NATIONAL CAPITAL OPERA SOCIETY Newsletter September 1994

SOCIETE D'OPERA DE LA CAPITALE NATIONALE Bulletin septembre 1994

P.O. Box 8347, Main Terminal, Ottawa, Ontario KIG 3H8 C.P. 8347, Succursale principale, Ottawa (Ontario) KIG 3H8

';' '''''''"'-1cr· .~ '"" _., . :"~1 The people sitting at :.j the table are, from the <"'i left, Shelagh Will- i iams, David Williams, . c~ Peggy Pflug, Bob . Pflug, and Brenda Lane-Eraut. To fmd out were they were there and why, see the "1' caption to the picture ": on page 2.

Summary of forthcoming local events

Louis Quilico with The program includes Songs 19 Oct 8:00pm National Arts the Ottawa Symphony of a \Vayfarer, by Mahler, Centre, in the Orchestra and arias from Carmen, La Opera . traviata, and Un baUo in maschera

Dinner at the NAC Fund raiser for Opera Lyra 2 Nov 7:30pm National Arts p.9 Ottawa, with operatic Centre, in the entertainment Panorama Room

Rita, by Donizetti, Performance by Opera Breva 15 Oct 8:00pm Earl of March p.4 and Gallantry, by High School, Moore Kanata

Bastien and Performance by Opera Breva 30 Oct 7:30 pm St Luke's p.4 Bastienne, by Mozart, Anglican Church, and Gallantry, by Ottawa Moore

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,------~ Here are I?ore of the members who attended the excellent fund-raising dinner at Dave Smith's house on 28 June. The Society is very grateful to Mr Smith for his generosity in providing the dinner and his home for the occasion. Standing (left to right): Mary Ann Franchina, Joe Adamo, Dave Smith, Cy Torontow. Seated (left to right): Bobbi Cain, Pat Adamo, Norma Torontow.

Annual General Meeting and the President's Report

This year's Annual General Meeting took place Ottawa perfonned , and on 7 June not at Counterpoint Classics but at St the Society donated $1000 towards the fee of Paul's Eastern United Church Hall, starting at bass Gary Relyea. Many of us were delighted 7:30 pm. Unfortunately, Counterpoint Classics to host Gary and his wife Anne in a dinner at had closed down a few days before, and the Perriers in the Delta Hotel. We hope to host a intelVal between finding a new venue and the similar dinner with Louis Quilico when he start of the meeting was too short to notify all comes ii1 September to sing . members of the change. We apologise to any This celebration continued with a flourish at the member who showed up at the wrong place, for end of November as all past NCOS Board the ensuing bafflement and frustration. members were invited to a dinner party of Here is the President's report for the society's memories, graciously hosted by Lois and Don year just ended. Harper of Congress Travel, Lois having been a member of the fIrst Board of Directors. It was The past year of the Society's operations has a lovely evening and many Board members been a rather trying one on my part due to my from previous days joined us-we didn't really accident, yet we have muddled through, have look older, just better! had some good times, and laid fIrm plans for the future. Our movie program for the year was revamped to be one mainly for our members and their 1993-1994 was the tenth year of Society guests, with the showings preceded by dinner. operations, and as such we felt that we should Through the good auspices of David Shore and ask the world to join us in a celebration of ten John Clegg, the month of February brought a years of activity. In September, Opera Lyra 2 delightful dinner at Mangia's and the showing Work has already begun on the January 1995 of Strauss's Salome at Counterpoint Classics Brain Law Scholarship competition, now held down the street Some twenty-five souls biennially with a $2000 prize. Norma Mellon ignored the depths of winter to enjoy this has been of great assistance with the efforts so evening. The same duo had planned to show far. During the past year we were able to Eugene Onegin after a tasty buffet, again at contribute $4000 to this endowment fund and Counterpoint Classics; however. this showing the principal nowreaches close to $11 000, as was cancelled due to lack ofresponse. This you will hear from the Treasurer. We hope to will not be the case with the June 14th showing embark on a corporate fund-raising venture in ofDer Rosenkavalier, with interested the fall and your assistance is required. participants to be notified of the location. Of a We had hoped to feature an intemationally­ slightly different nature, Pat Adamo has known singer in a dinner-recital setting as part arranged a 'Dinner with David Smith' for a $25 of our tenth year, but negotiations are still in contribution in Dave's luxurious home on process, so the year will change a little. Island Park Drive. Spending three months in hospital gave me During the year. Morgan Tours co-operated plenty of time to think about the Society and with the Society in offering trips to five where we are as we enter our second decade. performances of the Opera de Mo~~al, tri~s Our support of a revived summer festival has which constituted a full day of actIvitles taking never wavered, but some cold economic facts advantage of that city's many cultural make opera a most special commodity. This is attractions. When this offer first was made so here in Ottawa, and is the case all over our several years ago, quite a few ofour members country. The arts, and opera in particular, do went along. Oflate, the numbers have not have the priority here that they have in dwindled sharply and the Society's presence on some European countries, and the road to be the tours lessened. It has been decided by your travelled is laden with potholes and landmines. Board ofDirectors that the Society will no Yet our culture reflects the essence of our longer take part in this venture, and that our hearts and feeds our troubled souls. What can whole policy concerning tours would be we do? revamped. This is yet to be done. We will perhaps continue these musings at a A chance remark at a board meeting introduced later date, but I must close. I wish to thank all the concept of a 'Showcase of Emerging Stars' the members of the Board ofDirectors: Pat as a tenth anniversary celebration. This Adamo, Stuart Baxter, John Clegg concept, with the assistance of Jo~ Maxw.e11, (Newsletter), Marjorie Clegg (Past President), quickly developed into an enchantmg evenmg Murray Kitts (Treasurer), Brenda Lane-Eraut of opera arias and ensembles by five talented (Recording Secretary), Judith Miller, Peggy singers-Kimberley Briggs, l~c sopran~, Pflug (Vice-President), David Shore (anything Janet Harach, soprano, Mary Ann Swerdieger, at Counterpoint Classics), and Gerda mezzo-soprano, Alexander Savtchenko, bass, Ruckerbauer (Membership ).Without their help and Jacques Fortin, baritone, all accompanied and support, this year would have been much by Denise Pepin. Rob Clipperton from ~BC less successful than it has been. I thank: all the Radio was a most eloquent narrator, settlng the members for giving me the privilege of serving stage for the various offerings (with ghost­ this organization. writer Murray Kitts providing most of the words). The crowd at Tabaret Hall was only Thank: you. half of what we wanted for this fund-raiser for Bobbi Cain the Brian Law Scholarship Fund. Ifeach You can see who the members of the new Board member had come and brought a guest, we are, and the way they arranged responsibilities at would have come much closer. This was an their ftrst meeting, at the end of this Newsletter. exciting evening of opera-where were you?

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------~- --~- Opera Breva When you looked at the coming events on the and Gallantry that I attended in Almonte Town first page you may have wondered what Opera Hall on Thursday night, but I enjoyed the Breva was. It is a newish small company performances very much and strongly dedicated to putting on one-act comic operas in recommend you all to attend the two evenings of the communities around the National Capital one-act opera coming up in October. region, and sometimes in the big city itself. The For the show on 15 October, tickets are $12 and operas are all sung in English, with piano in can be bought at Harden's Jewellers at the place of an orchestra, and all the singers are from Hazeldean Mall, or at the door. For the our area. performance at the church on 30 October, I could not get this Newsletter out in time to tell admission is by free-will offering. you about the performances ofThe Impresario JMC

La fille de Montreal

Donizetti'sLajille du regiment would seem to be with spoken French. Maureen Forrester as the a natural choice for the Opera de Montreal to Marquise de Berkenfeld turned in a good undertake. After all, this opera was written characterization but with a quite unexpected weak especially for Parisian audiences and has only singing voice. been successful in its original French version. The sets, from the Washington Opera, were Although the orchestra, chorus, and minor splendid. The costumes, from the drab peasants' singers appeared to be overwhelmingly outfits to the dresses of the Marquise and the francophone, the principals were all anglo­ Duchess and their friends, to the tricolour uni­ phones, mostly Americans. Now this doesn't forms and cockades of the soldiers, provided just make much difference in the sung sections, but in the right touch to set off the Alpine scenery of the dialogue, of which there is a good deal in this Act I and the grand hall of the home of the opera, I think some of the francophones in the Marquis in Act II. audience might have referred to the English For those who missed seeing this production, surtitles to fInd out what was being said in perhaps it will be presented on television on one French. of the French channels. In the meantime, ifyou Having said this, let me proceed to praise this are not already familiar with the delightful production to the skies. Erie Mills as Marie was sparkling score, there is an exceptionally fme charming and loveable in character as well as recording of this opera with Joan Sutherland as most capable in this diffIcult role. The , }.1arie, Luciano Pavarotti as Tonio, and Spiro Bruce Fowler as Tonio, gave an astonishing Malas as Sulpice, under the baton of Richard performance, and the beauty and power of Bonynge on London 414 0520-2 (two CDS). Thomas Hammons's bass voice in the role of MK Sulpice more than made up for his difficulties

Stratford's camp pirates

Let me explain first that I am not against a little musical adaptation, one feels prepared to enjoy tampering with tradition when G & S operas are yet another attempt at presenting a well-known presented Having attended Sir Tyrone Guthrie's and well-loved 'chestnut' in a fresh setting. But deliberately unconventional production 'of the inclusion of a drag Queen Victoria was only H.M.S. Pinafore and enjoyed it immensely, and one of the unfortunate excesses which marred the having seen Joseph Papp's production of The enjoyment of this production. Pirates ofPenza nee both on stage and on the The Stratford company includes an actor named movie screen and generally approved of the Tom Wood who is a budding playwright and 1-'--­ 4 who has decided to 'fIx' the script ofThe Pirates, onto the thrust stage of the Festival Theatre. casting himself in the main role as the movie Barbara Bryne as Ruth was not in good voice, director. The Pirates (Stratford Revised Version) and the constant to-ing and fro-ing and opens not in Penzance but in Hollywood in the slapsticking spoiled any chance ofjudging the 30s where a movie version of the opera is to be quality of the vocal performance of the Police fIlmed by the martinet director Henrich von Sergeant In all fairness, it must be reported that Schtompnic. SuffIce it to say that the dialogue the audience seemed to enjoy the performance, l?y Tom Wood suffers greatly, one might say even though it lasted a good half hour longer than overwhelmingly, in comparison with W.S. . on ordinary production of the original. To this Gilbert's. Wood's intention is to satirize G & S reviewer the main problem is that The Pirates of productions and the type of musical made much Penzance is itself a parody of grand opera, and later in Hollywood-musicals like The Pirate, that is what makes it so enjoyable. It is a parody with Gene Kelly. . that really develops into a comic opera. Papp's So the pirates are divested of their heavy production was successful because, although the costumes and wear brushed velvet tights and as instrumentation and arrangements of the music little else as possible to show off their manly were changed to some extent, Gilbert's dialogue chests. Tney miraculously tum into chorus boys was kept a.nd, in one case, some of Gilbert's for the big athletic dance production number in original dialogue that had been dropped in the Act II. The sergeant of police is dressed as a D'Oyly Carte productions, was restored. Keystone Kop. Get the picture? At Stratford some of the dancing was quite When the focus was on the original opera, some spectacular; but enjoying the dancing had to be things went quite well. Donna Starnes as Mabel paid for by sitting through some very weak was outstanding, and Robert Yeretch as Frederic comedy and continued distractions away from could out-sing and out-dance the rest of the what everyone had really come to see and hear, 'boys.' Colm Feore was excellent as the Pirate Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates ojPenzance. King, as was Douglas Chamberlain as Major­ MK General Stanley, who crash-landed by airplane

Nice letter

The President has received a very pleasing letter very important for many reasons. Firstly, they from Kimberley Briggs, one of the singers at the provide a venue through which new repertoire Showcase for Emerging Stars in May. Here it is. can be performed. Above all, they help build confidence and let us gain valuable stage Dear Bobbi, experience. I would like to express my gratitude to you and I think evenings such as this are a wonderful the other members of the National Capital way through which the Society can support Opera Society for organizing the Showcase for young, local talent. We are the future of the Emerging Stars held on May 27, 1994. It art, and by supporting us the Society is really took the pressure off the evening to have ensuring that there will always be live opera everything well organized and the members so and new recordings. Once again, thank you all enthusiastic and helpful. The programming for your hard work and I hope you will do this was obviously done with great care, ensuring a again. My other hope is that next time more balanced and interesting evening for both the people will take advantage of these rare gems. audience and the singers. Sincerely, For a young singer about to begin a career in Kimberley Briggs. music, these perfonnances opportunities are

5 Opera within reach

Here are the season's schedules for opera houses Eugene Onegin, by Tchaikovsky. 19,21, 23sm, and other sites of interesting events close enough 25, 27, and 29 April. O'Keefe Centre. to Ottawa for the serious opera fan. sm Sunday matinee Montreal Careful scrutiny reveals that there are four L'Opera . de Montreal weekends in which you could see two operas, one on the Saturday night and one on the Sunday Wenher, by Massenet. 17, 19,22,24, and 28 afternoon. These are: September, and 1 October. 5-6 October and 12-13 October, Aida, by Verdi. 19,21, 24, 26IDt, and 30 and II re pastore. November, and 3 December. 22-23 April and 29-30 April, Lucia di La vie parisienne, by Offenbach. 10, 12, 14, 15, Lammermoor and Eugene Onegin. and 17 December. Opera in Concert La boheme, by Puccini. 18,20,23, and 25 February, and 1 and 4 March. Richard Margison and his Divas. 21 October. Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini. 10, 13, 15, 19, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, by Bellini. 26 and 22 April. November. The Consul, by Menotti. 26 and 29 April, and 1, Luisa Miller, by Verdi. 29 January. 4, and 6 May. , the Lady with the Lamp, by T. Don Giovanni, by Mozart. 27 and 29 May, and Sullivan. 4 and 5 March. 1, 3mt, 7, and 10 June. Goyescas, by Granados, and La revoltosa, by All performances are in the Place des Arts. Chapi. 22 and 23 April. Toronto Operetta Theatre mt For the operas and dates thus marked, there is Die Fledermaus, by J. Strauss. 27,28,29,30, a Morgan Tour taking a group to Montreal and 31 December. (8200221). Sundays of Comedy and Romance: From Bavaria to the Blue Danube. 30 October. Toronto Viva Espana, the Sequel. 4 December. Stolz, Friml, and Romberg, the Last of the Canadian Opera Company Waltz Kings. 5 February. La boheme, by Puccini. 22,23,24, 25sm, 27, Let's Begin the Beguine. 19 March. 28, 29 and 30 September, and 1 and 2sm Czarevitch, by Lehar. 3, 5, and 6 May. October. O'Keefe Centre. Amore mio. 14 February. Don Pasquale, by Donizetti. 27 and 30sm October and 4, 6sm, 8,10,12,15,17,19,23, 25, and 27sm November. Elgin Theatre. Hamilton Il re pastore, by Mozart. 5, 9, 11, 13sm, 16, 18, Hamilton Opera 22, 24, and 26 November. Elgin Theatre. The Marriage ofFigaro, by Mozart. 24 and 29 Bluebeard's Castle, by Bartok, and Erwartung, September and 1 October. by Schonberg. 11, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, and 22sm I due Foscari, by Verdi. 19,24, and 26 January. O'Keefe Centre. November. Lucia di Lammermoor, by Donizetti. 8, 11,20, Popera by Request. 2 and 4 February. 22,26,28, and 30sm April. O'Keefe Centre. La boheme, by Puccini. 1, 6, and 8 April.

6 Opera Lyra's Tosca

I'm sure most of our readers attended one of the and to the Boys' Choir for their thoroughly performances of Tasca and enjoyed the professional performances. experience. This is not to say that there were no Act IT presented no similar problems in staging or faults with the production. direction. Both Heather Thomson and Comelis In Act I, in spite of the fact that everyone else in Opthof continued to give the excellent the cast has free access to the Church of performances as Tosca and Scarpia they had Sant'Andrea della Valle, Floria Tosca does not. begun in Act I. Are we to believe that she is kept locked up in a Act III provided the tenor with his big moment side chapel or in a vault when she is not singing and exposed the deficiencies of Louis Langelier's for the Queen of Naples? Is there any serious vocal and acting abilities. Tosca seemed to jump purpose in all this coming and going of monks, into a hole in the floor and would probably have nuns, sightseers, and so on? It was a constant broken a leg or two landing on the next level of distraction from the singing and the action. Ifit the Castel Sant'Angelo. A bit of simulated were done deliberately to try to conceal some of crenellation would have been enough to suggest the deficiencies of the tenor, then it might be that she did indeed go over the edge. understandable. All in all, however, this was quite an enjoyable The director was constrained to some extent by evening. As an opera promoter, I brought with the set. The final scene with the procession and me to Tasca two people who had never attended Te Deum was not very effective, either visually an opera before. Much to my pleasure, not only or musically; neither the chorus, the orchestra, did they enjoy the performance, but also they nor the small organ were adequate for this scene. plan to attend Rigaletta in September and bring But bravos to Peter Strummer as the sacristan another friend. MK

Montreal's Carmen

Carmen is one of those favourite 'chestnuts.' Annoyingly, a screen would periodically be Regular opera goers have usually seen it several dropped between the singers and the chorus in times, since it is a staple in the repertoire, while the background. An example of this came as first-timers are usually lured into the opera fold Don Jose was singing of his imprisonment to by its bright sights and sounds. Unfortunately, Carmen, and the screen dropped and prison bars L'Opera de Montreal's recent production of were projected on it-somehow this is a Carmen failed to satisfy. Except for the finale, visualization that the opera Carmen simply does the chorus, dressed in black, remained perched in not require. the stands of an amphitheatre facing the audience. Lyn Fortin as Micaela was the most impressive Many of the roles usually taken by singers in the singer of the evening and performed admirably. chorus were played by mute actors and dancers Unfortunately, Diana Soviero in her first Carmen (whose expertise might have been improved was indisposed. Even more unfortunately, she upon)! sang-andpaid the penalty with an almost non­ There was no sign either vocally or physically of existent lower register. the popular children's chorus, and the role of The staging was somewhat bizarre: while the Zuniga was advanced to middle age, which made execution of Zuniga at the end of Act II answered for a very different interplay between Carmen, some questions (many productions leave him tied Don Jose, and Zuniga. It was interesting to note up at the end of the Act), it seemed to be that the role of LilIas Pastia, the tavern owner, unnecessary. The blending of Acts I and II (the also seemed to have been eliminated; granted, it production had only one intermission, following is a small role, but it completes a picture. Act II ) distorted the audience's impression of the flow of time; there is, after all, a two-month 7 interlude while Don Jose does time in jail! 1~86). I ml1:s~ admit that there is something to be Similarly, the third and fourth acts failed to SaId for traditton and controlling the expectations impress. Overall the performance was a of your audience! disappointment, both vocally and visually. SF although it was not as bizarre as the pnxluction with Escamillo appearing as Elvis (Vancouver

Penguin's Opera Guide

If.you have an extra $22.50 plus tax on hand you critic says, 'There· is no libretto; but EM! is very mIght want to explore The Penguin Guide to generous with cueing points, and you can follow 0l!era on Compact DiscS; and then again, you the ~tory easily ?y, che~~g them against the very mIght not. . det~led synopsIS. This IS true. but given a chOlcebetween following the story and following Ifyou already have The Penguin Guide to the text of the opera. which one would an opera Compact Discs and Cassettes, especially the lover ~hoose? There is a more complete modern latest one, what is extra in the Opera Guide recording of the same opera which is reviewed in which might make it an attractive purchase? the same place. Nowhere does our critic mention First and foremost is the summary ofplots of that this recording (Sony) is accompanied by operas. Now, this may not help you at all; but if excellent notes and a multilingual libretto. you collect opera recordings as this collector does ~till in the field of Russian opera, there is an you could use some help from time to time. maccuracy in the review of Glinka's A Life for Some opera recordings are issued without plot the Tsar. The review claims that there is an summaries or with extremely sketchy ones. In alternative scene presenting-Susanin's son some cases, knowing something of the plot could arriving at the monastery to warn the Tsar and i?fluence a possible purchase. Or would you just that this scene is 'not included here' whereas like to browse through possibly the greatest this scene, lasting about twelve is collection ofunlikely tales ever told? mi~utes indeed part of this recording. There ma~ be other Another plus for this guide is that it lists operas errors as well. now deleted from the catalogue. Why, for The fact that music other than opera is not example, have both recordings of Massenet's included in the Guide to Opera may also be a Manon been withdrawn, leaving none available? dra~back to p.otential buyers. A new Penguin One can only hope that the manufacturers are GUIde to CDs IS due out soon and will be more planning to reissue at least one of these in some up-to-date than the Guide to Opera published in less expensive format in the future. 1993. It will cost you more (the last one was What of the drawbacks? This guide has all the $29 bef?re tax) but it contains more of opera and deficiencies of the other guides. How can everythmg else, but not the plot summaries. anyone who calls himself an opera critic The serious opera collector will of course want to recommend for purchase an opera set which does have the Guide to Opera, if only to find errors or not have a proper libretto? Take, for example, to raise criticisms like those mentioned in this the recordings of Carl Orff's Der Mond, heard in article. Don't expect anything too complete or Ottawa recently. The Eurodisc version under too exotic. Of the nine operas by Rimsky­ Eichhorn has 'German texts with no translation.' Korsakov that this opera lover has in his In other words, unless you know German collection, only one is reviewed in the Guide. extremely well, forget it. But in reviewing the Still, there is usefulinformation. Ifone could EM! discs under Sawallisch, the critic says, 'No overcome one's fear of being driven to insanity texts are provided, but the discs are very by liste~ng to Philip Glass's Satygraha, one generously banded,' as ifthe extra index points should listen to the wise advice of the reviewer: made up for the loss of comprehension. 'Warning has to be given of potential damage to Probably the same critic wrote the review of loudspeakers from some of the sounds.' Enough Borodin's Prince Igor, the recording with the said. great Boris Christoff in the cast. This time our MK 8 CBC Radio broadcasts of opera on Until the start of next season's Metropolitan Pietro Ballo. And Opera broadcasts, CBC and Radio Canada will La vida breve, by de Falla. Berlin, continue to broadcast operas from various other Friihbeck de Burgos. Maria Oran, Kurt sources on S aturda y afternoons. Here is the Westi. schedule from about now until as far as the 12 Nov Francesca da Rimini, by Zandonai. Editor has been able to see ahead. Bregenzer Festspiel, Fabio Luisi. CBC Stereo (103.3 MHz) Elena Filipova, Danilo Rigosa. 24 Sep Boris Godunov, by Mussorgsky. 19 Nov Ombrafelice, by Mozart. Salzburg, 1 Oct Julius Caesar, by Handel. Edmonton Heinz Holliger. Cast: Soile Isokoski, Opera, Daniel Beckwith. Cast: Derek Elzbieta Szmytka, Michael.Schade. Lee Regin, Brenda Harris. Radio Canada (102.5 MHz) 8 Oct T osca, by Puccini. Manitoba Opera, 24 Sep Tristan undIsolde, by Wagner. John DeMain. Cast: Donnie Rae 1 Oct None. Albert. 8 Oct Das Rheingold, by Wagner. 15 Oct Lucia di Lammermoor, by Donizetti. Calgary Opera, Edoardo Mueller. Cast: 15 Oct Die Walkilre, by Wagner. Tracy Dahl. 22 Oct Siegfried, by Wagner. 22 Oct Jenu/a, by Janacek. Vancouver Opera, 29 Oct Gotterdammerung, by Wagner. David Agler. Cast: Joanne Kolomyjec, 5 Nov , by Verdi. Judith Forst. 12 Nov Le jacobin, by Dvorak. 29 Oct Acteon, by Charpentier. Opera Atelier, David Fallie. And 19 Nov Le roi Artur, by Chausson. Lucas et Cecile, by Quesnel. 26 Nov I Capuleti e i Montecchi, by Bellini Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon. 3 Dec Francesca da Rimini, by Zandonai. 5 Nov , by Puccini. , Gavazzeni. Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni,

News from Opera Lyra Ottawa

Between Rigoletto just gone and La boheme in Opera Lyra plans a farewell dinner for him on a April, Opera Lyra Ottawa is holding a few not­ date as yet unfixed but sometime towards the quite-operatic events. The first is on 2 Nov­ end of November. So if you have any tales ember and is a black-tie dinner at the NAC suitable for airing on such an occasion, you hosted by the German Ambassador, the should track down the roaster once the position German Wine Inforation Bureau, and the has been filled and pass on your story for a Ottawa Food and Wine Show. Between wider and appreciative audience. courses there will be operatic entertainment. In February 1995 there will be the next in The cost will be $100 a ticket, of which $50 Opera Lyra's fund-raising series Guess Who's qualifies for income-tax deductibility. For . Coming to Dinner. Details will become known more information, call 233 9200. later. The second event is the Tony Bogert Roast, in JMC honour (or dishonour) of Tony Bogert, who has been President of Opera Lyra Ottawa for several years and is soon retiring from the job.

9 Membership renewal Opera videos We are still sending the Newsletter to some It has not been possible to schedule any further people who have not yet paid their dues for opera videos yet. We hope to be able to get over 1994, but cannot do this much longer. Ifwe present difficulties and resume what those who think you are one of them, there will be a red attended previous videos considered a very good blob right here: way for an opera lover to pass an evening.

There is a membership form at the end of the Discount for members Newsletter. Ifthere was no blob and you are Counterpoint Classics, which used to give still reading this section, you could use the form members a generous discount, has unfortunately for paying in good time for 1995. ceased doing business. All members will be sad to hear this and will be grateful to David Shore for his generosity during the years of the discount. We hope to be able to fmd another establishment that will be prepared to grant a similar benefit to our members.

NCOS Board Members and responsibilities

President Bobbi Cain Publicity Chris Sayre Vice-President Peggy Pflug Events The Board Treasurer Murray Kitts General Liaison John Clegg Secretary Sandy Shea Membership Gerda Ruckerbauer, David Shore Scholarships BobbiCain Member Pat Adamo Newsletter John Clegg

Some telephone numbers Bobbi Cain 225-0124 (h) Peggy Pflug 226-5482 (h) Pat Adamo 7299518 (h) John Clegg 7654599 (w)