CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINVOLUME 18, NUMBER 4

INDEXNEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

MORE BICENTENNIAL OPERAS

POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS

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NEW COMPANIES

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KURT HERBERT ADLERSan Francisco OperaPETER HERMAN ADLERAmerican Opera CenterVICTOR ALESSANDROSan Antonio SymphonyROBERT G. ANDERSONTulsa OperaWILFRED C. BAINIndiana UniversityGRANT BEGLARIANUniversity of So. CaliforniaMORITZ BOMHARDKentucky Opera AssociationSARAH CALDWELLOpera Company of BostonTITO CAPOBIANCOSan Diego OperaROBERT J. COLLINGEBaltimore Opera CompanyJOHN CROSBYSanta Fe OperaWALTER DUCLOUXUniversity of TexasPETER PAUL FUCHSLouisiana State UniversityROBERT GAYNorthwestern University

DAVID GOCKLEYHouston Grand OperaBORIS GOLDOVSKYGoldovsky Opera TheatreRICHARD KARPPittsburgh OperaJOHN M. LUDWIGSpring Opera, San FranciscoGLADYS MATHEWCommunity OperaRUSSELL D. PATTERSONKansas City Lyric TheaterMRS. JOHN DEWITT PELTZMetropolitan OperaJAN POPPERUniversity of California, L. A.GLYNN ROSSSeattle Opera AssociationJULIUS RUDELNew York City OperaGEORGE SCHICKManhattan School of MusicMARK SCHUBARTLincoln CenterROGER L. STEVENSJohn F. Kennedy CenterLEONARD TREASHEastman School of MusicGIDEON WALDROPThe Juilliard School

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NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERESMORE AMERICAN BICENTENNIAL OPERAS

The New York City Opera has scheduled the premiere of the previously announcedHENDERSON, THE RAIN KING after Saul Bellow's book, for April 10, 1977.The opera will carry the title LILY. Leon Kirchner is the composer and this repre-sents his first operatic venture. He will conduct the first performance and TomO'Horgan, of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar fame, will be the stage director.This will be the second time within two years that the City Opera is engagingBroadway theatre talent to stage opera — Harold Prince directed Tal's Ashmedai.

In February San Francisco's Spring Opera Theater offered MEETING MR. IVESin celebration not only of the American Bicentennial, but also of the composer's100th anniversary. The book and text are by Brendan Gill, a writer for the NewYorker, the musical arrangement by Richard Dufallo. The work was first heardlast summer at the Lenox Arts Center in Massachusetts; the California per-formances represent the first ones by an opera company.

Following are the premiere dates for two previously announced new works. Theone is Richard Owen's MARY DYER, originally scheduled for a performance inMassachusetts in 1974 (see Spring '74 Blltn.). The true story of a Quaker womanhanged as a witch in 1660 was re-enacted on June 12, 1976 at Rockland CommunityCollege at Suffern, New York, with Lynn Owen, the composer's wife, in the titlerole. — Thomas Pasatieri's WASHINGTON SQUARE (see Fall '75 Blltn.) willenjoy its premiere by the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit on October 1. Com-missioned by the company with a grant from the Michigan State Arts Council, itis scored for chamber orchestra and will feature Catherine Malfitano and BrentEllis in leading roles.

June 1st and 17th marked the dates of first performances of two new operas byGian Carlo Menotti. The first, THE HERO, was performed by the Opera Com-pany of Philadelphia and is a satire on today's social values. The premierefeatured Nancy Shade, Diane Curry and Dominic Cossa; the conductor wasChristopher Keene. The second work, THE EGG, is a church opera. It waspremiered at the Washington Cathedral on June 17 together with Menotti'sMartin's Lie, the latter in an American first performance. Its only previous pro-duction was in Bath, England, in 1964, where it was presented in the CanterburyCathedral.

Hugh Aitkin's FABLES, based on Aesop in the de la Fontaine version, was givenits first production at the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, New York, on June 25,1976. — A benefit evening for Dorothy Maynor's Harlem School of the Artspresented the premiere of J. Willard Roosevelt's one-act opera AND THE WALLSCAME TUMBLING DOWN. The concert took place in New York's Tully Hallon March 16, and also featured two dance pieces. The librettist is Loften Mitchell,the composer is a grandson of Theodore Roosevelt.

The Waldo Workshop Opera in Arlington, Virginia, commissioned the music-drama LIGHT HORSE HARRY LEE from composer Marvin Fewell. Co-sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and the Arlington BicentennialCommission, the premiere took place on June 18.Joyce Barthelson (Chanticleer, The King's Breakfast) has written both words andmusic for her first full-length opera. Based on the George Bernard Shaw story,THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE is set in New England during the Revolutionary War.Musical material is available from Carl Fischer, Inc.

PASSION, POISON, AND PETRIFICATION, by Bruce J. Taub, was performedduring an evening of the Composer's Ensemble at Carnegie Recital Hall on April1, 1976. It is another G. B. Shaw original in an operatic adaptation.In February, Joseph Papp and his Shakespeare Festival Theatre presented APPLEPIE, a New Musical Theatre Piece, with music by Nicholas Meyers and a librettoby Myrna Lamb. This surrealistic 90-minute operetta consists of some thirtymusical numbers dealing with various forms of prejudice.This Summer, the Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony in Eureka Springs, Ar-kansas, offered another new opera by its director, Isaac van Grove. It is entitledTHE PRODIGAL — HIS WANDERING YEARS and the premiere took placein July. — Gerald Muller, Chairman of the Music Department at MontgomeryCollege in Rockville, Maryland, wrote JOSHUA which was performed in Washing-ton, D.C., (Lisner Auditorium) on July 8. Set in the War of 1812, its centralcharacter is Joshua Thomas, a preacher who lived in Chesapeake. Preview per-formances were held April 4-8 at the College. — THE DOLLMAKER, "AnAmerican Folk Opera" by Carol Schoenhard, was presented by the opera work-shop at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Delaware, in January 1976.

THE WISH MACHINE is a science-fiction story playing in the 21st century.Music is by Wilhelm Wodnansky, the libretto by M. Trace Johnson who may becontacted by prospective performing groups (15240 East Valley Blvd., City ofIndustry, California 91746). The two-hour opera is scored for chamber orchestraand six soloists with a baritone in the leading role.Carlisle Floyd has been commissioned by the Kennedy Center in Washington,D.C., to write an opera based on Robert Penn Warren's bestseller ALL THE KING'SMEN. The composer will write his own libretto after the political novel. —Another famous book, James Agee's A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, All the WayHome, is being transformed into an opera. William Mayer (Brief Candle, HelloWorld, One Christmas Long Ago) has received an NEA grant for the completion ofthe work, which is projected for Spring '77.

The Summer Opera Workshop in Pittsburgh, directed by Richard Flusser, ispresenting the "Red, White and Blue Festival". The premiere of a new Americanopera by Bruce Saylor, MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEAUX, is scheduledfor August 28. — The University of Tennessee in Martin also presented a newopera. G. Carp's THE TENNESSEE WITCH was premiered on May 21. —Another operatic version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, this one with musicby Chaul, could be heard in a first performance on January 16 at the Los AngelesValley College in Van Nuys.

Other world premieres on the West Coast included THE WALTZ KING by PaulReale at UCLA on May 8 and John DeMerchant's THIN RAIN at CentralWashington State College in Ellensburg on March 3. — The Fete at Coqueville,commissioned and premiered by the Fresno Opera as mentioned in the Fall '75Bulletin, is by composer Alan Rea — not John; the libretto by Betty Iacovetti.On March 26, the New England Chamber Opera gave the premiere of PaulEarl's THE DEATH OF KING PHILIP. The one-act opera was presented on adouble-bill with Selig's Chocorua, first heard in Tanglewood in 1972. Both operaswere performed at the All Saints Episcopal Church with lighting and projectionssupervised by the Yale Drama School. — The Midland Repertory Players inAlton, Illinois, participated in the round of new American operas by presentingthe first performance of Rigoni's THE RED DEATH on July 16.

Besides the aforementioned Lily by Kirchner and Washington Square by Pasatieri,the 1976-77 season will see the following remaining new American BicentennialFestival operas: Imbrie's ANGLE OF REPOSE in San Francisco (November 6),Kay's JUBILEE in Jackson, Miss., (November 20), Siegmeister's NIGHT OFTHE MOONSPELL in Shreveport (November 14), Elaine Lebenbom's THEFEARSOME INN in Detroit (Piccolo Opera, Spring '77), and a children's opera,THE TOWN MUSICIANS OF BREMEN, composed by C. Zytowsky with theassistance of music by Franz Schubert, in Santa Barbara (November '76).

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Raynor Taylor's Buxom Joan (see Fall '74 Blltn.), another dozen of 18th, 19thand early 20th century operas are being revived, often only in their second hearing(see also Fall 75 Blltn.). Andrew Barton's THE DISAPPOINTED or THEFORCE OF CREDULITY is the first known American opera. It was publishedin 1767, but the premiere had to be cancelled since it was considered a "danger-ously caustic political satire". Only an abridged version was offered in 1796. Thus,the Eastman School of Music performance on August 28 at Washington CrossingState Park, co-sponsored by the State Bicentennial Commission, will constitute theworld premiere of the original. Jerald Graue, musicologist at the University ofRochester, is responsible for the reconstruction of the work which includes 22ballads and is scored for 13 instruments. It includes the first publication of "YankeeDoodle". An October 29 performance is scheduled at the Library of Congress inWashington.

An opera on an American Indian subject premiered in Oregon in 1926 and lastheard in Minneapolis two years later, was revived on July 13 at SUNY in NewPaltz, N.Y. The Sullivan County Council for the Arts and the Mid-Hudson Operaco-sponsored the performance of Alberto Bimboni's WIN ON A, which has alibretto by Perry Williams. The composer, who died in New York in 1960, wasdirector of the Chautauqua Festival for 20 years, and also taught at Juilliard. Hisdaughter, named Winona after the leading character in the opera, lives inMonticello, New York, where she has been teaching ballet for many years. It wasthrough her efforts that the two performances, one at New Paltz and one thefollowing day at the Mohonk Mountain House, took place.

John Philip Sousa's contribution to opera was not only El Capitan, heard innumerous productions this season, but also his 1898 THE BRIDE ELECT whichwas revived by the Manhattan School of Music in New York. — The School'sPrep Division offered the second American production of Albert Wolff's THEBLUE BIRD, premiered at the Met in 1919 featuring Florence Easton.

Howard Hanson's Merry Mount was erroneously mentioned in the last Bulletinas "to be performed in San Antonio"; these performances took place in 1964.Oklahoma City University and Eastman School's Opera Under the Stars werethe organizations producing the work this season. — Revivals of American operettasby opera companies or workshops also turned up some rarely heard entertainmentssuch as Victor Herbert's Babette, Sigmund Romberg's New Moon, Jerome Kern'sShowboat, and, the winner of them all, Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess.

Postponements and CancellationsNot all operas originally planned for 1976 came to fruition. Some were onlypostponed, others had to be cancelled. Among the casualties are Leonard Kastle'sThe Pariahs (planned by Seattle), Iain Hamilton's Royal Hunt of the Sun (post-poned by Santa Fe but meanwhile to be premiered by the English National Operain London on February 2, 1977), Krzysztof Penderecki's Paradise Lost (postponedby Chicago until Fall 1977 with the company retaining the rights for the worldpremiere and later performances contracted by Graz, Austria, and La Scala). —The Hawaii Opera Theatre and Lake George Opera Festival settled for revivalsrather than new works with the former presenting Girl from the Golden West, thelatter Summer and Smoke and Porgy and Bess.

American PremieresLA GRISELDA, the last of Alessandro Scarlatti's operas, had its first Americanhearing on May 7 at the University of California in Berkeley. The work, originallyperformed in Rome in 1721, was presented on a double-bill with La Servapadrona; Carole Bogard sang the title role. — The other Scarlatti premiere thisseason — also in California at UCLA on October 31 — represents the composer'sfirst work of that genre. The performance of GLI EQUIVOCI NEL SEMBIANTEwas scheduled to coincide with the annual meeting of the American MusicologicalSociety. The score will be published by Harvard University Press within theScarlatti Series, edited by Donald Jay Grout.

The Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera gave the American stagepremiere of Donizetti's L'AJO NELL'IMBARAZZO in Saratoga at the MassonWinery on August 14. Originally performed in 1824 in Rome, the work enjoyedrecent revivals at the Wexford Festival and in Bern, Switzerland. Excerpts werestaged at the New England Conservatory in Boston in 1971.SLAVES OF LOVE is the English title under which Paisiello's Le Gare generosior Gli schiavi per amore was performed on April 8 at the University of Virginiain Charlotteville. The English translation is by Maria Evans.The New York Grand Opera, under the direction of Vincent La Selva, gaveAmerican premieres of two Verdi operas this Spring. STIFFELIO was heard onJune 4 and GIOVANNA D'ARCO in its first American staging on May 15. Thelatter had been heard in New York in a concert version programmed by theAmerican Opera Society ten years ago.The Massenet and Puccini versions of Prevost's Manon are well known. Lessfamiliar is the one composed by Daniel Francois Auber. First heard in Paris in1856, the Bel Canto Opera in New York has scheduled an American premiere ofthis MANON LESCAUT for March 26, 1977. — Massenet's rarely heardPortrait de Manon was performed at the Newport Summer Festival this year.The Nevada Opera Company in Reno gave the first American performance ofTchaikosvky's JOAN OF ARC or MAID OF ORLEANS on May 13. It wasperformed in an English translation by the company's director, Ted Puffer. Twoyears earlier, the same group gave the American premiere of Busoni's Doktor Faust.Respighi's version of SLEEPING BEAUTY — the original title is La Bellaaddormentata nel bosco — was first performed with marionettes on stage andsingers off stage. The fairy tale will be presented in a fully staged production bythe Wilmington Opera Society in Delaware in its American premiere on February11,1977.Among contemporary operas, we have seen the first American performance ofJosef Tal's ASHMEDAI, premiered in Hamburg in 1971. The New York CityOpera presented it in an English translation by Alan Marbe, staged by Broadwayproducer Harold Prince, on April 1.Louise Talma had to wait fourteen years until her opera THE ALCESTIAD washeard in her home country. Excerpts performed at Yale University in Marchrepresented the first production in English. The world premiere took place inFrankfurt, Germany, in 1962, when it was sung in a German translation of theoriginal Thornton Wilder text.Swedish composer Eberhard Eyser's THE LAST VOYAGE (Sista Resan) will beoffered in its American premiere by the University of the Pacific Opera Theatrein Stockton, California, this Fall.The American premiere of Goffredo Petrassi's IL CORDOVANO (The Man fromCordova) made up the double bill at the Juilliard School on April 22, whenWeisgall's Hundred Nights was performed. Brian Trowell was the translator ofthe Italian opera.

Foreign PremieresThe Aldeburgh Festival offered the British premiere of Benjamin Britten's PA ULBUNYAN. A previous performance took place at Columbia University in NewYork in 1941. The one-act opera has a text by W. H. Auden. On June 16, Britten'slatest work (Opus 91), PHAEDRA, received its first hearing. Scored for sopranoand orchestra — it was written for Janet Baker — its text is by Robert Lowell,who translated extracts from Racine's play. — As mentioned above, the EnglishNational Opera will give the premiere of Iain Hamilton's ROYAL HUNT OFTHE SUN on February 2, 1977, in a co-production with the Santa Fe Opera,designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian. — On June 15, the Scottish Opera gave thefirst performance of Thomas Wilson's CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIEDSINNER. The performance in York was conducted by Norman del Mar, directedby Anthony Besch.The Toronto Opera Repertoire Company premiered TRELAWNY, a three-actopera by Spanish composer Jose Hernandez on February 14. The title role repre-sents Edward Trelawny, a friend of poets Shelley and Byron, who both appear inthe opera,

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The Deutsche Oper, Berlin, presented KINKAKUJI or DER TEMPELBRANDby Japanese composer Toshiro Mayuzumi on June 23. The German libretto is byClaus Henneberg. The premiere was conducted by Caspar Richter, directed byGustav Sellner and designed by Hubert Aratym. — The same company will givethe first German performance of Henze's W1R ERREICHEN DEN FLUSS onSeptember 19, to be conducted by Christopher Keene. It was first heard at CoventGarden on July 12 under the title We Come to the River. — Karlheinz Fuessel'ssecond opera, CELESTINA, had its premiere on March 27, 1976 in Karlsruhe,Germany, at the same opera house where his first work, The Dybbuk, was per-formed in 1970.

Two opera studios of bajor German companies gave premiere opportunities tonew experimental works: Karl Heinz Wahren's FETTKLOESSCHEN, afterMaupassant's Boule de suif with libretto by Claus Henneberg, on April 24, 1976at the Academy of the Arts by the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin; theconductor was Caspar Richter, director Winfried Bauernfeind and the castfeatured American soprano Lou Ann Wykoff. The same group performed MauricioKagel's MARE NOSTRUM at Berlin's Musikakademie on September 15, 1975.The 90-minute avant-garde piece places two singers and six instrumentalists arounda pool shaped like the Mediterranean. — The Opernstudio of the Kiel OperaHouse premiered two one-act music theatre pieces on December 30, 1975.Terzakis' ZIRKVS UNIVERSAL and Griinauer's KOPFJAGD. — The Studioof the Opera de Marseille performed Claude Prey's YOUNG LIBERTAD onJanuary 16 for the first time. — The Stockholm Opera's studio offered Danishcomposer Per Norgard's GILGAMESH on February 28 at the arena stage of theMuseum of Technical Science; the conductor was Af Malmborg.

O'Neill's Emperor Jones was adapted by Sandro Fuga into the opera L'lMPE-RATORE JONES performed in Turin, Italy, on April 2 for the first time. It wasscheduled on a double-bill with Weill's Sieben Todsiinden, conducted by FernandoPrevitali.Bellini's fourth opera, ZAIRA, had never been performed until last March whenit was presented at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania on March 30. Onlyexcerpts were heard in Parma in 1829, after which the composer revised andcompleted the opera for a planned Paris premiere, which never came to fruition.The present performances were based on material compiled by Maestro RubinoProfeta and featured Renata Scotto and Renato Bruson.The Academie des Beaux-Arts bestowed its 1975 Georges Bizet prize on PierreAncelin for his opera JOURNAL D'UN FOU, premiered in Metz in 1975. —American composer Philip Glass wrote the music to the latest of Robert Wilson'smammoth mixed-media theatre pieces. Entitled EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH,the five-hour show with continuous music was premiered in Avignon in July.Four new Czech operas are LADY OF THE DAWN by Bartolomej Urbanec witha libretto by Julius Gyermek in collaboration with the composer, adapted fromCasona's La Dama d'Alba. The first performance took place in Bratislava onFebruary 2. •— Karel Horky's DAWN after the novel New Warriors Will Arisewas premiered in Brno on July 4, 1975. — January 31, 1976 was the premieredate of Vaclav Felix' TIMID CASANOVA, a one-act opera performed in Ostravaon a triple-bill with Martinu's Alexander bis and Pauer's Swan Song. — JosefGresak's TOWARDS UPRISING is scheduled for a first performance in Kosiceduring the 1976-77 season.

THE RIGHT FOR LOVE is Rumanian composer Teodor Bratu's second opera.It was premiered last year; his first opera, Le Chene de Borzesti, in 1969. —Ferenc Szabo, Hungarian composer and pupil of Kodaly, wrote BE GOODUNTIL YOU'RE DEAD. It was premiered posthumously last season in Budapest.The composer died in 1969.

Japan's Niki-Kai Opera Company gave the first performance of Ikuma Dan'sCHANCHIKI on October 13, 1975. It is based on an old Japanese folk tale.

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NEW COMPANIESSt. Louis is a city with much operatic history, but little of recent vintage. ThisSpring a new OPERA THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS was founded and the first seasonoffered four operas — two on a double-bill — played in repertory over a three-week period (see Performance Listing). Thirty-three year old Richard Gaddesfrom England, who is also artistic administrator in Santa Fe, is the company'sgeneral manager; William Martin is business manager and COS's own nationalchairman, Elihu M. Hyndman, is secretary/treasurer. Performances took place atthe Loretto-Hilton Theatre at Webster College, and some of the technical personnelof the theatre is retained by the opera company. Since the hall is primarily usedfor theatre performances, the original orchestra pit is presently covered by a thruststage. All performances were sung in English; ticket prices ranged from $6 to $12.

James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera, headed the ClevelandConcert Associates, a group which offered concert performances of "grand opera"with international stars at Severance Hall between 1969 and 1972. It waspreceded in the same auditorium by the Lake Erie Opera, founded in 1964 by LouisLane, then associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. This company gavestaged productions of two operas early each Fall; its last performances were in1970. Since Severance Hall is the home of the Cleveland Orchestra operatic per-formances had to be scheduled around the symphony season. Now Cleveland willhave a new company, THE NEW CLEVELAND OPERA COMPANY, directedby David Bamberger, formerly director of the Oberlin College Opera Theatre. Thecompany will open with Madama Butterfly on October 22, and The Barber ofSeville is scheduled for November. Each opera is to be performed twice at the1,000-seat Byron Auditorium, and all performances will be in English. (For details,see Performance Listing.) The group is supported by the Ohio Arts Council, theCleveland Area Arts Council, the Cleveland Foundation, and local patrons.

May 21 marked the first performance of the newly formed PENNSYLVANIAOPERA THEATRE. The opera was The Merry Wives of Windsor, the location theEpiscopal Academy in Merion. Bernard J. Taylor II is president and treasurer, andmembers of the Curtis Institute's faculty are in charge of artistic policy; conductorBarbara Silverstein is artistic director and Dino Yannopoulos stage director. Allperformances are given in English and tickets are priced at $6.The INDIANAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY, which gave its first modest per-formances last March (two performances of The Telephone and The Devil andDaniel Webster), has more ambitious plans for 1976-77. Miriam Ramaker, thegroup's president, announced six performances of Die Kluge and seven per-formances of Carmen for Fall and Spring productions, respectively. Tickets for the1975-76 double-bill were $2.50 to $4, and the company performed at RansburgHall.June Cason formed the MINIKIN OPERA COMPANY in Wilmington, Delaware,to bring short operas into schools. During the first season, the company, supportedto a large extent by the Delaware State Arts Council, gave some 15 performancesof The Telephone and Argento's The Boor.

Mezzo-soprano and voice teacher Alice Taylor founded the OAKLAND OPERATHEATER in November '74 when the group offered an evening of operatic scenes.Last season they staged their first full production, Hansel and Gretel, at theauditorium of the First Congregational Church in Oakland, California.Michigan seems to have a propitious climate for opera, nurturing various work-shops and companies. The latest addition is the OPERA GUILD OF GREATERLANSING, director Ted Levy, which will offer three performances of DonGiovanni in January '77, with Lorna Haywood, Elizabeth Mannion, John Reardon,and Gimi Beni.Negotiations are under way for the establishment of an American counterpart toSpoleto to make it not only the Festival of Two Worlds but in two worlds. A citypresently negotiating for the United States representation is Charleston, S.C., wherea two-week season is being contemplated in late May or early June, immediatelypreceding the Italian festival. Final arrangements are dependent on a firm com-mitment of funds.

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There are by now over 30 opera companies and a few opera departments at uni-versities with separate subsidiary touring ensembles, created for the purpose ofperforming short operas in English at schools and community centers. Some of themore recent additions include ENCORE OPERA of the Opera Gala Guild inOrlando, OPERA ALABAMA of the Birmingham Civic Opera, two groups namedOPERA A LA CARTE, one of the Opera Company of Jacksonville, Fla., the otherof the University of Southern California, and three called OPERA ON WHEELS,at Southern Illinois University, at the Milwaukee Florentine Opera, and at theShreveport Civic Opera. The Connecticut Opera instituted OPERA FOR EVERY-ONE, San Antonio has its OPERATION OPERA, and the Springfield (Ohio) CivicOpera its OPERA IN ENGLISH group. Junior companies have also been createdby the Portland Opera: PORTLAND OPERA STUDIO; the Augusta OperaCompany: the AUGUSTA OPERA THEATRE; the Cincinnati Opera: the CIN-CINNATI OPERA ENSEMBLE; and the Lake George Opera Festival: the LAKEGEORGE OPERA WORKSHOP. Besides the obvious advantages of building newaudiences and goodwill in the community and establishing closer ties with edu-cational groups, these ensembles also offer employment and professional experienceto young artists at the threshold of their careers.

The Michigan Opera Theatre developed in the opposite way, starting as "Overtureto Opera" in 1966 and becoming a major professional company in 1972. Thecompany now supports a touring ensemble called OPERA IN RESIDENCE. Thecore of the group, consisting of four performers and four technicians, spends oneweek in each of six communities in Michigan, offering master classes, seminarsand concerts, with a performance of a complete opera at the end of each visit.Chorus, supernumeraries, and additional technicians are recruited locally, and intwo communities the orchestra musicians as well. The ensemble is co-sponsoredby the National Endowment and the Michigan State Arts Council. This programhas been fashioned after models originally created by San Francisco's WESTERNOPERA THEATER and Boston's OPERA NEW ENGLAND.

Noontime operatic entertainment is also becoming more popular, and similar tothe BROWN BAG OPERA of the San Francisco Opera, New York's THEATREAT NOON now offers short operas or scenes at St. Peter's Church at 12:15and 1:15.

NEWS FROM OPERA COMPANIESOpera Economics: Money Saving/Fund RaisingThis year's Central Opera Service/ Opera News survey, which is presently underway and will be published in the November issue of Opera News, will, for the firsttime, deal with some budget figures and comparative analysis of income sources.Without going into detail here, we would like to mention that the opera industryspent about $100 million last season. That is the amount of money put into theAmerican economy by the companies and workshops directly. However, in orderto evaluate the full impact, we will have to at least double this figure, taking intoaccount the goods and services paid for by secondary sources, indirectly activatedby opera productions. Thus opera's $200 million spent in 1975-76 represents animportant contribution to the American economy, while the $100 million spentby companies and workshops generated the greatest number of operatic per-formances enjoyed by the largest audience ever.

However, it is also evident that, in order to make this possible, managers and pro-ducers must be resourceful money savers and fund raisers.

While the sharing of productions is no longer news — the first such plans announcedat the 1966 COS Conference resulted in a joint venture for Boris Godunov —1976-77 may be the season of the "most travelled productions". Esclarmonde isbeing transported some 3,000 miles from coast to coast to be unveiled at theMetropolitan in its San Francisco production, and the same is true of a newTraviata shared between Wolf Trap and San Diego. Cenerentola and Werther, to

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be performed in Seattle, travel up and down the West Coast, the former in a jointproduction with Portland, the latter co-produced with Portland and San Francisco.The Barber will appear in New York City in its Boston attire, while AndreaChenier and Peter Grimes both scheduled for Houston, come from San Francisco;the latter originated in Chicago. These are just a few of the productions beingtrucked between major companies, some co-produced, others rented or exchanged.Economic reasons also prompt European opera houses to adopt this money savingidea, and England's Royal Opera and English National Opera companies will beexchanging new productions of Maria Stuarda and Ariadne auf Naxos over thenext two years. — COS has reported the development of regional companiesthroughout France over the past two years. Now they will also extend acrossnational boundaries. For instance, Strassbourg's Meistersinger will be seen inGermany (Karlsruhe) and Parma's Forza del destine and Tosca will come to thestage of the Opera National in Brussels. — Germany's theatres in Cologne, Bonnand Wuppertal have recently agreed to share new productions and thus cutannual expenses.Other economic measures are reflected in a recent announcement from SanFrancisco. Whereas opera programs have always been distributed free-of-chargeto American audiences in contrast to European customs, the San Francisco Operawill now be charging 50 cents per program. A four-page insert listing casts andsynopsis will be available without charge.Fund raising marathons and bazaars have proven so popular that many companiesare adopting them as annual events. The Met has announced the date of itssecond annual marathon, October 1, and its second bazaar, December 5. SPOTAuction was the catchy name of the first such event staged by the Spring OperaTheater of San Francisco, where costumes worn by Pinza and Home wereauctioned together with other more or less opera related items.Special gifts not commercially available have proven a great attraction when offeredas awards for special contributions. After a successful campaign of fund raising byoffering a Nozze di Figaro commemorative record of a 1941 broadcast in exchangefor a $100 contribution, the Met expanded this offer to continue over successiveyears. The albums are being specially packaged, containing a libretto and anillustrated souvenir book. The recordings are taken from historic Met broadcasts,a 1946 Madama Butterfly featuring Licia Albanese and, the most recent releasefor $100 contribution in 1976, a 1941 Tristan und Isolde with Flagstad, Thorborg,Melchior and Kipnis, Leinsdorf conducting.Texaco and the Metropolitan Opera Guild have announced the free loan of a16mm film, Highlights from Opera, featuring such international stars as Nilsson,Price, Sutherland, Corelli, Merrill and Tucker on the stage of the MetropolitanOpera. Further information may be obtained from Texaco's public relations de-partment, 135 East 42 Street, New York, New York 10017.

The Business Committee for the Arts has published 1776 and More Examples ofHow BCA Companies Supported the Arts in 1975-76. Available for $1, it will serveas an inspiration to donors as well as to applicants. Ideas to be emulated includethe sponsorship of a local department store which announced an all-Saturday"Opera Benefit Festival" donating 10% of that day's receipts to the company;free trucking services for scenery and musical instruments donated by a localtrucking company; bank and department store display facilities for opera publicityand announcements.

The sale of art especially created for the company is an attractive additionalsource of revenue. For $150, the Vancouver Opera sells a 24 x 36 Pique Dameposter designed by Arbit Blatas on the occasion of his designing the company'sproduction last season. Lee Spruyt's drawing of the interior of the Met became the90th season poster, priced at $7.50, $50 for a signed and numbered edition. Repro-ductions of Ming Cho Lee's 1975 design for / Puritani are available from the Met'sgift shop for $25 in a signed and numbered edition; $5 will buy an unsigned copy.Chagall at the Met, a book with extremely fine reproductions, may be ordered ata discounted price of $14.50 — it lists at $37.50; red umbrellas carrying the whiteimprint "Metropolitan Opera" are available for $11.95. Other items were men-tioned in the Fall '75 Bulletin.

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Improvements and New DevelopmentsThe SAN FRANCISCO OPERA was finally able to realize one of its cherishedplans, the enlargement of its orchestra pit. This Fall, the company will be able,for the first time, to accommodate the full orchestral complement for Walkiire andFrau ohne Schatten.The SEATTLE OPERA COMPANY announced the installation of a new com-puterized stage lighting system, thanks to a generous gift of $575,000 by theSeattle City Council.The Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic were the joint bene-ficiaries of a new portable stage and shell donated by the Mellon Foundation forthe free Summer concerts in New York City parks. The shell was designed by theWenger Corporation of Minneapolis; Klipper, Marshall, King Associates wereresponsible for the new sound system.After two years of research and experimentation, LIVE FROM LINCOLNCENTER has become a reality. Television cameras are now able to film thestaged events without intruding with extra lights; no cameras disturb audiences atregular subscription performances which have been broadcast live from AveryFisher Hall and the State Theatre. Operatic events seen so far are two productionsby the New York City Opera, both broadcast nationally over WNET, the edu-cational channel.The METROPOLITAN OPERA BALLET ENSEMBLE has been created to giveperformances on tour at community centers and school auditoriums. The Ensembleconsists of fourteen dancers who are part of the Met's ballet during the season.The complete ballet group numbers about 30. The new touring ensemble willoffer performance and solo opportunities to its members, and give more importanceto the Met Ballet as a whole. However, there are no plans to make this an auton-omous group or to offer alternating performances of evenings of opera and balletat the Met, as is the case with the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet of London.In announcing its forthcoming season, the OPERA COMPANY OF BOSTONinforms us that instead of the customary three performances of each production,it will offer the same opera in four performances, adding a Saturday eveningsubscription series. As always, the other performances are scheduled for Tuesdayand Friday evenings and Sunday matinees. (See Performance Listing for operasand dates.)The CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION (Colorado) has beenreorganized and will henceforth be made up of three divisions: 1. Performances atCentral City during the Summer Festival, 2. Historic restoration and preservationof the Tabor Opera House, and 3. Opera performances in Denver during the Winterseason.The METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION has reorganized its board ofdirectors into three categories and added some members. The newly createdbody of 25 managing directors will be the working arm of the Met's board and,among other personalities, includes Robert L. B. Tobin, honorary national chair-man of COS. Another forty members have been named advisory directors andwill attend one or two annual meetings. The managing directors are to meetmonthly. Six board members were named honorary directors: Mrs. August Bel-mont, founder of COS, the National Council and the Met Guild, Mrs. L. W.Douglas, Mrs. W. F. Gibbs, George Moore, Charles Spofford and Lowell Wadmond.The announcement of the three-part board was made jointly by Langdon VanNorden, chairman, and William Rockefeller, president of the Association. Amongthe newly appointed advisory directors is Thomas Brush, chairman of the MONCadministrative committee; Alexander Saunderson, president of MONC is also anadvisory director.

Similarly, the MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE changed its board of directors aswell as some of the by-laws, announced Lynn Townsend, chairman of the board.Fifteen directors were named to the "operating board", while others, includingsome new appointees, will form an expanded board of trustees.

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NEW ARTS CENTERS AND AUDITORIUMS

A $25 million CIVIC CENTER has been completed in Syracuse, N.Y. Besideshousing the Onondaga County offices, the complex incorporates a three-theatreperforming arts center with extra office space for the different performing associa-tions. The largest theatre, a 2,117-seat concert hall and opera theatre, was openedJanuary 15 with a gala concert, Christopher Keene conducting. The Opera Theatreof Syracuse gave its first performance there, La Travita, on March 25, 1976. Thehall's orchestra pit can accommodate 110 musicians and the stage and backstageareas feature the most modern lighting, projection and sound equipment. The464-seat Carrier Theatre is particularly suitable for ballet, since it is equipped witha special dance floor and an optional pit for about 20 musicians. The third theatre,the 300-seat Community Room, also serves as an orchestra rehearsal hall. RussellJohnson Associates of New York and Toronto were the acoustics consultants forthe performing arts facilities; McAfee Malo Lebensold Affleck Nichols ofMontreal and Fayetteville, New York, were the architects.The 3,024-seat MIAMI BEACH THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSwas completed at a cost of $6 million. The theatre was designed by Ralph Alswang,New York, and Morris Lapidus, Miami. The Miami Philharmonic dedicated thehall in an opening concert in January, and the Greater Miami Opera Ass'n gaveits 1976 performances there. The movable orchestra pit is designed for a maximumof 80 players.Also in January, a new 1,700-seat SYMPHONY HALL in Salinas, Calif., wasopened with a concert by the Monterey County Symphony. The auditorium ispart of a $4.75 million Community Center.SALT LAKE CITY plans a new $20 million home for the Utah Symphony. Theconcert hall will be designed to accommodate opera and ballet as well.Many successful new concert halls represent renovated theatres or movie houses,others are modernized, improved or refurbished auditoriums. New York's AVERYFISHER HALL falls into the second category, with its third and most drastic re-novation, undertaken this Summer by Cyril M. Harris and Philip Johnson at a costof $5 million. To improve the acoustics, undulating wood panels will cover thewalls and part of the ceiling, and the stage will be enlarged and fitted with a shelland a new floor. Backstage areas and technical equipment will also be improved.The changes will extend into the building's public spaces by the removal of therestaurant, enlargement of the foyer, and relocation of the box offices. The hallwill be closed for five months; opening concerts of the New York Philharmonicare scheduled at Carnegie Hall and possibly the Beacon Theatre on Broadway.Newark's fifty-year-old SYMPHONY HALL had to get an emergency face-lifting,following its closure due to building code violations. The International Alliance ofTheatrical Stage Employees came to the rescue of New Jersey's largest opera houseby contributing $10,000 worth of labor. The city donated the required material andthus the New Jersey State Opera Company was able to open its Elisir d'amore ontime in March '76.Tom Price and Don Duer are the architects in charge of the renovation of theMUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM in Orlando, home of the Florida Symphony andits Opera Gala Guild. Completion is projected for 1977; George Izenour is re-tained as acoustics expert.The former Paramount Theatre in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been converted intoa 2,000-seat THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, and the ORPHEUMTHEATER in Vancouver, B.C. (Canada) has been refurbished for use by theVancouver Symphony. However, changes were planned cautiously to retain thehall's period style. The Vancouver Opera Ass'n will continue to perform in themulti-purpose Queen Elizabeth Auditorium.After a two-year, $2.5 million restoration, the LEXINGTON (Ky.) OPERAHOUSE opened on May 7 with a benefit concert for and by the Lexington Sym-phony. The house, originally built in 1887, hosted a two-week festival of concerts,ballet, and musical comedy.Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is building a PERFORMING ARTSCOMPLEX. The 1,003-seat concert hall and rehearsal rooms were completed thisSummer.

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COS INSIDE INFORMATIONDue to a change in publication dates during the 1975-76 season, and in order to beable to include a comprehensive 1975-76 Performance Listing, the followingcolumns usually included in this issue are deferred to Volume 19, No. 1, the nextissue of the COS Bulletin:In 1975-76 Opera Lost . . . ; Appointments; Awards and Winners; Book Corner.In asking our our reader's indulgence we would also like to assure them that thecurrent season (Volume 18) offered more information and larger Bulletins thanever before.A complete review of operas written and/or performed in honor of the AmericanBicentennial year is planned by Central Opera Service for the end of the 1976-77season.

TRANSLATIONSThe following translations have been reported in connection with the annual per-formance survey. They are in addition to those listed in the 1974 Directory of EnglishTranslations and those listed in various subsequent issues of the COS Bulletin. Forfurther information, contact either the translator (address in parenthesis) or the per-forming company listed in the entry.Bach: St. Matthew Passion Robert Shaw (Mus. Dir. Atlanta Symphony, Ga.) — San

Francisco Spring Opera Theater, CaliforniaCimarosa: // Matrimonio segreto Robert Gay (Dir. Opera, Northwest Univ., Evan-

ston, 111.) — Moorehead State College, MinnesotaCornelius: Der Barbier von Bagdad Ellie & Richard Weilenmann — Washington Civic

Opera, D.C.Donizetti: // Campanello Susan Stevens — St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana

Don Pasquale Miriam Ellis — Univ. of California, Santa CruzDon Pasquale Charles Gonzales — Educational Opera Ass'n, Los Angeles, Calif.Don Pasquale Donald Pippin — also arrangement for 6 instruments (1902 23rdStreet, San Francisco, Calif. 94107)Lucia di Lammermoor Charles Kondek (789 West End Ave., New York) — Har-ford Opera Theatre, Md.

Haydn: La Canterina Donald Pippin — also parts for 10 instruments (1902 23rd St.,San Francisco, Calif. 94107)Lo Speziale Donald Pippin — also parts for 6 instruments (1902 23rd St., SanFrancisco, Calif. 94107)

Hindemith: Die Harmonie der Welt Walter Ducloux (Univ. of Texas, Austin)Lehar: Die lustige Witwe Osborne •— Mississippi Opera Co., Jackson, Miss.Leoncavallo: Pagliacci Ruth & Thomas Martin (219 W. 13 St., New York 10011) —

New York City Opera Education Dept., N.Y., N.Y.Krenek: Jonny spielt auf Ernst Krenek — New England Conservatory, Boston, Mass.Mascagni: L'Amico Fritz Francis Rizzo (Art Dir., Wolf Trap Foundation, Vienna, Va.)

— Spring Opera of San Francisco, Calif.Massenet: Cendrillon Comrie — University of Bridgeport, Conn.

Thais Harry Dunscombe — Greater Miami Opera Ass'n, Miami, FloridaMozart: Bastien et Bastienne Swift — Dana School of Music, Youngstown, Ohio

Der Schauspieldirektor Mildred Warenskjold — Opera Repertory Theatre, ShermanOaks, Calif.Die Zauberflote (literal transl. incl. original stage direction as in 1791 autographedscore) Nicholas Deutsch (92A Pinckney St., Boston, Mass. 02114)

Mussorgsky: The Marriage Donald Pippin (1902 23rd St., San Francisco, Calif. 94107)Offenbach: Dame Chance F. Robert Lehmeyer — Eastern Opera Theatre, Baltimore,

MarylandLa Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein A. Roberts (IS 176 Rochedale Circle, Lombard,111.60148)La Perichole Michael Feingold & Richard Pearlman — Spring Opera of San Fran-cisco, Calif.

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La Vie parisienne A. Roberts (IS 176 Rochdale Circle, Lombard, 111. 60148) —Music Theatre of Hyde Park, New York

Pergolesi: // Maestro di musica Guarnieri & Gallup — Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel,// Geloso schernito Paul Mallalieu — also score edited by Friedrich Buck — BelwinMillsLa Serva padrona Kraus — Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.La Serva padrona Donald Pippin — also arrangement for 4 instruments (1902 23rdSt., San Francisco, Calif. 94107)La Serva padrona Mildred Warenskjold, Opera Repertory, Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Poulenc: La Voix humaine Atherton — Annapolis Opera, Annapolis, MarylandPuccini: La Boheme Francis Rizzo & Richard Pearlman — Kansas City Lyric Theater,

Kansas City, Mo.La Fanciulla del West Ruth & Thomas Martin — University of Wisconsin, Madison

Puccini, Domenico: // Ciarlatano Ruth & Thomas Martin (G. Schirmer Inc.)Rossini: // Barbiere di Siviglia Era M. Tognoli — Metro Lyric Opera, Allenhurst, N.I.Selletti: Drucilla & Strathbone Lazarevich — University of Victoria, B.C. CanadaSmetana: The Bartered Bride Greg Tallmann — University of Maryland, College

Park, Md.I. Strauss: Die Fledermaus Frank Fetta — Los Angeles College Opera Theatre, Los

Angeles, Calif.Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat Moss — Colorado Opera Festival, Colorado Springs,

Colo.Thomas: Mignon Ellie & Richard Weilenmann — Washington Civic Opera, D.C.Verdi: Un Giorno di regno Donald Pippin, also accompaniment for 6 instruments avail.

(1902 23rd St., San Francisco, Calif. 94107)Otello Andrew Porter — Houston Grand Opera, Tex.// Trovatore Charles Kondek — Harford Opera Theatre, Md.

Wagner: Der fliegende Hollander Russell Patterson — Kansas City Lyric Theatre,Kansas City, Mo.

Weber: Der Freischiitz Richard Stanford — SUNY Albany, New YorkWeber/Mahler: Die drei Pintos Rodney Blumer — Oxford Univ. Opera Club, England

SETS AND COSTUMES FOR RENTThe following sets and costumes have been registered with Central Opera Service asavailable for rental. They are in addition to those listed in the original 1970 Directory ofSets and Costumes for Rent and in the annual supplements. (Addresses are also includedin the 1970 Directory. The Directory and five supplements are available for $10.00)Amahl and the Night Visitors (s) Mohawk College Opera Theatre, Hamilton, Ontario,

CanadaThe Ballad of Baby Doe (s) Tulsa Opera, Oklahoma (ds: Braden '66, refurbished w.

projection '76)// Barbiere di Siviglia (s,c) Connecticut Opera Ass'n, Hartford, Conn.

(s,c) New York City Opera Education Dept., New York, New York(s,c) Texas Opera Theater, Houston, Texas(s) Chattanooga Opera Ass'n, Chattanooga, Tenn.(s) Opera Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska

Bilby's Doll (c) Malabar Costume, Toronto, Ont. (ds: Mess '75)Black River (Susa) (s,c) Minnesota Opera Co., Minneapolis, Minn.Bluebeard's Castle (s) Canadian Opera Co., Toronto, Ont., CanadaLa Boheme (s) Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.El Capitan (Sousa) (s,c) Minnesota Opera Co., Minneapolis, Minn.

(s,c) Texas Opera Theater, Houston, TexasCaptain Jinks of the Horse Marines (Beeson) (s) Kansas City Lyric Theater, Kansas

City, Mo. (ds: Campbell)Carmen (s) Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh, Pa. (ds: Struthers '75)Les Contes d'Hoffmann (s,c) Dallas Civic Opera, Dallas, Texas

(s) Cincinnati Opera Ass'n, Cincinnati, OhioLe Coq d'Or (s,c) Dallas Civic Opera, Dallas, Texas (ds: Lee/Hall)Cost fan tutte (s,c) Minnesota Opera Co., Minneapolis, Minn.

(s) Lake George Opera Festival, Glens Falls, New York(s) Vermont Opera Theatre, Johnson, Vermont

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Dame Chance (Offenbach) (s,c) Eastern Opera Theatre, Baltimore, MarylandDon Giovanni (s) Opera Omaha, Omaha, NebraskaL'Enfant et les sortileges (s,c) Vermont Opera Theatre, Johnson, Vermont (ds: Smolover)Falstaff (s) Lake George Opera Festival, Glens Falls, New YorkLa Fanciulla del West (s) Connecticut Opera Ass'n, Hartford, Conn.

(c) Malabar Costume, Toronto, Ont. (ds: Lord 75)La Favorite (s) New Orleans Opera Ass'n, New Orleans, La.Die Fledermaus (s) Canadian Opera Co., Toronto, Ont., Canada (ds: Lord)

(c) Malabar Costume, Toronto, Ont. (ds: Lord 75)Der fliegende Hollander (s) Canadian Opera Co., Toronto, Ont., Canada (ds: Laufer)Gianni Schicchi (s,c) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington

(s) Cincinnati Opera Ass'n, Cincinnati, OhioGb'tterdammerung (s,c) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington (ds: Naccarato)Hansel und Gretel (s,c) Utah Opera Society, Salt Lake City, Utah

(c) Texas Opera Theater, Houston, TexasL'Heure espagnole (s) Canadian Opera Co., Toronto, Ont., CanadaThe Hero (Menotti) (s) Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.lnes de Castro (Pasatieri) (s) Baltimore Opera Co., Baltimore, Maryland

(c) Malabar Costume, Toronto, Ont. (ds: Vanerelli 76)Die lustige Witwe (s) Cincinnati Opera Ass'n, Cincinnati, Ohio

(c) Malabar Costume, Toronto, Ont. (ds: Varona 76)Madama Butterfly (s,c) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington (ds: Naccarato)

(s) Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit, MichiganMartha (s) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington (ds: O'Hearn)The Medium (c) Nebraska Wesleyan University Opera Theatre, Lincoln, Neb.The Mikado (c) Comic Opera Co., Baltimore, MarylandMinnequa (Track) (s) Pueblo Symphony, Pueblo, ColoradoNorma (s) San Diego Opera, San Diego, Calif.Le Nozze di Figaro (s) Cincinnati Opera Ass'n, Cincinnati, OhioThe Old Maid and the Thief (s) Greater Miami Opera Ass'n, Miami, FloridaPagliacci (s,c) New York City Opera Education Dept., New York, New YorkLes Pecheurs de perles (s) Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.La Perichole (s) Lake George Opera Festival, Glens Falls, New YorkPique Dame (c) Malabar Costume, Toronto, Ont. (ds: Mess 75, set in 1920's)Porgy and Bess (c) Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit, Mich.The Rake's Progress (s,c) Lake George Opera Festival, Glens Falls, New YorkDas Rheingold (s,c) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington, (ds: Naccarato)Rigoletto (s) Mohawk College Opera Theatre, Hamilton, Ont., CanadaLa Rondine (s) Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.Rusalka (Dvorak) (s) San Diego Opera, San Diego, Calif.Samson (Handel) (s,c) Dallas Civic Opera, Dallas, Texas (ds: Varona/Hall)Siegfried (s,c) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington (ds: Naccarato)Summer and Smoke (s) Lake George Opera Festival, Glens Falls, New YorkSuor Angelica (s) Cincinnati Opera Ass'n, Cincinnati, OhioSusannah (c) Nebraska Wesleyan University Opera Theatre, Lincoln, NebraskaSweet Betsy from Pike (c) Texas Opera Theater, Houston, Texas// Tabarro (s) Canadian Opera Co. Toronto, Ont., Canada (ds: Jackson)

(s) Cincinnati Opera Ass'n, Cincinnati, OhioThais (s) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington (ds: Klein)Tosca (s) Cincinnati Opera Ass'n, Cincinnati, OhioLa Traviata (s) Opera Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska

(c) San Diego Opera, San Diego, Calif.(c) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington (1970 sets no longer available)

Die Walkilre (s,c) Seattle Opera Ass'n, Seattle, Washington (ds: Naccarato)Die Zauberflote (s) Lake George Opera Festival, Glens Falls, New York

Additional rental companies for sets and costumesAct One Costumes, 20 West Fifth Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402American Scenic, 11 Andrews Street, Box 283, Greenville, S.C. 29602Bittners Costume Studio, 2515 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37203California Costume, 15976 E. Francisquito Avenue, La Puente, Calif. 91744Whittier Costume Shop, 13124 E. Philadelphia, Whittier, Calif. 90601

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1975-76 SEASON (cont.)All performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p."(with piano). — * following an opera title indicates new production. — Perform-ances and news items once announced will not be relisted at the time of per-formance.Because of the American Bicentennial, this season American musicals are listed bytitles.

ALABAMATroy State University Opera Workshop, P. Kelley, Din, Troy2/76 17765/13, 15/76 Faust

ARIZONAArizona State University, Lyric Opera Theatre, K. Seipp, Dir., Tempe9/26-10/5/75 Orpheus in the Underworld c: Porter; d: Seipp; 6 pfs.11/21-12/6/75 Hansel and Gretel c: Seipp; d: Porter; 5 pfs.2/20-29/7'6 Postcard from Morocco c: Seipp; d: Porter; 6 pfs.3/12/76 The Marriage of Figaro Western Opera Theater prod.4/23-5/1/76 Falstaff c: Seipp; d: Porter; 5 pfs.

ARKANSASConway Chamber Opera, H. Groth, Dir., Conway1975-76 Thompson's Nativity According to Saint LukeUniversity of Arkansas Opera Theatre, B. Thebom, Dir., Little Rock1975-76 tour: Cost fan tutte abgd.

CALIFORNIACalifornia Historical Society, San Francisco5/28, 29 6/2, 4, 5/76 Carry Nation Garabedian; Terry; c: Cassel; d: Weinstock;

Western Opera prod. & San Francisco State Univ.California State College, Sonoma Opera Workshop, P. Donovan-Jeffrj, Dir.,

Rhonert Pk.10/29, 30 11/1/75 Sweet Betsy from Pike & Jumping Frog of Calaveras County w.p.12/9/75 Jumping Frog of Calaveras County w.o. 2 pfs. in San Rafael4/8, 9, 10/76 Trouble in Tahiti & Signor deluso w.o.California State University Opera Wksp., T. Acord, Dir., Hay ward11/20, 21, 22/75 Opera Scenes2/19, 20/76 Semele4/10, 13, 15, 17/76 Albert Herring (replacing Fledermaus)Spring '76 The Impresario tour w.p.Cuesta College Music Theater, N. Girolo, Dir., San Luis Obispo4/23, 24/76 Old Maid and the Thief & The Devil and Daniel Webster w.o.Greek Theatre, Los Angeles9/4, 6/75 The Barber of Seville Welting; Guarrera; c: Woitach; d: TaverniaHumboldt State University Opera Wksp., J. Stanard, Dir., Arcata2/11-15/76 Once Upon a Mattress2/26-28 3/4-6/76 Cosi fan tutte w.p.4/23/76 A Zarzuela Eng. StanardThe Lamplighters, G. Russak, Mus. Dir., San Francisco Presentation Theatre3/6, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28 4/2, 3/76 The Yeomen of the Guard6/26 7/2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24/76 IolantheOakland Opera Theatre, A. Taylor, Dir., Reidenbach Hall9112, 13, 14/75 Opera Scenes w.p.12/6, 7m, 7/75 Hansel and Gretel w.p. Hatfield, Joens, Taylor; Pisenti; c: Pettitt; d:

ForbesOakland Symphony Orchestra, H. Farberman, Mus. Dir., Paramount Theatre5/25, 26, 29/76 Treemonisha cone, pf.; Balthrop, Allen; White; c: LieblingRiverside Opera Ass'n, F. Calkins, Exec. Dir., Riverside5/8, 9/76 The Devil and Daniel Webster c: Saylor; d: D. Merrill (for Bicentennial,

action set 7/4/1851)San Francisco Opera, Brown Bag Opera (Jan-Aug.'76) 55 concertsSan Francisco State University Opera Wksp., D. Camp, Mus. Dir.3/13, 16, 18, 20/76 Cosi fan tutte Eng. Martin, w.o.

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1975-76 Season

San Francisco Symphony, S. Ozawa, Mus. Dir., San Francisco5/5, 6, 7, 8/76 Oedipus Rex cone, pfs.; Quivar; Shirley, Berberian, KrauseSan Francisco Talent Bank, Mrs. A. Crapsey, Art Dir.2/25, 26, 27/76 The Barber of New York w.p.5/17, 23/76 Noye's Fludde w.o.Spring Opera Theater, K. H. Adler, Gen. Dir., Curran Theatre, San Francisco2/19, 21, 29 3/12/76 La Perichole Eng.; Ewing; Rosenshein, Frey; c: Bare; d:

Pearlman; ds: Beatty; also 3 pfs. on tour.2/20, 22, 26, 28/76 L'Amico Fritz Mitchell, Yarmat; Cole, Burchinal; c: de

Rugeriis; d: R. Levine; ds: Stevens2/27 3/6, l lm, 11, 14/76 Meeting Mr. Ives Cummings, Westfall, Symington; c:

Dufallo; d: Nahat; ds: Smith; prod: Lenox Arts Center3/4, 5, 7, 13/76 St. Matthew Passion Balthrop, Jones; Sells, Lawrence, BryantStanford University Opera Theater, M. Starr, Mus. Dir., Palo Alto5/25-29/76 Cost fan tutte Eng. MartinUniv. of California Dept. of Music & Drama, D. Heartz, Chmn., Berkeley5/7, 8, 10, 12, 14,15/76 Scarlatti's Griselda Am. prem. & La Serva padronaUniv. of California, Santa Barbara Opera Theater, C. Zytowski, Dir.11/20, 21, 22/75 Cox and Box & Trial by Jury w.o.5/14, 15/ 76 Tosca Eng. GutmanWestern Opera Theater, R. Bailey, Mgr., San Francisco1976 tour (1/9-5/2/76) The Marriage of Figaro*, The Barber of Seville, Trouble

in Tahiti, Hansel and Gretel, The Portuguese Inn*; 13 soloists; cities in Cali-fornia, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Alaska; total 77 pfs.

5/7-15/76 Dollar Series pfs., San FranciscoYoung Artists Opera Studio, J. Large, Dir., Univ. of Calif, at San Diego/

La Jolla11/22, 23/75 The Magic Flute Eng.3/9, 11/76 Riders to the Sea & Pasatieri's Signor deluso w.p.5/25, 27/76 Pasatieri's La Divina & The Women & Signor deluso (not Betly)

COLORADOClassic Chorale at Calvary Temple, Denver12/5/75 Amahl and the Night Visitors MillerColorado State University, Opera Theatre, L. Day, Mus. Dir., Fort Collins11/75 Opera ScenesDenver Opera Repertory Company, Denver3/76 La Boheme Leigh5/76 Adriana LecouvreurDenver Symphony Orchestra4/2/76 Jeanne a"Arc au biicher c: Hangen4/23/76 The Mikado c: Priestman; Manhattan Savoyards4/26, 27/76 Die Walkiire Act I cone, pf., Meier; McCray; c :PriestmanTheater Under Glass, E. Baldwin, Dir., Denver10-11/75 Don Pasquale Eng., w.p.3/76 The Medium 10 pfs.University of Colorado Opera Wksp., K. Hata, Dir., Boulder1/28, 29, 30/76 The Crucible7/8, 10, 12/76 La Fille du regiment Eng. ownUniversity of Denver Opera Wksp., R. Worstell, Chmn., Denver3/2, 3/76 Cost fan tutte Eng. Martin; c: Penn; 6 pfs.5/25/76 Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica Eng.University of Northern Colorado, Opera Theater, C. M. Schmitz, Prod.,

Greeley11/20, 21/75 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin; w.o.2/27, 28 3/4, 5, 6/76 Paint Your Wagon w.o.5/27, 28/76 Gallantry & Opera Scenes w.p.Western State College of Colorado, Opera Wksp., L. Marra, Dir., Gunnison11/25/75 "A Night at the Opera" scenes4/29, 30/76 Die Fledermaus

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CONNECTICUTGreenwich Philharmonic, Greenwich4/30 5/2/76 Rigoletto cone. pf.Troupers' Light Opera, L. Loosemore, Pres., Norwalk4/23, 24, 30 5/1, 8, 9/76 The Gondoliers

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIACathedral Choral Society, Members of National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy

Center1/2, 3/76 Doktor Faust cone. pf. Williams; Uppman, Lloyd, Paul; c: CallawayNational Symphony, A. Dorati, Mus. Dir., Kennedy Center4/6, 7/76 W. Schuman's The Mighty Casey Rees; Merrill; Westminster Symphonic

ChoirNew York City Opera, J. Rudel, Gen. Dir., at Kennedy Center4/28 5/9m/76 The Ballad of Baby Doe4/29 5/1, 5/76 // Barbiere di Siviglia4/30 5/2m, 8/76 Un Ballo in maschera5/ lm, 9/76 La Boheme5/2, 6, 8m/76 Cavalleria rusticana StPagliacci51 A, 7/76 Lucrezia BorgiaWashington Cathedral6/17/76 Menotti's The Egg prem. & Martin's Lie Am. prem.; c: Callaway; d:

Menotti; ds: Waring/Mellen; 6 pfs.Washington Civic Opera, R. Weilenmann, Art. Dir., Lisner Auditorium, w.

National Symphony9/12, 13/75 Rigoletto11/25, 26/75 The Magic Flute cone. pf.6/3, 4/76 The Bartered Bride

FLORIDACollege of Fine Arts Opera Wksp., W. Vessels, Dir., Jacksonville University12/11-13/75 Amahl and the Night VisitorsEncore Opera, touring subsid. of Opera Gala Guild, Orlando3/14 SI 6176 The Impresario w.p., at Maitland & Loch Haven Cntr3/21/76 Opera Highlights, Loch Haven Arts CenterMiami Beach Symphony, B. Breeskin, Mus. Dir., Miami Beach3/7/76 L'Elisir d'amore Eng., cone. pf.4/18/76 "A Night at the Opera" scenesSan Carlo Opera, M. Lorenti, Art. Dir., St. Petersburg (see also Fall '75 Blltn.)3/13/76 La Boheme Peters, Randazzo; di Giuseppe, Toriji; d: Coppolo; ds: Sti-

vanelloGEORGIA

Augusta Opera Co., R. R. Moores, Gen. Mgr., Atlanta (see also Summer'75 Blltn.)

2-3/76 L'Elisir d'amore Eng.; tour to 11 cities in 4 states; w.p.; Augusta OperaTheatre

5/29, 30/76 The Medium & A Hand of Bridge w.o.; Augusta Opera Comp.Mercer University Opera Wksp., O. Loveland, Dir., Atlanta2/22, 24, 25, 26, 27/76 Cavalleria rusticana w. 2ps & org.; 2/29/76 in Macon5/5/76 Opera Scenes w.p.

ILLINOISThe Chicago Opera Studio, R. Frisbie, Mus. Dir., A. Stone, Art. Dir.10/16 11/1, 21/75 The Marriage of Figaro 3/3/76 at NE 111. U.1/31 2/1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15/76 The Barber of Seville4/30 5/1, 2, 7, 8, 9/76 The Mother of Us All 5/13, 14/76 TV tape for PBS/WTTW8/30, 31/76 The Barber of Seville at Court TheatreChicago Symphony, G. Solti, Mus. Dir., Chicago5/6, 8/76 Her fliegende Hollander Martin; Bailey, Talvela, Kollo; cone, pf.; 5/14/76

at Carnegie Hall, New YorkIllinois State University, Dept. of Music, D. Shrader, Chmn., Normal2/6, 7, 8/76 The Marriage of Figaro cone. pf. w.o.

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Illinois University Opera Theatre, D. Lloyd, Art. Dir., Krannert Cnt. for thePert. Arts, Urbana

9/75 Die Fledermaus 4 pfs. each opera; w.o.10/75 La Boheme w.o., Eng. Yockey11/75 Suor Angelica w.p.12/75 Amahl and the Night Visitors w.o.3/76 The Crucible w.o.4/76 The Impresario & Mozart Opera Scenes w.p.5/76 The Rake's Progress w.o.7/76 Porgy and Bess w.o.Opera School of the Chicago Lyric Opera, H. Handt, Dir., Civic Theatre3/19, 21/76 Tosca w. Lake Forest Symphony5/28, 30 6/2, 5/76 The Rake's Progress Little; d: Keathley6/9, 11, 12, 13/76 Rossini's Petite Messe Solonnelle Handt ed.6/16, 18, 19, 20/76 Ballet Festival, Maria Tallchief, Dir.Peoria Civic Opera, Scottish Rite Temple10/18/75 La Traviata Vannerette; Pierce; c: WilsenWheaton College Opera Wksp., Florence A very, Dir., Wheaton3/5, 6/76 Weill's Lindbergh Flight & Four-Note Opera & Carr's Federal Overture

INDIANADe Pauw University Opera Theatre, T. Fitzpatrick, Dir., Greencastle2/12, 13, 14/76 La Boheme w.o.Elkhart Symphony Society, R. Pickkell, Mgr., Elkhart5/8/76 Cavalleria rusticanaIndiana-Perdue University Opera Wksp., J. Meyers, Dir., Ft. Wayne3/6, 14/76 Duke's Captain Lovelock & The TelephoneIndianapolis Opera Co., Inc., Miriam Ramaker, Dir., at Ransburg Univ. Audit.3/4m, 5, 6/76 The Telephone & The Devil and Daniel Webster w.p.Valparaiso University Opera Theatre, J. McCalL Dir., Valparaiso2/27, 28 3/1/76 Hansel and Gretel Eng. Bache-McCallWhitewater Opera Co., C. Combopiano, Dir., Richmond4/8, 9, 10/76 Cost fan tutte w.o.; Eng. Martin; 4/24 Madison, Ind.; 5/1 Conners-

ville, Ind.IOWA

Morningside College Chamber Singers, C. Martin, Dir., Sioux City12/12/75 Sunday Excursion & The Medium4/24/76 Faith's Sleeping BeautyUniv. of Iowa Opera Theater, R. Eckert, Dir., Iowa Cnt. for the Arts,

Iowa City11/22/75 Renard Eng. Myers4/9, 10, 11/76 Love for Three Oranges Eng. Seroff7/15, 17776 Susannah

KANSASFriends University Opera, J. Miller, Prod., Wichita1/23, 24/76 Cost fan tutte Eng. Phillips/Goldovsky

KENTUCKYLexington Music Theatre Society, The Opera House, Lexington5/13, 14, 15 /76 Oklahoma

LOUISIANANew Orleans Recreation Dept. Opera Wksp., D . Morelock, Dir.1/20-22/76 Noye's Fludde5/31 6/1/76 / Quattro rusteghiShreveport Symphony Repertory Opera Co., J. Shenant, Mus. Dir., Shreveport2/1, 2/76 Cosl fan tutte Eng. Martin

MARYLANDBaltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore1/30, 31 2/1/76 Ads and GalateaUniversity of Maryland Opera Theatre, G. Tallman, Dir., College ParkWIHII5 Opera Scenes w.p.2/26, 28, 29/76 The Bartered Bride w.o., Eng. Tallman5/5/76 Opera Scenes w.p.6/14/76 The Rape of Lucretia w.o.

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MASSACHUSETTSBoston Conservatory Opera Theatre, J. Moriarty, Chmn.1/23, 24/76 Signor deluso & A Hand of Bridge & Trouble in Tahiti4/7, 9, 10/76 The Ballad of Baby DoeCommunity Opera at Tufts, P. Cokkinias, Art. Dir., Somerville5/5/76 Opera Scenes w.o.New England Chamber Opera Group, P. Morehead, Art. Dir., Newton Center

(revised schedule)3/26, 27 4/1/76 Earl's The Death of King Phillip prem. & Selig's Chocorua, at All

Saints Episcopal Church, Boston4/30 5/1, 7, 8/76 The Elixir of Love Eng.; M. DiStefano; M. Dooley, Daniel; at

Mass. College of ArtNew England Conservatory of Music, G. Schuller, Pres., Boston5/12/76 Krenek's Jonny spielt auf Eng. by composer

MICHIGANGrand Rapids Symphony, R. P. Eisenstein, Gen. Mgr., Grand Rapids4/9, 10/76 The Magic Flute Eng. MartinThe Opera Ass'n of Western Michigan, L. Poppen, M. Burger, Mgrs., Grand

Rapids9/20, 23, 25, 27/75 Tosca Eng. Gutman12/10, 11/75 Amahl and the Night Visitors615116 Opera Scenes w.p.University of Michigan, Comic Opera Guild, Ann Arbor2/4-7/76 La belle Helene Haugh; d: LikovaUniversity of Michigan Opera Theatre, R. Herbert, Dir., Ann Arbor (see also

Fall '75 Blltn.)12/5/75 Opera Scenes, Wrkshp.3/18/76 Le Vin herbe cone, pf., c: Burmeister4/1-4/76 Carmen opera-comique vers., Eng. Martin; c: G. Mayer; d: Herbert

MINNESOTAGreenwood Productions, M. Metzger, Dir., St. Paul Central High School2/7, 8/76 Vernon's The Barber of New York

MISSOURIOpera Theatre of St. Louis, R. Gaddes, Gen. Mgr., St. Louis5/22, 28 6/2, 12/76 Don Pasquale Greenawald; Cole, Strummer, Raines; c: Kohn;

d: Alden; ds: Ravelin/Sullivan/Sargent5/26 6/5, 11/76 The Impresario & The Medium Hunter, Putnam; Burke & James,

Hall; Moore; c: Moriarty/Kohn; d: Galterio/Rizzo; ds: Kavelin/Sullivan5/29 6/4, 9/76 Albert Herring Tinsley, Petros, Curtis, Meyerson; Hoback, Moore,

Kibler, Dickson; c: Moriarty; d: Galterio; ds: Kavelin/GranadaMONTANA

Montana State University Opera Wksp., E. Cowan, Dir., Bozeman11/75 The Merry Wives of Windsor12/75 Amahl and the Night Visitors3/76 Dido and Aeneas

NEBRASKANebraska Wesleyan University, Opera Theater, W. Wyman, Dir., Lincoln11/18/75 The Medium & Opera Scenes, w.p.2/20, 21, 22, 28, 29/76 Susannah w.o.

NEW HAMPSHIREHanover Opera Wksp., R. Morton, Dir., Hopkins Center1/27/76 Carmen1/30/76 La Forza del destino

NEW JERSEYBloomfield College Opera Theatre, Bloomfield3/14/76 ToscaBrookdale Community College Opera Co., J. Szostak, Dir., Lincroft12/18, 19, 20, 21/75 Babes in Toyland5/13, 14, 15, 16/76 The Consul

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Hoboken Opera Ass'n, E. Failla, Dir., Jersey City2/76 ToscaOpera/Operetta Society, Monmouth Conservatory, F. Molzer, Dir., Little

Silver11/15/75 The Merry Widow Eng.4/10, 11/76 The Magic Flute Eng. MacfarrenTrenton State College Opera Wksp., B. Steele, Dir., Trenton3/5, 6/76 The Magic Flute

NEW YORKEastman School of Music, Univ. of Rochester, L. Treash, Dir. Opera11/20, 21/75 Falstaff Eng. Treash4/8, 9/76 Cost fan tutte Eng. TreashGreater Utica Opera Guild, F. Kaiser, Pres., Utica11/13, 15/75 Rigoletto GrahameHudson Valley Symphony, S. Simon, Cond., Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry12/21 /75 Poulenc's Babar, the Elephant 2 pfs.Manhattanville College Opera Players, S. Sonntag, Mus. Dir., Purchase3/6, 7/76 L'Incoronazione di Poppea Eng.Opera Theatre of Syracuse, Inc., R. Driver, Gen. Mgr., Syracuse3/26, 27/76 La Traviata5/28, 29/76 di Giacomo's Beauty and the BeastRockland Community College, Music Dept., Suffern6/12/76 R. Owen's Mary Dyer prem.; L. Owen, Gerber; Bender, Ludgin, Paul,

Barker; c: Saffir; d: Haber; w. Hudson Valley PhilharmonicSingers Theatre, Shrub Oak4/3/76 11 TrovatoreSUNY Opera Wksp., University Theatre, S. Osmond, Dir., Albany12/4-7/75 Das kleine Mahagonny Eng.5/6/76 Carmina burana Univ. Chorale & Percussion Ensemble

NEW YORK CITYAmadeus Fine Arts Society, Carnegie Hall11/30/75 Opera ScenesAmerican Opera Center, P. H. Adler, Dir., Juilliard School (see also Summer

& Fall '75 Blltns.)12/11, 13, 14/75 La Traviata c: Ehrling d: Hebert2/7, 8176II Matrimonio segreto4/22, 24, 25/76 Weisgall's The Hundred Nights prem. & Petrassi's // Cordovano

Am. prem.American Symphony Orchestra, K. Akiyama, Mus. Dir., Carnegie Hall2/22/76 Carmina burana Hoagland, Frankhauser, Metcalf; N. Y. Choral SocietyAn Evening of J. Fennimore, Carnegie Recital Hall10/1/75 Fennimore's Eventide & Don't Call Me by My Right NameBay Chamber Opera, Union Church, Brooklyn2/20, 21/76 Slow Dusk & Gallantry5/21, 22/76 Bush's The HermitBel Canto Opera, T. Sieh, Prod. & Art. Dir., Madison Ave. Baptist Church (see

also Fall '75 Blltn.)5/21, 22, 23m, 23/76 V. Herbert's Babette (replacing Tchaikovsky's Jeanne d'Arc)Benefit for Harlem School of the Arts, D . Maynor, Dir., Alice Tully Hall3/16/76 Roosevelt's And the Walls Came Tumbling Down prem. & dance pieces by

Kay and DettBlue Hill Troupe, C. D. Walker, Mus. Dir., Hunter College3/30, 314/1, 2, 3m, 3/76 PatienceBrooklyn Lyric Opera, N. Myrvik, Art. Dir.4/25/76 Amelia Goes to the Ball & Kalmanoff's A Quiet Game of CribbleChurch of Our Savior Choir, J. Somary, Dir.1/19/76 Honegger's King DavidClarion Concerts, N. Jenkins, Dir., Alice Tully Hall4/21/76 Steffani's Niobe excerpts & Searle's Contemplations for Mezzo-Soprano and

Orchestra de Gaetani

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Community Opera Inc. G. Mathew, Pres., F. Worthington, Dir.1/2 2/24/76 Barthelson's The King's Breakfast2/6 5/2/76 Pergolesi's The Jealous Husband2114, 22, 28 4/25/76 Die Fledermaus1975-76 Var. Evenings of Scenes w.p.Composer's Ensemble, Carnegie Recital Hall4/1/76 Taub's Passion, Poison and Petrification prem.; c: P. LiebersonConcert Orchestra of Long Island, L. Halasz, Cond., Port Washington3/20/76 La BohemeCo-Opera, Astor Place Theatre4/1, 2, 3, 4/76 Opera ScenesD'Oyly Carte Opera Co., Uris Theatre5/4, 5, 13, 14, 15m, 15, 20, 21, 22m, 23/76 The Mikado5/6, 7, 8m, 8, 9 11, 12m, 12/76 The Pirates of Penzance5/16, 18, 19m, 19/76 H.M.S. PinaforeEncompass Theatre3/21, 28 4/1-4, 7-11, 15-18, 22-25/76 The Mother of Us AllGreek Art Theatre, Sheraton Square11/3/75 La NavarraiseInwood Chamber Opera Players, Susanne Edelman, Dir., Brooklyn6/26/76 Mozart Opera ScenesLa Puma Opera Workshop, Hotel Ansonia11/6/75 Norma 3/14/76 La Boheme11/13/75 La Traviata 5/23/76 Lucia di Lammennoor11 / 20/ 75 Don Carlo 6/7/76 The Barber of Seville12/4/75 Otello 6/14/76 Rigoletto121 III! 5 ErnaniLaurentian Chamber Players1/25/76 L'Histoire du soldatL'Ensemble, Music Hall of the Otto Kahn Mansion12/7, 8/75 Facade & A Hand of BridgeLiederkranz Foundation Opera Showcase, T. Martin, Dir., Reimann Concert

Hall5/15, 16/76 Barab's Phillip Marshall c: Martin; d: CrittendenLighthouse Music School Opera Wksp, R. Krause, Dir.6/10, 11/76 Buxom Joan & El Capitan excerptsLight Opera of Manhattan, W. Mount-Burke, Dir., Eastside Playhouse9, 10, 11/75 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8/76 The Mikado 36 pfs.9, 10/75 1, 2, 3, 4, 8/76 H.M.S. Pinafore 36 pfs.9, 10, 11/75 1/76 Naughty Marietta 21 pfs.9, 10/75 1, 2, 8/76 Pirates of Penzance 28 pfs.11/75 llldlolanthe 15 pfs.12/75 2, 3, 4/76 The Vagabond King 20 pfs.2, 3, 4/76 The Gondoliers 10 pfs.3, 4/76 Patience 10 pfs.5, 6, 7/76 The Student Prince 44 pfs.Manhattan Savoyards, Queensboro Community College, Bayside4/3/76 The Pirates of PenzanceManhattan School of Music, Prep. Division, C. Auerbach, Dir.4/10, l lm, 11/76 A. Wolff's The Blue BirdManhattan Theatre Club5/76 Susa's Transformations5/30 6/1, 2, 5, 6, 8/76 La Voix humaine Eng.Mannes College of Music Opera Wksp., R. Stevens, Pres.12/11, 18/75 Scenes from Tales of Hoffmann c: Contino; d: Freedman; ds: Lee3/16/76 Scenes R. & J. Strauss Operas, at Marymount Manhattan Coll.5/10, 17/76 Opera Scenes d: BambergerMarymount Manhattan College, V. DeRenzi, Cond.12/13, 22/75 // Matrimonio segretoMasterworks Laboratory, Spencer Memorial Church, Brooklyn11/2,7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16/75 The Gondoliers

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Metropolitan Opera Ass'n, A. Bliss. Exec. Dir., Tour 4/19-5/29/76BOSTON, HYNES AUDITORIUM4/19/76 Norma 4/23/76 Carmen4/20/76 Aida 4/24m/76 // Trittico4/21/76 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg 4/24/76 Le Nozze di Figaro4/22/76 La GiocondaCLEVELAND, PUBLIC AUDITORIUM4/26/76 Norma 4/30/76 Carmen4/27/76 Aida SI lm/76 // Trittico4/ 28 / 76 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg 511/76 Le Nozze di Figaro4/29/76 La GiocondaATLANTA, CIVIC CENTER5/3/76 La Gioconda 5/7/76 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg5/4/76 Aida 5/8m/76 Le Nozze di Figaro5/5/76 Carmen 5/8/76 // TritticoSI 6/ 76 Un Ballo in mascheraMEMPHIS, MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM5/10/76 La Gioconda 5112/76 Un Ballo in maschera5/11/76 AidaDALLAS, STATE FAIR PARK AUDITORIUM5/13/76 Carmen 5/ 15m/76 Le Nozze di FigaroSI 14/76 Aida 5/15/76 // TritticoMINNEAPOLIS, NORTHROP MEMORIAL AUDITORIUMSI 17/76 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg 5/21/76 La GiocondaSI 18/76 Carmen 5/22m/76 // Trittico5/19/76 Aida 5/22/ 76 Le Nozze di Figaro5/20/76 Un Ballo in mascheraDETROIT, MASONIC TEMPLE5/24/76 Carmen 5/28/76 Aida5/25/76 // Trittico 5/29m/76 Le Nozze di Figaro5/26/76 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg 5/29/76 Un Ballo in mascheraSI 2''176 La GiocondaMusic with Jens Nygaard, Washington Heights YMHA12/14/75 Pergolesi's La Contadina astutaNew York Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Steinway Hall12/14, 21/75 5/5, 11, 18, 25 6/2/76 The Mikado1/4, 11, 18, 25 2/1, 8, 15, 22, 29/76 Trial by Jury & H.M.S. Pinafore3/7, 14, 21, 28/76 The Pirates of Penzance5/9, 16, 23, 30 6/6/76 H.M.S. Pinafore all pfs. w.p.New York Grand Opera, V. LaSelva, Dir., at Brooklyn Academy of Music5/15, 18/76 Giovanna d'Arco Am. stage prem.6/4, 5/76 Stiffelio Am. prem.New York School of Opera11/20,22,26/75 ToscaNew York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, Lafayette St.2/76 Meyer/Lamb's Apple Tree d/prod: Papp; mus. dir.: L. Redfleld; nightly pfs.

opening 2/12Norman Treigle Memorial Fund and Music Performance Trust Fund, N. Y.

State Theatre10/27/75 "A Memorial Tribute to Norman Treigle" Arroyo, Bible, Brooks, Craig,

Curtin, Dunn, Meier, Niska, Shade, Sills; Alexander, Cossa, Diaz, Fredricks,Malamood, Theyard; NYC Opera Chorus; c: Rudel

Opera and Orchestra da Camera, F. Lorr, Mgr., No. Babylon, tour12/75 Amahl and the Night Visitors 5 pfs.3-4/76 Murray's Beauty and the Beast 10 pfs.4/76 Carmine's The Duel 4 pfs.Opera Repertory Theatre, B'nai Jeshurun Community Center12/27/75 La Boheme3/8, 14/76 Land of SmilesOpera Theatre of Long Island11/24, 28/75 The Barber of Seville

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Queens Symphony, D. Katz, Dir., Queens College2/7/76 Little Red Riding HoodQUOG Music Theatre, Cubiculo Theatre5/25-30/76 Sahl & Salzman's StaufRegina Opera Theatre, Regina Center, Brooklyn3/12/76 Madatna Butterfly6/11, 18/76 Die FledermausRiverside Orchestra, L. Newland, Mus. Dir., Carnegie Hall31'28 /76 La Juive cone. pf.Sacred Music Society, A. Morss, Cond., Avery Fisher Hall1/7/76 Massenet's Marie Magdalaine Am. prem., cone, pf.; Crespin, Nadler; Roney,

RouleauSt. Bartholomew's Choir, J. Ossewaarck, Dir., St. Bartholomew's Church1/4/76 L'Enfance du Christ2/22/76 Handel's Samson3/14/76 Bernstein's Mass excerptsSt. George Choir and Choral Society, St. George's Church11/16/75 Honegger's King DavidSt. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Feldman, Mus. Dir.2/7/76 Rieti's The Pet Shop & Debussy's marionette ballet The Toy BoxStuyvesant Opera, S. Sweeney, Art Dir., Church of the Covenant11/14, 15, 22/75 Lucia di Lammermoor12/5, 13, 20/75 Norma6/12, 18/76 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci7/9, 10, 16/76 The Magic Flute Eng.Symphony of the New World, E. Lee, Cond., Carnegie Hall4/4/76 Don Carlo cone. pf.Theatre at Noon, St. Peter's Church12/1-5, 8-12/75 Sandow's The Richest Girl in the World Finds Happiness 20 pfs.3/29-4/2/76 Pimpinone 10 pfs.Town Hall Presents, at Town Hall2/8, 15/76 The Merry Widow Sp.; 3 pfs.5/29/76 Gonzalez Nela cone, pf.; prod: M. GonzalezVienna Boy's Choir, Avery Fisher Hall1/23/76 The ApothecaryVillage Light Opera Group, R. Noll, Dir., Fashion Institute Theatre (see also

Fall '75 Blltn.)4/24, 25m, 28, 30 5/1, 2m/76 Romberg's The New MoonWNET Opera Theatre, D. Griffiths, prod., New York City10/6/75 Roberto Devereux Wolf Trap/N.Y. City Opera prod.4/21/76 The Ballad of Baby Doe New York City Opera prod.51 1116 La Traviata Eng. Crozier & Cross; BBC prod; Harwood; Brecknock, Bailey5/8/76 Trouble in Tahiti Amberson prod.; Williams; Patrick; c: Bernstein5/15/76 The Flying Dutchman BBC prod.; Jones; Bailey, Dean, Erwen5/18, 22/76 The Mikado D'Oyly Carte prod.5/25,28, 29/76 Die Fledermaus Eng. Hassal & Tracey; Armstrong, Pashley, A.

Howard; Hughes, Hillman; c: Leppard; d: Gorrie6/15/76 Myshkin Ind. Univ. prod.Young Artists Opera, Inc., V. Mauret, Dir., Town Hall1/18/76 Strauss' Zigeunerliebe

NORTH CAROLINAEast Carolina University Opera Wksp., C. Hiss, Dir., Greenville2/5/76 Opera Scenes w.p.5/12-15/76 La Traviata w.o., Eng. Card

OHIOCapital University Opera Wksp., G. Allen, Dir., Columbus11/17775 Opera Scenes w.p.1123176 ElCapitanCincinnati May Music Festival Ass'n, J. Levine, Mus. Dir., Cincinnati5/21/76 Porgy and Bess Mitchell; Estes; cone. pf.5/22/76 Orfeo ed Eurydice Ewing, Balthrop, Battle; cone. pf.

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Cleveland Institute of Music, Opera Theatre, A. Addison, Dir., Cleveland1/24/76 Hansel and Gretel Eng., University Circle Youth Chorus, w.p.2/11, 13, 14/76 Levy's Escorial & Dido and Aeneas3117176 ldomeneo cone, pf., Alcorn, Thomas, Vanni; Trimble; c: Bragado-Darmann4/21, 23, 24/76 Albert Herring6/11, 12/76 Weill's Street Scene Alcorn, Vanni; Schrader, Crowe; c: Bamberger; d:

HellerCleveland Symphony Orchestra, L. Maazel, Mus. Dir.2/76 Porgy and Bess cone, pf., 2/3/76 at Carnegie Hall, N.Y.Columbus Symphony Orchestra, E. Whallon, Mns. Dir., Columbus (see also

Fall '75 Blltn.)2/26, 28/76 La Traviata Thomson; Stewart, Christopher; c: Whallon; d: Treash; ds:

StruthersDana School of Music, D. £ . Vogel, Dir. Opera, Youngstown State University11/24/75 1/14/76 Bastien and Bastienne & The Maid Mistress5/20/76 The Telephone5/21, 22, 28, 29/76 The Medium & The Unicorn, Gorgon and the ManticoreLima Symphony Orchestra, J. Firszt, Mus. Dir., Lima2/13,14/76 The Gypsy Baron Eng. MartinOberlin College-Conservatory Opera Theatre, B. Owens, Dir., Oberlin10/16, 17, 19/75 Pelleas and Melisande Eng. Owens; w.o.Ohio University Opera Theater, I. Zook, Chnin., A. Kaufman, Prod., Athens2/13-15/76 Madama Butterfly w.o.Ohio Wesleyan University Music Theater, W. Olson, Chmn., Delaware11/13, 14, 15, 16/75 Die Fledermaus Eng. Dietz-Kanin; w.o.University of Akron, Opera Wksp., D. Rohrbaugh, Dir., Akron3/4-6/76 The Devil and Daniel WebsterUniversity of Cincinnati College-Conservatory, E. Bonelli, Dir. (see also Sum-

mer '75 Blltn.)5/2, 4/76 Moses und Aron London, R. Lewis; c: Sadin; d: Motta; ds: Shortt; semi-

staged, prod. w. Hebrew Union CollegeWright State University, Music Dept., W. C. Fenton, Chmn., Dayton5/1/76 The Old Maid and the Thief

OKLAHOMAOklahoma City University Opera Workshop, I. Lunsford-Silberg, Dir., Okla-

homa City9/26, 27, 28/75 Two Gentlemen of Verona 2/6, 7, 8, 9/76 Faust12/5, 6, 7/75 Merry Mount 3/17, 18, 19, 20/76 George M

OREGONPortland Opera Ass'n Studio, Portland & tour2/12, 14, 19 3/13/76 The Medium

PENNSYLVANIAAcademy of Vocal Arts, V. Hammond, Dir., Philadelphia3/31/76 Susannah 5/8 in Holicong, Pa.Harrisburg Civic Opera Ass'n, S. Oberholtzer, Art. Dir., Harrisburg5/20, 21, 22/ 76 Die Fledermaus Eng. Csonka & Oberholtzer new music for dialogueLancaster Opera Wksp., F. Robinson, Dir., Fulton Opera House4/27-51 SI 76 Daisy 14 pfs. spons: Penn Laurel Girl Scout Council, YorkPennsylvania Opera Theater, Barbara Silverstein, Art. Dir., Merion Episcopal

Academy5/21, 22, 23/76 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng., w.o.Penn State University, Curtis Inst, D. Yannopoulos, Dir., University Park2/22/76 The Marriage of FigaroPhiladelphia Musical Academy-Opera Studies Program, S. Ventura, Dir.4/29, 30 5/1/76 Dido and Aeneas & Opera, Opera!The Savoy Company, D. S. Knight, Pres., Philadelphia5/16, 17/76 Utopia, Ltd.5/21, 22/76 The Pirates of Penzance at Academy of Music6/4, 5/76 The Pirates of Penzance at Kenneth Square7/3, 12, 13, 15/76 The Pirates of Penzance England tour

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1975-76 Season

Temple University Opera Dept, G. McKinley, Dir., Philadelphia4/76 The Crucible Dempsey; Sullivan; d: FlusserWestminster College, New Wilmington1/76 Schoenhard's The Dollmaker prem.Wilkes College Opera Wksp., R. Chapline, Dir., Wilkes-Barre4/76 Siegmeister's Sing Out, Sweet Land

SOUTH CAROLINAColumbia Lyric Theatre, W. J. Moody, Prod./Cond., Columbia12/2,3,5,6/75 The Consul4/5, 7, 10/76 // Trovatore Eng. JeffreysFurman University Opera Workshop, G. Sheard, Dir., Greenville2/12, 14/76 Hansel and Gretel w.o.; 5/11 excerpts w.p.Converse College Opera Workshop, J. McCrae, Dir., Spartanburg11/26, 27/75 Sound of Music w.o.1/29, 30/76 Scenes from Operas on American Themes, w.p.5/30/76 Madama Butterfly w.o.

TENNESSEECarson-Newman College Lyric Theatre, T. Teague, Dir. Opera, Jefferson City10/16, 17, 18/75 The Old Maid and the Thief & Trial by Jury w.p.5/27/76 SusannahAustin Peay State Univ. Opera Theatre, S. Malry, Dir., Clarksville3-4/76 Trouble in Tahiti 6 pfs. on tourEast Tennessee State Univ. Opera Theatre, R. LaPella, Dir., Johnson City2/26, 27/76 Jumping Frog of Calaveras County w.p.5/10, 11/76 Bastien and Bastienne Eng. Paul & Four Note OperaSouthern Opera Theatre, Kingsport Symphony Orch., Kingsport2/21/76 The Barber of Seville 1975-76 Hansel and Gretel w.p.University of Tennessee Opera Theatre, E. Zambara, Art. Dir., Knoxville1/23, 24, 30, 31/76 Susannah 5/7, 8, 28/76 Street Scene7/30, 31/76 Rita Eng. Mead & Comedy on the Bridge Eng. SchmolkaUniversity of Tennessee at Martin, Opera Theare, M. Jevvett, Dir., Martin5/21, 22/76 G. Carp's The Tennessee Witch prem., w.o.

TEXASBeaumont Civic Opera, P. P. Fuchs, Art. Dir., Beaumont1/16-18/76 The Most Happy Fella c: Randolph BabinHoward Payne University Opera Wksp., M. Sherman, Dir., Brownwood4/25, 26/76 The Girl of the Golden West Eng., w.o.North Texas State University Opera Theatre, A. Schoep, Dir., Denton4/7, 8/76 The CrucibleSouthern Methodist University Opera Theatre, L. Willard, Dir., Dallas4/1-4/76 The CrucibleWest Texas State University Opera Wksp., R. Brantley, Dir., Canyon11/21, 22, 23, 24/75 La Boheme 4/8-11, 14-16/76 Musical

VIRGINIAUniversity of Virginia Music Dept., M. Velimirovic, Chum., Charlotteville4/8-10/76 Paisiello's Le Gare generosi (Slaves of Love) Eng. Evans; Am. prem.Waldo Workshop Opera, Winifred Waldo, Dir., Arlington6/18/76 Fewell's Light Horse Harry Lee prem., co-spons. Arlington Historical Socy.

& Arlington Bicentennial Commss.WASHINGTON

State University Opera Theatre, M. W. Davis, Dir., Pullman4/30 5/1, 7, 8/76 The Ballad of Baby Doe c: R. BuckleyTacoma Community College Music Dept, Opera Wksp. D. Hurshell, Dir.10-11/75 Opera ScenesTacoma Opera Society, W. Winden, Dir., Evergreen State College, OlympiaSpring '76 The Merry Wives of Windsor

WEST VIRGINIAWest Virginia Opera Theatre, D. Riggio, Mus. Dir., Charleston5/1, 4, 8/76 Madama Butterfly Eng. Martin; also in Beckley & Huntington5/2, 3, 17/76 Boston Baked Beans

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WISCONSINMadison Civic Opera, R. Palmer, Mgr., Madison2/13, 14/76 The Ballad of Baby DoeThe Opera of the University of Wisconsin, K. Moser, Art. Dir., Madison10/1, 3, 4/75 Breasts of Tiresias & The Spanish Hour Eng.; w.p.11/5, 6, 7, 8/75 Oklahoma w.o.2/18, 20, 21/76 Susa's Transformations w.o.5/12, 14, 15/76 Girl of the Golden West Eng. Martin; w.o.University of Wisconsin Opera Theatre, K. Scheffel, Dir., Eau Claire11/75 Figg and BeanUniversity of Wisconsin Opera Workshop, W. Madsen, Dir., Stevens Point11/5, 6, 7/75 Amahl and the Night Visitors w.o.3/5,7,9/76 Susannah w.o.5/2/76 Gallantry w.p.

CANADACanadian Opera on Tour, J. Rubes, Mgr. (see also Fall '75 Blltn.)11-12/75 1-4/76 La Boheme Eng. w.o.2-3/76 The Glove school tour w.p.3-4/76 La Traviata w.o.Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, R. Armenian, Mus. Dir., Waterloo, Ont.4/76 Don Giovanni 3 cone. pfs.National Arts Centre, B. Corder, Dir., Ottawa, Ont.1/16/76 Handel's Samson cone, pf., Marks, Glenn, Forrester; McCoy, Relyea,

Smith; Ottawa Choral Society; c: LawOpera in Concert, S. Hamilton, Dir., St. Lawrence Center, Toronto, Ont.10/75 La Voix humaine Curry12/7, 8/75 Werther Forrester/Curry1/11, 12/76 Hirodiade2/29 3/1/76 MignonToronto Opera Repertoire, G. Macina, Dir., w. Board of Educ, Toronto12/3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12/75 Un Ballo in maschera w.p.2/14/76 Hernandez' Trelawny prem.3/18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27/76 La Boheme w.p.University of Alberta, A. Stromberg, Chnin. Opera Division, Edmonton, Alta.3/3, 4/76 Gianni SchicchiSc Trouble in Tahiti w.o.University of Manitoba Opera Workshop, H. Standring, Dir., Winnipeg3/29/76 Opera ScenesUniversity of Toronto Opera Dept., E. Schabas, Chmn., Toronto, Ont.12/17, 19/75 Opera Scenes1/30, 31 2/6, 7/76 The Crucible c: Craig; d: Fisher4/2, 3, 9, 10/76 The Mines of Sulphur Can. prem.; c: Gyarto; d: Geiger-Torel; ds:

Sawchuk5/25-28/76 Opera ScenesUniversity of Victoria, Dept. of Music Theatre, G. Corwin, Dir., Victoria, B.C.3/19, 20/76 Sellitti's Drucilla and Strathbone & Suzanne's Secret Eng. AvelingUniversity of Western Ontario Opera Theatre, M. Chambers, Dir., London12/5, 6/75 Suor Angelica & Opera Scenes w.p.3/14, 24 4/2, 3/76 In a Garden & Opera Scenes w.p.

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, SUMMER 1976ALASKA

Anchorage Civic Opera, E. Voth, Art. Dir., AnchorageSummer 76 Cavalleria rusticana & PagliacciAlaska Festival of Music, R. Shaw, Art. Dir., (6/12-24/76) Anchorage

ARIZONAFlagstaff Summer Festival, I. Solomon, Mus. Dir., Flagstaff (6/13-8/7/76Northern Arizona University Opera Theatre, K. Weinzinger, Dir., Flagstaff5/7, 8/76 The Crucible (replaces Ballad of Baby Doe)8/6/76 Sourwood Mountain; 7/7/76 at Music Camp, Glendale

ARKANSASInspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, I. van Grove, Art. Dir., Eureka Springs6/20-7/30/76 incl. Carmen; Van Grove's The Prodigal — His Wandering Years

prem.CALIFORNIA

Cabrillo Music Festival, D. R. Davies, Mus. Dir., Aptos (8/12-22/76)Carmel Bach Festival, S. Salgo, Mus. Dir. (7/18-8/1/76)7/23, 30/76 Dido and Aeneas Williams, C. Cummings; w. Pacific BalletHollywood Bowl, Z. Mehta, Mus. Dir., Los Angeles, L.A. Philharmonic

in residence (7/2-9/18/76)Lyric Opera Ass'n of Orange County, B. Duarte, Dir., Laguna Beach Audi-

torium8/29, 319/2,4/76 Gianni Schicchi & Pagliacci w.p., d: Kurkjian9/30/76 / Do, I Do 10 pfs.Merola Opera Program, of San Francisco Opera6/27 717176 Ensembles at Cannery & downtown S.F.7/18/76 Tales of Hoffmann at Stern Grove8/1/76 Opera Concert, Stern Grove8/14, 15/76L'Ajo nell'imbarazzo Am. prem.; at Masson Winery, SaratogaMusic Academy of the West, M. Abravanel, Mus. Dir., Santa Barbara

(6/28-8/21/76)8/14, 16,18/76 Carmen d: SingherMusic at the Yinyards, P. Masson Winery, Saratoga (6/19-8/29/76) see MerolaOjai Festival, A. Copland, Guest Cond., Los Angeles Philharmonic in resi-

dence (5/21-23/76)Opera Under the Stars, Balboa Park, San Diego7/12, 14, 16/76 Carmen San Diego Youth Symphony; c: CampigliaSan Francisco Friends of Recreation & Park Dept, Golden Gate Park9/12/76 Opera Concert, Sills; c: Adler; spons: S.F. ExaminerSan Luis Obispo, Mozart Festival, C. Swanson, Mus. Dir. (8/2-8/76)

COLORADOAspen Music Festival and School, J. Mester, Mus. Dir., Aspen (6/25-8/22/76)7/29, 30 8/1/76 The Magic Flute Eng.; c: Conlon; d: Deutsch8/12, 14/76 Les Contes d'Hoffmann Shane; Malas, Schwisow; c: Sipusch; d: LazarusCentral City Opera Festival, D. Effron, Art. Dir., R. Lotito, Exec. Mgr.7/10-31/76 The Ballad of Baby Doe c: E. BuckleyColorado Opera Festival, D. Jenkins, Art. Dir., Colorado Springs6/16, 18, 20/76 Don Pasquale7/7, 9, 11/76 A Soldier's Tale & Gianni Schicchi7/28, 30 8/1/76 Bora Godunov orig. vers.also apprentice programs for singers and designersUniversity of Northern Colorado, Opera Theatre, C. Schmitz, Prod., Greeley7/22,23,24/76 Tosca8/5,6,7/76 7776

CONNECTICUTHartt College of Music Opera Theatre, J. Zei, Art. Dir., West Hartford7/8, 9, 10, 22, 24 8/7, 8/76 The Sound of Music7/15, 16, 17, 29, 31 8/5, 6/76 Fiddler on the Roof

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAKennedy Center for the Performing Arts, R. Stevens, Climn., Washington8/24-29/76 El Capitan Texas Opera TheaterNational Symphony Orchestra, J. F. Kennedy Center (7/9-9/12/76)

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FLORIDAFlorida Atlantic University Opera Theatre, R. Wright, Dir., Boca Raton6/5, 6/76 The Mikado w.p.North Miami Beach Symphony, L. Siegel, Mus. Dir., North Miami Beach7/11/76 J. Strauss Pops Concert8/15, 16/76 The MikadoPensacola Jr. College Summer Opera, S. Kennedy, Dir., Pensacola Fine Arts

Auditorium7/9, 10, 12, 13/76 Cost fan tutte

ILLINOISGrant Park Concerts, S. Ackerman, Mgr., Chicago6/26-8/29/76 incl. Tosca; Carmen; cone. pfs.The Midland Repertory Players, Opera In the Barn, K. Shanahan, Dir.6/25, 26/76 Mavra & // Tabarro w.p.7/16, 17/76 Down in the Valley & Rigoni's The Red Death prem.; w.p.7/30, 31/76 La Cenerentola w.p.8/20, 21/76 The Tales of Hoffmann w.p.Ravinia Festival, J. Levine, Mus. Dir., Highland Park (6/24-9/12/76)7/16/76 La Damnation de Faust Crespin; Riegel, Bastin, Silins7/6-28/76 Master classes: Valente; Morris

INDIANAIndiana University Opera Theatre, W. Bain, Dir., Bloomington7/10, 17, 24/76 Carousel 8/6, 7, 8/76 SusannahMusic Festival, Pendleton7-8/76 La Fille du regiment stgd; 2 opera concerts

IOWAMetro Summer Festival, R. Larsen, Art. Dir., Des Moines6/18, 20, 26 7/3/76 The Barber of Seville 6/26, 29 7/4/76 Susannah6/19, 27, 31 7/2/76 Manon Eng.Univ. of Northern Iowa Music Theatre, J. Birkhead, Dir., Cedar Falls (see also

Fall '75 Blltn.)4/76 tour: El Capitan 7 pfs.7/20-8/2/76 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

KANSASMusic Theatre of Wichita, Inc., J. Miller, Prod., Wichita6/9, 10, 11, 12, 13/76 Showboat 8/9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14/76 El Capitan6/23, 24, 25, 26, 27/76 Sweethearts

MAINESouth Mountain Festival Association, Pittsfield6-8/76 incl. The Devil and Daniel Webster

MARYLANDGilnian Summer Theater, W. Rich, Gen. Mgr., Baltimore7/8, 9, 10, 16, 17/76 The Sorcerer7/20, 21 8/6, 7/76 Cox and Box & The Pirates of PenzanceHarford Opera Theatre, S. Lilienstein, Art Dir., Bel Air and Goucher College6/10, 12, 13, 17#, 19#, 20# 176 The Barber of Seville6/24#, 26#, 27# 7/1, 3, 4/76 The Tender Land7/8, 10, 11, 15#, 17#, 18#/76 Orpheus and Euridice7/22#, 24#, 25#, 29, 31 8/1/76 Orpheus in the Underworld8/5, 7, 8, 12#, 14#, 15#/76 Lucia di Lammermoor# at Goucher College, BaltimoreMontgomery College Music Dept., G. Muller, Chmn., Rockville4/4-8/76 Muller's Joshua prem. preview7/8-11, 15-17/76 Muller's Joshua pfs. also at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C.

MASSACHUSETTSBerkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, Boston Symphony hi residence, S.

Ozawa, Mus. Dir., Lenox (7/4-8/29/76)7/23/76 L'Histoire du soldatSI21176 Berlioz' Romeo et Juliette De Gaetani, Dupouy; Plishka; New England

Conserv. Chorus81'29776 St. Matthew Passion Bryn-Julson, Forrester; Luxon, Stilwell, Riegel, McCoy

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Brooklyn College School of Performing Arts Summer Session, Indian Hill,Stockbridge (6/25-8/19/76)

College Light Opera, R. Haslun, Prod., Highfield Theatre, Falmouth6/28-7/3/76 Kismet 8/3-7/76 The Red Mill7/6-10/76 The Pirates of Penzance 8/10-14/76 South Pacific7/13-17/76 The Vagabond King 8/17-21/76 The Yeomen of the Guard1120-24116 Ruddigore 8 / 24-28 / 76 The Music Man1121-31116 The Boys from SyracuseNew England Conservatory Summer Program, G. Schuller, Pres., Boston

(6/28-8/5/76)Lenox Arts Center, L. Austin & O. Smith, Dirs., Lenox7/2-8/22/76 incl. Night Club Cantata; In the Dark prem.Southeastern Mass. Music Institute & Festival, M. Meredith, Mng. Dir., North

Dartmouth6/28-7/24/76 incl. Madama Butterfly Opera Workshop, B. Goldovsky, Dir.

MICHIGANUniversity of Michigan Opera Theatre, Ann Arbor8/12-15/76 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin; c: U. Mayer; d: R. Herbert8/17/76 Opera Scenes by Summer Workshop; d: LikovaCranbrook Festival, English Gothic Christ Church, Bloomfield Hills5/6-9/76 incl. Purcell's Fairy QueenMeadowbrook Music Festival, Detroit Symphony in residence, A. Ceccato,

Mus. Dir., Rochester6/24-8/29/76 incl. Die Walkiire scenes, cone. pf.National Music Camp, G. Wilson, Chmn., Interlochen6/29-8/22/76 incl. Oklahoma1124/16 Foss's American Cantata prem.Upper Peninsula Music Festival, Detroit Symphony, A. Ceccato, Mus. Dir.

(8/9-15/76)

MINNESOTACarleton Summer Music Festival, W. Wells, Mus. Dir., Northfield (6/17-20/76)Minnesota Opera & University of Minnesota Summer Institute, Minneapolis

(6/21-7/17/76)

MISSOURIBicentennial Horizons of American Music, St. Louis (6/14-7/4/76)6/28, 29/76 The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Southern 111. Univ. prod.,

Goldenrod Showboat7/2/76 Madama Butterfly excerpts

NEBRASKAUniversity of Nebraska Opera Theatre, R. Stephens, Dir., Lincoln7/76 Albert Herring

NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College Summer Festival, Hopkins Center, Hanover (7/3-8/28/76)New Hampshire Music Festival, in coop. w. N.H. Commission on the Arts,

Sunapee

NEW JERSEYGarden State Arts Center, Holmdel (6/28-9/5/76)6/28/76 La Traviata Costa; Fernandi, Merrill; c: Silipigni; N.J. State Opera prod.8/23/76 Boris Godunov excerpts; Hines; c: Silipigni; N.J. State Opera prod.Metro Lyric Opera Co., E. M. Tognoli, Exec. Dir., Monmouth Op. Guild,

Allenhurst7/9-11, 16-18/76 La Boheme in Lincroft, w.p.8/28, 29/76 Madama Butterfly in Lakewood, w.p.State Bicentennial Committee, Washington Crossing State Pk.8/26, 28 9/1, 4/76 Barton's The Disappointment or The Force of Credulity prem.;

prod, in co-operation w. Eastman School of Music

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NEW MEXICOSanta Fe Opera, J. Crosby, Gen. Dir., Santa Fe7/7, 9, 15, 17, 21, 30 8/14, 17, 26, 28/76 La Traviata E. Shade/N. Shade; Lewis,

Ellis, Bryne-Jones; c: Crosby; d: Bakman7/10, 14, 16, 23 8/ 12m, 18, 21, 24/76 he Nozze di Figaro Eng.; Mitchell, Greena-

wald, Esham; Carlson, McKee/Gramm; c: Baustian; d: Hebert; ds: Klein7/24, 28 8/6, 10, 19, 27/76 L'Egisto Eng.; E. Shade, Greenawald, Esham, Vanni,

Godfrey; Bowman, Carlson, Ellis; c: Leppard; d: Cox; ds: Klein7/31 8/4, 13/76 Salome N. Shade, Kraft; Ulfung, Dooley; c: Crosby; d: Hebert;

ds: Conklin8/7, 11, 20, 25/76 The Mother of Us All Dunn, Godfrey, Vanni; Atherton, Booth,

Lewis; c: Leppard; d: P. Wood; ds: IndianaTaos School of Music, Taos (6/19-7/24/76)University of New Mexico Opera Theatre, S. Daniel, Dir., Albuquerque7/76 The Penitentes

NEW YORKArtpark, Natural Heritage Trust, Lewiston6/30-9/6/76 incl. La Traviata; The Magic Flute; Der Ring des Niebelungen excerptsCaramoor Festival, J. Rudel, Mus. Dir., M. Sweeley, Exec. Dir., Katonah

(6/19-8/22/76)6/25/76 Aitkin's Fables prem.6/26/76 Let's Make an Opera c: Miner 2 pfs.7/9/76 Curlew River Velis, Metcalf, Clatworthy, West; c: Rudel; d: Hebert; ds:

Evans7/17, 23/76 The Merry Widow cone. pf. Christensen, Christos; Roe, Bullard, Bil-

lings, Harrold; c: RudelChautauqua Music Festival, L. Treash, Gen. Dir., Chautauqua (6/26-8/29/76)7/2, 5/76 The Ballad of Baby Doe Lovett, Bible; Cassel; c: Schanzer; d: Lloyd7/9, 10, 12/76 Don Pasquale Dickison; Fleck, Evans, Griffin; c: Whallon; d: Treash7/16, 17, 19/76 The Music Man Barnes, Shauler; Griffin7/23, 26/76 Die schweigsame Frau Lovett, Shauler; Parker, Evans, Fleck; c: Whal-

lon; d: Treash7/30 8/2/76 The Crucible Farris, Shaulis, Christos; Anderson, White; c: Shanzer;

d: Lloyd8/6, 9/76 Cost fan tulte Blum, Kowalski, Lovell; Evans, Griffin, Holgate8/13, 16/76 The Girl of the Golden West Smith; Peterson, Anderson; c: Whallon;

d: TreashGlimmerglass Opera Theatre, P. Macris, Art. Dir., Cooperstown/Oneonta7/10, 12, 14, 16, 18/76 La Traviata Ferrer, Brown, Gratton; c: Schneider7/23, 25, 27, 29, 31/76 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Hunt, Walker; Williams &

Lurie; Herrnkind, Outland, AndersonLake George Opera Festival, D. Lloyd, Art. Dir., Glens Falls (7/15-8/25/76)7/15, 17, 19,23 8/12, 14m, 17/76 Manon7122, 24, 27, 30 8/7m, 10, 14, 18m/76 Cosi fan tutte7/29, 31 8/2, 6, 11, 16/76 Falstaff8/5, 7, 9, 13, 18/76 Summer and Smoke Peil, James, Treadway; Nolen, Koch8/20, 21, 22, 24, 25/76 Porgy and Bess Warfield7/11, J 8 , 25 8/1, 8, 15/76 Opera on the Lake cruisesMid-Hudson Opera Theatre & Sullivan County Arts Council, at SUNY, New

Paltz7/13, 14/76 Bimboni's Winona w.p.; cone. pfs.Opera Under the Stars, & Eastman School of Music, L. Treash, Dir., City Park,

Rochester6/24, 26/76 Merry Mount7/20, 21, 23, 24/76 The Most Happy FellaSaratoga Performing Arts Center, Philadelphia Orch. & Penna. Ballet in

residence, Saratoga Springs7/5/76 The Mikado guest appearance of D'Oyly Carte Opera 7/5-77/6/76 The Pirates of Penzance717176 H.M.S. PinaforeSpotlight on Opera, Opera Under the Stars, E. Zevin, Dir., Valley Stream8/5/76 Opera Excerpts, M. Wells, Lanzillotti; Polakoff, Roy

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Summer 1976

Summer Festival of Music on the Hudson, Tarrytown (6/ 26-8/14/ 76)Summer Savoyards, P. S. Reese, Chmn., Binghamton8/6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15/76 The GondoliersWaterloo Village Music School & Summer Festival, G. Schwarz, Dir., S. Soffer,

Adms., spons. Waterloo Foundation for the Arts at restoration WaterlooVillage

NEW YORK CITYAfter Dinner Opera Co., at Washington Square Park7/20/76 Buxom Joan & excerpts other early Am. operas (17 pfs. in N.Y. State)Broque Opera Co., at ETC Theatre7/8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 25/76 Pergolesi's The Music Master & Shield's RosinaMetropolitan Opera in the Parks, A. Bliss, Exec. Dir.6/15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26l76Aida, Madama Butterfly cone. pfs.Mostly Mozart Festival, Alice Tully Hall (6/28-8/28/76)Naumburg Concerts, Central Pk. Mall (6-9/76)9/5/76 H.M.S. Pinafore Loom prod.New York Grand Opera Co., V. LaSelva, Dir., Central Park71SI76 Madama Butterfly 7115176 La Boheme 7/22/76 Tosca7/29/76 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci, 8/7 at C. W. Post College8/12/76 La Traviata, 8/14 at C. W. Post College, 8/24 BrooklynNew York Philharmonic Concerts in New York Parks (7/4, 8/3-31/76)New York University Educational Theatre/Multi Media Theatre7/14/76 A Hand of Bridge & Boston Baked Beans & Shiloni's Multi-Media Opera7/21/76 The Unicorn, Gorgon and the Manticore & The Unicorn in the Garden7/28, 29/76 Four-Note Opera & Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters8/1/76 Gilbert's Rotation w. balletOpera Studio and AMD A, J. Bascetta, Dir., Ansonia Hotel7/9,10, 16, 17, 18/76 Tosca c: BarentyneQueens Opera Ass'n, in coop. w. Queens Arts Council & N.Y.C. Cultural

Affairs Dept.8/14, 21/76 La Boheme cone. pfs. in parksStuyvesant Opera Co., S. Sweeney, Dir., St. John Baptist Church Aud.7/25/76 The Barber of Seville8/15/76 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci

NORTH CAROLINABrevard Music Center Opera Wksp., H. Janiec, Art. Dir., Brevard7/3/76 Trouble in Tahiti & The Devil and Daniel Webster7/10/76 La Cenerentola 8/6/76 Lucia di Lammermoor7/16/76 // Trovatore 8/14/76 The Elixir of Love7/30/76 The Music ManUniversity of North Carolina, Opera Theatre, R. Sander, Dir., Greensboro6/14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30/76 H.M.S. Pinafore

NORTH DAKOTAInternational Festival of the Arts & International Youth Band Festival (6/10-

8/12/76) BottineauOHIO

Blossom Music Center, Cleveland Orch. in residence, L. Maazel, Mus. Dir.,Cuyahoga Falls (6/15-8/28/76)

8116176 Porgy and Bess8/26, 28/76 Fidelio Ross, Hendricks; Rintzler, Langdon, GrammCincinnati Opera, J. DeBlasis, Gen. Dir., Cincinnati Music Hall6/16, 19, 25/76 Carmen Haddon, Wolff; Theyard, Anderson; c: Perisson; d: de

Blasis; ds: Shortt; chgr: Louiso6/20 7/3, 9/76 Showboat Hunt, Marsee; Gibbs, Mosley; c: Woitach; d: deBlasis;

chgr: Louiso6/23, 26/76 Tosca Kirsten; Alexander, Quilico; c: Guadagno; d: Tajo; ds: Brown7/7, 10/76 Cost fan tutte Shade, Williams, Battel; Parker, Garrison, Fox; c: Rudolf;

d: Boerlage; ds: Depenbrock7/14, 17/76 Aida Meier, Conrad; Mauro, Justus, Morris; c: Woitach; chgr: Louiso7/21, 24/76 The Ballad of Baby Doe French, Bible; Patrick, Fox; c: Dudley; d:

de Blasis; chgr: Louiso

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Cincinnati Opera Young American Artists, J. Dudley, Mus. Adm., EdgecliffCollege Theatre

7/6, 8/76 Postcard from Morocco Reims; Ford, LieblCleveland Institute of Music & Cleveland Opera Theatre Ensemble, A.

Addison, Dir.6/21-7/31/76 Summer school program master classes8/15, 25 9/10/76 The Crucible all pfs. w.p.; Opera al Fresco Festival8/18 9/8/76 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng. Addison8/22 9/11/76 The Telephone & The Medium8/29 9/1, 12/76 La Traviata Eng. AddisonLakeside Festival, R. Cronquist, Mus. Dir., Lakeside (8/3-27/76)

OREGONPeter Britt Gardens Music & Arts Festival (8/6-21/76) MedfordPortland State University, Dept. of Music, S. J. Trudeau, Head., Portland6/3, 5, 6/76 Cost fan tutteWashington Park Music Festival, Portland (7/23-8/15/76)7/30, 31 8/1/76 Die Fledermaus by Portland Opera Ass'n; Eng. Martin

PENNSYLVANIADuquesne University Summer Workshops, Pittsburgh (6-7/76)Opera Company of Philadelphia, C. Suppa, Art. Dir.7/9/76 Fledermaus at Longwood Gardens7/12, 14, 28/76 Hansel and GretelOpera Workshop "Red, White and Blue Festival", R. Flusser, Dir., Pittsburgh8120,21/76 La Boheme81'22116 Verdi Requiem8/28/76 Saylor's My Kinsman, Major Molineaux prem.Pennsylvania State University Festival, University Park7/11-31/76 Pennsylvania Orchestra and Pennsylvania Ballet in residenceRobin Hood Dell Concerts, Philadelphia Orchestra hi residence, £ . Ormandy,

Mus. Dir., Philadelphia (6/14-7/29/76)Temple University Music Festival, Pittsburgh Symphony in residence, S.

Comissiona, Mus. Dir., Ambler (6/25-8/21/76)7/16/76 The Magic Flute7/24/76 Opera Concert; Diaz; c: Caldwell8/5, 6, 7/76 The Pirates of Penzance The Savoy Company

RHODE ISLANDNewport Music Festival, M. Malkovich, Gen. Dir., Newport (7/22-31/76)7/26, 27/76 Portrait of Manon c: Singer; d: EnglanderRhode Island Summer Opera, M. Ruffino, Art. Dir., at Ocean State Theatre,

Providence8/76 La Traviata; Aida 1 pf. each

TENNESSEESewanee Summer Music Center, Martha McCrory, Dir., Sewanee (6/18-

7/25/76)TEXAS

Houston Grand Opera Spring Festival, D. Gockley, Gen. Dir., Houston5/21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31/76 El Capitan Brunelle ed.; Kowalski, Telese;

Pederson, Hickman; c: DeMain; d: Eddleman; ds: Miller6/4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12/76 Susannah Soviero; Pederson; c: Nance; d: Bakman7/1, 2, 3, 4m, 5, 6, 7, 9/76 Porgy and Bess Dale/Oliver, Brice, Shakesnider, Lane;

Albert/Lind-Oquendo, Dickson, A. Smith, Marshall; c: DeMain/Nance; d:O'Brien; ds: Randolph/Potts; co-prod: Goldman; also 8/24-28/76 Wolf Trap;8/31-9/12/76 at O'Keefe Center, Toronto; 9/13-18/76 National Arts Centre,Ottawa; 7/12-8/15 Philadelphia; 9/21 opening Broadway, N.Y.

Round Top International Festival-Institute, J. Dick, Dir., Round Top (6/4-7/7/76)

"Texas" Music Drama, Palo Duro Canyon State Park (6-8/76)UTAH

Brigham Young University Music Theatre, C. Robison, Art. Dir., Provo6/10, 11, 12, 16/76 The Boor (replaces II Trovatore)University of Utah/Snowbird Summer Arts Institute, Salt Lake City7/12-8/20/76 Utah Symphony in residence, M. Abravanel, Mus. Dir.

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Summer 1976

VERMONTMarlboro Music Festival, R. Serkin, Art. Dir., Marlboro (7/3-8/8/76)Vermont Mostly Mozart Festival, University of Vermont, Burlington7/18-8/7/76 incl. Acis and Galatea Raskin; BresslerVermont Opera Theatre, B. Owens, Art. Dir., Johnson State College, Johnson6/21/76 Vocal workshop, Nan Nail 7/23/76 Opera Scenes

VIRGINIAWolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, F. Rizzo, Art. Adm., Vienna

(6/7-8/28/76)6/7, 11/76 Aida Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/8, 12m/76 Madama Butterfly Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/9/76 La Gioconda Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/10/76 Norma Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/12/76 Le Nozze di Figaro Metropolitan Opera Ass'n6/22-26/76 Shenandoah7/14/76 Excerpts from Der Ring des Niebelungen National Symphony; c: Rudel7/30, 31/76 Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream Wolf Trap Company8/12, 14/76 La Traviata Sills; Fredricks, Carreras; Wolf Trap Company; San Diego

prod.8/17/76 Beverly Sills sings Victor Herbert8/24-28/76 Porgy and Bess Houston Opera Company

WASHINGTONCornish School of Arts Summer Opera Wksp., £ . Hurschell, Dir., Seattle

(7-8/76)Seattle Opera — Pacific Northwest Festival, G. Ross, Gen. Dir., H. Holt,

Mus. Dir.7/13, 20#/76 Das Rheingold Haywood, Cariaga; Crook, Tyl, Rivers; d: London;

ds: Naccarato7/14, 21#/76 Die Walkiire Barlow/Green, Cariaga; Crook/Rue, Tyl; d: London;

ds: Naccarato7/16, 23#/76 Siegfried Barlow/Green; Becker, Tyl; d: London; ds: Naccarato7/18, 25#/76 Gb'tterddmmerung Barlow/Green, Cariaga; Becker, Rivers, Wilder-

mann; d: London; ds: Naccarato# Eng. Porter

WEST VIRGINIAOglebay Opera Wksp., B. Goldovsky, Dir., Wheeling8/1-14/76 Opera Workshop; Madama Butterfly

WISCONSINMilwaukee Symphony Orch. & Wisconsin Conservatory Chorus, Milwaukee6/12, 13/76 La Damnation de Faust cone. pfs.Peninsula Music Festival, H. Cruthirds, Art. Dir., Fish Creek (8/6-21/76)University of Wisconsin Opera, K. Moser, Art. Dir., Madison7/14, 16,17/76 Blitzstein's Regina

WYOMINGGrand Teton Music Festival, L. Tung, Mus. Dir., Teton Village7/22-8/28/76 incl. Mozart opera in concert form

CANADABanff Festival of the Arts, A. Copland, Cond., Banff, Alberta (8/3-21/76)8/12, 15/76 Kiss Me Kate 8/20, 21/76 Cenerentola8/13, 14/76 The Tender Land Summer School & Master classesCourtenay Youth Music Centre, I. Guttman, Dir., Courtenay, B.C.8/8, 9/76 The Marriage of Figaro at No. Vancouver Centennial TheatreElliott Lake Centre Summer School of the Arts, A. Schoep, Dir., Elliott

Lake, Ont.6/28-8/13/76 Opera and Voice WorkshopFestival Canada, National Arts Centre, M. Bernardi, Mus. Dir., Ottawa, Ont.7/3, 6, 8, 10, 14, 16/76 The Marriage of Figaro Wells, Valente; Holloway, Ellis;

d: Mansouri; Eng. Martin7/17, 20, 22, 24, 26/76 The Queen of Spades Kubiak, Forrester; Vickers, Monk; d:

Kaslik; ds: Svoboda; Eng. Goldovsky7/27, 29, 31/76 Le Comte Ory Elias, Boky; Brecknock; d: Maestrini

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Guelph Spring Festival, N. Goldschmidt, Art. Dir., Guelph, Ont. (4/23-5/9/76)5/5, 7, 8, 9/76 The Beggar's Opera d: BawtreeKingston Festival, Kingston, Ont. (7/18-28/76)Mohawk College Summer Opera Festival, P. Rolston, Head, Dept of Music,

Hamilton, Ont7/5, 7, 8/76 Quesnel's Colas and Colinette (1788) Eng.7/12, 14, 16, 18/76 Rigoletto c: Hepner; d: Macina7/13, 15, 17/76 Opera ScenesNational Arts Centre, Ottawa8/5/76 Solomon and Sheba Harlem Opera Society prod.Opera at the Olympics, Place des Arts, Montreal7/1, 3, 5/76 The Barber of Seville Lebrun; Duval, Cossa, Rouleau, Bisson; c: Hetu;

L'Opera du Quebec prod.7/4, 5, 6/76 The Beggar's Opera Belcourt, Forst, Glass; McManus, Relyea, Ingram;

c: Goldschmidt; d: Jackson; Guelph Spring Festival prod.7/19, 20, 21/76 The Merry Widow c: Deslauriers7/26/76 Sacchini's L'Olympiade Chornodolska; Germain, Duval; c: BrottShawnigan Summer School of the Arts, J. Johannesen, Dir., Victoria, B.C.

(7/27-8/27/76)Stratford Festial, R. Armenian, Mus. Dir., Stratford, Ont. (7/5-8/20/76)Toronto Arts Production, L. Major, Gen. Mgr., at St. Lawrence Centre for

the Arts7/13-17/76 The Beggar's Opera Guelph Spring Festival prod.Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Ontario Place8/6/76 Gypsy BaronVictoria Summer Festival, L. Gati, Art Dir., Victoria, B.C.7/24-8/28/76 The Abduction from the Seraglio; Gilbert and Sullivan operas

PUERTO RICOFestival Casals, A. Schneider, Mus. Dir., San Juan (6/10-7/5/76)

FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1976-77 SEASONAll performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p."(with piano). — * following an opera title indicates new production. — Perform-ances and news items once announced will not be relisted at the time of per-formance.

ALABAMABirmingham Civic Opera Ass'n, M. Dick McClung, Dir., Civic Center

Music Hall11/3, 4/76 Tosca Armstrong; Khanzadian, Fazah; c: Fuchs; d: Collins; sets: In-

diana U.2/18, 19/77 The Elixir of Love D. Lucas, Grimsley; R. Lucas, Timberlake; c: Fuchs;

d: Collins; at Samford Music HallOpera Alabama, Thomas Gibbs, Art Dir., touring co. of Birmingh. Civic1976-77 tour Amahl and the Night Visitors c: Gibbs; d: Hormon; mus. adv.: RheaMobile Opera Guild, J. K. V. Willson, Gen. Mgr., Mobile Municipal Theatre3/2, 4/77 La Boheme CraigTroy State University Opera Wksp., P. Kelley, Dir., Troy5/19, 21/77 Don Giovanni

CALIFORNIANew York City Opera, J. Rudel, Gen. Dir., Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Los

Angeles11/17/76 Gala11118,21/76 La Boheme11/19 12/5m, 9/76 La belle Helene Eng. Dunn/Rudel11/20 12/12m/76 Madama Butterfly 11/27 12/12/76 Rigolettoll/21m 12/llm/76 H.M.S. Pinafore 11/28 12/3/76 Die Fledermaus11/24 12/2, 4/76 Turandot 11/30 12/10/76 La Traviata11/26, 28m 12/5/76 Der fliegende Hollander 12/1, 4m, 7/76II Barbiere di Siviglia11 / 27m 12/11/76 Carmen 12/8/76 The Makropoulos Affair

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1976-77 Season

Oakland Symphony, H. Farberman, Mus. Dir., Paramount Theatre5/24, 28/77 La Damnation de Faust cone, pfs.; Curry; diVirgilio, Meredith; Oakland

Symphony ChorusOpera Repertory Theatre, M. Warenskjold, Dir., Death Valley Junction2/77 The Impresario & Maid as Mistress & Sweet Betsy from PikePacific Opera Theatre, G. Buckbee, Dir., University of the Pacific, StocktonFall '76 Eyser's Sista Resan (The Last Voyage) Am. prem.11/21, 22/76 The Mikado w.o.515177 II Campiello w.p.San Diego Opera, T. Capobianco, Art. Dir., K. Caswell, Gen. Mgr., San Diego10/9,12, 15, 17/76 Otello Strow; Andrew, Tipton; c: Rigacci; d: Bakman12/1, 3, 5, 7/76 The Saint of Bleecker Street Haywood, Wolff; Di Giuseppe, Torigi;

c: Alcantara; d: Capobianco1/23, 25, 28, 30/77 Die Fledermaus Meier, Roland; Opthof, Ulfung, Smith, Darren-

kamp; c: Somogi;d: Mansouri2/19, 22, 25, 27/77 Gotterdammerung Green; Remedios, Wildermann/O'Leary; c:

Holt; d: London3/26, 29 4/1, 3/77 La Traviata Sills; McDonald, Edwards; c: Alcantara; d: Capo-

bianco; ds: TomsSan Francisco Opera, K. H. Adler, Gen. Dir., War Memorial Opera House9/10, 15, 19m, 25, 28 10/1/76 Thais* Sills; Ahnsjo, Milnes, Malta; c: Pritchard; d:

Capobianco; ds: Toms9/11, 14, 17, 22, 26m 10/2/76 Die Walkiire Knie, Rysanek/Martin, Hesse; Vickers,

Grant, Sotin; c: Suitner; d: Hager; ds: Skalicki9/18, 21, 24, 29 10/3m ll/7m, 13m, 19/76 La Forza del destino* Tomowa-Sintow/

Kabaivanska, Marsee; Atlantov/Ilosfalvy, Bruson/Boyagian, Trimarchi, Plishka/Kovacs; c: Adler; d: Fassini; ds: Samaritani

10/2, 5, 8, 10m, 16, 23m/76 Tosca Rysanek/Martin; Aragall, Wixell; c: Peloso;d/ds: Ponelle

10/6, 9, 13, 17m, 22/76 Peter Grimes Harper; Vickers, Evans; c: Pritchard; d:Evans; ds: Toms

10/15, 19, 24m, 30 11/2/76 Die Frau ohne Schatten* Rysanek, Schroeder-Feinen,Hesse; Katsu, Berry; c: Bohm; d: Lehnhoff; ds: Zimmermann

10/20, 23, 26, 29, 31m/76 The Makropoulos Affair Silja; Lewis, Evans; c: VonDohnanyi; d: Pountney; Eng.

10/27, 30m 11/5, 10, 13, 16, 21m, 24, 27/76 Cavalleria rusticana & PagliacciTroyanos/Crespin; Domingo/Lloveras, Janulako; & Rogers/Kabaivanska; Do-mingo/ Prevedi, Ellis, Wixell/Glossop; c: Schermerhorn; d/ds: Ponnelle

11/6, 9, 14m, 18, 26/76 Imbrie's Angle of Repose prem.; N. Shade, Marsee; Lewis,Ludgin, Duesing; c: Mauceri; d/ds: Freedman

11/12, 17, 20, 23, 25, 28m/76 // Barbiere di Siviglia Von Stade; Brecknock, Hage-gard, Capecchi, Tozzi; c: Varviso; d: Hager; ds: Rennert; 11/9, 12, 17, 18, 24/76student mat.

Univ. of California Opera Theater, C. Zytowski, Dir., Lehman Concert Hall,Santa Barbara

11/76 Zytowski's The Town Musicians of Bremen prem.4/22, 23/77 Handel's SemeleUniversity of Southern California Opera Wksp, N. Limonick, Mus. Dir., Ramo

Hall, Los Angeles10/22, 23, 29, 30/76 A Midsummer Night's Dream w.o.1/9/77 Shakespeare in Opera w.p.2/18, 19/77 Dido and Aeneas & Gianni Schicchi w. Young Musicians Orchestra5/14/77 Abduction from the Seraglio w. Visalia Community Orchestra, 5/20 w.

2ps.5/21/77 Cost fan tutte w. 2 ps.3/77 tour of excerpts to Los Angeles schoolsYoung Artists Opera Theatre, J. Large, Art. Dir., Univ. of Calif, at San Diego/

La JoUa4/14, 17/77 // Prigioniero & Betly

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COLORADODenver Symphony Orchestra, B. Priestman, Mus. Dir., Denver12/6, 7/76 L'Enfance du Christ5/9, 10/77 Tosca cone, pf.; Armstrong; Petersen, BurchinallOpera Fair, Inc., H. Lawyer-Duvalo, Dir., Arvada Arts Center, Denver9/15, 17, 18/76 Guerrero's La Rosa del Azafran zarzuela, Am. prem.University of Denver Opera Theatre, R. Worstell, Dir., Denver1/27-29/77 CarmenUniversity of Northern Colorado Opera Theatre, C. Schmitz, Prod., Greeley11/18, 19/76 Susannah w.o.2/25, 26 3/3, 4, 5/77 South Pacific w.o.5/26, 27/77 Opera Scenes w.p.7/23, 24, 25/77 La Traviata w.o.8/6, 7, 8/77 Cabaret w.o.Western State College Opera Wksp., L. Marra, Dir., Gunnison11/17/76 Amahl and the Night Visitors w.p.

CONNECTICUTConnecticut Opera Ass'n, W. Warden, Gen. Mgr., Bushnell Memorial Hall,

Hartford10/23/76 Don Carlo Bacocevic, Grillo; Francesconi, Petkov12/4, 7/76 // Barbiere di Siviglia* Guglielmi; Harness, Edwards, Tozzi2/19/77 Rigoletto Pellegrini; Dominguez, Derksen3/19/77 Otello Cruz-Romo; Py, GlossopHartt Opera Theatre, J. Zei, Art. Dir., University of Hartford, West Hartford1/23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30/77 The Tales of Hoffmann4/13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19/77 Bluebeard's Castle1976-77 tour: The Love for Three Oranges; The Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyNew Haven Opera Theatre, H. Glaz-Redlich, Dir., Hamden10/8, 10/76 Madama Butterfly* at So. Conn. State Univ.11/15/76 La Serva padrona (Opera in Focus)2/21/77 Shakespeare in Opera (Opera in Focus)3/25, 27/77 La Cenerentola Eng.; at So. Conn. State College

DELAWAREWilmington Opera Society, E. Kjellmark, Pres., Grand Opera House, Wil-

mington11/6, 12, 13/''6 Rigoletto2/11, 12, 13/77 Respighi's Sleeping Beauty Am. prem.4/22, 23, 29, 30/77 Aida

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAJ. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington9/7-15/76 Macbeth; La Boheme; La Cenerentola; Simon Boccanegra; Milan's La

Scala prod.9/18-24/76 Otello; Le Nozze di Figaro; Faust; Paris Opera prod.5/3-16/77 New York City Opera prods.See also Opera Society of Washington, D.C.Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, Washington10/29, 30/76 Barton's The Disappointment Eastman School of Music prod.Opera Society of Washington, G. London, Gen. Dir., Kennedy Center,

Washington12/3/76 Attila Galvany; Diaz, Theyard; c: Guadagno2/2/77 Madama Butterfly Hayashi; Mauro; c: Pallo; d: Rizzo3/16/77 Werther Grillo; Gedda, Hedlund; c: Perisson; d: LondonWashington Civic Opera, R. Weilenmann, Dir., with National Symphony,

Lisner Auditorium, Washington9/30 10/1/76 The Crucible

FLORIDAAsolo Opera Company, A. Baker, Gen. Dir., Asolo Theater, Sarasota1/1, 3, 13, 15, 17, 19111 Don Giovanni1/7, 8, 10, 11/11 L'lncoronazione di Poppea1/22, 24, 26, 28, 30 2/1-5/77 Tosca21 A, 1, 8, 11, 12/77 Don Pasquale

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Civic Opera of the Palm Beaches, P. Csonka, Art. Dir., Palm Beach12/3, 5/76 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Grillo, de Paul; Kness, Guarrera &

Daniels; Campora, Merrill, Guarrera1/28, 30/77 The Merry Widow Eng.; Armstrong; Campora3/24, 26/77 Aida Galvany, Despalj; Morell, VoketaitisFlorida Family Opera, div. Greater Miami Opera, R. Herman, Gen. Dir.,

Miami1/77 Boris Godunov Eng.2/77 La Perichole Eng.3/77 Macbeth Eng.4/77 La Fanciulla del West Eng.Greater Miami Opera Co., R. Herman, Gen. Dir., E. Buckley, Mus. Dir.,

Miami & F t Lauderdale1/17, 19, 22/77 Boris Godunov Eng.; Elias; Riegel, Siepi, Atherton, Morris, Malas;

c: Buckley; d: Yannopoulos; ds: A. Klein2/14, 16, 19/77 La Perichole Eng.; Stratas; Titus, Evans; c: Allers; d: Lucas; ds:

Gerard; Metropolitan Opera prod.3/7, 9, 12/77 Macbeth Barstow; Theyard, Milnes, Flagello; c: Buckley; d: Merrill;

ds: Benois4/11, 13, 16/77 La Fanciulla del West Neblett; Domingo, Colzani; c: Buckley, d:

Mansouri; ds: O'HearnJacksonville Univ. College of Fine Arts, Opera Wksp., W. Vessels, Dir., Jack-

sonville3/25, 26/77 The Marriage of FigaroNorth Miami Beach Opera Co., L. Siegel, Mus. Dir., North Miami Beach,

City Hall Auditorium1/9, 10/77 // Trovatore2/15, 16/77 L'Elisir d'amore3/20,21/77 La BohemeOpera Company of Jacksonville (form. Opera Repertory Group), A. Smith,

Gen. Dir., Jacksonville Civic Auditorium Theatre11/13, 14/76 Susannah c: Barrett; d: Collins2/'19,20777 Martha Eng.; c/d: Barrett; ds: Adams5/14, 15/77 La Boheme c: Csonka; d: ThompsonOpera Gala Guild of the Florida Symphony, Mrs. C. Croft, Pres., Orlando11/12, 14m/76 Carmen21 A, 6m/77 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Soviero; Theyard, GuarreraSan Carlo Opera of Florida, Tampa11/20/76 Rigoletto Shane; Marini, Merrill; c: Coppola

GEORGIAAugusta Opera Co., R. Moores, Gen. Mgr., Bell Music Hall, Augusta9/8, 10, 12/76 La Boheme Mandac; c: WoitachSpring '77 tour Die Fledermaus Augusta Opera Theatre

HAWAIIHawaii Opera Theatre, R. LaMarchina, Mus. Dir., Honolulu1/21, 23, 25/77 Turandot Ballard, Lee; Peterson2/4, 6, 8/77 // Barbiere diSiviglia Caballero; Di Giuseppe, Holloway, Voketaitis2/18, 20, 22/77 The Pearl Fishers Lee; Mount

ILLINOISChicago Opera Studio, R. Frisbie, Mus. Dir., Jones Auditorium, Chicago11/6/76 The Barber of Seville w.p.1/22, 23, 29, 30 2/5, 6, 12, 13/77 The Abduction from the Seraglio w.o.4/20 5/1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22/77 Summer and SmokeIllinois Opera Theatre, D. Lloyd, Art. Dir., Krannert Center, Urbana9/76 Porgy and Bess10/76 Summer and Smoke12/76 Hansel and Gretel3/77 The Elixir of Love Eng. Lloyd5/77 A Midsummer Night's Dream7/77 Manon Eng. BishopIllinois State University Music Dept., D. Shrader, Chmn., Normal3/10, 12/77 La Bohime

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1976-77 SeasonLyric Opera of Chicago, Carol Fox, Gen. Mgr., Chicago9/25, 29 10/1, 4, 9, 12, 15/76 Les Contes d'Hoffmann* Eda-Pierre, Welting, Cortez,

Zilio; Domingo/Johns, Andreolli, Mittelmann; c: Bartoletti; d: Puecher; ds:Frigerio

10/2, 6, 8, 18, 23, 26/76 La Cenerentola Valentini, Azarmi; Alva, Nolen, Montar-solo; c: Rescigno; d/ds: Ponnelle

10/13, 16, 19, 22, 29 11/1/76 Un Ballo in maschera Ricciarelli, Wise, Wolf; Car-reras, Cappuccilli/Breeson; c: Lopez-Cobos; d: Gobbi; ds: Darling

10/27, 30 11/2, 5, 8, 10, 13, 19, 23/76 Rigoletto Nunziata, Mazzieri; Kraus, Cap-puccilli/Manuguerra; c: Chailly; d: Sequi ds: Pizzi

11/6, 9, 12, 17, 20, 22,, 27/76 Khovanshchina Cortez, E. Shade; Little, Andreolli,Mittelmann, Ghiaurov, Lagger; c: Bartoletti; d: Frisell; ds: Benois

11/26, 29 12/6, 8, 11, 14, 17/76 Tosca Neblett; Pavarotti, MacNeil; c: Lopez-Cobos; d: Gobbi; ds: Pizzi

12/4, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18/76 The Love for Three Oranges Shade, Davidson; Little,Gill, Dooley, Titus; Bartoletti; d: Chazalette; ds: Santicchi

(Penderecki's Paradise Lost postponed for 1977)INDIANA

Indiana University Opera Theater, W. C. Bain, Art Din, Bloomington9/18, 25 10/2, 9/76 Madame Butterfly c: Vacano; d: Busch; ds: Rothlisberger10/16, 23, 30 11/6/76 Idomeneo d: Allen; ds: Rothlisberger11/13, 19, 20 12/4, 5/76 Porgy and Bess c: Contino; d: Allen; ds: Rothlisberger1/29 2/5, 12/77 Pelleas et Melisande c: Vacano; d: Busch; ds: Rothlisberger2/19, 26 3/5,12/77 Falstaff c: Balkwill; d: Allen; ds: Sollors4/2, 9, 16, 23/77 Kaufmann's The Scarlet Letter d: Busch; ds: RothlisbergerIndianapolis Opera Co. Inc., M. Ramaker, Dir., Indianapolis10/25-30/76 Die Kluge 4/16, 20, 22, 23, 27, 29, 30/77 CarmenWhitewater Opera Co., C. Combopiano, Dir., Richmond11/19, 20/76 The Daughter of the Regiment Eng.2/ 25, 26/ 77 La Boheme Eng. 4/ 29, 30/ 77 Hansel and Gretel Eng.

KANSASUniversity of Kansas Opera Theatre, G. Lawner, Dir., Lawrence12/1-5/76 Hansel and Gretel 4/77 Cost fan tutteWichita Symphony Society, D. Snyder, Gen. Mgr., Wichita11/19, 21/76 Madama Butterfly c: Huybrechts; d: Eddleman

KENTUCKYKentucky Opera Ass'n, M. Bomhard, Dir., Louisville10/15, 16/76 Madama Butterfly Zannoth, Trussel11/5, 6/76 The Ballad of Baby Doe Hunt, Bible2/4, 5/77 Don Giovanni Bergquist, Christos, Lovett; Diaz3/25, 26/77 Un Ballo in maschera

LOUISIANANew Orleans Opera Ass'n, A. Cosenza, Gen. Dir., Theatre of Performing Arts,

New Orleans9/30 10/2/76 La Favorite Dunn; Kolk; c: Anderson11/11, 13/76 Andrea Chenier Bernard; Theyard12/9, 11/76 Rigoletto Robinson; Scano, Paskalis3/3, 5/77 Die Walkiire Hunter, Meier, Rankin; Andrew, Shinall3/24, 26/77 The Barber of Seville Welting; Johnson, Holloway4/28, 30/77 La Traviata Armstrong; Suarez, EdwardsShreveport Symphony Repertory Opera Co., J. Shenaut, Mus. Dir. & Cond.,

Shreveport11/14, 15/76 Siegmeister's Night of the Moonspell prem.

MARYLANDBaltimore Opera Co., R. Collinge, Gen. Mgr., Baltimore10/21, 23, 25/76 La Boheme Maliponte, Lee; Theyard, Edwards, Riley, Swanson;

c: Wendelken-Wilson; d: Hicks11/18, 20, 22/76 Don Giovanni Meier, Weidinger, Lovett; Morris, Malas, R. John-

son; c: Woitach; d: Tavernia2/17, 19, 21/77 Der fliegende Hollander Neblett; Tipton, W. Lewis, Berberian; c:

Schermerhorn; d: Merrill3/24, 26, 28/77 Falstaff Craig, Belling, Dixon; Mittelmann, Darrenkamp; c: Comis-

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1976-77 Season

Eastern Opera Theatre, J. Lehmeyer, Prod., touring div. Baltimore Opera Co.12/76-1/77 tour through Maryland Dr. Miracle Eng. LehmeyerUniv. of Maryland Opera Theater, G. Tallman, Dir., College Park12/3, 4/76 Riders to the Sea & The Stoned Guest w.p.2/25, 27, 28/77 The Elixir of Love w.o.4/28, 29/77 Gilbert & Sullivan operetta w.p.

MASSACHUSETTSOpera Company of Boston, S. Caldwell, Art. Dir., Boston3/5, 8, 11, 13/77 La Boheme Eng.; c: Scott; d: Caldwell3/19, 22, 25, 27/77 Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmilla Gramm; c/d: Caldwell4/24, 26, 28, 30/77 Rigoletto Sills; c/d: Caldwell6/2, 5, 7, 10/77 Orfeo ed Euridice Verrett; c/d: Caldwell11/30-12/5/76 La Boheme Opera New England tour; 8 pfs.

MICHIGANMichigan Opera Theatre, D. DiChiera, Gen. Dir., Detroit10/1, 3, 6, 7, 8/76 Pasatieri's Washington Square prem.; Malfitano, Bonazzi; Ellis,

Tozzi; c: Holt; d: Psacharopoulos11/5, 7, 10, 12, 13/76 Madama Butterfly1/14, 16, 19, 21, 22/77 Naughty Marietta2/11, 13, 16, 18, 19/77 The Magic FluteOpera Ass'n of Western Michigan, J. Hatton, Gen. Mgr., Grand Rapids9/24, 25, 29 10/1, 2/76 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin; c: Alcantara; d:

Appel12/2-5/76 The Medium & The Telephone c: DunlapOpera Guild of Greater Lansing, D. Burkh, Art. Dir., East Lansing1/14 15, 16/77 Don Giovanni L. Haywood, Mannion, Lovette; Reardon, Trassel,

BeniPiccolo Opera Company, M. Gordon, Dir., Detroit and tour10/76 Ellstein's The Thief and the HangmanSpring '77 Lebenbom's The Fearsome Inn prem. children's opera

MINNESOTADuluth Symphony and Opera Ass'n, R. D. Amos, Gen. Mgr., Duluth9117/76 L'Elisir d'amore 2 pfs., MatsumotoMinnesota Opera Co., C. Fullmer, Gen. Mgr., Minneapolis (Opening date of

prods, only)10/9/76 The Bartered Bride Williams, Cornell; c: Brunelle; d: Balk2/12/77 St. Matthew Passion c: Brunelle; d: Balk3/18/77 Candide 4/23/77 Mahagonny c: Brunelle; d: Bait

MISSISSIPPIMississippi Opera Ass'n, B. White, Dir., Jackson11/30/76 // Trovatore Strow, Lanzillotti; Morrell, Holmes; c: Nance3/10-12/77 to be announcedOpera/South, D. Ardoyno, Gen. Mgr., Jackson State University, Jackson11/20/76 Kay's Jubilee prem.; c: DePriest; d/ds: Dorr3/77 Fidelio Jones; Burgess, Albert; c: Freeman; d: Dorr

MISSOURIKansas City Lyric Theater, R. Patterson, Gen. Dir., Lyric Theatre, Kansas City9118, 21 j 23, 29 10/1/76 The Ballad of Baby Doe Daniels, Highley; Hook; c: Patter-

son; d: Bakman; ds: Oenslager/Campbell9/22, 24, 25 10/19, 21/76 The Pirates of Penzance Dickison, Nordling; Jones,

Eddleman, Sullivan; c: Ryan; d: Eddleman; ds: DeRosier9/28, 30 10/2, 6, 8/76 Andrea Chenier Eng.; Volkman, Yarmat; Khanzadian,

Palmer; c: Patterson; d: Allen; ds: DeRosier10/12, 14, 16, 20, 22/76 The Barber of Seville Eng.; Yarmat; Livings, Palmer,

Green; c: Patterson; d: Eddleman; ds: DeRosier10/5, 7, 9, 13, 15/76 La Traviata Eng.; Wilcox; Rhodus, Hook; c: Ryan; d: Bak-

man; ds: GohlNEBRASKA

Opera Omaha, J. Dudley, Gen. Dir./Cond., Omaha11/18, 20/76 Aida Carson, Troyanos; Theyard, Patrick; d: Alden; ds: Steinberg2/10, 12/77 The Merry Widow Lear; Stewart4/28, 30/77 Don Giovanni Wells, Zoghby, Greenawald; Ellis; d: Alden; ds: Stevens

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NEW JERSEYNew Jersey State Opera, A. Silipigni, Art. Dir., Newark/ Trenton11/6/76 Mefistofele Olivero; Hines; c: Silipigni12/2116 Fidelio Barlow21'21111 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci McCracken3/27/77 Madama Butterfly Sato; Gobbi; c: Silipigni; d: GobbiOpera Classics of New Jersey, G. Ungaro, Art. Dir., DeNooyer Auditorium,

Paramus10/23/76 Lucia di Lammermoor1/22/77 Gala Concert2/19/77 // Barbiere di Siviglia3112111 Die Fledermaus4/'30/'77 FaustOpera/Operetta Soc. of Monmouth Conservatory, F. Molzer, Dir., Monmouth

County Arts Center11/20, 21/76 Naughty Marietta4/2, 3/77 The Tales of Hoffmann

NEW YORKOpera Theatre of Rochester, R. Rosenberg, Gen. Mgr., Eastman Theatre,

Rochester10/2/76 Gianni Schicchi & Pagliacci1/15/77 // Trovatore4130/11 ToscaOpera Theatre of Syracuse, R. Driver, Gen. Mgr., Concert Theatre, Syracuse10/29, 30/76 Un Ballo in maschera w.o.1/28, 29/77 The Barber of Seville Eng., w.o.3/25, 26/77 La Perichole Eng., w.o.Tri-Cities Opera Co., P. Hibbitt & C. Savoca, Art. Dirs., Binghamton10/1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10/76 Un Ballo in maschera1/28, 29, 30 2/4, 5, 6/77 Madama Butterfly4/29, 30 5/1, 6, 7, 8/77 Lucia di Lammermoor

NEW YORK CITYAmato Opera Theatre, A. Amato, Pres., Amato Opera House9/11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 10/1, 2, 9, 10/76 Don Giovanni* all w.p.10/23, 24, 30, 31 11/5, 6, 13, 14, 20, 21/76 Faust12/3,4, 11, 12,17, 18,26,31/76 1/2,8,9/77 The Barber of Seville Eng.3/5, 6, 12, 13, 18, 19, 26, 27 4/2, 3/77 Falstaff Eng. & Ital.4/16, 17, 22, 23, 30 5/1, 7, 8, 14, 15/77 Madama Butterfly5/27, 28 6/4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26/77 La Traviata*Bel Canto Opera, T. Sieh, Art. Dir., Madison Avenue Baptist Church9/4, 5, 11, 12/76 Riders to the Sea & The Bear11/6, 7, 13, 14/76 Pimpinone & Djamileh12/4, 5, 11, 12/76 Prince Igor1/15,16,22,23/77 Mireille2/26, 27 3/5, 6/77 Blitzstein's Regina3/26, 27 4/2, 3/77 Auber's Manon Lescaut Am. prem.4/23, 24, 30 511111 Lortzing's Tsar and Carpenter5/21, 22, 28, 29/77 Victor Herbert operettaThe Bronx Opera Co., M. Spierman, Art. Dir., at Bronx H.S. & Hunter College1/7, 8, 14, 15/77 La Traviata Eng.; c: Spierman; d: Getke5/6, 7, 14, 15/77 Fra Diavolo Eng. Gutman; c: SpiermanClarion Concerts, Newell Jenkins, Mus. Dir., Alice Tully Hall, 20th Anniver-

sary Season1/5/77 Cavalli's Giasone Am. prem.; Eng.; Bonazzi, Moagland, von Reichenbach,

Wyner; Corrado, Diaz, Foldi, Messana, Perry, WhiteLight Opera of Manhattan, W. Mount-Burke, Dir., Eastside Playhouse8,9/76 The Pirates of Penzance 18 pfs.8, 9/76 The Mikado 18 pfs.8, 9/76 H.M.S. Pinafore 18 pfs.

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Metropolitan Opera, A. Bliss, Exec. Dir., Metropolitan Opera House, LincolnCenter

10/11, 16,21,27,30m 11/5,9,13/76 // Trovatore10/12, 16m, 22, 25, 29 11/6, 18, 25, 29 12/8, 15, 25m/76 Aida10/13, 18, 24m, 30 11/3, 11, 15, 22 12/3, 9, 18m/76 Die Meistersinger von

Niirnberg10/14, 20, 26 11/2, 10, 20m/76 Le Nozze di Figaro10/15, 19, 23, 28 11/1, 6m, 12, 16/76// Tritticol l / 4 # , 8, 13m, 17, 20, 23, 26, 30 12/4m/76 Lohengrin* Lorengar, Dunn; Kollo,

Mclntyre, Giaiotti; c: Levine; d: Everding; ds: Lee/Hall11/19#, 24, 27m 12/1, 4, 7, l lm, 14, 17, 20/76 Esclarmonde* Sutherland, Tou-

rangeau; Aragall, Grant, Quilico, Macurdy; c: Bonynge; d: Mansouri; ds: Mon-tresor; San Francisco Opera prod.

11/27 12/2/76 La Forza del destino12/6, 10, 13, 22, 30116 Faust12/11, 16, 23, 27/76 Die Zauberflote12/18, 21, 25/76 Tosca12/24, 28, 311/76 Lucia di Lammermoor\lj29II6 Salome# Guild benefit (also 1/18/77 Le Prophete, 2/5/77 Dialogues des Carmelites,

2/23/77 La Boheme, and 3/18/77 Lulu)t Gala performance1977 schedule and artists roster in Fall '76 Blltn.New York City Opera, J. Rudel, Gen. Dir., New York State Theatre, Lincoln

Center9/1, 4, 9, 26m/76 Turandot9/2, 25 10/2m/76 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg Eng. Martin9/3, 8, 18, 26 10/17m/76 H.M.S. Pinafore914m, l lm, 15 10/14, 24m/76 La Boheme9/5m, 12m, 17, 24 10/2, 9m/76 Madama Butterfly9/5, 16, 22, 27 10/8 11/14/76 La Traviata9/7 10/9, 23 ll/13m/76 Le Nozze di Figaro9/10, 19, 29/76 The Makropoulos Affair9/11, 18m 10/10m, 16, 21 11/7/76 Die Fledermaus9/12, 19m 11/2, 13#/76 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci9/14,23 10/3, 15,28 UIW76 Carmen9/21, 25m, 30 10/3, 6, 19, 26, 29/76 La belle Helene* Eng. Dunn/Rudel; Arm-

strong; Price, Sandor, Billings; c: Rudel; d: Eddleman; ds: Evans/Campbell10/1, 3, 5, 12, 20, 23m/76 Der fliegende Hollander* Meier; Collins, Sarabia, Malas;

c: Rudel; d/ds: Darling10/7, 22, 30/76 Un Ballo in maschera10/10,13, 16m 11/6/76 Lucrezia Borgia10/17, 31m 11/4, 12/76 Rigoletto10/24#, 27, 30m 11/3, 6m, 9/76 11 Barbiere di Siviglia* Sills; Harness, Titus,

Gramm, Ramey; c/d: Caldwell; ds: Pond/Senn; Boston Opera prod.10/31 11/ 14m/76 Pelleas et Melisande11/5, 7m, 10/76 The Saint of Bleecker Street* Malfitano; Di Giuseppe; c: Kellogg;

d: Rizzo; ds: Salzer/Luiken# Benefitsee also California and District of Columbia; Spring '77 in later Blltn.1976 sop: Armstrong, Ballard, Battle, Brooks, Craig, DeRosa, Derr, Farley, Fowles,Haley, Hynes, Jones, Kehrig, Lee, Malfitano, Meier, Niculescu, Niska, Palmer,Robinson, Rolandi, Sills, Simon, Soviero, Tatum, Wildes; mezzo: Conrad, Costa-Greenspon, Curry, Harris, Hegierski, Piland, Quivar, Stapp, Toro, Walker; ten:Alexander, Bartolini, Castel, Collins, Di Giuseppe, Glaze, Griffith, Harness, Hensel,Kness, Lankston, Lowery, Mauro, Nagy, Novick, Poll, Price, Romaguera, Sandor,Scano, Siena, Taylor; bar & bass: Baker, Berberian, Billings, Bunger, Clatworthy,Cossa, Darrenkamp, Densen, Devlin, Elvira, Fredricks, Gill, Gramm, Hale, Hollo-way, Jamerson, Justus, J-edbetter, Malas, McKee, Paul, Pierson, Ramey, Roe,Ronson, Roy, Sarabia, Smith, Steele, Stilwell, Titus, Yule; cond: Alcantara, Cald-well, Campanino, Effron, Fuchs, Gantt, Gerhart, Gray, Kellogg, Klippstatter,Martin, Miner, Morelli, Pallo, Popper, Richardson, Rudel, Singer, Somogi, Walser.

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New York Philharmonic, P. Boulez, Mus. Dir., Avery Fisher Hall5/12, 13, 14/77 La Damnation de Faust cone, pfs.; Norman; Mclntyre, Parker; c:

Boulez; Westminster ChoirOpera Orchestra of New York, E. Queler, Art. Dir., Carnegie Hall1/9/77 Smetana's Dalibor Kubiak; Gedda, Plishka; c: Queler4/13/77 Puccini's Edgar Scotto; Sardinero; c: Queler; cone. pfs.New York Lyric Opera, D. Johnston, Dir., New York University Theatre,

W. 4 St.10/14, 15, 16, 17/76 Fedora 3/24, 25, 26, 27/77 Falstafi Eng.1/20, 21, 22, 23/77 Martha Eng. 5/18, 19, 20, 21/77 Madama Butterflyalso offered for tour: Rigoletto; Madama Butterfly; Hansel and Gretel; Die Fleder-

maus Eng.New York State Opera Society, N. Yost, Mgr., High School of Fashion Theatre9119176 Norma w.o.The Paris Opera, R. Liebermann, Gen. Dir., Metropolitan Opera House9/8, 11, 16/76 Le Nozze di Figaro M. Price/Eda-Pierre, Freni/Mathis, Von Stade;

Bacquier/Krause, Van Dam, Moll; c: Sold; d: Strehler9/10, 15, 18/76 OtelloM. Price; Cossutta, Bacquier; c: Solti9/14, 17/76 Faust Freni, Auphan; Gedda/Vanzo, Bisson, Soyer; c: Plasson; ds:

Lavelli9/18-25/76 at Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.

NORTH CAROLINACharlotte Opera Ass'n, C. Rosekrans, Mus. Dir., Charlotte10/22, 24/76 Rigoletto Russell; Sandor, Quilico; d: Bakman1/28, 30/77 Turandot Eng.; Marcopoulos; d: Hicks4/22, 24/77 The Merry Widow Eng.; Christensen; Madsen, Holloway; d: LucasEast Carolina University Opera Theatre, C. Hiss, Dir., Greenville2/2, 3, 4, 5/77 The Rake's Progress 5/5, 6, 7/77 Opera ScenesUniversity of North Carolina Opera Theatre, R. Sander, Dir., Greensboro4/1, 2, 3/77 Die Fledermaus

OHIODana School of Music Opera Wksp., D. Vogel, Dir., Youngstown State Univ.11/76 Davis's The Sailing of the Nancy Belle & The Ordeal of Osbert5/77 SusannahDayton Opera Ass'n, L. Freedman, Dir., Memorial Hall, Dayton10/9/76 Aida Arroyo, Grillo; Morell; c: Coppolalj 29111 Don Giovanni Tozzi3/26/77 La Traviata Wells; Alexander, Colzani5/7/77 Lucia di Lammermoor Russell; MoleseLima Symphony Orchestra, J. Firszt, Mus. Dir., Memorial Hall, Lima10/23/76 Boris Godunov scenes, BoatwrightThe New Cleveland Opera Co., D. Bamberger, Art Dir., at Byron Auditorium10/22, 23/76 Madama Butterfly Eng.; c: Posell; d: Bamberger11/12, 13/76 The Barber of Seville Eng.Oberlin College Conservatory Opera Dept., B. Owens, Dir., Oberlin11/17, 19, 30/76 The Boor & The Scarf3/9, 11, 12/77 Curlew RiverToledo Opera Ass'n, L. Freedman, Dir., Toledo Masonic Auditorium10/2/76 Aida Arroyo; Morell1/22/77 Don Giovanni Eng.; Tozzi4/2/77 La Traviata Galvany; Alexander, Colzani5/14/77 Lucia di Lammermoor Russell; Molese, ChapmanUniversity of Cincinnati College-Conservatory, E. Bonelli, Dean, Corbett

Auditorium, Cincinnati2/24-27/77 The Bartered Bride5/12-15/77 A Midsummer Nighfs Dream

OKLAHOMAOklahoma City University Opera Wksp., I. Silberg, Dir., Oklahoma City9/76 Lizzie Borden12/76 Man of La Mancha 2/77 The Magic Flute12/1/76 Hansel and Gretel All! Gypsy

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Tuba Opera Co., E. Purrington, Gen. Mgr., Tulsa Municipal Theatre11/4, 6/76 Manon Blegen; Riegel, Parker; c: de Almeida; d: de Blasis3/10, 12/77 Macbeth* Galvany; Quilico, Neill, Johnson; c: Moresco; d: Igesz;

ds: JampolisUniversity of Tulsa Opera Theatre, B. Lewis, Dir., Kendall Auditorium, Tulsa12/11, 12/76 Trouble in Tahiti & Dido and Aeneas w.o.4/29, 30 5/7, 8/77 Noye's Fludde w.o. in Sharp Chapel

OREGONPortland Opera Ass'n, S. Minde, Gen. Dir., Portland9/23, 25, 27/76 The Consul Cariaga, Gunn, Rogers; Gray, Ludgin; c: Minde; d:

Menotti; ds: Wong11/11, 13, 15/76 Werther Simon; Goeke; c: Holt; d: Clark; co-prod: Seattle & San

Francisco3/10, 12, 14/77 La Cenerentola Lerer, Cutsforth, Jones; Walker, Beni, Workman;

c: Minde; d: Hager5/11, 14, 17/77 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg Francesca-Cavazza; Becker,

Schenk, Hirte, Walker, Wildermann; c: Minde; d: G. HagerPENNSYLVANIA

Curtis Institute Opera Theatre, D. Yannopoulos, Dir., D. Enron, Cond., atWalnut St. Theatre, Philadelphia

10/22, 24/76 A Midsummer Night's Dream2/24, 27/77 Intermezzo Eng.; first staged American prod.4/15, 17/77 Don Giovanni Eng. 4/22, 24/77 Cos) fan tutte Eng.Curtis Studio Opera, D. Yannopoulos, Dir., D. Effron, Cond., Philadelphia12/10, 13, 16, 20/76 Rigoletto w.p.3/15, 17, 22, 24/77 Pelleas et Melisande w.p. 5/17, 20, 23, 26/77 Tosca w.p.Harrisburg Civic Opera Ass'n, S. Oberholtzer, Art. Dir., Lehrman Arts Center,

Harrisburg5/13, 14, 20, 21/77 The Bartered Bride c: Metzgar; d: OberholtzerOpera Company of Philadelphia, M. Leon, Gen. Mgr., C. Suppa, Art. Dir.,

Academy of Music10/19, 22/76 Tosca Kubiak; Corelli, Meredith; c: Veltri; d: de Blasis11/23, 26/76 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Schauler; Rinaldi, Gray & Alba;

McCracken, Guarrera; c: Wendelken-Wilson; d: Hicks12/14, 17/76 Die Walkure Hunter, Meier; Vickers, Shinall, Wildermann; c: Holt;

d: London1/18, 21/77 // Barbiere di Siviglia Russell; Hirst, Titus, Foldi, Ramey; c: Moresco;

d: de Blasis2/1, 4/77 Don Giovanni Sgourda, Thomson, Munzer; Morris, Gonzaga, Michalski;

c: Suppa; d: Ludwig3/1, 4/77 La Boheme Malfitano, Fiske; Mauro, Wagner, Corbeil; c: Rudel; d:

Guttman1976-77 tour: Hansel and Gretel; Die Fledermaus; The Barber of Seville; The

MikadoPhiladelphia Musical Academy Opera Studies, S. Ventura, Dir., Philadelphia12/9, 10, 11/76 Mavra & Hin und zuriick & Bastien and BastienneThe Pittsburgh Opera, R. Karp. Mus. & Gen. Dir., Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh11/11-13/76 Tosca Niska; Morell, Tipton12/2-4/76 Norma Deutekom, Berini; MacWherter, Berberian1/27-29/77 The Bartered Bride E. Shade; Foldi, Johnson3/10-12/77 Faust Thomson; Duval, Diaz3/31-4/2/77 Cost fan tutte Meier, Miller; Stewart, Gardner, Corbeil4/21-23/77 Rigoletto Valente; Di Giuseppe, QuilicoWest Chester State College Opera Theatre, C. Sprenkle, Dean, West Chester11/4, 5, 6/76 The Barber of New York 6 pfs.

RHODE ISLANDArtists Internationale, M. Ruffino, Art. Dir., Providence9/18/76 Madama Butterfly Cruz-Romo; Khanzadian, Shinall11/6/76 Tosca also 10/31 in Worcester1/10/77 La Fille du regiment Peters, Carlisle; c: Serebrier3/12/77 La Gioconda Ruffino, Warfield; Dominguez, Shinall; c: Kohn5/14/77 Faust Farley; Hines; c: Serebrier

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SOUTH CAROLINABob Jones Univ. Opera Ass'n, D. Gustafson, Dir., Greenville3/22, 24, 26/77 RigolettoConverse College Opera Wksp., J. McCrae, Dir., Spartanburg511177 La PericholeFurman Univ. Opera Wksp., G. Sheard, Dir., Greenville2/77 Cost fan tutte 2 pfs. w.o.

TENNESSEECarson-Newman College Lyric Theatre, T. Teague, Dir., Jefferson City10/7,8, 9/76 SusannahChattanooga Opera Ass'n., R. C. Austin, Dir., Univ. of Tennessee Music

Dept., Chattanooga9/30 10/2/76 Madama Butterfly Eng. Yockey4121,21177 Die Fledermaus Eng.2/77 tour: The Barber of Seville Eng.Memphis Opera Theatre, E. Blair, Gen. Mgr., K. Klippstatter, Mus. Dir.,

Memphis9/30 10/2/76 Madama Butterfly N. Shade11/4, 6/76 Turandot Tatum; Malamood2/12, 14/77 La Fille du regiment Sills; Harness, Malas3/31 4/2/77 Der fliegende Hollander Lansford; Khanzadian, Tozzi

TEXASBeaumont Civic Opera, M. Gray, Pres., Lamar Univ. Theatre, Beaumont3/4, 5, 6/77 Naughty MariettaDallas Civic Opera, N. Rescigno, Gen. Dir., Dallas, 20th Anniversary Season11/5, 7, 9/76 Handel's Samson Eng.; Wells, Forrester; Vickers, Michalski, Plishka;

c: Rescigno; d: Mansouri; ds: Varona/Hall11/16, 19, 21/76 La Traviata Sills; Prior, Paskalis; c: Rescigno; d: Capobianco;

ds: Toms11/28, 30 12/3/76 Salome Knie, Johnson; Kachel, Holtenau; c: Rescigno; d:

Moshinski; ds: Hall12/8, 10, 12/76 La Boheme Nunziata, Zoghby; Prior, Zancanario; c: Rescigno; d:

Maestrini; ds: di Nobili/HallFort Worth Opera Ass'n, R. Kruger, Gen. Mgr. & Mus. Dir., Fort Worth12/3, 5/76 Carmen Howard, F. Robinson; Norman, Devlin; d: Hebert1/21, 24/77 The Mikado Garrison, Billings; d: Eddleman; ds: King/Mess3/4, 6/77 Tosca Haywood; Morrell, Justus4/22, 24/77 Der Rosenkavalier Eng.; Meier, Hynes, Munzer; Malas, Billiard; d:

Hebert; ds: DaltonHouston Grand Opera, D. Gockley, Gen. Dir., Jones Hall, Houston10/15, 16*, 17m, 18*, 19, 22/76 Rigoletto Valente; Brecknock, Paskalis11/19, 20*, 21m, 22*, 23, 26/76 // Barbiere di Siviglia Ewing; Jiminez, Prey,

Montarsolo, Gramm; c: Mackerras, d: Besch; ds: Stoddart1/28, 29*, 30m, 31* 2/1, 4/77 Peter Grimes Wells; Vickers, Devlin; c: Pritchard;

d: Anderson; ds: Toms (San Francisco and Chicago co-op prod.)3/3, 5*, 6m, 7*, 8, 11/77 Andrea Chenier Carson; Merighi, Ellis; c: Rescigno; d:

Mansouri; ds: Skalicki (Houston & San Francisco co-op prod.)3/25, 27m, 29 4/1/77 L'lncoronazione di Poppea Rogers, Forrester; Titus, Ellis,

Ferrante; c: Montgomery; d: Corsaro; ds: Jampolis/Greenwood (WashingtonD.C. prod.)

4/15, 16*, 17m, 18*, 19, 22/77 Salome Bumbry, Krueger; Neill, Tyl; c: Foster* American Series with American castTexas Opera Theater, touring co. of Houston Grand Opera, J. deMain, Mus.

Dir.10/76-6/77 El Capitan; The Marriage of Figaro; The Barber of Seville; The Play

of Herod; The Medium; Barab's Chanticleer tour in 7 states; casts: Kowalski,Lay, Porter, Telese, Willeford; Ellsworth, Pedersen, Warner.

San Antonio Symphony and Opera Ass'n, V. Alessandro, Mus. Dir., SanAntonio

1/28/77 Wagner's Rienzi J. Price; McCray; c: McArthur; d: Darling; ds: Toms3/19/77 Tosca Armstrong; Little, Cowan5/20/77 Norma Sills, Troyanos; Little, Hale

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UTAHBrigham Young University Music Theatre, C. Robison, Art. Dir., Provo10/22, 27, 28, 30/76 La Boheme Eng. Pearlman/Rizzo11/18, 19 12/9, 10/76 3/24, 25 4/7, 8/77 Music Theatre Sketches, var. progrs.2/25 3/1, 2, 4/77 The Magic Flute Eng. Robison3/31 4/1/77 Easter Oratorio, stgd.

VIRGINIAVirginia Opera Ass'n, P. Mark, Art. Dir., Norfolk10/27, 29, 31/76 Rigoletto Putnam; Norman, Burchinal; c: Mark; d: Farrar1/5, 7, 9/77 // Trovatore Altmeyer, Conrad3/30 4/1, 3/76 The Impresario Eng. & Pagliacci

WASHINGTONSeattle Opera Ass'n, G. Ross, Gen. Dir., Seattle9/16, 18, 22, 24, 25, 26/76 Of Mice and Men K. Knight; Moulson, Chapman; c:

Holt; d: Floyd10/28, 30, 31 11/3, 5, 6/76 Werther Simon; Goeke; c: Holt; ds: Rubin (co-

production with San Francisco and Portland)1/20, 22, 26, 28, 29, 30/77 Otello Costa; Roney, Bugarin3/17, 19, 23, 25, 26, 27/77 La Cenerentola Lerer; Beni, Walker (Portland Opera

prod.)5/5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15/77 Tosca Martin; Morell, Quilico

WEST VIRGINIAWest Virginia Opera Theatre, D. Riggio, Cond., Charleston Municipal Audi-

torium11/76 Cosi fan tutte cone. pf.4/77 The Barber of Seville

WISCONSINMadison Civic Opera, R. Palmer, Mgr., Wisconsin Union Theatre, Madison2/11, 12/77 ManonMilwaukee Florentine Opera Co., A. Bellamente, Gen. Mgr., Milwaukee10/14, 16/76 La Cenerentola Petros; Ahlstedt, Reardon, Malas; d: Lucas11/18, 20/76 La Boheme Craig; Harness, Ellis3/24, 26/77 Don Giovanni Neblett; Devlin, Plishka; c: Schermerhorn5/5, 7/77 Faust Wells; Theyard, Ramey; c: Wendelken-WilsonThe Opera of the University of Wisconsin, School of Music, K. Moser, Art.

Dir., Madison10/6, 8, 9/76 // Matrimonio segreto Eng.3/9, 11, 12/77 Falstaff4/22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30/77 On the Town

CANADAAlgoma Festival, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.9/24, 25, 26/76 Noye's Fludde c: Goldschmidt; d: CoghillCanadian Opera Company, H. Geiger-Torel, Art Dir., Toronto, Ont.9/24, 27, 30 10/2m, 5, 6, 16/76 The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein Howard, Shuttle-

worth; Walker/Atherton, Davison, Corbeil/McManus; c: Crosby: d: Hebert; ds:Klein/Mess (Santa Fe Opera prod.)

9/25, 29 10/8, 12/76 Die Walkure Malmborg, Browning, Vernon; Cassilly, Roar,Wildermann; c: Bender; d: Geiger-Torel; ds: Laufer

9/28 10/2, 7, 9m, 11, 13, 15/76 La Boheme Zarou, Shuttleworth; Bondino, Opthof;c: Barbini;d: Lucas; ds: Day

10/1, 4, 9, 14, 16m/76 Tosca Galvany; Mauro, Roar, McManus, Wildermann; c:Balkwill; d: Fisher; ds: Schafer/Mess

Edmonton Opera Ass'n, I. Guttman, Art. Dir., Edmonton, Alberta9/30 10/2, 4, 6m/76 The Barber of Seville Tourangeau; Walker, Titus, Corbeil;

c: Suppa; d: Guttman; ds: Lord12/2, 4, 6/76 Madama Butterfly Pellegrini, deCarlo; Sandor, Opthof; c: Hetu;

d: Guttman; ds: Darling2/10, 12, 14/77 Salome N. Shade, Forrester; Crofoot, Braun, Lachonas; c: Hetu;

d: Geiger-Torel; ds: Jackson5/5, 7, 9/77 La Fille du regiment Sills; Harness, Bisson; c: Rosekrans; d: Guttman;

ds: MontresorAA

1976-77 Season

The Manitoba Opera Ass'n, E. Barbini, Mas. Dir., Manitoba11/18, 20, 22/76 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Stapp; Mauro, Bisson; & Thom-

son; Lavirgen, Bisson, Barcza; c: Barbini; d: Guttman1/27, 29, 31/77 Un Ballo in maschera Galvany, Allen; Bondino, Quilico; c:

Barbini; d: Guttman4/28, 30 5/2/77 Lucia di Lammermoor Robinson; Dominguez, Opthof, Corbeil; c:

Barbini; d: ThomasSouthern Alberta Opera Ass'n, B. Hanson, Gen. Mgr., Jubilee Auditorium,

Calgary, Alta.10/26, 28, 30/76 Die Fledermaus1/18, 20, 22/77 The Barber of Sevillei\ll tour: The Secret of SusanneVancouver Opera Ass'n, R. Bonynge, Art. Dir., Vancouver, B.C.10/21, 23, 26, 28, 30/76 La Boheme Carson, Costa; McKinney, Yurisich; c:

Bonynge; d: Rubes; ds: Varona1/27, 29 2/3, 5/77 Mignon Tourangeau, Rogers; Widen; c: Bonynge; d: Ayrton;

ds: Fredrikson3/10, 12, 17, 19/77 Die Fledermaus Eng.; Costa, Cuccaro, Begg; Cole, Bell, Opthof;

c: Gamley; d: Rubes; ds: Jackson4/21, 23, 28, 30/77 Les Huguenots Tourangeau, Rogers, Elkins; Brecknock, Grant,

Morris; c: Bonynge; d: Ayrton; ds: VaronaUniversity of Alberta Opera Div., A. Strombergs, Chmn., Edmonton11/76 Portrait de Manon & Comedy on the Bridge1/77 The Magic Flute

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Addenda to 1976 Directory

In the two-volume Directory of Operas and Publishers recently released, the codesand addresses of the following three publishers were inadvertently omitted:Chi Chappel Music Co., 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019 (212)

977-7200Jou Editions Joubert, 25 rue Hauteville, Paris 75010, FranceTW Tams-Whitmark Music Library, Inc., 757 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y.

10017 (212) 688-2525We regret this oversight and suggest your adding them to the lists on pages 6-8and 91-93 of the Directory.

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