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January t 1965 NEW AND PREMIERES

Two more books by famous American authors are being set to music. Hawthorne's GENTLE BOY has been chosen by Harold Blutnenfeld, artistic director of the St. Louis Opera Theatre, for the story of his opera by the same name. Gale Hoffman is responsible for .the libretto.. Commissioned by the St. Louis New Music Circle, the work will be premiered at the Bicentennial Celebration of the City of St. Louis in 1966. Former compositions of Mr. Blumenfeld in- clude "Elegy for a Nightingale", prize-winning work for chorus and orchestra, "Expansion" for woodwind quintet, "Miniature Overture" (both performed in St. Louis), and a full-length opera "Amphitryon 4". The librettist has written "Blood Moon" with dello Joio and "Medusa" with von Einem.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the haunting story by Emily Bronte, has inspired yet another composer . (Carlisle Floyd fs version was premiered in Santa Fe in 1958). Richard Barri of informs us that his version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS is conceived in three acts, four scenes, with arias, duets, concerted numbers and accompanied reci- tatives "bolstered with modern harmonization". ********

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

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

INDEX -- PAGE 10 -2- -Austrian composer Paul Kont will see two of his operas come to life in first performances this summer. VOM MANNE UND VOM WEIBE will be presented during the Vienna Pestwochen in June and FOR THE TIME BEING, with words by W. H. Auden, will be heard in Salz- burg in August during the TV Opera World Congress. -THE ANGEL OF FIRE, a rarely performed opera by Serge Prokofiev, was given a new production at the Opera-Comique in November. Written in 1922, excerpts were first presented in Paris by Serge Koussevitzky in 1928, but the complete work was not seen on stage until 1955 when it was performed at La Fenice in Venice. No American performance is recorded unless, of course, one considers the Festival of Two Worlds' performance in 1959 an American premiere. The Paris performance was based on the composer's final version with the revisions on which Serge Kossevitzky collaborated. Based on *& short story by Valery Bryusov, the plot is set in 15th century Germany.

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

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

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Montreal's mayor, M. Jean Drapeau, and conductor, Wilfred PeUetier, have taken the first steps toward the formation of a permanent opera company for Montreal's PLACE DES ARTS. Outlining a budget for the proposed company, M. Drapeau suggested an amount of about 4 million dollars, with funds to be raised from private contributions, federal, provincial and city governments, the Canada Council and income from ticket sales and reproduction rights. Ticket prices were suggested to be scaled for a $3 average; seating capacity of the Place des Arts is 3,000. This season 3 operas in a total of twelve performances will be presented at the theatre; "Carmen" and "Traviata" under the Montreal Symphony Society's management with Zubin Mehta conducting and Irving Guttman stage director, and "Madama Butterfly" under the auspicies of the Montreal Opera Guild and Mme. Pauline Donalda. A threat to the formation of the new company and the performance schedule for this season is the cur- rent dispute between the Canadian branch of Actor's Equity and the French Union des Artistes. In the meantime planning is going ahead for operatic events to be offered during the Montreal World's Fair in 1967 and visits by the Vienna State Opera, Milan's La Scala, Paris Opera, London's Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera are being considered. M. Drapeau hopes to have his company securely established at that time and that it will actively parti- cipate in the festivities. ******* The Music Department of the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, under the guidance of Welton Marquis, has opened an opera workshop. French Tickner from California is its director. As a result the Vancouver Opera Company is considering the formation of a junior touring group in affiliation with the newly created workshop. *******

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

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

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

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

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

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

The METROPOLITAN OPERA STUDKKsee also December Bulletin), with a repertory of "Cosi Fan Tutte", "Don Pasquale" and "La Cenerentola", has just completed a tour through Iowa—the eighteenth state in which it has played. On January 21 the group will participate in the 700th anniversary celebration of Dante Alighieri by the Poetry Society of America with a performance of Verdi's "Laudi all Vergine Maria". Written to Dante's words, it is the last of the composer's Quattro Pezzi Sacri. On January 29, a quartet of the Studio's singers will return to the Library of Congress, where they sang in the Festival of Contemporary Music honoring the late Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in October, to perform a selection of operatic duets and trios.

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COS BULLETIN l/65 -5- ARTS CENTERS AND MUSIC BUILDINGS The riew LOS ANGELES MUSIC CENTER has had an auspicious beginning, attracting nation wide interest and publicity. Time Magazine fea- tured it as its cover story on December 18, including pictures and mention of various new university-owned music buildings (Monticello College, University of Illinois, Arizona State University and But- ler University). dispatched its number-one critic and papers throughout the country carried stories of the Pavilion's opening night. We were delighted to hear from all sources of the hall's tremendous success. "A masterful combination of warmth and tasteful luxury", "a delight for the ear" and "a superb musical instrument" sum up the general feeling about the new hall. Participants at the Central Opera Service National Conference in May of last year were among the first to get a glimpse of the new house and to hear a first-hand report on all its functions when John C. Knight, Los Angeles architect of Welton Beckett, Ass., addressed the meeting and showed color slides. *******

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has just announced that it has signed with its seventh constituent and that the NEW YORK CITY CENTER OF MUSIC AND DRAMA will move into the New York State Theatre in the Spring of 1966. There has been some dispute over the legal rights of the performing group with regards to the State Theatre but all difficulties have been ironed out and the company will sublease the theatre from for twenty-five years with an additional twenty-five-year option. The company will have the right to book outside attractions in consultation with Lincoln Center and determine ticket price scales with the hope of continuing its established top price of $4.95. The New York City Ballet Company is currently performing in the theatre and the opera company will present its first season there in Spring 1966. The City Center will be in charge of operation of the State Theatre, but agreed to make it available for some events sponsored by Lincoln Center, e.g. the International Festival of the Arts in 1967. The Theatre will also be available for 12 weeks to the Music Theatre of Lincoln Center, headed by Richard Rogers, and for three weeks to the Metropolitan Opera National Company. - The New York City Center will retain control over its present building, the former Mecca Temple on 55th Street,where it will continue to present its Light Opera Company (musical comedy), Gilbert and Sullivan and possibly its Drama Company which there is talk of reviving. Many of the great foreign attractions, like the Comedie Francaise or the Moscow Art Theatre, will continue to occupy the theatre on Fifty-fifth Street when in New York.

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

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7,000 additional people will be able to hear the concerts from the surrounding lawns. John MacFadyen of Vollmer Associates, former director of the New York State Arts Council, has designed the covered theatre and is responsible for the construction. He is also in charge of landscaping the Festival site,which is on a 1500-acre Saratoga Springs Reservation owned by the State of New York. Com- pletion is set for summer 1966 when the first Saratoga Festival is scheduled to be inaugurated with the New York City Ballet Company and the Philadelphia Orchestra as resident participants. *******

After renovation at a cost of $750,000, Newark's, N.J. , forty-year old MOSQUE THEATRE was re-opened last Fall under new management. Symphony Hall Inc. with Mac Septee and Felix Gerstman as its of- ficers, will present concerts, ballet, and recitals in the 3,365 seat house. Opera presentations, either by a guest company or by a new resident group to be formed, are being considered. The 63-foot stage would offer ample space for staging grand opera. *******

In September 1964 OBERLIN COLLEGE opened its new Conservatory of Music building. The $4,350,000 project was designed by Minoru Yamasaki. *******

A commission has been founded for the preliminary planning of a NATIONAL ARTS CENTER in Ottawa. A small opera house is to be part of the Center.

EUROPE - FESTIVALS

Cleveland's KARAMU THEATRE has been invited to participate in an International Theatre Festival sponsored by the Berliner Litera- risches Colloquium. Karamu's performance on January 27 of this year will be televised and shown on three different German TV stations. While in Germany the company, under its musical director Helmut Wolfes and producer Benno Frank, will also perform in America Houses in Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Mannheim and Frankfurt as guests of the U.S. State Department. The tour will wind up in Paris with three performances at UNESCO headquarters. The operas to be shown are two contemporary American works, "Little Red Riding Hood" by Seymour Barab and "Sweet Betsy from Pike" by Mark Bucci. *******

September 16 to October 4, 1965 will mark the first COMMONWEALTH ARTS FESTIVAL to be held in England. All 22 Commonwealth members are expected to participate with samples of representative art in music, drama, poetry or the visual arts. There will be four host cities, London, Liverpool, Cardiff, and Glasgow and all offerings COS BULLETIN l/65 -7-

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

THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC FESTIVALS with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has issued its initial calender for summer 1965. Following is a complete reprint of the 29-member list for the benefit of Central Opera Service members planning a trip to Europe. 5/1-31/65 Wiesbaden; 5/10-6/30/65 Florence; 5/12-6/4/65 Prague; 5/14-30/65 Bordeaux; 5/15-6/9/65 Copenhagen; 5/15-6/4/65 Portugal; 5/15-6/4/65 Helsinki; 5/19-6/5/65 Bergen; 5/22-6/20/65 Vienna; end of May-beginning of July./ Zurich; 6/9-20/65 Bath; 6/9-20/65 Strasbourg; 6/15-7/15/65 Holland; 6/24-7/8/65 Granada; 6/24-7/l8/65 Spoleto; July-August Athens; 7/10-8/24/65 Dubrovnik; 7/ll-8/l/65 Aix-en-Provence; 7/17-8/15/65 Munich; 7/25-8/30/65 Bayreuth; 8/1-31/65 Santander; 8/l4-9/9/65 Lucerne; 8/22-9/ll/65 Edinburgh; 9/1-16/65 Stockholm; 9/2-12/65 Besancon; 8/25-^4.5/65 Ghent; 9/21-29/65 Warsaw; 9/23-10/3/65 Perugia; 9/26-lb/l2/65 Berlin.

NEW AFFILIATIONS IN MANAGERIAL AND COMMERCIAL FIRMS

The SUi'JvY-BIRCHARD COMPANY and the Civic Music Association have joined forces with the concert and opera management of Eric Semon Associates. Some years ago the Summy-Birchard Company bought National Concert Artists Co.,(NCAC), and its affiliated booking organization Civic Music. As a result of the merger, Eric Semon Associates will move to 31 West 57th Street at the end of January. *******

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

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The BROOKS - VAN HORN COSTUME COMPANY has expanded its holding by acquiring the Brooks Uniform Company. In November,1962, the Brooks Costume Company of New York and the Van Horn Costume Company of Philadelphia merged (see Bulletin Nov. f62). Arthur Gerold, president of the organization located at 16 West 61 Street, N.Y., announced the purchase and made it known that headquarters for the Uniform Company will be at 3 West 61 Street with a branch showroom at 200 East 26th Street, N.Y. Brooks-Van Horn is among the largest costume companies in the country and services all entertainment media.

NEW TRANSLATIONS

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

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

AUDITIONS

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

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

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

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

MOZART THE DRAMATIST by Brigid Brophy shows Mozart against the background of his time and his contemporaries. The book has caused some controversy among Mozart scholars as to Miss Brophy's psychological approach to the composer, but is generally recognized as a valuable addition to Mozart biographies. Published in \2ngland by. Faber for abt.$6. ******* LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, 1960 Broadway, New York, New York 10023, has published "A Teacher's Guide to Lincoln Center". This 14-page booklet is designed to assist educators and students in making full use of the performing arts resources of Lincoln Center and its associated institutions. It is free upon request. A SOUVENIR BOOK OF LINCOLN CENTER is available;.from the Lincoln Center Gift Shop at the above address for $1.00 (add 25

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

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

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

Indiana University's new publication YOUR MUSICAL CUE is the official Bulletin of the Music School. Eight annual issues are planned, scheduled to appear about two weeks before the open- ing of each opera and containing articles about the opera and its production. The magazine, increased in size and scope over the former publication by Indiana University, is also a news carrier for the newly formed Society of the Friends of Music of Indiana University.

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

COS IS PLEASED TO WELCOME THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERS California State College at Hayward, James R. Minser, Dir., Opera Workshop, 25800 Hillary Street, Hayward, Calif. Detroit Civic Opera Co.,Inc.,Mrs. Jerene G. Macklin,Pres, 549 Hague Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 48202 General Music Publishing Co.Inc.,Paul Kapp, 53 E. 54St., N.Y 22, N.Y. North Texas State University, Eugene Conley,Dir.,Opera Workshop,Denton,Tex,

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

COS BULLETIN l/65 -11- PERFORMANCE LISTING 1964 . - 1965 SEASON (not previously listed)

ALBERTA The Edmonton Professional Opera Assn. 10/16,17/64 HCosi Fan Tutte" CALIFORNIA Opera West, Mrs. C.Robinson,gen.dir.,2950 Vallejo St., San Francisco 1/13,16/63 Lualdl's HMadc'ap Harlequin", Mascagni's "Zanetto", Bizet's "Djamileh" 1/29,30/65 Bucceri's "Marken", Pergolisi's "Maestro di Musica" Perf. at Little Theatre, Lincoln Park; Nino Cowel,mus.dir., 2 p.accomp. Repertory Opera Workshop> A.Wilson,dir., San Francisco 12/6,13/64' Operatic scenes ("Lucia","Aida","Butterfly","Cosi" etc.),w.p. Riverside Opera Co., Mrs. R. Colfcins,pres. 2/26,27/65 "Manon Lescaut" Eng.Ducloux San Francisco Children's Opera, Norbert & Heddy Gingold, at Marine Memorial rO/IS,25/64 "Three Little jitterbugs" 12/6/64 "Snow White and 7 Dwarrs" 1/10,17/65 "The Magic Lamp" 2/7,14/65 "Puss in Boots" 3/14,21/65 ''Little Red Riding Hood" 4/25/65 "Snow White and Rose Red" 5/16,23/65 "The Emperor's New Clothes 6/6/65 same at L.A.Wilshire Ebell Spring Opera of San Francisco, Robert MacKenzie ,pres. 5/25/65 opening night. "The Crucible", "", "Madaraa Butterfly", "Cosi Fan Tutte", "L'Heure Espagnole" & "Bluebeard's Castle" (dates and casts to be announced) CONNECTICUT Haven Operp a Companypy, , Herta Glaz-Redlich,dir, . 2/6/65 "II Matrimonio Segreto" Gimi Beni; st.dir:Beni;cond:Gustav Meier DELAWARE The Wilmington Opera Society, Wilmington Playhouse,D.Rittenhouse,chmn. 4/2,3,4/65 "Carmen" st.dir: Jamieson; cond:Rairigh FLORIDA Florida State University, Opera Guild of Tallahassee 3/19,20/65 "The Tales o± Hoffmann" st.dir: Collins; cond:Sedore;desgn: HAWAII Mohr Honolulu Opera Company, G.Barati,mus.dir. 1964-65 "The Barber o± Seville", "Carmen" ILLINOIS Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 2/13,14/65 "" INDIANA Indiana University, Bloomington (changes in schedule) 12/5,12/64 1/9,16/65 "" Eng.Ducloux MASSACHUSETTS Boston Opera Group, S.Caldwell, dir. 1/11,13/65 "Abduction from the Seraglio" Eng.Caldwell; Sills; Hoekraan 2/5,7/65 "Semiramide" Sutherland, Home; cond:Bonynge 2/19,21/65 Nono's "Intoleranza" American prem. 3/10,12/65 "The Tales of Hoffmann" Sills, Moulson;Evans(after Felsen- stein's Berlin production) 3/24,26/65 "Boris Godunov" Christoff (original version) MISSOURI South West Missouri State College,R.Ruetz,dir.,Opera W'shop, Springfield 2/19-22/63 H0rpheus and EuridiceH st.dir: Osborne — 7/30,31 8/1/65 "L'Elisir dTAmore"

COS BULLETIN, l/65 -12- PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1964-65 Season, cont. NEBRASKA : Omaha Civic Opera Society, Inc., Joseph Levine,rous.dir. 1/28,30/65 "Lucia di Lamraermoor" P.Brooks;J.Crain;st.dir:Shoep 4/1,3/65 "" M.MackayjL.Sgarro; st.dir:Ross NEW MEXICO Eastern New Mexico University, Don W. Moore, Portales 5/65 "The Marriage of Figaro" NEW YORK Adelphi University, L. Rasmussen, dir.Opera Theatre^ Garden City 2/4-7/65 "The Merry Wives of Windsor" st.dir:Valenti State University of New York at Buffalo, A.Sapp,chmn.smusic dept. 11/21-23/64 ffBastien und Bastienne", "Hin und Zurueck","The Stronger" l/65 Susan LaMothe's "The Kitchen Sink" 3/65 Music week: Mauricio Kagel's "Sur Scene", Roger Reynolds' "The Emperor of Ice Cream" and operas by John Bergano,Paul Zukovsky,Henry Wicke NEW YORK CITY Amato Opera Showcase, 319 (cont. from Oct.Bulletin) 3/5,6,11,12,13/65 "Rigoletto" 3/19,20,25,26,27/65 "" 4/2,3,8,9,10/65 "Tosca" 4/16,17,22,23,24/65 "Faust" 4/30, 5/1,6,7,8/65 "" 5/14,15,20,21,22/65 "II Trovatore" Barnard College, Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Minor Latham Playhouse 12/9-12/64 "Patience" ; Brooklyn College, Karoly Kope,mus.dir.,Gershwin Hall 1/7-9/65 Haydn's "The Apothecary", Weill's "Der Jasager" The Clark Center Opera Workshop, N.Ornest,dir., YWCA, 840 Eighth Ave. l/l6,17/65 "The Magic Flute" : Feb.l start new 15-week courses, one for the production of "Faust", one for operatic scenes Community Opera Inc., spec.perf. at Central Presbyterian Church, Park-64 2/7/65 Arias and operatic scenes Henry Street Settlement Playhouse 1/30,31/65 "II Campanello", "The Old Maid and the Thief" 6/4-6/65 "The Bartered Bride" Hunter College Concert Bureau, Park Ave.-69 St. 1/^5/65 Lucas Foss' "Echoi" (lecture and perf.) J^ll^ard Opera Theater, Christopher West,dir., 130 Claremont Ave. 1/28,30/65 "" Eng.Machlis 4/29, 5/1/65 Hans Werner Henze's "Elegy for Young Lovers" American prem. Ma tatl ">*/^ School of Music and Columbia Univ. Orchestra,McMillan Theatre i v 5 J°hn PhiliP Sousa's "El Capitan" Howard Shanet cond.,H.Ross,chor. J />Sau;w^SchOP1 °f Music» John Brownlee,dir., 238 E 105 St. l/2^,3u/65 Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" perf .by singers of opera workshop; st.dir:Basil Langton 157 E 74 St l??"el5f3lefe ?"e^s a WorkshopOliropiad> eC.Bamberger,dir.,15 first American perf7 I. 1 /19,2O/0Oper5 Vivaldi'a Co., sa t "OliropiadeSailor's Snu" firsg Harbort America, Newn Brightonperf. , S.I. Matine// e Oper"Rigolettoa Co.. " at st.di.Sailor'r rPericonc <;n,,oe w^h; mus.din» rM^,. rDellicar, n-.^v. e Messina Opera Co., J.Messina,pres.. Brooklyn (add to Dec.Bulletin) 10/31/64 "Cavalieria Rusticana" and "Pagtlacci" 11/21/64 "Aida*' Spring f65: "Rigoletto", "Manon Lescaut","Trovatore", "Gianni Schicchi1 and "Suor Angelica" COS BULLETIN, 1/65 -13- PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1964-65 Season, cont. NEW YORK CITY (cont.) — Company, Julius Rudel,gen.dir. 3/4,7,24 4/3/65 "Katerina Ismailova"#(East Coast prem.) Schauler,Elgar, Troyanos; Cassilly,Chapman,Paul,Fried;cond:Rude1;dirrCorsaro;des:Armstrong 3/5,6*,6,13*,13,14*/65 "Porgy and Bess"Bryant/Smith,Bash,Brice; Frierson/ Mosley,Long,Randolph; Johnson; Gerber; Saxe 3/7*, 19 4/3/65 "The Ballad of Baby Doe" Sills/Brooks , Turner /Bible ,Green- spon; Cassell/Fredricks,Wentworth/Paul,Krause; Baustian;des:Oenslager 3/11,14,20,21*,26,27*/65 "Die Dre igroschenoper"# cast to be announced; condrRudel; dirrRott; des:Roth; cost:Morley 3/12,17/65 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Bible, Witkowska,Willauer,Klein- man;Malas,Beattie,Hindsley,Miller,Metcalf; Wilson; Ball; Fletscher 3/l8,28*/65 "The Saint of Bleeker Street"# Sena,Jennings,Wolff; Di Giuseppe,Paul,Ledbetter,Smith; La Selva; Menotti; Randolph 3/21,27 4/2/65 "II Tabarro" Todd?Turner; Chapman,Krause. "Suor Angelica" Turner,Jeffrey,Greenspon,Elgar. "Gianni Schicchi" Elgar,Turner,Brooks; Treigle,Smith,Paul; Rudel; West; Ter-Arutunian 3/25 4/4*/65 "Lizzie Borden'W (World prem.) Lewis,Faull,Elgar;Beattie, Fredricke ,Krause ; condrCoppola 3/28 4/1/65 "Susannah" Clements,Greenspon,Evans,Precht; Treigle,Cassilly; cond :Rudel/Popper; dir :Rudel ;des rSylbert 3/31 4/4/65 "Oedipus Rex" Bible;Cassilly,Smith,Paul. "Carmina Burana" Elgar; Du Pree,Reardon; Rudel; Butler; Sylbert # indicates New Productions including premieres; * matinee performances New York Pro Musica, Noah Greenberg ,dir., St .George Church Dec.'64 "The Play of Daniel", "The Play of Herod" 6 pert.each OHIO Denison University, Granville 2/18,19,20/65 Kalmanoff's "Videomania" (see Premieres) ONTARIO Royal Conservatory of Music, Dean Boyd Neel, Toronto 2/11,13/65 "II Matrimonio Segreto" 4/1,3/65 Willan's "Deidre of the Sorrows" PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh Opera Co., Richard Karp,mus.dir. 11/19/64 "La Gioconda" Farrell, Rankin; Barioni, Bertolino 1/14,15/65 "Carmen" Verrett; Crain, Sordello 2/11,13/65 "La Traviata" Costa; Romani, Ausensi Suburban Opera Society, Dr.S.Beryl Lush,pres., Chester 10/11/64 "La Traviata" 11/22/64 "La Boheme" 1/10/65 "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" 2/21/65 "Tosca" 4/11/65 "Rigoletto" QUEBEC Montreal Opera Guild, Mme.Pauline Donalda, at the Place des Arts 1/13,15,17/65 "Madama Butterfly" Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Zubin Mehta,mus.dir.,(see also Oct.Bulletin) 2/8,15,18,22/65 "La Traviata" Di Gerlando,Zeani;Verreau,Ludwig; st.dir: Guttman; des:Rinfret (sets from Canadian Opera Co.)

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PERPORMANCE LISTING, 1964-65 Season, cont. SOUTH CAROLINA Converse College, Spartanburg 11/19-22/64 Contemporary Music Festival, 1 perf. of Beacon's "A Tree in the Plain" TEXAS El Paso CollegeCommunity Opera, Martin Mayer,mus.dir. 3/25,26,27,28/65 "LlTVida Breve" May '65 "" North Texas State University, Eugene Conley,dir.Opera Workshop, Denton 12/17/64 Opera Scenes "La Boheme", "Butterfly","Manon","Aida","Tosca" San Antonio Grand Opera Festival, V.Alessandro,mus .dir. AjStivanellotst »dir, 3/13/65 "La Gioconda" Farrell,Rankin,Kramarich; Tucker ,Barde Hi ,Moscona. 3/14/65 "Faust" Guiot,Altman; Cassilly,Treigle,Milnes (all sets:P.Wolf) 3/20/65 "Madama Butterfly" Kirsten,Altman; Morre11,Milnes,Fried 3/21/65 "Lohengrin" Yeend,Rankin; Sullivan,Patterson,Moscona,Milnes Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Feb.'65 "Suor Angelica" and "Amelia Goes to the Ball"

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