CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1969

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Professional Committee JULIUS RUDEL, Chairman New York City Opera MAURICE ABRAVANEL RICHARD KARP

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NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

AMERICAN OPERAS

As part of a totally contemporary season, the Center Opera Company of Minne- apolis has commissioned two American operas. OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX by Yale Marshall with words by Wesley Balk will be premiered on November 29. It is written in two parts, the first one tragic, the second one a bawdy comedy. — The other new opera is THE WANDERER: A BALLAD OF NOW combining the talents of Paul and Martha Boesing. This "folk opera with commentary on contemporary social issues" will have its first performance on February 28. Both operas will be produced at the Cedar Village Theatre utilizing contemporary theatre techniques and each work will be repeated six more times. (For the Center Opera Company's remaining program see American Premieres.) A new opera by John Eccles will be performed by the Brooklyn College Opera Theatre on December 12 and 13. Named after its main character SEMELE it will be heard at the college's Gershwin Theatre under the direction of Karoly Kope. Another Malade Imaginaire is turning up on the operatic stage. This IMAGINARY INVALID in three acts is by Lewis Miller; the libretto is by Patrick Goeser, pro- fessor at Fort Hayes Kansas State College, where the opera will be premiered next February. Gregory Kosteck has written a one-act opera, THE STRONGER, also based on the Strindberg play as is Hugo WeisgalFs opera by the same name. The new work will be performed at the East Carolina Opera Theatre in Greenville, N. C, on April 30 for the first time. The late Robinson Jeffer's Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic poem TAMAR is being adapted by Dr. William J. Adams for an opera libretto which David Ward- Steinman will set to music. The librettist is stage director at the San Diego Opera Co., the composer professor of music at San Diego State College. SHORT NIGHT'S JOURNEY INTO DAY is the title of a one-act opera written by students at the Tulsa University Opera Theatre. It is scheduled for over thirty performances at Tulsa public schools in January '70, sponsored by "Destination Discovery" a Title III program in Tulsa under the HEW act. Ethel Leginska, whose Joan of Arc was first performed last season in Los Angeles, will have her second opera heard in that city in December when the Los Angeles Lyric Opera will perform GALE THE HAUNTING. Accompaniment will be provided by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Martin Kalmanoff, the ever-producing opera composer, informs us of his latest opera KING DAVID & DAVID KING which will be heard for the first time at New York's Temple Ansche Chesed on October 12. His Aesop, The Fabulous Fabulist was performed at Camp Pemigewasset in New Hampshire last summer. — Composer Al Barr collaborated with his brother Martin (lyrics) in writing THE COAT OF MANY COLORS, an opera on a biblical subject. It is scored for full orchestra; a reduced orchestration is also available.

— 1 — American operas premiered last season but not previously reported in the COS Bulletin include: ARIA DA CAPO by Robert Baksa, based on Edna St. Vincent Millay's play, on August 12 by the Lake George Opera Festival in Glens Falls, N.Y. (one scene was performed by the Metropolitan Opera Studio last season); — Leslie Kondorossy's children opera-oratorio SHIZUKA'S DANCE in April over Cleve- land radio station WBOE and in June on local TV; — THE RITES OF MAN by Alfred Neumann on May 18 at Christ Congregational Church in Silver Springs, Md., where his other two operas, An Opera For Easter and An Opera For Every- man, were previously performed; — Theo Goldberg's one-act GALATEA ELET- TRONICA on May 14 at Western Washington State College in Bellingham, Wash., featuring four soloists, chorus, piano, percussion, electric organ and DYCK Synthesizer. The story relates a feud between the inventor and the sponsors of Galatea, an electronic prima donna; — Richard ArnelFs multi-media work COM- BAT ZONE for narrator, soprano, baritone and chorus, employing electric guitars, film and tape, at Hofstra College, Hempstead, N. Y. on April 27; — LET'S BUILD A NUT HOUSE, a chamber-opera by Robert Moran, in April during the Festival of the Avant-Garde at the San Jose State College; — Bruce Laird's THE PARTISANS in February by the Wilmington (Del.) Opera Society;—Newton Miller's one-act THE FLYING MACHINE at the University of Redlands in California; — Edmund Najern's one-act THE FREEWAY OPERA at the Im- maculate Heart College in Los Angeles.

AMERICAN PREMIERES In addition to the previously mentioned new American operas at the Center Opera Company in Minneapolis this season, there will be two successful European works in American premieres: British Harrison Birtwistle's PUNCH AND JUDY An Opera of Cruelty first heard at the Aldeburgh Festival in the Summer of '68, featuring a chamber orchestra, mime and dance groups, and Werner Egk's SEVENTEEN DAYS AND FOUR MINUTES first heard in 1966 in Stuttgart, Germany. Four performances of each work will be presented at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis in January and February 1970. From Sweden comes the first space opera ANIARA by Karl-Birger Blomdahl to be premiered in our moon-faring nation this season. It was first performed in 1959 by the Stockholm Royal Opera who brought it to Montreal's Expo '67. The first United States performance is scheduled for April 25, 1970 by Indiana University's Opera Theatre with three more performances programmed for May in Bloom- ington. The Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore will offer the American premiere of Hans Werner Henze's DAS ENDE EINER WELT. It will be performed in English on March 13 on a double-bill with La Vida breve. In Spring the Opera Theatre of Southern Methodist University in Dallas will give the American premiere of Gordon Crosse's PURGATORY under the direction of Thomas Hayward. The opera was first heard on June 7 at the Aldeburgh Festival together with the same composer's The Grace of Todd. American premieres of foreign operas that took place last season and are yet un- reported are: Albert Lortzing's DIE OPERNPROBE in April at the San Francisco Conservatory Opera Theatre; — Offenbach's one-act BA-TA-CLAN in English at the New England Conservatory in May; — Alexander Goehr's NABOTH'S VINEYARD, first heard in London last summer, in a concert reading at Canada's Stratford Festival hi the New Music at Midnight Series on July 25. (The composer is presently on the music faculty of Yale University). First hearings of American operas in foreign countries last season included six performances of Samuel Barber's HAND OF BRIDGE at the University of Cape- town in South Africa, and one at the American Opera Workshop hi Vienna, together with Bernstein's TROUBLE IN TAHITI. EUROPEAN OPERATIC PREMIERES

Next season London audiences will be treated to a new opera by Sir Michael Tippett (Midsummer Marriage, King Priam) when The Royal Opera will offer his KNOT GARDEN. — London's Cambridge University Opera Society will premiere David Johnson's one-act ALL THERE WAS BETWEEN THEM with a libretto by Jack Ronder. — In December '69 Sadler's Wells will offer the first performance of Malcolm Williamson's LUCKY PETER after Strindberg's Dream Play, adapted by Edmund Tracey. — The same composer has written another children's opera (Julius Caesar Jones, Happy Prince) called THE MOONRAKERS. It is an "ephem- eral product" for performance by untrained primary children and Mr. Williamson led a performance of his work on a children's playground during his recent visit to New York. — Another British children's opera, THE CHILDREN IN THE FOREST by David Cox, was commissioned and premiered by the Cookham Festival Society. It is based on a Russian folk-tale and combines children and adult voices to the accompaniment of a small orchestra. — In September "a new form of religious opera," DAVID AND GOLIATH by Canadian composer Alan Detweiler, had its premiere at London's Southwark Cathedral. — On November 1 the Irish National Opera Company has scheduled the first performance of James Wilson's TWELFTH NIGHT in Wexford. American composer David Amram has also based his opera by the same name on Shakespeare's comedy. — Next summer's Glyndeboume Festival will feature the first performance of Nicholas Maw's THE RISING OF THE MOON with Kerstin Meyer as well as Raymond Leopard's adaptation of a second Cavalli opera. Following his successful adaptation of Ormindo, first heard at Glyndeboume in 1967 and since performed by five American companies, Mr. Leppard is currently working on Cavalli's LA CALISTO. It will be produced in July 1970 with Janet Baker and Hughes Cuenod in the leading parts.

Hungarian composers who will have their works premiered in Western Europe this season include Joseph Kosma: ELECTRONIC LOVE in Dortmund, Germany, during French Cultural Week, Sandor Szokolay: HAMLET in January in Cologne with Istvan Kertesz conducting and Milka Kelemen's three operas: DER NEUE MIETER (The New Tenant) after a one-act play by Ionesco at the Paris Opera Comique, DER BELAGERUNGSZUSTAND after a novel by Camus in Frank- furt, and APOKALYPSE in Niirnberg for a Diirer celebration.

Three short pieces by Mauricio Kagel PHONOPHONIC, SYNCHRONSTUDIE and VARIAKTIONEN UEBER TREMENS (sic) formed an avant-garde evening in Basel, Switzerland, last spring. A variety of multi-media concepts were used. •— The premiere of Ernst Krenek's DAS KOMMT DA VON oder WENN SARDA- KAI AUF REISEN GEHT will commemorate the composer's seventieth birthday in Hamburg later this season. — Friedrich Diirrenmatt's play BESUCH DER ALTEN DAME (Visit of the Old Lady) originally announced as being under consideration by Gunther Schuller, will be premiered as an opera with music by Gottfried von Einem at Vienna's Staatsoper in 1971 under the baton of Horst Stein and the direction of Otto Schenk.

The West Berlin Deutsche Oper has commissioned Wolfgang Fortner to write MARIA STUART (libretto by Mattias Braun) for a performance in 1971. The same company also commissioned Thomas Kessler's NATION ALE FEIERTAGE (words by Winfried Bauernfeind) and, together with the Schwetzingen Festival, MELUSINE by Aribert Reimann after Ivan GolFs book. — Boris Blacher's 200.000 TALER after stories by Sholem Aleichem was premiered in Berlin on September 25. The designer was Ita Maximowna, the director Gustav Sellner and the conductor Heinrich Hollreiser.

The Deutsche Oper am Rhein will give the first performance of Christobal Halfter's DON QUICHOTE and the opera house in Hanover will premiere Diether de la Motte's DER AUFSICHTSRAT. Both are scheduled for this season.

•3 — Saint-Paul-de-Vence witnessed the premiere of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati's COMEDIE, "An Anti-Opera in One Act". It is based on Samuel Beckett's Play and presents three soloists and three percussionists as well as a variety of "con- trolled sounds". The opera was commissioned by the Fondation Maeght and heard on July 21 at the Festival International de Musique et d'Art Contemporains. — Italian composer Renato de Grandis' IL CIECO DI HYUGA was staged in Bonn in April for the first time. This one-hour No-opera was previously heard in a concert performance in Darmstadt as DER BLINDE VON HYUGA. The com- poser, now a resident of Germany, had his first opera, Es lebe der Konig, performed in Kiel in 1967.— French chansonier Jacques Brel composed A TRIP TO THE MOON scheduled for a first performance this season in Brussels. — Saguer's MARIA PINEDA will be premiered by the Theatre de l'Opera in Marseille, and Zambon's new opera LA LEGGENDA DE GUILIETTA will be heard in Bergamo, Italy, in November. East Germany's operatic premieres will include Paul Dessau's LANZELOT in Berlin (libretto by Heiner Miiller after the play The Dragon by J. Schwarz), Jean Kurt Forest's DIE BLUMEN VON HIROSHIMA in October also in Berlin and Fritz Geissler's DER ZERBROCHENE KRUG (after Kleist) in Leipzig. — The Budapest State Opera will give the first performance of Emil Petrovic's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (after Dostojevsky) in October.

OPERA FINANCES-MORE DEBITS, FEW CREDITS

At this writing the METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY is still negotiating. Fourteen union contracts are up for renewal, with AGMA and the American Federation of Musicians first in line and after four months of negotiations a settle- ment is still not in sight. Opening night has been indefinitely postponed. Points for discussion are both working conditions and money. So far the intervention of two mediators, the Mayor, national and local heads of unions have proven ineffectual. More positive news is awaited daily and it is hoped most urgently that a fraction of this season can still be salvaged, if only to assure the continuance of America's major opera company and of American performances by the best American operatic talent. For a dark house this season will most likely jeopardize the following season. The far-reaching, catastrophic effect of such a circumstance is yet unpredictable but it is clear that it would leave a permanent mark on all our cultural and artistic institutions, on education and last but not least on our image here and abroad. And till now public opinion has barely made itself heard. Ominous signs are evident also in other forms of the performing arts and this season three symphony orchestras (Washington's National Symphony, Kansas City Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony) have delayed their openings. The New York City Ballet is threatened with the cancellation of its season due to a labor dispute, the Turnau Opera Co. abandoned its summer season in Woodstock, N. Y. and the San Francisco Opera Company, returning to Los Angeles after a three-year's absence last Spring, has cancelled any future visits there. A great blow to all artistic endeavors would be the passage of a recently proposed tax reform bill which is designed to change the status of tax deductible donations. All the performing arts are dependent on foundation, corporate and individual support for their life line, — for that matter so are all arts institutions as well as seats of higher education. Unless the federal government is ready to step in and fully subsidize all these organizations directly, (which is the case in Europe but not likely to be followed here in the near future) the tax bill will mean life or death to the American way of life and its culture.

— 4 — National arts organizations are joining together to speak more effectively with one voice in the hope of averting disaster. Among those are the Associated Councils of the Arts and the NATIONAL MUSIC COUNCIL. The latter represents a combined membership of one and one half million with the American Symphony Orchestra League representing orchestras and Central Opera Service as liaison with opera companies. The NMC has created a Committee on Government Rela- tions which serves by making suggestions to law makers (e.g. urging not to change present tax laws "governing tax exempt music organizations and foundations as well as gifts of any kind to tax exempt music organizations", protesting cuts in funds to Title I and III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, urging the appointment of a new chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts) and by making semi-annual reports on its activities to its members. Two of the above mentioned points have had favorable reactions so far; some of the cuts in funds for Title I and III have been restored and Miss Nancy Hanks, formerly with Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and president of the Associated Councils of the Arts, was named chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts. Subsequently the first conference of federal and state arts councils was held in Washington in September. Meanwhile, also on the credit side, a closer cooperation between performing groups begins to replace the spirit of fierce competition. The proposal for mergers of orchestras has been replaced by one for joint planning and facilities, yet assuring the autonomy of each group. Similar attempts are revived in the operatic field, as discussed at a recent meeting of the Lake George, Kansas City, St. Louis and St. Paul opera companies. A cooperative planning of seasons was suggested, whereby a veritable network or circuit would be etsablished in which artists and productions, as well as administrative and business projects could be rotated. COS has been an ardent advocate of such cooperative efforts but a few past attempts have not been successful. We hope that this time the climate is favorable and extend our best wishes to the new Cooperative Opera Network. Of course, the financial debacle in the arts is not an anathema only to our shores; a strike threat almost postponed the opening of London's Sadler's Wells; both opera houses in Paris, the Grand Opera and the Opera Comique, receive three quarters of their already reduced budget from the government (one quarter is taken in from ticket sales) and face further cuts due to the devaluation of the Franc. At present the cost of the two companies amounts to 1% of the national budget. A much brighter picture is presented in Austria and Italy. A recent article in the N. Y. Times states that Austria is currently spending $14.6 million federal money and $11 million municipal funds annually on all the arts and an article in a September '69 Avanti informs us that the Italian Ministry of the Treasury and Tourism is con- sidering approval of a bill which will allot 14.3 billion lire (abt. $23 million) to all Italian opera companies to cover deficits incurred during the last season. Another aspect of American opera that has fallen prey to financial pressure is the participation of American opera companies at international festivals. Even events on our continent did not include American opera although at least American orchestras have toured quite extensively here and abroad. Montreal's Expo '67 offered opera groups from Hamburg, Stockholm, Vienna, Milan, Moscow and Lon- don but none from the U. S. and our cultural contribution to Mexico's Olympics was limited to chamber music and ballet. It was regrettable too, that during the first International Music Congress held in the United States in September '68, not one opera performance was scheduled in New York or Washington. Two major inter- national events are now in the planning stages, Osaka's Expo '70 and Munich's Olympics '72. So far the participation of the West Berlin, Rome and Moscow opera companies has been announced in Japan (the N. Y. Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestra will also go there) while the proposed attendance of the Metropolitan Opera had to be forfeited due to the present labor dispute; Sadler's Wells, Bolshoi Opera, La Scala and Brussels' Royal Opera will perform during the Olympics in Munich in '72.

— 5 — American opera companies were the recipients of new grants for specific purposes, among them $50,000 from Time Inc. and $25,000 from the Alcoa Foundation to the N.Y. City Center of Music and Drama subsidizing a program of low-priced tickets for those unable to pay full prices; a $100,000 challenge grant (to be met equally by local contributions) and a $200,000 loan guarantee ($175,000 to be raised in pledges over three years) to the Dallas Civic Opera by the J. H. Bond family. Part of this money is designated for current expenses, part for wiping out accumulated back debts, which can be achieved only after all matching funds have been raised, according to general manager L. Kelly. Foundation money is not always spent in its home territory and proving this are the donations of the Corbett Foundation (Cincinnati) for the New York City Opera's current new productions of Mefistofele and Lucia di Lammermoor and of the Charles E. Merrill Trust (Ithaca, N.Y.) towards a new production of La Traviata at the San Francisco Opera. The Ford Foundation awarded a $500,000 grant to the National Educational Tele- vision for its production of Janacek's House of the Dead.

SUBSIDIES FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

Recent grants in aid of individual artists are being offered by the Sears Roebuck Company which placed one singer with the Seattle Opera Company for the current season through the Affiliate Artists program and by the Ford Foundation in form of a $12,000 grant to the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of a three-year salary for a black or Puerto Rican apprentice as theatre stage employee with a guarantee of automatic membership in the union after working for three years (19-year old William Butler has been chosen for the post). The Lyric Opera of Orange County in Laguna Beach, Calif., is developing a Repertory Company Program for young singers. It is a training ground with performance opportunities at schools and civic groups, made possible through grants from the Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts, the Irvine Foundation and individual board members of the Lyric Opera in cooperation with Local 7 of the American Federation of Musicians. "The Composer in Performance" is a new program initiated by the N.Y. State Arts Council offering sixty contemporary American composers for workshop lectures and/or performances of special programs at schools, museums, community groups, labor unions, etc. and with non-professional or semi-professional com- munity orchestras. The State Council will pay 20 to 50% of the fee; each case will be judged individually. Organizations should apply to N. Y. State Council on the Arts, 250 West 57 St., New York, N,: Y. 10019. The Corbett Foundation sponsored two programs at the Aspen Music Festival last summer: a course in music criticism offered to five aspiring critics, auditing re- hearsals and performances at Aspen and the participation of fourteen young singers in the Festival's workshop. The Contemporary Music Project of the Music Educators National Conference offers grants of $500 and up, to music educators wishing to develop materials, courses or other projects related to "the teaching of comprehensive musicianship". Applications for the 1970-71 school year must be received before December 15 at 1201 Sixteenth St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20036.

— 6 — NEWS FROM OPERA COMPANIES Taking advantage of the variety of its constituents, the New York City Center of Music and Drama will offer for the first time a subscription series called "A CITY CENTER SAMPLING", incorporating dance, theatre, and opera performances. Four different combinations will be available to chose from, featuring The Jeoffrey Ballet, The Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre, The Grand Kabuki, The New York City Opera and the Center's own new production of a Menotti double-bill of Help! Help! The Globolinks and Amahl and the Night Visitors at Christmas time. All performances including the Menotti evenings will be at the West 55 Street Theatre, only productions by the N.Y. City Opera Com- pany will be at the State Theatre. — This will be the Globolinks' first exposure to New York, however, they will have a busy schedule during their first American winter travelling throughout the continent (Wilmington Opera Society, Del., University of Cincinnati and of Wooster, Ohio, Univ. of Mississippi, Texas A & I Univ., Weber State College, Utah, Oakland Symphony, Calif.) and on to Honolulu (Windward Theatre Guild). The N.Y. City Center for Music and Drama is also adding a 1:15 P.M. Series for Senior Citizens with ticket prices ranging from $l.-$1.50. The four two-hour programs will in turn be devoted to ballet, opera, symphony and choir. — The Dallas Morning News and The 500 Inc., a young people's civic and cultural organi- zation in Dallas are co-sponsoring a newly added Preview Performance by the DALLAS CIVIC OPERA. Ticket prices are a uniform $4 and seats may be chosen on a first come — first served basis. THE N. Y. CITY OPERA'S February-through-April season will feature the premiere of Menotti's newest full-length opera and a new production of Pelleas et Milisande with Patricia Brooks and Andre Jobin in the title roles, Mr. Rudel conducting and Mr. Corsaro staging the opera. — THE CHICAGO LYRIC OPERA announced a new production of Billy Budd for its next fall season. The cast will include Geraint Evans and Richard Lewis with Theodor Uppman as Billy Budd. Last spring the NATIONAL OPERA COMPANY of Raleigh, N. C, feted its one millionth listener at a performance of Italian Girl in Algiers at the Rutherfordton High School. Started in 1948 as The National Grass Roots Opera Company by A. J. Fletcher, who is still the company's president and an ardent defender of opera in English, the company has given the first professional experiences to countless young singers. Some of them went on to international careers like Jeanette Scovotti, Arlene Saunders, Glade Peterson and Elfego Esparza. On October 9 LE THEATRE LYRIQUE DE QUEBEC is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Formerly the Theatre Lyrique de Nouvelle France, it is under the directorship of Giles Lamontagne and offers three productions annually; in the last year the company also toured within the Province. In 1970 INDIANA UNIVERSITY will be 150 years old and to commemorate the occasion a Sesquicentennial Birthday Fund was established. It will help to finance the new Musical Arts Center which is expected to cost $6.7 million and will house lecture rooms and a 1500-seat opera/concert hall, all equipped with the latest innovations. Evans Woolen Associates of Indianapolis are responsible for the design of the building which will be completed in 1971.

MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCTIONS Opera, the original multi-media medium, should really have little problem to involve the young or to adapt to contemporary trends. It offers both visual and audio stimulus and has never been known to be squeamish about violence. In recent seasons lights and projection, — film and slides — have been used in some exciting new ways (see 6/67, 6/69 Blltns.) (Elemer Nagy's Multiscreen Scenery Projection System replaced conventional scenery in Hartford ten years ago).

— 7 — The current season promises a number of interesting new productions. The prologue of Boito's Mefistofele at the N. Y. City Opera is played against a background of galaxies in the heavens, of worlds being born and destroyed. The San Diego Opera will feature projections of 70 mm color transparencies of the earth photographed on one of the Apollo flights, combined with films of clouds and constellations, during the performance of Orff's The Moon. Seattle Opera's Turandot with Birgit Nilsson will employ continuous moving images projected against a background of receding arches. This film was designed and executed by Robert Brown and Frank Olvey, the team that was responsible for last season's multi-media show, The Lively Arts, at the Seattle Opera. After its premiere the Turandot film will be available for distribution to other companies. The Washington Opera Society's forthcoming production of The Turn of the Screw will be seen with "kinetic sculpture composed of film, mirrors, lights, reflecting and transparent plastics, glazed glass and textured wood". Sculpture/designer Ronald Chase, who also designed light shows for rock groups, will be responsible for this unique presentation, conceived together with director Richard Pearlman. — Hofstra College is planning a mod version of Cost fan tutte entitled They All Swing, with a rock group and Moog Synthesizer as part of the show. The U. S. Institute of Theatre Technology presented'a "Seminar on Scenic Projec- tion" in June. The first part was an illustrated review of current scenic projection practices as they pertain to theatre, opera, dance, TV, movies, industrial uses, optics and university installations; the second part was devoted to technology and equipment. The Cleveland Insitute of Music has established a Mixed-Media Center as an extension of its University Circle Chamber Music Ensemble and Circle Electronic Music Studio. It was facilitated through a $10,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and will be under the joint directorship of Victor Babin and Donald Erb. Composer Erb together with Anthony Addison, director of the Opera Theatre, will prepare the first program in the CIM Afternoon for Children's series, this one entitled "Electronic Music — Sound Unlimited". It will for the main part feature Mr. Erb's music accompanied by visual effects and by dancers; a number of elec- tronic instruments will also be demonstrated to the children. Multi-Media arts programs are one of the subjects researched by Canada's Centre for Arts Research in Education. This body was established by the Province of Ontario Council for the Arts in response to a recent report stating "throughout North America arts education is all but dead. For most educators it is considered a rather ridiculous activity that has no real relevance to the mainstream of the curriculum ... by most students, it is treated as a form of comic relief or educa- tional therapy". The Centre is instituting seven individual research projects, two in the area of multi-media programs, two in film, one in drama, one in arts facilities and one in arts management and administration. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Paul Schafer, Centre for Arts Research in Education, 151 Bloor Street West, Toronto 5, Ont. (This information was received through the courtesy of the Associated Councils of the Arts.)

NEW TRANSLATIONS Rossini's // Signor Bruschino has been performed in a new English translation by William Routch and Ian Strasfogel at the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Strasfogel is also responsible for a translation and adaptation of Offenbach's Ba-Ta-Clan, which will be published by G. Schirmer this winter. A new translation of Tosca is available from Alfred Morgan, 210 W. 70 St., New York. Arthur Jacobs, who has translated a total of 21 operas (see COS Translation Directory), may be contacted at 53 Friars Avenue, London N 20, England, for the availability of his translations.

— 8 — NEW ARTS CENTERS

On September 17 Milwaukee inaugurated its new COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER with a $100-a-seat gala in which the Milwaukee Florentine Opera Co. and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra participated. The $12 million Center was designed by Harry Weese and Associates; Bolt Beranek and Newman were in charge of acoustics. The largest of the three existing halls seats over 2,300 and will serve opera and musicals. A four-sectioned acoustical shell is lowered on to the stage when used by symphony orchestras. Thirty-six acoustical Plexiglas "clouds" are suspended over the stage. The two smaller auditoriums are for the use of Milwaukee's Repertory Theatre and for recitals. The building's facade is of travertine marble and a Seymour Lipton sculpture enhances the Center's land- scaped grounds on the bank of the Milwaukee River.

With the opening of THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL in October Lincoln Center's constituents have now all moved into their respective homes. The new school build- ing, designed by architects Pietro Beluschi, Eduardo Catalano and Helge Wester- mann, has been hailed by all critics as the best facility of its kind. The N. Y. Times called it the "Taj Mahal of Music". The $30 million, nine-story building, finished in the same travertine marble as the rest of Lincoln Center, houses 3 theaters (in addition to the new Alice Tully Hall, which is not administered by Juilliard), orchestra and choral rehearsal rooms, 15 large opera, drama and dance studios, 3 organ studios, 84 practice rooms, 27 class or ensemble rooms and 30 private instruction studios, all furnished with the newest equipment. In addition to lavish space for scenery and costume shops, there are administration offices, a library, lounges and a snack bar. Approximately 500 students are expected for enrollment including the new divisions of dance, drama and the American Opera Center. Formal opening ceremonies will be held at Tully Hall and will be nationally tele- vised over a commercial station (CBS). Meanwhile the former Juilliard building at Claremont Avenue is being totally renovated, new heating and air-condition systems installed and readied for its new tenant, THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC. With the occupancy of these larger quarters the school expects its enrollment to increase to 1200 students, including a sizable prep division.

This summer's renovation of PHILHARMONIC HALL, the fourth major overhaul since its opening, has finally turned the pumpkin into a royal coach and orchestra musicians, critics and audiences agree that the acoustics are now excellent. In fact, it has become not only a well balanced but a mellow sound as well. Gone are the overhanging clouds, replaced by a stepped ceiling in perfect parallel to the floor, and the bare walls are now ornamented with plywood veneer scrolls. Acoustician Heinrich Keilholz was in charge of the last two renovations.

THE J. F. KENNEDY CENTER in Washington, presently about 60% completed, has announced the delay of its opening till 1971 due to constructional and financial problems. Costs initially estimated at $46 million have increased by 50% and an increase of the Federal grant from $15.5 million to $23 million has been authorized. As gift from a foreign government Austria announced its donation of over 300 crystal chandeliers, designed and executed by Vienna's J. & L. Lobmeyr in coordi- nation with the Center's architect, Edward Durell Stone. The main chandelier will be 54 ft. in diameter, and will have 2000 electric bulbs and 130 crystal elements. Lobmeyr also designed the Metropolitan Opera's chandeliers, another gift from Austria. — Announcements of the first operas to be heard at the J. F. Kennedy Center include mention of a new work by Leonard Bernstein, one by Alberto Ginastera and a new production of Turandot designed by Beni Montresor, con- ducted by Julius Rudel, — a joint venture of the New York City Opera and Venice's La Fenice where it will be first performed. New arts buildings at universities include the PATRICIA CORBETT PAVILION at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. It will adjoin the two-year-old Corbett Auditorium Building and is expected to open in January 1971. Ming Cho Lee is the design consultant. There will be a 440-seat theatre, dance and rehearsal halls especially equipped for the newly created dance wing, offices

— 9 and a large shop for the construction and storage of scenery. — Redlands Univer- sity in California recently dedicated its GLENN WALLICH FESTIVAL THE- ATRE, built at a cost of over half a million dollars, donated in large measure by Mr. Wallich, president of Capitol Records. — In December Canada's Brandon University will open its WESTERN MANITOBA CENTENNIAL AUDITORIUM with a performance of Hansel and Gretel. The Youngstown Ohio Symphony Orchestra inaugurated its new SYMPHONY CENTER on September 20 with a staged performance of Fledermaus under the baton of its resident conductor Franz Bibo. — The Cincinnati Summer Opera which previously announced its move to the Auditorium Center for the 1970 sum- mer, will remain in its home in the Zoo after all. Three major cultural centers opened in other parts of the world: the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila, another one in Istanbul, Turkey, and the latest, the Gulbenkian Center for the Arts and Culture in Lisbon, Portugal. The Manila Center, designed by Filipino architect Leandro Locsin, opened its first building on September 9 with a premiere performance of a Filipino opera or dularawan called The Golden Salakot based on an ancient legend and using native instruments in the pit. The multi-purpose, 2000-seat theatre is located on the shores of Manila Bay. Later a museum will be added to the Cultural Center, whose total cost approxi- mates $7 million. Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos, wife of the President, was responsible for the creation of the Center. — Turkish architect Hayati Tabanlioglu designed the Istanbul Cultural Center at a cost of 73 million Turkish lira. The 1500-seat opera/concert hall was inaugurated last spring with a performance of Aida. Plan- ning for the Center began in 1946. It features four different halls, the smallest with 350 seats designed as children's theatre; all are outfitted with the latest technical equipment. — The main purpose of the Gulbenkian Center in Lisbon was to provide a home for "one of the finest private art collections in the world", that of the late Calouste Gulbenkian, the famous Armenian oil magnate. The Center opened in late September and in addition to the museum and its library it also holds a 1300-seat auditorium suitable for musical or theatrical performances. Salzburg's famous open-air FELSENREITSCHULE is undergoing modernization designed and executed by Waagner-Biro A. G. of Vienna, who is presently also working on the Sidney (Australia) opera house. All electrical installations will be modernized and new mechanical equipment will be added, steel structures for a 1700-seat grandstand and for a new fixed roof with mobile extensions will be constructed. A synthetic-film-roof will be installed to muffle the sound of rain. October 6-11 are the dates for the International Congress for Theatre Research held for the first time in the United States. This Congress is sponsored by the American Society of Theatre Research and the Theatre Library Association and will meet at Lincoln Center's Museum/Library. Innovations in Theatre and Stage Design will be discussed and 175 American and over 50 foreign delegates are expected to attend.

MEETINGS 1969-70 Associated Councils of the Arts, National Conference, St. Louis, May 20-23, 1970 American Symphony Orchestra League, National Conference, Denver, June 16-19, 1970 Council on Foundations, National Conference, San Francisco, May 26-29, 1970 Institute of International Education, National Conference, New York, April 29-31, 1970 International Society for Music Education, Ninth Conference, Moscow, USSR, July 8-14, 1970 The Role of Music in the Lives of Children and Young People (trip may be arranged through Music Educators National Conference, including visits to other European capitals) National Association of Educational Broadcasters, Educational Broadcasting and Social Responsibility, Washington, D. C, November 9-12, 1969 Tennessee Arts Commission, Second State Conference, Memphis, October 31-November 2, 1969 Kaleidoscope incl. mixed-media show, guest speaker Francis Robinson. — 10 — BOOKS AND PERIODICALS Looking for a Christmas gift? Here is a handsome art/music book: MUSIC — MIRROR OF THE ARTS by Alan Rich, published by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., studded with beautiful reproductions in both, color and black and white, and a knowledgeable text relating music to the visual arts. Beginning with the melodies of Eastern Christianity and early Byzantine mosaics, it follows the course of the two arts through the Renaissance, the Baroque, Romanticism and Classicism to present day serial and electronic music and contemporary sculpture and Op art. Reproductions of masterpieces are assembled from all over the world and an index lists the museums and collections represented. A second index lists all names appearing in the 281-page book. It is available for $15.00. Russian music critic and musicologist Vladimir Stasov's writings have been published as SELECTED ESSAYS OF MUSIC and are now available in an English translation by Florence Janos. Mr. Stasov covers the Russian musical scene between 1850 and 1906 with regards to creative and performing artists and includes chapters on Liszt, Schumann and Berlioz's visits to Russia as well as Wagner's dealings with Russia. The 200-page book is published by Frederick A. Praeger; the price is $10.00. A number of interesting reference and guide books have been published recently. Among those are two volumes of the DICTIONNAIRE DES OPERAS, originally conceived by Felix Clement and Pierre Larousse, revised in 1905 by Arthur Pougin, now available from Da Capo Press for $47.50. — Also from Da Capo comes RUSSIAN COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS, a 1940 Biographical Dictionary, compiled by Alexandria Vodarsky- Shiraeff. It sells for $12.50. The Chilton Book Company of Philadelphia published a CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF SINGERS, compiled by K. J. Kutsch and Leo Riemens in German, and translated into English by Harry Earl Jones. It lists about 1500 famous singers, including their major roles and the companies they appeared with. Although it reaches back to 1880, it is limited to singers who have made recordings. The 487-page Dictionary sells for $14.95. A companion piece of the COS publication Awards for Singers, is the FINANCIAL AIDS FOR STUDENTS ENTERING COLLEGE. It is a comprehensive and invaluable guide for all high school graduates intending to apply for scholarships or financial aid for college education. Compiled by Oren Keeslar, the book is published in a fourth edition by Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa and sells for $8.75. (487 pages) The Public Service Materials Center, 104 E. 40 St., New York, has published Joseph Dermer's HOW TO RAISE FUNDS FROM FOUNDATIONS. This manual is available for $7.95. AMERICAN MUSICAL DIGEST has published its first regular issue, October 1969, after a trial issue in September '68. It has kept its original format and attractive looks, and features reprints (total or excerpts) of national and international musical reviews and articles of specific interest. Photographs further enhance this informative publication. Annual subscription is $10.00 for eleven issues and may be ordered from AMD, MIT Press, 50 Ames Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02142. Gene Bruck is editor and publisher and editorial offices are at 245 W. 52 Street, New York. N. Y. 10019. MUSIC AND ARTISTS is the name of a new bi-monthly music periodical published by The Music Journal Inc. (1776 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10019). It carries articles, reviews and general news items and will be available on subscription for $6.00. Ron Eyer is the editor, Lily Singer, associate editor.

NEW MANAGERS; NEW PUBLISHERS Musical chairs may also be played by artists managers as demonstrated by the following news items: WILLIAM M. JUDD, executive vice-president of Columbia Artists Manage- ment, resigned to open his own firm which will be located at 127 W. 69 St., New York. — After twenty years of association with Sol Hurok, HAROLD SHAW is opening his own concert management Shaw Concerts Inc., at 233 W. 49 St., New York, and has announced

— 11 — that his singers' list will include Clarice Carson, Maureen Forrester and George Shirley. — EDGAR KNEEDLER, former vice-president at Columbia Artists, joined Hurok Con- certs in the same capacity. BELWIN INC., the music publisher who recently acquired Franco Colombo Inc. (see 3/69 Blltn.), has also purchased the catalogue of B. Schott's Sohne, Mainz, for the United States. Associated Music Publishers will turn over their rights on January 1, 1970. Belwin's New York offices are at 16 W. 61 St.; ROBERT HOLTON of Theodore Presser Company will join the firm. — CARL FISCHER INC. is opening a new branch in San Francisco at 149 New Montgomery Street for wholesale and retail of music of all pub- lishers. Other branch stores are in Dallas, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles; headquarters are in New York at 52-62 Cooper Square. Virgil Thomson's Mother Of Us All and Four Saints in Three Acts are now available from G. Schirmer Inc.

AWARDS FOR ADMINISTRATORS, CORPORATIONS, COMPOSERS

The national newsletter Arts Management has named the recipients of its two Awards for Arts Administrators "for special accomplishments in their profession." HARVEY LICHTENSTEIN, Director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, was cited as "Arts Administrator of the Year" and DR. FIRMAN H. BROWN, JR., Chairman of the Drama Department at the University of Montana and Founder of the Montana Repertory Theatre Company, was winner of the Career Service Award. At an Awards Luncheon in Atlanta, Esquire Magazine and the Business Committee for the Arts jointly awarded the "Business in the Arts Award" to twenty-four corporations for their imaginative support of arts programs and their efforts on behalf of the cultural life in their community. Thirty-seven additional companies received honorable mention. (The list of the twenty-four winners may be obtained from BCA, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. or Esquire Magazine, 488 Madison Avenue, New York,, N.Y.) The Tennessee Arts Commission in cooperation with the Governor's office is sponsoring two $500 "Governor's Awards in the Arts", 1) for outstanding artistic achievements, The Excellence in the Arts Award and 2) for efforts in supporting artistic events, The Support for the Arts Award. Deadline for entries for the 1969-70 season is June 30, 1970. COMMUNITY OPERA INC. received the "Merit Award for Outstanding Music Service" from the National Federation of Music Clubs for the 1968-69 season. WABC, Channel 7 in New York, received the Sigma Alpha Iota's National Television Award for the "Best Single Music TV Program in 1968-69", for its presentation of John LaMontaine's The Shephardes Playe. It was broadcast from Washington Cathedral at Christmas '68 and will be rebroadcast this Christmas. The Inter-American Music Competition for composers has chosen NORMAN DINER- STEIN of Bedford, Mass, and BRUNO D'ASTOLI of Buenos Aires as winners of its contest. Each will receive a twenty-month fellowship and a $200 monthly stipened to work with Alberto Ginastera and others at the Latin American Center for Advanced Musical Studies sponsored by the Torcuato Di Telia Foundation in Buenos Aires. Russian/American composer ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN received the Chevalier of Arts and Letters from the French government and French/American composer DARIUS MELHAUD was awarded the 1969 Creative Arts Award by the Hebrew Arts School. — Musicians on the 1969 Queen Elizabeth Birthday Honor List included conductor SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI and former Chairman of the British Arts Council, SIR KENNETH CLARK. Both were granted a Companionship of Honor life peerage.

— 12 — AWARDS FOR SINGERS The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the Humanities is introducing a new award for performing artists "Young Musicians: Performance and Prospect". It is open to vocalists between the ages of 20 and 30 and the repertoire must include one composition by an American composer no older than thirty-five years old. Applications by residents of Massachusetts should be addressed to MCAH, State House, Boston, Mass. 02133. Tulsa University is offering a "Tulsa Opera Scholarship" for voice tuition at U. T. in the amount of $150-300 annually. Further information is available from U. T., Dir. School of Music, 600 So. College, Tulsa, Okla. 74104. The G. B. Dealey Award sponsored by The Dallas News has changed the time of its competition from late December to March. Since the competition has been expanded from regional to nationwide last year, applications have tripled and the March date has been found more convenient for all contestants. This season's auditions will be held March 24-26 with the Finals scheduled for the last day at the McFarlin Auditorium of Southern Methodist University. (For further details see COS publication Awards for Singers.) The Fourth International Singing Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria, has been advanced from June-July to May 1970 and with this change the deadline, too, was advanced. The new date is January 31, 1970. Age limit is 33 and all other conditions are as stated in the Awards for Singers Brochure. Applications are available from the Committee for Arts and Culture, 17 Stamboliiski Boulevard, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Winners

Faye Robinson, soprano from Houston, won the San Francisco Opera-James Schwabacher Memorial Award of $1,000; Canadian bass, Maurice Brown, the $750 Florence Bruce Award; Boise (Idaho) baritone Clayne Robinson the $500 William Kent, Jr. Memorial Award and San Francisco's own soprano, Sharon de Fremery, the newly established $250 II Cenacola Award.— The Gropper Memorial Award of $1,000 for the best per- former at San Francisco Opera's Merola Opera Program went to 27-year-old Harlan Foss, baritone from Dallas.

Winner of the 1969 American Opera Auditions of Cincinnati was baritone Donald Chapman who will be presented in Mantua, Italy, in October in opera and concert performances. — Joy Zornig, mezzo-soprano from Connecticut, won the Joy of Singing Award and will be heard in a solo recital at New York's Tully Hall in October.— The Marian Anderson Scholarship Fund Competition announced the following winners: 1st prize of $1,000 to 26-year-old tenor from the Philippines, Otoniel Gonzaga; 2nd prize of $750 to 26-year-old baritone from New York City, Arthur Thompson and 3rd prize of $500 to 26-year-old soprano from New York City, Betty Lane.

The National Federation of Music Clubs' 1969 Biennial Young Artists Auditions awarded its first vocal prize of $1,500 and concert engagements to two singers, baritone Bennie Middough of Montevallo, Me. and tenor Donald Doic of Chicago; its $500 Anne Gannett Award to tenor J-ewis W. Gordon from New Jersey; and two $200 vocal awards of the "in-student-division" to Robert Vega of New Mexico and Ana Riera of New Jersey.— Fernando Barabino from Montevideo, Uruguay, won the $200 Enlow Vocal Award of the University of Evansville in Indiana. — The Illinois Opera Guild and Chicago's radio station WGN chose Raeschelle Potter as the recipient of its 1969 auditions' award of $1,500.

The Kirsten Flagstad Memorial Fund announced three winners for the 1969 season: sopranos Patricia Guthrie and Donna Roll and pianist/coach David Stone. — Sondra Mae Harnes won the 1969 Collegiate Artist Award sponsored by the Music Teachers National Assn. — Nora Polley, technical apprentice and assistant stage manager at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, received the $1,000 Jean A. Chalmers Apprentice Award; Victor di Bello, retiring music director of the Festival, was awarded the Festival's Presi- dent Bursary for travel and study of music festivals in North America and abroad. — Among the thirteen associates of the Stratford Festival who received Tyrone Guthrie

— 13 — Awards were the following two singers, Margaret Zeidman and Donald Rutherford, who each received $500. — The Fourth International Singing Contest in Rio de Janeiro yielded four winners: Angela Beale, British soprano, Helja Angerve, Finnish soprano, Marco Bakker, Dutch bass-baritone who shared his third prize with Aida Navarro, mezzo from Venezuela. The following singers won admission to the AMERICAN OPERA CENTER of the Juilliard School for this first season: soprs: Jacquelyn Benson (Atlanta), Joanna Bruno (West Orange, N.J.), Louisa Budd (Montreal), Alpha Floyd (Memphis), Valerie Girard (N.Y.C), Sung Sook Lee (Korea), Omega Milbourne (Cambridge, Md.), Elizabeth Thompson (Willis, Texas), Joann Yockey (New Orleans); mezzos: Anita Darian (De- troit), Elizabeth Kimery (Los Angeles), Susan Marsee (Malibu, Cal.), Rose Taylor (Loma Linda, Cal.), Lynne Wickenden (N.Y.C); tenors: David Hall (Pasadena), Fred Obrycki (Los Angeles), David Portilla (Mexico City), Forest Warren (Fredericksburg, Va.), Mel Weingart (San Antonio); barits: Ryan Edwards (Columbia, S.C.), Brett Hamilton (Malibu, Cal.), Sung Kil Kim (Korea), Richard Taylor (Des Moines), Alan Titus (N.Y.C); basses: David Cumberland (Dayton), John Ousley (Los Angeles) and Howard Ross (N.Y.C.) The Center is under the direction of Tito Capobianco.

APPOINTMENTS ROBERT L. B. TOBIN, National Chairman of Central Opera Service since 1962, was named President of The Spoleto Festival Foundation Inc., succeeding Gian Carlo Menotti who will continue with the Festival which he founded. Mr. Tobin has served on the board of directors of the Festival for the last three years. He is also on the board of the San Antonio Symphony Association, the Opera Association of New Mexico (Santa Fe Opera) and a member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art. Among his manifold activities, Mr. Tobin will design and stage Don Giovanni in San Antonio next March. As previously mentioned in this issue, Miss NANCY HANKS was appointed Chairman of the National Council for the Arts. Her predecessor was Roger L. Stevens, whose term had expired in March; the position has been vacant since then. Miss Hanks, Executive Secretary of the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, President of the Associated Councils of the Arts, and member of the Council of the American Asso- ciation of Museums, brings to her new job a thorough knowledge of and experience in the arts as well as familiarity with the Washington scene, where she served in various capacities from 1953-55. During that time she was a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Government Organization, later an Assistant to the Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and in 1955 she was appointed Special Assistant to the Special Projects Office of the White House. Our very best wishes accompany Miss Hanks on her challenging new assignment. Architect JOHN MACFADYEN was reappointed to the Presidency of the Associated Council of the Arts, succeeding Miss Hanks. He served in this capacity with ACA from 1966 to 1968, at which time he became Chairman of the Executive Committee. ROGER L. STEVENS was named Chairman of the Board of the American Film Institute. He is also Board Chairman of the J. F. Kennedy Center in Washington and member of the board of directors of ACA. Other new directors of the Associated Council of the Arts are LANE KIRKLAND, Secretary-Treasurer of AFL-CIO, DAVID ROCKEFELLER, JR. of Boston and New York, WILLIAM RUDER of New York City, and DURWARD VARNER, Chancellor of Oakland University, Rochester, Mich. Eight new members have been appointed to the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center and eleven to the Board of the New York City Center of Music and Drama. Space does not allow a listing of all names but it is significant that both announcements stress the addition of young men as well as the inclusion of negroes among the new appointees. — 14 — RICHARD CLARK, president of Beloit College, was named President of Affiliate Artists Inc., succeeding interim president Sherrill Milnes. Mr. Clark was Vice President and Associate Director of the program since its founding in 1966. Edward Warner was its first president. New directors of foreign opera companies have been announced recently. RENE NICOLY has been named Director of the Paris Grand Opera terminating an interim administration which had succeeded George Auric one year ago. The new Cultural Minister, Edmond Michelet, who replaced Andre Malraux after the national elections in June, made the appointment.— CARLO FELICE CILLARIO is the new Musical Director of the Austra- lian Opera Company (formerly the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera). This is a five-year appointment. — Beginning in September 1971 COLIN DAVIS and PETER HALL will share the director's duties at London's Royal Opera. Mr. Hall is presently Director of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Mr. Davis will succeed Georg Solti. — THOMAS SCHIP- PERS, who will begin his three-year tenure at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra next fall, also received a four-year contract as Director of Special Projects with RAI (Radio Italiano).—STEPHEN ARLEN, managing director of Sadler's Wells, and WALTER FELSENSTEIN of East Berlin's Komische Oper will be Co-Presidents of a newly formed Committee for Musical Theatre founded by UNESCO's International Theatre Institute. Recent conductorial appointments in the United States include JORGE MESTER as Conductor and Music Director of the Aspen Music Festival, MARGARET HILLIS as Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus in addition to her duties as Director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, and ISTVAN KERTESZ (Musical Director of the Cologne Opera) as Principal Conductor of Chicago's Ravinia Festival for three years, succeeding Seji Ozawa who now heads the Berkshire Music Festival. — DONALD JOHANOS has resigned as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra per the end of this season but will continue as guest conductor and artistic advisor there for three more years. Changes in administrative positions have occurred at the Brooklyn Academy of Music where LEWIS L. LLOYD, former Assistant Director of Dance was named General Manager, — at the Manhattan School of Music press office, where JOHN D. MOLLESON has succeeded LOUIS SNYDER who has joined the Christian Science Monitor as music critic, — at the San Francisco Opera publicity office, where PATRICK BLAKE, formerly from Toronto and Vancouver, has been named Director, — and at the Baltimore Sym- phony Orchestra where FRANK RATKA, last year's manager of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Symphony and Opera, has replaced General Manager OLEG LEBANOV, who in turn joined the Ford Foundation's Arts and Humanity's Division. Academic appointments effective this season include LEON BARZIN as Chairman of the Department of Orchestral Conducting at the New England Conservatory, succeeding Frederic Prausnitz (Mr. Barzin was Special Consultant to NEC's President Gunther Schuller); — composer ALEXANDER GOEHR as member of the music faculty of Yale University; — ROBERT MESROBIAN as Guest Director of the Opera Workshop at the University of So. Mississippi; — musicologist and writer/critic PAUL HENRY LANG as Avalon Foundation Professor to Columbia University; — ETHEL BARRYMORE COLT to New York's Mannes College of Music as head of the Opera Workshop's acting classes; — baritone ANDREW WHITE, Chairman of the Voice Department at Baylor University as Visiting Professor to the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; — mezzo-soprano ALICE HOWLAND of the Juilliard School and Brandeis University and baritone WILLIAM BECK of the N.Y.C. Opera as members of the vocal faculty to the North Carolina School of the Arts. Miss NAN NALL, who has a B. S. in opera stage direction and M. M. in voice per- formance from Indiana University and is presently enrolled for a Doctor of Music degree at the Bloomington institute, has been selected Special Service Entertainment Director for the U. S. and Free World Forces in South Vietnam. She began in her new post on September 1.

— 15 — SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: ANNUAL SURVEYS The annual opera survey conducted jointly by Opera News and Central Opera Service indicated that while the number of opera companies and workshops in the last season added up to almost exactly the same as in the previous season, i. e. 623:622, (although there was a turnover of about 15%) and the number of works performed showed only a negligible decrease, i. e. 331:348, the number of actual performances dropped to 4,629 from the previous year's 5,222. The most performed work was as usual Amahl and the Night Visitors (444) and in the standard repertoire Carmen out-did her rivals with 182 performances. A detailed report of the survey may be found in the November 22 issue of Opera News. (Single copies may be ordered from Opera News, 1865 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10023 for 50 cents.) The October 1969 edition of the COS LIST OF OPERA PRODUCING COM- PANIES IN THE U. S. AND CANADA is now ready and available for $5.00 including a Supplement, Lists A-E (indicating number of annual productions and performances) from COS, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, N. Y. 10023. A further result of the survey will be a list of sets and costumes available for sale or rent. This list will be ready in November. The next issue of the COS Bulletin is the annual Survey issue which this year will be A DIRECTORY TO FOREIGN CONTEMPORARY OPERAS, a companion piece to the comprehensive Directory to American Contemporary Operas published by COS in December 1968. The report of the Tenth National Conference of the Central Opera Service will make up the Number 4 issue (green) of this season's Bulletin.

NEW COS MEMBERS Richard Abrams, Cincinnati, Ohio Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Civic Opera of Columbus, T. Gargiula, Art. Dir., Georgia Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N. Y. Costume Bank, R. Thomas, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Dallas Public Library, Mrs. S. Moss, Texas Richard A. Dotterer, Arlington, Texas Miss Ann Farrar, New York, N. Y. Florida Keys Junior College, Key West, Florida Friends University, J. Miller, Wichita, Kansas Roland Gagnon, New York, N. Y. Mrs. Charles F. Gimber, Montclair, N. J. Jackson Opera Guild, Dr. R. Alderson, Res. Dir., Mississippi Men of Song Enterprises, E. Karlsrud, Dir., Mamaroneck, N. Y. Missouri University, Miss G. Ribla, Dir., St. Louis, Missouri Mt. Marty College, Sister Mary Logsdon, Yankton, South Dakota Musical Performing Arts of Flint, W. Byrd, Art. Dir., Michigan Miss Lois Ann Oakes, New York, N. Y. Occidental College, Dr. L. L. Jones, Los Angeles, California Miss Pyxie Oldenberger, Westfield, New Jersey Opera Club Milwaukee Florentine Opera Co., Mrs. W. Baird, Wisconsin R. Stewart Powell, New York, N. Y. Joseph M. Quinn, Jr., Chester, Pa. J. Ross Rosazza, Winter Park, Florida Rolling College, A. Di Tullio, New York, N. Y. Schola Cantorum of New York, H. Ross, Dir., New York, N. Y. Michael B. Sells, Los Angeles, California Mrs. Inez L. Silberg, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Springdale Fine Arts Center, D. Cline, Exec. Dir., Arkansas Union University, Miss A. E. Biggs, Jackson, Tennessee Vassar College Library, Miss E. Elliot, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Harvey Vincent, New York, N. Y. Mrs. Ernestine H. Williams, Allentown, Pa. — 16 — FINAL PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1968-1969 SEASON All performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p/' (with piano). — Performances and news items once announced will not be relisted at the time of performance.—*denotes new production; m—denotes matinee. ALABAMA Samford University, Opera Workshop, Miss E. Ousley, Dir., Birmingham 1968-69 The Telephone & The Old Maid and the Thief w.p. Troy State College Opera Workshop, P. Connor, Troy 1/8, 9/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors 5/10, 23/69 La Boheme Eng. Martin ALASKA Anchorage Community College Lyric Opera Theatre, Miss E. Douglas, Dir. 10/30, 31/68 Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi Eng. Witherspoon/Grossman 12/6, 7, 8/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors (Anchorage Community Chorus) 4/18, 19, 20/69 The Elixir of Love Eng. Martin ARIZONA Arizona State Univ. Lyric Opera Theatre, K. Seipp, Dir., Tempe 10/25, 26 11/1, 2/68 Busoni's Harlequin Eng. Fox 2/28 3/1, 7, 8/69 Dido and Aeneas 5/2, 3/69 The Consul Grand Canyon College, Marlene Delavan, Dir. Opera Dept, Phoenix 12/20/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors 2/28 3/1, 22/69 The Medium Northern Arizona Univ. Opera Theatre, D. W. Wakeling, Dir., Flagstaff 12/68 Scenes (La Boheme) 5/18, 19/69 L'Elisir d'amore Eng. Martin 8/15/69 Orpheus and Euridice University of Arizona Opera Theatre, Tucson 1/15, 16, 17/69 Cost fan tutte Eng. Martin ARKANSAS Hardin College, Dept of Music, E. T. Moore, Dir., Searcy 5/11, 12/69 H.M.S. Pinafore John Brown Univ., Opera Workshop, R. Isham & M. Diesen, Co-Dirs., Siloam Springs 3/14, 15/69 Werther w.p., Eng. Isham University of Arkansas Opera Workshop, M. Worthley, Dir., Fayetteville 4/21-26/69 Albert Herring CALIFORNIA California State College, Opera Workshop, R. Minser, Dir., Hayward 11/15, 16/68 The Consul 4/17, 18, 19, 20/69 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng. Blatt California State College at Fullerton, C. W. Reims, Dir., Opera Workshop 12/5, 6, 7, 8/68 Gretry's L'Amant jaloux Eng. Reims 1/14, 16, 17/69 Gluck's The Reformed Drunkard Eng. Fetter-Roy ale; 5 pfs. (4 in Placentia, Cal. under Title I) 5/15,16, 17, 18/69 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng. Blatt California State College at Long Beach, Music Theater, H. LampI, Dir. 1/16, 17, 18/69 Les Mamelles de Tirisias Eng. Goss 4/69 Musical 7 pfs. 7/31 8/1, 2, 3/69 Le pauvre matelot & Angelique Eng. Finley/Rachlin Floating Lotus Magic Opera Co., D. Moore, Dir., San Francisco 5/69 D. Moore's Bliss Apocalypse prem. Fresno State College Opera Workshop, R. W. Hurst, Dir., Fresno 4/28, 29/69 Cost fan tutte Eng. Martin 5/9, 10/69 Hin und zuriick Eng. Farquhar Immaculate Heart College Opera Workshop, R. Cole, Dir., Los Angeles 11/17/68 E. Najern's The Freeway Opera prem. 5/4/69 There and Back & The Apothecary Merola Training Program of San Francisco Opera, Saratoga 8/69 The Man in the Moon Merritt College, Opera Workshop, R. B. Hunt, Dir., Oakland 3/14, 15/69 The Mikado 6/6, 7/69 Carmina Bur ana — 17 — 1968-69 Season Oakland Symphony & Children's Opera Hour, G. Samuel, P. Donovan, Co-Dirs. 3/4, 5/69 The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 5 pfs., staged, w.o. Pepperdine College, Opera Workshop, H. Rayner & V. McMahon, Dirs., Los Angeles 7/ 25, 26/ 69 Zador's The Magic Chair & Bastien and Bastienne Riverside Opera Co., Mrs. F. B. Calkins, Dir., Riverside 12/7/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors 5/16, 17/69 A Masked Ball Eng. Fuchs San Diego State College Opera Workshop, L. Hurd, Prod., San Diego 1/10, 11, 12, 18, 19/69 The Mikado 5/30, 31 6/1/69 The Consul San Francisco Conservatory, Opera Workshop, M. Salkind, Dir. 4/26/69 Lortzing's Die Opernprobe Am. prem. San Francisco Opera Guild Talent Bank, Peggy Donovan, Art Dir. 11/16m, 16/68 6/21, 27, 28/69 La Finta giardiniera Eng. Page; w.p. 1/25 2/1/69 Doctor Miracle Eng. Harris; w.p. 2/9, 10/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin; w.o. 3/4, 5/69 The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 5'pfs., w.o. 7/26, 29, 30m, 30/69 Pimpinone Eng. Baker additional 45 cone. pfs. and lecture demonstrations in and near San Francisco San Jose State College Opera Workshop, Avant-Garde Festival 4/14-17/69 Moran's Let's Build a Nut House prem. Santa Monica Civic Opera Assn., J. W. Garrotto, Dir.; M. Lanza, Cond. 11/30/68 Carmen Tejada, Garrotto; Leonetti, Vance 2/22/69 Faust Wald, Sierra; Vangsness, David 4/5/69 Lucia di Lammermoor Carena; Tunzi, Lombardi 6/21/69 11 Trovatore 8 /'23/69 La Traviata Sonoma State College Opera Workshop, Peggy Donovan-Jeffry, Dir., Rohnert Pk. 1/9-12/69 Cinderella Eng. Paige, w.p. 5/22, 23, 24/69 Gallantry & The Cooper & The Bear w.o. Stage Center Players, M. S. Warenskjold, Art. Dir., Encino 2/17, 18169 Cos) fan tutte University of California in Los Angeles (see also 9/68 BUtn.) J. Popper 12/3, 4, 5, 8, 18/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors cond.: Limonick 3/22, 27, 29 4/12/69 Carmen w. 2 ps.; cond.: Limonick 3/22/69 Gianni Schicchi w. 2 ps. University of Redlands Opera Workshop, R. Picardi, Dir., Redlands 11/8, 9/68 Opera Scenes 1/23, 24/69 Newton Miller's The Flying Machine prem. & opera scenes 4/24-26/69 Musical U.S. International Univ., Performing Arts Center, San Diego 8/18, 20, 22/69 Don Pasquale Eng. Mead, w. S.D. Symph.; J. Popper, cond. 8/19, 21, 23/69 The Turn of the Screw w. S.D. Symphony; Z. Rozsnai, cond. Western Opera Theatre, B. Snyder, Mngr., R. Woitach, Mus. Dir., tour Cal., Ariz., Nev. and Oregon 1968-69 La Boheme 18 pfs.; Gianni Schicchi 7 pfs.; Cost fan tutte 16 pfs.; The Old Maid and the Thief 13 pfs.; The Medium 3 pfs. (total w.o. 16 pfs.) Christopher Sly 1 cone. pf. w.o. COLORADO Adams State College Opera Workshop, E. Richmond, Dir., Alamosa 11/18/68 Opera Scenes 5/23, 24/69 The Bartered Bride Eng. Farquhar Colorado State College Opera Guild, C. Schmitz, Dir., Greeley 2/26-3/1/69 The Yeomen of the Guard SI 18/69 The Barber of Seville Eng. Martin; cone. pf. w. Golden Symph. Orch. 7/31 8/1/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Dent Colorado State University Opera Workshop, L. Day, Dir., Ft Collins 5/22-25/69 Don Giovanni Eng. Dent Lamont School of Music, Univ. of Denver, Genevieve McGiffert, Dir. Opera 3/5-9/69 Albert Herring — 18 — 1968-69 Season University of Colorado Opera Workshop, K. Hata, Dir., Boulder 3/12-15/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin CONNECTICUT Simsbury Light Opera Co., W. Erhart, G. Douglas, Co-Dirs., Simsbury 4/25, 26 5/2, 3/69 The Gondoliers Stamford Lyric Opera Assn., Inc., L. Petri, Exec. Dir. 10/19/68 Carmen 1/25/69 La Bohime Petrason, Turano; Orsini, Gregori 4/19/69 // Trovatore Kalil, Knapp; Celli, Orsini DELAWARE Wilmington Opera Society, Mrs. L. Ferris, Mgr., Wilmington 2/14, 15, 22, 23/69 Bruce Laird's The Partisans prem., w.p. (see also 9/68 Blltn.) FLORIDA Florida State Univ. Opera Guild, R. Collins, Dir., Tallahassee 12/4, 5, 6, 7/68 Hansel and Gretel Eng. Bache 3/7, 8/69 Gianni Schicchi Eng. Grossman & Markheim Treigle 4/10, 12/69 Aida Jeffrey, Nikolaidi; Talley-Schmidt, Symonette, Collins; cond.: Dunscombe; st. dir.: Woodman; des.: Riddle Opera Guild of Brevard, Dolores McReynolds, Dir., Merritt Island 2/21, 23/69 Aida Eng. Ducloux; Blackmon, Rankin; Sergi, Flagello (see also 9/68 Blltn.) Stetson University Opera Workshop, J. Thompson, Dir., Deland 2/26, 27, 28 3/1/69 Madame Butterfly Eng. Martin (see also 1/69 Blltn.) University of Florida, Depts. of Speech and Music, Dirs.: E. Groth, R. Green, Gainesville 5/19-25/69 The Three Penny Opera University of Miami Opera Theatre, D. Ziegler, Dir., Coral Gables 3/5, 7, 8, 9/69 Cost fan 'tutte Eng. Martin 5/16-19 7/8, 11/69 // Tabarro Eng. Machlis; w.p. 7/18, 18/69 Pagliacci (Student Union) w.p. University of Miami, Opera Workshop, Miami 3/5, 7, 8, 9/69 Cost fan tutte University of South Florida, Opera Workshop, E. Anderson, Dir., Tampa 2/2, 3, 5/69 The Impresario Eng. Cardelli & The Lowland Sea 5/16, 17/69 The Telephone & Opera Scenes GEORGIA Mercer University Music Department, A. L. Rich, Chmn., Macon 12/5/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors 4/24, 25/69 The Three Penny Opera IDAHO Boise State College, Music and Drama Depts., G. Standing, R. Dewey, Dirs. 4/11-26/69 The Three Penny Opera, w.p., org., timp. University of Idaho Opera Workshop, C. W. Walton, Dir., Moscow 4/24-26/69 The Bartered Bride ILLINOIS Chicago Opera Profiles, Inc., Julia LeVine, Art. Dir., Chicago 11/68-1/69 Little Red Riding Hood abt. 50 pfs. for children; w.p. MacMurray College Opera Workshop, C. M. Fisher, Dir., Jacksonville 11/1, 2/ 68 Down in the 'Valley 5/2, 3 / 69 Opera Scenes w.p. Musicians' Club of Women, Mrs. H. N. Baum, Chicago 4/20, 21/69 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng. Blatt Northern ID. University Opera Workshop, E. Smith, Dir., DeKalb 11/20-23/68 A Game of Chance & Sweet Betsy from Pike 3/5, 7, 8/69 La Pirichole Eng. Valency 5/25/69 Opera Scenes Springfield College in Illinois, Music Deot., Sister Annunciate Horan 2/30 3/1, 2/69 The Old Maid and the Thief INDIANA Ball State University Opera Workshop, J. Campbell, Dir., Muncie 11/14, 15, 16/68 Kalmanoff's The Great Stone Face prem. 2/20, 21, 22/69 The Mikado 2/26/69 The Turn of the Screw 5/15, 16, 17/69 The Medium (see also 6/69 Blltn.) — 19 — 1968-69 Season Bethel College Opera Guild, R. Hemphill, Dir., Mishawaka 4/22/69 The Telephone & Bastien and Bastienne Eng. Paul 5/10/69 The Telephone Valparaiso University Opera Co., J. F. McCall, Dir., Valparaiso 3/7, 14, 15/69 La Traviata Eng. Martin IOWA Luther College Opera Workshop, Decorah 5/9, 10/69 Cost fan tutte Eng. Martin Univ. of Dubuque, Department of Music, L. Weller, Dubuque 11/24/68 Cavalleria Rusticana cone, pf., w.o. 12/13, 14/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors Univ. of Northern Iowa Music Theatre, Jane Birkhead, Dir., Cedar Falls 11/20, 21, 23, 24/68 La Pirichole Eng. Valency 4/11, 12/69 La Serva padrona & Die Kluge Eng. Furgiuele/Balk-Marshall 4/17, 23, 24/69 La Serva padrona & Die Kluge tour KANSAS Bethel College Opera Workshop, Robert Mesrobian, Dir., North Newton 5/8, 9, 10/69 The Tender Land Fort Hays Kansas State College, Div. of Music, P. H. Goeser, Hays 2/6, 7, 8/69 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng. Blatt Kansas State Teachers College Opera Theater, R. B. Anderson, Dir., Emporia 4/16, 17/69 // Tabarro & Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi Eng. Machlis/ Withers/ Grossman Kansas State Univ. Opera Theatre, T. Golecke, Dir., Manhattan 2/28 3/1/69 The Lowland Sea & Gallantry Sacred Heart College, Opera Dept, Sister Mary Thomas, Wichita 11/17, 18/68 The Elixir of Love Eng. Martin St Mary of the Plains College Opera Theatre, M. Griffet, Dodge City 5/2, 4/69 // Matrimonio segreto Eng. Witherspoon-Bird LOUISIANA Louisiana State Univ. Opera Theater, P. P. Fuchs, Dir., Baton Rouge 11/18, 19/68 La Serva padrona & Gianni Schicchi Eng. Grossman 3/16, 17/69 The Plough and the Stars prem. 5/10/69 Opera Scenes w.p. Louisiana Tech Musical Stage Productions, D. Pratt, Dir., Ruston 12/19/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors McNeese State College, Dept of Music, F. Tooley, Lake Charles 7/23, 24/69 The Medium w. 2 ps. New Orleans Opera Guild, New Orleans 12/15/68 The Jewels of the Madonna (reading) Shreveport Symphony Repertory Opera Co., J. Shenaut, Mus. Dir. 11/26, 27/68 La Traviata Eng. Machlis 11/22 stud, pf.; Cormany; Stuart 2/11, 12/69 La Voix humaine Eng. Machlis 2/10 stud, pf.; Madey Tulane University Lyric Theatre, F. L. Monachino, Dir., New Orleans 12/13, 14/68 Hansel and Gretel 5/7, 8, 9, 10/69 The Medium w.p. 6/69, 7/69 2 Musicals 8/7, 8, 9, 10/69 The Mikado MARYLAND Comic Opera Co., W. Hyder, Dir., Baltimore 11/15, 16/68 Patience SI 9169 Gilbert and Sullivan excerpts; cone. pf. 5/23, 24/69 Musical Christ Congregational Church, Silver Springs 5/18/69 Neumann's The Rites of Man Frostburg State College Opera Workshop, Frostburg 7/11, 16, 20, 25, 27, 30 8/1, 3/69 The Elixir of Love Eng. Martin Montgomery College Musical Theater, G. F. Midler, Dir., Rockville 3/13, 14, 15/69 La Pirichole Eng. Valency MASSACHUSETTS Emmanuel College Opera Players, Louise G. Cash, Dir., Boston 4/8, 11, 13/69 Vanessa w.p. — 20 — 1968-69 Season Cambridge Opera Workshop, Mary L. Edmonds, Lincoln Center, Mass. 1/18/69 The Telephone & The Medium 218169 Little Red Riding Hood 3/15/69 Opera Scenes 5/3/69 Rusalka w.o.; cone. pf. 5/10/69 Let's Make an Opera 8/5, 6, 7, 11/69 // Tabarro & The Telephone 1968-69 lecture demonstrations in schools and summer festiv., 15 pfs. Leverette House Opera Society, Harvard University, Cambridge 12/6/68 L'Histoire du soldat 4/17-19, 25-27/69 Cos! fan tutte Eng. Martin New England Conservatory of Music Opera Theatre, J. Strasfogel, Dir., Boston 5/16, 17, 18/69 // Signor Bruschino Eng. Routch/Strasfogel & Offenbach's Ba-Ta-Clan adapt. Strasfogel; Am. prem. (see also 1/69 Blltn.) MICHIGAN Central Michigan University Opera Workshop, R. C. Colness, Mt Pleasant 4-5/69 The Marriage of Figaro (2 acts) Eng. Martin; 8 pfs. in high schools w.p. Eastern Michigan University Opera Workshop, C. Roe, Dir., Ypsilanti 5/9, 10/69 Comedy on the Bridge & Gallantry Northern Mich. University Opera Theatre, R. L. Stephens, Dir., Marquette 12/1, 2/68 Sister Angelica Eng. Withers 2/21, 22/69 The Telephone & The Medium Opera Assn. of Western Michigan, G. Millar, Dir., Grand Rapids 9/13, 14, 18, 20, 21/68 Madame Butterfly Eng. Martin 12/7m, 7/68 Hansel and Gretel short vers. Piccolo Opera University of Michigan Opera Department, J. Blatt, Dir., Ann Arbor 11/22, 23, 25, 26/68 La Boheme Eng. Blatt 3/20, 21, 22/69 The Secret Marriage Eng. Bird-Witherspoon 8/15, 16, 18, 19/69 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng. Blatt Wayne State University Opera Workshop, Celeste Cole, Dir., Detroit 11/26/68 Sweet Betsy from Pike & scenes w.p. 4/8/69 La Traviata MINNESOTA Carleton College Glee Club, W. B. Wells, Dir., Nortbfield 4/25, 26, 28/69 The Mikado Mankato State College Opera Workshop, W. Hettinga, Mankato 2/7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15/69 La Boheme Eng. Martin Moorehead State College Opera Workshop, L. Z. Tjeknavorian, Dir., Moore- head 11/68 The Play of Daniel cone. pf. 5/8, 9, 10/69 Cost fan tutte Northfield Arts Guild, D. Bond, Pres., Nortbfield 11/23, 24/68 Opera Scenes (by workshop) 1/3, 4/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors MISSISSIPPI Tougaloo College Opera Workshop, Miss J. Layng, Dir., Tougaloo 1/31/69 La Divina & The Telephone 2/16/69 The Telephone (TV pf., Jackson, Miss.) 4/18/69 La Divina at Miss. Arts Festival 5/4/69 Black Moses folk-opera (student prod.) University of Miss., Opera Theatre, L. Fox, Dir., University 11/21, 22/68 Tale for a Deaf Ear 11/15 tour 4/21, 22/69 The Beggar's Opera adapt.: G. Siegel; 4/69 4 pfs. tour MISSOURI Central Methodist College Opera Workshop, L. W. Miller, Dir., Fayette 2/14/69 Gianni Schicchi w.p. Central Missouri State College Opera Theater, D. Scott, Dir., Warrensburg 12/11, 12, 13/68 Albert Herring 2/17, 20 3/11/69 Bohlen's Ismene prem. 5/15, 16/69 The Devil and Daniel Webster & A Game of Chance 8/11/69 // Tabarro Eng. Machlis, w.p. University of Missouri, Music Dept., H. S. Morrison, Dir., Columbia 11/20, 21/68 Opera Scenes (Carmen, Fledermaus) 3/5, 6, 7, 8/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Dent — 21 — 1968-69 Season The School of the Ozarks, J. Mizell, Point Lookout 9/25, 26/68 Buhrman's The Baldknobbers prem. 11/28, 29/68 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Eng. 12/7/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors 8/14-16/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin; all w.o. MONTANA Rocky Mountain College, Dept. of Music, J. Patrick, Billings 5/10, 11/69 Cavalleria rusticana & Gianni Schicchi Eng. Machlis/ Grossman NEW JERSEY Glassboro State College Opera Workshop, J. R. Shaw, Dir., Glassboro 11/14, 15/68 Don Pasquale w.p. 3/18, 20/69 A Game of Chance w.p. Monmouth Festival of the Arts, Monmouth College, W. Lonbranch 8/6/69 Otello R. Barri, prod. Opera Classics, Inc., G. Ungaro, Mng. Dir., A. Coppola, Mus. Dir., Paramus 10/12/68 La Traviata all pfs. at Hackensack Cultural Center 3/ 8/ 69 Madama Butterfly 5/17/69 Aida The Paterson Lyric Opera Theatre, A. Boyajian, Dir., Paterson 11/23/68 Norma all pfs. w.p. 1/25/69 Tosca 3/22/69 La Traviata 5/25 616/69 Aida 7/11, 12/69 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Princeton University Opera Club, D. Abramovitz, Dir., Princeton 12/13, 14/68 Dido and Aeneas & Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos 5/2, 3/69 La Serva padrona cone. pf. Ridgewood Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Co., C. Wolfson, Mus. Dir. 11-12/68 Patience 6 pfs. 4-5/69 H.M.S. Pinafore 9 pfs. 7-8/69 Trial by Jury 3 pfs. Village Opera Society, L. Newland, Art. Adm., Ridgewood 11/20, 22/68 Madame Butterfly Eng. Martin 4/15, 16/69 La Traviata Eng. Machlis (4/3/69 w.p.) NEW YORK Capital Artists Resident Opera Co., Inc., Harriet Comfort, Gen. Dir., Albany 12/21, 28, 30/68 1/4/69 Hansel and Gretel (Troy, Latham, Schenectady, N.Y.) w.p. 4-5/69 Trouble in Tahiti 12 pfs. in schools w.p. SIX! 169 Trouble in Tahiti w.o. Spring '69 Scenes, 13 pfs. in schools; cond.: K. Saffir; dir.: A. Armstrong Colgate University, Opera Workshop, W. Skelton, A. Sproul, Co-Dirs., Hamilton 2/12, 13, 14, 15/69 The Good Soldier Schweik Eastman School of Music, L. Treash, Dir., Opera Theatre, Rochester 11/8, 9/68 Riders to the Sea 2/21, 22/69 Die Fledermaus 4/21, 22/69 The Love for Three Oranges The Emerald Opera Theatre Co., N. Kayan, Dir., Plandome, L. I. 5/18, 19/69 Trouble in Tahiti & The Scarf Greater Utica Opera Guild, P. A. Caputo, Dir., Utica 3/15, 22, 29/69 La Boheme Hofstra University Opera Workshop, H. Beattie, Dir., Hempstead 4/6, 22/69 Caldara's // Giuoco del Quadriglio w. harpsich. 4/27/69 Richard ArnelPs Combat Zone prem. Ithaca Opera Assn., Inc., K. C. Baumann, Art. Dir., Ithaca 12/10, 11/68 1/20 2/12/69 The Old Maid and the Thief Long Island Opera Showcase, Inc., B. Hart, Dir., Franklin Square 9/8 10/19/68, 1/31/69 Die Fledermaus 2/8/69 Faust 10/12/68 Aida 3/1, 2/69 Lucia di Lammermoor 11 /16/ 68 La Traviata 3129169 II Barbiere di Siviglia 11/23, 24/68 Don Pasquale 4/26, 27/69 La Gioconda 12/14/68 Hansel and Gretel 5/17/69 Madama Butterfly 1/18, 19/69 La Forza del destino — 22 — 1968-69 Season Metropolitan Opera Studio, tour, in schools, etc. 1968-69 The Barber of Seville 29 pfs.; The Birthday of the Infanta 19 pfs.; Cos) fan tutte 13 pfs.; Don Pasquale 15 pfs.; The Telephone 36 pfs.; A Hand of Bridge 1 pf.; four programs of scenes and arias 145 pfs. N.Y. State University at Buffalo, Opera Program, Co-Dirs.: H. Rehfuss/Muriel H.Wolf 12/13, 14/68 The Burning Fiery Furnace 4/24, 25, 26, 27/69 The Brute & The Wandering Scholar & Trouble in Tahiti State University College at Brockport, Opera Workshop, G. R. Gibson 7/16, 17/69 The Consul 8/25/69 The Tales of Hoffmann (perf. by Chatham Opera Workshop) Summer Savoyards, D. Gordon, Prod., Binghamton 7/69 Musical 4 pfs. 8/69 The Yeomen of the Guards 6 pfs. NEW YORK CITY Inwood Chamber Opera Players, Mrs. S. Popper-Edelman, Dir. 5/28 6/11/69 Bastien and Bastienne Eng. Paul Luigi delPOrefice Opera Society, C. de los Rios, Mng., New York 3/22/69 Rigoletto all pfs. w.p. 1/29169 Carmen in Riverhead, N.Y. 5/19/69 Madama Butterfly 12/15, 18/68 6/15/69 7/17/69 Opera concerts N.Y. Community College Opera Workshop, A. Sherman, R. Flusser, Dirs., Brooklyn 12/14, 15/68 Down in the Valley 3/21, 22/69 in Corning, N.Y. 5/23/69 Opera Scenes NORTH CAROLINA Elon College Music and Drama Depts., Mrs. T. Cofield, Mus. Dir., Elon College 5/7-10/69 The Three Penny Opera Univ. of North Carolina Opera Theatre, W. Mason, Dir., Chapel Hill 2/7, 8/69 The Merry Wives of Windsor NORTH DAKOTA Dickinson State College, Division of Music, E. H. Brown, Dickinson 12/5, 6, 7/68 The Tender Land AITi, 24/69 Opera Scenes University of North Dakota Opera Co., P. Hisey, Dir., Grand Forks 4/17, 18, 19/69 Paisiello's The Barber of Seville Eng. Gay OHIO Bluffton College, Dept. of Music, S. Jacobi, Bluff ton 1/21, 22, 23/69 The Three Penny Opera Denison University, Opera Workshop, H. Larson, Dir., Granville 2/14, 15/69 The Old Maid and the Thief Lima Symphony Orchestra, J. Firszt, Dir., Lima 1/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin Miami University, Opera Workshop, O. Frohlich, Dir., Oxford 12/13, 14/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors 4/10/69 Der Freischiitz cone, pf.; Eng. McFarren Springfield Civic Opera, Inc., R. Hohlmayer, Prod. Co-ord., Summer Arts Festival 7/18, 19/69 Carmen Eng. Martin OREGON University of Oregon Opera Workshop, J. Miller, Dir., Eugene 5/16/69 The Secret of Suzanne & Le leu d! amour et de hazard w.p. 5/17/69 archy and mehitable & Comedy on the Bridge w.p. 4/26/69 The Magic Flute cone. pf. w.o.; Eng. Martin Willamette University Opera Theatre, J. Viamonte, Dir., Salem 3/7, 8/69 Sotoba Komachi & Gianni Schicchi Eng. Pitt PENNSYLVANIA Academy of Vocal Arts, V. Hammond, Dir., Philadelphia 3/17, 29/69 Opera Scenes 3/24 4/20/69 The Consul Edinboro State College Onera Workshop, F. Mueller, Dir., Edinboro 3/24/69 Slow Dusk & Trouble in Tahiti w.p. — 23 — 1968-69 Season Mansfield State CoUege Opera Workshop, J. M. Wilcox, Dir., Mansfield 11/21, 22, 23/68 Cosi fan tutte 3/69, 7/69 Musicals Muehlenberg CoUege Opera Workshop, F. Robinson, Dir., AUentown 4/30 5/2, 3/69 Pagliacci & The Old Maid and the Thief Oakland Lyric, R. Fellner, Dir., Pittsburgh (at grade schools) 12/68, 1/69 Little Harlequinade & Zaninelli's Speak Up! 14 pfs.; w.p. The Opera Workshop, Mrs. A. Keister, Sewickley 8/15/69 Ladies' Voices & Captain Lovelock & The Stronger 8/28/69 The Tales of Hoffmann w.p. Penn State University, Dept. of Music, R. Baisely, University Park 2/8, 9, 10/69 The Rape of Lucretia 2/27, 28 3/1, 6, 7, 8/69 The Medium & The Telephone 5/28/69 Opera Scenes Philadelphia Opera Showcase, Museum of Civic Center (non-perf. organ.) 3123169 Riders to the Sea & The Old Maid and the Thief (Princeton Opera Co.) 3/30/69 The Telephone & La Serva padrona (Demitasse Opera Co.) 4/12/69 Introduction to Opera (Young Audiences Inc.) 4/13/69 La Traviata (Little Lyric Opera Co.) 4/20/69 The Consul (Academy of Vocal Arts) 4/25, 27/69 La Boh&me (Rittenhouse Opera Soc.) SOUTH CAROLINA Converse College Opera Workshop, J. R. McCrae, Dir., Spartanburg 11/26/68 Opera Scenes 2/13/69 The Old Maid and the Thief & Gallantry 5/2/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Dent Columbia College, Music Dept., J. L. Caldwell, Columbia 3/5, 6, 7/69 A Game of Chance & Gallantry w.p. & org. SOUTH DAKOTA Northern State College, Music Dept., J. R. Berggren, Chmn., Aberdeen 4/13/69 Ramsier's The Man on the Bearskin Rug & La Serva padrona Eng. Stossel University of South Dakota Opera Workshop, Vermillion 11/14/68 Opera Scenes 3/17 4/27 5/6/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin TENNESSEE Bryan College, Music Dept., Miss G. Southern, Dayton 3/26/69 Madama Butterfly University of Tennessee at Martin, Opera Workshop, Miss M. Jewett, Martin 1/17, 18, 19/69 Slow Dusk & Scenes 5/7-10/69 The Medium 5/12/69 The Old Rose by Telegraph Trick (student composition) TEXAS Abilene Christian College, Opera Workshop, J. Boyd, Dir., Abilene 5/17/69 Dido and Aeneas Austin College Opera Workshop, B. Lunkley, Dir., Sherman 3/7, 8/69 The Telephone & The Beauty and the Beast North Texas State'University Opera Workshop, Denton 5/11, 12,13, 14/69 Riders to the Sea & Gianni Schicchi Eng. Grossman Southern Methodist University Lyric Theatre, T. Hayward, Prod., Dallas 1968-69 Opera, Opera; Game of Chance 7 pfs. at high schools and coll.; The Barber of Seville 2 pfs.; w.p. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Music Dept., R. Burton, Ft Worth 11/19/68 What Men Live By 12/5, 6, 7/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors 2/18/69 L'Enfant prodigue Eng. Cox Texas Arts and Industry Univ., Opera Workshop, Miss M. L, Summers, Dir., Kingsville 12/7, 8/68 La Boh erne Eng. Martin 4/18, 19/69 Opera Scenes Texas Christian University, Opera Depart, F. Berens, Dir., Fort Worth 2/27, 28/69 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng. Blatt 3/17/69 The Magic Flute Eng. Martin; w.p. 5/17769 Opera Scenes 94 1968-69 Season Texas Wesleyan CoUege Opera Workshop, S. Simons, Dir., Ft. Worth 11/26/68 Darling Corie & Sunday Excursions UTAH University of Utah Opera Co., A. W. Watts, Dir., Salt Lake City 12/13, 16, 17, 18/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors 2/13, 14, 15/69 La Traviata Eng. Martin 5/1, 2, 3/69 The Mother of Us All Weber State College Opera Theatre, R. L. Wooden, Dir., Ogden 11/13, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25/68 The Three Penny Opera 2/28 3/3, 4, 5, 6/69 The Telephone & The Devil and Daniel Webster 5/8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin VIRGINIA Dept of Recreation and Parks, The Mosque, L. W. Batty, Mus. Dir,. Richmond 12/17/68 Amahl and the Night Visitors 8/6, 8/69 Martha Hampton Institute Opera Theatre, N. Thomas, Dir., Hampton 1/17, 18/69 Musical 4/25, 26/69 La Traviata Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia, Miss A. Bishop, Art Dir., Arlington 3/28, 29/69 The Rape of Lucretia 4/14/69 Cost fan tutte cone. pf. Virginia State CoUege Opera Workshop, R. Edwards, Petersburg 5/8/69 The Old Maid and the Thief WASHINGTON Festival Opera, University of Washington, S. Chappie, Dir., Seattle 12/10/68 Opera Scenes 3/12, 14/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Dent 5/21, 23/69 Suor Angelica & // Tabarro Eng. Machlis 8/20, 22/69 Don Pasquale Eng. Dent Western Washington State CoUege Opera Workshop, Miss M. Terrey-Smith, BeUingham 12/12/68 Opera Scenes 3/13 4/10, 30/69 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin 5/14, 15/69 Dido and Aeneas & Goldberg's Galatea Elettronica prem. WEST VIRGINIA Fairmont State College, Music Dept., Miss C. Sheets & F. Moody, Fairmont 2/10, 11/69 Amelia Goes to the Ball w.p. WISCONSIN Lawrence University Opera Theatre, J. Koopman, Dir., Appleton 1/23, 24, 25/69 The Barber of Seville Eng. Bird; w.p. St. Norbert College Opera Workshop, M. Moss, Din, West De Pere 10/15/68 2/13 5/4/69 The Old Maid and the Thief 5/8, 9, 10/69 Carmen excerpts University of Wisconsin, Opera Theatre, £. Foreman, Dir., Milwaukee 5/24, 25/69 Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi Eng. Rachlin/Grossman University of Wisconsin, Opera Workshop, K. Moser, Dir., Madison 7/18, 19/69 The Medium Erickson, Hill 8/2-5/69 Cos) fan tutte Guptill, Wilberscheid, Schwartz; Astor, Hottman, Swanson 8/14, 15/69 La Traviata Chalfant; Zi Sa, Murdock Wisconsin State University, Music Dept, C. KeUy, Superior 5/1, 2, 3/69 The Telephone & The Medium

CANADA Brandon University, School of Music, L. Mayoh, Brandon, Manitoba 1/31 2/1/69 Caldara's // Giuoco del Quadriglio & La Serva padrona own transl. Stratford Festival's New Music at Midnight, Ont 7/25/69 Goehr's Naboth's Vineyard reading w. 2 ps.; Vigod; Crofoot, Frisch

— 25 — PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1969-70 SEASON (cont) ALABAMA The Birmingham Civic Opera Assn., Mrs. M. D. McCIung, Dir. 2/19, 20, 21/70 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng. Blatt The Mobile Opera Guild, Mme. Rose Palmai-Tenser, Dir. 3/9, 11/70 Andrea Chinier Ludgin ARIZONA Arizona State University Lyric Opera Theatre, K. Seipp, Dir., Tempe 11/14, 15, 21, 22/69 Paisiello's The Barber of Seville 2/27, 28 3/6, 7/70 Floyd's Markheim 5/8, 9/70 The Three Penny Opera Northern Arizona Univ. Opera Theatre, D. Wakcling, Art. Dir., Flagstaff 11/69 Musical 4/70 Otello w. Flagstaff Symphony and Choral Group; Arbizu; Curatilo ARKANSAS John Brown University, Music Dept, R. Isham, Dir., Siloam Springs 12/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors 4/70 Scenes from Carmen University of Arkansas Opera Workshop, M. Worthley, Dir., Fayetteville 10/28, 30/69 Noye's Fludde 4/70 The Magic Flute 2 pfs. CALIFORNIA Fresno Opera Assn., N. Iacovetti, Mus. Dir., Fresno 11/7, 8/69 Der Freischiitz Eng. Martin 3/6, 7/70 Rigoletto Eng. Martin 5/22, 23/70 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin Fresno State College Opera Workshop, R. Hurst, Dir., Fresno 3/29-4/11/70 Gianni Schicchi & L'Heure espagnole Los Angeles Lyric Opera, I. Parnes, Dir., at Wilshire Ebell Theatre 12/19/69 Leginska's Gale the Haunting prem. Los Angeles Philharmonic, Z. Mehta, Art Dir., Los Angeles 4/70 Berlioz' Beatrice and Benedict Christensen Lyric Opera of Orange County, Mrs. V. Sun, Exec. Dir., Laguna Beach 9/5, 6, 12, 13/69 The Sound of Music Nixon, Jordan; Bergmann; cond.: Ober; dir.: Johnson N.Y. City Opera Co., at The Music Center, Los Angeles 11/19, 25/69 Me/«?o/Manon Sills; cond.: Rudel; dir.: Capobianco; des.: Eck/Varona 11/24, 30m/69 Rigoletto Brooks; Qulico cond.: Oetvos; dir.: Corsaro 12/1, 6m/69 The Ballad of Baby Doe Sills; Cassel; cond.: Meier; dir.: Pollock; des.: Oenslager/Campbell 12/2, 6/69 // Trittico cond.: Wilson; dir.: Pollock; des.: Ter-Arutunian 12/3, 7/69 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills; dir.: Capobianco; des.: Eck/Varona Oakland Symphony, G. Samuels, Cond., Oakland 12/2, 7/69 The Damnation of Faust Estes Riverside Opera Co., Mrs. F. B. Calkins, Riverside 10/18/69 "Opera Gala"—scenes 11/14, 15/69 Tosca 4/17, 18/70 The Pearl Fishers San Fernando Valley State College Opera Theatre, D. W. Scott, Dir., North- ridge 11/69 Don Carlo 6 pfs. 4/70 The Rape of Lucretia 6 pfs. 6-7/70 La Boheme San Francisco Children's Opera Co., N. Gingold, Dir. 9/28/69 Little Red Riding Hood 11/9/69 Snow White and Rose Red 12/21/69 A Date With Santa 211110 The Emperor's New Clothes 3/15/70 Sleeping Beauty 4/26/70 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — 26 — 1969-70 Season San Francisco State College Opera Theatre, D. Camp, Din, San Francisco 3/14, 15, 16/70 L'Infedelta delusa Eng. Porter (Deceit Outwitted) Univ. of California at Santa Barbara Opera Theatre, C. Zytowski, Dir. 10/69 Chamber opera 2/70 The Coronation of Popped 5/70 Susannah West End Opera Assn., S. Petroff, Art. Dir., Alta Loma 11/69 La Traviata 2 pfs. 4/70 // Trovatore 2 pfs. COLORADO Colorado Springs Opera Assn., J. J. Baird, Art Dir., Colorado Springs 1117, SI69 La Bohkme Eng. Martin 2/6, 7/70 Don Pasquale Eng. Mead 4/24, 25/70 The Abduction from the Seraglio Eng. Martin Denver Lyric Opera, N. Johnson, Mus. Dir., w. Denver Symphony 10/28, 30/69 Carmen Steffan, Starr; East, Riley; dir.: A. Bishop; des.: B. Jackson 2/3, 5/70 Salome Nickel, Olson; Holloway, Fried, Frazier; dir.: S. Barker 5/17, 19/70 The Daughter of the Regiment M. Tucker; Cunningham; dir.: K. Hata University of Colorado Opera Workshop, K. Hata, Dir., Boulder 5/1, 2/70 Die Fledermaus CONNECTICUT Connecticut Opera Assn., F. Pandolfi, Gen. Dir., Hartford 10/18/69 Adriana Lecouvreur Olivero, Dunn; Lavirgen, Modenos 11/26/69 Un Ballo in maschera 12110/69 Salome 1/28/70 Carmen 2/21/70 The Barber of Seville 4/8/70 Faust stud, mat.: 4/8, 9, 10/70 Hartt College of Music Opera Theatre, M. Paranov, E. Nagy, Dirs., Hartford 11/23/69 The Love for Three Oranges pf. for Guild members 2/25, 26, 27, 28/70 Cherubini's Medea Eng. Jacobs 4/29, 30 5/1, 2/70 Prokofiev's La Duenna Simsbury Light Opera Co., W. Erhart, G. Douglas, Co. Dirs., Simsbury 4/24, 25 5/1, 2/70 Princess Ida Stamford Lyric Opera Assn., Inc., L. Petri, Exec. Dir. 10/11/ 69 The Barber of Seville LaBianca; Guarrera, Anthony, Rossi 2/7/70 Lucia di Lammermoor 4/70 Faust 4/23/70 Gala Concert; Albanese DELAWARE Wilmington Opera Society, Mrs. L. A. Ferris, Wilmington 11/21, 22/69 The Barber of Seville 4/17, 18/70 Aida DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA National Symphony Orchestra, H. Mitchell, Cond., Washington 4/70 Parsifal cone. pf. FLORIDA Civic Opera of the Palm Beaches, P. Csonka, Art. Dir. 12/21/69 mat. Hansel and Gretel 3/6/70 Carmen Blackham; Merrill 4/70 Don Giovanni Dade Family Opera, of Opera Guild of Greater Miami 11/30/69 The Bartered Bride (repl. Hansel and Gretel) 5/3/70 The Pirates of Penzance Florida Atlantic University Opera Theatre, R. Wright, Boca Raton 12/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors 1/70 Madama Butterfly Opera Gala Guild of the Florida Symphony Society, Miss H. Ryan, Orlando 2/6, 8/70 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng.; Sills, Creed; di Virgilio, Treigle Opera Guild of Brevard-Opera Arts Assn., Miss D. McReynolds, Merritt Island 11/21, 22/69 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci 12/19, 20/69 Hansel and Gretel Eng. 3/13, 14/70 Carmen Eng. — 27 — 1969-70 Season Opera Guild of Fort Lauderdale, Inc., H. C. Kersten, Prcs., E. Buckley, Mus. Dir. 2/3/70 La Traviata (Opera Guild of Miami prod, see 6/69 Blltn.) 2/24/70 Rigoletto (Opera Guild of Miami prod.) Opera Repertory Group, Inc., A. Smith, Mng. Dir., Jacksonville 9/30/69 "Song Auction" benefit concert 10/12/69 Opera Scenes at Art Festival 11/3, 5/69 The Barber of Seville Eng. 1/19, 21/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci 4/13, 15/70 Cost fan tutte Eng. additional student matinees and tour performances San Carlo Opera of Florida, Inc., Mme. N. T. Russo, Dir., Tampa 11/1/69 Rigoletto Stetson University Opera Workshop, J. Thompson, Dir., De Land 11/69 Cos} fan tutte 3/70 La PMchole Univ. of South Florida Opera Workshop, E. Anderson, Dir., Tampa 2/70 Gianni Schicchi & // Campanello 5 /70 The Magic Flute GEORGIA Augusta Opera Co., B. Evans, Gen. Dir., Augusta 9/11, 12, 13, 14/69 The Barber of Seville Eng. Martin; Robinson; Goeke, Titus, Fleetwood, Dobriansky; cond.: Strasfogel; art. dir.: Ian Strasfogel IDAHO Ricks College, Music Dept, C. W. Hill, Chmn., Rexburg 3/5, 6, 7, 8/70 The Merry Wives of Windsor University of Idaho Opera Workshop, C. W. Walton, Dir., Moscow 11/3, 4, 5, 6, 11/69 The Telephone 4/23-25/69 Musical ILLINOIS Chicago Opera Profiles, Inc., Julia LeVine, Dir., children's programs 1969-70 The Pink Siamese; Jack and the Beanstalk; Little Red Riding Hood Eastern III. University, Opera Workshop, June Johnson, Dir., Charleston 2/70 Gianni Schicchi & scenes 5/70 The Merry Wives of Windsor Rosary College Opera Workshop, Sister Mary Margaret Leahy, River Forest 10/19/69 La Serva padrona w.p. 11/15/69 Noye's Fludde w.p. INDIANA Ball State University Opera Workshop, J. Campbell, Dir., Muncie 11/13-15/69 The Turk in Italy Eng. Goldovsky-Caldwell 2/12-14/70 Musical 5/21-23/70 Bergsma's The Wife of Martin Guerre 8/13-16/70 Musical Indiana University, School of Music, W. Bam, Dean, Bloomington 10/11, 18, 25/69 Handel's Deidamia 11/1, 8, 15,22/69 Tosca 12/6, 13/69 1/10, 17 2/7/70 Rossini's Love on Trial (La Pietra del paragone) 2/21, 28 3/7, 14 4/11/70 A Masked Ball 4/25 5/2, 9, 16/70 Blomdahl's Aniara U.S. prem. 3/22/70 Parsifal Valparaiso University Opera Co., J. F. McCall, Dir., Valparaiso 3/6, 7, 13, 14/70 CosX fan tutte Eng. KANSAS Fort Hays Kansas State College, Div. of Music, P. H. Goeser, Dir., Hays 2/12, 13, 14/70 Goeser's The Imagined Invalid prem. (3-act opera after Moliere) St. Mary of the Plains College Opera Theatre, M. Griffet, Dir., Dodge City 11/13, 15/ 69 Rita & // Campanello w.p. Eng. Mead/Griffet 4/4, 5/70 The Old Maid and the Thief w.p. Wichita State University Opera Theatre, G. Gibson, Dir., Wichita 11/25, 26 12/2, 6, 7/69 Dido and Aeneas & The Spanish Hour 4/70 to be announced KENTUCKY Univ. of Kentucky Opera Workshop, A. Graham, Dir., Lexington 3/10/70 La Traviata Eng. Machlis — 28 — 1969-70 Season LOUISIANA Shreveport Civic Opera Assn., Mrs. J. P. Wallace, Pres. 10/28/69 Turandot Ross; Craig (Houston Opera Co. prod.) cond.: Herbert 3/23/70 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills (San Antonio Opera Co. prod.) cond.: Alessandro Shreveport Symphony Society Repertory Opera Co., J. Shenault, Mas. Dir. 11/24, 25, 26/69 Susannah 3/13, 15, 16/70 // Trovatore 1969-70 The Medium tour to schools; La., Tex., Ark. MARYLAND Baltimore Comic Opera Co., W. Hyder, Dir., Baltimore 11/69 The Pirates of Penzance 2 pfs. The Chamber Opera Society of Baltimore, T. Conlin, Dir. 10/24, 26/69 The Rape of Lucretia cond.: Conlin; dir.: Emoed; des.; Haynes 4/70 Cost fan tutte 2 pfs. cond.: Conlin; dir.: Emoed Montgomery CoUege Musical Theater, G. F. MuIIer, Dir., Rockville 3/13, 14, 15/70 The Gypsy Baron Peabody Conservatory Opera Department, R. Lawrence, Dir., Baltimore 3/13, 14/70 Henze's The End of a World Am. prem. & La Vida breve MASSACHUSETTS Williams CoUege Choral Society & Amherst College Glee Club, Williamstown 11/15/69 "Opera Evening with Orchestra" co-dirs.: K. Roberts, B. Mclnnes MICHIGAN Central Michigan University Opera Workshop, R. C. Colness, Dir., Mt Pleasant 11/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors & The Telephone 4/70 The Telephone w. chamber opera for school tour Opera Assn. of Western Michigan, G. Millar, Dir., Grand Rapids 9/19, 20, 24, 26, 27/69 La Boh&me 12/31/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors Overture to Opera Co.-Detroit Grand Opera Assn., D. DiChiera, Art Dir. 12/31/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors Wayne State University Opera Workshop, Celeste Cole, Detroit 12/2/69 The Human Voice Eng. Machlis 4/24/69 The Damnation of Faust Eng. England MINNESOTA Carleton College Glee Club, W. B. Wells, Dir., Northfield 4I70H.M.S. Pinafore Center Opera Co., J. Ludwig, Gen. Mgr., Minneapolis (at Cedar Village Theatre) 11/29 12/5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20/69 Balk/Marshall's Oedipus and the Sphinx COC commission, prem. 1/17, 24, 31 2/6/70 Birtwistle's Punch and Judy Am. prem. (at T. Guthrie Theatre) 1/30 2/7, 13, 14/70 Egk's Seventeen Days and Four Minutes Am. prem. (at T. Guthrie Theatre) 2/28 3/6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21/70 P.&M. Boesing's The Wanderer: A Ballad of Now COC commission, folk-opera; prem. Duluth Symphony Assn., G. Hawthorne, Mus. Dir., Duiuth 9/19, 21/69 La Bohime Brooks, Randazzo; Morell, Fredricks, Beattie Mankato State College Opera Workshop, W. Hettinga, Mankato 2/6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14/70 The Barber of Seville St. Paul Opera Assn., G. Schaefer, Gen. Mgr., St. Paul Auditorium 10/9, 11/69 The Three Cornered Hat (N.Y. First Chamber Dance Quart.) & La Vida breve Mandac; Khanzadian 11/26-30/69 Hansel and Gretel 12/18, 20/69 Tosca Ferraris-Kelston 3/19, 21/70 Carmen Warfield; McCracken at Crawford Livingston Theatre 4/7-18/70 Don Pasquale; The Rape of Lucretia in repertory pfs. MISSISSIPPI Jackson Opera Guild, R. M. Alderson, Art. Dir., Jackson 11/25/69 Carmen Warfield; McCracken — 29 — 1969-70 Season University of Mississippi Opera Theatre, L. Fox, Dir., University 12/11-13/69 contemporary opera to be announced 4/9-11/70 Don Giovanni Eng. Martin; Coleman, Bencze MISSOURI Central Missouri State College Opera Theater, D. Scott, Dir., Warrensburg 9/18/69 // Tabarro Eng. Machlis 2/70 and 5/70 to be announced 1/21-24/70 The Consul Kansas City Lyric Theater, R. Patterson, Gen. Dir., Kansas City 9/23, 27 10/3, 9, 15/69 The Taming of the Shrew Christensen, Jennings; Harris, Hook, McGowen; cond.: Patterson; st. dir.: R. Allen 9/24, 30 10/4, 10, 16/69 Rigoletto Fling; Knoll, Polakoff; cond.: B. D. Ryan, st. dir.: I. Strasfogel 9/25 10/1, 7, 11, 17/69 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng. Petrach; Fling, Shade, Christensen, Guilet; Jones, Hook, Harris, Holloway, McGowen; cond.: Patterson; st. dir.: I. Strasfogel 9/26 10/2, 8, 14, 18/69 La Boheme Shade, Jennings; Knoll, Polakoff, Powers, Holloway; cond.: Patterson; st. dir.: R. Allen William Jewell College Opera Workshop, B. McKinney, Dir., Liberty 11/19/69 // Trovatore NEBRASKA Nebraska Wesleyan University Opera Workshop, O. Bennett, Dir., Lincoln 2126-311 HO La Bohime Omaha Civic Opera Society, R. D. Holland, Pres., J. Levine, Art Dir. 2/6, 7/70 Faust 4/16, 18/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci NEW HAMPSHIRE Hanover Opera Workshop, Miss R. Morton, Dir., Hanover Spring 1970 The Devil and Daniel Webster La Serva padrona Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice NEW JERSEY Monmouth Conservatory of Music, F. Molzer, Dir., Little Silver Fall 1969 archie and mehitable Spring 1970 Sister Angelica & Cavalleria rusticana Opera Classics, Inc. of N.J., G. Ungaro, A. Coppola, Dirs., Hackensack 10/25/69 La Bohime Zambrana, Moser; Consiglio, Hernandez, Contreras 1/24/70 Gala Concert; Zambrana, Moser, Pearl, Conti; Consiglio, Ungaro 3/21/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Conti, Heimall; Consiglio, La Grua, Ungaro, Hernandez 5/23/70 Rigoletto Pearl; Consiglio, Roy Opera Theatre of N.J., A. Silipigni, Art. Dir., Westfield 11/69 // Barbiere di Siviglia 2 pfs., Hines 3/70 La Traviata 2 pfs., Evangelista 5/70 Aida tour: Pagliacci in 3 N. J. cities Princeton University Opera Club, D. Abramovitz, Dir., Princeton 12/69 to be'announced 5/70 L'Incoronazione di Poppea Trenton State College Opera Workshop, B. Steele, Dir., Trenton 3/70 La Traviata Eng. Machlis NEW YORK Capital Artists Resident Ooera Co., Inc., Harriet Comfort, Gen. Dir., Albany III69 La Serva padrona &fhe Old Maid and the Thief 4/70 Cost fan tutte 5/70 The Telephone 1969-70 Trouble in Tahiti, La Serva padrona, The Telephone 25 pfs. w.p. in schools Greater Utica Opera Guild, P. A. Caputo, Dir., Utica 4/70 La Traviata (10/69 "Messe Solonnelle") Hofstra College Opera Workshop, H. Beattie, Dir., Hempstead 2/6, 7, 8/70 Cost fan tutte or They All Swing mod. vers. w. Moog Synthesizer & Rock Group Ithaca Opera Assn., Inc., K. C. Baumann, Art. Dir., Ithaca 10/69 Dido and Aeneas & The Secret of Suzanne — 30 — 1969-70 Season Long Island Showcase, Inc., B. Hart, Dir., Franklin Square at Herricks Jr. H.S., New Hyde Park at Stanforth Jr. H.S., Elmont 9/27/69 Rigoletto 2/14/ 70 11 /15/69 The Tales of Hoffmann 1116169 1/24/70 Tosca 10/18/69 3/14/70 Martha 4/11/70 5/2/70 Un Ballo in maschera 5/23/70 Opera Theatre of Rochester, Mrs. R. Rosenberg, Dir., Rochester 10/17/69 La Bohime at Nazareth Arts Center State University College, Opera Workshop, G. Gibson, Dir., Brockport 7/17, 18, 19/70 The Marriage of Figaro Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, K. Kritz, Mus. Dir., J. Howland, Mgr. 1/16, 17, 18/70 Hansel and Gretel 3/70 // Trovatore Tri-Cities Opera Co. & Workshop, Inc., P. Hibbitt, C. Savoca, Co-Dirs., Binghamton 10/12, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 31 11/1, 2/69 Lakmi (incl. 3 stud, mats.) 1/15, 16, 17/70 Cost fan tutte (workshop prod.) 3/1, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22/70 LaTraviata (incl. stud, mats.) 4/18/70 "Great Opera Choruses" 5/21, 22, 23, 24/70 11 Campanello (workshop prod.)

NEW YORK CITY Amato Opera Showcase Theatre, 319 Bowery, A. Amato, Dir. 9/19, 20, 26, 27 10/3, 4, 10, 11, 12/69 Don Giovanni 10/17, 18, 24, 25, 31 11/1, 7, 8, 9/69 Tosca 11/14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 12/5, 6, 7/69 Manon 12/12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27/69 1/2, 3, 4/70 Die Fledermaus Eng. 2/13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 3/6, 7, 8/70 Aida 3/13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 4/3, 4, 5/70 Madama Butterfly 4/10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 5/1, 2, 3/70 La Forza del destino 5/8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31/70 La Bohkme all pfs. 8:30 p.m. except last of each opera is matinee at 2:30 p.m. Amato Opera-in-Brief, Town Hall 10/18/69 The Mikado all w.p. 2/14/70 H.M.S. Pinafore 11/15/69 Hansel and Gretel 3/14/70 The Barber of Seville 12/13/69 The Magic Flute 4/11/70 Madama Butterfly 1/17/70 Carmen 5/9/70 The Mikado Blue Hill Troupe Ltd., C. D. Walker, Mus. Dir., New York 4/1-4/70 Princess Ida at Hunter College Playhouse Brooklyn College Opera Theatre, K. Kb'pe, Mus. Dir. 10/17, 18/69 Opera Scenes 12/12, 13, 14m/69 Eccles' Semele prem. 5/8, 9/70 lphigenia in Tauris Eng. Carol Longone's Operalogues, Hotel Pierre-Coronet Room; 2:00-3:30 P.M. 10/13/69 Aida 10/27/69 Romeo et Juliette 11/10/69 Eugene Onegin 11/24/69 Luisa Miller 12/8/69 L'Amico Fritz 1/12, 26 2/9, 23, 3/9/70 to be announced Clark Center for the Performing Arts, N. Ornest, Dir. Opera 1/17, 18/70 The Abduction from the Seraglio 1/70 Opera Scenes Goldovsky Opera Theater, B. Goldovsky, Art. Dir., New York 11/8/69 Die Fledermaus at Stratford, Conn. 1969-70 tour La Traviata 13 weeks Interstate Opera Assn., E. Papay, Mus. Dir., New York 11/69 Boris Godunov cone, pf.; w.p.; Eng. Grayson 12/69 The Barber of Seville w.p. 1/70 Tosca w.p. 4/70 La Cenerentola w.p. cone. pf. 2/70 The Impresario Eng. & Pagliacci w.p. 5/70 La Forza del destino w.p. 3/70 // Trovatore w.p. 6/70 Die Fledermaus Eng.; w.p. League of Composers-Internatl. Society for Contemporary Music, at YMHA 10/19/69 The Stronger Mathis; dir.: Weisgall; at Theresa Kaufman Hall — 31 — 1969-70 Season National Educational Television Opera Project, P. H. Adler, Dir. 3/70 Janacek's From the House of the Dead Eng. Spring 1970 Peter Grimes B.B.C. production Spring 1970 Somer's Louis Riel Canadian Opera Co. production New York City Opera Co., J. Rudel, Gen. Dir., Lincoln Center 9/10, 12 11/5, 8, 11, 14/69 Rigoletto 9/11, 14 10/21, 25, 29 ll/2m/69 Faust 9/13m, 17, 23 10/11, 18m/69 La Bohime 9/13, 20, 26 10/2, llm/69 The Marriage of Figaro 9/14m, 18, 20m, 28 10/3 ll/9m, 16/69 Madama Butterfly 9/19, 21m, 27m 10/5, 8/69 Prince Igor 9/21, 24, 27, 30 10/5m, 23/69 Mefistofele* 9/25 10/4m, 17/69 Capriccio 9/28m 10/10, 15 11/ lm, 15/69 La Traviata 10/1, 12, 18, 31 11/6, 8m/69 Manon 10/4, 26m 11/13/69 The Ballad of Baby Doe 10/9, 12m, 14, 19, 22, 25m 11/1/69 Lucia di Lammermoor* 10/16, 24 11/2, 4, 15m/69 The Abduction from the Seraglio 10/19m, 26 11/7/69 Bomarzo 10/30 11/9, 12, 16m/69 L'Heure espagnole & Songs of Catullus* •denotes new production cast: sop. Anthony, Armstrong, Bayard, Blanchard, Brooks, Clements, Crane, Darling, Elgar, Faull, Neblett, Niska, Ottaviano, Roberto, Sills, Tyler, Vanni, Wise; mezzo. & contr. Bible, Creed, Davidson, B. Evans, N. Evans, Greenspan, Lueders, Simon, Turner, Winburn; ten. Citarelli, Castel, Clements, DiGiuseppe, DiVirgilio, DuPree, Duval, Kelen, Lankston, Molese, Nagy, Novoa, Riegel, Romaguera, Sergi, Stewart; bar. & bass. Beattie, Bittner, Cassel, Chapman, Clatworthy, Cossa, Corbeil, Darrenkamp, Devlin, Fredricks, Gibbs, Hale, Hicks, Iglesias, Jamerson, Ledbetter, Malas, Pierson, Quilico, Roy, Samuelson, Schwartz- man, Smith, Torigi, Trehy, Treigle, Yule 11/19-12/7/69 at Los Angeles Music Center see Calif, listing 2/20/70-4/20/70 N.Y. Spring season. New Prod.: PelUas et Milisande, prem. of new Menotti opera New York Philharmonic, G. Szell, Mus. Adv., Lincoln Center 10/2, 3, 4, 6/69 Carmina Burana Brooks; Vrenios, Reardon; cond.: Ozawa 12/11, 12, 13, 15/69 Bluebeard's Castle Szonyi; Farago; cond.: Kertesz 1/15,16, 17, 19/70 Fidelio cond.: Bernstein; w. Juilliard's Am. Opera Center 3/12, 14, 16/70 Oedipus Rex Troyanos; Hollweg, Estes, Michalski; narr.: R. Montgomery; cond.: Abbado 5/21, 22, 23/70 Das Parodies und die Peri Janowitz, Smith; Ochman, Engen; cond.: Maazel Ruffino Opera Assn., C. Ruffino, Dir., at Provincetown Playhouse 9/1/69 II Trovatore 9/18, 15/69 La Traviata 9/22/69 Rigoletto 9/27/69 Werther 10/6/69 3/16/70 La Bohime 11/3/69 Don Giovanni 11/10/69 Carmen 11/17/69 1/5, 12/70 Madama Butterfly 12/1, %l69 Faust 12/15, 22/69 Hansel and Gretel & The Impresario 1/19 2/2/70 The Marriage of Figaro 2/28/70 Manon Lescaut 2/9, 16/70 The Magic Flute 3/21/70 Don Giovanni 3123 4/6/70 L'Elisir d'amore 4/25/70 Don Carlo (highlights) 4/13, 20/70 Lucia di Lammermoor 5/16/70 L'Amico Fritz 5/4, 18/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci 6/20/70 Norma at TOWN HALL (cone, pis., w.o.) at COOPER UNION 9/13/69 Rigoletto 10/10/ 69 La Bohime 10/18/69 Werther 111Ul69 Carmen 11/22/69 Cart fan tutte 12/12/69 Faust 12/20/69 The Impresario & Suor 1/23/70 Madama Butterfly Angelica & The Telephone 2/13/70 The Magic Flute 1/31/70 Fidelio 3/13/70 Tosca 32 1969-70 Season Village Light Opera Co., N. Keeler, Pres., New York 12/69 H.M.S. Pinafore 5/70 Trial by Jury & La Pirichole (excerpts) Young Artists Opera, Inc., Y. Mauret, Dir., at O'Shea Audit 10/19/69 Cosl fan tutte 1/25/70 The Barber of Seville 31'8/70 La Traviata NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte Opera Assn., J. R. McCrae, Gen. Dir., Mrs. M. Henderson, Pres. 11/3/69 La Traviata 2/2/70 La Cenerentola 4/6/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci East Carolina Univ. Opera Theatre, C. Hiss, Dir., Greenville 11/14/69 Gianni Schicchi & scenes 1/30, 31/70 Die Fledermaus Eng. Dietz 4/30 5/1/70 Kosteck's The Stronger prem. & Hin und zuriick 5/14/70 Scenes Elon College, Opera Workshop, Mrs. T. Cofield, Dir., Eton College 10/24, 25/69 Cost fan tutte N. C. School of the Arts, Opera Workshop, N. Johnson, Dir., Winston-Salem 11/24, 25/69 Don Pasquale 2/27, 28/70 Double bill of chamber operas to be announced OHIO Cleveland Concert Associates, J. Gidwitz, Dir., J. Levine, Cond. 12/13/69 Simon Boccanegra Tebaldi; Tucker, MacNeil, Flagello Cleveland Institute of Music Opera Theater, A. Addison, Dir. 12/3, 5, 7*/69 The Barber of Seville "Afternoons for Children"* series 2/18, 20, 22/70 Albert Herring 4/19*/70 La Serva padrona 5/27, 29, 31/70 Benvenuto Cellini Dayton Opera Assn., L. Freedman, Gen. Dir., Dayton joint productions with Toledo Opera Assn. 10/69 Tosca 1/70 La Gioconda 4/70 Don Pasquale Kenyon College, Gilbert and Sullivan Society, J. Sheehan, Dir., Gambier 11/21-23/69 lolanthe 4/70 to be announced Lake Erie Opera Theatre, L. Lane, Dir., Cleveland 9/18, 20/69 The Golden Cockerel Eng. Gibson-Dorati; Clements; Derlin Springfield Civic Opera Co., Inc., M. Kommel, Secy., Springfield 11/14, 15/69 The Mikado 4/17, 18/70 Rigoletto Toledo Opera Assn., L. Freedman, Gen. Dir., Toledo 10/11, 12/69 Tosca Fenn; Townsend, Hecht 1/31/70 La Gioconda Morell 4/25, 26/70 Don Pasquale Univ. of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Opera Theatre 11/22-25/69 Help, Help, The Globolinks & Trial by Jury cond.: Mclntyre Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, F. Bibo, Mus. Dir., Youngstown 9/20/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin; staged; opening of new Symphony Center OKLAHOMA The Music Theatre of the Univ. of Oklahoma, J. Harrold, Art Dir., Norman 10/30-11/1/69 Musical 12/12/69 2/19/70 Opera Galas 4/16, 17, 18/70 Madama Butterfly pfs. also on tour, spons. by Arts Council Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra, G. F. Harrison, Mus. Dir., Oklahoma City 4/17, 18/70 Tosca st. dir.: Moriarty Oklahoma State Univ., Opera Workshop, Miss S. Van Eaton, Dir., Stillwater 12/1, 2/69 Trouble in Tahiti & Gianni Schicchi 4/27, 28/70 to be announced — 33 — 1969-70 Season Southwestern State College Opera Workshop, M. £. Taff, Dir., Weatherford 11/6, 7/69 The Medium 5/70 Musical Tulsa University Opera Theatre, D. Wright, Mus. Dir., Tulsa 12/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors in Tulsa and schools in Okla. 1-3/70 Short Night's Journey Into Day prem., sponsored under Title III, over 30 pfs. at Tulsa public schools 5/14-17/70 Street Scene OREGON Portland Opera Assn., H. Weiskopf, Gen. Dir., Portland 10/15, 17/69 Aida Barlow, Grillo; Moulson, Davidson 1/22, 24/70 The Barber of Seville Moffo; Guarrera, Cutsforth, Moscona 3/19, 21/70 Lucia di Lammermoor Moffo; Campora, Iglesias 5/7, 9/70 The Magic Flute Costa; Estes, Reitan there will be an additional matinee perf. of each opera, date to be announced Southern Oregon College Opera Workshop, J. R. Tumbleson, Dir., Ashland 10/30 11/1/69 The Medium 4/9-11/70 Musical PENNSYLVANIA Indiana Univ. of Penna. Opera Theater, H. Wildeboor, Dir., Indiana 12/14-16/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors 3/19-21/70 The Consul Philadelphia Grand Opera Co., A. Terracciano, Gen. Mgr. 10/10/69 Faust Zachuridi; Morell, Giaiotti, Schwartzman 11/13/69 Madama Butterfly Marcopoulos, Vergana; Hindsley, Torigi 12/5/69 La Boheme Maliponte; Tucker, Bottcher, Densen 1/8/70 Die Fledermaus Randazzo, Schauler, Bible, de Oca; Gulino, Lobel, Beck 2/10/70 Aida Apolei, Casei; Montefusco, Moscona 3/20/70 The Barber of Seville Costa; Gulino, Guarrera, Moscona 4/10/70 Rigoletto Peters; Tucker, Meliciani, Densen Philadelphia Lyric Opera Co., A. Fabiani, Gen. Mgr., Philadelphia 10/21/69 Rigoletto Scotto, Grillo; Marti, Glossop 11/14/69 Nabucco 11121169 La Traviata 12/2/69 La Bohime 3/31/70 Madama Butterfly 4/27770 Norma cast: Caballe, de Carlo, Grillo, Moffo, Scotto, Suliotis, Sutherland, Tebaldi; Ausensi, Bonisolli, Bruscantini, Corelli, Flagello, Glossop, Guelfi, Lavirgen, Marti, Novoa, Paskalis, Tagliavini Pittsburgh Opera, Inc., R. Karp, Gen. Dir., Pittsburgh 10/9, 11/69 Carmen Miller, Patenaude; Lavirgen, Turgeon 12/4, 6/69 The Barber of Seville Costa; Cho, Sardinero, Caruso, Moscona 1/15, 17/70 Tosca Crespin; di Virgilio, Tipton 3/19, 21/70 L'Amore dei tre re Thomson; Flagello, Sordello, Duval 4/30 5/2/70 Faust Fenn, di Carlo; Diaz Suburban Opera Co., J. Parkinson, Gen. Mgr., Chester 10/13/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin; all w.o. 10119169 II Trovatore 11/9/69 The Barber of Seville 1/25/70 The Rake's Progress 3/15/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci 4/26/70 Lucia di Lammermoor SOUTH CAROLINA Bob Jones University Opera Assn., D. Gustafson, Dir., Greenville 3/26, 28/70 Tosca Niska; Meredith, Moulson 5/22, 26/70 The Elixir of Love Eng. Martin Columbia Lyric Theater, L. Harrison, Mgr., Columbia 11/21/69 The Gypsy Baron 3/13, 14/70 Madama Butterfly 5/22, 23/70 Musical Converse College Opera Workshop, J. McCrae, Art Dir., Spartanburg 5/1/70 Carmen University of S. C, Opera Workshop, G. A. Hargrove, Dir., Columbia 2/18, 19, 20, 21/70 The Pirates of Penzance — 34 — 1969-70 Season TENNESSEE Chattanooga Opera Assn., S. Landau, Mus. Dir., Chattanooga 10/7169 Tosca Ferriero; LoMonaco, Shinall 4/14/70 Susannah Memphis Opera Theatre, Mrs. W. H. Claire, Exec. Dir., Memphis 10/28, 30 11/1/69 Aida Overton, Dunn; Fernandi, Osbome 2/14/70 The Telephone & The Medium Stolnecker, Savell Memphis State Univ. Opera Theatre, G. Osborne, Dir., Memphis 10/21/69 Tosca 11/21, 22/69 The Barber of Seville Eng. 12/3, 22/69 Kalmanoffs Mr. Scrooge 1127-31 /70 Jack and the Beanstalk 2/20, 21/70 Carmen 4/24, 25/70 Don Carlo Univ. of Tenn. at Martin, Opera Workshop, Miss M. Jewett, Martin 1969-70 Hin und zurtick & Hello Out There Gianni Schicchi & La Traviata (Act II) TEXAS Baylor University, School of Music, D. Steinberg, Dir. Opera, Waco 4/23, 25, 28, 30 5/2/70 Bloch's Macbeth Eng.; st. dir./des.: F. G. Sternberg Beaumont Civic Opera, Beaumont 2/27, 28/70 The Merry Wives of Windsor Corpus Christi Symphony, M. Peress, Mus. Dir., Corpus Christ! 2/9/70 Bernstein's Candide Dallas Opera Co., L. Kelly, Gen. Mgr. (revised schedule) 11/1, 7, 9/69 Aida Suliotis; cond.: Rescigno; dir.: Raab; des.: Hall 11/14, 16/69 Don Giovanni Stich-Randall, Zylis-Gara, Sciutti; Diaz, Benelli; cond.: Rescigno; dir.: Ferrer; des.: Zeffirelli/Hall 11/26, 29/69 Giordano's Fedora Olivero; Tajo, Prevedi; des.: Hall Fort Worth Opera Co., R. Kruger, Mus. Dir. 12/5, 7/69 Tosca Niska; Alexander, Fredricks, Baird, Castel; dir.: de Blasis 1/23-25/70 Die Fledermaus Schauler, Clements; Alexander, Crain, Smith, Frederick; dir.: Herbert 3/13, 15/70 Un Ballo in maschera Ross, Wise; Domingo, Schwartzman; dir.: Igesz 4/10, 12/70 Andrea Chinier Cruz-Romo, Kruger; Nagy, Castel, Bryn-Jones, Baird, dir.: Hebert; choreog.: Svetlova North Texas State University Opera Workshop, Denton 12/69 Dido and Aeneas & Schubert's Der hdusliche Krieg San Antonio Grand Opera Festival, V. Alessandro, Mus. Dir. 4/4/70 Aida Tucci; Tucker, at Municpl. Audit. 4/5/70 Don Giovanni Curtin, Lewis; Treigle, Gramm; des. & dir.: R. L. B. Tobin; at Hemisfair Theatre 4/11/70 La Rondine Moffo; Bonisolli; dir.: Capobianco; at Hemisfair Theatre 4/12/70 Madama Butterfly Niska; at Municpl. Audit. Southern Methodist University Lyric Theatre, T. Hayward, Prod., Dallas 1969-70 R.S.V.P.; The Medium; The Telephone abt. 20 pfs. in high schools and coll., spons. Dallas Civic Opera Guild Spring '70 Crosse's Purgatory Am. prem. S.W. Texas State College, Music Dept, J. Belisle, Dir. Opera, San Marcos 11/69 The Medium University of Texas at El Paso, B. V. Swingle, Dir. Opera Workshop 11/69 Cosi fan tutte 21H, 15/70 Carmen cone. pf. 5/1, 2, 3/70 The Taming of the Shrew 1/10, 24 5/15/70 Opera Scenes UTAH Brigham Young University Opera Workshop, B. B. Curtis, Dir., Provo 11/10, 12, 13, 14, 15/69 The Girl of the Golden West 4/20, 22, 23, 24, 25/70 Vaughan Williams' Pilgrims' Progress University of Utah Opera Co., A. W. Watts, Dir., Salt Lake City 12/69 Amahl and the Nigh tVisitors 2/7'0 Tosca 5/70 L'Elisir d'amore — 35 — 1969-70 Season VIRGINIA Old Dominion College, H. G. Hawn, Chmn. Music Dept., Norfolk 12/12, 13/ 69 The Devil and Daniel Webster & Sailing of Nancy Bell 3 pfs. 4/70 Musical 8 pfs. Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia, Miss A. Bishop, Dir., Arlington 10/10, 11/69 The Rape of Lucretia 2/20, 21/70 Rigoletto 5/8, 9/70 Cosi fan tutte Peninsula Civic Opera, H. Chapman, Mus. Dir., Newport News 10/31 11/1/69 Carmen 2/20, 21/70 to be announced 5/1, 2/70 La Boheme Slnfonicron Opera Co., College of William and Mary, A. H. Roach, Williams- burg 11/13, 14, 15/69 The Gondoliers WASHINGTON Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, J. Van Horn, Mus. Dir. 10/28/69 Hansel and Gretel WEST VIRGINIA Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Ch. Schiff, Mus. Dir. 3/31/70 Don Giovanni in Charleston and subsequent tour Marshall University Opera Workshop, P. A. Balshaw, Dir., Huntington 11/19/69 Hansel and Gretel 4/8/70 Hin und zuriick & Trouble in Tahiti & What Price Confidence West Virginia University Opera Theatre, J. Golz, Dir., Morgantown 11/21, 22, 23, 24/69 Cosi fan tutte Eng. Martin 4/22, 23, 24, 25/70 Carmen Eng. Martin WISCONSIN Madison Civic Opera Assn., R. Johnson, Mus. Dir., Madison 2/27,28 3/1/70 Carmen Milwaukee Florentine Opera Co., J. Anello, Mus. Dir. 9/17/69 Lucia di Lammermoor highlights, participation in opening Gala of new Theatre for the Performing Arts, (2,300 seats) 11/20-22/69 Aida 2/19, 21/70 Don Pasquale 4/16, 18/70 Manon Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, Opera Theatre, E. Foreman, Dir., Madison 4/70 Idomeneo University of Wisconsin Opera Workshop, K. Moser, Dir., Madison 11/30 12/1, 4/69 Haydn's // Mondo della luna Eng. Moser 5/17, 18/70 Lortzing's Der Wildschiitz Eng. Blatt CANADA Brandon Univ. School of Music, L. Mayoh, Dir., Brandon, Manitoba 12/5, 6/69 Hansel und Gretel opening of new Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium Canadian Opera Co., H. Geiger-Torel, Dir., Toronto (see also 6/69 BUtn.) 10/16, 18/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. at National Arts Centre, Ottawa 10/15, 17/69 Rigoletto at National Arts Centre, Ottawa 10/26/69-2/21/70 The Barber of Seville Eng. Goldovsky/Caldwell; 79 pfs. on tour 2/17-5/30/70 The Secret of Susanna Eng. Aveling; w.p. 129 pfs. at Ont. schools Edmonton Opera Assn., B. Thompson, Mng. Dir., Edmonton, Alberta 11/25/69 Opera Gala Concert 1/30, 31/70 La Boheme 4/3, 4/70 Rigoletto The London School of Church Music, G. D. Jeffrey, London, Ont Spring '70 Cosl fan tutte University of Manitoba Opera Group, R. Irwin, Dir., Winnipeg, Manitoba 2/17 3/1, 2/70 // Trionfo dell'onore

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