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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council • 147 West 39Th Street • New York, N.Y CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council • 147 West 39th Street • New York, N.Y. 10018 • PE 6-1200 January t 1965 NEW OPERAS 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 New York City 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 Carl Ebert, 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). ******* COS BULLETIN l/65 -3- 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 "Don Pasquale". ******* 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.- COS BULLTIN l/65 -4- (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. ******* 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".
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