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Bulletin Central Opera Service BULLETIN CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE sponsored by THE NATIONAL COUNCIL of the METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION 147 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York 18, N.Y. Telephone: PEnnsylvania 6-1200 APRIL 1961 1961 NATIONAL C.O.S. CONFERENCE Please continue to send in your QUESTIONNAIRES in order that we may plan an exciting Conference. The results so far indicate an equal preference for Civic, College, and Workshop divisions. However, some replies have marked all three groups so we must stress that the sessions will run concurrently. Members who have so far accepted for the PLANNING COMMITTEE ares John Brownlee, James Browning, John Crosby, Paul Callaway, Mrs. Norris Darrell, Howard J. Hook, Jr., Henry F. Lenning, Dr. Elemer Nagy, Julius Rudel, R.L.B, Tobin. The Questionnaires returned to date plus suggestions from the Committee have resulted in the following list of possible subjects for discussion: FISCAL ADMINISTRATIVE ARTISTIC Fund raising Ticket campaigns Artists Business and industry Boards of Directors Scenery support Women's associations Costumes Budgets Publishers' side of story Staging (music libraries) Repertory School system cor-peration Lighting Youth performances Libretti Public Relations Translations Touring problems & guides Labor relations NEW MEMBERS Mrs. F.O. Hutchinson, 5940 Walnut Drive, Minneapolis 24 University of Arizona. (Eugene Conley), Tuscon, Arizona UPPER MIDWEST REGION The following is a pertinent resume of the report made by the Chairman, Mrs. Frank W. Bowman at the Membership Spring Meeting of the National Council <?n April 6% The Region has _108 CO.S. Members (45 Group and 63 Individual). Their third area conference will take place on May 17 and 18, 1961. (Regional Conferences were inaugu- rated in this Region), The program will stress "OPERA AND THEATRE" and include a performance of the Metropolitan Opera Studio's CO SI FAN TUTTE under Mr John Gutman's direction, and performances of IL CAMPAllBLLO and THE BOOR (the latter composed by Dominik Argento who is now on the Faculty of the University of Minnesota. COS BULLETIN 4/6I "2- AUDITIONS FINALS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL Despite a painful illness which confined him to the hospital in the midst of the happy ending to his dedicated year's work, the National Chairman, Howard J. Hook, Jr. managed with the aid of the ubiquitous telephone, to assemble his Finalists on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera for a most exciting afternoon. Due to the excellent cooperation of the Publicity Chairman, Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin and her co-workers, most of our members have no doubt already read the results in their newspapers so we will mention only the major winners: George Shirley, 26 year old tenor from Eastern Region - Metropolitan Opera Contract and the Stuart and Irene Chambers Scholarship Award of $2,000 Maria de Francesca, Soprano from Central Region - $1,000 John S. Newberry Scholarship Francesca Roberto, Soprano from Eastern Region - $2,000 Fisher Foundation Scholarship and an Apprentice Contract with the Metropolitan Opera Edna Mae Garabedian, Mezzo-Soprano from Western Region - $2,000 Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Scholarship Billie Lynn Daniel, Lyric Soprano, and Shirley Verrett-Carter, Meszo-Soprano, from the Eastern Region - co-winners of the flj/QOO Euclid W. McBride Memorial Scholarship Heather Thomson of the Northwest Region, and Roy Samuelsen of the Rocky Mountain Region, co-winners of the Henry F. JLenning Award of $800. (A new award sponsored by the Editor of the_C."o.S. BT&jjETIN for semi-finalists with the greatest potential)" Previous winners who have made outstanding progress and are in need of further financial aid won the following awardss Miss Frankie Weathers, Soprano - $1,000 of the F. Rodman Titcomb Award of $2,000 James Tippey, Baritone - $300 of the Richard P. Loftus Award_ of $1,000 (ne"wj Miss LaVergne Monette, Soprano - $500 of the Richard P. Loftus Award~~of$l} 000 Other Finalists chosen to compete came from Oklahoma, Ohio, New Jersey, Alabama, Texas, Utah, Rhode Island, New York, Winnipeg and Vancouver (Canada), and if any group is interested in contacting them we would be most happy to supply their addresses. There were some very fine voices and the judges >ad a difficult time making their selection. i^I2^J^^_2J^^^_jpF^IE_AIS took place in February on the stage of the Chicago Opera House. Marjqrie Lawrence, Lawrencs_.Kelly, and David Van Vector served as judges. 26 singers competed for a total cf |It500'"it~"prizes."~fhe~winners were: mezzo- soprano Sharon Nawrocki and baritone Dominic Cossa, Applicants should writes GUILD'S .CHATHAM ..COLLEGE, Pittsburgh 32, Pa., announces its Twelfth Summer Session of Opera Work- shop, August 6 through August 28, 1961. both day and eveniiig" classes." Opera and operatic scenes will be presented, and individual operatic coaching will be emphasized in both Grand and Light operas, Its purpose is tc offer talented, mature singers a concentrated course dealing with the singing and acting techniques of the lyric theatre, and is open to anyone who can demonstrate satisfactory vocal ability and musicianship. Professional training will be given in background studies of operatic roles, musical and dramatic coaching, television technique, history and analysis of operatic styles, foreign language coaching, diction, stage deportment, makeup. Operas to be studied include ARABELLA, LE JONGLEUR DE NOTRE DAME, L<ELISIR D-AMORE, and LOUISE, FEES! Active students $90, Audi- tors $40, plus $135 each for room and board (3 weeks). "Frederic Kurzweil, Director. COS BULLETIN 4/6I -3- UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS held its second High School Invitational Opera Festival on March 3 and 4? I96I. Its evaluation has been successfully established by the fact that the Administration has assigned sufficient funds to ensure it becoming an annual event. Apparently the hit of the Festival was KLeinsinger's ARCHY AND MEHITABELo Details were given in our February BULLETIN. Congratulations and good wishes are extended* DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, School of Music, is offering a graduate seminar in operatic stage- craft from June 26 to August 4, l'96l, under the direction of James Sutcliffe. It will embody acting, directing, lighting, publicity, and designing techniques for lyric stage productions with emphasis on the problems and possibilities of smaller workshops. An encouraging example of community cooperation and interest was recently illustrated when JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC OPERA WORKSHOP presented its first live complete opera on television over WJCT in Jacksonville, The opera was SUNDAY EXCURSION and, since the action takes place in a railroad coach, it was appropriately sponsored by the Atlantic Coastline Railroad. 0, Schirmer, Inc. granted special permission for the work's performance, the Musicians'1 Association of Jacksonville gave clearance to the Director, Amelia Smith, to accompany on the piano without charge (A.P. of M.), and Costumes Unlimited furnished the costumes free. Since the television station is in- terested in future presentations of operas in English, other sponsors are being sought. FRANZ BIEO t Conductor of the City Symphony of New York, has been appointed Professor of Conducting, Opera Dept,, and Director of orchestral activities, at Oberlin College, effective September 1, 196I. Inquiries are received occasionally for available SCENIC ARTISTS-, STAGE DIRECTORS, etc, and we would appreciate receiving names of such personnel for our records. KENTUCKY OPERA ASSOCIATION put on an exciting and unusual version of LUCIA PI LAMMERMOOR recently3 placing emphasis on the Scottish locale and using kilts and plaids for the male costumes,, Robert A. Simon1 s English translation was used. Mrs. Rose Mathew ->f the ROCHESTER CHAMBER OPERA paid us a visit to gather material and information to aid in promoting and expanding their group. Mrs. Harriet Gilpatric,-. • Director of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, was kind enough to arrange for her to attend their Luncheon and Student Performance of IL TRCVATORE on March 24. In May they plan "AN EVENING T/TTH MOZART'; - THE IMPRESARIO and hid ballet form LSS PSTITS RIENES,, COMMUNITY OPERA, INC, (Gladys Mathew) is seeking ACTIVE or ASSOCIATE members ($10=00) to aid its worthy project of introducing opera to school children. It started in 1953 and was first organization to present new American operas every season. The address is 40 East 81st Street, New York 28,: COS BULLETIN 4/6I "A" NATIQNAL OPERA ASSOCIATION held a Regional meeting at the Hotel Wellington, New York, on April 22, 196I. The following speakers participated; JAMES BROWNING, Staff Administrator of the National Council of the Metropolitan Opera Association - "IN SUPPORT OF THE OPERA WORKSHOP" FREDERIC KUKZWEIL, Dean, New York College of Music, Musical Director of the Mobile Opera Guild, and Director of the Chatham College Opera Workshop - "INSIDE THE OPERA WORKSHOP" PROFESSOR WILLARD RHODES, MUSIC DEPARTMENT, Columbia University - "THE OPERA WORKSHOP AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN CULTURE" AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS will sponsor a "SHOWCASE" for artists in the field of opera, concert, and dance. Four events will be spaced over the period of a years full production of DIE FREI3CHUTZ in the autumn of I96I5 FALSTAFF in April 1962; an evening of dance and a concert of AGMA soloists. Singers interested in auditioning should write AGMA, 1841 Broadway, New York 23. Stage directors, choreographers, and dancers should send resumes of their professional experience to Richard Stuart Flusser, 550 Fifth Ave., New York 36. "FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A STAGE DIRECTOR - 111" Ken C. Baumann, Ithaca Civic Opera How does one get into this strange profession? One is"theaxer-struck" and one loves opera. But if the urge becomes a serious intent to choose this as a career, a number of questions arise that will have to be answered. Theoretically, there are several ways which could lead to the goal; 1. by way of amateur or legitimate theater - the prospective candidate has played in high school and played and directed in his little college theater.
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