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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN MAY-JUNE, 1971 NATIONAL CONFERENCE - WASHINGTON, D.C. - NOVEMBER, 1971 INDEX NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES 1 NEW OPERA COMPANIES & ARTS COOPERATIVES 3 ART AND ARTS CENTERS 4 GOVERNMENT AND THE ARTS 5 WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT TAX PROGRAMS 7 NEW TRANSLATIONS, NEW SETS 7 FOUNDATION RESEARCH AND GRANTS 8 PERFORMANCE STATISTICS 8 SINGERS AND ACTORS AS STAGE DIRECTORS 9 EDUCATION, incl. Summer & Arts Admin. Courses 10 ANNIVERSARIES 11 BOOK CORNER; COLLECTIONS 12 COMPETITIONS & WINNERS 14 APPOINTMENTS 15 ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE GUILD 17 NEW COS MEMBERS 17 PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1970-71 com. 18 PERFORMANCE LISTING, Summer 1971 19 FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1971-72 25 Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council Central Opera Service • Lincoln Center Plaia • Metropolitan Opera • New York, N.Y. 10023 • 799-3467 CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE COMMITTEE ROBERT L. B. TOBIN, National Chairman GEORGE HOWERTON, National Co-Chairman National Council Directors MRS. AUGUST BELMONT MRS. FRANK W. BOWMAN MRS. TIMOTHY FISKE E. H. CORRIGAN, JR. CARROLL G. HARPER MRS. NORRIS DARRELL ELIHU M. HYNDMAN Professional Committee JULIUS RUDEL, Chairman New York City Opera KURT HERBERT ADLER MRS. LOUDON MELLEN San Francisco Opera Opera Soc. of Wash., D.C. VICTOR ALESSANDRO ELEMER NAGY San Antonio Symphony Hartt College of Music ROBERT G. ANDERSON MME. ROSE PALMAI-TENSER Tulsa Opera Mobile Opera Guild WILFRED C. BAIN RUSSELL D. PATTERSON Indiana University Kansas City Lyric Theater ROBERT BAUSTIAN MRS. JOHN DEWITT PELTZ Santa Fe Opera Metropolitan Opera MORITZ BOMHARD JAN POPPER Kentucky Opera University of California, L.A. STANLEY CHAPPLE GLYNN ROSS University of Washington Seattle Opera EUGENE CONLEY GEORGE SCHICK No. Texas State Univ. Manhattan School of Music WALTER DUCLOUX MARK SCHUBART University of Texas Lincoln Center PETER PAUL FUCHS MRS. L. S. STEMMONS Louisiana State University Dallas Civic Opera ROBERT GAY LEONARD TREASH Northwestern University Eastman School of Music BORIS GOLDOVSKY LUCAS UNDERWOOD Goldovsky Opera Theatre University of the Pacific WALTER HERBERT GIDEON WALDROP Houston & San Diego Opera Juilliard School of Music RICHARD KARP MRS. J. P. WALLACE Pittsburgh Opera Shreveport Civic Opera GLADYS MATHEW LUDWIG ZIRNER Community Opera University of Illinois The Central Opera Service Bulletin is published bi-monthly for its members by Central Opera Service. Permission to quote is not necessary but kindly note source. We would appreciate receiving any information pertaining to opera and operatic production in your rejrion: please address inquiries or material to: Mrs. Maria F. Rich, Editor Central Opera Service Bulletin Lincoln Center Plaza New York, N Y HXttl Copies this issue: $1.00 CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE ELEVENTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council OPERA A CAPITAL IDEA November 4, 5, 6, 1971 Hotel Sonesta Washington, D.C. November 4, Thursday a.m. OPENING ADDRESS THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS its opera programs; how to set up financial reports LUNCHEON (with speakers) p.m. NATIONAL/REGIONAL OPERA major American producers discuss common problems eve. National Symphony Orchestra, JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Haydn's "Creation", C. Neblett, T. Paul, U. of Md. Chorus; cond: Antal Dorati November 5, Friday a.m. CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTION METHODS speakers and demonstrations LUNCHEON (with speakers) p.m. NEW IDEAS IN PROMOTION, TICKETING, ACCOUNTING THE ROLE OF THE MUSIC CRITIC eve. Opera House, JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Bernstein's "Candide" November 6, Saturday a.m. CONGRESS AND NATIONAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS Congressmen and representatives of other leading arts organizations LUNCHEON (with speaker and guest of honor) p.m. TOURS SPEAKERS PANELISTS Prominent National Figures in the Arts Foremost Experts in Each Field two surprise social functions REGISTRATION FORM please return to: Central Opera Service, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. 10023 NAME (please print) ORGANIZATION ADDITIONAL REGISTRANT (if any) ADDRESS CITY, STATE, ZIP . HOTEL SONESTA, Mass. Ave. at Thomas Circle, No. Total N.W., Washington, D.C. • Registration @ $10.00 $ Please reserve room(s) at special • Luncheon 11/4 @ 6.50 flat rate offered to Central Opera Service • Luncheon 11/5 @ 6.50 registrants only • Luncheon 11/6 @ 6.50 Single $20 per day • • Concert ticket @ 6.50 Double or Twin $26 per day • • Opera ticket $7 or $8.50 Hotel reservation is for arrival Nov. 3, *Totalend. $ departure Nov. 6. *(Make checks payable to Central Opera Service, no hotel deposit required.) TICKET AND HOTEL RESERVATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE SEPTEMBER 30. CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN Volume 13, Number 5 May-June, 1971 NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES AMERICAN OPERAS HUCKLEBERRY FINN is Hall Overton's third opera. Based on Mark Twain's story, using some of his original text, the libretto by Judah Stampfler and the composer has been somewhat altered; Huck's age has been changed from 13 to 16 years, his friendship with Jim has been particularly emphasized and Jim's character has become a figure of black consciousness. The two-act opera was premiered by the Juilliard American Opera Center on May 20. Besides his work on Black Widow for the Seattle Opera Company (see 1/71 Blltn.), Thomas Pasatieri has also been commissioned by the National Education Television to write an opera for NET Opera. It will be THE TRIAL OF MARY LINCOLN. Stanley Silverman and Richard Foreman, who had collaborated on Elephant Steps (see 9/68 Blltn.), have now finished a second work called DREAM TANTRAS FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. Rather than calling it an opera, it is subtitled "A Musical Strategy for Twenty-eight Performers." It will be premiered at The Lenox Arts Center, a new music festival in the Berkshire mountains, on August 12, with 7 subsequent performances scheduled during August. A new multi-media work by Meyer Kupferman entitled VISIONS AND GAMES was heard for the first time on May 24 at an all Kupferman concert in New York City. The performing group was the Sarah Lawrence Improvisation Ensemble. Last year's tragedy at Kent State forms the basis of OPERA FLIES, a new work by Egyptian/American composer Halim El-Dabh. He is composer-in-residence at the University but wrote the work on commission from the Hawthorne School in Washington where it was premiered in early May. It will be performed by the same student cast when it comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music on June 2, and 3 and to the Anderson Theatre in Manhattan the same week. The three-act opera features seven main characters, three choruses, and ten orchestra musicians. The composer explained the musical style as neither rock, pop or serial but rather "somewhat African"; traditional symphonic instruments are used. The story is conveyed in a universal manner and not as a literal reenactment of events. Herbert Six has written his second jazz opera, ALL CATS TURN GRAY WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN. It was performed for the first time by the opera work- shop of the Henry Street Settlement Music School on May 21. The composer's first opera, Without Memorial Banners, was premiered in Kansas City in 1966. Forty-three-year-old American composer M. Witni wrote a one-act opera, THE DARK OF SUMMER. Scored for two-piano accompaniment, the 45-minute work features a cast of five. Musical material is available from the composer, c/o American Music Center. AMERICAN PREMIERES On March 28, the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia offered the American premiere of MARKHEIM, a one-act opera by Italian composer Luciano Chailly. It is based on the short story of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson which also served American composer Carlisle Floyd as subject for his one-act opera Markheim. The latter was premiered in New Orleans in 1966, the Chailly opera in Spoleto, Italy, in 1967. The composer is presently artistic director of Milan's La Scala; he writes in an atonal style. Colorado College in Colorado Springs was the scene of the revival of IL CAVA- LIERE ERRANTE by Tommaso Traetta. The opera, premiered in Venice in 1778, received its last known performance in Germany in 1804. Dr. Albert Seay, who was responsible for the revival, also wrote the English translation for this American premiere. The New York premiere of Schoenberg's MOSES UND A RON is scheduled for November 1971 when the Chicago Symphony, under the baton of Georg Solti, will bring it to Carnegie Hall in a concert performance. Donald Gramm will repeat his successful portrayal of Moses; he sang the role in the American premiere in Boston. — It is interesting to note that the opera has never been performed in the composer's homeland and that the Austrian premiere will take place at the Vienna State Opera in May 1973 under Pierre Boulez. FOREIGN PREMIERES The Dutch entry for the television-opera competition in Salzburg 1971 is Ton de Leeuw's LITANY OF OUR TIME. The 40-minute opera uses as text various items selected from one issue of a London Times "read" against the background of an airport waiting room. — The Austrian entry is TRIP, a hippie-opera by jazz composer Fatty George; it is presently being filmed in Vienna. Andre Jolivet's Songe a nouveau rive was premiered at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris on April 30. — Czech composer Jiri Dvoracek's THE ISLE OF APHRO- DITE had its first performances simultaneously in Opava, Czechoslovakia, and in Dresden, East Germany, on February 13. The composer wrote the libretto based on a play by Parnis. THE PRISONER, by Finnish composer T. K. Pylkkanen, was performed at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the Fall of 1970 for the first time. Next Fall the Academy will give the premiere of ESTHER, a one-act opera by Norwegian com- poser Ragner Soderlind, a joint commission by the Academy and the Scandinavian Scholarship Fund.

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