BULLETIN

CENTRAL SERVICE sponsored by NATIONAL COUNCIL 147 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York 18, N.Y. Telephone: PEnnsylvania 6-1200 This issue: SURVEY OF OPERA WORKSHOPS AND CONTEMPORARY OPERA PERFORMANCES

March-April, 1964

NEW AND PREMIERES It is reported that Ned Rorem ("Childhood Miracle","The Robbers") while in residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is working on a new opera entitled MISS JULIE. Kenward Elmslie is responsible for the libretto. *******

The Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois commissioned Robert Kelly, Professor of Composition at the University, to write an opera. Professor Kelly has chosen for his theme the conquest of Mexico presented from the Aztec viewpoint. The opera will be entitled THE WHITE GODS. *******

Jack Gottlieb, assistant to , will witness the premiere of his one-act opera TEA PARTY on April 18 at the Donnell Library, 23 W. 53 St. in New York. It is written for , alto, and and will be performed with the accompaniment of two pianos. The opera, which the composer subtitles "Movement I of a Symphony of Operas" is available through Boosey and Hawkes. *******

The Central City Opera commissioned work, LADY FROM COLORADO, will be pre- miered in Central City on July 3. The -Bernard Stambler work is based on a book by Homer Croy and actual Colorado history and was commissioned in honor of the 100th anniversary of the University of Den- ver (formerly Colorado Seminary). *******

Shostakovich's KATERINA ISMAILOVA (see Jan. Bulletin) will be premiered in the U.S. by the Co. during its Fall season. The East Coast premiere will follow when will open the Spring 1965 season of the Co. with this work. *******

Since last reported in the February issue of the Bulletin, Normand Lockwood's new opera SHARON has been renamed HANGING JUDGE. Its first performance at Denver University was presented under the new name.

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NEW SUMMER FESTIVALS

The monumental presidents at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, are likely to have many opera lovers among their visitors this year. The newly-formed Opera Association of South Dakota will sponsor the MOUNT RUSHMORE OPERA FESTIVAL at Rapid City. Performances will be staged in the Amphitheatre (sports bowl) of the School of Mining and Technology, an outdoor stadium with a seating capacity of 2,500. A special inclining stage and enclosed pit for the orchestra will be built after designs by Gordon Micunis who will also be responsible for the sets. The company will use a local or- chestra and chorus (58) but will import the soloists, among them: Audrey Wyatt, Francesca Roberto, Lillian Garabedian, Calvin Marsh, Robert Nagy, William Walker, Russell Christopher. Clifford Harvuot will double as singer and stage director as will Emil Renan, who is the artistic admin- istrator of the company. There to assist him are production administrator Chris Mahan, designer Gordon Micunis and stage director, Richard Flusser. The maestri will be Carlo Moresco and Josef pellicare. General Manager of the company is George Cayley who is planning the Festival to coincide with the Diamond Anniversary Celebration of South Dakota's statehood. The season will be from June 19 until September 13with six weekly performances in repertory fashion. All operas will be sung in English: ""(Eng. Ducloux), "" and "" (Eng. Machlis), "" (Eng. Gutman), "La Boheme" (Eng. Martin), "Devil and Daniel Webster", "Regina" and the Verdi Requiem. — In addition to the performances, the artistic administrator, Mr. Renan, and the participating artists will head a workshop and apprentice program for singers, directors, designers^ coaches and conductors. For further information write to Opera Associa- tion of South Dakota, George Cayley, General Manager, Box 1102, Rapid City, South Dakota. *******

Dr. Donald Jay Maxwell, Director of the School of Music at Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky, has announced the inauguration of the SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL AT GATLINGBURG-IN-THE-SMOKIES in Tennessee under the sponsorship of Union College. Set at the edge of the Great Smoky Moun- tains National Park, Hunter Hills (outdoor) Theatre has a seating capacity of 2,500, a large center stage with two side stages mounted on turntables and studios and classrooms located at the theatre. Pro- ductions with full orchestra are scheduled beginning June 27—"The Bar- tered Bride", "Tosca", "", and "Oklahoma"—until September 7 and a nine-week academic session offering courses in every phase of operatic activity will be held simultaneously.. Scholarships are avail- able. Cast and faculty include: Moreley Meredith, Lynn Owen, Robert Nagy? Francesca Roberto, James Wainner, and Ronn Bottcher. For fur- ther information, write to Dr. Donald Jay Maxwell, Director, School of Music, Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky.

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The week of May 3-10 has been declared NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK by the National Federation of Music Clubs.

COS BULLETIN 3-4/64 NEW COMPANIES Chester, Pa. is the home of a new operatic group, the SUBURBAN OPERA SOCIETY. Working with young talent the company under its president S. Beryl Lush has just completed its first season during which it presented "Madame Butter- fly", "La Boheme", "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" and "Tosca". *******

The EDMONTON PROFESSIONAL OPERA CO. which evolved from the Alberta Opera Society, an amateur group, has presented two different productions during its first season, "Madame Butterfly" and "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagli- acci". Both, or rather all three operas, were presented in two performances each and the dress rehearsals were open to students. With the Edmonton Symphony orchestra in the pit, local soloists and chorus made up the artistic ensemble. Jean Letourneau was musical director and Donald Pimm drama direc/ tor *******

Herta Glaz, former Metropolitan Opera mezzo, and more recently Mrs. F.C. Redlicch of New Haven (Dr. Redlich is on the faculty of Yale University) has founded the NEW HAVEN OPERA SOCIETY. The new group had its first production during the season.

CONFERENCES

On March 4 the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES sponsored a symposium on Music USA. The distinguished panel of experts included com- poser-publisher Robert Ward, editor and critic Jay S. Harrison, Ford Foun- dation's director McNeil Lowry, American Symphony Orchestra League's executive secretary Helen Thompson, Metropolitan Opera's archivist Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, Fund's director Mark Schubart and a representative of the American Federation of Musiciana. Dr. Grace Spofford, music chairman of the Council introduced the speakers. The meeting was held at the Carnegie Endowment Building, New York City. *******

The AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE has announced its 19th National Con- vention for June 17-20 to be held at the Statler Hilton in Detroit. This annual working convention is attended by representatives of symphony or- chestras, affiliated organizations, and representatives from Community Arts Councils, Inc. Details may be obtained from the American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc., Symphony Hill, P.O.Box 66, Vienna, Virginia. *******

Last but not least, do not miss CENTRAL OPERA SERVICES's own National Con- ference May 1 and 2 at the Park Sheraton Hotel, 56th Street and Seventh Avenue. If you have not sent in your reservation blank we urge you to do so immediately and hope to see all our members at this most stimulating and important meeting.

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GRANTS, AWARDS AND WINNERS Another field related to the arts will benefit from FORD FOUNDATION support --the Arts Critic. Among the 11 writers and editors who will receive grants are two from the music field: Eric Salzman, composer and formerly critic on the New York Times, now critic at the New York Herald Tribune, and Peter B. Yates, Los Angeles free-lance music writer and critic. *******

The MUSIC EDUCATORS NATIONAL CONFERENCE has awarded $8,000 each to the Aspen Music School in Colorado and the Berkshire Music Center, Mass, for scholarships for music educators. The Aspen seminars on contemporary music begin June 22 and last until August 23 under director, Mel Powell. For information and application write to James Cain, executive director, Aspen Music School, 111 W. 57 St., New York. The workshop for music educators at Tanglewood, July 27 through August 25 is under the co-direc- torship of Gram Swing and Gunther Schuller. Further information is available from Harry J. Kraut, administrator, Berkshire Music Center, Symphony Hall, Boston 15, Mass. *******

The Cleveland Institute of Music announces two new voice scholarships. The ELEANOR STEBER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD affords the winner full tuition privileges and the WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY FOUNDATION, INC. SCHOLARSHIP offers a grant of $1,000 for excellence in the performing and creative arts. *******

The SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL at Gatlingburg, Tennessee offers scholarships to students attending the workshop. For details, see New Summer Festivals, this issue. *******

As announced in the February issue, the finals of the METROPOLITAN OPERA NATIONAL COUNCIL AUDITIONS were held on March 22, 1964 at the Metropolitan Opera House. The largest audience that has ever attended this event gave enthusiastic encouragement to the young finalists. Howard J. Hook, Jr., National Chairman of the Regional Auditions program, spoke briefly of the new National Council Educational Fund which is available to assist past auditioners with promising futures who are in financial need. This year, the awards were presented personally by the donors to each winner. Mr. Robert Goodloe (baritone from Iowa) won a Metropolitan Opera contract for next season and the $2,000 Chambers Scholarship Award, Mary Beth Peil (soprano from New York) won a contract with the new Metropolitan Opera National Company and the $2,000 Stoughton Award, Katherine Kaufman (soprano from Oklahoma) won a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Studio and the $2,000 Weyerhaeuser Scholarship. (Miss Kaufman returns to the University of Oklahoma to sing "Lakme" on April 16,17 and 18.) Other Auditions winners were Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo-soprano from ) who won the $2,000 Fisher Foundation Award and Maria Candida (soprano from Boston) winner of the $2,000 Taylor Award. In addition, the New York Community Trust has increased its Schoen-Rene Award from $2,500 to $3,000 this year to pre- sent two or more winners in a New York recital. The recipients are: Mary

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Beth Peil, Huguette Tourangeau and Gene Boucher (baritone from New York.) The other contestants heard at the finals were: Alexandra Hunt (soprano from New York), John E. Walker (tenor from New York), Joan Patenaude (so- prano from Montreal), Carol Courtman (soprano from New Jersey) and Doris Bernstein (soprano from Florida). Auditioners can be contacted by writing to the COS office. *******

John L. Magro, president of the AMERICAN OPERA AUDITIONS, 4511 Carew Tower, Cincinnati, Ohio, announced the winners chosen from twenty regional fin- alists: Shirley 2. Love (mezzo-soprano from Michigan), Jeff Morris (tenor from Ohio), Sherrill Milnes (baritone from Illinois) and Noel Ja Tyl ( from New York). The four winners will be flown to Italy on August 30 to participate in a performance of "" at Milan's Teatro Nuovo and to sing at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.

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The INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION announced three winners among the singers whose European travel the Institute sponsored: in Munich, Veronica Tyler, (Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions winner 1962), in Sofia, Nancy Tatum, and in Geneva, Bruce Able, baritone.

APPOINTMENTS

The FRIENDS OF FRENCH OPERA have announced the appointment of a new presi- dent, Frank Forest, former singer and head of the Empire State Festival and the Bagby Music Lovers' Foundation. is vice-president and Robert Lawrence is artistic director. *******

Marjorie Gordon, general director of the DETROIT OPERA THEATRE and part- time faculty member at Wayne State University has joined the music faculty of Mercy College, Detroit, on a part-time basis.

WELCOME NEW COS MEMBERS.'

Ferrier, Mrs. S. E. ,Edmonton Prof. Opera Assn.,6404 109 Ave.,Edmonton,Alberta Greenberg, Mrs. Lawrence (former Elaine Kussack), 458 Woodgate Rd.,Tonawanda, New York Gregory, Norman R., 321 Ward Parkway, #110, Kansas City, Mo. Long Island Arts Center, Byron Belt, Art. Dir.,Nassau County Exec.Bldg., Mineola, Long Island, N.Y. Messina Opera Co., Joseph Messina,8634 20th Ave., Brooklyn 14, N.Y. New York Opera Library, Inc., Timothy Mulligan, 305 E. 45 St., New York 17 Searles, Mrs. Robert L., Route 2, Box 1075, Wayzata, Minn.

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SUMMER FESTIVALS 1964 - USA In order to have one complete listing of Summer Festivals, we have included here organizations whose repertoire has been announced previously as well as groups which have not yet announced their program. CALIFORNIA Ojai Festival:May 29-31 Ingold Dahl,Dir., Zaide (Mozart), Ojai Greek Theatre, Los Angeles July, "Madame Butterfly", second work to be announced: Hollywood Bowl Assn., Los Angeles 8/13 "" concert perf.Shirley Verett,;cond:Martin Rich Laguna Beach Festival of Opera, Laguna Beach Program not available at this time Music at the Vineyards Festival, Paul Masson's Mountain Winery, Saratoga June 20-August 30 San Francisco Opera Co. 6/20, 21 "Lo Spezxale" (Haydn) Redlands Bowl Summer Festival, Redland T/TO Verdi "Requiem" 7/24,25 "The Gondoliers" 8/21 "Tannhaeuser" COLORADO Aspen Music Festival, Walter Suesskind, Dir., Aspen June 22-August 23 Opera Workshop; Dirs., Dr. E. Nagy and W. Vacano 7/31, 8/2,3 "Albert Herring" 8/14,15 "Marriage Contract" Central City Opera House Assoc.,Emerson Buckley,Art.pir., Central City June 27-July 25 6/27 and 18 more pert. "Madame Butterfly" (Eng. Martins): Beverly Bower, Carlotta Ordassy, Marija Kova, Nancy Williams, Marlena Klein- man, John Craig, Jerry LoMonaco, Calvin Marsh, William Beck, Mauro Lampi, Richard Krause, Arthur Graham, Herbert Beattie, Spiro Malas, Lee Cass 7/3 and 14 more perf. "Lady from Colorado" (see New Operas this issue); Mary Ellen Pracht, Mary Jennings, Mignon Dunn, Marcia Baldwin, Davis Cunn- ingham, Thomas Hayward, , John Fiorito, Thomas Paul, Raymond Michalski plus some artists from "Butterfly":st.dir:West;desgn:OenslagerjCam- CONNECTICUT pbell Goo<3speed Opera House, Thomas Scherman, Dir., East Haddam August DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA New York Opera Festival,F.Salmaggi,Dir., Carter Barron Amphitheatre; Wash. August 10-16 "Aida", "Carmen","La Traviata", "Madame Butterfly", "La Boheme", ":" (not necessarily in this sequence) ILLINOIS Grant Park, Chicago (February issue) INDIANA University, Bloomington (outdoor theatre); Dean Wilfred Bain 7/29 8/1,5,8 "" MAINE Center Harbor Festival, Center Harbor Program not available at this time MARYLAND of Maryland, Contemporary Arts Festival, College Park 5/7,8,9 "La Voix Humane" "The Old Maid and the Thief" MASSACHUSETTS Berkshire Music Festival, Lenox dorf July 3-August 29 concert perf. "Buerger als Edelmann"(Strauss)cond:E.Leins/

COS BULLETIN 3-4/64 -7- MASSACHUSETTS, cont. Oberlin College"Players, Falmouth July and August Season of Gilbert and Sullivan and light opera MICHIGAN May Festival, Michigan University, Ann Arbor April 20-May 3 "Persephone",Vera Zorina;cond:I.Stravinsky ^Philadelphia Orch. Meadowbrook Festival, Oakland University, Rochester July 23-August 15 Detroit Symphony Interlochen Arts Festival, National Music Camp,Interlochen, J. Maddy, Dir. June 25 - August 1$ August 22-29 Interlochen Arts Festival MISSOURI St. Louis Summer Festival, St. Louis 8/14,15 "La Traviata" 8/21,22 "" 8/28,29 "Marriage of Figaro" NEW MEXICO Co. See February Bulletin NEW YORK Cantata Singers, Thomas Dunn, Dir., Philharmonic Hall 7/20 "Combattimento di Tancredi"(Monteverdi)/'Maestro di Cappella"(Cimarosa) "Retablo de Maese Petro" (d? Falla) 7/24 "Re Pastore" (Mozart) Caramoor Festival, Katonah "Catulli Carmina" (Orff); cond: Julius Rudel Chautauqua Summer Festival, John Daggett Howell, Dir., Chautauqua 7/10,13 "Fantasticks "Elizabeth Howell, Moreley Meredith 7/17,20 "Trovatore" Maria Ferriero,Joann Grillo,Jean Dies;cond:Henry Janiec 7/24,27 "Magic Flute" cond: George Schick 7/31, 8/3 "Cavalleria Rusticana" Ferriero, David Bender, Clifford Harvuot w. "" Val Patacchi, Beverly Christensen, James Wainner; cond: James Sample iec 8/7,10 "Carmen" Shirley Verrett,Nicholas di Virgilio,Nolan Van Wayjcond:Jan/ 8/14,17 »«Martha" Ann Elgar,Nancy Williams,John Alexander,Harvuot;cond:Janiec 8/21,24 "Sound of Music" Elizabeth Howe11,Moreley Meredith;stage dir.Rose Landver, John Daggett Howell, William Francisco Heights Opera Co., George Q'Farrell, Dir.. The Mall, Central Park 7/18,25 "Into the Silence" (Wehner), Verdi's Requiem Lake George Opera Festival See February Bulletin Long Island Arts Center, B.Beit,Dir.,Mineola;perf.at C.W.Post College,L.I. 7/24,31 "Marriage of Figaro" Curtin, Scovotti, Wolff, Treigle; cond: Rudel 8/8,16 "Tosca", Steber, Cassily, Cassel; cond: La Marchina Metropolitan Opera nforld's Fair Season April 27 - May 10 See January Bulletin Music Festival of Long Island, Laszlo Halasz, Dir., Garden City, L.I. July and August at Garden City Hotel - the ballroom will be transformed in- to a fully equipped theatre with a seating capacity of 1,160. The stage, by Unistrut Co. of Maryland, will be pre-fabricated and portable, made up of lengths of square aluminum piping. A closed orchestra pit will be provided. To date, no repertory has been announced. New York State Theater, Lincoln Center April 23 - opens with New York Ballet Co. July and August ''" & "The King and I" When not on tour, the Metropolitan Opera National Company will perform here

COS BULLETIN 3-4/64 -8- NEVtf YORK cont. Lewisohn Stadium Program not available at this time . Triboro Stadium, Randall's Island:Salmaggi "Salute to N.Y World's Fair July 10 - opening w. "Madame ButteTtly: also this summer: "Tosca", "La Boheme", "Rigoletto", "Aida", "La Traviata", "Carmen", Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" Turnau Opera, Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock July 4-August 30 "Abduction from the Seraglio," "Turk from Italy", "La Boheme", "Rigoletto", "The Rape of Lucretia","The Medium—Combatti- mento di Tancredi e Clorinda", "","The Barber of Seville" OHIO Summer Opera See February Bulletin SOUTH DAKOTA Mt. Rushmore Opera Festival, Rapid City, See New Festivals, this issue TENNESSEE Oak Ridge Festival, Franklin ChosetT Dir., Oak Ridge 6/25,27 "Madame Buttertly" local singers, chorus and Oak Ridge Symphony Orch. Summer Music Festival, Gatlingburg See New Festivals this issue Besides the many Festivals listed above that concurrently hold workshops during the summer months, some of the other noteworthy summer opera courses include the Yale Summer Music Workshop in Norfolk, Conn., Oglebay Institute, Wheeling W.Va., Brevard Music Camp, Brevard, S.C., the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., Hartt College of Music, Hartford, Conn., Manhattan School of Music, New York City, Music Academy of the West, Los Angeles,Cal., Northwestern University (Goldovsky 7/5-31), Chicago, 111., and many more.

SUMMER FESTIVALS 1964 - CANADA Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta HFalstar±" and "II Tabarro" in Eng. pert, in Banff and five surrounding centers, cond: James Craig, Dir. Andrew McMillan June 22-September 12 Summer school and workshop, Dr. Ernesto Vinci, Dir. Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario July 3-August 22 "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Yeomen of the Guard" Vancouver International Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia 7/4,6 "The Damnation o± Faust" (Berlioz; in concert version,Charles Munch,Dir. w. Richard Verreau

SUMMER FESTIVALS 1964 - EUROPE AUSTRIA Graz: June 10-July 11 Die Liebe der Danae, Rigoletto, Elektra, , , Rosenkavalier, Forza del Destino, , Aida,Fidelio Bregenz: July 25-August 21 Das Land des Laechelns, Cenerentola Salzburg: July 26-August 31 Ariadne auf Naxos, Zauberfloete, Lucio Silla, Marriage of Figaro, Rosenkavalier, Elektra,

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AUSTRIA cont. —Vienna: Festwochen, May 24-June 20 , Dantons Tod, Parsifal, Jenufa, Ballo in Maschera, Tannkaeuser, Cavalleria-Pagliacci, Fliegender Hollaender, Boheme, Verkaufte Braut, Cardillac, Fidelio, Otello, Capriccio, Rigoletto, Trovatore, , Marriage of Figaro, Tosca, Frau ohne Schatten, Rosenkavalier, Elektra, , , Turandot, Arabella, Feuersnot CZECHOSLOVAKIA Prague: May 12-June 4 DENMARK Copenhagen: Music Festival, May 14-31 Tannhaeuser, Saul and David, Fidelio, Hansel and Gretel, The Little Vixen, II Tabarro ENGLAND Aideburgh: June 11-20 English Eccentrics, Crossing the River, Orfeo ed Euridice Bath: June 4-14 Martin's Lie Glyndebourne: May 21-August 16 Macbeth, Incoronazione di Poppea, Pietra del Paragone, Capriccio, Zauberfloete, Idomeneo FRANCE Bordeaux: May 22-June 7 Zoroastre (other operas not announced) Aix-en-Provence: July 10-July 28 Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro, , Incoronazione di Poppea GERMANY Bayreuth: July 18-August 21 Tristan und Isolde, Tannhaeuser, Meistersinger, Parsifal, Ring der Nibelungen Berlin: Berliner Festwochen September 13-October 4 Duesseldorf: June 7-15 Elektra, L'Heure Espagnol, Prinz von Horaburg, Rosen- kavalier, M. de Pourceaugnac, Duisburg: June 8-14 Rosenkavalier, Schweigsame Frau, Wozzeck, Capriccio, Salome Munich: July 17-August 12 , Capriccio, Ariadne auf Naxos, Julius Caesar, Marriage of Figaro, Paris and Helen, Rosenkavalier, Meister- singer, Cosi Fan Tutte, Frau ohne Schatten, Zauberfloete, Daphne, Intermezzo, Elektra, Verlobung in San Domingo, Aegyptische Helena, Arabella Hamburg: June 16-24 Festival of Contemporary Opera Schwetzingen: May 18-June 15 Paris and Helen, The Fairy Queen Wiesbaden: May 1-31 , The Haunted Castle, Oedipus Rex, Rosenkavalier, Salome, LfIncoronazione di Poppea, Don Giovanni, Elektra, Venus and Adonis, GREECE Athens: July 15-September 20 HOLLAND Amsterdam: June 15-July 15 Jean Levecq, Serment, Iphigenie en Tauride,Nabucco, Boris Godunov, Katerina Ismailova, Crossing the River IRELAND Chenier Dublin: May 18-June 13 Turandot, Boheme, Traviata, Nabucco, Otello, Andrea / ITALY Florence: Maggio Musicale, May-June Doktor Faustus, Wozzeck, The Nose, Glueckliche Hand, Pantea and Salome, Matka, Erwartung, Volo di Notte Naples:Arena Flegrea July -August Rome: Baths of Caracalla July - August Spoleto: Festival of Two Worlds June 19-July 19 Rosenkavalier, Rape of Lu- cretia, L'Enfant et les sortileges Verona: AreaaJuly 23 - August 16 Mefistofele, Boheme, Cavalleria

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NORWAY Bergen: May 28-31 Don Giovanni, Tannhaeuser PORTUGAL Lisbon: May 16-June 9 SCOTLAND —Edinburgh: August 17-September 5 Dalibor, Resurrection, Rusalka, Katya Kabanova, House of the Dead Glasgow-Edinburgh:May-June Faust, Otello, Don Giovanni SWITZERLAND Lausanne: May 14-June 13 Botte Rouge, Marriage of Figaro, Carmen Lucerne: August 15-September 6 Zurich: May 30-June 30 Salome, Aida, Intermezzo, Otello, Tosca, Schweigsame Frau, Elektra, Rigoletto, Rosenkavalier SWEDEN Stockholm: May 26-June 12 Aida, Dream of Therese, Makropoulos Case, Wozzeck, Ballo in Maschera, Rosenkavalier, La Belle Helene, Katerian Ismailova, Iphigenie en Aulide, Cosi Fan Tutte, Signor Bruschino, Marriage of Figaro SPAIN Granada: June 23-July 6 Orfeo ed Euridice Santander: August 30,31 YUGOSLAVIA Dubrovnik: July 10-August 24 Falstaff, Incoronazione di Poppea Opatija: July 6-August 17 Prince Igor,Tosca,Otello,Aida,Carmen,Trovatore Split: July 15-August 15

INDEX Subject Page NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES 1 NEW SUMMER FESTIVALS 2 NEW COMPANIES 3 CONFERENCES 3 GRANTS, AWARDS AND WINNERS 4 APPOINTMENTS 5 NEW MEMBERS 5 SUMMER FESTIVALS -- USA 6 SUMMER FESTIVALS — CANADA 8 SUMMER FESTIVALS -- EUROPE 8 Appendix SURVEY OF OPERA WORKSHOPS IN USA I SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY OPERA AT US OPERA WORKSHOPS. . II WORLD AND AMERICAN PREMIERES AT OPERA WORKSHOPS. . . .Ill AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY OPERAS PERF. AT OPERA WORKSHOPS IV FOREIGN COMTEMPORARY OPERAS PERF. AT OPERA WORKSHOPS .V RARELY PERFORMED OPERAS PERF. AT OPERA WORKSHOPS . . .V

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SURVEY OF OPERA WORKSHOPS IN THE U.S.A. (April 1964)

Figures in this survey are based on the complete 1962-63 season and on about 757o of the 1963-64 season.

336 Total Workshops at: colleges, universities and conservatories (high school and church groups not included)

See also the new COS list of Opera Producing Companies and Workshops ******

24 Workshops have annual productions of 3-6 full evenings of opera (not counting repeat performances in this breakdown)

44 Workshops have annual productions of 2 full evenings of opera

89 Workshops have annual productions of 1 full evening of opera

98 Workshops produce 1 short opera (usually contemporary American: (Amahl, Medium, Telephone, Down in the Valley, etc.)

81 Workshops produce opera, but not regularly each year 336 Total

1964 LIST OF OPERA PRODUCING COMPANIES AND WORKSHOPS IN THE UNTED STATES AND CANADA

Central Opera Service is delighted to announce the completion of this list arranged by States. The list includes all professional and amateur groups producing opera in staged or concert form, and all opera workshops. The list does not include high schools or church groups.

This list, which will be given out at the National Conference of the COS, is available upon request to all group and institutional members without charge. A fee of $1.00 will be charged to all others requesting the list.

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SURVEY ON CONTEMPORARY OPERA AT U, S. OPERA WORKSHOPS (April 1964) For 1962-63 and 1963-64 season (1963-64 yet incomplete)

20 Contemporary American Operas presented in World Premieres 4 Contemporary Operas (by other than American composers) in American Premieres 64 Contemporary American Operas presented in one or more performances 34 Contemporary Operas (by other than American composers) presented in one or more performances 122 Contemporary Operas presented at United States Workshops during the above period

57 Operas from the Standard Operatic Repertory 41 Operas rarely performed in the United States (NOT contemporary)

228 Different Operas Performed at Opera Workshops during the above period

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473 American Contemporary Operas that have been performed over the last 30 years are listed with Central Opera Service (361 short, 112 full length works), composed by 257 composers

184 Operas in this list had their World Premiere at College Workshops

COS 3-4/64 Ill WORLD PREMIERES OF AMERICAN CONTEMPORY OPERAS AT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OPERA WORKSHOPS (During the last two seasons)

COMPOSER OPERA WORKSHOP Jtfxlstrom, David The Three Sisters Northwestern U.;I11. Barab, Seymour The Ransom of Red Chief Rutgers U.; N.J. Burge, David Intervals Northwestern U.; 111. Davis, Carl Pubcrawl Yale School of Music summer school; Conn. Floyd, Carlisle The Sojourner and Mollie East Carolina College; Sinclair N.C. Giannini, Yittorio Rehearsal Call Juilliard School of Music; N. Y. Grant-Still, William The Peaceful Land U. of Miami; Fla. Grant-Still, William Highway No. 1, U.S.A. U. of Miami; Fla. Heiden, Bernard The Darkened City U. of Indiana; Ind. Kagen, Sergius Hamlet Peabody Conservatory; Md. Lenel, Ludwig Young Goodman Brown Muhlenberg College; Pa. Lockwood, Normand The Wizard of Balizar Denver U.; Colo. Lockwood, Normand Hanging Judge Denver U.; Colo. Mayer, William One Christmas,Long Ago Ball St. Teachers Col.;Ind. Miller, Michael A Sunny Morning New York Univ.; N.Y. Purdy The Marriage Proposal Monterey Penin.Coll.;Cal Siegmeister, Elie Dublin Song Washington U.; Mo. Shore, William Wharf's Edge Barnard Coll.; N.Y. Taff, Anthony Noah Albion Coll.; Mich. White, John The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Kent State U., Ohio

AMERICAN PREMIERES OF OPERAS AT UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE WORKSHOPS (same period)

Bizet, Georges Docteur Miracle Yale School of Music;Conn. Blacher, Boris Abstrakte Oper No. 1 U. of Illinois; 111. Haydn, Joseph Das Ausgebrannte Haus Yale Summer School of Music Haydn, Joseph L'Infedelta Delusa State U.of Iowa; Iowa Hindemith, Paul The Long Christmas Dinner Juilliard School of Music; New York Ramous, Gianni Orfeo,Anno Domini 1947 U. of Illinois; 111. Strauss, Richard Die Liebe der Danae U.of So. Cal.; Cal.

COS BULLETIN 3-4/64 IV AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS WHOSE WORKS WERE PERFORMED AT UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE WORKSHOPS DURING THE 1962-63-64 SEASONS

Bacon, Ernst: A Tree on the Plains (1) Barab, Seymour: Pink Siamese (1); Little Red Riding Hood (1); Game of Chance(8) Barber, Samuel: Hand of Bridge (7) Beeson, Jack: Hello, Out There (1) Bernstein, Leonard: Trouble in Tahiti (14) Blitzstein, Marc: Regina (1) Chanler, Theodore: Pot of Fat (1) Copland, Aaron: Second Hurricane (1); The Tender Land (1) Dougherty, Celius: Many Moons (1) Duke, John: Yankee Pedlar (1) Elkus, Jonathan: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (2) Ellstein, Abraham: The Thief and the Hangman (1) Engel, Lehman: Malady of Love (1) Floyd, Carlisle: Slow Dusk (5); Susannah (7) Foss, Lucas: Introductions and Goodbyes (2); The Jumping Frog of Calavaras County (1); Griffelkin (1) Giannini, Vittorio: The Taming of the Shrew (1); The Beauty and the Beast(l) Hoiby, Lee: The Scarf (2) Hunkins, Eusebia: Smoky Mountain (3) Johnson, Lockrem: Letter to Emily (1) Kalmanoff, Martin: Opera, Opera (3) Kaufmann, Walter: Scarlet Letter (1) Kechley, Gerald: The Golden Lion (1) Kupferman, Meyer: In a Garden (2) Kleinsinger, George: archie and mehitabel (3) March, Robert: Prasopa (1) Menotti, Gian Carlo: The Unicorn, Gorgon and the Manticore (2); Amelia Goes to the Ball (1); Amahl and the Night Visitors (73); The Consul(7); The Medium (35); The Telephone (28); Saint of Bleeker Street (2); Old Maid and the Thief (12) Meyerowitz, Jan: The Meeting (1); Godfather Death (1) Moore, Douglas: Puss in Boots (1); Headless Horseman (1); The Devil and Daniel Webster (5); The Emperor's New Clothes (2); Gallantry (9); (3) McKee, Jeanellen: Collectors Piece (1) Rogers, Bernard: The Warrior (1) Schuman, William: Mighty Casey (1) Siegmeister, Elie: The Mermaid in Lock Number Seven (1) Smith, Russell: The Unicorn in the Garden (1) Stravinsky, Igor: The Rake's Progress (1) Tcherepnin, Alexander: The Farmer and the Fairy (1) Thompson, Virgil: The Mother of Us All (1) Van Grove, Isaac: Other Wise Men (1) Ward, Robert: The Crucible (9) Weill, Kurt: Down in the Valley (38) Weisgall, Hugo : Four Saints in Three Acts (1) Wilder, Alec: Kittiwake Island (4); Lowland Sea (11); Sunday Excursions (11) Kurka, Robert: Good Soldier Schweik (1) NOTE: Included in the above list are works by foreign born composers composed after they had settled in the United States.

The figures in parenthesis indicate the NUMBER OF WORKSHOPS which produced the opera, NOT the total number of performances. COS 3-4/64 OPERAS BY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS, OTHER THAN AMERICAN, PERFORMED AT OPERA WORKSHOPS DURING THE 1962-63-64 SEASON

Benjamin, Arthur: The Prima Donna (1) Britten, Benjamin: Albert Herring (5);Let's Make an Opera(3);Midsummer Night's Dream(l);The Rape of Lucretia(3) ;(2);Noyefs Fludde(12) ;The Turn of the Screw(l); Dallapiccola, Luig^jj IXi^Agji^nejfi^ ID de Falla, Manuel: j MgLSgetf Pfcjbff '^Puppet Show (1) Hindemith, Paul: F^jji!jwglj ^ortieck {^rr^ee also American Premieres Hoist, Gustav: Savitri (1) Honegger, Arthur: Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher (3) Janacek, Leos: Katya Kabanova (1) Lieberman, Rolf: School for tfives (1) Martinu, Bohuslav: What Men Live By(2);Comedy on the Bridge(3);The Marriage(2) Milhaud, Darius: Trois Operas-Mmutes(l);Medee(l);Pauvre Matelot(2) Petit, Pierre: Le Jeu d'Amour et de Hasard (1) Poulenc,. Francis: Le Dialogue des Carmelites (2) Strauss, Richard: Arabella (1); Ariadne auf Naxos (1) Stravinksy, Igor: Mavra(l);Rossignol(l);Oedipus Rex(2);Persephone(l);L'Histoire du Soldat (7) Toch, Ernst: Prinzessin auf der Erbse (2) von Einemt Gottfried: The Trial (1) Vaughan Williams,Ralph .-Riders to the Sea(4) ;Shepherds of the Delectable Mts(l)

RARELY PERFORMED OPERAS PRODUCED BY OPERA WORKSHOPS DURING THE 1962-63-64 SEASONS

Bizet: Les Pecheurs de Perles (2) Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges (1) Cimarosa: The Music Master (2) Rimsky-Korsakov: Kaschchei,the Infer- Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande (2) nal (1) Debussy: L'Enfant prodigue (3) Rossini: II Turco in Italia (2) Delibes: Lakme (2) Salieri: Arlechino (2) Donizetti: Rita (4) Schenk: Der Dorfbauer (1) Dvorak: Rusalka (1) Verdi: Luisa Miller (1) Galuppi: II Filosofo di Campagna (1) Weber: Der Freischuetz (1) Gounod: Mireilie (1) Weber: Abu Hassan (2) Gluck: Der Betrogene Kadi (1) Wolf-Ferrari:Quattro Rusteghi (1) Gluck: Iphigenie en Tauride (2) Schubert: Zwillingsbrueder (1) Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (3) Haydn; II Mondo della luna (1) Haydn Lo Speziale (l);La Canterina (1) Lortzing: Zar und Zimmermann (1) Lortzing: Der Wildschuetz (1) Massenet: Werther (3) Moussorgsky: Boris Godunov (3) Moussorgsky: The Fair at Sorochinsk (1) Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne (4) Mozart: Idomeneo (1) Monteverdi:II Combattimento di Tancredi e Corinda (2) Offenbach: Le Mariage aux Lanternes(3) Offenbach: Monsieur Choufleuri (4) Offenbach: Pepito (1) Paisiello: The Barber of Seville (4) Pergolesi: Livietta e Tracallo (1) COS 3-4/64 J . i ......

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