cosi fan tutte Eng. Martin5/13/67 The Tender Land concert pf., cond: CoplandOhio State University Opera Ensemble, Irma Cooper, dir., Columbus12/9/66 Operatic scenes3/4, 5/67 Gianni Schicchi Eng. Grossman & scenes from Magic Flute w.p.5/20/67 The Medium & Act 11 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin w.p.Springfield Civic Opera Co., Margret Kommel, Springfield11/11, 12/66 Die Fledermaus Eng. Dietz-Kanin3/10, 11/67 Carmen Eng. MartinThe Toledo Orchestra, Serge Founder, mus. dir., Toledo2/10, 11/67 Die Entfuhrung aus dent Serail concert pf.2/25/67 Hansel and Gretel in cooperation with Piccolo Opera, Detroit

OKLAHOMAOklahoma City University Opera Theatre, Inez L. Silberg, dir.12/2, 3/66 Van Grove's Ruth & Sunday Excursion & The Impresario4/21, 22/67 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng. MartinTulsa University Opera Department, D. Wright, dir., Tulsa2/2, 6/67 Gallantry w.p.5/18, 19, 20/67 The Consul w.orch.University of Oklahoma, Opera Theatre, J. Harrold, dir., Norman12/15/66 5/3/67 Operatic scenes2/19, 20/67 The Marriage of Figaro w.p., Eng. Harrold4/20, 21, 22/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. Kerby

OREGONPortland State College Opera Workshop, John Stehn, dir., Portland12/1, 2, 3, 4/66 The Mikado5/18, 19, 20/67 Goyescas & PagliacciUniversity of Oregon Opera Theatre, James Miller, mus. dir., Eugene12/3/66 Gallantry & Orne's Cooper & Game of Chance4/14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22/67 The Pirates of Penzance5/27/67 Blow's Venus and Adonis & Sister Angelica Eng. Withers

PENNSYLVANIAChatham College, The Opera Workshop, F. Kurzweil, dir., Pittsburgh8/17, 26/67 In a Garden8/29/67 Metano's The Flight into EgyptCurtis Institute Opera Dept., Martial Singher, dir., Philadelphia3/14/67 Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi w.p.3/16/67 // Tabarro w.p.4/7, 15/67 // Tabarro & Gianni Schicchi w.orch.4/9/67 Bastien and Bastienne & Gianni Schicchi w.orch.Lancaster Opera Workshop, Leonore Reese, pres., Lancaster11/25, 26, 27, 12/9, 14/66 Amahl and the Night Visitors w.p.6/14, 15, 16, 17/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. MartinLittle Lyric Opera Co., Theatre Under the Stars, Philadelphia5/28 6/5/67 Don Pasquale5/31/67 La Traviata

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Muhlenberg College Opera Workshop, L. Lenel, dir., Allentown12/8, 9, 10/66 Amahl and the Night VisitorsPhiladelphia Savoy Opera Co., at Academy of Music5/ 19, 20/67 The Pirates of PenzanceRittenhouse Opera Society, M. Farnese, art. dir., Philadelphia1/19, 20, 21/67 L'Amico Fritz & Suor Angelica3/16, 17, 18/67 Lord Byron's Love Letters4/8 6/28 8/4, 5/67 Cavalleria Rusticana3/16, 17, 18 4/16 7/7, 17, 25, 26/67 // Campanello4/8-16/67 Pagliacci4/27, 28, 29/67 Madama Butterfly7/25, 26/67 Devil and Daniel WebsterSaint Fidelis College, Oakland Lyric Co., R. Feilner, dir., Pittsburgh11/5/66 The Telephone, Comedy on the Bridge & Trouble in Tahiti

SOUTH CAROLINAAnderson College Music Department, William Bridges, Anderson12/11/66 Amahl and the Night VisitorsBob Jones University Opera Assn., D. Gustafson, dir., Greenville5/25, 30/67 Abu Hassan Eng. Harris (see also 9/66 Blltn.)

SOUTH DAKOTAUniversity of South Dakota Opera Workshop, C. W. Hough, Vermillion1966-67 Arabesque (Rudolf Marek) prem.Northern State College, J. Berggren, chmn. Division Fine Arts, Aberdeen1966-67 Secret of Susanna w.p.

TEXASTexas Arts and Industry Univ. Music Dept., Th. Pierson, chmn., KingsvHle12/1, 2/66 The Mikado w.p.4/14, 15/67 Aida w.orch. Eng. DuclouxTexas Christian University Opera Workshop, F. Berens, dir., Fort Worth2/24, 25/67 Schwanda, the Bagpiper Eng.Texas Woman's University Opera Workshop, Joan Wall, dir., Denton1/9, 10, 11, 12/67 Hansel and Gretel Eng. Bache w.p.University of Houston Opera Workshop, John Druary, dir., Houston4/7, 8/67 Requiem for a Rich Young Man & The MediumUniversity of Texas Opera Workshop, R. Picardi, Austin11/10, 11/66 Operatic scenes3/16, 17, 18/67 The Bartered Bride Eng. MarshallU.S. Army Air Defense Center, H. C. Pattee, Special Services, Houston12/11, 17, 18/66 Amahl and the Night Visitors w. 2 p.

UTAHUniversity of Utah Opera Co., A. Watts, exec, dir., Salt Lake City1-2/67 The Impresario 16 pfs. (see also 9/66 Blltn.)

VIRGINIAArlington Opera Theatre, R. Weilenmann, mus. dir., Arlington10/14, 15, 16/66 Rigoletto Eng. Machlis2/24, 25, 26/67 The Barber of Seville Eng. Martin; Fling; Torigi, Siena,

Summers4/28, 29, 30/67 Madama Butterfly Eng. Martin; Monette, Evans; Mallette,

GregoriLynchburg College Opera Workshop, R. Ellinwood, dir., Lynchburg12/11, 12, 13/66 Little Red Riding Hood w.p.4/27, 28, 29/67 Noye's Fludde w.orch.Old Dominion College Opera Workshop, H. G. Hawn, dir., Norfolk1/14/67 Slow Dusk & Jumping Frog of Calaveras County5/27/67 The Bartered Bride Eng. NewmarchPeninsula Civic Opera Inc., Newport News10/21/66 4/21, 22/67 Musical1/20, 21/67 Tosca Eng.Virginia State College Opera Workshop, W. Patterson, dir., Petersburg12/15/66 Amahl and the Night Visitors5/11/67 The Telephone & Captain Lovelock

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WASHINGTONBainbridge Light Opera Assn., £ . M. Ulloa, mgr., Bainbridge Island6/16, 17, 18/67 The GondoliersSeattle Opera Assn. in-school-program (reg. season 6/66 Blltn)8/67 Down in the Valley 6 pfs. under President's Council of Youth OpportunitiesUniversity of Washington Festival Opera, Stanley Chappie, dir., Seattle4/26, 28/67 Eugene Onegin (replacing Don Carlo) Eng. Reese (1/67 Blltn.)8/16, 18/67 Gianni Schicchi & Old Maid and the ThiefWashington State University Opera Theatre, Margaret Davis, dir., Pullman1/22/67 Orpheus and Euridice Eng. Ducloux & Argento's The Boor w.p.5/4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13/67 The Magic Flute Eng. MartinWestern Washington State College, Opera Workshop, Th. Osborne,

Bellingham12/13-18/66 The Beauty and the Beast w.p.5/12, 13/67 Riders to the Sea w.p.7/28, 29/67 Hoist's Savitri & Gianni Schicchi

WEST VIRGINIAJohnson Memorial Methodist Church, H. McDowell, mus. dir., Huntington3/3/67 Sister Angelica Eng. WithersOglebay Institute Opera Workshop, B. Goldovsky, dir., Wheeling8/23/67 Madama Butterfly Eng. Martin

WISCONSINMadison Civic Music Ass'n., R. Johnson, mus. dir., Madison2/9, 10, 11, 17, 24, 25/67 Die Fledermaus Eng. Dietz-KaninUniversity of Wisconsin Opera Workshop, Karlos Moser, dir., Madison8/4, 5/67 The Wings of the Dove

CANADACanadian Broadcasting Co., J. Roberts, supervisor, music dept., Toronto, Ont10/18/66 Cosi fan tutte10/66 Willan's Deidre of the Sorrows1/17/67 Lavalle's The Widow(also European releases through CBC International Service)New Brunswick Symphony and Opera Co., St. John, N.B.5/18/67 Douglas Major's The Loyalists prem.

NEW COS MEMBERS

Ronald Armstrong, 173 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.Peter M. Brady, Jr., 10 Randolph Place, West Orange, N.J.Fort Wayne Philharmonic Opera Co., Elliot Higgins, 201 W. Jefferson St., Fort

Wayne, Ind.Friends of City Center, Roy Leaf, 130 W. 56th St., New York, N.Y.Miss Nancy R. Hoffman, Summy-Birchard, Co., 1100 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles,

Cal.Robert Howery Studios, Bob Williams, Gen. Mgr., 6315 Atwell, Houston, TexasHanover Opera Workshop, Mrs. Ruth Morton, 2 Webster Terrace, Hanover, N.H.Edward F. LaCroix, 539 McAlway Rd., Charlotte, N.C.Miss Nancy Lang, 4200 Cathedral Parkway, N.W., Washington, D.C.Univ. of Lethbridge Music Dept., Prof. L. Needham, Lethbridge, Alberta, CanadaMiss Jean McLeese, P. O. B. 265, Hanover, N.H.Memphis State Univ. Opera Theatre, G. Osborne, Dir., Memphis, Tenn.Stefan Petroff, West End Opera Ass'n., 5407 Hermosa, Alta Loma, Cal.Lawrence T. Post, M.D., 211 N. Meremac Ave., Clayton, Mo.Princeton Chamber Orchestra, Gordon Andrews, Mgr., P. O. B. 455, Princeton,

N.J.Jerome P. Schooler, 34 Horseshow Lane, Roslyn Heights, N.Y.Univ. of Tennessee Opera Theatre, E. Zambara, Dir., 1741 Volunteer Blvd.,

Knoxville, Tenn.Wichita State Univ., School of Music, F. Dybdahl, Wichita, Kansas

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1967-68 SEASON (not previously listed)

CALIFORNIAEducational Opera Assn., J. A. Ford, exec, dir., Burbank10/67-5/68 The Barber of Seville in schools abt. 26 pfs. w.p. (abt. 1 hour)Fresno Opera Assn., N. Iacovetti, mus. dir., Fresno11/3, 4/67 La Traviata Eng. Martin2/9, 10/68 // Tabarro Eng. Machlis & The Old Maid and the Thief5/10, 11/67 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. MartinGuild Opera Company, J. R. Moss, bus. mgr., Los Angeles4-5/68 The Magic Flute Eng. Martin, 15 pfs.San Fernando Valley State College Opera Theatre, D. W. Scott, dir.,

Northridge11/17, 18, 19 12/1, 2, 3/67 Die Kluge3/29, 30 4/3, 4, 6/68 The Crucible LudginSan Francisco State College Opera Theatre, Dewey Camp, mus. dir.12/8/67 Mavra & Angelique w.p.3/22, 23, 29, 30/68 The Merry Wives of Windsor w.orch.Santa Barbara Civic Opera Co., W. B. Collier, dir.1/68 OtelloUniversity of California Opera Workshop, C. Zytowski, dir., Santa Barbara12/1, 2, 3/67 Haydn's Orlando Paladino Am. prem.3/1, 2, 3/68 Die Kluge5/24, 25/68 Short operas to be announced

CONNECTICUTHartt Opera Theatre, E. Nagy, dir., University of HartfordFeb. '68 The Tales of HoffmannTouring Operas for Children: Dr. Nagy's adaptation from The Magic Flute: The

Adventures of Tamino and Pamina, Levine's The Golden Medal, Barab's LittleRed Riding Hood

DELAWAREWilmington Opera Society, E. W. Kjellmark, Jr., pres.11/67 Tosca 3 pfs. Eng. Gutman4/68 Faust 3 pfs.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAWashington National Symphony, Howard Mitchell, mus. dir.4/9, 10/68 Parsifal concert pfs.

FLORIDADade Family Operas, Opera Guild of Greater Miami11/26/67 Madama Butterfly (season of OGGM see 6/67 Blltn)5/5/68 Elixir of Love

GEORGIAAugusta Opera Co., B. E. Evans, pres.9/15, 16/67 La Boheme Eng. Martin (Inaugural performance)Savannah Symphony Soc, R. C. Williams, mgr., C. Kelley, mus. dir.4/6/68 Tosca

HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii Opera Studio & Drama Dept, R. W. Vine, Honolulu3/1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10/68 The Marriage of Figaro

IDAHORicks College Music Department, Chester W. Hill, Rexburg12/6, 7, 8, 9/67 Hansel and Gretel

ILLINOISThe American Opera Co., Anna del Preda, gen. dir., Chicago9/15/67 Carmen

INDIANAAmerican National Opera Co., S. Caldwell, dir., opening of tour,

Indianapolis9/15, 22/67 Falstaff Glossop9/16, 20/67 Lulu Cullen9/19, 21, 23/67 Tosca Collier

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Indiana University Opera Theater, W. Bain, dean, Bloomington10/14, 21, 28/67 // Coronazione di Poppea Eng.11/4, 11, 18 12/2/67 Manon Eng.12/9, 16/67, 1/6, 13/68 // Trovatore Eng.2/10, 17, 24/68 The Bartered Bride Eng.3/2, 9, 16, 23/68 Elegy for Young Lovers Eng.4/20, 27, 5/11/68 Andrea Chenier Eng.3/68 Parsifal

LOUISIANAShreveport Civic Opera, Mrs. J. P. Wallace, pres.11/18/67 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci Tatum; Lachona, Lambrinos, Roberto;

Olvis, Milnes, Lambrinos; Fuchs; Cosenza2/10/68 All Wagner concert; Farrell3/23/68 The Tales of Hoffmann Sills; Domingo, Treigle; Alessandro; Capobianco

MINNESOTACenter Opera Co. of Walker Art Center, J. Ludwig, gen. mgr., Minneapolis9/20, 22, 24, 26/67 The Magic Flute concert pf.1/25, 27 2/1, 3, 4, 10/68 Orpheus in the Underworld3/7, 9, 15, 16/68 A Midsummer Nighfs Dream3-4/68 Cosi fan tutte touring prod, under Minn. State Arts CouncilDuluth Symphony Association, H. Herz, cond., Duluth9/21, 23/67 // Trovatore Arroyo, Roggero; Sergi, Quilico, Beattie

MISSISSIPPIJackson Opera Guild, Mrs. J. T. Kitchings, pres., Jackson11/30 12/2/67 // Trovatore Ferriero, King; Theyard, Perez4/6, 8/67 Aida Goodman, Monette; Tucker — opening of new AuditoriumUniversity of Mississippi Opera Theatre, Leland Fox, dir., University12/15, 16/67 Cosi fan tutte4/25, 26, 27/68 Susannah

MISSOURISoutheast Missouri State College, MaryLou Henry, dir. Opera,

Cape Girardeau2/29 3/1, 2, 7, 8, 9/68 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. MartinSouthwest Mo. State College Opera Workshop, D. Emanuel, dir., Springfield10/27, 28, 29/67 The Scarf2/14, 15, 16, 17, 18/68 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. MartinWilliam Sewell College Music Department, Wesley Forbis, chmn., Liberty11/4, 5/67 Hin und Zuriick & The Unicorn, Gorgon and Manticore

NEBRASKA

Omaha Civic Opera Society, Inc., W. S. Matthews, v.p., J. Levine, mus. dir.1/26, 27/68 Tosca5/3, 4/68 FaustUniversity of Omaha Opera Theatre, Robert Ruetz, dir., Omaha2/19, 20/68 The Turk in Italy Eng. Goldovsky4/28/68 Operatic scenes

NEW HAMPSHIREUniversity of New Hampshire Opera Workshop, W. E. Orr, dir., Durham10/30, 31/67 Dido and Aeneas3/22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30/68 The Threepenny Opera5/7, 8/68 Suor Angelica

NEW JERSEY

Trenton State College Opera Workshop, B. Steele, dir., Trenton3/68 Aida Eng. Ducloux 3 pfs.

NEW MEXICO

Eastern New Mexico University Opera Workshop, D. Moore, Ait., Portales11/9, 10, 11/67 Opera scenes5/9, 10, 11/68 La Boheme

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NEW YORKGreater Utica Opera Co., P. Caputo, R. Murray, dirs., Utica3/29, 30/68 Amelia Goes to the ball & Suor AngelicaSyracuse Symphony Orchestra, K. Kritz, mus. dir.11/24, 25, 28, 30 12/1, 2/67 Ihe Tales of Hoffmann3/19, 20/68 CarmenTri-Cities Opera, Mrs. G. Ainslie, exec, dir., Binghamton10/29* 11/3, 4, 5*, 11, 12*, 17, 18, 19/67 La Boheme * student mat.2/25* 3/1, 2, 3*, 9, 10*, 15, 16, 17/68 Eugene Onegin12/15, 16, 17/67 Amahl and the Night Visitors (workshop prod.)Turnau Opera Players, W. Pinner, prod., Woodstock1967-68 tour The Barber of Seville (approx. 35 pfs.)

NEW YORK CITYAmato Opera, Anthony Amato, dir., 329 Bowery, 20th anniversary season9/15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30 10/6, 7/67 The Magic Flute Eng.10/13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 11/3, 4/67 La Boheme11/10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 12/1, 2/67 Don Giovanni12/8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30/67 Tosca1/19, 20, 26, 27 2/2, 3, 9, 10/68 Faust2/16, 17, 23, 24 3/1, 2, 8, 9/68 Luisa Miller3/15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30 4/5, 6/68 The Barber of Seville4/12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 5/3, 4/68 Carmen5/10, 11, 17,18, 24, 25, 31 6/1/68 La Traviata6/7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29/68 // Trovatore12/26/67 The Magic Flute matinee12/28/67 The Mikado matinee12/29/67 Hansel and Gretel matinee2/22/68 H.M.S. Pinafore matineeAmerican National Opera Co., S. Caldwell, dir., Brooklyn Academy of Music10/6/67 Lulu Cullen10/7/67 mat. Falstaff Glossop10/7/67 eve. Tosca CollierAmerican Opera Society, A. S. Oxenburg, dir., at Carnegie Hall11/9/67 Bellini's Norma Suliotis; Cecchele; cond: Cellario12/6/67 Donizetti's Maria Stuardo Caballe, Verrett; cond: Cellario1/17/68 Verdi's Alzira Ross; Cecchele2/7/68 Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice Sutherland; Gedda; cond: Bonynge3/6/68 Catalani's La Wally Tebaldi; Penagos, Glossop; cond: ClevaThe American Savoyards, Dorothy Raedler, at Jan Hus Playhouse10/12/67 Patience 10/19/67 Gondoliers 10/31/67 H.M.S. Pinafore10/17/67 Iolanthe 10/24/67 The MikadoThe Clarion Music Society Inc., J. Hurley, exec, dir., N. Jenkins, mus. dir.,

at Town Hall12/5/67 Keiser's Croesus concert pf. Am. prem., Coulter, Shane; Clatworthy,

Cuenod, Kruysen, Smith; cond: N. JenkinsCommunity Opera Inc., Gladys Mathew, pres.11/5/67 Un Ballo in maschera at Brooklyn Museum12/3, 9/67 The Golden Cockerel at Brooklyn Museum; 9 at N.Y. Historical Soc.12/12/67 Pergolesi's The Jealous Husband at Donnell Library2/4/68 Mignon at Brooklyn Museum2/23/68 Sunday Excursion at Lincoln Center Library-Museum2/29/68 Gallantry at Donnell Library3/3/68 La Boheme at Brooklyn Museum4/7/68 Cosi fan tutte at Brooklyn MuseumThe FBN Opera Workshop, at Educational Alliance, L. Fowler, prod.-dir.8/16, 24 9/6/67 CarmenLittle Orchestra Society-Brooklyn Academy of Music10/8/67 Busoni's Turandot (see 6/67 Bulletin for Philharmonic Hall dates)12/10/67 The Makropoulos Case12/17/67 L'Enfance du Christ4/21/68 Orff's AntigonaeMetropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, R. Bing, gen. mgr.9/18+, 23*, 26, 30 10/4, 7+, 13, 19 11/1+, 8, 18* 12/7+, 11, 23+, 3O*/67

La Traviata9/19g, 22, 27 10/2, 7*, 10, 16, 26 11/25/67 Romeo et Juliette*9/20, 23, 28 10/12, 20, 28* 11/2 + 12/12, 18, 25/67 Die Zauberfiote9/21, 25, 30* 10/6, 27 11/18, 22, 29 12/2/67 La Gioconda9/29 10/3, 9. 21*, 25 11/4+, 7, 11, 15/67 La Forza del destino10/5, 14*, 18, 24, 28, 11/10, 17, 28, 12/4, 16*/67 Falstaff10/11, 14, 17, 23, 30 11/3, 11*, 14, 23 12/1, 6, 9*/67 Le Nozze di Figaro

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10/21, 31, 11/4*, 9, 13/67 Manon Lescaut11/6, 16, 20, 25*, 30 12/8, 13, 16, 20, 23*, 26, 3O+/67 Hansel and Gretel*ll/21g, 24, 27, 12/2*, 5/67 Die Walkiire*12/9, 14, 19, 22, 28/67 Mourning Becomes Electro12/15g, 21, 29/67 Carmen*12/27/67 Aida12/31+/67 Martha* — matinee, -\ non-subscription, g — Met-Guild benefit, opera* — new prod.Sopranos: Amara, Armstrong, Arroyo, Boky, Brill, Caballe, Carson, Clements,Collier, Crespin, Curtin, Curtis-Verna, Delcampo, Delia Casa, DePaul, Deutekom,Di Franco, Dvorakova, Fenn, Freni, Janowitz, Kabaivanska, Kalil, Kirsten, Kuch-ta, Lear, Lewis, Lorengar, Moffo, Nilsson, Ordassy, Peters, Pilou, Pracht, Price,Raskin, Rysanek, Scotto, Stratas, Sukis, Sutherland, Telbadi, Trona, Tucci, Welt-ing. — Mezzo-sop: Amaparan, Baldwin, Barbieri, Berganza, Bumbry, Casei, Cer-nei, Chookasian, Cossotto, Cjevic, Dalis, Dunn, Elias, Ericson, Grillo, Hupp, Kil-lebrew, Kitsopoulos, Love, Ludwig, Madeira, Miller, Rankin, Resnik, Thebom,WiUiams.Ten: Alexander, Alva, Anthony, Bergonzi, Carelli, Caruso, Corelli, Franke,Gedda, King, Konya, Kraus, Labo, Marek, McCracken, Morell, Nagy, Olvis,Parly, Peerce, Prevedi, Raimondi, Schmorr, Schreier, Shirley, Tucker, Velis,Vickers. — Bar: Bacquier, Berry, Bottcher, Boucher, Cassel, Christopher, Col-zani, Doench, Dooley, Goodloe, Guarrera, Harvuot, Krause, Lambrinos, London,MacNeil, Meredith, Merrill, Milnes, Reardon, Sereni, Stewart, Uppman, Walker.— Basses: Alvary, Corena, Diaz, Flagello, Ghiaurov, Giaiotti, Gramm, Hines,Macurdy, Michalski, Pechner, Plishka, Ridderbusch, Scott, Sgarro, Siepi, Tozzi,Wiemann.Cond: Allers, Amaducci, Cleva, Gardelli, Karajan, Klobucar, Krips, Mehta, Mo-linari-Pradelli, Rosenstock, Schippers. — St. dir: Aoyama, Cacoyannis, Barrault,Deiber, Graf, Karajan, Lehmann, Lunt, Merrill, Rennert, Ritchard, Wallmann,Yannopoulos, Zeffirelli. — Des: Aronson, Beaton, Berman, Chagall, Colonnello,Crayon, Dupont, Elson, Fox, Gerard, Heinrich, Maximowna, Messel, Montresor,Nagasaka, O'Hearn, Schneider-Simssen, Smith, Wagner, Zeffirelli.New York City Opera State Theatre, Julius Rudel, gen. dir.9/14, 17*, 23*, 10/4/67 The Magic Flute9/15, 17, 24* 10/8 11/2, 4/67 La Traviata9/16*, 22, 30 10/8*, 11, 22 11/11/67 Carmen9/16, 29, 10/21*, 29*/67 The Marriage of Figaro9/21, 24, 10/1*, 7*/67 Le Coq d'Or*9/23 10/19 11/5, 9/67 The Barber of Seville9/27 10/13, 17, 28* l l /4*/67 La Bohime9/28 10/1, 3, 15*, 20/67 Cavalleria Rusticana* & Pagliacci*9/30* 10/7, 15, 18, 25, 31 11/3/67 Madama Butterfly10/5, 21, 29, 11/1, l l*/67 Tosca10/6, 14, 28, 11/5*, 10/67 Der Rosenkavalier10/12, 14*, 22,, 27 11/1, 8/67 Julius Caesar10/26 11/7, 12/67 Lizzie Borden * — new prod,sop: Bayard, Brooks, Carron, Crader, Elgar, Grant, Griimmer, Heimal, Jeffrey,Joanisse, Lampropulos, Monette, Niska, Patenaude, Roberto, Schauler, Shane,Sills, Summers, Tyler, Venora, Witkowska, Wyckoff; mezzos & contral: Bible,Creed, B. Evans, E. Evans, Papadaki, Povia, Sachs, Tourangeau, Turner, Wolff;ten: Castel, DiGiuseppe, Domingo, Lankston, LoMonaco, Marti, Miller, Molese,

Novoa, Stewart, Velluccibar. & bass: Beattie, Beck, Bittner, Clatworthy, Cossa, Devlin, Fredericks, Hale,Ledbetter, Malas, Marsh, Metcalf, Pierson, Rayson, Roma, Schnapka, Schwartz-man, D. Smith, M. Smith, Treigle, Tyl, Yule.New York Pro Musica, John White, mus. dir.11-12/67 The Play of Daniel abt. 25 pfs. in NYC and on tour12/67 The Play of Herod abt. 6 pfs. in NYCOpera Theatre of New York, Inc., R. Barri, dir. tour1967-68 Otello, Romeo and Juliet tour Caribbean IslandsRichard Bracken's Storyland Theatre, at Judson Hall10/14-12/3/67 Finn's Little Women12/9/67-2/4/68 Elliotts' Daniel Boone2/10-4/27/68 Drakert's HeidiVillage Light Opera Group Ltd., N. K. Keller, pres. at Fashion Institute12/2, 3, 9, 10/67 The Mikado5/68 To be announced

NORTH CAROLINAUniversity of North Carolina Opera Theatre, W. Mason, dir., Chaple Hill2/3, 4/68 Madama Butterfly5/1, 2/68 Dialogues of the Carmelites

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OHIOCleveland Institute of Music Opera Theater, A. Addison, dir.12/15, 17/67 Falstaff cond: J. Levine; dir: Addison3/15, 17/68 La Bohime cond-dir: AddisonLake Erie Opera Theatre, L. Lane, mus. dir., Cleveland9/67 Season cancelled due to union negotiations with Cleveland OrchestraMansfield Symphony Society, R. L. Cronquist, mus. dir.2/4/68 Carmen Thebom; KnollOhio State Univ. Opera Theatre & Columbus Symphony,

P. Hickfang, dir. opera12/9/67 Hansel and Gretel cond: WhallonSpringfield Civic Opera Co., Margret Kommel, pres., Springfield11/67 The Barber of Seville 2 pfs.3/68 Faust 2 pfs.

OREGONPortland Opera Assn., D. Lensch, exec, dir., H. Weiskopf, mus. dir.8/4, 5, 6/67 Die Fledermaus (outdoor perf.)10/2, 3/67 La Bohime Fenn; Campora, Reitan1/16, 18/68 La Traviata Moffo; Morell, Ludgin3/14, 16/68 Carmen Elias, Mitton; di Virgilio, Diaz5/9, 11/68 Rigoletto Venora; Barioni, Guarrera

PENNSYLVANIAChatham College Opera Workshop, F. Kurzweil, dir., Pittsburgh9/1, 2/67 The Merry Wives of WindsorMuhlenberg College Opera Workshop, L. Lenel, dir., Allentown10/26, 27, 28/67 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. MartinSusquehanna University Opera Workshop, Frances Alterman, dir.,

Selinsgrove1/6, 7/68 The Pirates of Penzance

TENNESSEEPeabody College Opera Workshop, S. Witherow, dir., Nashville5/1, 2, 3, 4/68 The Merry WidowUniversity of Tennessee Opera Theatre, E. Zambara, dir., KnoxviUe10/67 Operatic scenes12/67 Amahl and the Night Visitors 2 pfs.2/68 The Beggar's Opera 2 pfs.5/68 Faust Eng., 2 pfs.

TEXASBeaumont Civic Opera, Naaman Woodland, Jr., dir., Beaumont2/16, 17/68 La Boheme Eng. Martin; cond: FuchsCorpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, M. Peress, mus. dir.4/1/68 Porgy and Bess Warfield, Gillaume, RandolphFort Worth Opera Assn., Rudolf Kruger, art dir.12/1, 3/67 Aida Eng. Ducloux; Bjoner, Rankin; Domingo, Ludgin, West1/19, 21/68 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin; Summers, Haywood, Creed;

Malas, Clatworthy, Castel3/8, 10/68 Manon Lescaut Kabaiwanska; Domingo, Torigi4/5, 7/68 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills; Craig, Cossa; cond: R. Kruger; st. dirs:

A. Rott, B. Hebert, R. Herbert, R. HarrowerHouston Opera Co., W. Herbert, dir., in-school-program

(reg. season,, 6/67 Bllt.)1967-68 The Telephone & La Serva padrona 55 pfs.San Antonio Grand Opera Festival, V. Alessandro, mus. dir.3/2/68 Tosca Kirsten; Tucker, Meredith3/3/68 The Tales of Hoffmann Sills; Domingo, Treigle 3/23 in Shreveport3/9/68 Der Rosenkavalier Bjoner, Miller, Brooks; Edelmann3/10/68 La Traviata Moffo; Alexander, Milnes 2/24 in McAllen; SillsHemisfair '68, at new Opera House, San Antonio4/6, 8, 11/68 Don Carlos uncut version, Kabaiwanska, Home; Gobbi, Gramm;

cond: Alexander; st. dir: CapobiancoSan Antonio Symphony, V. Alessandro, cond.12/7, 10, 12/67 The Barber of Seville (Ford Foundation grant) Brooks; Torigi,

di VirgilioTexas Woman's University Opera Workshop, Joan Wall, dir., Denton1/13/68 Dido and Aeneas w.orch.

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UTAHUniversity of Utah Opera Co., A. Watts, exec, dir., Salt Lake City12/11-16/67 Amahl and the Night Visitors1/25, 27/68 The Flying Dutchman Eng. Crosby5/16, 17, 18/68 Don Pasquale

WASHINGTONPort Angeles Symphony Orchestra, James Van Horn, mus. dir.3/19/68 Carmen Eng. MartinSeattle Opera Company, G. Ross, dir. (reg. season see 6/67 Blltn.)3-4/68 The Barber of Seville state tour sponsored by grant under Title III

WISCONSINFlorentine Opera Company, J. Anello, mus. dir., MilwaukeeFall 67 The Tales of Hoffmann MeredithMadison Civic Music Assn., R. Johnson, mus. dir., Madison2/16, 17, 18/68 Jumping Frog of Calaveras County & Hansel and GretelUniversity of Wisconsin Opera Workshop, Karlos Moser, dir., Madison2/24, 25, 26/68 La Boheme Eng. Goldovsky5/19, 20, 21/68 Oedipus Rex & Les Mamelles de Tiresias Eng. Goss

CANADAEdmonton Opera Assn., I. Guttman, art dir., Alberta11/24, 25/67 The Barber of Seville Eng. Goldovsky, Vanni4/3, 5, 6/68 La Traviata Thomson; Poretta, SordelloVancouver Opera Assn., Irving Guttman, dir., British Columbia10/21, 25, 28 11/1, 4/67 Rigoletto Brooks; Alexander Quilico2/3, 7, 10, 13/68 The Flying Dutchman Tatum; Ward5/1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 14/68 Tosca Collier; Domingo, LudginVancouver Symphony Orchestra, British Columbia1967-68 L'Histoire du scldat date to be announcedNew Brunswick Opera Co., T. Hahn, dir., St. John, New Brunswick1967-68 Hansel and GretelAeolian Hall Operatic Productions, Gordon Jeffrey, cond., London, Ont.5/68 The Magic Flute 3 pfs.Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, L. Hepner, dir., Hamilton, Ontario11/12/67 Romeo et JulietteToronto Symphony, Ontario12/67 L'Enfance du Christ (Toronto & Ottawa)University of Western Ontario Music Department, Paul Green, London, Ont.11/19/67 Beckwith' Night Blooming CereusL'Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Quebec1967-68 Jeanne d'Arc au bucherMcGill University Opera Workshop, E. & L. della Pergola, Montreal, Queb.12/15, 16, 18/67 Jone's 5am Slick prem.University of Saskatchewan, Conservatory of Music, H. Leyton-Brown,

Regina, Saskatchewan11/67 The Marriage of Figaro 4 pfs.

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