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This issue:SURVEY OF OPERA WORKSHOPS AND CONTEMPORARY OPERA PERFORMANCES

March-April, 1964

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

It is reported that Ned Rorem ("Childhood Miracle","The Robbers") whilein residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is working on a new operaentitled MISS JULIE. Kenward Elmslie is responsible for the libretto.

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The Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois commissionedRobert Kelly, Professor of Composition at the University, to write an opera.Professor Kelly has chosen for his theme the conquest of Mexico presentedfrom the Aztec viewpoint. The opera will be entitled THE WHITE GODS.

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Jack Gottlieb, assistant to Leonard Bernstein, will witness the premiereof his one-act opera TEA PARTY on April 18 at the Donnell Library, 23 W.53 St. in New York. It is written for soprano, alto, tenor and baritoneand will be performed with the accompaniment of two pianos. The opera,which the composer subtitles "Movement I of a Symphony of Operas" isavailable through Boosey and Hawkes.

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The Central City Opera commissioned work, LADY FROM COLORADO, will be pre-miered in Central City on July 3. The Robert Ward-Bernard Stambler workis based on a book by Homer Croy and actual Colorado history and wascommissioned in honor of the 100th anniversary of the University of Den-ver (formerly Colorado Seminary).

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Shostakovich's KATERINA ISMAILOVA (see Jan. Bulletin) will be premieredin the U.S. by the San Francisco Opera Co. during its Fall season. TheEast Coast premiere will follow when Julius Rudel will open the Spring1965 season of the New York City Opera Co. with this work.

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Since last reported in the February issue of the Bulletin, Normand Lockwood'snew opera SHARON has been renamed HANGING JUDGE. Its first performance atDenver University was presented under the new name.

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NEW SUMMER FESTIVALS

The monumental presidents at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, are likely tohave many opera lovers among their visitors this year. The newly-formedOpera Association of South Dakota will sponsor the MOUNT RUSHMORE OPERAFESTIVAL at Rapid City. Performances will be staged in the Amphitheatre(sports bowl) of the School of Mining and Technology, an outdoor stadiumwith a seating capacity of 2,500. A special inclining stage and enclosedpit for the orchestra will be built after designs by Gordon Micunis whowill also be responsible for the sets. The company will use a local or-chestra and chorus (58) but will import the soloists, among them: AudreyWyatt, Francesca Roberto, Lillian Garabedian, Calvin Marsh, Robert Nagy,William Walker, Russell Christopher. Clifford Harvuot will double assinger and stage director as will Emil Renan, who is the artistic admin-istrator of the company. There to assist him are production administratorChris Mahan, designer Gordon Micunis and stage director, Richard Flusser.The maestri will be Carlo Moresco and Josef pellicare. General Managerof the company is George Cayley who is planning the Festival to coincidewith the Diamond Anniversary Celebration of South Dakota's statehood. Theseason will be from June 19 until September 13with six weekly performancesin repertory fashion. All operas will be sung in English: "Aida"(Eng.Ducloux), "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" (Eng. Machlis), "Tosca"(Eng. Gutman), "La Boheme" (Eng. Martin), "Devil and Daniel Webster","Regina" and the Verdi Requiem. — In addition to the performances, theartistic administrator, Mr. Renan, and the participating artists willhead a workshop and apprentice program for singers, directors, designers^coaches and conductors. For further information write to Opera Associa-tion of South Dakota, George Cayley, General Manager, Box 1102, RapidCity, South Dakota.

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Dr. Donald Jay Maxwell, Director of the School of Music at Union College,Barbourville, Kentucky, has announced the inauguration of the SUMMERMUSIC FESTIVAL AT GATLINGBURG-IN-THE-SMOKIES in Tennessee under thesponsorship of Union College. Set at the edge of the Great Smoky Moun-tains National Park, Hunter Hills (outdoor) Theatre has a seatingcapacity of 2,500, a large center stage with two side stages mountedon turntables and studios and classrooms located at the theatre. Pro-ductions with full orchestra are scheduled beginning June 27—"The Bar-tered Bride", "Tosca", "The Mikado", and "Oklahoma"—until September 7and a nine-week academic session offering courses in every phase ofoperatic activity will be held simultaneously.. Scholarships are avail-able. Cast and faculty include: Moreley Meredith, Lynn Owen, RobertNagy? Francesca Roberto, James Wainner, and Ronn Bottcher. For fur-ther information, write to Dr. Donald Jay Maxwell, Director, School ofMusic, Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky.

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The week of May 3 - 1 0 has been declared NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK by theNational Federation of Music Clubs.

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NEW COMPANIES

Chester, Pa. is the home of a new operatic group, the SUBURBAN OPERA SOCIETY.Working with young talent the company under its president S. Beryl Lushhas just completed its first season during which it presented "Madame Butter-fly", "La Boheme", "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" and "Tosca".

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The EDMONTON PROFESSIONAL OPERA CO. which evolved from the Alberta OperaSociety, an amateur group, has presented two different productions duringits first season, "Madame Butterfly" and "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagli-acci". Both, or rather all three operas, were presented in two performanceseach and the dress rehearsals were open to students. With the EdmontonSymphony orchestra in the pit, local soloists and chorus made up the artisticensemble. Jean Letourneau was musical director and Donald Pimm drama direc/

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Herta Glaz, former Metropolitan Opera mezzo, and more recently Mrs. F.C.Redlicch of New Haven (Dr. Redlich is on the faculty of Yale University)has founded the NEW HAVEN OPERA SOCIETY. The new group had its firstproduction during the season.

CONFERENCES

On March 4 the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES sponsored asymposium on Music USA. The distinguished panel of experts included com-poser-publisher Robert Ward, editor and critic Jay S. Harrison, Ford Foun-dation's director McNeil Lowry, American Symphony Orchestra League'sexecutive secretary Helen Thompson, Metropolitan Opera's archivist Mrs.John De Witt Peltz, Lincoln Center Fund's director Mark Schubart and arepresentative of the American Federation of Musiciana. Dr. Grace Spofford,music chairman of the Council introduced the speakers. The meeting washeld at the Carnegie Endowment Building, New York City.

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The AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE has announced its 19th National Con-vention for June 17-20 to be held at the Statler Hilton in Detroit. Thisannual working convention is attended by representatives of symphony or-chestras, affiliated organizations, and representatives from CommunityArts Councils, Inc. Details may be obtained from the American SymphonyOrchestra League, Inc., Symphony Hill, P.O.Box 66, Vienna, Virginia.

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Last but not least, do not miss CENTRAL OPERA SERVICES's own National Con-ference May 1 and 2 at the Park Sheraton Hotel, 56th Street and SeventhAvenue. If you have not sent in your reservation blank we urge you to doso immediately and hope to see all our members at this most stimulatingand important meeting.

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GRANTS, AWARDS AND WINNERS

Another field related to the arts will benefit from FORD FOUNDATION support--the Arts Critic. Among the 11 writers and editors who will receive grantsare two from the music field: Eric Salzman, composer and formerly criticon the New York Times, now critic at the New York Herald Tribune, andPeter B. Yates, Los Angeles free-lance music writer and critic.

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The MUSIC EDUCATORS NATIONAL CONFERENCE has awarded $8,000 each to theAspen Music School in Colorado and the Berkshire Music Center, Mass, forscholarships for music educators. The Aspen seminars on contemporarymusic begin June 22 and last until August 23 under director, Mel Powell.For information and application write to James Cain, executive director,Aspen Music School, 111 W. 57 St., New York. The workshop for musiceducators at Tanglewood, July 27 through August 25 is under the co-direc-torship of Gram Swing and Gunther Schuller. Further information isavailable from Harry J. Kraut, administrator, Berkshire Music Center,Symphony Hall, Boston 15, Mass.

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The Cleveland Institute of Music announces two new voice scholarships.The ELEANOR STEBER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD affords the winner full tuitionprivileges and the WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY FOUNDATION, INC. SCHOLARSHIPoffers a grant of $1,000 for excellence in the performing and creative arts.

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The SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL at Gatlingburg, Tennessee offers scholarshipsto students attending the workshop. For details, see New Summer Festivals,this issue.

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As announced in the February issue, the finals of the METROPOLITAN OPERANATIONAL COUNCIL AUDITIONS were held on March 22, 1964 at the MetropolitanOpera House. The largest audience that has ever attended this event gaveenthusiastic encouragement to the young finalists. Howard J. Hook, Jr.,National Chairman of the Regional Auditions program, spoke briefly of thenew National Council Educational Fund which is available to assist pastauditioners with promising futures who are in financial need. This year,the awards were presented personally by the donors to each winner. Mr.Robert Goodloe (baritone from Iowa) won a Metropolitan Opera contractfor next season and the $2,000 Chambers Scholarship Award, Mary Beth Peil(soprano from New York) won a contract with the new Metropolitan OperaNational Company and the $2,000 Stoughton Award, Katherine Kaufman (sopranofrom Oklahoma) won a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Studio and the$2,000 Weyerhaeuser Scholarship. (Miss Kaufman returns to the Universityof Oklahoma to sing "Lakme" on April 16,17 and 18.) Other Auditions winnerswere Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo-soprano from Montreal) who won the $2,000Fisher Foundation Award and Maria Candida (soprano from Boston) winner ofthe $2,000 Taylor Award. In addition, the New York Community Trust hasincreased its Schoen-Rene Award from $2,500 to $3,000 this year to pre-sent two or more winners in a New York recital. The recipients are: Mary

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Beth Peil, Huguette Tourangeau and Gene Boucher (baritone from New York.)The other contestants heard at the finals were: Alexandra Hunt (sopranofrom New York), John E. Walker (tenor from New York), Joan Patenaude (so-prano from Montreal), Carol Courtman (soprano from New Jersey) and DorisBernstein (soprano from Florida). Auditioners can be contacted by writingto the COS office.

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John L. Magro, president of the AMERICAN OPERA AUDITIONS, 4511 Carew Tower,Cincinnati, Ohio, announced the winners chosen from twenty regional fin-alists: Shirley 2. Love (mezzo-soprano from Michigan), Jeff Morris (tenorfrom Ohio), Sherrill Milnes (baritone from Illinois) and Noel Ja Tyl (bassfrom New York). The four winners will be flown to Italy on August 30 toparticipate in a performance of "The Barber of Seville" at Milan's TeatroNuovo and to sing at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.

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The INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION announced three winners amongthe singers whose European travel the Institute sponsored: in Munich,Veronica Tyler, lyric soprano (Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditionswinner 1962), in Sofia, Nancy Tatum, dramatic soprano and in Geneva,Bruce Able, baritone.

APPOINTMENTS

The FRIENDS OF FRENCH OPERA have announced the appointment of a new presi-dent, Frank Forest, former singer and head of the Empire State Festivaland the Bagby Music Lovers' Foundation. Virgil Thomson is vice-presidentand Robert Lawrence is artistic director.

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Marjorie Gordon, general director of the DETROIT OPERA THEATRE and part-time faculty member at Wayne State University has joined the music facultyof Mercy College, Detroit, on a part-time basis.

WELCOME NEW COS MEMBERS.'

Ferrier, Mrs. S. E. ,Edmonton Prof. Opera Assn.,6404 109 Ave.,Edmonton,AlbertaGreenberg, Mrs. Lawrence (former Elaine Kussack), 458 Woodgate Rd.,Tonawanda,

New YorkGregory, Norman R., 321 Ward Parkway, #110, Kansas City, Mo.Long Island Arts Center, Byron Belt, Art. Dir.,Nassau County Exec.Bldg.,

Mineola, Long Island, N.Y.Messina Opera Co., Joseph Messina,8634 20th Ave., Brooklyn 14, N.Y.New York Opera Library, Inc., Timothy Mulligan, 305 E. 45 St., New York 17Searles, Mrs. Robert L., Route 2, Box 1075, Wayzata, Minn.

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SUMMER FESTIVALS 1964 - USA

In order to have one complete listing of Summer Festivals, we have includedhere organizations whose repertoire has been announced previously as wellas groups which have not yet announced their program.

CALIFORNIAOjai Festival:May 29-31 Ingold Dahl,Dir., Zaide (Mozart), OjaiGreek Theatre, Los AngelesJuly, "Madame Butterfly", second work to be announced: Dorothy KirstenHollywood Bowl Assn., Los Angeles8/13 "Carmen" concert perf.Shirley Verett,Richard Verreau;cond:Martin RichLaguna Beach Festival of Opera, Laguna BeachProgram not available at this timeMusic at the Vineyards Festival, Paul Masson's Mountain Winery, SaratogaJune 20-August 30 San Francisco Opera Co.6/20, 21 "Lo Spezxale" (Haydn)Redlands Bowl Summer Festival, RedlandT/TO Verdi "Requiem"7/24,25 "The Gondoliers"8/21 "Tannhaeuser"

COLORADOAspen Music Festival, Walter Suesskind, Dir., AspenJune 22-August 23 Opera Workshop; Dirs., Dr. E. Nagy and W. Vacano7/31, 8/2,3 "Albert Herring"8/14,15 "Marriage Contract"Central City Opera House Assoc.,Emerson Buckley,Art.pir., Central CityJune 27-July 25 6/27 and 18 more pert. "Madame Butterfly" (Eng. Martins):Beverly Bower, Carlotta Ordassy, Marija Kova, Nancy Williams, Marlena Klein-man, John Craig, Jerry LoMonaco, Calvin Marsh, William Beck, Mauro Lampi,Richard Krause, Arthur Graham, Herbert Beattie, Spiro Malas, Lee Cass7/3 and 14 more perf. "Lady from Colorado" (see New Operas this issue);Mary Ellen Pracht, Mary Jennings, Mignon Dunn, Marcia Baldwin, Davis Cunn-ingham, Thomas Hayward, Chester Ludgin, John Fiorito, Thomas Paul, RaymondMichalski plus some artists from "Butterfly":st.dir:West;desgn:OenslagerjCam-

CONNECTICUT pbellGoo<3speed Opera House, Thomas Scherman, Dir., East HaddamAugust

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIANew York Opera Festival,F.Salmaggi,Dir., Carter Barron Amphitheatre; Wash.August 10-16 "Aida", "Carmen","La Traviata", "Madame Butterfly", "La Boheme",

"Rigoletto:" (not necessarily in this sequence)ILLINOISGrant Park, Chicago (February issue)

INDIANAUniversity, Bloomington (outdoor theatre); Dean Wilfred Bain

7/29 8/1,5,8 "Turandot"MAINECenter Harbor Festival, Center HarborProgram not available at this time

MARYLANDof Maryland, Contemporary Arts Festival, College Park

5/7,8,9 "La Voix Humane" "The Old Maid and the Thief"MASSACHUSETTS

Berkshire Music Festival, Lenox dorfJuly 3-August 29 concert perf. "Buerger als Edelmann"(Strauss)cond:E.Leins/

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MICHIGANMay Festival, Michigan University, Ann ArborApril 20-May 3 "Persephone",Vera Zorina;cond:I.Stravinsky Philadelphia Orch.Meadowbrook Festival, Oakland University, RochesterJuly 23-August 15 Detroit SymphonyInterlochen Arts Festival, National Music Camp,Interlochen, J. Maddy, Dir.June 25 - August 1$August 22-29 Interlochen Arts Festival

MISSOURISt. Louis Summer Festival, St. Louis8/14,15 "La Traviata"8/21,22 "Don Pasquale"8/28,29 "Marriage of Figaro"

NEW MEXICOSanta Fe Opera Co.See February Bulletin

NEW YORKCantata Singers, Thomas Dunn, Dir., Philharmonic Hall7/20 "Combattimento di Tancredi"(Monteverdi)/'Maestro di Cappella"(Cimarosa)

"Retablo de Maese Petro" (d? Falla)7/24 "Re Pastore" (Mozart)Caramoor Festival, Katonah"Catulli Carmina" (Orff); cond: Julius RudelChautauqua Summer Festival, John Daggett Howell, Dir., Chautauqua7/10,13 "Fantasticks "Elizabeth Howell, Moreley Meredith7/17,20 "Trovatore" Maria Ferriero,Joann Grillo,Jean Dies;cond:Henry Janiec7/24,27 "Magic Flute" cond: George Schick7/31, 8/3 "Cavalleria Rusticana" Ferriero, David Bender, Clifford Harvuot

w. "Gianni Schicchi" Val Patacchi, Beverly Christensen, JamesWainner; cond: James Sample iec

8/7,10 "Carmen" Shirley Verrett,Nicholas di Virgilio,Nolan Van Wayjcond:Jan/8/14,17 »«Martha" Ann Elgar,Nancy Williams,John Alexander,Harvuot;cond:Janiec8/21,24 "Sound of Music" Elizabeth Howe11,Moreley Meredith;stage dir.Rose

Landver, John Daggett Howell, William FranciscoHeights Opera Co., George Q'Farrell, Dir.. The Mall, Central Park7/18,25 "Into the Silence" (Wehner), Verdi's RequiemLake George Opera FestivalSee February BulletinLong Island Arts Center, B.Beit,Dir.,Mineola;perf.at C.W.Post College,L.I.7/24,31 "Marriage of Figaro" Curtin, Scovotti, Wolff, Treigle; cond: Rudel8/8,16 "Tosca", Steber, Cassily, Cassel; cond: La MarchinaMetropolitan Opera nforld's Fair SeasonApril 27 - May 10See January BulletinMusic Festival of Long Island, Laszlo Halasz, Dir., Garden City, L.I.July and August at Garden City Hotel - the ballroom will be transformed in-to a fully equipped theatre with a seating capacity of 1,160. The stage, byUnistrut Co. of Maryland, will be pre-fabricated and portable, made up oflengths of square aluminum piping. A closed orchestra pit will be provided.To date, no repertory has been announced.New York State Theater, Lincoln CenterApril 23 - opens with New York Ballet Co.July and August ''The Merry Widow" & "The King and I"When not on tour, the Metropolitan Opera National Company will perform here

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NEVtf YORK cont.Lewisohn StadiumProgram not available at this time .Triboro Stadium, Randall's Island:Salmaggi "Salute to N.Y World's FairJuly 10 - opening w. "Madame ButteTtly:also this summer: "Tosca", "La Boheme", "Rigoletto", "Aida", "La Traviata",

"Carmen", Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci"Turnau Opera, Byrdcliffe Theatre, WoodstockJuly 4-August 30 "Abduction from the Seraglio," "Turk from Italy", "La

Boheme", "Rigoletto", "The Rape of Lucretia","The Medium—Combatti-mento di Tancredi e Clorinda", "The Marriage of Figaro","The Barberof Seville"

OHIOSummer Opera

See February BulletinSOUTH DAKOTA

Mt. Rushmore Opera Festival, Rapid City,See New Festivals, this issue

TENNESSEEOak Ridge Festival, Franklin ChosetT Dir., Oak Ridge6/25,27 "Madame Buttertly" local singers, chorus and Oak Ridge Symphony Orch.Summer Music Festival, GatlingburgSee New Festivals this issue

Besides the many Festivals listed above that concurrently hold workshopsduring the summer months, some of the other noteworthy summer opera coursesinclude the Yale Summer Music Workshop in Norfolk, Conn., Oglebay Institute,Wheeling W.Va., Brevard Music Camp, Brevard, S.C., the Peabody Conservatoryof Music, Baltimore, Md., Hartt College of Music, Hartford, Conn., ManhattanSchool of Music, New York City, Music Academy of the West, Los Angeles,Cal.,Northwestern University (Goldovsky 7/5-31), Chicago, 111., and many more.

SUMMER FESTIVALS 1964 - CANADA

Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, AlbertaHFalstar±" and "II Tabarro" in Eng. pert, in Banff and five surrounding

centers, cond: James Craig, Dir. Andrew McMillanJune 22-September 12 Summer school and workshop, Dr. Ernesto Vinci, Dir.Stratford Festival, Stratford, OntarioJuly 3-August 22 "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Yeomen of the Guard"Vancouver International Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia7/4,6 "The Damnation o± Faust" (Berlioz; in concert version,Charles Munch,Dir.

w. Richard Verreau

SUMMER FESTIVALS 1964 - EUROPE

AUSTRIAGraz: June 10-July 11 Die Liebe der Danae, Rigoletto, Elektra, Ariadne auf

Naxos, Otello, Rosenkavalier, Forza del Destino, Salome, Aida,FidelioBregenz: July 25-August 21 Das Land des Laechelns, CenerentolaSalzburg: July 26-August 31 Ariadne auf Naxos, Zauberfloete, Lucio Sil la,

Marriage of Figaro, Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Macbeth

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AUSTRIA cont.—Vienna: Festwochen, May 24-June 20 Daphne, Dantons Tod, Parsifal, Jenufa,

Ballo in Maschera, Tannkaeuser, Cavalleria-Pagliacci, FliegenderHollaender, Boheme, Verkaufte Braut, Cardillac, Fidelio, Otello,Capriccio, Rigoletto, Trovatore, Madama Butterfly, Marriage ofFigaro, Tosca, Frau ohne Schatten, Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Tristanund Isolde, Don Giovanni, Turandot, Arabella, Feuersnot

CZECHOSLOVAKIAPrague: May 12-June 4

DENMARKCopenhagen: Music Festival, May 14-31 Tannhaeuser, Saul and David, Fidelio,

Hansel and Gretel, The Little Vixen, II TabarroENGLAND

Aideburgh: June 11-20 English Eccentrics, Crossing the River, Orfeo edEuridice

Bath: June 4-14 Martin's LieGlyndebourne: May 21-August 16 Macbeth, Incoronazione di Poppea, Pietra

del Paragone, Capriccio, Zauberfloete, IdomeneoFRANCEBordeaux: May 22-June 7 Zoroastre (other operas not announced)Aix-en-Provence: July 10-July 28 Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro, Falstaff,

Incoronazione di PoppeaGERMANY

Bayreuth: July 18-August 21 Tristan und Isolde, Tannhaeuser, Meistersinger,Parsifal, Ring der Nibelungen

Berlin: Berliner Festwochen September 13-October 4Duesseldorf: June 7-15 Elektra, L'Heure Espagnol, Prinz von Horaburg, Rosen-

kavalier, M. de Pourceaugnac, WozzeckDuisburg: June 8-14 Rosenkavalier, Schweigsame Frau, Wozzeck, Capriccio,

SalomeMunich: July 17-August 12 Lohengrin, Capriccio, Ariadne auf Naxos, Julius

Caesar, Marriage of Figaro, Paris and Helen, Rosenkavalier, Meister-singer, Cosi Fan Tutte, Frau ohne Schatten, Zauberfloete, Daphne,Intermezzo, Elektra, Verlobung in San Domingo, Aegyptische Helena,Arabella

Hamburg: June 16-24 Festival of Contemporary OperaSchwetzingen: May 18-June 15 Paris and Helen, The Fairy QueenWiesbaden: May 1-31 Die Frau ohne Schatten, The Haunted Castle, Oedipus Rex,

Rosenkavalier, Salome, LfIncoronazione di Poppea, Don Giovanni,Elektra, Venus and Adonis, The Crucible

GREECEAthens: July 15-September 20

HOLLANDAmsterdam: June 15-July 15 Jean Levecq, Serment, Iphigenie en Tauride,Nabucco,

Boris Godunov, Katerina Ismailova, Crossing the RiverIRELAND ChenierDublin: May 18-June 13 Turandot, Boheme, Traviata, Nabucco, Otello, Andrea /

ITALYFlorence: Maggio Musicale, May-June Doktor Faustus, Wozzeck, The Nose,

Glueckliche Hand, Pantea and Salome, Matka, Erwartung, Volo di NotteNaples:Arena Flegrea July -AugustRome: Baths of Caracalla July - AugustSpoleto: Festival of Two Worlds June 19-July 19 Rosenkavalier, Rape of Lu-

cretia, L'Enfant et les sortilegesVerona: AreaaJuly 23 - August 16 Mefistofele, Boheme, Cavalleria

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NORWAYBergen: May 28-31 Don Giovanni, Tannhaeuser

PORTUGALLisbon: May 16-June 9

SCOTLAND—Edinburgh: August 17-September 5 Dalibor, Resurrection, Rusalka, Katya

Kabanova, House of the DeadGlasgow-Edinburgh:May-June Faust, Otello, Don Giovanni

SWITZERLANDLausanne: May 14-June 13 Botte Rouge, Marriage of Figaro, CarmenLucerne: August 15-September 6Zurich: May 30-June 30 Salome, Aida, Intermezzo, Otello, Tosca, Schweigsame

Frau, Elektra, Rigoletto, RosenkavalierSWEDENStockholm: May 26-June 12 Aida, Dream of Therese, Makropoulos Case, Wozzeck,

Ballo in Maschera, Rosenkavalier, La Belle Helene, Katerian Ismailova,Iphigenie en Aulide, Cosi Fan Tutte, Signor Bruschino, Marriage ofFigaro

SPAINGranada: June 23-July 6 Orfeo ed EuridiceSantander: August 30,31

YUGOSLAVIADubrovnik: July 10-August 24 Falstaff, Incoronazione di PoppeaOpatija: July 6-August 17 Prince Igor,Tosca,Otello,Aida,Carmen,TrovatoreSplit: July 15-August 15

INDEX

Subjec t PageNEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES 1NEW SUMMER FESTIVALS 2NEW COMPANIES 3CONFERENCES 3GRANTS, AWARDS AND WINNERS 4APPOINTMENTS 5NEW MEMBERS 5SUMMER FESTIVALS -- USA 6SUMMER FESTIVALS — CANADA 8SUMMER FESTIVALS -- EUROPE 8

AppendixSURVEY OF OPERA WORKSHOPS IN USA ISURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY OPERA AT US OPERA WORKSHOPS. . I IWORLD AND AMERICAN PREMIERES AT OPERA WORKSHOPS. . . . I l lAMERICAN CONTEMPORARY OPERAS PERF. AT OPERA WORKSHOPS IVFOREIGN COMTEMPORARY OPERAS PERF. AT OPERA WORKSHOPS .VRARELY PERFORMED OPERAS PERF. AT OPERA WORKSHOPS . . .V

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SURVEY OF OPERA WORKSHOPS IN THE U . S . A .( A p r i l 1 9 6 4 )

Figures in this survey are based on the complete 1962-63 seasonand on about 757o of the 1963-64 season.

336 Total Workshops at: colleges, universities and conservatories(high school and church groups not included)

See also the new COS list of Opera Producing Companies and Workshops

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24 Workshops have annual productions of 3-6 full evenings of opera(not counting repeat performances in this breakdown)

44 Workshops have annual productions of 2 full evenings of opera

89 Workshops have annual productions of 1 full evening of opera

98 Workshops produce 1 short opera (usually contemporary American:(Amahl, Medium, Telephone, Down in the Valley, etc.)

81 Workshops produce opera, but not regularly each year

336 Total

1964 LIST OF OPERA PRODUCING COMPANIES AND WORKSHOPS IN THE UNTED STATESAND CANADA

Central Opera Service is delighted to announce the completion of this listarranged by States. The list includes all professional and amateur groupsproducing opera in staged or concert form, and all opera workshops. Thelist does not include high schools or church groups.

This list, which will be given out at the National Conference of the COS,is available upon request to all group and institutional members withoutcharge. A fee of $1.00 will be charged to all others requesting the list.

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SURVEY ON CONTEMPORARY OPERA AT U, S. OPERA WORKSHOPS

(April 1964)

For 1962-63 and 1963-64 season (1963-64 yet incomplete)

20 Contemporary American Operas presented in World Premieres

4 Contemporary Operas (by other than American composers) in

American Premieres

64 Contemporary American Operas presented in one or more performances

34 Contemporary Operas (by other than American composers) presentedin one or more performances

122 Contemporary Operas presented at United States Workshops duringthe above period

57 Operas from the Standard Operatic Repertory

41 Operas rarely performed in the United States (NOT contemporary)

228 Different Operas Performed at Opera Workshops during the above period

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473 American Contemporary Operas that have been performed over thelast 30 years are listed with Central Opera Service(361 short, 112 full length works), composed by257 composers

184 Operas in this list had their World Premiere at College Workshops

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WORLD PREMIERES OF AMERICAN CONTEMPORY OPERASAT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OPERA WORKSHOPS

(Dur ing t h e l a s t two s e a s o n s )

COMPOSERJtfxlstrom, DavidBarab, SeymourBurge , DavidD a v i s , Carl

Floyd, Carlisle

Giannini, Yittorio

Grant-Still, WilliamGrant-Still, WilliamHeiden, BernardKagen, SergiusLenel, LudwigLockwood, NormandLockwood, NormandMayer, WilliamMiller, MichaelPurdySiegmeister, ElieShore, WilliamTaff, AnthonyWhite, John

OPERAThe Three SistersThe Ransom of Red ChiefIntervalsPubcrawl

The Sojourner and MollieSinclair

Rehearsal Call

The Peaceful LandHighway No. 1, U.S.A.The Darkened CityHamletYoung Goodman BrownThe Wizard of BalizarHanging JudgeOne Christmas,Long AgoA Sunny MorningThe Marriage ProposalDublin SongWharf's EdgeNoahThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow

WORKSHOPNorthwestern U.;I11.Rutgers U.; N.J.Northwestern U.; 111.Yale School of Musicsummer school; Conn.

East Carolina College;N.C.

Juilliard School of Music;N. Y.

U. of Miami; Fla.U. of Miami; Fla.U. of Indiana; Ind.Peabody Conservatory; Md.Muhlenberg College; Pa.Denver U.; Colo.Denver U.; Colo.Ball St. Teachers Col.;Ind.New York Univ.; N.Y.Monterey Penin.Coll.;CalWashington U.; Mo.Barnard Coll.; N.Y.Albion Coll.; Mich.Kent State U., Ohio

AMERICAN PREMIERES OF OPERAS AT UNIVERSITYAND COLLEGE WORKSHOPS (same period)

Bizet, GeorgesBlacher, BorisHaydn, JosephHaydn, JosephHindemith, Paul

Ramous, GianniStrauss, Richard

Docteur MiracleAbstrakte Oper No. 1Das Ausgebrannte HausL'Infedelta DelusaThe Long Christmas Dinner

Orfeo,Anno Domini 1947Die Liebe der Danae

Yale School of Music;Conn.U. of Illinois; 111.Yale Summer School of MusicState U.of Iowa; IowaJuilliard School of Music;New York

U. of Illinois; 111.U.of So. Cal.; Cal.

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IVAMERICAN CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS WHOSE WORKS WERE PERFORMED ATUNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE WORKSHOPS DURING THE 1962-63-64 SEASONS

Bacon, Ernst: A Tree on the Plains (1)Barab, Seymour: Pink Siamese (1); Little Red Riding Hood (1); Game of Chance(8)Barber, Samuel: Hand of Bridge (7)Beeson, Jack: Hello, Out There (1)Bernstein, Leonard: Trouble in Tahiti (14)Blitzstein, Marc: Regina (1)Chanler, Theodore: Pot of Fat (1)Copland, Aaron: Second Hurricane (1); The Tender Land (1)Dougherty, Celius: Many Moons (1)Duke, John: Yankee Pedlar (1)Elkus, Jonathan: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (2)Ellstein, Abraham: The Thief and the Hangman (1)Engel, Lehman: Malady of Love (1)Floyd, Carlisle: Slow Dusk (5); Susannah (7)Foss, Lucas: Introductions and Goodbyes (2); The Jumping Frog of Calavaras

County (1); Griffelkin (1)Giannini, Vittorio: The Taming of the Shrew (1); The Beauty and the Beast(l)Hoiby, Lee: The Scarf (2)Hunkins, Eusebia: Smoky Mountain (3)Johnson, Lockrem: Letter to Emily (1)Kalmanoff, Martin: Opera, Opera (3)Kaufmann, Walter: Scarlet Letter (1)Kechley, Gerald: The Golden Lion (1)Kupferman, Meyer: In a Garden (2)Kleinsinger, George: archie and mehitabel (3)March, Robert: Prasopa (1)Menotti, Gian Carlo: The Unicorn, Gorgon and the Manticore (2); Amelia Goes

to the Ball (1); Amahl and the Night Visitors (73); The Consul(7);The Medium (35); The Telephone (28); Saint of Bleeker Street (2);Old Maid and the Thief (12)

Meyerowitz, Jan: The Meeting (1); Godfather Death (1)Moore, Douglas: Puss in Boots (1); Headless Horseman (1); The Devil and Daniel

Webster (5); The Emperor's New Clothes (2); Gallantry (9); TheBallad of Baby Doe (3)

McKee, Jeanellen: Collectors Piece (1)Rogers, Bernard: The Warrior (1)Schuman, William: Mighty Casey (1)Siegmeister, Elie: The Mermaid in Lock Number Seven (1)Smith, Russell: The Unicorn in the Garden (1)Stravinsky, Igor: The Rake's Progress (1)Tcherepnin, Alexander: The Farmer and the Fairy (1)Thompson, Virgil: The Mother of Us All (1)Van Grove, Isaac: Other Wise Men (1)Ward, Robert: The Crucible (9)Weill, Kurt: Down in the Valley (38)Weisgall, Hugo : Four Saints in Three Acts (1)Wilder, Alec: Kittiwake Island (4); Lowland Sea (11); Sunday Excursions (11)Kurka, Robert: Good Soldier Schweik (1)

NOTE: Included in the above list are works by foreign born composers composedafter they had settled in the United States.

The figures in parenthesis indicate the NUMBER OF WORKSHOPS which produced theopera, NOT the total number of performances.

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OPERAS BY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS, OTHER THAN AMERICAN,PERFORMED AT OPERA WORKSHOPS DURING THE 1962-63-64 SEASON

Benjamin, Arthur: The Prima Donna (1)Britten, Benjamin: Albert Herring (5);Let's Make an Opera(3);Midsummer Night's

Dream(l);The Rape of Lucretia(3) ;Peter Grimes(2);Noyefs Fludde(12) ;TheTurn of the Screw(l);

Dallapiccola, Luig^jj IXi Agji nejfi IDde Falla, Manuel: j MgLSgetf Pfcjbff '^Puppet Show (1)Hindemith, Paul: F jji!jwglj ortieck {^rr^ee also American PremieresHoist, Gustav: Savitri (1)Honegger, Arthur: Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher (3)Janacek, Leos: Katya Kabanova (1)Lieberman, Rolf: School for tfives (1)Martinu, Bohuslav: What Men Live By(2);Comedy on the Bridge(3);The Marriage(2)Milhaud, Darius: Trois Operas-Mmutes(l);Medee(l);Pauvre Matelot(2)Petit, Pierre: Le Jeu d'Amour et de Hasard (1)Poulenc,. Francis: Le Dialogue des Carmelites (2)Strauss, Richard: Arabella (1); Ariadne auf Naxos (1)Stravinksy, Igor: Mavra(l);Rossignol(l);Oedipus Rex(2);Persephone(l);L'Histoire

du Soldat (7)Toch, Ernst: Prinzessin auf der Erbse (2)von Einemt Gottfried: The Trial (1)Vaughan Williams,Ralph .-Riders to the Sea(4) ;Shepherds of the Delectable Mts(l)

RARELY PERFORMED OPERAS PRODUCED BY OPERAWORKSHOPS DURING THE 1962-63-64 SEASONS

Gluck:Gluck:Haydn;Haydn

Bizet: Les Pecheurs de Perles (2)Cimarosa: The Music Master (2)Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande (2)Debussy: L'Enfant prodigue (3)Delibes: Lakme (2)Donizetti: Rita (4)Dvorak: Rusalka (1)Galuppi: II Filosofo di Campagna (1)Gounod: Mireilie (1)Gluck: Der Betrogene Kadi (1)

Iphigenie en Tauride (2)Orfeo ed Euridice (3)II Mondo della luna (1)Lo Speziale (l);La Canterina (1)

Lortzing: Zar und Zimmermann (1)Lortzing: Der Wildschuetz (1)Massenet: Werther (3)Moussorgsky: Boris Godunov (3)Moussorgsky: The Fair at Sorochinsk (1)Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne (4)Mozart: Idomeneo (1)Monteverdi:II Combattimento di Tancredi

e Corinda (2)Offenbach: Le Mariage aux Lanternes(3)Offenbach: Monsieur Choufleuri (4)Offenbach: Pepito (1)Paisiello: The Barber of Seville (4)Pergolesi: Livietta e Tracallo (1)

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Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges (1)Rimsky-Korsakov: Kaschchei,the Infer-

nal (1)Rossini: II Turco in Italia (2)Salieri: Arlechino (2)Schenk: Der Dorfbauer (1)Verdi: Luisa Miller (1)Weber: Der Freischuetz (1)Weber: Abu Hassan (2)Wolf-Ferrari:Quattro Rusteghi (1)Schubert: Zwillingsbrueder (1)

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