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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 May, 1965 NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES Ludwig Lenel, in-residence composer at Muhlenberg College, Pa., will have his second opera, THE BOSS , premiered by Muhlenbergfs opera work- shop. The one-act work will be presented on May 13, 14, and 15 together with Wolf-Ferrari's "Secret of Suzanna". The Opera Workshop, started in 1960, became a joint college-community venture in 1962 and, in addi- tion to its annual Spring performances at the college, has performed for local clubs and organizations in the community and in surrounding areas. In 1963 the group premiered Lenel's "Young Goodman Brown". ******* Henry Papale, 28-year old composer from Pittsburgh, based his most re- cent opera on Gogol's THE NOSE, choosing the same subject matter as did Shostakovich. Other works by Mr. Papale include THE BALLOON, a one-act "abstract tragedy" with a cast of four, scored for chamber orchestra or piano accompaniment, and two children's operas, THE ONLY GREEN PLANET, a two-act space musical for seventh and eighth graders, and THE PRINCE AND THE SHOVEL-TOOTHED WITCH to be performed by an adult cast. This 35-minute opera recently won first prize at the Penn State Children's Dramatic Radio Show competition. Por further informa- tion contact Mr. Papale at 521 Collins Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. ******* After the copyrights expired on Gilbert and Sullivan works in 1961, George Rowell and Kenneth Mobbs, two British Savoyard specialists, combined Gilbert's play "Engaged" with various unknown musical numbers by Sullivan. The result was ENGAGEDI OR CHEVIOT'S CHOICE which was first performed at the Bristol Opera School in England three years ago. On April 23 it was premiered in the United States by the Village Light Opera Group, Ltd., a New York company dedicated to Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. ******* Another recent adaptation of original words and original music have been presented by the Manhattan School of Music - The Pour Winds Theatre Group on April 30 and May 1. Entitled THE TRIUMPH OF DELIGHT, the fully-staged Elizabethan masque combines sixteenth century masques by Ben Jonson with airs and dance pieces of the same period, incorporating folk tunes and songs by such composers as Campion, Dowland and Byrd. INDEX — PAGE 14 -2- Designs for the decor were by Mosca, Jenny Egan functioned as artistic director, Antonino Lizaso as musical director, Maria Karnilova as choreographer; Robert Cotton is the general manager of the group. ******* Italian composer, Antonio Bibalo's THE SMILE AT THE FOOT OP THE LADDER after Henry Miller's story (see Sept.f64 Bulletin) was premiered at the Hamburg Stateopera on April 6. The cast under Theodore Bloomfield's baton included Heinz Blankenburg, Ruth-Margaret Puetz and Kerstin Meyer; stage director was Egon Monk. The opera as well as the performance were well received. ******* In Pebuary, the Cologne Opera in Germany staged an interesting premiere in the form of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's DIE SOLDATEN. Written in the Wozzeck tradition but transcending both its musical and dramatic idiom, the opera poses many production problems. The story is based on an eighteenth century play by Jakob Michael Lenz about the distruction of the innocent through fate and circumstance and it unfolds on various levels and in various periods simultaneously. Parts of the premiere performance were previously taped and transmitted over loudspeakers placed throughout the opera house. Part of the orchestra,which was placed in back and below the stage ,was also amplified over the loud- speakers. Filmed sequences were mixed with live action on stage. ******* The St. Pancras Festival in London included in its spring schedule the British premiere of Verdi's first opera OBERTO. Because of the re- zoning of the City of London,the St. Pancras Festival is threatened in its existence after the current season. It is hoped that this imagi- native group, which has mounted many rare works and British premieres (this season "II Retorno d'Ulisse in Patria" and "The Lodger") will be able to continue. EUROPEAN OPERA CENTERS WITH VARYING PURPOSES All indications point to Geneva as the new center of Herbert van Karajan's future operatic activities. There have been rumors, supported by published interviews with the conductor, that he plans to bring together many famous opera companies for periodic guest engagements at the new Geneva opera house. He further envisions exchange visits by these companies and TV tapings as well as recordings of the choice productions. The extent of these plans is not specified at this time but it seems quite certain that Berlin and Milan (Karajan has close ties in both cities) will participate. ******* COS BULLETIN, 5/65 -3- A "service center" for operatic personnel has been established in Munich, Germany. Headed by Armand McLane, Kurt Saffir, and Donald Arthur from the U.S. and Bernard Brook-Partridge from Great Britain OPERA INTER- NATIONAL e.V. will be an information center for singers, directors, designers, etc. seeking employment in Europe. Membership dues vary with different countries and are partially dependent on postal rates: US$10. includes air-mail postage for publications, membership in Germany is DM25. Under its editor Jane Hunter, Opera International published its first Journal in April. This publication will appear bi-monthly and contains original articles as well as reprints from American or German music publications, European reviews of members' performances and general news items. The first Annual Guide is in preparation and will include in- formation on living conditions in Central Europe, audition practices, theatres and theatre routines in Central Europe, the "Fach" system of casting, European laws and changes of laws pertaining to the foreign artist, glossary of theatrical and musical terms in German and English. The non-profit organization will answer inquiries by its members but will not act as artist's agent or placement bureau. For further information write to Opera International e.V., Residenzstrasse 13/lV, 8 Munich 2, Germany. ARTS CENTERS AND NEW AUDITORIUMS The Nassau (Long Island, N.Y.) County Board has approved the amount of $9.5 million for the designing and construction of the 14,000-seat co- liseum, the first structure in the proposed $46 million JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER near Mitchel Field, N.Y. A 2,100-seat concert and opera hall is the next project. Byron Belt has been appointed County Director of the Performing and Fine Arts; the California architectual firm of Welton Becket and Associates, responsible for the Los Angeles Music Center, has been commissioned to submit the designs. ******* The Washington, D.C., JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER OF THE PERFORMING ARTS re- cently received one of its major grants ($500,000) from the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. In order to acquire the $15.5 million Congres- sional appropriations the Center must raise another $600,000 by public subscription before June 1. The Center will house three auditoriums under one roof, with seating capacities of 2,700, 2,000, and 1,000 re- spectively. ******* The Metropolitan Opera, while on its annual tour visit to Boston in April, played for the first time in the recently opened WAR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM. The 5,800-seat house is equipped for opera, concerts, film showings, as well as sport events and exhibitions. Some of its new mechanical fea- tures include acoustical ceiling panels, a slotted stage floor which allows scenery stored below the stage to be raised on to the stage di- rectly, removable seats on the auditorium's floor and tracked partitions COS BULLETIN, 5/65 -4- that convert part of the large hall into smaller meeting or exhibition areas. Amplification is used for opera performances. ******* San Francisco's Mayor John Shelley has proposed a $29 million bond issue for an improved and partially new cultural center. The four-part program proposes to rehabilitate the War Memorial Opera House replacing the 3,200 seats in the auditorium, furnishing new technical equipment and enlarg- ing the stage and pit; the addition of a 1,000-seat auditorium in the Veteran's Building; the construction of a new musical arts building to house a 2,200-seat auditorium for the San Francisco Ballet and available also for recitals, chamber music and drama; the redesigning of the San Francisco Museum of Art into a modern facility. ******* Detroit has joined the long line of cultural-center-planners and it en- visions a 200-acre area (half of this for landscaped park land and apart- ment housing) at a total cost of $250 million. The present Art Institute, Historical Museum, main Public Library, Wayne State University and the new Medical Center are to be the core of the new development. A Natural History Museum, a Museum of Science and Technology, a Theatre Arts Center, a Musical Arts Center and a Planetarium are to be added. Charles A. Blessing, director of the City Planning Commission, presented the 20-year plan to the Community Council for approval. BOOKS AND LIBRARIES, RECORDS AND TAPES The eighty-two year history of the Metropolitan Opera House on thirty- ninth Street will be reviewed in the GOLDEN HORSESHOE. Over 300 photographs in color and in black and white will be representative of every phase of the opera house's history, artistically as well as architectually and historically. Pictures of most of the Met's famous singers and of celebrities, artists and companies who have performed at the opera house are included. Some photographs have never before been published. "Golden Horseshoe" was prepared by Frank Merkling, editor of Opera News, and his associates at the Metropolitan Opera Guild's ma- gazine.
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