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VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3

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NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES 1NEWS FROM OPERA COMPANIES 14CONFERENCES 19GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 20NEW AND RENOVATED THEATERS 22ARCHIVES AND EXHIBITIONS 24FORECAST 25ATTENTION COMPOSERS AND LIBRETTISTS 29ATTENTION CONDUCTORS 30MUSIC PUBLISHERS 30EDITIONS AND ADAPTATIONS 31EDUCATION 32APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS 33COS NATIONAL CONFERENCE 40COS INSIDE INFORMATION 41COS SALUTES. . . 44WINNERS 46CAREER GUIDE SUPPLEMENT 50NEW SETS AND COSTUMES FOR RENT 57NEW ENGLISH OPERA TRANSLATIONS 58NEW ENGLISH CAPTIONS IN PROJECTION 59BOOK CORNER 60OPERA HAS LOST. . . 66PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1988-89 SEASON (CONT.) 74FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1989-90 SEASON 94

CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN

Volume 29, Number 3 Spring/Summer 1989

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New Operas and Premieres 1News from Opera Companies 14Conferences 19Government and National Organizations 20New and Renovated Theaters 22Archives and Exhibitions 24Forecast 25Attention Composers and Librettists 29Attention Conductors 30Music Publishers 30Editions and Adaptations 31Education 32Appointments and Resignations 33COS National Conference 40COS Inside Information 41COS Salutes. . . 44Winners 46Career Guide Supplement 50New Sets and Costumes for Rent 57New English Opera Translations 58New English Captions in Projection 59Book Corner 60Opera Has Lost. . . 66Performance Listing, 1988-89 Season (cont.) 74First Performance Listing, 1989-90 Season 94

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NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

An original short story by Ray Bradbury, later turned into a teleplay,has now been expanded by the author into an opera. The music for THELIFEWORK OF JUAN DIAZ is by Lawrence Rapchak, music director ofChamber Opera Chicago, where the new work is to be premiered in Spring1990. Written in ten scenes, it plays about l i hours and calls for a castof soprano, tenor, and two baritones, plus three children. — For a musicaldramatization of Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, see under "MusicTheater Works."

Lee Goldstein, the 1988 composer-in-residence with the Lyric Opera ofChicago, will receive a staged premiere production of his new opera THEFAN in June, to be performed by the company's Center for AmericanArtists.

The Minnesota Opera's New Music-Theater Ensemble, which is dedicatedto developing, workshopping, and finally premiering new works, hasannounced two new operas which were presented in world premieres inMarch. They are WITHOUT COLORS, with music by Melissa Shiflett andlibretto by Mac Wellman after a short story by Ttalo Calvino, and REDTIDE, with music by Kim Sherman and a libretto by Paul Selig. The for-mer explores a process of the creation of the world, envisioned as thechange from a prehistoric gray earth to the appearance of color. It isscored for flute, cello, and piano, and calls for seven performers. Celloand piano are also required for Red Tide in addition to a saxophone andaccordion; there are three performers in this one-act opera. A thirdwork performed by the Ensemble at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage duringthe March season was THE NEWEST LITTLE OPERA IN THE WORLD.First given by the Minnesota Opera in May 1974, it is an improvisationalpiece devised by Wesley Balk, and was premiered in an altered but stillimprovisational version this spring. — In the Ensemble's workshop program,works that returned this spring in different stages of completion includedMorton Subotnik's Jacob's Room and William Harper's Snow Leopard.

Tn preparation for a 1990 premiere, the Kentucky Opera held a workshopperformance of a new opera, Daniel Dutton's THE STONE MAN, on January10 at Louisville's Speed Museum. The work has its roots in Appalachianfolk music and legend; it was composed totally at a computer-samplingkeyboard and later transcribed for traditional instruments. The premiereis scheduled for January 6, 1990 at the Bomhard Theater in Louisville, anda statewide tour is being negotiated.

Scheduled to coincide with the extensive Golem! exhibit at the JewishMuseum in New York, was a concert on March 14 which featured a newmusic theater work on that subject. Richard Teitelbaum's GOLEMS is amedia opera performed by a singer with an electroacoustical ensembleconsisting of a trombonist, a percussionist, and a synthesizer and computerkeyboards played by the composer. In addition, it featured an audiovisualanimation system developed at M.I.T. A three-movement chamber symphonyfor baritone and chamber orchestra entitled A Golem, the museum's com-mission to Israeli composer Menachem Zur, shared the program with Mr.Teitelbaum's opera-in-progress.

In Phase Two of OPERA America's "Opera for the 80s and Beyond" pro-gram, six additional grants were made to opera companies to facilitatethe premieres of the following new works: Stewart Copeland and SusanShirwen's HOLY BLOOD AND CRESCENT MOON (Cleveland Opera);

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AMERICANOPERA

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Anthony Davis and Deborah Atherton's UNDER THE DOUBLE MOON (OperaTheatre of Saint Louis); Paul Dresher and Rinde Eckert's POWER FAILURE(American Music Theatre Festival, Philadelphia); Christopher Drobny andLaura Harrington's one-act LUCY'S LAPSES (Portland Opera, Oregon);Kim Sherman and Paul Selig's RED TIDE (see above) and an as yet untitledpiece by Meredith Monk (Minnesota Opera); and Stewart Wallace andMichael Korie's WHERE'S DICK? (Houston Grand Opera jointly with Opera/Omaha). All of these works have gone through one or more workshopspreviously reported; Lucy's Lapses was first tried out at the O'NeillTheater Center in 1987, and will receive a further reading in June byPlaywrights Horizons in New York before its premiere in Portland nextseason. Since the project's inception in 1983, OPERA America has madegrants within this program for a total of $1,235,250.

Two short operas were premiered by the Chicago Opera Theater lastNovember within the company's New Works Showcase. FRITZI by composerHarold Blumenfeld, Professor of Music at Washington University in St.Louis, is an adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's The Witch, with a libretto byauthor and translator Charles Kondek. The half-hour light comedy, com-pleted in 1980 and showcased the following year, is set in turn-of-the-century Vienna and calls for four soloists. The other one-act work pre-miered was GILGAMESH with music by David Prochazka and a librettoby David Sanchez, both recent graduates of Chicago Musical College'sMusic Theater Program. It is an allegorical work set in ancient Babyloniaand based on the Epic of Gilgamesh.

The Minnesota Composers Forum staged the first performance of JamesMcKeel's new opera, THE CONSTANT CANNIBAL MAIDEN, based onWallace Irwin's poem of the same t i t le, which the composer/librettistincorporated into his one-act comedy. The January 28 premiere wasstaged at Minneapolis' Southern Theater by Ben Krywosz and designedby James Bakkom.

March 8 was the date of the first performance of Lee Hoiby's one-actopera BON APPETIT! which is based on a program from Julia Child'stelevision series, The French Chef, on the making of gateau au chocolatl'Eminence Brune. The piece was written for Jean Stapleton and performedat the Kennedy Center in Mrs. Child's presence. Early April found MissStapleton at California State University at Long Beach where she appearedin a Hoiby double-bill of Bon Appetit! and The Italian Lesson, premieredby Ms. Stapleton in 1985.

Yet another new Seymour Barab opera has been completed and is readyfor its premiere. LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT LENNY ANY MORE is acomedy with chamber orchestra that will be heard for the first time onAugust 18 at the Mohawk Trail Festival in Charlemont, Massachussetts.

The Old First Church in San Francisco was the site of the concertpremiere of a new opera, LEAST OF MY CHILDREN by Loren Linnardand Donald Briggs. It tells of a sixteenth-century Mexican miracle and ofa contemporary mother who prays for the same miracle to be repeatedin our time. May 12 was the first performance, with a cast of 6.

POSTPONEMENT The premiere of Ulysses Kay and Donald Dorr's FREDERICK DOUGLASS,announced by the New Jersey State Opera for an October '89 opening,has been postponed, and will probably be rescheduled for next spring.

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The world premiere of Sir Michael Tippett's latest opera, NEW YEAR, is WORLDset f o r O c t o b e r 27 a t the Houston Grand Opera , whe re i t w i l l r e c e i v e a PREMIERESt o t a l o f seven pe r fo rmances b e f o r e appea r i ng a t the G lyndebourne F e s t i v a l , OF FOREIGNi ts eop roduce r . The wo rk was o r i g i n a l l y commiss ioned by G lyndebou rne OPERAS INin collaboration with the BBC. The composer wrote his own libretto, THE U.S.which functions on two levels: as a science fiction story on the surface,and as a psychological drama in its deeper meaning. Sir Peter Hall willbe the stage director in the U.S. and in England; John DeMain will conductthe Texas performances.

Every season an opera by a classical composer appears among the newworld premieres. The latest discovery is Georges Bizet's very first opera,LA MAISON DU DOCTEUR, a one-act ope~ra-comique composed in his teensto a libretto generally attributed to a certain Henry Boitteaux. Whilethe complete vocal score was known to be at the Paris Conservatoire,where Bizet had been a student, the manuscript did not include the spokendialogue, and no copy of the complete libretto could be found. But nowWilliam Girard, a doctorial student at the University of Texas in Austin,has unraveled the mystery: the librettist's name is Boisseaux, not Boitteaux,and a lucky and persistent search turned up a copy of the text at theBibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Mr. Girard then orchestrated Bizet'spiano part, translated the libretto into English, and conducted the opera'sfirst performance at the UT Austin Opera Theater on February 23. (Thiswork is not to be confused with Bizet's second opera, Le Docteur Miracle,composed in 1857.)

Carson Kievman is writing HAMLET, a full-length opera with a cast often and an orchestra of about thirteen, on commission from Joseph Pappand his New York Shakespeare Festival. The premiere is planned fornext season.

NEA grants to composers for new operas and musical theater worksincluded one to David J. Olsen for an as yet untitled music theater piece,created for the Theatre de la Jeune Lune for October '89 in Minneapolis,and another to Ronald C. Perera towards creating a chamber opera afterCharlotte Perkins Gilman's THE YELLOW WALLPAPER (see "New Operasin Academe").

COMMISSIONS

Theatreworks/USA, which is committed to producing family-oriented playsand musicals that are toured throughout the country, has received fundsfor the commissioning and production of three new works to be premierednext season. The subjects will be drug abuse, parent-child communication,and illiteracy, and the two-year $100,000 grant will also assure a two-year tour for all three musicals. Authors and composers will be announcedshortly.

Henry Mollicone's new music theater work HOTEL EDEN, developed andworkshopped by Hidden Valley Opera during the past season, will receiveits premiere production from Opera San Jos6. The story is loosely basedon biblical texts, and the scoring calls for an electric bass and a keyboardsynthesizer. Judith Fein is the librettist of this three-act comedy, whichwas conceived in collaboration with director Robert Darling. Set designsfor the production will be by Ken Holamon, costumes by Betty Poindexter.The opening night is scheduled for November 25. This will be the secondnew work performed by Opera San Jos6 in as many seasons; Alva Hender-son's West of Washington Square was premiered last November.

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On November 11 the Civic Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana presented thepremiere of FAHRENHEIT 451, a musical dramatization of Ray Bradbury'sscience fiction novel. Mr. Bradbury also fashioned the book for the newwork, with music by David Mettee and lyrics by Georgia Bogardus Holof.It was first workshopped at the O'Neill Theatre Center in Connecticutin August 1985. — For a new opera based on a Bradbury short story see"American Opera Premieres."

Billed as a "multi-media musical event," TALKING TO THE SUN combinesmusic composed by William Russo with poems by Kate Farrell and KennethKoch, artwork from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and costumes createdfrom plastic, paper, and cellophane by designer Vanessa James. Thepremiere was scheduled for March 5 by Columbia College, Chicago, whereMr. Russo is director of the Contemporary American Music Program.There were nine performances between the opening and March 19.

A leading composer of musicals and a leading director and librettist ofmusic theater pieces are planning a joint project. Stephen Sondheim andRobert Wilson will collaborate on an as yet untitled five-act music theaterwork dealing in an unspecified way with "past, present, and fantasy-time."Workshops are to begin in 1990 with completion projected for 1992.

Ragtime music will dominate A GUEST OF HONOR: SCOTT JOPLIN,written by Howard Pflanzer with the original rags arranged and additionalmusic composed by Steve Weisberg. This new music theater work wastried out in extensive excerpts at JASA (Jewish Association for Servicesto the Aged) in New York on February 26.

On May 19, the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis premiered MENSING,conceived and directed by Michael Robins with music by Gary Rue,performing the music theater piece at the Hennepin Center for the Artsuntil mid-June. — Another work directed by its author is THE TOWER,premiered by the Creation Production Company in New York on May 1.Mathew Maguire is the author/director, Glenn Branca the composer.

George Coates Performance Works of San Francisco, in collaboration withthe American Conservatory Theatre, will be creating NOWHERE NOWHERE. It is based on Charles Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll's) life and will beparticularly concerned with his interest and involvement in mathematicaltheory and new technological inventions of the time. Various sciencecorporations are funding and assisting in the production, which is plannedto open in October '89.

Laurie Anderson's latest creation, a music theater piece entitled EMPTYPLACES, features her as solo performer with a battery of audio andvisual electronic gear. The premiere, originally scheduled for the NextWave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in October, was insteadgiven at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. on June 8. Empty Places will thenopen Next Wave on October 3, and the Brooklyn festival will also presentthe premiere of an operatic cantata by Lou Reed and John Cale, SONGSFOR 'DRELLA—A FICTION, written in memory of Andy Warhol. November29 is the date of the first performance, and the work will close thefestival on December 2.

The 1989 New Music America festival, now in its tenth year and in NewYork for the first time, will be co-presented by BAM and included withinthe program of the Next Wave Festival. A total of 69 new works will

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be performed at some twenty locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Newmusic theater works will include Robin Holcomb's ANGELS AT THE FOURCORNERS, based on reminiscences of his tobacco share-cropping days,with a premiere on November 12 at the Bessie Schonberg Theater, andHeiner Goebbels' DER MANN IM FAHRSTUHL (The Man in the Elevator)in its American premiere on the same date at The Kitchen (see also "NewOperas Abroad"). November 16 will bring the first performance of THEKABBALAH by composer Stewart Wallace, librettist Michael Korie, andvisual artist Dee Wolff, at the Schonberg Theater.

The prolific Elizabeth Swados has supplied the score for a new versionof the Don Juan story. Based on El Burlador de Sevilla (1632) by Tirsode Molina, THE SCOUNDREL OF SEVILLE is a new adaptation by poet/dramatist Lynne Alvarez in collaboration with Carey Perloff, who chosea contemporary New York City setting for the music theater piece. Itwas given a joint premiere production by CSC Repertory and the INTARHispanic American Arts Center in New York in March.

New York's bilingual Teatro DUO/DUO Theatre premiered a triple bill ofone-act music theater works in English which opened April 20 and playedfor one month. Migdalia Cruz and Linda Eisenstein created THE TOUCHOF AN ANGEL, a chamber opera about a young girl who is overly protectedby her family; Chuck Gomez and Mark Pennington wrote ADIOS, TROPI-CANA about three Cuban nightclub singers; and Hektor Mufios and BromwenJones are the composer and librettist of THE LIMIT, the story ofcohabitation of a Hispanic and an Anglo-Saxon man. — On May 8, thesame company premiered PEGGY AND JACKSON. The work reaches outinto the fine arts, exploring the life and motivations of the painterJackson Pollock and his relationship with art collector Peggy Guggenheim,who was his early supporter. David Welch wrote the music and MichaelAlasa the libretto. The first of four performances was given on May 8.

Jean Marie Ackermann's one-act music theater work COMPOUNDINTEREST was premiered on March 10 by a new ensemble, the MontereyOpera Company, in Carmel, California.

Composer Stanley Silverman's latest music theater piece is PARADISEFOR THE WORRIED, set in the period before World War I. It was writtenin collaboration with librettist Holly Anderson as conceived and performedby the Kinematic ensemble (Tamar Kotoske, Maria Lakis, and Marty Rich-ter). The premiere is scheduled for July 5 by the Music-Theatre Groupat the Lenox Arts Center in Stockbridge, Massachussetts, playing throughJuly 29. — August 9-26 is reserved for LEGACY: A New Music-TheatreWork, based on stories by West Virginia writer Breece D'J Pancake. PaulWalker will develop the new work; the composer has not been named.

Jeff Berkson chose unusual material for his latest music theater work,PASTEL REFUGEES. He drew on some of the notes he kept during his23 years as a clinical social worker, and selected as his subjects fiveteenagers in various stages of therapy. Greg Fleming, a psychiatrist, co-authored the book, and the musical opened at Northlight Theatre inEvanston, Illinois in March, continuing there through May 7.

Gunther Funn Production featured Brian Jost's OPERA UNDER GLASS: Ai-ACT OPERA in a contemporary music program called "Silent Treatment#3." Performances were given on March 31 and April 1 at The NewTheatre on East 4th Street in Manhattan.

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A music theater piece with puppets is the latest work premiered by theTheater for the New City in New York. EMPIRES AND APPETITES, byplaywright Theodora Skipitares with music by Pat Irwin, opened in NewYork on May 11.

On May 22 the Rapp Arts Center in New York presented a staged readingof a new musical version of BEN HUR! based on Lew Wallace's famousnovel. The new book and lyrics are by Thomas M. Disch, the music byMichael Gordon. The premiere is planned for the summer at the PeabodyConservatory of Music in Baltimore.

MUSICALS A Bronx-based company in affiliation with the YIVO Institute for JewishResearch has premiered SONGS OF PARADISE. It recounts the story ofGenesis in a mixture of English and Yiddish by authors Miriam Hoffmanand Rena Berkowicz Borow, who based their book on Itsik Manger'sbiblical verses. Rosalie Gerut supplied the music in a variety of popularstyles, arranged by Bevan Manson. It opened January 22 at the NewYork Public Theater, with the producing company assuming the name ofthe Joseph Papp Yiddish Theater.

"An avant-garde musical after a Grimm fairy tale" is the descriptioncomposer/writer Alan Wells provides for his new piece. TWO SAD STORIESABOUT SNAKES will be developed in collaboration with librettist AnnThompson and New York producer Larry Lash.

The Skylight Comic Opera in Milwaukee, known for its unconventionalprogramming, will premiere two new revues next season. December willbring NEW HARMONY HOLIDAYS, written by the company's Artistic Direc-tor Stephen Wadsworth in collaboration with composer J. Michael Higgins.It follows a pop vocal group like the Hi Lo's or the Four Freshmen ontour, culminating in a Milwaukee concert. The other new work, ROUNDAND ROUND WITH COLE PORTER, weaves Porter's music into a storyloosely based on Schnitzler's Der Reigen. It will be the final productionof the company's 1989-90 season, scheduled for May.

CHANGES Astor Piazzolla's two-part music theater work, originally calledAND A Tango/Orfeo (Vol. 29, No. 1), has been renamed DANGEROUS GAMES.CORRECTION Its premiere at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia took

place on May 6, 1989. — LADIES, announced in Vol. 29, No. 1 for apremiere by the Music-Theater Group in April, has changed composers,with Joshua Shneider replacing Vincent Christmas.

Credits for FIRE WORKS (Vol.29 #1), premiered at the Theater for theNew City in September '88, should read as follows: music by Ned Subletteand R.I.P. Hayman, libretto by Valeria Vasilevski and Ruth Maleczech.Described as a "Country Western Chinese Opera," it had been workshoppedby the O'Neill Opera Conference before its theater premiere.

CANADIAN The Canadian Opera Company's three composers-in-residence had theOPERA fruits of their labors of the past year presented by the Canadian OperaAND MUSIC Company Ensemble in May. The three one-act operas completed duringTHEATER this season's residency are AN EXPENSIVE EMBARRASSMENT by Denis

Gougeon, DULCITIUS: DEMISE OF INNOCENCE by Peter Koprowski, andTHE UNBELIEVABLE GLORY OF MR. SHARP by Andrew MacDonald.Performances took place at the Tanenbaum Opera Centre in Toronto onMay 16, 17 and 18. The first-mentioned opera has a libretto by TimothyAnderson based on Chekhov's The Marriage Proposal in a modern New

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York setting. Rod Anderson, librettist of the second work, chose as thetime period 300 A.D. during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian;and finally Andrew MacDonald's new opera with a libretto by Ken Keobkedeals with murder in our contemporary society.

The Canadian Opera Company has also commissioned the successful Cana-dian composer Harry Somers (Louis Riel) to write a new opera for theCanadian Opera Company Ensemble's tenth anniversary. He and librettistRod Anderson have chosen for the story Thomas Mann's novella MARIOAND THE MAGICIAN, which has previously served British composer StevenOliver and Hungarian composer Janos Vajda as the source for their recentoperas of the same title (see "American Premieres" and "New OperasAbroad," Vol. 28, No. 4). Somers' opera is planned to be premiered inFebruary 1991 in Toronto.

The International Choral Festival in Toronto (5/31-6/30/89) under ArtisticDirector Nicholas Goldschmidt, and the BBC Singers under conductor JohnPoole, have commissioned a new work from R. Murray Schafer,APOCALYPSIS, which calls for hundreds of singers, dancers, actors, andinstrumentalists. The premiere is scheduled for June 28 at the Universityof Toronto. — The same composer's two-hour THE BLACK THEATRE OFHERMES TRISMEGISTOS was given its first performance by Arts Musicaon March 9 during the Festival de Liege in Belgium.

Written for a premiere at Kirkland Lake, Ontario during the Ontario ArtsCouncil's Fall Festival of Fun, THE SAGA OF ROSIE BROWN is set inthis northern mining town. The musical with words and score by LeslieArden of Toronto was premiered on September 22 and repeated by theClassical Cabaret in Toronto on November 6. Ruth Morawetz conductedthe performance at the George Ignatieff Theatre, and opera soprano JanetField assumed several roles.

Composer Timothy Sullivan has been commissioned by the Canada Councilto write a new opera for the 1990 Three Centuries Festival in Elora,Ontario. Meanwhile the Center for Contemporary Opera in New YorkCity, which premiered his Tomorrow and Tomorrow, has scheduled theU.S. premiere of his Strindberg-based opera DREAM PLAY for January1990, and for that occasion Mr. Sullivan is writing a curtain-raiser, THEIMAGINARY COUPLE based on a play by Moliere.

Elizabeth Raum (The Garden of Alice, The Final Bid) is currently workingon a full-length opera which is to have much of its music performed ona synthesizer. Her new children's musical will be ready for performanceby the Saskatoon Symphony at the 1989 Canada Summer Games.

The tragic life of Quebec's poet EMILE NELLIGAN will be the basis ofa new opera by pop composer Andr6 Gagnon and playwright MichelTremblay. A premiere is projected for April 1990.

British composer Julian Grant, whose first opera The SJctrt Drum was ona Canadian subject and written for the Banff Centre, is now working ona new opera with Canadian playwright John Murrell, also for a premiereby the Banff Centre's Music Theatre Ensemble.

An Ontario Arts Council grant has assisted in commissioning James VincentFusco, composer-in-residence with the Niagara Symphony of St. Catherines,to write an opera for a premiere by the orchestra. He plans to create

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his own libretto for this two-act comic opera, as yet untitled. There isto be a cast of five principals and a medium-size orchestra.

WORKSHOPS NEA grants awarded in 1988 inc luded several to thea te r companies towardsAND the commissioning, develop ing, and/or produc ing of new musical works.READINGS The recipients include Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Theatre, for a musical

adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's IN THE JUNGLE OF CITIES with PaulDresher and James Yoshimura the composer and author; New York's MabouMines, towards the production of Ruth Maleczech's SUENOS and TerryAllen and Eric Overmeyer's THE MORMON PROJECT; the AmericanRepertory Theatre in Cambridge, for preproduction expenses of PhilipGlass's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, with book by ArthurYorinks; Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum for oreproduction expenses ofBLANCO, a musical based on Shaw's The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet;the New York Shakespeare Festival, for developing UP AGAINST IT byTodd Rundgren and Tom Ross, based on a screenplay by Joe Orton;Florida's Coconut Grove Playhouse, towards the creation of a new musicaldocumentary by Max Ferra and Fernando Rivas; the Music-Theatre Groupof New York City and Stockbridge, Massachussetls, for a new work byMartha Clarke; and the La Jolla Playhouse, for further development of80 DAYS, after Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days.

On February 6, the National Music Theater Network presented RobertNassif's OPAL within its Sampler Series. Excerpts were workshopped atDonnell Library; the first readings of this piece were given by the NewYork Shakespeare Festival (1983) and by Musical Theatre Works (1984),all in New York.

NEW OPERAS Early feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gillman's best-known book, THEIN ACADEME YELLOW WALLPAPER, has been the source for two operas in the last

three years. The newer work, written with an NEA grant and premieredat Smith College on May 17, is by composer Ronald Perera, professor ofmusic at Smith, and librettist Constance Congdon, resident playwright atthe Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut. The two-act opera featuredseveral professional singers such as Jane Bryden and Jan Opalach,accompanied by an orchestra of 14 professional musicians. The earlieropera was by Miriam Gerberg and Judith McGuire; it plays eight minutes,and was premiered by the Brooklyn College Opera Department in 1986.

Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama has staged the first perfor-mance of Edwin Robertson's THE WELL, a full-length work based on theGospel According to Saint John with a libretto by Grace Hawthorne. Thefirst of four consecutive performances was given on November 17, directedby G. William Bugg, head of the university's opera workshop.

The Opera Studio of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatorygave the first performance of excerpts from FOURSCORE: AN OPERAOF OPPOSITES with music by Harold Blumenfeld and a libretto by CharlesKondek based on Nestroy's Haas der Temperamente. The complete opera,a comic tangle involving four families, incorporates some fifty musicalquotations from operas and other works. The Studio performance tookplace on March 3 and was paired with excerpts from Handel's Rodelinda.— On May 24, the university's Drama Department premiered a new musicalversion of Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM with music byMatt Hisel, who also conducted.

On February 18, the opera department of the Curtis Institute in Phila-delphia gave the premiere of Kam Morrill's first opera. PERLIMPLIN,


based on Garcia Lorca's short play In His Garden Don Perlimplin LovesBelisa, is the eighth operatic treatment of this work. It is written infour scenes with a playing time of one hour. The cast requirements arefor two coloratura sopranos, one lyric soprano, two mezzos, and onebaritone.

Two new one-act operas were given piano-accompanied readings on March13 and 14 by the Opera Workshop of the University of Washington inSeattle. They were MY FELLOW TRAVELER, with music and librettoby M. Kuss, and THE INSANITY OF MARY GIRARD, with music andlibretto by B. Monroe. The third work on the program was Barber's AHand of Bridge.

The Cynthia Auerbach Children's Opera Theater of the Manhattan Schoolof Music gave the first performance of Richard Owen's TOM SAWYERon April 9. He is a prolific composer (Abigail Adams, A Fisherman CalledPeter, Mary Dyer, and other operas) who, in his primary occupation, isa federal district judge in New York City. This musical version of theMark Twain novel brings to ten the number of children's operas writtenon that subject.

Washington Irving's RIP VAN WINKLE is the basis of a new children'sopera commissioned by the San Diego Opera for its touring program tolocal schools. Jeffrey Rockwell is the composer and J. Sherwood Mont-gomery the librettist; both have been working in children's musical theaterand television. The new work will be premiered in October.

An annual custom at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatoryof Music is the performance of a new work written for and performedby some 200 Mini-Mummers, ranging in age from five to eighteen. Thisyear's work, entitled PHIL A. TELIC'S REVIEW REVUE, has book andlyrics by Kay King, head of the Mini-Mummers' Creative Drama classes,and music by Robert Rogers. Three consecutive performances were stagedon March 19.

On March 18 the Cultural Resource Council of Syracuse, New York, whichsponsors a Youtheatre season, premiered a new children's musical, THEBRAMBLEBERRY WITCHES. This fully staged VNI production employedprofessional actors and singers to tell its delightful story in musical terms.

The Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre commissioned and premieredHEADLIGHTS, a new performance work with book and lyrics by MeganTerry and music by six composers: Frank Fong, Rex Gray, Rick Hiatt,Lori Loree, Mark Nelson, and Luigi Waites. The musical brings to thefore the remarkably high rate of illiteracy in this country. After a shortrun of performances by students in Little Rock, the Omaha Magic Theatergave the professional premiere in February.

YOUNGPEOPLE'S

OPERAS ANDMUSICALS

WHADDA 'BOUT MY LEGAL RIGHTS? is a 75-minute musical writtenespecially for middle and high school students to explore their rights andresponsibilities in today's society. The book is by playwright and attorneyLauren Marshall, with music by Suzanne Grant and additional lyrics byAndrew Duxbury. The Empty Space Theater of Seattle presented it incollaboration with "Fame," a touring company, in schools throughoutWashington State during spring '89.

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CHRISTMAS A CHRISTMAS MEMORY by Samuel Jones is based on Truman Capote'sOPERA story of the same name. The one-act opera is for adult and chi ldren

performers, and is avai lable from MMB Music publishers in St. Louis.

NORTH Handel's GIUSTINO will have its first U.S. performance on June 27 whenAMERICAN it is staged by the San Francisco Opera Center as part of its 1989 Show-PREMIERES case presentations. Three performances are scheduled at the Herbst Thea-

ter. The opera's world premiere was in 1737 at London's Covent Garden.

Another Handel opera, FLORID ANTE, first performed at the HaymarketTheatre in London in 1721, will have its North American premiere inOttawa next season. The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra will give aconcert performance at the National Arts Centre.

The Connecticut Early Music Festival has announced the first Americanperformances of a reconstructed opera by Gluck, IL PARNASO CONFUSO.First heard at Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace in 1765, it will be performedin New London and Mystic during the June festival (6/8-28).

In anticipation of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America, theGreater Miami Opera is planning to give the American premiere of AlbertoFranchetti's CRISTOFORO COLOMBO in October or November 1991. Thework was composed for the 400th anniversary of this event and premieredin 1892 in Genoa, where it will be revived in 1992 as a coproductionwith Miami. Meanwhile, the Miami opera is negotiating with severalother American companies interested in sharing in the production.

ROTHSCHILD'S VIOLIN, written by the young Russian composer BenjaminFleischman but left unfinished when the composer was killed in WorldWar II, was completed and orchestrated by his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich.It had its first performance at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1968,received its first hearings in the West in a concert performance inDuisburg, Germany and staged productions in Lucerne and Helsinki, andwill receive its American premiere next season. The Juilliard OperaCenter will stage the one-act opera on February 23; the second work onthe program is to be announced.

In celebration of the residency and lectures by Mauricio Kagel, the BanffCentre Music Theatre Program will mount the North American premiereof his LA TRAHISON ORALE in an expanded concert version. Perfor-mances are scheduled for March 15-18, 1990. The world premiere wasgiven in Manchester, England in 1969.

John McCabe's THE LION, THE WITCH. AND THE WARDROBE, with textby Gerald Larner a f ter C.S. Lewis, w i l l have its American premiere inWi lmington. OperaDelaware has scheduled the f i rs t U.S. performance ofthis Br i t ish chi ldren's opera, which requires adult and chi ldren performers,for March 9, 1990.

On August 19, Glimmerglass Opera at Cooperstown in upstate New Yorkwi l l give the U.S. premiere of a Vic tor ian operet ta en t i t led MR. JERICHO.First performed in 1893 at London's Savoy Theat re , i t has a l i b re t t o byH. Greenbank and music by Ernest A .C. Ford.

CHANGED The American premiere of Milhaud's LA MERE COUPABLE, based on theSCHEDULES th i rd play in Beaumarchais's Figaro t r i l ogy , or ig inal ly scheduled for May

'89 by the Long Beach Opera in Ca l i fo rn ia , was cancel led. Instead the

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company performed the original spoken play, in an adaptation and Englishtranslation by Philip Littell and with new incidental music commissionedfrom Mark McCurdy, so as to complete the series it had begun withPaisiello's II Barbiere di Siviglia and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.

Cesti's LA DORI, planned for an American premiere in the new Echols/Morell edition by the Mannes College Camerata in May, has been postponeduntil spring 1990.

While Leonard Bernstein has set some recipes to music, and NicolasSlonimsky some advertising copy, Tom Johnson in his latest opera hasremained within the musical sphere by making a one-act music theaterwork out of entries from Hugo Riemann's Musiklexicon. RIEMANNOPERwas premiered in Bremen on November 3, conducted by CatherineRuckwardt, directed by Tobias Richter and designed by Jorge Villareal.The characters represent two Prima Donnas, a Lyric Tenor, and a Baritone.— Johnson's 200 ANS was given a staged reading in a competition forshort operas at Avignon (see "New Operas Abroad").

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Bielefeld has contracted for the German premiere of John Adams's NIXONIN CHINA, scheduled for next December.

The Frohman Academy of Musical Theatre in Carmel is putting togethera production of OKLAHOMA!, considered the first of the modern Americanmusicals. It will try out on a brief American tour before being sent tothe U.S.S.R., possibly followed by visits to London and Canada.

Mark Bucci reports performances of his SWEET BETSY FROM PIKE inScotland, Ireland, and most recently in Warsaw, and of his THIRTEENCLOCKS in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where it was performed in Serbo-Croatian.

May '89 brought Kurt Weill's American musical LOST IN THE STARS tothe opera house in Oberhausen, West Germany.

Ned Rorem's THREE SISTERS WHO ARE NOT SISTERS, with a librettoby Gertrud Stein, was given a new production in Kassel, Germany inJanuary. It was performed on a double bill with Hindemith's SanctaSusanna. — During the same month, Rorem's FABLES received its firstGerman performance in Koblenz.

In commemoration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the Teatrodell'Opera in Rome gave the premiere of Lorenzo Ferrero's CHARLOTTECORDAY on February 21, with an additional four performances on andbefore March 3. Elena Mauti Nunziata sang the title role and RobertoAbbado conducted. The same composer's Marilyn (1980) was also premieredby the Rome Opera.

London's The Garden Venture, the Royal Opera's workshop studio (seeVol. 28, No. 4), tried out its first venture, Priti Paintal's THE INTERVIEW.Further new works were to be developed in May.

A SMALL GREEN SPACE is the title of a commissioned opera writtenby Ilona Sekacz, music, and Fay Weldon, libretto, for the English NationalOpera's touring ensemble. The first stop was the Towngate Theatre inBasildon in April.

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On February 24, the Western Australian Opera Company in Perth presentedthe first performance of Gillian Whitehead's THE BRIDE OF FORTUNE,an opera commissioned by the company.

During the Dresdner Festwoehen in East Germany, the Staatsoper gavethe premiere of Ekkehard Mayer's DER GOLDENE TOPF. Joachim Herzwas the stage director, and the opening was on May 20.

Last September's Festival of Contemporary Music in Strasbourg, "Musica'88," included Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in Harry Kupfer'sstaging and new music theater pieces by such internationally renownedcomposers as Georges Aperghis— ENUMERATIONS--and Mauricio Kagel—Aus Deutschland, first performed in 1981 in Berlin. In addition, therewas Heiner Goebbels' DER MANN IM FAHRSTUHL to a libretto by HeinerMilller, a piece presented in concert form which the composer and librettistwere touring through Germany. The 1988 festival celebrated the 2,000thanniversary of the city of Strasbourg.

The Festival at Aix-en-Provence and the Grand The'Stre at Tours arecoproducing Claude Prey's newest opera, LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR, afterStendhal's novel. The first performances are scheduled at Aix, openingon July 20.

The The'Stre du Lierre in Paris mounted the premiere of LE PROCESD'ORESTE, music by Marc Lauras, in part emulating Byzantine-style song.It played through March 18, with accompaniment on electronic tape. Theopera is a sequel to the same composer's Electre, which was premieredin 1986 in Avignon.

As the finalists in a competition for new short operas sponsored by theAssociation Acanthes, eight one-act works were given staged readings atLa Chartreuse de Villeneuve-les-Avignon between January 15 and 19. Thefollowing pieces were performed: LE MIRACLE SECRET by Martin Mata-lon, adapted from Jorge Luis Borges; BEAU SOIR by Gerard Pesson, aftera book by Martin Kaltenecker; J'IRAIS VERS LE NORD, J'IRAIS VERSLA NUIT POLAIRE by Kasper Toeplitz, honoring the American poet SylviaPlath; QUAND LES OLIVIERS MARCHENT DANS LA PLAINE by DominiqueTroncin; OPERA DE VAVENUE A by Valerie Stephan, representing autobio-graphical reminiscences of New York; ODDORT by Paulo Chagas, who seta fragment of Celine's Rigodon to music; HUIT HEURES DE LA VIE DESFEMMES by Lidia Zielienska; and 200 ANS by American composer TomJohnson, composed for the bicentennial of the French Revolution.

On March 28, Madrid's Teatro Lirico Nacional de la Zarzuela premiereda new opera, FRANCESCA, with music by Alfredo Aracil and a librettoby Luis M. de Merlo.

The Danish writer, Baroness Karen Blixen, better known as Isak Dinesen,is the subject of a new opera, GRINNING AT THE DEVIL, premiered onFebruary 28 at Riddersalen in Copenhagen. British composer James Wilsonwrote the music and Elsa Gress the libretto. The premiere was conductedby Verner Nicolet and staged by Anne Makower.

The Musikdramatisk Teater in Copenhagen premiered Swedish composerArne Mellnas's chamber opera A BED OF ROSES in January '89. Thework, commissioned by the Icelandic arts council NOMUS, is based on anaward-winning Icelandic absurdist play called Ten Variations by Oddur

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Bjornsson. It was written to be performed in either Icelandic or Swedish,and the premiere was originally planned for Reykjavik; the move to Den-mark also brought a translation into Danish. The musical drama has nostory-plot but consists of ten vignettes with a composer as the centralcharacter, his ever-sacrificing wife, and his alcoholic mother-in-law. Thethree soloists are accompanied by twelve instrumentalists.

Herbert Lauermann's WUNDERTHEATER, with a libretto by ChristianFuchs, was originally written on commission from the Salzburg Landes-theater but received its premiere in Vienna by Studio K of the WienerKammeroper on November 6. This was two days after the opening ofThomas Bernhard's play Heldenplatz, which had aroused a heated demon-stration because of its attack on Austrian antisemitism. By a strangecoincidence, Lauermann's new opera seemed like a parody commenting onthe preceding events.

The premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's latest opera, DIE EROBERUNG VONMEXICO, scheduled for April 1989 in Hamburg, has been postponed until1990 because the work is not yet completed. The April date has beenfilled with Rihm's 1987 opera Die Hamletmaschine in its local premiere.

On October 8, Darmstadt was the scene of the premiere of a new half-hour music theater piece for small children, premiered under the delightfultitle VOM MVLLER USD DEN MUHLENMAUSEN (About the Miller and theMice at the Mill)—which proves to be less of a tongue twister in English.Wolfgang Jehn wrote the music to a text by Margarete Rollny, whosestory calls for the participation of a group of children from the audience.They receive masks and play the cats that chase the singing mice. Ahappy ending brings conciliation between mice, cats, and the miller.

Under the title of EIN SELTSAMER TAG, the Schwetzingen Festivalpremiered a new children's opera with music by Armin Gottstein and bookand lyrics by Eberhard Streul. The delightful story's protagonist is acello that answers to the name of Heinrich, which flees from a coloratura-soprano cat to its 100-year-old bass fiddle grandmother. The singerswere students from the music academy in Heidelberg, accompanied by astudent chamber orchestra.

On July 21 the Carinthian Summer Festival in Villach, Austria will givethe premiere of QUIRL, an opera by Ernst Ekkert "for robots and humanchildren". The libretto is by Andreas Kaeh. In German, a quirt is atwirling stick—a kitchen utensil. []

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NEWS FROM OPERA COMPANIESNEW A new company formed for the reading and presentation of contemporaryCOMPANIES music theater works is AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS INC. in New York;

Grethe Barrett Holby is the Artistic Director. The first project was anevening of three works by composer Anthony Scafide, presented on atriple bill on April 7 and 8 at Stage 61 in New York. CONVERGENCE—An Octet for Chamber Ensemble and Dancers was joined by the com-poser's Cameo—A Staged Song Cycle and Contours—A Trio for WindInstruments. Janaea Rose Lyn, Administrative Director of the company,was the choreographer and stage director of two of the pieces. Anotherevening of excerpts from new works was offered on May 24 at the com-pany's Blue Door Studio. The composers were present to participate inthe subsequent discussion.

A new company opened its first season on May 19 in Wichita. OPERAKANSAS, under the directorship of Bertil van Boer, scheduled a Mozartdouble bill of Bastien and Bastienne and Der Schauspieldirektor at theCentury II Little Theater.

On June 3, the new DOBBS FERRY OPERA (NY) is giving its inauguralperformance, a concert version in costume of Norma. The company'sMusic Director Pasquale Ruisi conducts; performances are held at MercyCollege Auditorium.

As its name implies, L'OPERA FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK will be special-izing in the French repertoire, with Ives Abel as its Music Director andSusan Melvoin in charge of stage direction. The company's first venturewas Gounod's Rome'o et Juliette in April, staged with piano.

THE CALIFORNIA OPERA ENSEMBLE has been founded in Sacramentoby David A. Elliott, its Artistic Director. After introducing itself to thelocal scene with operatic excerpts and a gala in December, the companyplans its first production for April 1990. It will consist of a triple bill:The Seduction of a Lady and The Music Shop, both by Richard Wargo, anda third one-act opera to be company-developed.

Another new performing group has been founded in California. The MON-TEREY OPERA COMPANY'S first season included Riders to the Sea, TheTelephone, II Cambiale di matrimonio, The Medium, and a double bill ofMartinu's Comedy on the Bridge and Schiekele's The Stoned Guest, aswell as the world premiere of a one-act music theater work entitledCompound Interest by Jean Marie Ackermann. Performances are all withpiano and take place at Monterey Peninsula College and various locationsin Carmel. Juliet Williams is the program coordinator.

In order to present Rossini operas in concert in New York, Elizabeth Falkfirst founded the Concert Opera of Manhattan for II Viaggio a Reims in1987. Now she has established the PALA OPERA ASSOCIATION, a divisionof the Provincetown Academy of the Living Arts, to offer a performanceof La Gazza ladra at Town Hall in January 1990. As in her previousventure, Ms. Falk is the artistic director and Timothy Lindberg theconductor.

Seattle has a new musical theater company based at THE 5TH AVENUE,a lavish theater of the Twenties with a seating capacity of over 2,100which was renovated and reopened in 1980. Until now it has served asthe home of major touring musicals; this was so successful that the 5th

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Avenue Associat ion has decided to form its own musical productionensemble, and for tha t purpose has engaged as i ts first Execu t ive DirectorFrank M. Young, founder and execu t ive d i rec tor of Houston's T h e a t r eUnder the S ta r s and pres ident of the National Alliance of Musical T h e a t r eProducers (NAMTP). Mr. Young will also cont inue in his Houston post,and a l though the companies will o p e r a t e independent ly of each o ther theywill share some new product ions , the costs to be divided equally.

Donald Pippin 's POCKET OPERA will resume performances this springa f t e r a one-year h ia tus . There will be nine programs in twelve per-formances be tween April 23 and June 25, all a t the Waterfront T h e a t r ein Ghirardel l i Square . The company's new office address is 25 TaylorS t r e e t , STBS, San Francisco 94102; te lephone (415) 346-2780.

After following a seasonal schedule of four product ions and s ix teen EXPANDEDperformances in i ts home t h e a t e r in Norfolk for some t ime, the VIRGINIA SEASONSOPERA expanded in 1983 to repea t each work once in Richmond. Thecompany has now been invited to further en large its season at Richmond'sCarpenter Center for the Performing Arts to two presentations each,thus raising its total number of performances to 24. — The CONNECTICUTOPERA is adding one performance of each of its four productions to nextseason's schedule, bringing to twelve the total number of performancesin Hartford.

Despite current financial difficulties, L'OPERA DE MONTREAL is planningfor 1990-91 to return to its former schedule of five productions perseason rather than the recent four. While 1989-90 will find Faust, LeComte Ory, Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail, and Un Ballo in maschera atthe Place des Arts, the following season will bring Adriana Lecouvreur,Pagliacci &. Gianni Schicchi, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Der Rosenkavalier,and The Merry Widow. The company is under the general and artisticdirection of Bernard Uzan.

For the first time, THE DALLAS OPERA will offer a split season rather CHANGEDthan playing its four productions consecutively in November and December. SEASONSThe first th ree follow each other in November and early December, whilethe fourth opera is scheduled for the second half of January , thus avoidingthe period just before the holiday season.

The MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE, which always seems to have a changeor surprise up its s leeve in its season's plans, does not disappoint thisyear . In the past the company has performed in two thea te r s , with themajority of productions in the smaller Fisher Thea t r e and fewer operasat the large Masonic Temple; only last season were the six productionsdivided th ree and three between the two halls . In 1989-90 the completereper to i re of four operas will be given at the Masonic Temple, and oneadded musical, Les Mis&rables, will be offered on the MOT subscription ina Nederlander Organizat ion touring production. In another depar tu re fromformer p rac t i ce , MOT will also be the local presenter for the ClevelandBallet ' s Swan Lake. Counting the cosponsorships, the company will againoffer six productions in a to ta l of 26 performances. — In order to avoidfuture scheduling problems re la ted to the availabil i ty of t hea t e r s , thecompany is in the process of acquiring its own thea te r , which it plansto renova te . (See "New and Renovated Theaters .")

The LOS ANGELES MUSIC CENTER OPERA has just announced its 1989- REDUCED90 season. In addition to its summer musical {Oklahoma! this year), the SEASON

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company will present six operas, including one double bill, representinga cutback of one production from last year. Performances are spreadthroughout the season, which opens September 6 at the Center with Toscaand continues with operas in mid-September, January, February, April,and June (see "First Performance Listing, 1989-90 Season").

FESTIVAL HOUSTON GRAND OPERA has dubbed its Fall '89 season "The BritishNEWS Fest ival , " wi th a repertoire planned to celebrate three centuries of English

opera. In addit ion to the wor ld premiere of Sir Michael T ippet t 's NewYear, opening on October 27 and directed by Sir Peter Hal l , HGO wi l lpresent Handel's Giulio Cesare, staged by Br i t ish d i rector Nicholas Hytner,and The Mikado, d i rected by Jonathan Mi l ler ; and the HGO Opera Studiow i l l perform a seventeenth-century double bi l l of Purcel l 's Dido and Aeneasand John Blow's Venus and Adonis. There wi l l be addit ional Br i t ish-or iented events coordinated by various other organizations in Houston.(See "First Performance L is t ing, 1989-90 Season" for the ful l schedule.)

The SECOND NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS,or iginal ly planned for the summer of 1990, has been postponed for oneyear. Fol lowing extensive reevaluation of the First Festival in 1988,which had as its theme the arts in the twent ie th century and includedsome 350 events wi th in one month, it was decided to feature pr imari lyforeign arts groups which have had very few or no appearances in NewYork, and to include no more than about 150 events during the threefest ival weeks in June. On June 21, the f i rst day of summer, there wi l l bea fu l l -day musical celebrat ion, a custom honored by some 40 ci t ies aroundthe wor ld . The f i rs t fest ival 's cost came to just under $10 mil l ion; thesecond, which w i l l be one week shorter, is budgeted at $6.5 mi l l ion.

ACROSS THE Cont inuing its tr ips westward to the Or ient , some members of the SANSEAS FRANCISCO OPERA CENTER visi ted China in March, while others t rav-

eled to Japan in Apr i l . Soprano Cheryl Parrish appeared in concert inShanghai accompanied by the Center's coach Patrick Summers, who alsoassisted in the preparation of a local production of Rigoletto. Apr i lfound four young American singers from San Francisco in excerpts fromMadama Butterfly at the University of Tokyo, at Keio University, and insmaller Japanese ci t ies, where they were joined by young Japanese singersin concerts and workshops.

The HOUSTON GRAND OPERA, which has had experience in touring abroad(Porgy and Bess, Nixon in China), has sent i ts production of Show Boatto Cairo for the opening of the new opera house there.

COMPOSER/ As Lee Goldstein's term as Composer-in-Residence wi th the LYRIC OPERALIBRETTIST OF CHICAGO draws to a close, the company has chosen his successorWORKSHOPS fo r the next t w o years. Br igh t Sheng, the 33-year o ld Chinese-born

American composer and pianist, is the program's third artist-in-residencefollowing William Neil {The Guilt of Lilian Sloan) and Mr. Goldstein (TheFan). Before coming to the U.S. in 1982, Mr. Sheng studied at theShanghai Conservatory, and he continued his studies in this country atColumbia University and at Queens College of the City University of NewYork. He has had many performances of his music here and abroad, hascoached and accompanied singers, and will write his first opera while inresidence with the Chicago Lyric.

The eight singers of the GREATER MIAMI OPERA'S Young Artists Programand Joseph lllick, its music director, assisted in the development, reading,

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and performance of 25 short music theater pieces created for the company'sfirst Composer/Librettist program in February. Coordinated by BenKrywosz of the Minnesota Opera's New Music-Theater Ensemble, this two-week project had selected five composers and five librettists and, pairingthem in all 25 combinations, came up with the same number of shortmusic theater pieces. Some of these works may eventually become thenucleus for new complete operas or music theater pieces. But moreimportantly, it brought together these ten creative minds under mostfavorable and stimulating conditions, last but not least with the youngapprentice artists standing by to create the live sound as it was beingdeveloped. The five composers were Joseph Celli, Orlando Garcia, andAlain Marino from Miami, and Brenda Hutchinson and Jorge Martin fromNew York; the five librettists were Nancy Oliver from Sarasota, DanLeonard from West Palm Beach, and Robert Gregory, Lester Standiford,and Susan Westfall from Miami. Each participant received a $500 honorar-ium, and travel and accommodations were provided for those from outsideMiami.

The AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA is in its first year of a Young Artists Program EDUCATIONALand is drawing on the best talent enrolled at Baylor University and the PROGRAMSUnivers i ty of Texas at Aus t in . Eight young singers rece ive t ra in ing fromprofessionals work ing at ALO in coaching, languages, and s tag ing, andthey w i l l have oppor tun i t ies to appear in special programs, become under-studies, or appear in small roles w i t h the company. They are also encour-aged t o a t t e n d rehearsals and per formances.

A jo in t program has been organized by the GUTHRIE THEATRE in Minnea-polis and the Univers i ty o f Minnesota 's Thea t re Ar ts Department . Anintensive th ree-year Ac to r T ra in ing Program resu l t ing in a master 's degreew i l l include a t ra in ing internship at the Guthr ie and courses taught atthe universi ty by professionals of the theater company. Admission to theprogram must be approved by facul ty members as wel l as by members ofthe company's a r t i s t i c s ta f f , the same arrangement that exists betweensome opera companies and academic inst i tut ions that of fer a joint degreeprogram in opera or music theater.

GREATER MIAMI OPERA'S Young Ar t is ts Program has joined forces wi ththe New World School of the Ar ts in Miami, which provided the orchestralaccompaniment for a recent Young Ar t is ts ' product ion. Two performancesof Conrad Susa's Transformation were given in Apr i l .

With the Dance Theatre of Harlem performing at San Francisco's WarMemorial Opera House in May, the SAN FRANCISCO OPERA presentedtwo programs by the dance company in selected area schools under itsOutreach Program.

OPERA America's "Opera for Everyone" program, which is concerned with SERVING THEprojects designed to fac i l i ta te attendance or otherwise assist the disabled, DISABLEDhas awarded special grants to the fo l lowing companies for new or continuedprograms, arranged in order of grant amounts: ARIZONA OPERA GUILD,METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD, PORTLAND OPERA, SANTA FE OPERA,OPERA PACIFIC, and UTAH OPERA. (See also "Government and NationalOrganizations.")

Much has been wr i t ten about the events at Paris's OPERA-BASTILLE. COMPANY NEWSSuff ice i t therefore for us simply to report the dismissal of Daniel ABROADBarenboim by Pierre Berge, President of the Paris Opera Theaters. Many

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leading artists originally engaged for the Bastille have protested andcanceled. An opening gala is still scheduled for July 13 to commemoratethe bicentennial of the storming of the Bastille, and the beginning of theopera season is tentatively planned for 1990, but a revised schedule hasnot yet been announced. (For Mo. Barenboim's successor see "Appointmentsand Resignations: Opera and Symphony Abroad.")

The THEATRE DU CHATELET, which first opened in 1860, reassumed itsoriginal name this season after several years as the Theatre Musical deParis, and is undergoing extensive renovations during the summer months.More comfortable and roomier orchestra seats have already been installedand the auditorium's wooden floor has been uncovered for better acoustics;in the next phase the seating in the balconies is to be similarly improved,with most of the columns taken out to prevent obstructed vision. Thesechanges will reduce capacity only slightly, from 2,200 to 2,000 seats.This summer the stage and pit will be redesigned and a new reflectingshell built for improved acoustics, and new ventilation and air conditioningwill be installed next year. A new General Manager, Stgphane Lissner,has been appointed to succeed Jean-Albert Cartier, and he has announcedsome of his artistic plans. There are to be three operatic productionsby the ChStelet per season, plus performances by visiting companies. TheFrench National Orchestra, the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, andperhaps the Orchestre de Paris under Semyon Bychkov are to share theduties in the pit. So far, new productions have been scheduled of Fidelio,conducted by Lorin Maazel and directed by Giorgio Strehler, and DieMeistersinger led by Marek Janowski (1989-90); La Traviata and LesContes d'Hoffmann (1990-91); and for the 1991-92 season, devoted totwentieth-century works, Lulu, conducted by Jeffrey Tate, and Dukas'Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, plus a production by the Ope>a de Lyon underKent Nagano. Among the many recital and concert series, Simon Rattleis to lead a Mahler cycle this year. The theater plans to present amusical every second year and will stage 42nd Street in 1990.

The city of Parma will host an annual VERDI FESTIVAL, comparable tothat held in honor of Rossini in Pesaro. It will be under the sponsorshipof Piero Rattalino, Carlo Maria Badini, and the Institute for Verdi Studies,which will also organize a musicological session coinciding with the summerfestival. The first festival will open in 1990 with II Trovatore.

On July 23, London's ROYAL OPERA will, for the first time, give anoutdoor performance. The company will participate in the English HeritageKenwood Lakeside concerts with a concert performance of Cavalleria rus-ticana &. Pagliacci. About 10,000 tickets are offered for sale, pricedfrom £15 for reserved seating to £8 for a picnic place on the grass.

London will lose one of its major ballet companies when SADLER'S WELLSROYAL BALLET moves to Birmingham, where it will perform at theHippodrome Theatre. The company is the young artists and touringensemble of the Royal Ballet and, for the last twelve years, has beenbased at London's Sadler's Wells Theater. It will continue to beadministered by the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera House in Londonbut is expected to adopt the name of its new home city in the nearfuture, reflecting Birmingham's financial and moral commitment to thecompany.

The NEW SADLER'S WELLS OPERA, founded six years ago by the Sadler'sWells Theater to perform light opera and operettas, has folded. It severed

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its affiliation with the theater and became an independent touring ensemblethree years ago; however, the company was unable to cover its continuouslyrising deficit, which had grown to nearly $1 million.

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Ont.10/12-15/89 National Conference, College Music Society & Center for Black Music Research,

Sheraton Hotel, St. Louis, MO10/18-21/89 "New Directions for the '90s," Central Opera Service National Conference, Essex

House, New York City11/6-12/89 American Music Week, nationwide, organized by American Music Center11/15-18/89 National Opera Association Annual Convention, Albuquerque, NM3/28-4/1/90 National Conference, Music Educators National Conference, Washington, DC4/8-11/92 National Conference, Music Educators National Conference, New Orleans, LA []

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GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSNEA With budget debates ongoing for FY '90, it is interesting to note that

President Bush's recommendation for the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FORTHE ARTS' appropriation is for $170.1 million, or $1.01 million more thanlast year. It also proposes an increase of almost $1 million for adminis-trative purposes, which leaves the program money at the same level asthe year before. The arts community has requested funding at $224million, which would restore NEA appropriations to the FY '81 level interms of constant dollars and buying power. Meanwhile one awaits theappointment of a permanent successor to NEA Chairman Frank Hodsoll aswell as the filling of several program director positions.

Hearings have also begun for the reauthorization of the NATIONAL COUN-CIL OF THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES and its two Endowments.These bodies become defunct unless they are reauthorized every 5 years,and each time legislators must be persuaded anew of the necessity offederal support in order to build and maintain a national cultural heritage.Chaired by Sidney R. Yates (D-IL), the committee heard presentationsfrom different arts disciplines, with opera represented by Speight Jenkinsof Seattle.

The NEA's Interdisciplinary Arts Projects program has been replaced with"Artists' Projects: New Forms." While still looking for new forms andnew ideas in the various arts, the change to the new program expandsthe concept to include not only interdisciplinary projects but also projectsin only one discipline. The program is open to individual artists or groupsof artists for nonmatching grants of $7,000 to $12,000, or to organizationson a matching basis for grants of $10,000 to $35,000. It is administeredby NEA's Inter-Arts Program Specialist Loris Bradley.

The 68 arts organizations that received 1989 NEA Challenge II grantsinclude six opera companies: Florentine Opera, Milwaukee; GlimmerglassOpera, Cooperstown, New York; Pittsburgh Opera; Portland Opera, Oregon;San Diego Opera, California; and the Vineyard Theater, New York City.

NEA is making some funds available for the development and experimentaluse of a new system for blind or visually impaired audiences which feedsdescriptive narration through a secondary audio channel during theater,opera, or musical performances. The narration, supplied by DescriptiveVideo Service, is timed to occur between dialogue or singing. The PaperMill Playhouse in New Jersey and the Annenberg Theater in Philadelphiaare among the first theaters trying out this new concept. More informationis available from Kathy Christie or Josh Dare at NEA.

NATIONAL OPERA AMERICA'S "Opera for Everyone" program, which is concernedAND STATE with projects designed to facilitate attendance or otherwise assist theORGANIZATIONS disabled, has awarded special grants to the following companies for new

or continued programs, arranged in order of grant amounts: Arizona OperaGuild, Metropolitan Opera Guild, Portland Opera, Santa Fe Opera, OperaPacific, and Utah Opera.

The NATIONAL EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS provides management con-sulting to nonprofit organizations active in various fields including thearts. The Corps itself is a nonprofit organization staffed by retiredsenior executives from business and the professions whose long experienceis at the disposal of the clients. The national office in New York Cityservices a tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut), anda total of 35 ESC regional offices function throughout the United States;

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the New York office (257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010; (212)529-6660) will refer inquiries to the nearest branch with expertise in thespecific field.The AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS (AGMA), which serves itsmembers as protector and watch-dog, has announced two specific andrelated areas concerning singers in which inquiries and complaints areinvited. A special task force has been set up in collaboration with theNational Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) to hear complaintsregarding irregular practices of competitions and auditions; call the hotline,(212) 247-0247 or (212) 265-3687. The other area concerns fees chargedfor auditions—not to be confused with registration fees charged bycompetitions, which are not unusual. AGMA has asked its general counselto look into the legal ramifications of this practice and to considerwhether it does not violate federal or New York State law.

ACUCAA has changed its name to ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTSPRESENTERS (or APAP). The address is 1112 16th Street NW, #620,Washington, DC 20036; telephone (202) 833-ARTS.

The NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF STATE ARTS AGENCIES has adopted theslogan "Arts for America" and will feature it on all letterheads,communications, etc., preceding its NASAA logo.

The NEW YORK CENTER FOR ARTS INFORMATION has discontinuedoperation due to lack of funds. Formerly part of the New York StateCouncil on the Arts before it became an independent service organization,its information-gathering and -disseminating functions may be taken onby the AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, which shared the locationat 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. Meanwhile, theCouncil has taken over the Center's library. The newsletter For YourInformation, which had been suspended, is now being published by theNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS in association with the NYCDepartment of Cultural Affairs and Arts International.

Surveying its members on ticket prices, the AMERICAN SYMPHONYORCHESTRA LEAGUE (ASOL) wound up with some interesting findings.Among those responding, 86 percent of the major orchestras (with budgetsover $3.6 million) raised ticket prices for this season, as did 81 percentof regional orchestras (over $1 million), 53 percent of urban orchestras(over $280,000) and 48 percent of community orchestras (over $135,000).A very reassuring fact is that 70 percent of all orchestras have sold asmany tickets as last season or more, and subscription renewals for 79percent of the orchestras have held at previous levels or increased.

An excellent likeness of Arturo Toscanini adorns the latest commemorativestamp issued by the U.S. POSTAL SERVICE in its Performing Arts series.Jim Sharpe is the artist responsible for the design of this 25* stamp,which was first issued in a special ceremony dedicated to the Maestroon March 25 at Carnegie Hall. Other musicians so honored have includedJohn McCormack, in a double portrait in recital and costumed as Edgardo(in Lucia di Lammermoor), and Enrico Caruso, shown as the Duke of Mantua.

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NEW AND RENOVATED THEATERSNEW January 14 marked the opening of the IRA AND NANCY ROGER CENTERTHEATERS FOR THE ARTS in Columbia, South Carolina. Built at a cost of $15

mil l ion, the Center's main auditorium is designed to accommodate anythingfrom a play or reci tal to a ful l- f ledged opera production and can beconverted from a maximum seating of 2,236 down to 1,000 seats. Thestage size is 45 by 60 feet with a 50-foot wing space. Two ful l-sizerehearsal halls and more than a dozen dressing rooms wi l l be useful tovisit ing companies as well as to the local performing arts groups thatwi l l make the Roger Center their home. Located on the campus of theUniversity of South Carolina, the Center, under its managing directorThomas Stepp, wil l be used by the university symphony as well as by theSouth Carolina Philharmonic, the Columbia Lyric Opera, and the ColumbiaCi ty Ballet; it wi l l also book various travell ing attract ions.

New Jersey's Governor Thomas H. Rean has proposed plans for a newconcert hall which he hopes to build as the f irst phase of a new performingarts complex in Newark. Almost half of the estimated $70 million costhas been pledged by the business community. The concert hal l , which isto replace the refurbished Symphony Hall, wi l l be home for the NewJersey Symphony Orchestra, and the arts center wi l l also be home to theNew Jersey State Opera and two ballet companies. The project is part ofa larger plan for urban renewal in Newark.

The Los Angeles Music Center announced the selection of an architectfor the new WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL (see Vol. 28, No.l). Thefinal choice fel l to the Californian architect Frank O. Gehry, who wonover famous international designers from England, Germany, and Austria.The new hall, budgeted at $100 mill ion, wil l be the permanent home ofthe Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, which is currently sharing the25-year-old Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with the Los Angeles Music CenterOpera and visit ing orchestras as well as musicals on national tours. Mr.Gehry is also this year's recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize inArchi tecture.

Boston University has converted its largest lecture hall into a theater ata cost of about $7 mil l ion. The 600-seat TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER,named after its primary donor, opened on February 15 with a performanceof Don Giovanni staged by the school's opera department.

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY in Fairfax, Virginia, home of the FederalTheatre Archives, is building a new performing arts center, with aprojected completion date in 1992.

Construction has begun on the latest performing arts center in Florida,this one in FORT LAUDERDALE.

The WILDWOOD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS near L i t t le Rock,Arkansas (see Vol. 27, No. 4) is now scheduled to open in 1991, not 1989as originally planned. The 700-seat theater wi l l be the f irst faci l i ty tobe completed. Ann Chotard, Ar t is t ic Director of the Arkansas OperaTheater, has been named General and Art is t ic Director of the WildwoodCenter.

The latest New York company to acquire its own theater is the VineyardTheater, which performs straight plays, operas, and musicals, and wi l l doso henceforth at the GERTRUDE AND IRVING DIMSON THEATER in the

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new Zeckendorf Tower on Union Square. The company profited from thefact that the theater was included in the Tower in exchange for thecity's consideration in zoning restrictions. The 8-year-old Vineyardcompany, which has offered unusual operatic repertoire in the past, hadto cancel its last season for lack of a hall. The new theater has aflexible seating arrangement which accommodates from 99 to 225 people.An opening concert was held in May.

It is big news indeed when an opera company acquires its own opera RENOVATIONShouse. Only a few North American companies own the theaters in whichthey perform (among them Boston, Sarasota, Santa Fe, Central City,Glimmerglass Opera, and Skylight Comic Opera, and in the planning stagesthe Canadian Opera Company and Opera San Jose'). Now Michigan OperaTheatre is in the process of acquiring its own home, a lavish theaterwhich first opened in 1922 as the Capitol Theater, offering vaudevilleacts, moving pictures, and Sunday concerts by the Detroit Symphony. Itwas one of 250 palatial auditoriums built by C. Howard Creane in the'20s. As with most of these large, ornately decorated halls, it fell intodisrepair and finally closed. A rehabilitation effort in 1960 allowed itto reopen as the 3,367-seat GRAND CIRCUS THEATER; more openingsand closings occurred, the last due to a fire. Now MOT has acquiredthe building and some surrounding areas and is restoring the hall, whichwill have a 2,200-seat capacity. The need for MOT to own its owntheater becomes clear when we follow the company's history of changingseasonal schedules (see "News from Opera Companies"). The continueddependence on available halls, shuttling between the Fisher and MasonicTheaters, and adjustments to different schedules and different stages musthave been extremely trying. The Grand Circus Theater's acoustics havebeen found to be "superb," the orchestra pit is large enough toaccommodate even a Strauss or Wagner complement, and the decor istruly operatic in scale. Some needed modernization and restoration willbe undertaken by MOT.

The EMERSON MAJESTIC THEATRE, part of Emerson College, will bethe new home of the Boston Lyric Opera. Having signed a three-yearcontract for use of the Emerson, located in Boston's Midtown CulturalDistrict, the company will offer two full productions and one opera inconcert. In return, the college has accommodated the company's requestsregarding the theater's renovation, including enlargement of the orchestrapit.

The acquisition of "HIGHWOOD," the 120-acre estate adjoining theTanglewood property, will bring several changes and much needed spaceto the Boston Symphony's summer festival. Additional lawn area will berecouped by new plantings, and six new parking lots will be added. Anatural amphitheater on the new property is intended for a 1,200-seatperformance space opening onto another lawn area for audiences. TheEero Saarinen-designed Music Shed will be restored to its originalappearance by the removal of the rest rooms that were added later.Some 100 years ago the two properties were one large farm, and eversince Serge Koussevitzky founded the Tanglewood Festival in 1935 it hasbeen the aim to reunite the two estates.

The STUTTGARTFR STAATSTHEATF.R reopened in October after a five-month extensive renovation which included the installation of new, state-of-the-art machinery above and below the stage. As opening productionthe company prepared Offenbach's Le Roi Carotte. — The HAMBURGFSCHE

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STAATSOPER, which has completed an update of its machinery abovethe stage, will now address the modernization of its Unterbiihne. Ratherthan closing for one season, the time required to complete the necessaryinstallation, the theater's new Intendant, Peter Ruzicka, will have thework done over three extensive summer closings. He has obtained agovernment commitment for DM 19 million to complete the job by 1992.

Following the opening festivities at the new NATIONAL CULTURALCENTER in Cairo (Vol. 29, No.l), the theater hosted the Houston GrandOpera production of Show Boat, which played in Fgypt for one week.Reporting about the new opera house in Egypt, COS was guilty ofpromulgating false information regarding the premiere of Aida. It had tobe postponed not because the opera was not ready—it was indeed completedin time—but because the production, which was built in Paris, was delayedin shipment to Egypt due to the Franco-Prussian war of 1869-70.

The opening of the new HONG KONG PERFORMING ARTS CENTER hasbeen announced for November 6, 1989. The Cologne Opera has beeninvited to bring its production of Fidelio for the inauguration, to befollowed by II Barbiere di Siviglia. The performances will take place inthe Center's 1,750-seat Grand Theatre designed for opera, musicals, andballet. The Centre will also provide a 2,200-seat concert hall and asmaller Studio Theatre, as well as exhibition spaces, meeting rooms, andrestaurants. Wayne Maddern has recently been appointed to the newlycreated post of Executive Director of the Cultural Centre and CulturalPresentations. []

ARCHIVES AND EXHIBITIONS

ARCHIVES An international CARL MARIA VON WEBER KURATORIUM is to be estab-lished to collect his complete musical works in cr i t ical editions, as wellas memorabilia, letters, and related documents. Persons holding any orig-inal or facsimile material are requested to contact John Warrack, OxfordUniversity Music Faculty, St. Aldate's, Oxford 0X1 1DB, England.

PANOPTICON at 625 Broadway, 10th floor, New York, NY 10012 hasopened an archival library for scores and tapes of works by women com-posers. A recent grant from the New York State Arts Council will helpwith the cataloguing of current and future holdings. The library isintended as an international resource, and there are plans to add newlistening facilities and score-study areas. All viewing and listening mustbe done on the premises since neither scores nor tapes may be removed.Each score submitted should include a brief biography of the composerand a list of available works and if possible corresponding tapes; thelibrary will accept scores without tapes, but not tapes without scores.

EXHIBITION The FIFTH NATIONAL BIENNIAL DESIGN EXPOSITION, organized and pre-sented by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (US1TT),opens in New York on June 5 at the Lincoln Center Library for the Per-forming Arts. Divided into three sections—"Heritage," "Showcase," and"Juried"—the exhibit consists of 34 designs, 117 framed pieces, and onemodel, featuring outstanding American designs for theater, f i lm, and video.They will be on display in New York until August 5 and then go on anational tour. []

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The MUNICH OPERA FESTIVAL of the Bayerische Staatsoper opens on SLIMMER '89July 6 at the newly renovated National Theater with a new production ABROADof Hindemi th ' s Mathis der Maler; Alan T i t u s t a k e s t h e t i t l e ro le and Wolf-gang Sawallisch conducts. As always, the festival's emphasis is on Mozart,Wagner, and Strauss, since each was involved with and wrote importantoperas for Munich. Mozart is represented by Cos\ fan tutte, Don Giovanni,and Die Zauberflbte, Wagner by Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger, andStrauss by Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Liebe der Danae, and Capriccio. Thefestival's Italian repertoire includes Adriana Lecouvreur, II Barbiere diSiviglia, and a new production of Wolf-Ferrari's Le Donne curiose, whichwas premiered in Munich in 1903.

Bad Kissingen hosts a relatively new festival, the KISSINGEN SUMMER,which this year presents two operas: Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail andHandel's Rinaldo. — The two-week MOZART FESTIVAL at Baden-Badenis centered this summer on performances of Don Giovanni.

The International Festival of AIX-EN-PROVENCE is departing from itsusual fare to offer a world premiere, Claude Prey's Le Rouge et le noir,after Stendhal's novel. Die Zauberfldte is to be newly staged in acoproduction with the Theatre d'Orl^ans, the Strasbourg Festival, and theMonte Carlo opera. The 1989 repertoire is completed with Purcell's TheFairy Queen, Cosi fan tutte, and The Love for Three Oranges. Les ArtsFlorissants, which is performing the Purcell, will also give Charpentier'sDavid et Jonathas in concert. — Lyon's annual HECTOR BERLTOZ FES-TIVAL turns this year to Benvenuto Cellini, with Neil Rosenshein in thetitle role and John Nelson conducting.

Impresario Fawzi Mitwali, who staged Aida in Luxor, Egypt two summersago, now plans to mount Andrea Chenier in the gardens of Versailles withthe imperial setting as a backdrop, celebrating the bicentennial of theFrench Revolution. A large floating stage is being built for the FESTIVALDE VERSAILLES, and forces of Belgium's Ope>a de Wallonie conductedby Anton Guadagno will support a cast including PWcido Domingo, KatiaRicciarelli, and Silvano Carroli. The festival's other attraction will beLa Tmviata with Edita Gruberova", Francisco Araiza, and Renato Bruson,Julius Rudel conducting. Performances are scheduled for July.

France's Minister of Culture Jack Lang has announced "La Marseillaise,"a $16 million extravaganza including some 8,000 performers and 1,000sheep (!), to entertain Parisians on Bastille Day. Folk and ethnic musicianswill be brought to Paris from all over the world to take part in theparade, subtitled "The Festival of the Tribes of the Planet," which willculminate in the singing of "La Marseillaise" by soprano Jessye Norman.

Austria's CARINTHIAN SUMMER festival revives Britten's church operasThe Prodigal Son and The Burning Fiery Furnace at the Abbey Churchin Ossiach, and in the festival's home city of Villach the theatrical farefor the young includes Hansel und Gretel and a new children's musicalby Andreas Ka'ch and Ernst A. Ekkert, Quirl. — The FESTIVAL OF EARLYMUSIC in Innsbruck features two eighteenth-century rarities: FrancoisJoseph Gossec's Le Triomphe de la Republique, celebrating the FrenchRevolution, and Handel's Flavio. — The BAD ISCHL OPERETTA FESTIVALpresents Leha>'s popular Der Zarewitsch as well as the less familiar Maskein Blau by the Viennese Fred Raymond.

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The EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL offers its usual diverse pro-gram of productions by visiting opera companies from August 13 to Septem-ber 2. Denmark's Jyske (Jutland) Opera brings Per N^rgaard's The DivineCircus for its British premiere; Madrid's Teatro Ltrico Nacional de laZarzuela contributes its production of Moreno Torroba's La Chulapona toa series on the "Glories of Spain," and excerpts from Falla's Atlantidawill be performed in concert with the Spanish National Orchestra; andOpera North rounds out the schedule with The Love for Three Orangesand La Finta Giardiniera. This year no American companies are to appearin Edinburgh, in contrast to the last few summers. — The CHELTENHAMINTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC, too, will present La Finta Giar-diniera in addition to more modern works: The Turn of the Screw and adouble bill of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat and Alun Hoddinott's Whatthe Old Man Does Is Always Right.

Ireland's WEXFORD FESTIVAL, held in October and November, usuallyventures into unfamiliar operatic territory, and this summer is no exception.Heinrich Marschner's Der Templer und die Jiidin, based on Scott's Ivanhoe,will be followed by Mozart's etirly opera seria Mitridate, re di Ponto andProkoviev's Betrothal in a Monastery. — Three comic operas by Cimarosawill be staged at this year's BUXTON FESTIVAL in the north of England.They are L'ltaliana in Londra, II Pittore parisino, and II Maestro dicappella, the latter for the festival's children's matinees.

The Finnish city of Savonlinna, celebrating its 350th anniversary, held acompetition for new operas, and the winner, Paavo Heininen's Veitsi (TheKnife), will be premiered at the SAVONLINNA OPERA FESTIVAL thissummer. Also on the festival program are Aida, Die Zauberflb'te, andDer fliegende Hollander. Sweden's Royal Opera is visiting Savonlinnawith Tosca and with the modern Swedish composer Gunnar de Frumerie'sSingoalla. — In Sweden itself, the summer program at the DROTTNING-HOLM COURT THEATER includes Soliman II (1789) by the Swedish com-poser Joseph Martin Kraus, Die Zauberflbte, and Gluck's Iphig6nie enAulide.

Gian Carlo Menotti's FESTIVAL OF TWO WORLDS in Spoleto mixes thetraditional with the new: Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Salome share theprogram with Paul Uy's Sarah and a concert performance of GordonGetty's Plump Jack. — The PUCCINI FESTIVAL at Torre del Lago willpresent the unusual pairing of Suor Angelica with Strauss's Salome.Madama Butterfly and Turandot are also on this summer's program ofopen-air performances. — Handel's Giulio Cesare and Donizetti's LaFavorita are the operas to be performed at this year's VALLE D'lTRIAFESTIVAL in Martina Franca.

The ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL in the composer's native Pesaro featuresthree of his less familiar operas: La Gazza ladra, L'Occasione fa il ladro,and Bianca e Falliero. — RAVENNA'S diverse summer festival, rangingfrom early music to jazz, presents three Verdi operas this summer: DonCarlo, Falstaff, and La Traviata. — The Rome Opera's summer season atthe open-air BATHS OF CARACALLA features its spectacular productionof Aida, alternating with Tosca.

Falla's El Retablo de Maese Pedro and Cherubini's Med4e are this year'soperatic productions at the SANTANDER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL,together with a guest appearance by the Bayerische Staatsoper, whichwill perform Elektra under the direction of Wolfgang Sawallisch.

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And for a truly exotic summer adventure there is Die Entfilhrung aus demSerail at the ISTANBUL FESTIVAL, performed in the Topkapi Palace.

Information has reached us from Australia about the coming season attwo major opera companies. Victoria State Opera's General Manager KenMackenzie-Forbes tells us that the season there opens on July 29 withLa Traviata, continues with La Boheme, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail,Tannhauser, and closes on December 1 with II Barbiere di Siviglia. Alloperas are given in the original language with projected English captions;there will be a total of 38 performances plus two special benefit concerts.

William Gillespie, General Manager of the State Opera of Southern Aus-tralia and the Adelaide Festival, informs us that the Adelaide season runsfrom June 20 until November 11, in which period there will be 21 perfor-mances of four operas, counting the double bill of Cavalleria rusticana&. Pagliacci as one. The other works scheduled are Fidelio, La Boheme,and the season's closing The Gondoliers. All productions are on loan fromthe Australian Opera in Sydney, except the Puccini which originated atthe Victoria State Opera. This will be the first year the company willuse projected captions for all foreign-language operas.

Five new productions will be mounted by the METROPOLITAN OPERAnext season. Faust returns to the repertory in March after a twelve-year absence, as staged by Harold Prince in his company debut; HansSchavernoch is the designer, Charles Dutoit the conductor, and thepremiere will be sung by Carol Vaness, Delores Ziegler (MetropolitanOpera debut), Neil Shicoff, James Morris, and Brian Schexnayder. TheMet's renewal of its Verdi repertoire continues with La Traviata in thefall, produced by Franco Zeffirelli, with Carlos Kleiber in the pit andEdita Gruberova" and Neil Shicoff on stage, and Rigoletto in the springas staged by Otto Schenk in Zack Brown's new settings and with MarcelloPanni conducting (June Anderson in her Met debut, Luciano Pavarotti,Leo Nucci). Zeffirelli also brings the Met's Mozart cycle nearer to readi-ness for the 1991 bicentennial with a new Don Giovanni conducted byArtistic Director James Levine (Vaness, Karita Mattila in her companydebut, Dawn Upshaw, Jerry Hadley, Kurt Moll, and Samuel Ramey andFerruccio Furlanetto alternating as master and servant). Maestro Levinealso conducts Der fliegende Hollander, directed by August Everding withdesigns by Schavernoch (Eva Marton, Gary Lakes, Morris, Paul Plishka).Opening night on September 25 will bring Aida, conducted by Levine withAprile Millo, Dolora Zajick, Pla'cido Domingo, and Sherrill Milnes. Return-ing from previous seasons after some absence will be Strauss's Die Frauohne Schatten, in rare appearances on both the Hast and West coasts (atthe San Francisco Opera), and Puccini's Trittico with Teresa Stratas sing-ing all three heroines. There will again be three complete Ring cyclesin the spring, which brings the repertoire for the season to a total of28 works, the largest number of works in many years. For the fullschedule see "First Performance Listing, 1989-90 Season."

The most sensational and eagerly awaited new production of the NEWYORK CITY OPERA'S 1989 season is Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, ayeoman's task for any company to prepare and present. It will be designedby Stuttgart's famous and controversial Achim Freyer, directed by HansNeugebauer, and conducted by Sergiu Comissiona; it will be sung in Germanwith projected English captions (now in computer/video projection ratherthan slides). The other new productions will bring a double bill of Ravel'sL'Heure espagnol and L'Enfant et les sortileges, designed by Maurice

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Sendak who gave City Opera Where the Wild Things Are. The company'sown Frank Corsaro will direct and Mo. Comissiona will conduct. Thethird new production, Don Giovanni, will open the season on July 6 andbring Harold Prince back to Lincoln Center in advance of his second visitthat season, in March, for the Met's Faust; Rolf Langenfass is the designer.Operas returning after a long absence include Donizetti's Anna Bolena,Jana"5ek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and Korngold's Die tote Stadt. Atotal of twenty operas and ope re t t a s will be heard before the seasonends on November 19; for further details see "First Performance Listing,1989-90 Season."

EUROPE COVENT GARDEN'S new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen as d i rec ted1989-90 by Yuri Lyubimov, begun last season with Das Rheingold, has beenSEASON cancel led, and now Gotz Fr iedr ich 's recent s taging of the cycle for the

Deutsche Oper Berlin is to be adap ted for the Royal Opera .

USA & On May 5, 1991, CARNEGIE HALL will commemorate the centennial ofCANADA its opening night, on which Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted. Celebra-1990-91 tions a re planned for the whole season, beginning with a PhilharmonicSEASON Salute in Central Park in August 1990 and continuing with special concer ts

by visiting soloists, ensembles, and orchestras—including concert perfor-mances of several operas, to be announced. A Centennial CommissioningProject has matched composers, including William Bolcom, Alfred Schni t tke ,Toru Takemitsu, and Sir Michael Tippet t , with various performers, toresult in premieres of ten new works c rea ted especially for this occasion.The program has been underwri t ten by Carnegie Hall with a $500,000 grant .

Earlier that season another centenar ian , the CHICAGO SYMPHONYORCHESTRA, will ce lebra te its anniversary in the fall of 1990. Severalgala events a re being planned, and opera will be represented by excerp tsfrom Parsifal conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Borodin's Prince Igor, originally planned for production by the DALLASOPERA this fall, has been postponed and will open the 1990-91 season.- - Dvorak's Rusalka will appear at the SEATTLE OPERA in October '90,and a year la ter at the HOUSTON GRAND OPERA in a new production.Also in the 1991-92 season, the Texas company will introduce its audiencesto Rossini's Maometto II.

L'OPERA DE MONTREAL, one of the few companies to announce itsplans two years in advance, has on its 1990-91 schedule Adriana Lecouv-reur, Pagliacci &. Gianni Schicchi, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Der Rosenkava-lier, and The Merry Widow.

FUTURE The fall of 1990 will find, among o the r s , new product ions of The CunningEUROPEAN Little Vixen and Verdi 's Attila a t the Royal Opera , Covent Garden, whereSEASONS in 1993 Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten will be s taged by Ruth

Berghaus in its British premiere .

The Vienna S t a t e Opera is building towards a very extens ive Mozart cyclefor the bicentennial of the composer ' s dea th . May 1990 will find a newDon Giovanni under Music Director Claudio Abbado, 1991 a new LaClemenza di Tito under Andrew Davis and Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serailand Cos! fan tutte under Nikolaus Harnoncourt—the l a t t e r coproducedwith the Royal Opera , Covent Garden—and in 1991-92 new product ionsof Le Nozze di Figaro and Idomeneo, conduc ted by Maest ro Abbado. []

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ATTENTION COMPOSERS AND LIBRETTISTSThree international competitions for composers held in Italy have theirdeadline dates in the summer. IL CONCORSO DI COMPOSIZIONE FRANCOEVANGELISTI, Comune di Nemi - Assessorato alia Cultura, 00040 Nemi(Roma), Italy, has no age or nationality restrictions and has two entrycategories: compositions for children between five and eleven years old,suitable for use in basic music courses, and compositions of no more thaneight minutes for solo instrument or ensemble (including voice and piano;percussion performers are limited to two). Entries must be unpublished.Submit at least eight copies marked with the composer's name, address,and telephone number, place and date of birth, and duration of score. Ifan electronic tape is to be used, the tape must be included. Cash prizesand performance(s) go to the winners. Write for further details.

The City of Trieste offers its 28th COMPETITION FOR SYMPHONICCOMPOSITION with entries due before August 31, 1989. This year'scompetition is restricted to a double concerto for two solo instrumentswith orchestra; it must be unpublished and unperformed. For details writeto Secretary of the Music Award "Citta di Trieste," Palazzo Municipale,Piazza dell'Unita d'ltalia 4, Trieste.

The FOURTH ALFREDO CASRLLA INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITIONCONTEST calls for chamber music works of about fifteen to eighteenminutes, scored for ten to fifteen players. Entries must be unpublishedand unperformed, and must be postmarked no later than October 1, 1989,addressed to Accademia Vlusicale Chigiana, Concorso "Alfredo Casella,"via di Citta 89, 53100 Siena, Italy.

The next QUEEN MARIE JOSE MUSICAL PRIZE CONTEST will be heldin 1990. As always it is open to composers of all nationalities, does notcarry an age limit, and prescribes the required scoring: for solo instrument,one singing voice ad libitum, and string ensemble consisting of at least11 and not more than 22 string players. Excluded in the solo instrumentcategory this year are piano, organ, violin, viola, and cello; electronicinstruments may be included. The duration of the piece should be between12 and 25 minutes. The deadline for submitting the score with tape isMay 31, 1990; the text for the sung part must accompany the score ona separate sheet, with translation if not originally in English, French,German, Italian, or Spanish. Mail entries to Queen Marie Jos6 Prize,Contest Secretariat, Merlinge, 1251 GY Geneva, or c/o Radio-Tele1 visionSuisse Romande, 66, boulevard Carl-Vogt, 1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland.— The 1988 prize went to Belgian composer Paul Uy, whose majorcomposition is the opera Sarah. — Another composer who won aninternational award last year is the Romanian Violeta Dinescu (Hungerund Durst, Der 35. Mai), who took Rome's VALENTINO BUCCHI PRIZE.

The $150,000 GRAWEMEYER AWARD for 1989, probably the largest prizeoffered in a composers' competition, went to Chinary Ung for his HiddenVoices. The piece was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Arts Councilin 1986 for the Philadelphia Orchestra. The 47-year-old Mr. Ung, whowas born in Cambodia, earned his doctorate at Columbia University andis now associate professor of music at Arizona State University in Tempe.

The Telluride Institute in Colorado will host a three-day symposium titledCOMPOSER-TO-COMPOSER, August 18-20. An international gathering,it will present discussion groups, demonstrations, and performances bysuch composers as Charles Amirkhanian, Louis Andriessen, John Cage,Anthony Davis, Tom Johnson, Joan La Barbara, Tania L6on, Steve Reich,

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and Morton Subotnik. The registration fee is $100 and should be sent tothe Institute, P.O. Box 1770, Telluride, CO 81435; (303) 728-4402.

See also "News from Opera Companies" for information about composer/librettist workshops. []

ATTENTION CONDUCTORS

The first ANTONIO PEDROTTI INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FORORCHESTRA CONDUCTORS, organized by the Antonio Pedrotti CulturalAssociation of Trento, Italy, will be held September 28 to October 9,1989. It is open to conductors of any nationality between 18 and 33years old. The application form must be accompanied by a birth certificateor equivalent document; a countersigned copy of identity card or passport;an original or photocopied proof of studies, degrees, certificates; infor-mation on artistic activities; a nonrefundable fee of Lit. 100,000; andtwo recent passport-size photos signed on the back. No more than 35candidates will be invited to compete, with another 15 on standby in caseof withdrawal by any candidates originally accepted. There will be threecash prizes (Lit. 8 million, 5 million, and 3 million), and one or moreconcerts for the first-prize winner. Living expenses will be covered forsemifinalists. For repertoire requirements and audition schedules writethe Association, c/o Centro S. Chiara, via S. Croce 67, 38100 Trento, Italy.

The second INTERNATIONAL KIRIL KONDRASHIN COMPETITION FORYOUNG CONDUCTORS (c/o NOB Music Division, att.: P.A.R. Rijnders,P.O. Box 10, NL-1200 JB Hilversum, The Netherlands) will be held inHolland on August 14 to 27. Conductors born before 1954 are not eligible.Applications must be submitted on an official entry form accompanied byphotocopies of diplomas, certificates, etc.; a video recording; two recentblack and white photos; a statement that the applicant is not under pro-fessional contract at the time of the competition; and proof of paymentof entry fee, 50 Dutch guilders deposited at Bank Hilversum. Specialrepertoire requirements are listed for each of the competition rounds. Amaximum of 35 contestants will be admitted. []

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Nearly twenty years ago, Colin Graham prepared a performing edition ofPurcell's KING ARTHUR at the suggestion of Benjamin Britten. He notonly edited and adapted Dryden's original playscript extensively, but alsoincorporated additional music from other Purcell works; Philip Ledgeredited the score from original manuscripts. Premiered in 1970 by theEnglish Opera Group, it will be given its first performances in the U.S.in June by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Faber Music is the publisher.

With Rossini revivals gaining in popularity, the recent performances ofZELMIRA in Venice and Rome are of particular interest. The work hadnot been performed since 1838, except for an abbreviated and simplifiedversion staged in Naples in 1965. Now the original version has beenrestored in a critical edition based on Rossini's manuscript and wasperformed in concert last July in Venice. The same cast gave the newedition's stage premiere at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera on April 26 thisyear, in a full production directed and designed by Beni Montresor.— Rossini's GUILLAUME TELL was given in a new critical edition byElizabeth C. Bartlet when it opened the La Scala season last December.

Roger Parker is the editor of the new critical edition of Verdi's NABUCCO,published jointly by the University of Chicago Press and G. Ricordi, Milan.It was this edition that was used by Riceardo Muti for the first timewhen he conducted the work at La Scala in December 1986, and he intro-duced it to American audiences when he led the Philadelphia Orchestrain concert performances last February.

Under the tit le of CAMILLE : TRAVIATA, the Skylight Comic Opera willpresent an adaptation of Verdi's opera combined with material fromAlexandre Dumas fils' original. Francesca Zambello, Skylight's co-artisticdirector, is modeling this new version after Peter Brook's edition ofCarmen. The new Verdi/Dumas work will open in Milwaukee on January 24.

The fragments of Jerome Kern's 1924 musical SITTING PRETTY, discoveredtogether with other copious musical material in Secaucus, New Jersey in1982 (see Vol. 27, No. 4), served as the basis for John McGlinn's reconstruc-tion of the original score. P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton wrote thebook and lyrics. The musical had its first revival since the 1924 productionon April 13, when it was given in concert at Carnegie Hall, with fourfurther performances on the following days.

When Oscar Straus's THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER was performed in Shreve-port, Louisiana last November, Robert Murray, the company's artisticdirector, not only staged it but also supplied a new English libretto forthe operetta.

The musical GOLDEN BOY opened on Broadway in 1964, adapted fromClifford Odets' play partly by the author himself, who recast theprotagonist as Black rather than Jewish, with the adaptation completedafter Odets' death by William Gibson; Charles Strouse supplied the music.The book has now been rewritten by Leslie Lee, who again updated thestory to reflect the problems of a champion fighter today. This newversion was premiered at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida onMarch 3, continuing through April 2.

The Children's Theatre of the Fine Arts Association in Willoughby, Ohiogave four performances of a shortened version of THE MIKADO in April.

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EDUCATION

COOPERATIVE A five-year agreement between the JUILLIARD SCHOOL and COLUMBIAEDUCATIONAL UNIVERSITY/BARNARD COLLEGE is designed to insure a broader educa-PROGRAMS tion in the humanities for students enrolled in the music school, while

humanities majors at the university will have the opportunity to be exposedto and involved with musical studies as taught at a leading U.S. conser-vatory. Joseph Polisi, president of Juilliard, has voiced his desire tooffer additional courses outside of music and arts to his students for amore rounded education—a topic discussed in detail by him and other col-leagues at the 1985 COS National Conference. Musically oriented studentsat Columbia/Barnard will have the opportunity to go for two degrees—abachelor of arts degree in any major, and a master's degree in music.

Following the above announcement comes news of a merger of the MANNESCOLLEGE OF MUSrc and the NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH.This move will strengthen the musical program of the school and enhancethe liberal arts education as well as the finances of the conservatory.

JOINT This next school year will be the first in which the Conservatory ofTRAINING Music at the UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT KANSAS CITY and the LyricPROGRAM Opera of Kansas City offer their joint program on a graduate level at

the Conservatory and the company's Middle-America Opera ApprenticeProgram. Students enrolled in this joint venture will have the opportunityto receive special training and perform at the professional level with thecompany, while also working for their master's or doctor's degree at theuniversity. For details contact Michael E. Johnson, Director of Operaat the Conservatory.

COMMUNITY This is the first year that the JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY Opera Thea-PROGRAMS ter in Harrisonburg, Virginia has tried a touring program. Under its new

director, Roma Pringle, the JMU Touring Opera Ensemble took scenesfrom its Mikado production into local public schools. The successful pro-ject will be greatly expanded next season, when scenes from operas andoperettas are to be brought to several area schools. During the 1987-88 season, COS registered a total of 57 academic opera workshops thatoffered some form of outreach program.

Felix Molzer, artistic director of the MONMOUTH CONSERVATORY'SOpera Ensemble, reports a new project in which Ensemble members holdopera workshops in public schools, supervising rehearsals and subsequentperformances of children's operas by the school assemblies. — Last Augustthe Ensemble brought a double bill of Holocaust works, Brundibar and /Never Saw Another Butterfly, to Edinburgh's Fringe Festival.

The Opera/Music Theater Program at STETSON UNIVERSITY in DeLand,Florida, under the direction of Craig Maddox, has found a corporatesponsor, Wheatland Group Holdings, to underwrite its one or two annualproductions. The sponsorship also facilitated the commissioning of a newone-act opera from Dr. Paul Langston, to be premiered in fall '91.

FOREIGN An exchange program for music students has been arranged to bring operaEXCHANGE performers from the U.S.S.R. next spring to take part in INDIANA UNIVER-PROGRAM SITY's production of Francesco da Rimini by Rachmaninov. The opera

will be presented on a double bill with John Eaton's The Cry of Clytaem-nestra on March 31 and April 7, 14, and 21. During the summer theRussian and American students participating in these performances willtravel to Moscow to repeat the double production at a conservatory there.

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APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONSGovernment Appointments and ResignationsFRANK HODSOLL, Chairman of the NationalEndowment for the Arts during the Reaganadministration, has accepted the position ofExecutive Associate Director for Managementin the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).HUGH SOUTHERN is the Interim Chairman.

WILLIAM VICKERY has resigned as Directorof the NEA Music Program to become Presidentof the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. — As previ-ously announced, PATRICK J. SMITH has leftthe NEA Opera-Musical Theater Program tobecome editor of Opera News. MURRAY HOR-WITZ has been named Acting Director until apermanent appointment is made.

A similar position at the Canada Council fellvacant when LOUISE LAPLANTE, head of theMusic and Opera Program, became GeneralManager of L'Orchestre symphonique deQuebec. JOANNE MORROW has just beenappointed to the CC post, effective in August,after eight years as administrator and producerwith the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.During the 1970s she worked at the Council asgrants coordinator.

JOAN D. SANDLER, was named successor toELLEN THURSTON as representative for theNEA Northwest Region. — BERT MASOR,representative for the NEA Midwest Region forthe last fourteen years, has retired and beentemporarily replaced by his former assistantLOIS RUBIN.

National & Regional Arts OrganizationsA new slate of officers has been elected bythe members of the National Music Council.They include CATHERINE FRENCH (ASOL) asPresident, with the current President EZRALADERMAN joining the NMC Presidents Coun-cil; WILLIAM WARFIELD as Chairman of theBoard; MARY P. BROWN (National Federationof Music Clubs), MORTON GOULD (ASCAP),and FRANCES PRESTON (BMI), Vice Presidents;and HERBERT JOHNSON (SESAC), Secretary.Members of the Board of Directors includeNANCY CLARKE (American Music Council),MARTA CASALS ISTOMIN (Kennedy Center forthe Performing Arts), MARTIN KAGAN (OPERAAmerica), and MARIA F. RICH (Central OperaService).

At its December membership meeting in SanFrancisco, OPERA America installed two newboard members. LINDA JACKSON, GeneralManager of the Chautauqua Opera, will servea three-year term in the place left vacant byBeverly Sills's retirement, and CHRISTOPHER

KKKNF, incoming General Director of the NewYork City Opera, will replace Bruce Chalmers,who retired from Opera Carolina with one yenrremaining in his term. The board has a totalof 21 members.

The following officers of the National OperaAssociation were reelected at the organiza-tion's last convention: RANDALL HOLDEN,President, and BARBARA LOCKARD-ZIMMER-MANN, ROBERT WALLACE, and MARAJEANMARVIN as Vice Presidents, with MARYELAINE WALLACE continuing as ExecutiveSecretary. In new offices are CRAIG MADDOX(Stetson University, Deland, Florida) asTreasurer, succeeding Harold Hawn, andROBERT HANSEN (West Texas State University,Canyon, Texas) succeeding Larry Day as editorof the Opera Journal.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts has namedSHARON GERSTEN LUCKMAN as its new Exe-cutive Director. She held the same positionwith the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation, andprior to that was with the 92nd Street Y DanceCenter in New York.

The Arts and Business Council and BusinessVolunteers for the Arts/USA have engagedNANCY MEIER as Executive Director of theNew York-headquartered organizations. Ms.Meier comes from the San Francisco chapterof Business Volunteers for the Arts.

PETER J. FOSSELMAN, formerly with the Nash-ville Symphony, has been named Director ofPerforming Arts for the Mid-America ArtsAlliance.

FoundationsThe Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund hasappointed JESSICA CHAO Program Officer forArts and Culture. Formerly she was in chargeof performance programming at WNET-TV.

Opera Companies: OfficersAt the annual meeting of the MetropolitanOpera Association on May 19, RICHARD R.SHINN was elected Chairman of the ExecutiveCommittee, succeeding the late Michael V.Forrestal, and RAY J. GROVES was electedTreasurer, succeeding Mr. Shinn. Reeleoted totheir previous positions were WILLIAM ROCKE-FELLER, Honorary Chairman of the Board;JAMES S. MARCUS, Chairman of the Board;Mrs. GILBERT W. HUMPHREY, President; J.WILLIAM FISHER and ALTON E. PETERS, VicePresidents; and WILBUR DANIELS, Secretary.Newly added to the Board of Managing Directorswere FRANK A. BENNACK, Jr., JAMES W.

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KINNEAR, P. ROY VAGELOS, and JAMES D.WOLFENSOHN. Six new Advisory Directorswere also elected: M. BERNARD AIDINOFF,WILLIAM T. COLEMAN, Jr., F. MALCOLMGRAFF, Jr., G. MORRIS GURLEY, CHARLESRYSKAMP, and CYNTHIA WOOD. Vice Chair-man of the Board LAURENCE D. LOVETT andManaging Director JOHN K. McKINLEY wereelected Honorary Directors.

The Austin Lyric Opera has added three newmembers to its board of trustees. They areWILLIAM BRITTEN of NCNB Texas National,JEFF NASH of the First Interstate Bank, andLOUIS WILLIAMS of the Franklin Federal.

Opera Companies: Executive/Artistic HeadsOpera/Columbus, the eight-year-old, forward-looking company, has engaged JOHN GAGE,General Manager of Milwaukee's FlorentineOpera, to succeed Michael Harrison, whobecame General Director of the BaltimoreOpera (Vol. 29, No. 1). Mr. Gage will moveinto his new position this summer.

Returning to her home turf after two years asOPERA America's Communications Director isJANE KEEGAN, who has accepted the post ofGeneral Manager of the Skylight Comic Operain Milwaukee. She had been with the companyfrom 1985 to 1987 as Director of Marketingbefore going to Washington. In her new postshe succeeds CHRISTINE VOIGT, who hasresigned, and she will also take on some of theresponsibilities held by Managing DirectorCOLIN CABOT, who has announced his retire-ment.

MARSHAL W. TURKIN has left the PittsburghSymphony, where he was Managing Director, tobecome General Director of the Hawaii OperaTheatre in Honolulu.

The Anchorage Opera in Alaska, whose formerGeneral Director James W. Wright took overOpera Carolina in Charlotte (see Vol. 29, No.1), has engaged WILLIAM F. RUSSEL, formerlywith the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, tofill the vacant post.

DONALD ANDREWS has been announced as thenew Managing Director of the ChattanoogaSymphony and Opera, where he succeeds AlanValentine.

FA YE BAILEY has resigned as General Managerof the Virginia Opera, effective January 1989.She occupied that post for the last two years.

Recent resignations also include STEPHENWADSWORTH's as Artistic Co-Director ofOpera/Omaha's fall season.

The Canadian Opera Company has appointed itsfirst Chief Conductor and Head of Music, asannounced by General Director Brian Dickie.RICHARD BRADSHAW will occupy this newpost. Mo. Bradshaw's previous affiliations haveincluded Glyndebourne Festival Opera and theSan Francisco Opera, where he was residentconductor from 1977 to 1987. He has alsoappeared as guest with opera companies hereand abroad. In addition, he will be in chargeof the COC Ensemble and the company's Com-poser-in-Reside nee program. — In a furtherdevelopment, the Canadian Opera Company hasnamed JOHN PETER "JEEP" JEFFRIES, former-ly of the Greater Miami Opera, as Director ofTechnical and Production Operations. He willalso conduct the company's union negotiations.

The Atelier lyrique of the Ope>a de Montrealhas lost its founding director, YVONNEGOUDREAU, who has resigned. General Direc-tor BERNARD UZAN has announced that he,together with GUY BELANGER of the QuebecOpera and IRVING GUTTMAN of the opera com-panies in Winnipeg and Edmonton, will be incharge of the Atelier, beginning in the fall.

The Ohio Light Opera at Wooster College hassigned EVAN WHALLON as Music Director. Hisformer posts include that of conductor andmusic director of the Columbus (OH) Symphony,where he also introduced the first locallyproduced operas.

The Boston Lyric Opera, which has been underthe part-time management of ANNE EWERS andthe artistic direction of JOHN BALME, is inthe process of changing its team. Mo. Balmewill be leaving the company this summer, havingassumed the directorship of the Lake GeorgeOpera Festival (Vol. 28, No. 4), and Miss Ewerswould like to devote more time to directingopera productions in Boston and elsewhere.Boston Lyric is now looking for a full-timeGeneral Director.

Young Artists Opera Theatre in Greensboro,North Carolina, has announced the appointmentof PETER WILSON, Music Director of the Lake-land Civic Orchestra and associate conductorin Canton, Ohio, to be Principal Conductor ofthe opera company. Mr. Wilson is a native ofGreensboro.

Opera Companies: Administrative HeadsSan Francisco Opera General Director LotfiMansouri has appointed BARRY CRAWFORDas Chief of Administration and Finance Officer.Mr. Crawford, originally from San Francisco,was with the accounting firm of ArthurAnderson in Chicago.

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PATRICIA A. MITCHELL, former ExecutiveDirector of the San Francisco Opera and morerecently head of a marketing and managementstudy of music organizations in California, hasjoined the Los Angeles Music Center Opera andits General Director Peter Hemmings as DeputyGeneral Manager of the company.

The Santa Fe Opera has engaged PHILIPSEMARK, formerly manager of various balletcompanies and more recently General Managerof Spoleto Festival U.S.A., as ExecutiveDirector, succeeding the late Anthony Riolo(see "Opera Has Lost. . .").

The Marin Opera Company in Larkspur, Califor-nia has added a new position, that of ManagingDirector in charge of administrative matters,and named GREG PHILLIPS to fill it. FounderINGRID MARTINEZ' title changes from GeneralDirector to Artistic Director, and Hugo Rinaldiremains as Music Director.

JANE D. NELSON has become full-time Directorof Operations for the Central City Opera, afterhaving spent the last four summers with thecompany as Festival Director. Last season shewas Production Director with the Tulsa Opera.

The Sarasota Opera has engaged MILLICENTFLEMING as Administrative Manager. She hasserved with various community organizations aswell as with some institutions in the performingarts in general and music in particular.

Opera Companies: Department HeadsLEE HILL, formerly a volunteer with the Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York, hasbeen named Education and Development Coordi-nator. She will manage Opera-Go-Round, thecompany's educational and outreach touringensemble, and will supervise the company'sannual "Angel Fund" campaign. JOANNEARDUNE will move from Education Director toPress and Public Relations Director and willalso function as Assistant to Edward Cordick,the General Director.

Dr. ROSA STOLZ, Director of Marketing withOpera/Columbus for the last 3} years, has leftthe company and accepted the position of Direc-tor of Marketing and Communications with theColumbus Association for the Performing Arts(CAPA). In her place, JUDITH K. BROWN hasjoined Opera/Columbus as Director of Marketingand Public Relations. Ms. Brown most recentlyserved as Director of Marketing for a hospitalin Columbus.

After eight years as Director of Press andPublic Relations for the Michigan Opera Thea-tre and more recently also for Opera Pacific

in California, JON PETER FINCK has joinedthe San Francisco Opera as Director of PublicRelations. He assumed his new position on May1. Mr. Finck's previous affiliations include theFestival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, the KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, and the NEA.

There are two newcomers at the Virginia Operain Norfolk. AURIE MARAMALDI has beennamed Development Director and EILEENROSENBLUM Public Relations Manager.

The Cleveland Opera has engaged BARBARALaTESSA as Director of Development. She hasheaded fundraising projects for various organi-zations, and is a member of the National Societyof Fund Raising Executives and also of its Ohiochapter. — The company has also signed JENNAJONES as General Manager of its touring andoutreach program.

In addition to a new General Manager (seeabove), the Anchorage Opera has a new Mar-keting and Development Director in MARY S.GILLEAN, who succeeds Dee Orren.

A new Director of Public Relations has beenannounced by the Dayton Opera. It is HANSHOOGFNDOORN, who will be in charge of mar-keting and public relations, succeeding JackieLockwood. — The Portland Opera has engagedKARLA POWELL as Public Relations Coordina-tor, replacing Karen Kirtley.

Spoleto Festival U.S.A. has engaged ANN HUMEWILSON as its new Director of Public Relations.Her former positions were with the New Orleansand Atlanta Symphony Orchestras and the OperaCompany of Boston.

The Atlanta Opera has engaged MARY EARLE,formerly of Time Inc. and before that of CBSNews, as Director of Marketing and PublicRelations.

ROBYN C. WILSON has become the new PublicRelations/Marketing Director for the NashvilleOpera. Her previous experience in the pressand PR field was gathered when working forthe Cincinnati Opera, the Dallas Ballet, andthe Los Angeles Master Chorale.

ANN TANNER will carry the title of Directorof Communications with the Vancouver Operaand be in charge of marketing and PR for theCanadian company.

MARTIN WEIL has resigned as Managing Direc-tor of Opera Pacific in Costa Mesa. He joinedthe company in 1986.

MARGARET GENOVESE, Director of Planningand Community Relations, and DORY VANDER-

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HOOF, Director of Development, who have bothbeen with the Canadian Opera Company forthe last ten years, have resigned to devote fulltime to their own consulting firm in Toronto,Genovese, Vanderhoof and Associates, special-izing in income development and management.Ms. Genovese is also COS Director for theGreat Lakes Region.

Music FestivalsWith CHRISTOPHER KEENE leaving the dualposition of President and Music Director ofArtpark for his new position at the New YorkCity Opera, the upstate New York festival hassigned DAVID MIDLAND, Executive Director ofthe Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, tobecome Executive Director. Mr. Midland leavesfor Lewiston on June 1. He will be replacedin Florida by his former assistant, ANDREAGRAHAM, until a permanent appointment ismade.

LEONARD SLATKIN, Music Director of theSaint Louis Symphony for the last ten years,has also been named Artistic Advisor to theGreat Woods Institute for the Arts in Mansfield,Massachussetts, the summer home of the Pitts-burgh Symphony and a performing arts centerwith other varied programs in the summermonths. In 1990 he will become its ArtisticDirector and Principal Conductor. His resigna-tion from the Viennese Sommerfest, which hefounded in Minneapolis ten years ago, becomeseffective at the end of this summer (see Vol.29, No. 1), although he will still return thereas guest conductor.

The Ravinia Festival, summer home of theChicago Symphony, has engaged SARAH SOLO-TAROFF as General Manager, replacing J. Y.Weicher. It is the same position she occupiedpreviously with the Saint Paul Chamber Orches-tra. Edward Gordon is the Illinois festival'sExecutive Director.

The Philadelphia Orchestra serves two summerfestivals, at the Mann Music Center in Philadel-phia and the Saratoga Performing Arts Centerin New York State. CHARLES DUTOIT, MusicDirector of the Orchestre symphonique de Mont-real, has been named Artistic Director and Prin-cipal Conductor of both summer seasons for1990 and 1991, with an option for 1992.

This summer will mark the fortieth anniversaryof the Aspen Music Festival and Institute, andit will also mark the last year of GORDONHARDY's active affiliation with the organiza-tion. He has announced his retirement fromthe presidency and the deanship, effective inFall '89, at which time he will have been therein leading positions for 28 years. ROBERT

HARTH, Vice President and General Managerof the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1979,has been selected as successor and will carrythe title of President and Chief Executive Offi-cer of Music Associates of Aspen, the festivaland the school. He was affiliated with theAspen Festival for twelve summers (1963-74)and then joined the Ravinia Festival, where heremained for three years before accepting aposition with the Los Angeles Philharmonic andits summer home, the Hollywood Bowl.

Veda Zuponcic, Executive and Artistic Directorof the Hollybush Festival in Glassboro, NewJersey, and Chairperson of Glassboro College'sDepartment of Music, has announced theappointment of VJEKOSLAV SUTEJ as Perma-nent Guest Conductor of the Festival.

WILLIAM LORD, Theatre Officer of the OntarioArts Council for the last ten years, has beennamed Artistic Director of the Guelph (Ontario)Spring Festival. He has also been affiliatedwith York University and prior to that withthe Canadian Opera Company. He started inhis new post in January.

The Des Moines Metro Opera has promotedJERILEE M. MACE, company staff member forthe last twelve years, to be Managing Directorof the Indianola, Iowa company.

Theater CompaniesAfter 22 years as Producing Director of theEquity Library Theatre, GEORGE WOJTASIKhas left that post. On March 1 JEFFRFY R.COSTELLO, formerly Assistant General Mana-ger of the New York Shakespeare Festival, tookover Mr. Wojtasik's job.

The 5th Avenue Musical Theatre in Seattle,which for the last eight years has booked majormusicals on national tours, now plans to addits own productions. For this purpose thetheater has engaged FRANK M. YOUNG, Execu-tive Director of Houston's Theatre Under theStars, as its Executive Director. Mr. Young,who is President of the National Alliance ofMusical Theatre Producers, will also continuein Houston and plans to have the Houston andSeattle companies share some of their newproductions, originating in alternate cities.

After eight years as Director of New Dramatistsin New York, TOM DUNN has resigned to foundand head a new group, Theater of the FirstAmendment. His job at New Dramatists hasbeen redefined and the new appointees areJEAN PASSANANTE as Artistic Director andJOEL RUARK as Managing Director.

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Montgomery, and he has been its Artistic Direc- Another major conducting post which has beentor ever since. He has now tendered his resig- vacated is that with the Los Angeles Philhar-nation, and a search for his successor is under monic, where ANDRE PREVIN resigned in theway. spring, effective immediately.

Arts CentersJOSIAH A. SPAULDING, formerly GeneralManager of Boston's Wang Center for the Per-forming Arts, has been named President of theCenter. Among its booked-in attractions is theNew York City Opera in its first visit to Boston.

From Colden Center for the Performing Artsat Queens College, New York, CAROLINEWERTH is moving to Virginia to become Execu-tive Director of the new Performing ArtsCenter at George Mason University in Fairfax.She will be succeeded in Queens by VIVIANCHARLOP, formerly Associate Director there.

The National Arts Centre in Ottawa hasannounced the engagement of DOMINIQUE BOU-CHER as Assistant to the General Director,Yvon DesRochers. Mrs. Boucher has beenactive in the NAC's Communications Depart-ment, where she is being replaced by ODETTEDUMAS.

OrchestrasFollowing the public controversy regardingParis's Op6ra-Bastille and M. Berge's cancella-tion of DANIEL BARENBOIM's contract asArtistic Director, the Chicago SymphonyOrchestra announced that Maestro Barenboimhas been named to succeed Sir Georg Soltiwhen he retires at the end of the 1990-91season. A three-year contract calls for Mo.Barenboim to conduct a minimum of twelveweeks of subscription concerts in Chicago andthree- to four-week major tours annually.Beginning in September '89 he will carry thetitle Music Director Designate, and during thatseason he will conduct the orchestra in at leastsix weeks of concerts.

After twenty years as Music Director of theBrooklyn Philharmonic, LUKAS FOSS will relin-quish that post to devote more time to compos-ing. After the 1989-90 season he will becomeMusic Director Laureate and lead the orchestrain a few concerts over the next three years.A search committee, which includes Mr. Fossand the Brooklyn Academy of Music's PresidentHarvey Liehtenstein, has been in place for sometime to find a successor. Changes which havealready occurred within the orchestra's adminis-tration recently include MAURICE EDWARDS'move from Executive Director to Artistic Direc-tor and his replacement in the executive posi-tion by JERRY McCATHERN, formerly of theStaten Island Children's Museum.

A parting of the ways is reported from Denver,where PHILIPPE ENTREMONT is leaving at theend of the current season. The pianist andconductor, the Denver Symphony's Music Direc-tor since 1986, cited the orchestra's precariousfinancial situation as the reason for his resigna-tion. He will continue as head of the ViennaChamber Orchestra and the Concerts Colonnein Paris. — The Denver Orchestra Associationchose JOHN LOW as its new President, succeed-ing Christopher Dunworth, and KEVIN HAGEN,formerly of the Milwaukee Symphony, has cometo Denver as the new General Manager.

JORGE MESTER is Artistic Director of therecently organized New Music OrchestralProject, a new orchestra devoted to contempo-rary and specifically new compositions. Inaddition, Mo. Mester was appointed last fall asArtistic Director of the National OrchestraAssociation, which has also taken on an in-creased commitment to new American music.

ROBERT WALKER, formerly Business Managerand Director of Planning at the San FranciscoOpera and before that with the New York CityOpera, has moved to the state capital to assumethe job of Executive Director of the SacramentoSymphony.

From the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, ofwhich she was President and Managing Director,DEBORAH BORDA has moved to Michigan tobecome Executive Director of the Detroit Sym-phony. Her previous positions include that ofGeneral Manager of the San FranciscoSymphony. Her successor in St. Paul isWILLIAM VICKERY, who recently resigned asDirector of the NEA Music Program in Wash-ington. — C. STEPHEN BOYD has moved fromthe Utah Symphony to the Tulsa Philharmonicas Executive Director.

HUGH WOLFF, Music Director of the New Jer-sey Symphony Orchestra since September 1985,has signed a three-year extension of hiscontract with the Newark-based orchestra. Herecently completed his first season as PrincipalConductor of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra(Vol. 28, No. 1). — Other recent announcementsof extended contracts include JESUS LOPEZCOBOS as Music Director of the CincinnatiSymphony Orchestra (see also "Opera andSymphony Abroad"), and EDUARDO MAT A asMusic Director of the Dallas Symphony until1992, at which time he will have directed theorchestra for fifteen years.

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The New Haven Symphony has engagedMICHAEL PALMER as Music Director and willshare his services with the Wichita Symphony,where his contract runs through the 1989-90season.

The Toledo Symphony, in search of a permanentMusic Director, has named Danish composer andconductor OLE SCHMIDT as Interim MusicAdvisor for 1989-90 and JAMES MEENA of theToledo Opera as Resident Conductor. ANDREWMASSEY, JOHN MAUCERI, and STEWARTROBERTSON are guest conductors.

The Dayton Philharmonic has signed JOHNEDWARD BAUSER, formerly of the Akron andSan Diego Symphony Orchestras, as its newExecutive Director.

Two years after the death of its Music DirectorDavid Katz, the Queens (NY) Symphony Orches-tra has named its new Music Director and Con-ductor. He is ARTHUR FAGEN, who made hisMetropolitan Opera debut last fall with IITrovatore. A student of Max Rudolf at theCurtis Institute, he won the 1974 Baltimoreconducting competition and has led symphonyorchestras and opera companies in major Euro-pean cities. From 1983 to 1986 he was principalconductor at the Flanders Opera in Belgium.

Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra islooking for a new Music Director to take overat the termination of GABRIEL CHMURA'soriginal two-year contract in July 1990, sincethe Maestro will not be extending his stay inOttawa. A search committee has been formedby the Centre's General Director Yvon Des-rochers.

BORIS BROTT, Music Director of the HamiltonPhilharmonic Orchestra in Ontario, will leavethat post at the end of his contract next season.No permanent replacement has been announcedas yet, and VICTOR FELDBRILL will becomethe primary conductor for the 1990-91 season.

The Winnipeg Symphony has acquired BRAM-WELL TOVEY, Director of the Sadler's WellsRoyal Ballet, as Artistic Director of the orches-tra. He will start in his Canadian post in thesummer.

ChorusesIn addition to his position as Director andConductor of the Mendelssohn Choir and ashead of choral studies at Carnegie-MellonUniversity, ROBERT PAGE has also acceptedthe directorship of choral activities with thePittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He has, how-ever, resigned as Director of Chorus and Assis-tant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra.

Dance CompaniesJANE HERMANN, Director of Presentationswith the Metropolitan Opera for the last elevenyears and consultant with the company beforethat (1976-78), has accepted the position ofExecutive Director of the American BalletTheater as of September, succeeding CharlesDillingham. Before joining the Met she workedwith the Joffrey Ballet as Assistant GeneralManager and also with the Eliot Feld DanceCompany where she was Co-Administrator.During her years with the Met, which began atthe time of the demise of Hurok Attractions,she was responsible for booking national andinternational dance companies and other enter-tainments into the opera house during thesummer months. At her departure, the Methas bookings in place for most of Summer '90and a long-term contract with ABT.

Artists ManagersLUDWIG BRUNNER, formerly with TheaDispeker Inc., has become the U.S. represen-tative of the Swiss artists management firmSAF1MM AG, Zurich, with offices in New Yorkat 250 West 57th Street.

AcademiaComposer EZRA LADERMAN has been namedDean of the Yale School of Music. He willsucceed Frank P. Tirro at the end of this schoolyear. Mr. Laderman is past President of theNational Music Council and Chairman of theAmerican Composers' Orchestra.

Dr. GIDEON WALDROP resigned as Presidentof the Manhattan School of Music, effectiveJanuary 1989. He had been in that office sinceJuly '86, following a long tenure as Dean andPresident of the Juilliard School. Dr. PETERC. SIMON, Director of Academic Studies at theUniversity of Toronto's Royal Conservatory ofMusic, will be the Manhattan School's newPresident. Born in Hungary 39 years ago, thepianist and administrator is a graduate of theJuilliard School. He will assume his new posi-tion in July; until then the school's board ofdirectors has taken over the President's duties.

The University of Michigan's School of Musicengaged several new faculty members at thebeginning of the current school year. TheVoice and Opera Departments were joined byopera and oratorio singer EARL COLFMAN,who became Associate Professor of Voice andAssistant Dean for Minority Affairs, and bytheater and lighting designer RICHARD NEL-SON, who has several important credits onBroadway and with dance companies, and whowas named Associate Professor in the GraduateDesign Program. Mezzo-soprano PATRICIAMcCAFFREY is a Visiting Assistant Professor

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of Voice for 1988-89; also new to the VoiceDepartment this year is otolaryngologist KEITHSAXON, who was appointed Adjunct AssociateProfessor of Performing Arts Medicine.

After 35 years as Conductor of the ColumbiaUniversity Orchestra and 13 years as Directorof Music Performance there, HOWARD SHANETretired last December. GEORGE ROTHMAN,conductor of New York's Riverside Symphony,succeeds him as head of the university orches-tra. — Brown University in Providence, RhodeIsland has engaged PAUL PHILLIPS, AssociateConductor of the Savannah Symphony, as Princi-pal Conductor of the university orchestra anddirector of its chamber music program. He willalso teach music theory.

MARILYN TAFT THOMAS, faculty member atCarnegie-Mellon University's Music Departmentsince 1981, was made head of the departmentas of January '89.

Stockton State College in Pomona, New Jerseyhas engaged LINDSAY GAMBINI as Director ofthe College's Performing Arts Center. Pre-viously she was Managing Director of theBorough of Manhattan Community College Per-forming Arts Center; in her new post she suc-ceeds MIKE ROSE, who has moved to a similarposition at Glassboro State College.

Opera and Symphony AbroadHERBERT VON KARAJAN has resigned as musicdirector of the Berlin Philharmonic. He hadbeen the orchestra's chief conductor and musicdirector for 34 years, and his resignation is asmuch due to his failing health as to the recentand well-publicized disputes with the orchestra(as well as some old and lesser-known ones)and with the cultural administration of the cityof Berlin. With this announcement, anothertop artistic position with one of the world'sleading orchestras has opened up; others includethe New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics.

Following DANIEL BARENBOIM's dismissal asArtistic Director of the Ope>a-Bastille lastJanuary (see "News of Opera Companies: OperaCompanies Abroad" as well as "Orchestras,"above), MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG has now beenappointed as its Music Director. The 36-year-old South Korean-born maestro is PrincipalConductor of the Radio Orchestra of Saar-briicken and the Teatro Comunale in Florence;he has guest-conducted many major orchestras,and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1986.A graduate of the Mannes and Juilliard schools,Mo. Chung was Assistant Conductor of the LosAngeles Philharmonic in the late '70s. — PierreBerge', President of the Paris Opera Theaters,has also engaged DOMINIQUE MEYER as Gene-

ral Director in charge of finances for all threehouses (the Gamier, the Favart, and the Bas-tille), and RENE GONZALEZ, Director of theMaison de la Culture of Bobigny, as GeneralDirector of the Ope>a-Bastille.

The Theatre du Chfitelet in Paris has namedSTEPHANE LISSNER its new General Director;he succeeds Jean-Albert Cartier. (See also"News from Opera Companies.")

The The'Stre du Capitole in Toulouse will changedirectors as of September 1990, when NICOLASJOEL will succeed JACQUES DOUCET.

The Teatro dell'Opera in Rome has namedBRUNO CAGLI its new Artistic Director andJAN LATHAM KOENIG Principal GuestConductor.

Glyndebourne Festival Opera has announced theappointment of ANTHONY WHITWORTH-JONESas General Administrator, succeeding BrianDickie, who now heads the Canadian OperaCompany. Mr. Whitworth-Jones has been withGlyndebourne since 1981.

The Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, which is movingfrom London to take up residence in Birming-ham, has named SIMON PHIPPS Principal Con-ductor. — GORDON MONSEN has succeededChris Head as General Manager of England'sBuxton Festival.

JAMES CONLON, who was to start as PrincipalConductor with the Cologne Opera this fall,has now been named Ceneralmusikdirektor forthe City of Cologne. In addition to becominghead of the opera company, he will becomeMusic Director of the city's symphony, theGlirzenich Orchester, with a five-year contractfrom 1991 to 1996.

HANS URBANEK has accepted the successionto Donald Runnicles at the NiedersachsischeStaatsoper in Hannover, and GUENTER NEU-HOLD is the new Generalmusikdirektor of theBadisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.

The Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern has changeddirectors, with MICHAEL LEINERT becomingthe new Intendant and WILFRIED EMMERT thenew Generalmusikdirektor.

Following Music Director Yuri Temirkanov'smove from the Kirov Opera to the LeningradPhilharmonic (see Vol. 28, No. 4), VALERYGERGIEV was named to succeed him at theopera house in Leningrad.

Prague's National Theater has appointedZDENEK KOSLER as Chief Conductor of theopera season.

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE NATIONAL CONFERENCENEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE '90s

October 18-21, 1989Essex House, New York City

Wednesday, October 18

Registration and Reception

Metropolitan Opera Aida**New York City Opera La Traviata

Thursday, October 19

Welcome and Keynote Address

The Board—Defining New Directions

Guest Speaker (to be announced)

Management—The Challenge of New Directions

The Constant and Changing Audience

Metropolitan Opera II Trittico***New York City Opera Don Giovanni*

Friday, October 20

Art and Entertainment—New Directions in Repertoire

New Directions in Media Planning

Guest Speaker (to be announced)

New Collaborators in Opera/Music Theater Training

Metropolitan Opera La Traviata*New York City Opera The Cunning Little Vixen***

Saturday, October 21

Metropolitan Opera II Barbiere di SivigliaNew York City Opera Anna Bolena***

Metropolitan Opera Porgy andNew York City Opera Street Scene***

Sunday, October 22

New York City Opera Carmen

*New production *• 1988-89 production "Major revival

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COS INSIDE INFORMATIONWe are delighted to announce the preliminary program for the next COS NEXT COSNATIONAL CONFERENCE, New Directions for the '90s, to be held in NATIONALNew York City on October 18-21. (See the opposite page.) COS's usual CONFERENCEassemblage of prominent and knowledgeable experts will insure that thesessions will be as stimulating as they are informative. As in the past,all will be happy to share their experience and wisdom with you. Thecomplete program, including the names of all the speakers and panelists,will be announced soon and sent to COS and Metropolitan Opera NationalCouncil members with the appropriate registration form.

In the last two seasons we seem to have successfully passed the Crossroadsof the 1987 COS National Conference, as opera companies have securedtheir positions. Now a new decade is about to begin, and we can lookahead with more confidence (mixed perhaps with a little trepidation) andmuch curiosity to what new directions may lie ahead for opera and musicaltheater. Hence our conference title: New Directions for the '90s.

The F.ssex House on Central Park South will be conference headquarters,and rooms are being set aside there and at the Mayflower Hotel on Cen-tral Park West (near Columbus Circle) for out-of-town attendees. Specialhotel reservation cards will be sent to Conference registrants; or, if youprefer to make your reservation now, be sure to identify yourself as aCOS National Conference registrant, to receive the special reduced COSrate at either hotel.

In addition to other considerations, the Conference dates were chosenwith an eye to the performances scheduled at the Metropolitan Operaand New York City Opera. Both companies offer particularly attractiveprograms during the Conference period, as you can see in the preliminaryschedule. Some tickets are being set aside for our attendees, who mayplace their orders with COS when completing the Conference registrationform.

DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT!

Reserve the dates now, to make sure that you will be able to attend.The full program and a registration form will be mailed to you as soonas they are ready. See you in October!

A major new Central Opera Service reference work is in preparation, as NEWannounced in the last issue of the COS Bulletin. The DIRECTORY OF CONTEMPORARYCONTEMPORARY OPERA AND MUSIC THEATER, covering the decade OPERAfrom 1980 to 1989, carries forward the ser ies of directories begun in DIRECTORY1967, of which the most recent was published in 1980. This fifth volumeof American and foreign contemporary operas will include an est imated4,000 works. The new publication, like COS' other re ference works, willbe a unique source of information, much of it not avai lable anywhere e l s e .

The new Directory will again be in three sec t ions : new works by NorthAmerican composers , new works by foreign composers, and North Americanpremieres of foreign works. Each sec t ion is organized a lphabet ica l ly bythe composer's name and indexed by work t i t le and, a new feature inthis volume, by the l ibret t i s t ' s name. As in the previous d irector ies ,each entry will include not only the work's t i t l e and the name of thecomposer(s) and l ibrett ist(s) , but also information about premieres andworkshops, the source or subject of the l ibret to , intended audience (e .g .

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children's works), length, casting and scoring, and the publisher or othersource, as far as the information is available. Composers who haveappeared in previous directories are identified; so are works on whichCOS' files contain reviews or articles.

This project would hardly have been possible, and certainly would havebeen far less complete, without the truly phenomenal response to ourvery extensive mailing of announcements and questionnaires. We wantto thank those organizations that helped in publicizing our need for infor-mation, among them the National Opera Association (NOA), OPERAAmerica, the American Opera Center, the College Music Society, theTheatre Communications Group (TCG), the Arts Reporting Service, OperaNews, Show Business, and last but not least Broadcast Music Inc. (BMO,which mailed some 4,000 questionnaire forms to its extensive membership.We also gratefully acknowledge the assistance given us by various musicpublishers, and also by several composers' societies abroad, particularlythose in Czechoslovakia, Finland, and Hungary, which supplied us withnumerous completed questionnaires and extensive lists.

COS members will receive the new Directory of Contemporary Opera andMusic Theater as the next special issue of the COS Bulletin; publicationis now projected for the fall. Single copies will also be available forpurchase, at a price yet to be determined.

Previous directories in this series are available as follows:

Directory of American Contemporary Operas [1930-1966] $6.25

Directory of Foreign Contemporary Operas [1950-1968] $6.25

Directory of American & Foreign Contemporary Operas: 1967-1975 $9.50

Directory of American &. Foreign Contemporary Operas: 1975-1980 $9.50

COS This is the time of year when COS conducts its annual survey of operaANNUAL and music theater companies' activities during the past season. Ques-SURVEY tionnaires have been mailed to all opera companies and workshops, to1988-89 theater companies, to orchestras, to academic institutions—to all organi-

zations, whether professional, avocational, or educational, that performopera or music theater, staged or in concert.

The COS Survey is the most comprehensive project of its kind, the onlyone covering all activities in the operatic field, and it is the quickestto compile and release its results—in September, shortly after the closeof the reporting period on August 31. We hope that by now, after some35 years (yes, the survey now covers 35 years), all performing groups andtheir directors have come to realize the importance of this information,and will complete and return their forms to us as soon as possible. Wehave tried to make your task easier by limiting the questionnaire to onesheet of paper and by keeping it essentially unchanged from year to year.Remember that you only fill out your own form and return it in the pre-addressed, postpaid envelope; we will then compile all the various typesof information and reduce them to overall statistics in order to give youthe final results, which will be published in the next news issue of theCOS Bulletin and analyzed in detail in the November issue of Opera News.But we can do this only if we receive your returns, promptly and properlycompleted, by the deadline—and we thank you for it!

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The Metropolitan Opera National Council's Verdi Medal of Achievementwas awarded this year to Mrs. JOHN BARRY RYAN, a cofounder of theMONC and one of the Metropolitan Opera's most loyal and long-standingfriends and supporters.

In presenting Mrs. Ryan with the award, MONC President Mrs. GeorgeCaulkins, Jr. cited her deep interest and devoted involvement in theMetropolitan Opera, saying that she "came inescapably to her love ofopera" as the daughter of Otto H. Kahn, a lifelong supporter of the Metand the most influential member of its Board of Directors from 1903 untilhis retirement as Chairman in 1931.

Mrs. Ryan herself joined the Board of Directors in 1950 and served withdistinction until 1981, when she was named an Honorary Director. Shewas the first Chairman of the MONC Steering Committee and played amajor role in shaping that organization, the sponsor of Central OperaService. She was the first MONC Chairman of Membership, and todayas Honorary Chairman she continues to be vitally interested and activeon behalf of the Metropolitan Opera, the National Council, and CentralOpera Service.

In conclusion, Mrs. Caulkins said: "Through both family tradition andpersonal involvement she is surely that member of the Metropolitan Operafamily most deserving of the Verdi Medal of Achievement."

Designed by the sculptor Betti Richard, the medal was established in 1977and since then has been awarded annually. Its recipients have been:

Frank E. TaplinTexaco, Inc.(accepted by John McKinley)Robert L.B. TobinRobert ShermanMrs. Gilbert W. HumphreyMrs. John Barry Ryan

VERDI MEDALFOR

MRS. RYAN

1977197819791980198119821983

Maria F. RichAlfred F. HubayOsie HawkinsPatter GimberAlexander SaundersonHoward J. Hook, Jr.Thomas S. Brush

19841985

1986198719881989

Maria Rich and Central Opera Service were honored by OPFRA FORYOUTH LTD. at the last OFY convention. The award citation reads:

For Exceptional and Dedicated Service to Opera for Young PeoplePresented this Sixteenth Day of November, 1988

Robert Petza, Ruby Mercer, Emily Hammood; Trustees for Opera For Youth

RECOGNITIONFOR COS

COS congratulates our sister organization, the METROPOLITAN OPERANATIONAL COUNCIL REGIONAL AUDITIONS, on its 35th anniversary.National Chairman Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre, Executive Director LawrenceStayer, his Assistant (and Metropolitan Opera soprano) Gail Robinson, anda host of successful Auditions "graduates" joined MONC members at acelebratory luncheon during the National Council's annual spring meeting.Master of Ceremonies Robert L.B. Tobin, also Central Opera Service'sHonorary Chairman, recounted the history of the Auditions, and Mrs.LaBarre presented this year's ten National Winners with their awards.(For their names, see "Winners.") []

MONCREGIONAL

AUDITIONSANNIVERSARY

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COS SALUTES. . .

...composer WILLIAM SCHUMAN, who received the American Eagle Awardfrom the National Music Council at its annual luncheon on May 23; andcomposer GUNTHER SCHULLER, who received the William Schuman Awardfrom Columbia University for "extended services in the cause of Americanmusical composition."

...JERRY ALLEN, Assistant Director of the Dallas Parks and RecreationDepartment, and PETER DONNELLY, Executive Director of the DallasTheater Center and President of Seattle's Corporate Council for the Arts,named 1988 winners of the Arts Management Awards; the former as ArtsAdministrator of the Year, the latter as recipient of the Career ServiceAward for contributions to arts development over the past decade. Theawards were given in a ceremony in New York by Alvin H. Reiss, editorof Arts Management.

...ALVIN H. REISS, Editor of Arts Management and lecturer on the manage-ment of arts institutions, who received the 1989 International ManagementClub Award of the Austrian Business League.

...ROSETTA LeNOIR, founder and artistic director of the AMAS RepertoryCompany of New York, the first recipient of a new award established inher name by Actors' Equity Association. The award is to be given annual-ly for "artistic contributions to the universality of the human experiencein the American theatre." The presentation was made during Black HistoryMonth in New York.

...BETTY ALLEN, Director of the Harlem School of the .Arts, and MIMISTERN-WOLFE, founder and Artistic Director of Downtown Music Produc-tions, the recipients of the American Composers Alliance's 1989 LaurelLeaf Award, given this year in collaboration with the National Arts Club.Now in its 35th year, this honor is awarded annually for "distinguishedachievement in fostering and encouraging American music."

...bass NICOLAI GHIAUROV, who was made a Commander of Arts andLetters, France's highest cultural decoration.

...JOHN CORIGLIANO, composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony,whose opera A Figaro for Antonia will be premiered by the MetropolitanOpera in 1991, as the 1989 recipient of the Alfred I. duPont Composersand Conductors Award.

...soprano ELIZABETH HOLLRQUE, recipient of the New York City Opera'slatest "Diva Award."

...UTAH OPERA and its General Director Glade Peterson, recipients ofthe First Annual Governor's Award in the Arts in the state of Utah. Theaward was established in recognition of the ninetieth anniversary of theUtah Arts Council, the earliest state agency with a mandate to advancethe arts.

...OPERA CAROLINA, celebrated by its home city and its mayor with aproclamation "Opera Week in Charlotte" on the occasion of forty yearsof opera in Charlotte, North Carolina.

...AFTER DINNER OPERA and its founder/director Richard Flusser, recipi-ents of a National Recognition Award for outstanding achievement and

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creativity given by the America the Beautiful Fund of Washington, DC,bestowed by Betty Allen on April 5 at the Harlem School of the Arts.

...FRANK M. YOUNG, founder and Executive Director of Houston's TheatreUnder the Stars and Director of the National Alliance of Musical TheatreProducers, who received this year's "Leadership in the Arts" award fromHouston's Business Volunteers for the Arts.

...dancer and choreographer MARTHA GRAHAM, still active on her 95thbirthday.

...composer LEON KIRCHNER on his 70th birthday, and composer EZRALADERMAN on his 65th birthday.

...Arizona Opera's General Director GLYNN ROSS, celebrating a total of50 years of activity in opera.

...The AMERICAN MUSIC CENTER, on the accomplishments achievedduring its first 50 years.

...The LOS ANGELES MUSIC CENTER, which opened 25 years ago; long-time COS members may remember the 1964 COS National Conference inNew York when architect John Knight (for Welton Beckett Associates)presented the plans and model for the new Los Angeles Music Center ina slide demonstration.

...AVERY FISHER HALL, formerly Philharmonic Hall, on its forthcomingsilver anniversary season; it was the firsl Lincoln Center building to open.

...NEW MUSIC AMERICA, on its tenth anniversary; the hemisphere's majorfestival devoted to new contemporary music with composers in attendance,New Music America is held in a different city each year, and in November'89 the festival will be hosted by the Brooklyn Academy of Music invarious locations throughout New York City. In 1990 the festival willbe hosted by Canada for the first time; 300 artists will converge onMontreal for sixty events, fifteen of them world premieres.

...the CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY AND FESTIVAL, on its 60th anniversary;OPERADELAWARE, which will celebrate its 45th season in 1989-90; theASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL on its 40th anniversary summer; the LYRICOPERA OF CHICAGO and HOUSTON GRAND OPERA, each about to beginits 35th anniversary season; SAN DIEGO OPERA, for its 25th season;ARTPARK in Lewiston, New York, on its 15th summer season; and theWASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC in the nation's capital, on its5th anniversary. []

Editions (continued from page 31)John McMahon, who staged the production, also made this new adaptation;Gloria Gasser was the music director.

For its educational outreach touring program, Opera San Jos6 has commis-sioned Henry Mollicone to revise his opera S1ARBIRD to make it especiallysuitable for touring to schools. This spring the company is giving some60 performances of Starbird among the 225 performances to be giventhroughout the area under its outreach project, including also The Faceon the Barroom Floor and The Telephone. G

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WINNERS

The Metropolitan Opera National CouncilRegional Auditions concluded with its annualconcert presenting the national winners at theMetropolitan Opera House on April 2. Tensingers performed, selected from some 2,500vocalists heard throughout the U.S., Canada,Puerto Rico, and Australia. The nationalwinners are sopranos CHRISTINE BREWER (33,from Springfield, IL, Midwest Region), DOMI-NIQUE LABELLE (25, Montreal, New EnglandRegion), MARY MILLS (24, Dallas, SouthwestRegion), ROSA VENTO (27, Havana, Cuba, nowU.S.A., Central Region), and VERONICA VIL-LARROEL (26, Santiago, Chile, now New York,Eastern Region); mezzo-sopranos NING LIANG(30, Beijing, China, now New York, EasternRegion), and TICHINA VAUGHN (23, Winston-Salem, NC, Southeast Region); baritone MARKOSWALD (21, New Ringgold, PA, Tri-StateRegion); bass-baritone KEVIN SHORT (27,Washington, DC, Middle Atlantic Region); andbass DONG-JIAN GONG (33, Nanchang, China,now Bloomington, IN, Tri-State Region). Thelast round of the competition, held on the Metstage with piano two weeks earlier, also in-cluded the following finalists, each a regionalwinner: sopranos LESLIE JEAN DOUGLAS (Mid-South), JULIE KIERSTINE (Pacific), and JANETMOMJ1AN (Western); mezzo-soprano JEANNEREAVEL (Great Lakes); tenors FRANCISCOCHAHIN-CASANOVA (Eastern), CESAR HER-NANDEZ (Gulf Coast), PIL-SUNG KIM (North-west), JEFFREY WARD (Australia), and JIANYIZHANG (Eastern); and baritones JOHN ARM-STRONG (Rocky Mountain) and KIMM JULIAN(Upper Midwest).

The 23-year-old soprano ANDREA GRUBER, amember of the Metropolitan Opera's YoungArtists Program, received the third Martin E.Segal Award, amounting to $4,000. The annualprize is given to a member of one of the elevenresident companies of Lincoln Center.

The San Francisco Opera Center has awardedten 1989-90 Adler Fellowships to young singers,entitling each of them to a one-year residencywith the San Francisco Opera. First-timerecipients are soprano PATRICIA RACETTE(New Hampshire), mezzo-soprano CATHERINEKEEN (Kentucky), tenors CRAIG ESTEP (NorthCarolina) and HONG-SHEN LI (China), and bari-tone LeROY VILLANUEVA (California).Selected as second-year fellows were sopranosANN PANAGULIAS (Pennsylvania) and JANETWILLIAMS (Michigan), mezzo-soprano PATRI-CIA SPENCE (Oregon), baritone VICTOR LED-BETTER (Georgia), and bass DALE TRAVIS(New Jersey).

The 1988 winners of the Opera Index Competi-tion, cosponsored by the New York Opera Cluband Opera Digest, featured baritone ALANHELD in first place ($5,000 Givenchy Award),followed by soprano ANDREA GRUBER ($3,000and an invitation to join the Met's Young ArtistProgram) and bass-baritone GREGORY RAHM-ING ($2,000 Kalman Friedman Award). Award-ees of $1,000 prizes included sopranos DEBO-RAH VOIGT and MARGARET JANE WRAY,mezzo-soprano DONNA BRUNO, and tenorsSAMUEL COOK, GREGORY HOPKINS, FREDE-RIC KALT, and PAUL AUSTIN KELLY.

At the 1988 National Opera AssociationConvention the following singers won $500prizes in the Artists Division: sopranoJULIANNA SABOL of Wisconsin, mezzo MAR-GARET THOMPSON of Delaware, and tenorMICHAEL McCALL of California. Miss Sabolalso won a scholarship to AIMS in Graz, andMiss Thompson received an additional $500 fromthe Media Arts Center. The Constance Eber-hart Memorial Endowment Scholarships weregiven to sopranos LAURA CLAYCOMB ofDallas, for AIMS in Graz, and CASSANDRARIDDLE of South Carolina, for the Banff CentreSchool in Canada.

KIMBALL WHEELER, mezzo-soprano, won the1988 special Liederkranz Prize for WagnerianVoices. She has been engaged by the BaselOpera for the next season.

The finals of the 1989 Naumburg Competitionpresented five accomplished singers: mezzo-soprano MARIETTA SIMPSON; tenors SALVA-TORE CHAMPAGNA, STANFORD OLSEN, andROBERT SWENSON; and baritone DAVIDMALIS. Mr. Olsen was awarded the first prizeof $5,000, Mr. Malis the second prize of $2,500,and Miss Simpson the third prize of $1,000.

A 1989 Richard F. Gold Career Grant in theamount of $2,500 went to soprano CHRISTINFAKRE, an Apprentice Artist with the SarasotaOpera for the last two years. A total offourteen R. F. Gold Awards, administered bythe Shoshana Foundation, are given out annuallythrough opera companies to promising youngsingers selected by the opera companydirectors.

The Calgary Opera Guild awarded its VictorRoskey prize to Canadian mezzo-soprano CORYMILLER. Subsequently she made her companydebut as the Third Lady in Die Zauberflote.

Three young singers were selected to receivethe Dallas Opera Guild's 1988 Career Develop-

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merit Grants: sopranos SOO-HONG KIM andKECIA ANN ASHFORD and baritone RICHARDHOBSON. On Apr i l 9 the Guild presented thewinners in a musicale.

The 1989 recipients of the Houston Grand OperaStudio Awards, for which some 600 applicantswere heard, include f irst place winner ERICPERKINS of Youngstown. The 23-year-old tenortook the $1,000 Studio Career Award. Theothers par t ic ipat ing in the finals concert werebass-baritone MICHAEL KRUEGER of Indiana,New York soprano ANGELA RANDELL, baritoneDANIEL SUTINE of Brooklyn, NY, and tenorROBERT CHAFIN of Christiansburg, VA.

The Washington Opera Guild has selectedsoprano RUTH ANN SWENSON as its "Ar t i s t ofthe Year." The award was presented at aluncheon in Washington on March 1. A f te rsinging Rosina this season, she w i l l open thecompany's 1989-90 season at the Kennedy Cen-ter as Lucia, fol lowing appearances in the samerole at the Metropol i tan Opera's parks concerts.

The 1989 Singer of the Year Award, bestowedby the Shreveport Opera, was shared by threewinners. DWIGHT COLF.MAN, a baritone fromMississippi, received f i rst prize; LAURACLAYCOMB, soprano from Dallas, was second,and LAURA WHITE from Searcy, Arkansas tookth i rd prize. AH wi l l be considered for rolesin future Shreveport Opera productions.

In Greater Miami Opera's Young Patronessesof the Opera Annual Voice Competi t ion thisyear, the winner in the Young Art ists Divisionwas Cuban-born, Miami-resident soprano ROSAVENTO, who received the f i rst prize of $2,500.ANNALISA WINBERG took the second prize($2,000) and LAWRENCE CRAIG the th i rd prize($1,000). Student Division awards were sharedby JENNIFER JONES of Ohio, CAROL ANNMANZI of Connecticut, and RANDALL TUR-NER. Several encouragement awards were alsodistr ibuted. Forty singers competed, and ninemade the finals. — Not previously reported:last year's winners in the Young Art is ts Divisionwere KATHERINE KULAS, f i rs t ; ERMA GATTI,second; and GREGORY RAHMING, th i rd . Stu-dent Division winners were CHRISTOPHERSCHALDENBRAND, ROBIN MURPHY, andKEITH SPENCER.

Soprano KELLY NASSIEF received the $2,000f i rst prize awarded by the Portland (OR)Opera's Eleanor Lieber Awards. Second prizewas won by tenor JEFFREY FRANCIS and th i rdby STEVEN MORTIMER. Each of the elevenfinalists received a $1,000 cash prize.

The seventeenth annual Loren L. Zachary Socie-ty Vocal Competi t ion gave its top awards to

Cuban-born soprano ROSA VENTO, a multipleprizewinner, and basso cantante PETERLOF.HLE. Both received a cash prize of $3,500and a round-tr ip t icket to Europe to audit ionthere. The winners of prizes between $2,000and $3,000 were baritone YU CHEN, Helden-tenor EDWARD COOK, and soprano Y<\N YANWANG, with the remaining f inalists JOHNATKINS, CYNTHIA JACOBY, DAVID MAZE,MELODY ROSSI, and BRENDA WIMBERLY eachreceiving $1,000.

Soprano JULIE KIERSTINE of Cal i fornia wonfirst prize at the 1989 Queens (NY) OperaCompetit ion and was presented in a winner'srec i ta l on Apr i l 29. Second place went tobass-baritone MAX WITTGES of New Jersey,th i rd place to soprano MELODY JOHNSON ofOhio, and fourth and f i f t h places to two mezzo-sopranos, JANET ELLIS of New York Ci ty andCARLA WOOD of New Jersey. Cash prizesranged from $1,000 to $100.

The National Foundation for Advancement inthe Arts has nominated 38 outstanding youngart ists for consideration as 1989 PresidentialScholars in the Arts. The Arts Recognitionand Talent Search (ARTS) is responsible forthe selection of high school and junior collegeage musicians, actors, dancers, visual art ists,and wr i ters. Among the musicians are sopranoHEATHER DIALS of I l l inois, and among actors/singers for musicals DONNA CHAMPLIN ofRochester, New York, SEAN McCOURT ofMichigan, and H. HYNDEN WALCH, also ofI l l inois. On June 19 those performing artsstudents who won wi l l be presented at theKennedy Center in Washington, and the fo l low-ing day they wi l l be introduced to PresidentBush at the White House, where each wi l lreceive the Presidential medallion and a $1,000cash prize.

The first Sylvia Geszty Competit ion for theAdvancement of Classical Vocal Ar t , held inStut tgar t , gave its f i rst prize of DM 12,000 tothe Hungarian IVAN ILDIKO. Second prize wasshared by two American singers current lyresiding in Germany, JAYNE CASSELMAN ofKaiserslautern and HELEN SCHNEIDERMANN ofStut tgar t . Two singers, KATHLEEN CASSELLOand ANNE SALVAN, were also selected for theth i rd prize. In addit ion, CLARA O'BRIENreceived a one-year contract from theBadisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.

The Concours International de Chant de Paris,wi th Marcel Landowski and Mady Mesple' amongthe judges, gave its f i rst prize in the men'sdivision to East German baritone THOMASWITTIG and second prize to a young Canadian,JEAN-FRANCOIS LAPOINTE. First prize in

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the women's category was col lected by Frenchsoprano LAURENCE MONTEYROL and secondprize by another French soprano, GISELE FIX.

Originally restr icted to European singers, the"Neue Stimmen" competit ion in Giitersloh, WestGermany is now also admitt ing singers from theU.S. Organized by the Bertelsmann Foundationin cooperation with the General Director mem-bers of the Deutsche Blihnenverein, the secondcompetit ion concluded in a concert with orches-tra at which six finalists competed for the topawards. First prize went to Polish sopranoIZABELA LABUDA, second to West Germanmezzo-soprano KEIKE THEA TERJUNG, andthird to Hungarian coloratura soprano INGRIDKERTESI. The jury included August Everdingof Munich, Justus Frantz of the Sehleswig-Holstein Festival, and Dr. Volker Hassemer,Berlin's Cultural Minister.

The first International Elly Ameling LiedCompeti t ion, held in The Hague last Septemberand October, selected three sopranos aswinners, the Finnish SOILE ISOKOSKI receivingf irst prize and the Brit ish KYM MAPS andScottish FIONA CAMERON second and thirdprizes respectively.

The winners of the 1988 Voci Verdiane competi-t ion in Busseto included two from the UnitedStates. Tenor KEITH IKAIA-PURDY sharedsecond place wi th baritone DMITRIJ KHARI-TONOV from the USSR, and American bassKEVIN SHORT shared the third prize withChinese tenor DENG XIAOJUN. Russian sopranoNATALIA DATSKO won the f i rst prize.

In the Netherlands, the two 's-Hertogenboschprizes for opera singing went to sopranosADRIANNE PIECZONKA of Toronto andCLARON McFADDEN, residing in West Ger-many, while the two awards in the Liedcategory were both given to West Germans:f i rst prize to soprano RUTH ZIESAK and secondprize to contral to URSULA KUNZ.

ADRIANNE PIECZONKA also placed th i rd inthe women's division of the Toulouse singingcompeti t ion, where countertenor THOMASFALLON received the second Grand Prize inthe men's category. Polish soprano MONIKACICHOCKA and Russian baritone DIMITRYHVOROSTOVSKY placed f irst in their respec-tive fields.

Another Canadian soprano, MARIA CIC-CAGLIONE, was a winner in Europe last year,receiving the f i rst prize in the women's divisionof the International Voice Competit ion ofBilbao, Spain. Colombian tenor ERNESTOGRISALES won the men's division. — Also in

Spain, the Francisco Vinas International SingingCompetit ion gave equal awards to French sopra-no VERA CIRKOVIC and Spanish tenorVICENTE OMBUENA.

One American singer was among those honoredat the Bayerische Rundfunk Awards in Munichlast year. ROBERT SWENSON of New Yorkreceived second prize in the men's division,while first and third places went to Germanbass-baritone THOMAS QUASTHOFF andPoland's MARCIN RUDZ1NSK1 respectively. Inthe women's division, the Czech LIVIA AGHOVAshared second place with West Germany'sURSULA KUNZ, with Korean KYUNG-SHINPARK the th i rd prize winner; no f i rst prizewas awarded.

Young Art is ts EnsemblesTen young singers have been selected for the1989 Lyric Opera Center for American Artistsin Chicago. Sopranos SUSAN FOSTER findPAMELA MENAS and baritone JOSEPH WIG-GETT, who were apprentices in '88, wi l l bemoving up to Ensemble status; buss HENRYRUNEY wil l return for his third term, and mezzoPHYLLIS PANCELLA and tenor DONN COOKfor their second terms. Tenors MICHAELFOREST and JOHN KEYES, baritone GARYLEHMAN, and bass-baritone MICHAEL WADS-WORTH join as Ensemble members for the firstt ime. In addition there wi l l be six apprentices:sopranos MARTHA CARES, LISA FALETTO,and ELIZABETH FUTRAL, mezzo JOSLYNKING, tenor STEPHEN GOULD, and baritoneLYNN DIXON. A special concert on February2 at the Civic Opera House, accompanied bythe Lyric Opera Orchestra under the baton ofLee Schaenen, presented the members of theEnsemble, who in June wi l l give the worldpremiere of The Fan by Lee Goldstein, LyricOpera's composer-in-residence.

This season's young singers making up TheEnsemble of Opera/Omaha are SUZANNEACKIN, SUZANNE GRIFFIN, RHONDA MeAFEE,IAN BOURG, LAWRENCE FORMOSA, andJAMES SCOTT SIKON.

The Pittsburgh Opera Center has acceptedtwelve young singers for its fourth annualtraining program: sopranos JENNIFER CASEYCABOT, LAURIE GIBSON, LAURA KNOOP, andROSEMARY MUSOLENO; mezzo GLORIANATHAN WATSON; tenors JOSE MEDINA andBRENT WEBER; baritones RON BAKER andJOHN HANCOCK; bass-baritone STEPHENEISENHARD; and bass STEVEN CONDY.

The Dayton Opera's Art ists-in-Residenceinclude soprano PHENISHER HARRIS, mezzoMARIA VENTURA, tenor TYRONE JOLIVF.T,

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and coach/accompanist JOAN FORBES. Theirensemble, the Muse Machine, will bring operato community centers and some 70 schoolsthroughout the a rea .

Virginia Opera 's "Buffa!" program for 1988-89featured JUDY BERRY, KRISTINE JEPSON,JEREMY PICK, and GARY KUDO. Over 100performances were given at schools on separa tetours in the fall and the spring.

ConductorsFour young Americans were the finalistscompeting for the first prize of the LeopoldStokowski Conducting Competi t ion. The con-tes t took place at New York's Alice Tully Hall,with the American Symphony Orches t ra asinstrument . GEORGE HANSON, Associate Con-ductor of the Atlanta Symphony, was the win-ner, and as part of the prize he will conducta concert at Carnegie Hall. The others whoreached the final round were MARIN ALSOP,Assistant Conductor of the Richmond (VA)Symphony and conductor of New York's Con-cordia Chamber Orches t ra ; DAVID COM MAN-DAY, conductor of the Richmond (VA) Balletand the Virginia Commonwealth UniversityOrches t ra ; and PIOTR GAJEWSKI, Music Direc-tor of the National Chamber Orchestra inWashington, DC.

The third annual American Conductor 's Pro-gram, a project of the American Symphony

Orches t ra League, has announced the threeyoung conductors who have been chosen topar t ic ipa te in this year ' s ASOL NationalConference. They a re MARIN ALSOP (seeabove); NEAL GITTLEMAN, Associate Conduc-tor of the Syracuse and Milwaukee SymphonyOrches t ras ; and TSUNG YEH, Masic Director ofthe South Bend Symphony and Resident Conduc-tor of the Florida Orches t ra . Since this year ' sLeague Conference is scheduled for San Fran-cisco, the three young conductors will vie forfirst place conducting the San Francisco Sym-phony. The date of the finals is June 22.

On the internat ional scene, LU SHAO-CHIA,born in Taiwan and a student at the ViennaHochschule filr Musik, placed first a t the 1988Young Conductors ,Competition in Besaneon,France . — EN SHAO from Tianjin, China, whostudied at the Beijing Conservatory after itsreopening in 1977 and then at the RoyalNorthern Conservatory of Music in Manchester ,England, won first prize and the B61a Bart6kAward at the 1989 Budapest InternationalConductors Competi t ion. The 34-year-oldmusician finished ahead of 52 other con tes tan t s .His early musical studies during the ChineseCultural Revolution had to be kept secre t ; hisfirst t eachers were his mother and later aconductor who had studied with Paul Hindemithat Yale but led a folk dance group upon hisreturn home. []

Appointments (continued from page 39)At the end of this season RICCARDO CHAILLYwill be leaving his position as Chief Conductorof the Berlin Radio Symphony, at which timeVLADIMIR ASHKENAZY will take over theorchestra. CHAILLY pere (LUCIANO) has beennamed Music Director of the most prestigiousRAI (Radio Italiano) orchestra, that of Turin.

Maestro JESUS LOPEZ COBOS will becomeChief Conductor and Artistic Director of theLausanne Chamber Orchestra in 1990, at the

termination of his contract with the DeutscheOper Berlin. At the Swiss orchestra he willsucceed Lawrence Foster. His contract asMusic Director of the Cincinnati Symphony hasbeen extended through summer '93.

Next fall DAVID ATHERTON will begin a three-year tenure as Music Director of the Hong KongPhilharmonic. He will replace KENNETHSCHFRMERHORN, who held that position forthe last five years. []

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CAREER GUIDE SUPPLEMENT(lists new information since Supplement in Vol. 29, No. 1)

The following entries supplement the Career Guide for Young American Singers (Fifth Edition)published in 1985, as updated in the Addenda dated 11/88. Entries marked only with pagenumbers update listings in the Career Guide itself, while those marked "insert page" are newentries and those marked "insert*" update listings previously published in the addenda. In allcases, the entries below contain only information received after publication of the Career GuideSupplement in the COS Bulletin Vol. 29, So. 1.

A copy of the Career Guide with the latest addenda may be ordered for $9.75 prepaid, postageincluded. The addenda may be ordered separately for $3.95 prepaid.

GRANTS TO SINGERS

NEW YORK CITYThe Beverly Sills-Lincoln Center Award (insert page 2)Annual. Prize: $25,000, to be paid in $5,000 yearly installments.Recipient will be selected by Miss Sills from the roster of New York City Opera artists.

TEXASDallas Opera Guild (insert*)—Career Development Grants — Naomi O'Sullivan, Grant Program Committee Chmn.

Grants of up to $1,000 per year to assist in taking advantage of performanceopportunities.

Deadline: 8/1/89Eligibility: Age: 18-35, residing in north Texas; must have had some professional

performance experience.

GRANTS FOR STUDY ABROAD

Institute of International Education (IIE) (page 3)—MUSICA Travel Grants

Now also available to applicants invited to perform at international festivals. Applicationmust include proof of the invitation.

Deadline: 6/89 for 1989-90 projects.— Fulbright/Hays Grants/Mutual Education Exchange in the Performing Arts

Deadline: 10/30/89 for 1990-91 school yenr

GRANTS FOR CANADIAN ARTISTS

Canadian Women's Club (insert page 4)P.O. Box 1661, FDR Station, New York, NY 10150 or 909 Third Ave., New York 10022;

(212) 407-0641 or (201) 652 8926; Dawn Boulanger, Pres.Scholarships for talented young Canadian artists studying or residing in New York City.

REGIONAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONSIN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

CALIFORNIACarmel Music Society Competition (insert page 5)P.O.Box 1144, Carmel, CA 93921Annual. Rotates between instruments and voice; next vocal competition in 1991Age limit: 18-30; must be resident or full-time student in CaliforniaNext deadline: 1/91; competition: 3/91Prizes: $1,000 & performance; $750; $500; 5 prizes of $100 each

CONNECTICUTPerformers of Connecticut Young Artists Competition (page 7)P.O. Box 293, Westport, CT 06881Age limit (all categories): 21-35; deadline: 10/10/89; competition: 12/2/89Prizes: total of $4,000, concerts

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INDIANANational Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) (page 8)—Young Artists Auditions

Next competition: 1989Age limit: 23-35 (may vary in some states); fee: $10Prizes: $12,000 total

MARYLANDBaltimore Opera Vocal Competition (page 9) (formerly Baltimore Opera International Vocal

Competition)Now for U.S. citizens only.Age limit: 20-35; competition: 6/5-10/89Requirements: Add—proof of U.S. citizenship; must not have performed a lead role (as

defined by AGMA) with a major American opera company, i.e. one whose budget is over$1,000,000

Prizes: $10,000; $8,000; $4,500; $2,500; $2,000; $1,200; two of $1,000. Semifinalists receive$150.

Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition for Aspiring Young Artists (page 9)"Windsor," Stevenson, MD 21153Competition: 5/4-14/90 in Washington, DC; prizes: over $50,000 total

NEW JERSEYOpera at Florham Vocal Competition (insert page 11)Opera at Florham, 285 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940; (201) 593-8620; Charles Del Rosso,

General ManagerAnnual. Age limit: 20-35; deadline: 10/1/89; competition: 10/89Requirement: Completed application form. Other requirements and fee to be announced.Prizes: $1,000; $750; $500.

NEW YORKAbraham and Phyllis Katz Young Musicians Competition (insert page 12)Five Towns Music & Art Foundation, Broadway 4c Johnson Place, Woodmere, NY 11598Annual; age limit: 17-30; fee: $15Last competition: 6/89Prizes: $1,000; $500; $350

NEW YORK CITYConcerts Atlantique (insert page 13)54 West 21st St., suite 1206 A, New York, NY 10010Premiere Performance Prize (age 36 and under); Young Artists Prize (age: 22 and under);

Touring Artists Prizes.Last competition: 3/89Write for details.

Joy in Singing Award (page 13)260 West 72nd St., #6D, attn: Paul Sperry, New York, NY 10023

TEXASIma Hogg National Young Artists Audition (insert page 18)Houston Symphony League, 615 Louisiana, Houston, TX 77002Annual; age limit: 19-27; fee $25Last competition: 6/89Eligibility: U.S. citizen or student studying in USPrizes: $5,000 &. performance; $2,500 <3c performance; $1,000

Tess Walters Vocal Competition (insert page 19)Austin Civic Orchestra, 4100 Ave. D, Austin, TX 78751Annual; no age limit; fee: $20Last competition: 2/89Prizes: $3,000 and appearance with the orchestra

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CANADAYoung Mozart Singers1 Competition (insert page 20)Canadian Opera Company, 227 Front St. East, Toronto, Ont. M5A 1E8; Irene Wronski,

Competition CoordinatorAge limit: under 31 as of 12/31/89; deadline: 8/30/89; competition: 12/8,9Auditions: Montreal 9/27, Toronto 10/3-5, Calgary 10/23; Vancouver 10/24; Halifax 10/27Required repertoire: Mozart and/or other late 18th-century composers; preferably operatic

selectionsPrizes: 1 male, 1 female; $5,000 total

FOREIGN COMPETITIONS

AUSTRIAInternationaler Belvedere Wettbewerb fur Opernsanger (page 21)Age limit: born after 12/31/52; deadline: 7/1/89; competitions (opera and operetta): 7/12-20

Internationaler Hugo Wolf Wettbewerb (insert page 21)Hochschule fiir Musik, Nikolongasse 2, A-8023 Graz, AustriaBiennial; age limit: 18-30Prizes (in AS): 45,000 total.

BELGIUMConcours International de Chant Lyrique de Verviers - Liege (page 21) (formerly

International Competition of Lyrical Singing)Deadline: 8/15/89; competition: 9/17-24/89Next competition: 9/20-25/91

Coneours Musical International Reine Elisabeth de Belgique (insert*)Next vocal competition: 6/92

BRAZILInternat ional S ing ing C o n t e s t of Rio di J a n e i r o ( page 22)Next deadline: 1/91; competition: 6/10-20/91

CHILEConcours International d'Execution Musicale "Dr. Luis Sigall" (page 22)Age limit: 17-32; deadline: 8/15/89; competition: 11/11-19/89Next vocal competition: 1994

FRANCEConcours International d'Ope'ra de Marseille (page 22)Competition: 9/10-16/89Prizes (in FFr): 100,000 total.

Concours International de Chant de la Ville de Toulouse (page 23)Deadline: 9/15/89; competition: 10/1-7/89Next competitions: 9/30-10/6/90; 9/29-10/5/91

Concours International de Chant de Paris (page 23)Next competition: 11/20-27/90

Concours International d1 Oratorio et de Lied (insert*)Competition: 10/11-15/89

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (EAST)International Robert Schumann Contest (page 23)Age limit: 32; last competition: 6/89Next competition: 1993

GERMANY, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF (WEST)ARD International Music Competition (page 23) (formerly Broadcasting Corporation of FRG

International Music Competition)Deadline: 7/1/89; competition: 9/6-23/89Next deadline: 6/90; competition: 9/5-16/90

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Neue Stimmen Competition (insert page 23)Bertelsmann Foundation, Moltkestrasse 10, D-4830 Giitersloh, GermanyAge limit: 30; deadline: 5/31/89; competition: 11/2-4/89Eligibility: must be European-born or -residentPrizes (in DM): 10,000; 5,000; 3,000Application forms also available at Generalintendanz, Bayerische Staatstheater,Maximilianstrasse 15, D-8000 Munich 22, Germany

GREAT BRITAINBP Peter Pears Award, International Singing Competition (insert page 23)43 Saint Dunstans Rd., London W6 8RE, EnglandAge limit: women 28, men 30 on date of finalsWrite for further information and repertoire list.Auditions: 10/5-11/89 in London; finals: 10/15/89Prizes: £5,000 & recital; £1,000.

English Song Award (insert page 23)44 New Road, Bryanston/Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 ODR, EnglandAnnualAge limit: 20-40; fee £20Prizes: £2,000 & Wigmore Hall recital; £1,500; £1,000; semifinalists, £100Write for details.

Maggie Teyte Prize Competition (insert page 24)9 Saint Alban's Grove, London W8 5PN, EnglandAnnual; for women onlyAge limit: 30; fee £10. Write for details.Prizes: £500 & concert

GREECEAthenaeum International Music Contest "Maria Callas" (page 25)Next competition: 3/15-21/91

HUNGARYConcours International de Musique de Budapest (page 25)Next competition: 9/2-15/90

ITALYConcorso Valentino Bucchi per Giovani Musicisti (page 25)Age limit: 35; deadline: 9/15/89; competition: 11/6-17/89

Concorso Internazionale Mercadante (insert page 26)Ufficio Culture del Comune di Altamura, 1-70022 Altamura (Bari)Annual; rotates w. instruments; next voice competition (art songs): 9/91Age limit: 35; fee: 25,000 lirePrizes (in lire): 5 million; 3 million; 2 million; and concerts

Concorso di Canto Mozart/Mozartean Singers' Contest (insert page 26)c/o CIDIM (CIM-Unesco), via Vittoria Colonna 18, 00193 RomeAn international competition in preparation for the Mozart Bicentennial in 1991.Age limit: born after 5/31/61; fee: $50.Deadline: 1/31/90; competition: 6/3-29/90 in Venice, Munich, Prague, Vienna, and Paris;

award ceremony: 7/6/90 RomeRequirements: completed application, birth certificate, photocopy of passport, resume,

programs and reviews if available, 2 photos (1 in costume if possible). Contestants mustbe available for the complete period 6/3-7/6/90 or any prize won will be forfeited. U.S.and Canadian singers may also require nomination by a designated North American companyunless residing in Europe, in which case they may apply directly. Write for finalinstructions.

Special repertory requirements.Travel and per diem expenses paid for all contestants passing the first round of competition.Prizes (in lire): ten of 10 million each, public concert; possible opera contracts.

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Concorso Polifonico Internazionale "Guido d'Arezzo" (insert page 26)Corso Italia 102, 1-52100 ArezzoAnnual; last competition: 8/88Age limit: 30Prizes (in lire): 2 million <5c concert; 1 million; 500,000

"Toti dal Monte" International Contest for Singers (page 26)1989 opera: Don Giovanni; competition to perform principal rolesAge limit: 32, except 38 for Don Giovanni, Leporello, CommendatoreDeadline: 6/12/89; competition: 6/26-7/2/89Specific repertoire requirements.

G.B. Viotti International Music Competition - Vereelli (page 27)Deadline: 9/25/89; competition: 10/2-31/89Next competitions: 10/90; 10/91

Concorso Internazionale per Voci Verdiane (page 27)A <5c M Ziliani, Piazza Verdi, 1-43011 Busseto (Parma)Next competitions: 6/11-19/90; 6/10-20/91

NETHERLANDS's-Hertogenbosch International Singing Competition (page 27)Deadline: 7/1/89; competition: 8/25-9/2/89Next competitions: 8/31-9/8/90; 8/30-9/7/91

SPAINInternational Voice Competition of BUbao (insert*)Next deadline: 10/1/90; competition: 11/30-12/8/90

Concurso Internacional de Ejecucion Musical Maria Canals de Barcelona (page 28)Competition: 3/19-4/3/90

Francisco Vifias International Singing Competition (page 28)Deadline: 10/89; competition: 11/10-20/89Next competitions: 11/90; 11/91

SWITZERLANDInternational Competition for Musical Performers (Geneva) (page 28)Next deadline: 1/91; competition: 9/1-14/91

TAIWANTaipei International Music Competition (insert page 28)Taipei City Symphony, 7F 25 Pa-Teh Rd. Sec. 3, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.Annual; last competition: 6/89Age l imit: women 20-30, men 20-32; fee: U.S. $100Prizes (in U.S.$): $10,000; $7,500; $5,000; $3,000

U.S.S.R.International Tchaikovsky Competition (page 28)Age limit: 18-34; deadline: 1/15/90; competition: 6/14-7/10/90

OPERA/MUSIC THEATER COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

ALASKAAnchorage Opera (page 31) — William F. Russell, Gen.Dir.

CALIFORNIAPocket Opera (page 33)25 Taylor St., STBS, San Francisco, CA 94102; (415) 346-2780; delete A. Rosenberg fromaddenda

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FLORIDAPensacola Opera (page 38) (formerly Pensacola Chamber Opera)(904) 432-8621; Ballard Dumper, Pres., Clifford Reims, Art.Dir.; delete H. Gruber

HAWAIIHawaii Opera Theatre (page 39) — Marshall W. Turkin, Gen.Dir.; delete R. Cribley & C.Nance

IDAHOBoise Opera (page 39) — George Watrous, Gen.Mgr.

IOWADes Moines Metro Opera (page 40) — Jerilee M. Mace, Mng.Dir., Robert L. Larsen, Art.Dir.

MARYLANDPrince George's Civic Opera (page 42) — (301) 864-7326

MASSACHUSETTSBoston Lyric Opera (page 42) — delete J. Balme

Opera Company of Boston (page 43)—Opera New England — Hugh Haffenreffer, Mgr., replaces C. Brooks

NEW JERSEYJune Opera Festival of New Jersey (page 43) — Deborah Sandier, Exec.Dir.

NEW MEXICOSanta Fe Opera (page 48)—Santa Fe Opera' Apprentice Artists Program — David Terry, Adm.Dir., replaces D. Rice

Deadline: 11/1/89; forms available 9/89Auditions: New York City 12/6,7,8,12,13/89; Boston 12/9; Chicago 12/9/89 <5c 1/5,6/90; Los

Angeles 12/9/89 & 1/8/90; Albuquerque 1/9/90

NEW YORKArtpark (page 46) (formerly Artpark/National Heritage Trust)David Midland, Exec.Dir., replaces J. Allison; delete C. Kcene

NEW YORK CITYMetropolitan Opera (page 50) — delete B. Crawford from addenda

Queens Opera (page 52) — delete K. Saffir (deceased)

OHIOOpera/Columbus (page 54) — John Gage, Gen.Dir., replaces M. Harrison

PENNSYLVANIAPennsylvania Opera Theater (page 56)1217 Sansom St., 6th floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107; (215) 440-9797

TENNESSEEChattanooga Symphony & Opera Association (page 57) (formerly Chattanooga Opera)630 Chestnut St., Chattanooga, TN 37402; Donald Andrews, Gen.Mgr., replaces A. Valentinein addenda

TEXASLyric Opera of Dallas (insert*) — Charlotte Schumacher, Acting Gen.Dir.

VIRGINIAAsh Lawn-Highland Summer Festival (page 60) (formerly Ash Lawn Summer Festival)Stephen Crout, Art.Dir., replaces D. Hargrave in addenda

WISCONSINFlorentine Opera of Milwaukee (page 61) — delete J. Gage

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Skylight Comic Opera (page 61) — Jane Keegan, Gen.Dir.; delete C. Cabot from addenda

CANADA

BRITISH COLUMBIAVancouver Opera (page 62) — Guus Mostart, Art.Dir., replaces B. McMaster

ONTARIOGuelph Spring Festival (page 63) (formerly Guelph Festival)William Lord, Art.Dir., replaces B. Bridgman in addenda; delete M. Shortreed from addenda

INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED TRAINING

MISSOURIUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City/Lyric Opera of Kansas City (insert page 64)University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, Center for the Performing Arts, 4949

Cherry St., Kansas City, MO 64110; Prof. Michael E. Johnson, Dir. OperaProgram: Master's or Doctor's degree; students have opportunities to receive training from

the company's Mid-America Opera Apprentice Program and to perform at the professionallevel.

Write for details.

NEW YORK CITYJuilliard Opera Center (page 65) (formerly Juilliard American Opera Center)Andrew Yarosh, Adm.Dir., Frank Corsaro, Art.Adv. & Resident Dir. []

Education (continued from page 32)COURSES FOR The annual seminar for "professional singers and those about to be,"SINGERS arranged by the PERFORMING ARTS ASSISTANCE CORPORATION, was

held in May at CAMI Hall. For future dates and fees contact JudithLiegner at Liegner Management, P.O. Box 884, New York, NY 10023;(212) 496-1515. — On April 30 the CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARYOPERA sponsored a master class by Phyllis Curtin at the Turtle BayMusic School. — We urge sponsoring organizations of such programs tonotify us with sufficient lead time so that we may publish this informationbefore the event.

SUMMER T h e Opera D e p a r t m e n t of FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY in T a l l a h a s s e eWORKSHOPS held a five-week Summer Training Institute in Florence, Italy. Assisted

by a grant from the Florida State Arts .Council, the university offeredcourses in May and June for twenty students, who took part in perfor-mances of Cimarosa's L'Impresario in angustie and Rossini's La Cambialedi matrimonio at the end of the Institute.

OBERLIN COLLEGE in Ohio is holding a Vocal Academy for High SchoolStudents, a one-week workshop for singer actors, from July 22 to 30. Inearly June Oberlin offered a one-week Vocal Institute of PerformancePedagogy. []

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NEW SETS AND COSTUMES FOR RENTThis compilation contains information obtained since the last listing in Vol. 29, No.l. Forexplanations of abbreviations and other usages, see page 2 of the COS publication, Directoryof Sets and Costumes for Rent. The complete Directory, including a 30-page addenda publishedin November 1988, may be ordered for $14.00 prepaid, postage included. The addenda may beordered separately for $6.00 prepaid.

BART, LIONELOliver! (s,c) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TX

BERNSTEIN, LEONARDWonderful Town (s) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TX

BIZET, GEORGESCarmen (s) Florentine Opera, Milwaukee, Wl (Graham '88) 48x55

BRITTEN, BENJAMINA Midsummer Night's Dream (s,c) Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, NY (Beck '87)

CALDWELL, MARY ELIZABETHA Gift of Song (s,c) composer; see address belowThe Night of the Star (s,c) composer; see address below

DONIZETTI, GAETANOAnna Bolena (s,c) Virginia Opera, Norfolk (Yeargan '89)Lucia di Lammermoor (s,e) Sacramento Opera, CA—delete from addenda

GIORDANO, UMBERTOAndrea Chenier (s,c) Portland Opera, OR 088)

LEHAR, FRANZDie lustige Witwe (s) Operetta Renaissance, Stevenson, MD

LLOYD WEBBER, ANDREWJesus Christ Superstar (s,c) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TX

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUSDon Giovanni (s,c) Portland Opera, OR (Klein '89)

OFFENBACH, JACQUESLes Contes d'Hoffmann (s,c) Portland Opera, OR ('85)

PUCCINI, GIACOMOLa Boheme (c) Sacramento Opera, CA—sets no longer available

ROMBERG, SIGMUNDThe Desert Song (s) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TXThe Student Prince (s) Operetta Renaissance, Stevenson, MD

SCHUMAN, WILLIAMThe Mighty Casey (s,c) Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, NY 089)A Question of Taste (s,c) Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, NY 089)

SHIRE, DAVIDBaby (s.c) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TX

SMETANA, BEDR1CHThe Bartered Bride (s,c) Sacramento Opera, CA (Simon '88)

SONDHEIM, STEPHENA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (c) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston

SOUSA, JOHN PHILIPEl Capitan (s) Operetta Renaissance, Stevenson, MD

STRAUSS, JOHANN, IIDie Fledermaus (s) Operetta Renaissance, Stevenson, MD

STYNE, JULEBells Are Ringing (s) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TX

SULLIVAN, ARTHURH.M.S.Pinafore (s) Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, NY 089)The Pirates of Penzance (s,c) Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, NY (Beck '87)

(s,c) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TXVERDI, GIUSEPPE

La Traviata (s) Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, NY 089)WALLER, FATS

Ain't Misbehavin' (s) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TXWARREN, HARRY

42nd Street (s) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TX(continued on page 59)

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NEW ENGLISH OPERA TRANSLATIONSThis compilation contains information obtained since the last listing in Vol. 29, No. 1. TheCOS publication, Directory of English Opera Translations, including a 22-page addenda publishedin November 1988, may be ordered for $12.50 prepaid, postage included. The addenda may beordered separately for $6.00 prepaid.

For items marked * see under "New and Changed Addresses" below.

BIZET, GEORGESDon Procopio Donald Pippin, Pocket Opera, San Francisco, CA

CHABRIER, EMMANUELL1 Education manquge Donald Pippin, Pocket Opera, San Francisco, CA

CIMAROSA, DOMENICOn Matrimonio segreto James Benner*

DVORAK, ANTONINRusalka Elfriede Mollon*

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERICPartenope Carol Palca & Stephen Wadsworth, Opera/Omaha, NE

OFFENBACH, JACQUESBa-Ta-Clan Adam Pollock, Skylight Comic Opera, Milwaukee, WlBarbe-bleue Donald Pippin, Pocket Opera, San Francisco, CAGenevieve de Brabant Rudolph Fellner* (adapt., as Ziggi)Le Mariage aux lanternes Donald Pippin, Pocket Opera, San Francisco, CA

OLIVER, STEPHENMario e il mago Stephen Oliver, Skylight Comic Opera, Milwaukee, WI

PERGOLESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTALa Serva padrona Judith Norell, Opera Antica, New York, NY

POULENC, FRANCISLe Gendarme incompris

Ibrahim Abdul-Malik it Marcel Chassagne, Opera Fbony, New York, NYRIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI

Christmas Eve (Noch pered Rozhdestvom)David Pountney, English National Opera, London

SCHOENBERG, ARNOLDPierrot lunaire Cecil Gray, Amici Ensemble, Toronto, Out.

STRAUSS, JOHANN, IIDie Fledermaus John Mortimer, Royal Opera Covenl Garden, London, England

SUPPE, FRANZ vonDie schone Galatea Donald Pippin, Pocket Opera, San Francisco, CA

TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILYICHIolanta Royal Conservatory of Music, Opera Dept., University of Toronto, Ont.

ZEMLINSKY, ALEXANDER vonDer Kreidekreis Michael Geliot, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory, OH

ZIMMERMANN, UDODie weisse Rose Stephen Wadsworth, Opera/Omaha, NE

New and Changed AddressesJames Benner, 421 Richwood Ave., Morgantown, WV 26505Rudolph Fellner, 1504 Denniston Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217Elfriede Mollon-Olson, 1902 Hidden Mesa Rd., El Cajon, CA 92019 []

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NEW ENGLISH CAPTIONS IN PROJECTIONThe titles listed here have been added to the COS directory, English Captions in Projection,since the last supplementary list published in the COS Bulletin, Vol. 29, No. 1. The completedirectory may be ordered for $5.00 prepaid, postage included.

BELLINI, VINCENZONorma

Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit (slides); 4/89 (DeRugeriis)La Straniera

Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Charleston, SC (slides); 6/89BERIO, LUCIANO

Un Re in ascoltoRoyal Opera Covent Garden, London (slides); 2/89

DONIZETTI, GAETANOLa Fille du regiment

Four Corners Productions, New York, NY (video/computer); 2/89 (Friedman)MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS

Don GiovanniNational Arts Centre Opera, Ottawa, Ont. (slides); 7/89 (English <5c French)

Le Nozze di FigaroNational Arts Centre Opera, Ottawa, Ont. (slides); 7/88 (English & French)

POULENC, FRANCISDialogues des Carmelites

Four Corners Productions, New York, NY (video/computer); 12/89 (Friedman)PUCCINI, GIACOMO

Madama ButterflyL'Ope>a de Montreal, P.Q. (slides); 9/88 (French & English)

VERDI, GIUSEPPEI Due Foscari

Opera Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont. (slides); 9/89n Trovatore

Four Corners Productions, New York, NY (video/computer); 9/89 (Friedman)

Changed AddressFour Corners Productions, 73 Spring St., 2nd floor, New York, NY 10012 []

Sets and Costumes (continued from page 57)WILSON, SANDY

The Boy Friend (c) Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TX

AddressMary Elizabeth Caldwell, 474 South Arroyo Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105

Scenery and Costume ShopsPORTLAND OPERA in Oregon and the VIRGINIA OPERA in Norfolk maintain scenic studiosand costume shops which are available for outside work. In Oregon, contact the company'sProduction Manager Paul Zadoff, Portland Opera, 1516 Southwest Alder St., Portland, OR97205; in Virginia, Production Manager George Glander, Virginia Opera, P.O. Box 625,Norfolk, VA 23501.

We regret to report that KRAUSE COSTUME COMPANY in Cleveland has had to close itsoperation after 122 years in the costume business. A fire on May 15 totally destroyed allthe company's property. Please delete the appropriate entries from the Directory andaddenda. []

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COMPOSERS Until now, little study has been given to Lully's thirteen tragedies lyriques,AND THEIR spectacles which incorporate singing, ballet, and drama, and which enjoyedWORKS great popularity during the reign of Louis XIV. Joyce Newman's JEAN-

BAPTISTE DE LULLY AND HIS TRAGEDIES LYRIQUES, a dissertationpublished by U.M.I. Research Press, examines the way in which the com-poser's extensive use of recitative goes beyond convention as the preludeto an aria, or as musical filler, to become an integral part of the opera'sdramatic structure. The author devotes several chapters to Lully's partici-pation in the cultural life of the era and to the political factors whichcontributed to the evolution of the tragedies lyriques at court, and pro-vides a musical and dramatic analysis of these works, including Atys andPersie, whose narratives were borrowed from Greek myth. Happily, U.M.I,now publishes in softcover, and the 266-page book, which includes musicalexamples, a bibliography, and an index, is reasonably priced at $14.95.

HANDEL, HAYDN, AND THE VIENNESE CLASSICAL STYLE by Jens PeterLarsen is a compendium of 25 essays, 17 of which appear for the firsttime in English, spanning the length of the great musicologist's careerfrom his earliest publications in the 1920s to work completed in the early1980s. In the Handel essays, Larsen discusses the differences betweenthe operas and the oratorios in both style and performance practice, anddevotes several chapters to the Messiah. The Haydn articles includematerial on the dating and authenticity of the composer's works, on hisartistic development, and on the question of his relationship to Mozart.The eight remaining essays explore varied topics concerning the sourcesand evolution of the Viennese Classical tradition. The 332-page indexedbook, translated by Ulrich Kramer, is priced at $49.95.

In THE REAL WAGNER, yet another study of the composer's thoughtsand deeds, author Rudolph Sabor attempts to prune the "mixed garlandof laurel and poison ivy" that characterizes the subject's reputation. Thebook is divided into two equal halves, the first exploring his early life,the second providing examples of the myriad contradictions which informedhis personality. Here, biographical continuity is disregarded in favor ofselected topics on what is now familiar material—Wagner and women,Wagner and his creditors, and so on. The final chapter comprises a seriesof quotations from the composer's friends, enemies, and critics focusingon the man and his music. Wolfgang Wagner has written the introductionto the 312-page book, published by Andre Deutsch Ltd. and distributedin the United States by David <5c Charles, Vermont. It contains illustrations,a bibliography, and an index, and is priced at $39.95.

Treves Publishing Company has added two recent entries in its admirablePortraits in Greatness series, the first English-language treatments of thelives and works of both GIORDANO and RESPIGHI. Splendid illustrationsenhance the concise 63-page text of Pierluigi Alvera's book on UmbertoGiordano, a composer whose many works, with the exception of AndreaCh4nier and Fedora, are largely unknown to today's audiences. Each ofthe operas, including the ones which were censored for their sordid libret-t i , receives its own section and is briefly surveyed within the context ofthe verismo style. — The same author's volume on Ottorino Respighifocuses on the composer's return to the preclassical tradition of Montever-di, Corelli, Vivaldi, and Stradella, as well as his contribution to therevival of symphonic music in Italy after World War I. Fascinating produc-tion photos from his ballets and operas, as well as those of the composerand his family, f i l l out the 79-page text. Each book is available in eitherEnglish or Italian and is priced at $17.50 in hardcover, $12.50 in softcover.

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The Fondazione Rossini of Pesaro, Italy has published Philip Gossett's164-page study of the history of THE TRAGIC FINALE OF ROSSINI'STANCREDI, only recently rediscovered by the noted scholar. Workingwithin the conventions of the bel canto era, Rossini often wrote morethan one version of a particular opera to meet his singers' demands fora bigger role or more elaborate music. For Tancredi's performances inFerrara during Lent 1813, the composer introduced a tragic finale witha new libretto written by Luigi Lechi, substituting it for Gaetano Rossi'shappy ending as performed at the opera's Venetian premiere in February.The author investigates the reasons for its composition and explains howits stark, unembellished music and poetic text retain more of the sensibilityof Voltaire's original tragedy and represent a radical change in the con-ventions of the period. Photos and musical examples are included in thebook, half of which consists of the original English text and the otherhalf of an Italian translation. It is published in softcover and availablefrom the Foundation for 3000 lire (approximately $21.00).

Richard Langham Smith has translated and edited DEBUSSY ON MUSIC: COMPOSERSTHE CRITICAL WRITINGS OF THE GREAT FRENCH COMPOSER, selected AS AUTHORSand introduced by Francois Lesure. Debussy aired his often controversialviews in such magazines as La Revue Blanche and Gil Bias and, like hismusic, his deceptively simple prose contains a vivid spectrum of colorsand nuances poetically rendered, as when he likens a song by Grieg tothe taste of "a rose-colored sweet coated in snow." Although the articlescan be savored merely for descriptive passages such as these, or for thewit and bite of the pieces published under the name of "M. Croche,"many are important and often startling in their modern sensibility, as inDebussy's concept of music especially composed for open air performance.Even at its most patronizing, his criticism betrays his essentiallycompassionate and gentle nature. The 353-page softcover book, a CornellUniversity Press reprint of a 1977 Alfred A. Knopf hardback edition,includes a biographical guide to individuals mentioned in the text, as wellas an index, and is priced at $12.95.

In the latest of his many books, SETTLING THE SCORE: ESSAYS ONMUSIC, composer Ned Rorem voices his often unconventional and occa-sionally outrageous opinions on the music of the past, present, and futurein wide-ranging essays written between 1959 and the present. Alternatelypraising and/or bashing the performances of such popular artists as theBeatles, Ella Fitzgerald, and Barbra Streisand, he never fails to elicit astrong emotional response from the reader, or at the very least, makeone rethink one's stance about the subject or subjects at hand. Aboveall, it is the intimacy of the writing—the way in which he incorporateshis memories, emotions, and sensibilities into his musical commentary—thatgives these articles, including some on modern composers such as GeorgeGershwin, Richard Strauss, and John Cage, his personal stamp. The 366-page book, which includes an index, is published by Harcourt BraceJovanovich and sells for $27.95.

In the autobiography LISTENING OUT LOUD: BECOMING A COMPOSER,Elizabeth Swados gives us the inside story on what it takes to make it inthe music world. We glimpse moments from her childhood, share in herlater relationships with mentors in the field, benefit from her advice onvarious approaches to writing, making contacts, and surviving both finan-cially and emotionally. She speaks as friend to friend in a style which isin keeping with the street-wise quality of her compositions. The 208-page indexed Harper & Row publication, the fourth in the publisher'sSeries on the Professions, is priced at $17.95.

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David & Char les , Inc. , North Pomf re t , Vermont , is now the d is t r i bu to r inthe Uni ted States of D A L L A P I C C O L A ON OPERA, ed i ted by Rudy Shacke l -f o rd and rev iewed in Vo l . 28, No. 4. Its pr ice is $17.95 in paperback or$34.95 in hardcover , plus $2.00 postage and handl ing.

CONDUCTORS E l l i o t t W. Galk in 's A HISTORY OF ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING INAND THEORY AND PRACTICE is a la rge , thoroughly researched volume onCONDUCTING the evo lu t ion of o rches t ra l conduc t ing , t r aced f rom or ig ina l source

mater ia ls concern ing i ts development and inc lud ing theor ies by musico lo-g is ts , teachers , and the conductors themselves. Per iod i l l us t ra t i ons anddiagrams lend support to the au thor ' s ex t rao rd ina ry analysis of the changingrole of the conductor, the history and functions of time-beating—theanalytical interpretation as well as the stick technique—while the closingchapters are devoted to a study of the methods of legendary conductorsof the past, including Berlioz, Wagner, and Mahler, as well as Toscanini,Furtwangler, Karajan, Bernstein, and others whose methods and perfor-mance practices have forever altered the concept of the conductor inour own century. As valuable to the professional as it is fascinating tothe interested layman, the 893-page Pendragon Press book contains photos,musical examples, appendices, notes, a bibliography, and an index, and ispriced at $96.00.

Pierre Boulez has written the preface to KLEMPERER ON MUSIC:SHAVINGS FROM A MUSICIAN'S WORKBENCH edited by Martin Anderson,a collection of brief essays penned by the famed conductor between 1906and 1971, and intended for a wide range of audiences. In them he recallshis boyhood and early career, reveals his views on the music scene, andpays tribute to both contemporary artists and musicians of the past.Strewn through the book's 246 pages are many striking portraits, busts,and sketches of Klemperer by artists of his era. An index and a completecatalogue of Klemperer's musical compositions are included in this ToccataPress publication, which is distributed in the United States by David <5cCharles, Vermont, and priced at $13.95.

A SINGER'S Scott Ehrlich's PAUL ROBESON: SINGER AND ACTOR is a tribute toLIFE this famed artist, prizewinning athlete, Columbia law graduate, and cham-

pion of human rights, who overcame great obstacles of racial prejudiceonly to suffer again for his outspoken political views. This book, writtenfor young adults, tells the story of Robeson and the political and culturalclimate of his time in both words and pictures, and includes a biographicalchronology and a helpful selective bibliography compiled for its particularreaders. Coretta Scott King has written the introduction to the 111-page softcover book, published by Chelsea House Publishers in its BlackAmericans of Achievement series. It sells for $9.95.

FOR SINGERS Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's ROBERT SCHUMANN: WORDS AND MUSIC waswell received when it first appeared in Germany in 1981. Now AmadeusPress in Portland, Oregon has published the book in a handsome newedition, translated by Reinhard G. Pauly. The great singer discussesSchumann's complete vocal works, including not only his immortal songsbut also his only opera Genoveva, the Scenes from Goethe's Faust, theincidental music to Manfred, and the Mass and Requiem, all of which areexamined within the context of the composer's literary and musical career,as well as his troubled emotional l ife. Biographies of the famous andforgotten poets who supplied the words to his music are published assidebars throughout the text. At its best, the book allows the reader tograsp its author's creative process from his knowledgeable and moving

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description of a particular song, and his affinity for its union of musicaland poetic imagery. Illustrations, musical examples, notes, a bibliographyand several indices are included in the 231-page volume, valuable forboth singers and recital audiences, priced at $28.95.

A modern-day audience may have difficulty warming to the sentimentalityexpressed in the Italian art songs of Puccini, Respighi, Casella,Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and others, unless the performer himself can appre-ciate the beauty and often childlike simplicity of their poetry. To thisend, Ruth Lakeway and Robert C. White, Jr. have written ITALIAN ARTSONG, a 339-page Indiana University Press publication containing theItalian texts of over 200 songs, complete with markings for pronunciationand line-by-line English translations, as well as explanatory notes whichaid the singer in understanding the song's message and conveying itsessential meaning. Information on the development of this kind of music,including biographies of nine composers, is provided in the introductionand subsequent chapters devoted to the works of both famed and l i t t le-known contributors to this once-popular genre. Musical examples, a biblio-graphy, and an index of first lines supplement the book, priced at $27.50.

'n the latter part of the sixteenth century, the Florentine Camerata's MUSICstudies of the music, drama, science, and philosophy of ancient Greece HISTORYgreatly influenced the emergence of the operatic form in Italy, as witnessedby Caccini's dedicating the score of L'Euridice to the group's leader,Count Giovanni Bardi. Claude V. Palisca's THE FLORENTINE CAMERATA:DOCUMENTARY STUDIES AND TRANSLATIONS includes a number of pre-viously undiscovered writings, reprinted both in the original Latin orItalian and in English translation. Vincenzo Galilei's three scientificessays on musical acoustics, matters of tuning, and the division of theoctave, Bardi's "Discourse Addressed to Giulio Caccini. . .on AncientMusic and Good Singing", and other documents provide important informa-tion on the sources of the aesthetics of seventeenth-century music theater.This book is an essential tool for anyone involved in the study or perfor-mance of the works of Peri, Monteverdi, and their contemporaries. The234-page Yale University Press publication includes illustrations, musicalexamples, and an index, and sells for $28.50.

DISCORD: CONFLICT AND THE MAKING OF MUSIC by Norman Lebrechtis a lively survey of the monumental feuds, including some which actuallyled to the demise of one or more antagonists, that make musical historyso fascinating. As is to be expected, Wagner is entitled to and receivesa few chapters of his own, but the book certainly proves that he wasnot the only talented individual who could behave badly. Well-knownbattles, often over mere trivialities, between Gilbert and Sullivan, Beechamand Toscanini, and Melba and her soprano rivals are recounted, as areless publicized bouts between equally famous personalities. Yet conflictin music is certainly not all frivolity or tabloid news, as the authorreveals in examples of clashes caused by artistic integrity, deeply heldconvictions, or the political climate, as in numerous tragic stories of thepersecution of composers under Hitler and Stalin. The illustrated 272-page book, published by Universe, includes a bibliography and an index,and sells for $25.00.

A reference book for collectors and historians, HIS MASTER'S VOICE/LA DISCOG-VOCE DEL PADRONE: THE ITALIAN CATALOGUE, compiled by Alan RAPHIESKelly, lists the Italian recordings published between 1898 and 1929 bythe Gramophone Company—then the European, Asian, and African partner

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of the Victor Talking Machine Company, and now EMI Ltd. Entries arearranged by original catalogue numbers, and most include the recordingdate, the matrix number in its correct form, the name of the artist(s)involved including accompanist when known, and alternate issue numbers.An introduction traces the rather complicated story of the GramophoneCompany's history. The same author's previous, pioneering discographyof the same material, published in England by Oakwood Press, is nowsuperseded. This 462-page indexed Greenwood Press Discography, No. 30in the series, sells for $65.00.

Greenwood Discography No. 28, BROADWAY ON RECORD: A DIRECTORYOF NEW YORK CAST RECORDINGS OF MUSICAL SHOWS, 1931-1986,compiled by Richard Chigley Lynch, is a source of information on 459original cast recordings, including revival productions, beginning with 1 heBand Wagon in 1931 and ending with Me and My Girl in 1986. Entriesare arranged alphabetically by show title and include basic informationabout the work, including the composer, lyricist, and author, the premieredate and theater, and a list of the songs, as well as discographic dataincluding the recording's cast—but only a single catalogue number and norecording dates. Several indices provide easy access to the materialcontained in this 347-page reference work, which sells for $37.95.

REFERENCE Baerenreiter-Verlag has announced the publication of a boxed paperbackBOOKS edition of DIE MUSIK IN GESCHICHTE UND GEGENWART for October

1989. The great German music encyclopedia, edited by Friedrich Blume,is in seventeen volumes, and was originally published from 1949 to 1973.A special price of $475.00, including shipping, is being offered throughthe end of 1989 by the firm's North American agent, Foreign Music Distri-butors (see "Music Publishers" for address). Thereafter the paperboundMGG, as it is generally called, will be priced at $595.00 plus shipping.

Also in German is Heinz Wagner's DAS GROSSE HANDBUCH DER OPER,a concise and extremely useful guide to nearly 1,400 operas of all periodsand nations. The composers appear in alphabetical order, and their workschronologically by the premiere date; each entry includes the name ofthe librettist(s), the city and year of the premiere, the tit le in Germanand the original language, a full cast list, and a plot summary. Themajor composers' operas are all here, as well as some of their oratoriosand incidental music; operettas are excluded, even classic works like DieFledermaus. Some of the more obscure and/or recent European composersare represented by several works, but a non-German reader might objectto some omissions—only the best-known Americans are listed, for example,and usually with a rather small selection of their works (only Akhnatenfor Philip Glass). Different versions of a work, such as Shostakovich'sLady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Katerina Ismailova, are not identified. Theindexed 640-page book, published by Florian Noetzel Verlag of Wilhelms-haven, Germany, is priced at DM 78 (approximately $40.00).

Is your library crying out for a book with the stories of The Nautch Girl,Hans, Le Joueur de Fldte, and Frasquita'! In 1353 pages, GANZL'S BOOKOF THE MUSICAL THEATRE by Kurt Ganzl and Andrew Lamb will giveyou all this and more in its blow-by-blow accounts of these little-knowngems, along with evergreens like Iolanthe, The Merry Widow, newer favo-rites including How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, andnearly 300 more operettas, burlesques, operas-comiques, zarzuelas, musi-cals, and everything in between, written during the last 125 years. Theoften incomprehensible twists and turns of their plots are introduced by

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chapters on the history of the light opera and the musical in England,France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Hungary, and the United States.Obviously the book is not intended as a guide to performance practiceor style, but the cast lists would have been more informative and usefulif each role's category and voice type had been included. This SchirmerBooks publication includes photographs, a discography, a bibliography, andseveral indices, and is priced at $75.00.

New additions to Greenwood Press's Bio-Bibliography series include RobertFollet's ALBERT ROUSSEL (134 pages, $35.95), Carolyn J. Smith'sWILLIAM WALTON (246 pages, $39.95), and Kenneth Kreitner's ROBERTWARD (173 pages, $35.95). These research books have a standard format,including a short biography of the composer, listings of vocal and instru-mental works with their first performances, a discography, and a biblio-graphy of writings by and about the composer, in addition to specialappendices, where appropriate, and cross-referenced indexes.

The College Music Society has published the 1988-90 edition of theDIRECTORY OF MUSIC FACULTIES IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES,U.S. AND CANADA. The ever-growing listings, arranged by states andinstitutions, are cross-referenced by the names of faculty members in afull index and also in special indexes by teaching specialty. The paperboundguide consists of 711 pages and is available for $35.00 including postage($15 for members of the society).

The third edition of THE NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF ARTS AND EDUCA-TION SUPPORT BY BUSINESS CORPORATIONS is now available for $75.00,postage included, from The Washington International Arts Letter, P.O.Box12010, Des Moines, IA 50312.

In a new venture, Theatre Communications Group is collaborating withUbu Repertory Theatre and Amsterdam's International Theatre Bookshopin the distribution of their publications. TCG's books of plays and musicals(text only), as well as those about playwrights, are all available in paperand some also in cloth. Among the new publications of musicals is LeeBreuer's THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS (paper, $7.95), and the new bookson playwrights include Laurence Shyer's ROBERT WILSON AND HIS COL-LABORATORS (cloth, $27.50; paper, $14.95). THEATRE PROFILES 8,covering TCG member companies' activities in the 1986-87 season, isavailable for $18.95 (paper only). Postage and handling must be added toall prices. For further information contact TCG, 355 Lexington Ave.,New York, NY 10017.

MMB Music, Inc. (formerly MagnaMusic-Baton) has published two booksdescribing and discussing musical intruments for the disabled. The GUIDETO THE SELECTION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WITH RESPECT TOPHYSICAL ABILITY AND DISABILITY will assist therapists to teach thedisabled to play musical instruments; the price is $10.75. The secondbook, CLINICALLY ADAPTED INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MULTIPLY HANDI-CAPPED, priced at $14.50, features illustrations of over 100 adapted ororiginal instruments. Both prices include postage and handling; both booksmay be ordered from MMB Music, 10370 Page Industrial Blvd., St. Louis,MO 63132. (Information courtesy of the Center for Safety in the Arts.)

David Stivender's MASCAGNI, reviewed in Vol. 29, No. 1, is publishedand distributed in the United States by Pro/Am Music Resources, Inc.,63 Prospect Street, White Plains, NY 10606; telephone (914) 948-7436.Kahn & Averill Ltd. are the English distributers of the book. []

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OPERA HAS LOST. . .Composer YASUSHI AKUTAGAWA, Japanese, 63 years old, in Tokyo,Winter 1988. A son of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the author of Rashomon,he studied composition and conducting in Tokyo from 1943 to 1949.Regarded as one of the country's leading contemporary composers, hewas also active in organizing and conducting groups devoted to the causeof Japanese music. He wrote a large number of symphonic works, balletsand film scores, as well as two operas, Dark Mirror (1960) and Orpheusin Hiroshima (Tokyo television, 1970), both of which concern the tragicevents of the Second World War.

Director, conductor, writer, and musicologist DENNIS ARUNDELL, O.B.E.,British, 90 years old, in London 12/10/88. An artist of myriad talents,he began directing opera while studying music at Cambridge University,supervising the premiere of Cyril Rootham's Two Sisters in 1922 and thefirst staged performance of Handel's Semele in 1925. He later earned areputation as a Purcell specialist, publishing both a biography of thecomposer (Henry Purcell, 1927) and an edition of King Arthur, and mountinga 1927 performance of The Fairy Queen in Hyde Park, which he alsoconducted. During the 1930s, he composed incidental music and actedfor the Old Vic, but returned to opera after the war as a translator ofsuch works as H&ry Janos, Schwanda the Bagpiper, From the House ofthe Dead, and Les Contes d'Hoffmann, the last-mentioned for MichaelPowell's 1948 film. He was also active as a director for Sadler's Wells,the Finnish National Theatre and Opera, the Australian Opera, and othercompanies, staging works including the first British performance of Kat'aKabanovd (1951), and the premieres of John Lloyd's John Socman (1951)in Bristol, Delius' Irmelin (1953) under Thomas Beecham at Oxford, andElizabeth Maconchy's Sofa (1967) at the Camden Festival in London. Hehimself composed two operas, The Ghost of Abel and A Midsummer Night'sDream. Among his numerous articles and books are also Dryden andHoward (1929), The Critic at the Opera (1957) and The Story of Sadler'sWells (1965). He was in charge of the Royal College of Music from 1959until 1973, and also lectured at other institutions, including the Societyof Theatre Research and the Purcell Society.

Producer RICHARD BARR, American, 71 years old, in New York City1/9/89. He got his start with John Houseman and Orson Welles' MercuryTheater and in the 1950s directed a triple bill on Broadway which includedBernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. During the 1960s he continued to supportthe works of fledgling dramatists, including Sam Shepherd and LanfordWilson, when he founded the Playwrights Unit with Thornton Wilder andEdward Albee. He produced plays by Beckett, Ionesco, and Albee throughthe 1970s, and in 1979 produced the premiere of Sondheim's SweeneyTodd. For the past 21 years he served as the head of the League ofAmerican Theaters and Producers, the organization which administers theTony Awards in conjunction with the American Theater Wing. He wasalso the founder of the Theater Development Fund.

Arts administrator RALPH BLACK, American, 69 years old, in Bethesda,Maryland 2/13/89. An admired, respected, and influential arts advocate,he was an orchestra manager for over forty years, working for theorchestras in Chattanooga, Buffalo, Baltimore and Washington, before hisappointment as Executive Director of the American Symphony OrchestraLeague, a post he held from 1973 to 1981. After that he was one ofthe League's Vice Presidents, each year crisscrossing the country toconsult with member orchestras on development, budget, management and

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other matters while offering practical advice in his well-known "BlackKeys" column in the ASOL magazine, Symphony. He was also a foundingmember of the Association of American Dance Companies. On May 19,a tribute to his memory was held at the offices of the American SymphonyOrchestra League.

Arts educator and advocate KATHRYN BLOOM, American, 69 years old,in Michigan 11/23/88. As Director of the Arts and Humanities Branchof the U.S. Office of Education during the 1950s, she administered fundsfor the support of new arts organizations as well as arts education. Shelater headed the arts education division of the John D. Rockefeller IIIFund, the organization which commissioned the University City projectand the Pennsylvania experiments and other studies, now considered pivotalin the philosophy of arts education. Her energetic support and thoroughunderstanding of the activities of state and community arts councilscontributed significantly to the formation of policy in the original NEAlegislation regarding these organizations.

Director and actor LEE CALDER, American, 40 years old, in New YorkCity 2/89. The casting director at Theatre Communications Group from1978 to 1982, he acted in regional theater and taught at his own actingstudio as well as at several other training organizations. In the pastyear he acted with the AIDS Theatre Project.

Producer RICHMOND CRINKLEY, American, 49 years old, in Virginia 1/89.The founder and producer of the Folger Theatre Group (now theShakespeare Theater at the Folger) from 1969 to 1973, he also served asan assistant to Roger L. Stevens at the Kennedy Center. After his moveto New York in 1976, he produced several Broadway plays includingTintypes before his appointment as executive director of the VivianBeaumont Theater in 1980. Several unsuccessful productions promptedhim to close the theater and to propose changes in the design of theauditorium, which however were never realized.

Director MORTON DA COSTA (n€ Tecosky), American, 74 years old, inWest Redding, Connecticut 1/29/89. A well-known film and stage directorduring the 1950s and 1960s, he counted among his numerous Broadwaycredits the 1954 premiere of the musical Plain and Fancy and the 1957stage and 1962 screen versions of The Music Man.

Artist and designer SALVADOR DALI, Spanish, 84 years old, in Figueras,Spain 1/23/89. A universally recognized name in the world of art foralmost half a century, the surrealist painter's projects were oftencharacterized by their flamboyant and often vulgar theatricality. He wasa major figure in the Surrealist group of painters and poets in Paris inthe 1920s and 30s, when both his dreamlike paintings and brutal yetwhimsical films, made in conjunction with Luis Bufiuel, gained notorietyfor their Freudian iconography and anti-Catholicism. He became involvedwith theater, ballet, and film design when he lived in New York duringthe war, and later created productions for Peter Brook's staging of Salomeat Covent Garden (1949) and The Spanish Lady and the Roman Cavalier(1961), an adaptation of Alessandro Scarlatti's comic intermezzo forScipione nella Spagna, at La Fenice in Venice.

Novelist DAPHNE du MAURIER, British, 81 years old, in Par, Cornwall4/19/89. Her grandfather, the illustrator and novelist George du Maurier,wrote Peter Ibbetson and the astoundingly successful Trilby, both of which

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have received operatic treatments. Author of such works as Jamaica Inn(1939), My Cousin Rachel (1953) and the short story "The Birds," hername became a household word after the publication of Rebecca (1938),an artful updating of the traditional Gothic novel. The book was thebasis for Wilfred Joseph's opera of the same t i t le, with a libretto byEdward Marsh, premiered in Leeds in 1983.

Choreographer and director RON FIELD, American, 55 years old, in NewYork City 2/6/89. A former dancer, he won Tony awards for his directionand choreography of Applause (1970) and the 1987 revival of Cabaret.In addition to his work on numerous musicals, including revivals of Onthe Town and Peter Pan, he created dances for the film New York, NewYork as well as New York City Opera's 1976 production of Tal's Ashmedai,directed by Harold Prince. In 1984 he conceived and staged the openingceremonies at the Los Angeles Olympics.

Arts patron MICHAEL V. FORRESTAL, American, 61 years old, in NewYork City 1/11/89. A longtime patron of the Metropolitan Opera, hebecame a director of the Association in 1961 and was chairman of theExecutive Committee from 1986 until his death. He was also involved inthe activities of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, serving as its presidentfrom 1967 to 1971 and as chairman of the board from 1971 to 1977. Alawyer and expert in international trade and finance, he began his politicalcareer after World War II and went on to hold important posts in theTruman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations, including a seaton the senior staff of the National Security Counsel under McGeorgeBundy (1962-65) and, most recently, the presidency of the U.S.-U.S.S.R.Trade and Economic Council (1978-80).

Musicologist KARL GEIRINGER, Austrian/American, 89 years old, in SantaBarbara, California 1/10/89. The author of many landmark books onmusic, he began his life's work while a student at the University ofVienna, writing a dissertation on musical iconography in Renaissancepaintings which was republished as recently as 1979. Brahms: His Lifeand Works (1936) draws on original source material gleaned from theholdings of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, where as its curator hemade significant discoveries concerning the composer's career,compositions, and personal l ife. He also discovered over 35 previouslyunknown songs by Hugo Wolf. After a short period in 1938 as a teacherat London's Royal Conservatory, he settled in the United States, teachingbriefly at Hamilton College in New York, then at Boston University, wherehe remained for the next 21 years, and from 1962 at the University ofCalifornia at Santa Barbara, where he was named Professor Emeritus in1973. It was in the United States that he wrote some of his mostimportant works, including Haydn: A Creative Life in Music (1946), TheBach Family: Seven Generations of Creative Genius with a companionmusic anthology (1954), and Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination ofAn Era (1966), co-authored with his first wife, Irene. He also prepareda singing translation of Haydn's La Cantarina and an edition of Gluck'sTelemaco. He was still engaged in active teaching at the time of hisdeath. He was twice president of the American Musicological Societyand was elected in 1959 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Bass-baritone PETER HARROWER, American, in Atlanta 4/21/88. Hesang with various regional opera companies in works, among others, byBernstein, Menotti, and Shostakovich, including the 1965 Americanpremiere of The Nose at Santa Fe Opera.

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Writer KURT HONOLKA, German, 75 years old, in Germany 10/88. Amusic critic and translator with special expertise in Slavic repertory, hebegan his career at the Prager Tagblatt in 1937. From 1949 to 1963, hewas chief music critic for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and contributedregularly to Opernwelt.

Composer KAREL HORKY, Czech, 79 years old, in Brno 11/27/88. Afterstudying in Prague, he played bassoon with the Brno Opera from 1931until the mid 1950s while pursuing a career as a composer, most notablyof ballet and operas. These included Jan Hus (1950), Hejtman Sarovec(1953), Jed z Elsinoru [Poison from Elsinore] (1969), Dawn (1974) andAtlantis (1984). A founding member of the Union of Czech Composersand Concert Artists and a faculty member at the Brno Conservatory, heserved as its director since 1964. One of his country's leadingcontemporary musicians, he was awarded the title Artist of Merit and in1984 received the Order of Labor.

Music publisher EDWIN F. KALMUS, Austrian/American, 95 years old, inNew York 4/30/89. He came to the United States from Vienna as a youngman, and in 1926 founded the music publishing firm of Edwin F. Kalmus,Inc., which he headed until his retirement some years ago. One of themajor publishers of orchestral and vocal music, the company continuesunder the ownership and operation of the Kalmus family.

Costume designer and teacher BARBARA KAY, American, 53 years old,in Cincinnati 3/13/89. She served as assistant professor of opera, musicaltheater and drama, and resident costume designer at the University ofCincinnati College-Conservatory of Music since 1982, and also designedfor the Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati Opera's ECCO! as well as severalcommunity theaters and colleges. Her costumes for the Conservatory's1986 production of The Love for Three Oranges were awarded first prizeby the Ohio branch of the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology.

Baritone ROBERT KERNS, American, 56 years old, in Vienna 2/89. Hestudied with Mario del Monaco and first sang with American companies,including the New York City Opera, in 1959 and 1960. In 1960 he madehis European debut at Spoleto and shortly after settled in Europe,performing lyric roles with major companies including the Vienna StateOpera and the Paris Ope>a. He subsequently appeared in the dramaticbaritone repertory, including Scarpia and Rigoletto, with the ViennaVolksoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and San Francisco Opera. His Wagnerianroles included Amfortas, Wolfram, and Donner, which he sang under Karajanat the Salzburg Easter Festival. He also sang at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence and made guest appearances at Covent Garden, where hewas a notable Billy Budd in addition to Count Almaviva and Guglielmo.

Playwright and novelist JAMES KIRKWOOD, American, 64 years old, inNew York City 4/21/89. The author of numerous novels and plays includingP.S. Your Cat is Dead (1975) and Legends (1986), which starred MaryMartin and Carol Channing, his book for the musical A Chorus Line, co-authored with Nicholas Dante, earned him a Drama Critics Circle Awardin 1974 and both a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize in 1976. A successfulfilm and stage actor, he began his Broadway career in musicals such asWonderful Town and Panama Hattie, and in recent years he toured witha nightclub comedy act which he wrote and performed with Lee Goodman.

Soprano ERIKA KOTH, Austrian, 61 years old, in Speyer, Austria 2/21/89.Her light, silvery voice and superior musicianship were internationally

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renowned and are further evidenced in her recordings. She made herdebut at the age of 21 at Kaiserslautern and sang principal roles inKarlsruhe before becoming a member of the Bavarian State Opera in 1953and the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1961. It was at this time that she beganan international career which lasted into the 1970s. She appeared atmajor European houses and festivals, including Covent Garden, La Scala,the Rome Opera, the Salzburg Festival, and the Maggio MusicaleFiorentino, and in the United States with the Hollywood Bowl Symphonyand the Washington Opera; in 1961 she made appearances in Leningrad.She had a large repertory and was particularly admired as the Queen ofthe Night, Constanze, Zerbinetta, and Fiakermilli, and in other Mozartand Strauss roles; she also sang the forest bird at Bayreuth from 1965to 1968. In 1956 she was named Kammersangerin in Munich, receivingthe same distinction in Berlin in 1970. She later taught at the musicacademy in Cologne.

Comedienne BEATRICE LILLIE (Lady Peele), British, 94 years old, inHenley-on-Thames, England 1/20/89. A unique performer who punctuatedher comedic delivery with high kicks and antic facial expressions, sheenjoyed celebrity status from the 1920s on, performing in numerous revuesby Noel Coward and other composers in both England and the UnitedStates. Later, she was seen on both stage and screen in full-length worksincluding her solo show An Evening with Beatrice Lillie (1952), HighSpirits— the musical version of Coward's Blithe Spirit— and the moviemusical Thoroughly Modern Millie (1966), her last appearance.

Mezzo soprano STEFANIA MALAGU, Italian, 56 years old, 1/16/89. Shesang leading roles at La Scala, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and otherhouses and festivals during the 1960s. More recently she performedcharacter and comprimaria parts, including Berta in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's1974 film of II Barbiere di Siviglia.

Conductor and coach RANDOLPH MAULDIN, American, 37 years old, inFalls Church, Virginia 4/16/89. He served as the Washington Opera'sprincipal coach and resident conductor from 1980 and also worked forregional companies including the Michigan Opera Theatre. A conductorof Broadway shows, he toured with several productions including SweeneyTodd and Evita. In 1983 he conducted the Australian premiere of Porgyand Bess at the Festival of Three Worlds in Melbourne.

Writer MASSIMO MILA, Italian, 78 years old, in Turin 12/26/88. A musiccritic for several Italian national papers and a teacher of music historyat the University of Turin for almost 30 years, he was also the authorof several books including A Brief History of Music, The Art of Verdiand The Costumes of La Traviata. As a young man he joined the forcesfighting facism in Italy and served a seven-year jail term as a result ofhis activies as a courier, when he ran secret documents across the Alpsto Paris on foot.

Soprano ZINKA MILANOV (nee Kunc), Yugoslavian/American, 83 yearsold, in New York City 5/30/89. One of the last of the legendary divasof the 1930s and '40s, she was known throughout the world for her perfor-mances of the dramatic repertory of Verdi and other Italian composers.A student of Milka Ternina, she began her professional career in centralEurope, and in 1937 achieved great success at the Salzburg Festival inthe Verdi Requiem under Toscanini. It was in that year that she madeher Metropolitan Opera debut in II Trovatore and became one of the com-

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pany's leading stars for nearly 30 years, from 1937 to 1947 and from1951 until her retirement in 1966. She appeared both on its stage andon tour over 400 times in thirteen roles. An acclaimed Aida, Leonora (inII Trovatore and La Forza del Destino), and Amelia, she was also heardas Donna Anna, Norma, Santuzza, Tosca, Gioconda, and Maddalena inAndrea Ch6nier, her farewell performance before the closing of the houseon 39th Street. She made guest appearances at Covent Garden and LaScala as well as at American houses including the Lyric Opera of Chicagoand the San Francisco Opera; she also gave concerts. Her many recordingsdocument most of her Met repertoire. After her retirement she lived inthe United States and Yugoslavia; actively engaged in teaching, she workedwith such singers as Anna Moffo, Christa Ludwig, and Re'gine Crespin.

Conductor HOWARD MITCHELL, American, 77 years old, in Ormond Beach,Florida 6/22/88. He studied at the Peabody Conservatory and the CurtisInstitute before becoming first cellist with the National SymphonyOrchestra in Washington from 1933 to 1936. He became the orchestra'sassistant conductor in 1941, associate conductor in 1946, and three yearslater its principal conductor, a post he held until 1970.

Composer and conductor LIONEL NEWMAN, American, 73 years old, inLos Angeles 2/3/89. A well-known composer and conductor of moviemusic for 20th Century Fox, he received eleven Oscar nominations forscores including Doctor Doolittle and Love Me Tender, Elvis Presley'sfirst film, and in 1969 shared the Academy Award with Lennie Laytonfor his adaptation of the score for Hello Dolly! He was in charge of filmand television music for Fox until 1985, when he resigned to take up thesame position with MGM-UA.

Arts administrator FRANK PAOLA, American, 78 years old, in Florida12/16/88. He served as rehearsal and company manager under four generaldirectors at the Metropolitan Opera, where he was employed from 1929until 1974.

Mezzo soprano GLADYS PARR, British, 96 years old, in London 11/4/88.She sang regularly at Covent Garden beginning in 1920, and her notableroles included Magdalena in Die Meistersinger, conducted by Bruno Walterand Sir Thomas Beecham in 1930 and 1932, and Mistress Quickly in Falstaffunder Barbirolli in 1928, a role she later performed in the first Sadler'sWells production of the opera in 1935-36. She later created roles inworks by Britten, including Albert Herring (Glyndebourne, 1947), The LittleSweep (Aldeburgh, 1949), and Mrs. Noye in Noye's Fludde (Aldeburgh, 1958).

Conductor GIUSEPPE PATANE, Italian, 57 years old, in Munich, 5/30/89.Son of the well-known operatic conductor Franco Patane\ he conductedin major international opera houses and became known as a specialist inthe Italian repertoire. He was on the staff of the Teatro San Carlo inNaples from 1951-56, and during the 1960s he worked in Italy, at Linzin Austria where he was the principal conductor in 1961-62, and at theDeutsche Oper Berlin (1962-68). His La Scala debut came in 1969, andfollowing his first Metropolitan Opera appearance in 1975 with La Giocondahe conducted over 130 performances there of Rigoletto, Tosca, La Boheme,and other Italian works, as well as Carmen and Lohengrin, before leavingthe company in 1983. His many recordings include a recently releasedperformance of Mascagni's Iris. At the time of his death he was theprincipal conductor for Italian repertory at the Bavarian State Opera.

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Composer and lyricist JOSEPH RAPOSO, American, 51 years old, inBronxville, New York 2/5/89. One of the creators of both Sesame Street,for which he was also musical director, and The Electric Company, hespecialized in the writing of children's music. His works for the stageincluded Lady Liberty; Raggedy Ann, performed in the Soviet Union byAlbany's Empire State Theater in 1986; You're a Good Man, CharlieBrown; A Wonderful Life, a musical adaptation of the Frank Capra film-script co-authored with Sheldon Harnick; and The Little Rascals. He wasalso the composer of numerous songs for which he wrote his own lyrics.

Baritone GUNTER REICH, German, 67 years old, 1/15/89. Greatly admiredin a wide range of standard and contemporary repertory, he was a leadingsinger at the Wiirttemberg State Opera in Stuttgart from 1968 until hisdeath, and made frequent guest appearances at the Deutsche Oper Berlinand other major houses throughout Europe. He was heard in leading rolesin many operas by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and others, and also performedDr. Schon, Wozzeck, Cardinal Morone in Pfitzner's Palestrina, Moses inMoses und Aron, which he recorded twice, and the tit le role in Reimann'sLear. He performed in the premieres of Bernd Alois Zimmerman's DieSoldaten (1965) in Cologne and Blacher's 200,000 Taler (1969) in Berlin.A Kammersanger of the state of Wiirttemberg, he was also awarded theSiemens Prize by the Senate of Berlin.

Arts administrator ANTHONY RIOLO, American, 46 years old, inAlbuquerque 3/28/89. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he worked forthe Ford Foundation as resident counsel from 1973-1977 and as Directorof Development for both the Foundation for the Joffrey Ballet (1977-79)and the New York City Ballet (1979-84) before his appointment asExecutive Director of the Santa Fe Opera, a position he held for fiveyears. He had also served as a consultant to the National Arts StabilizationFund, the Seattle Arts Commission and other arts organizations.

Artists manager ART RUSH, American, 81 years old, in Los Angeles1/1/89. A talent agent and producer of radio shows in the 1930s and'40s, he went on to become an executive at RCA Victor who recordedboth popular and classical artists, including Mary Martin, Benny Goodman,Lily Pons, Eugene Ormandy, and Igor Stravinsky. After 1939, he headedArt Rush, Inc., his own marketing and franchising firm.

Conductor GEORGES SEBASTIAN, Hungarian/French, 85 years old, in Paris4/12/89. He studied with Zolta'n Koddly, Bela Bartdk, and Leo Weinerin Budapest, and later with Bruno Walter in Munich, where he was alsoan assistant. After a season as assistant conductor at the MetropolitanOpera during 1923-24, he worked chiefly in Germany, where he wasprincipal conductor, again under Walter, of the Berlin Stadtische Oper(1927-31), and then in Russia as Musical Director of Moscow Radio andthe Moscow Philharmonic. During World War II, he conducted at the SanFrancisco Opera and other American companies, and headed the Scranton(PA) Philharmonic (1940-45). After the war he became a French citizenand was based in Paris as principal conductor at the Opera, where heconducted Leontyne Price's debut there in Aida in 1968.

Tenor GAETANO SCANO, Italian, 43 years old, in Verona 7/20/88. Hemade his debut in 1970 and appeared with a number of regional companies,including the Los Angeles Civic Opera, New Orleans Opera, and PittsburghOpera, before settling in Italy. He was heard most recently in the Verdianrepertory, but also performed works by twentieth-century composers.

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Composer JULIA SMITH, American, 78 years old, in New York 4/27/89.A noted teacher and composer of instrumental and operatic music, herworks were commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic,the Cleveland Orchestra, the Baltimore and San Francisco Symphonies,the Greater Miami Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and numerous academicopera workshops across the country. A native of Denton, Texas, shecompleted her musical studies at the Juilliard School and New YorkUniversity and later toured internationally as the pianist for the OrchestraClassique, a women's orchestra, before joining the faculty of Hartt Collegeduring World War n and founding its Department of Music Education.Her operas include The Stranger of Manzano (1946), The Gooseherd andthe Goblin (1947), Cockcrow (1954), The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep(1966), Daisy (1973), which was commissioned and widely performed bythe Girl Scouts, and Cynthia Parker (one-act version, 1939; two-actversion, 1985). She also compiled a Directory of Women Composers (1970).At the time of her death she was making preparations to travel to Texasfor a performance of Cockcrow.

Arts patron LEWIS SWYER, American, 70 years old, in Albany 12/25/88.One of the original members of the New York State Council on the Arts,he founded and ran the construction company which built the SaratogaArts Center, where he later served as chairman. He sat on the boardsof many educational and charitable organizations in the Albany area,where he made his home.

Stage designer SEMYON VIRSALADZE, Russian, 80 years old, in Tbilisi,Georgia, U.S.S.R. 2/9/89. One of the Soviet Union's leading theater andfilm designers, he was particularly identified with the dance. He beganhis career in 1928 and four years later created sets for Guillaume Telland Don Pasquale for the Tbilisi Opera. In 1938 his designs were seenfor the first time at the Kirov Ballet, and the following year he beganhis long association with the Bolshoi. After 1956 he collaborated withYuri Grigorovich, the Bolshoi Ballet's present director, on famousproductions including The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Spartacus,and other ballets.

Conductor DONALD VOORHEES, American, 85 years old, in Cape MayCourt House, New Jersey 1/10/89. An award-winning conductor of manyradio broadcasts, he set the style of the popular Bell Telephone Hour asconductor, musical director, host, and composer of the show's theme songduring its years on radio (1940-1959) and NBC television (1959-1968). Theprogram's wide appeal was credited to his mixture of show tunes, lightclassics, and serious music, featuring such guest performers as Lily Pons,Jascha Heifetz, and Ezio Pinza.

Arts Administrator THOMAS WALSH, Irish, 76 years old, in Wexford11/8/88. A member of the Irish Arts Council, he founded the WexfordFestival in 1951 and was its administrator until 1966.

Soprano WANDA WERMINSKA, Polish, 91 years old, in Warsaw 8/27/88.A celebrated Carmen, she sang leading soprano and mezzo-soprano rolesat the Warsaw Opera, where she was a protegee of Artur Rodzinski duringthe 1920s, and later appeared throughout Europe, including Vienna andBudapest. She also toured South America both during and after the war,most notably as Sieglinde with Flagstad as Brunnhilde in Die Walkiire asconducted by Furtwangler. In 1948 she returned to Poland, where sheagain sang with the Warsaw Opera and where she later taught. []

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All performances are staged unless marked "conc.pf." (concert performance) and are given withan orchestra unless marked "w.p." (with piano). An * following a title indicates a new production;a t indicates that projected English captions are used. A single date appearing for a seriesof several performances indicates the opening night. Performances and news items listed inan issue of the Bulletin are not repeated in later issues.

ALABAMAUniversity of Alabama Opera Theater, E. White, Dir., Tuscaloosa

11/88/88 Scenes 2/4/89 The Crucible excpts.4/14-16/89 Die Fledermaus Eng. Martin

ALASKAAlaska Light Opera Theatre, G. Allen, Prod.Dir., Anchorage

5/11-14,17-20/89 "Alaska Does Broadway7/5-9,12-16,19-23/89 Baby

ARIZONACochise Community College Theatre, M.D. Meeker, Gen.Dir., Sierra Vista

6/22,23,24,29,30 7/1,7,8/89 BrigadoonARKANSAS

Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre, Little Rock12/88 various/Terry's Headlights prem.

CALIFORNIABerkeley Opera, R. Goodman, Gen. <5c Art.Dir., Berkeley (see also Vol.29 #1)

3/18/89 The Stoned Guest Opera Cabaret; at Hillside ClubBerkeley Repertory Theatre, S. Ott, Art.Dir., Berkeley

4/26-30/89 The Garden of Earthly Delights (coprod. Cal Perfs.); at the Eureka TheatreCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena

2/17-24/89 Bye, Bye, Birdie 6 pfs.California Music Theatre, G. Davis, Art.Dir., Pasadena

4/19-5/7/89 Kiss Me, Kate 18 pi's.6/14-7/2/89 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 18 pfs.

California Opera Ensemble, D. Elliott, Art.Dir., Sacramento3-4/89 Scenes tour 8-9/89 In-school operas; student developed

Cal i forn ia S t a t e Univers i ty , Music Dept . , Hoiby F e s t i v a l , Long Beach ( s e e a l so Vol.29 # 1 )3/31 4/1,2,7,8,9/89 Summer and Smoke Lyric Theatre/Opera Dept.4/5/89 The Italian Lesson <5c Bon Appetit! Stapleton; d: Shulgasser4/4,6/89 Recitals 5/20,21/89 Music Theatre concert

California State University Opera, M. Kurkjian, Dir., Fullerton4/7,8,9m,13,14,15,16m/89 The Merry Widow Eng. Harnick

California State University Opera Theatre, H. Blankenburg, Dir., Los Angeles1/18/89 The Pirates of Penzance in Ridgecrest

California State University Opera Theatre, D. Scott, Dir., Northridge3/3-19/89 Fiddler on the Roof4/14,15,18,19,21,22/89 La Traviata c/d: Scott

Carmel Bach Festival, S. Salgo, Mus.Dir., Carmel (7/17-8/6/89)7/22m,29m 8/5m/89 Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail Eng.; Patterson, Hoeh; Outland,

Watson, Myers; c: Salgo; d: TakazauckasCerritos College Children's Theater/San Gabriel Valley Junior Programs, Glendora

2/18/89 Sing Ho for a Prince 2 pfs.Chamber Opera Theater of the Desert, A.L. Baekey, Gen. & Art.Dir., Palm Desert

2/11/89 Madama Butterfly West Coast Opera Co.4/15/89 Scenes Gala

Cinnabar Opera Theater, M. Klebe, Art.Dir., Petaluma (see also Vol.29 #1)3/10,11,15,18,19m,22,24,25/89 Colgrass's Virgil's Dream & Barab's Predators8/5m/89 Little Red Riding Hood 2 pfs.8/5,6,11,12/89 The Fantasticks8/20/89 Wubbold's Dinosaurs 2 pfs. 8/26/89 Scenes

Citrus College Musical Comedy Theater, B. Bolinger, Mus.Dir., Glendora3/10,ll,12m,17,18,19m/89 Evita

Davis Comic Opera, Davis (see also Vol.29 #1)4/13,14,15,16m,20,21,22,23m/89 The Gondoliers

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Downey Civic Light Opera, W. Marsh, Mus.Dir., Downey (see also Vol.29 #1)2/24-3/12/89 Damn Yankees6/2-18/89 Fiddler on the Roof

Forum Theater, Yorba Linda2/24-3/12/89 H.M.S. Pinafore

Friends of Jewish Music, University of Judaism, West Los Angeles5/21/89 Swados' Jerusalem 5/23 in Orange

The Frohman Academy for Musical Theatre Education, M. Pippi, Exec. & Prod.Dir., Carmel8/25-27/89 The Wizard of Oz 3 pfs.; at Young People's Musical Theatre Camp

Gilbert & Sullivan Society of San Jose, M. Handloff, Pres., San Jose (see also Vol.29 #1)6/16,17,18,23,24,25/89 The Mikado

Golden West College, Music Dept., Huntington Beach3/3,4,5m,10,ll,12m,16,17,18/89 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Grove Theatre Co., T. Bradac, Prod.Art.Dir., Garden Grove (see also Vol.29 #1)5/5-6/17/89 Tomfoolery (replaces A. . -My Name is Alice)

Hollywood Bowl, E. Fleischmann, Gen.Dir., with Los Angeles Philharmonic (7/3-9/16/89)7/21,22/89 "An Evening with Cole Porter" c: Kunzel8/25,26/89 "Music of Richard Rodgers" c: McGlinn

Ina Chalis Ensemble, San Francisco Russian Center, San Francisco2/5/89 Tchaikovsky's Iolanta Haronian; Wiggins, Minagro

La Jolla Playhouse, D. McAnuff, Art.Dir., La Jolla6/27-8/6/89 Piazzolla/Daniele's Dangerous Games

Lake Tahoe Summer Music Festival, Lake Tahoe (7/21-9/2/89)8/22-9/2/89 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Long Beach Community Playhouse, Long Beach3-4/1/89 Guys and Dolls

Long Beach Opera, M. Milenski, Gen.Dir., Long Beach (see also Vol.28 #4)5/89 Beaumarchais's play La Mere coupable (replaces Milhaud's La Mere coupable)

Long Beach Theatre Guild, Long Beach4/8,9m,14,15/89 Li'l Abner

Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, G. Maldonado, Mus.Dir., Venice6/4/89 Dido and Aeneas Weaver, Peck; Pollhamus; c: Bates; in La Jolla

Los Angeles Music Theatre Co., L. White, Dir., North Hollywood (see also Vol.29 #1)5/5,7,10,12,14,17,19,21/89 Rita Eng. <5c La Voix humaine

Los Angeles Philharmonic, A. Previn, Mus.Dir., Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles5/4,5,7/89 Concert incl. Salome scenes; J. Norman; c: Previn

Magnificent Moorpark Melodrama & Vaudeville Co., Moorpark10/7-11/12/88 The Drunkard1/13-2/11/89 Christiansen/Kittleson/Kelly's Robin Hood prem.3/3-4/8/89 Sourdough6/23-7/29/89 Haldrane/Eugster's The Prisoner of Brenda, or The Flashing Blade prem.

Marin Theatre Company, W. Marchetti, Art.Dir., Marin4/19-5/14/89 I Do! I Do!

Mark Clark Chorale, M. Clark, Mus.Dir., Sacramento2/89 Purcell's The Tempest stgd.; c: Clark

Mark Taper Forum, G. Davidson, Art.Dir., Los Angeles3/12-5/7/89 Hiroshima/Egan's Sansei rock musical; prem.; d: Egan

Mendocino Music Festival, A. Pollack, Art.Dir., Mendocino (7/12-22/89)7/20#,22m/89 Strauss's Der Biirger als Edelmann# <5c Gianni Schicchi Cho; Walker,

DelavanMonterey Opera, J. Williams, Coord., Monterey

9-12/88 Riders to the Sea; The Telephone school & community tourl/13,14,15m/89 La Cambiale di matrimonio Eng.2/24,25,26m/89 The Medium3/10,ll,12m/89 Aekermann's Compound Interest prem.5/19,20,21/89 Comedy on the Bridge <5c The Stoned GuestSummer '89 La Serva padrona Eng.; at Monterey Peninsula College

Mukungwha Opera Co., Los Angeles5/25/89 Madama Butterfly c: Unterberg

Music Academy of the West, L.L. Smith, Mus.Dir., B. Igesz, Dir., Santa Barbara7/4-8/19/89 School & festival incl. The Bartered Bride; Haydn's L'Infedelta delusa Eng.

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Music from Bear Valley Festival, C. Nice, Mus.Dir., Bear Valley (7/29-8/13/89)8/2/89 Jerome Kern Evening incl. Show Boat excpts.; c: Nice8/10,12/89 Tosca Goltry; Kunde, van Derick; c: T. Conlin; d: Rhodus

Newport Theatre Arts Center, Newport2/3-7/2/89 Li'l Abner; Zorba

Ojai Festival, P. Boulez, Art.Dir., Ojai (6/2-4/89)6/3/89 Concert incl. Le Rossignol Bryn-Julson; c: Boulez

Old First Church Concerts, S. Marsanyi, Dir., San Francisco5/12,14m/89 Linnard/Briggs' Least of My Children conc.prem.; d: Hahn

Opera Buffs, R. Cohen, Pres., Los Angeles (see also Vol.29 #1)7/28/89 La Boheme w.p. (coprod. National Society of Arts and Letters)

Opera Pacific, Overture & Community Outreach, K. DiChiera, Art.Dir., Costa Mesa (seealso Vol.29 #1)5/5m/89 Special events incl. Monkey See, Monkey Do at Killybrooke School; Barnes's The

Vagabond Queen in Corona del MarOpera San Jos<§, I. Dalis, Gen.Mgr., In-School Outreach Program, San Jose

1/31-6/89 School tour incl. Mollicone's Starbird prem. rev.vers.; 60 pfs.; The Face onthe Barroom Floor abt. 30 pfs; The Telephone abt. 30 pfs.

4/1,2/89 Scenes cone, at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga4/8/89 Operathon incl. "Children's Hour" & Starbird

Orange County Opera, C. Perlee, Mus.Dir. Sunset Beach10/88-5/89 Hansel and Gretel Eng. Pabian; 317 school pfs.

Pacific Music Association, W. Unterberg, Mus.Dir., Los Angeles3/6/89 Un Ballo in maschera

PCPA Theaterfest, J. Shouse, Art.Dir., Solvang/Santa Maria (see also Vol.29 #1)6/15-18,22-25,29,30 8/8,10,18,23,26 9/3,7/89 Quilters in Solvang7/6-8,15,28,30 9/2,10,11,14,15/89 Evita in Solvang; 7/13,14,15m,15 8/18,19m,23m,26,27m

9/7 in Santa Maria7/20,21,22 8/16,19,22,27 9/4,8/89 The Fantasticks in Solvang; 8/10,11,12m,12,13m,30m,31

9/16m,22,23 in Santa Maria7/27,28,29m,29 8/24 9/l,2m,6,9,10m/89 Fiddler on the Roof in Santa Maria; 8/3-6,13,14,

17,25,29 9/12,13,16,17/89 in SolvangPepperdine University Seaver College Opera Wksp., V. Mesrop-McMahon, Dir., Malibu (see

also Vol.29 #1)3/17,18,19m,23,25/89 Little Shop of Horrors

Pismo Light Opera Theatre, Pismo Beach (see also Vol.29 #1)3/30-4/15/89 Show Boat c: Hielkema

Pocket Opera, D. Pippin, Art.Dir., Waterfront Theater, San Francisco4/23m 5/2,7m/89 Chabrier's Une Education manque'e Eng. Pippin & Suppe's Die schone

Galatea Eng. Pippin4/30m/89 Handel's Flavio conc.pf.5/9,14m/89 Bizet's Don Procopio Eng. Pippin k Le Mariage aux lanternes Eng. Pippin5/16 6/4m/89 Orphee aux enfers Eng. Pippin5/21m/89 Bastien und Bastienne Eng. Pippin & Schubert's Die Verschworenen Eng. Pippin

(as The Conspirators)5/23 6/25m/89 Le Nozze di Figaro Eng. Pippin5/28m/89 Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail Eng./adapt. Pippin (as Yanked from the Harem)6/llm/89 Verdi's Un Giorno di regno Eng. Pippin6/18m/89 Giulio Cesare Eng. Pippin

Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana1/20-2/11/89 Evita

Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival, Redlands (6/20-8/25/89)7/28/89 Tosca c: Fetta 7/29,30/89 South Pacific c: Fetta

Redwoods Summer Music Festival, R. Brown, Art.Dir., Santa Rosa8/20/89 "Kurt Weill: Music for the Theater"

Riverside Civic Light Opera, Riverside (see also Vol.29 #1)3/10,11,12,16,17,18m,18,19m/89 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers4/28,29,30 5/4,5,6m,6,7m/89 The Wizard of Oz rev. score

Riverside Master Chorale, Riverside5/20/89 Dido and Aeneas conc.pf.

Sacramento Music Circus, Sacramento5/24-6/4/89 Peter Pan 7/26-8/13/89 My One and Only6/28-7/16/89 The Sound of Music 8/23-9/10/89 Dreamgirls

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San Diego Symphony Orchestra, W. Brustad, Gen.Dir., San Diego9/88 The Merry Widow de la Rosa

San Francisco Opera Center, C. Bullin, Mgr., San Francisco (see also Vol.29 #1)3/31 4/11,12/89 Scenes concerts at University of Tokyo <5c Keio University, Japan4/14/89 Purcell's The Indian Queen Armstrong; Thomas; Philharmonia Baroque Orch., c:

McGegan7/9/89 Rigoletto Eng.; conc.pf.; Merola Opera Program; at Stern Grove8/12,13/89 Carmen Eng.; Merola Opera Program; at Saratoga8/20/89 Grand Finals Concert; at War Memorial Opera House

San Francisco Symphony, New Music Series, H. Blomstedt, Mus.Dir., San Francisco1/20/89 Wuorinen's The W of Babylon Duykers; c: Wuorinen

Santa Rosa Symphony Orchestra, C. Brown, Mus.Dir./Cond., Santa Rosa8/20/89 Concert incl. Weill's Marie Galante excpts.

South Coast Repertory, D. Emmes, Prod.Art.Dir., Costa Mesa4-6/89 Silversher/Patch's When I Grow Up national tour to schools6/2-7/13/89 Sunday in the Park with George

Southern California Conservatory of Music, L. Burgess, Dir., Sun Valley9/26-10/1/88 Wolf/Burgess1 The Three Feathers 7 pfs.12/19-29/88 Wolf/Burgess' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 10 pfs.3/27-4/1/89 Wolf/Burgess1 Robin Hood 7 pfs.6/26-7/1/89 Wolf/Burgess' Pinocchio 8 pfs.

Spendarian State Opera & Ballet Theatre of Armenia/Editions Eribouni, Wiltern Theater,Los Angeles5/21/89 Scenes5/24,25,26/89 Tigranian's Anoush c: Ter-Viskanian5/27,28/89 Tchednadjian's Arshag II c: Dautian

Starlight Music Theatre, D. & B. Ward, Art.Dirs., San Diego5/1-11/19/89 Peter Pan; The Sound of Music; My One and Only; Dreamgirls; La Cage

aux FollesTheater of the Blue Rose, Berkeley

11/4-13/88 Die DreigroschenoperUnited States International University, School of Visual and Performing Arts, G. Hiker,

Dir., San Diego2/15-3/5/89 My Fair Lady5/17-6/4/89 Man of La Mancha

University of California, Music Dept., S. Krachmalnick, Mus.Dir., Los Angeles1/20-28/89 A Chorus Line w. Theater Arts Dept.2/3,4,10,11/89 Four Saints in Three Acts Opera Wksp., c: Krachmalnick; d: Hall

University of California Opera Theater, M. Ingham, Dir., Santa Barbara (revised listing)4/8,9/89 Stravinsky's Mavra Eng. 6c Haydn's Lo Speziale Eng.

University of San Diego Singing Actor Wksp., W. Eichorn, Dir., San Diego12/2,3/88 Scenes 4/28,29/89 A Morning Like This

University of Southern California, USC Opera, G. Ostrowski, Dir., Los Angeles (see alsoVol.28 #4)11/10/88 Gianni Schicchi Eng. Grossman1/14/89 Le Nozze di Figaro abrgd. vers.; c/narr: Behr3/3-6/89 Dido and Aeneas 4 pfs., (coprod. Opera Buffs, Inc.)4/19/89 "Cocteau and Music" N. Rorem; Trost lecture; Jean Cocteau Centenary Festival4/20,21,22,23m/89 La Voix humaine & Le Pauvre matelot Eng. & Oedipus Rex Eng. narr.;

c: Sidlin; d: BoerlageUniversity of the Pacific, M.R. Clark, Dir. of Opera, Stockton (see also Vol.29 #1)

4/28,29/89 ToscatCOLORADO

The Arvada Center Theatre, J. Levitt, Art.Dir., Denver11/11-12/30/88 Annie 23 pfs.

Aspen Music Festival, Aspen Opera Theater Center, Wheeler Opera House, Aspen (6/22-8/19/89)6/24 7/1,8,10*,15,22,29,31* 8/5,12/89 Opera/vocal master classes; De Gaetani*/Auger#/

Berkeley/Spillman7/15,17,19/89 Rossini's Mose in Egitto c: Scimone; d: Berkeley8/12,14/89 The Rape of Lucretia c: Revzen; d: Duncan8/13,15/89 The Turn of the Screw c: Spillman; d: Berkeley

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Bold Lion Theatrical Opera, R. Boldrey & P. Liontis, Co-Dirs., Boulder2/11/89 Scenes concert3/17,18,19111,23,24,25/89 La Voix humaine & Milhaud's M6dee4/27,28,29/89 Pasatieri's The Seagull at Nomad Playhouse7/22-8/5/89 8/12-9/2/89 Two summer seminars

Central City Opera, J . Moriarty, Art.Dir., Central City (7/8-8/13/89)6/29/89 Opera Gala, c: Moriarty7/8,12m,14m,16m,18,20,22,29m 8/4,6m,9,ll,13m/89 The Magic Flute Eng.; Cole, Sublett;

Wilson, McGuire, Rodescu; c: Moriarty; d: Gately; ds: Anania7/15,19m,21m,23m,25,27,29 8/1,2,5m,9m, 12/89 The Desert Song Telese; Parce; c: D. Wolfe;

d: Danner7/26m,28m,20m 8/2m,5,8,10,12m/89 Lucia di Lammermoor Beardsley; Bernardini, Hanson,

Wentzel; c: Salesky; d: L i . Brovsky7/12-8/18/89 The Face on the Barroom Floor 10 pfs.; Victorian recitals, 9 pfs.; Opera-a-

la-Carte, 11 pfs; Apprentice ArtistsColorado Opera Festival, D. Jenkins, Gen.Dir., Colorado Springs (see also Vol.29 #1)

7/14/89 Gala Concert Bucklew-Rowland; Di Giuseppe7/28,30 8/1/89 Die Fledermaus Eng.; Bucklew-Rowland; c: Jenkins; d: Beattie (replaces

Turandot)Four Corners Opera, R. Gregori 5c J. Turano, Co-Gen.Dirs., Durango

6/21,23,24/89 "Opera a la Carte" tour6/22,25m/89 The Face on the Barroom Floor & The Telephone

National Repertory Orchestra, C. Zellner, Exec.Dir., Evergreen6/24,25/89 Mefistofele excpts. ft Boris Godunov excpts.; Eckhoff; c: Topilow

University of Colorado Music Theatre, D. Jackson, Dir., Boulder (see also Vol.28 #4)4/25/89 Scenes 7/12/89 Gilbert & Sullivan Gala7/7-29/89 The Gondoliers d: J. Reed; 9 pfs.7/8-28/89 Patience d: J. Reed; 9 pfs.

University of Denver, Lamont Opera Theatre, R. Worstell, Dir., Denver11/16/88 Paul us' The Village Singer & The Telephone5/19,20/89 The Beggar's Opera Britten ed.

University of Northern Colorado, Summer Music Theater, Greeley (see also Vol.28 #4)7/13,14/89 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown7/27,28,29,30/89 South Pacific

CONNECTICUTCandlewood Playhouse, B. Louiselle, Mus.Dir., New Fairfield

5/22-6/18/89 Oliver! 7/17-8/19/89 Dreamgirls6/7-7/18/89 Camelot 8/7-9/3/89 Damn Yankees6/27-7/29/89 Grease

Connecticut Early Music Festival, J . Solum & I. Kipnis, Art.Dirs., New London/Mystic/Noank (6/8-28/89)6/11/89 Gluck's n Parnaso confuso Am.prem.; Baird, Nelson, Emerson, Rosales

Ensemble Theatre Company of New Haven, Hamden3/30-4/18/89 Bales' Stanton Women's Chorus prem.

Goodspeed Opera House, M. Price, Dir., Haddam/Chester (see also Vol.28 #4)3/3-4/89 Keating's Starmites at Chester; 4/11 open run at Middle House, NYC4/12-6/23/89 Rodgers/Hart's A Connecticut Yankee6/28-9/22/89 Hoschna/Harbaeh's Madam Sherry

Hartford Symphony Orchestra, M. Lankester, Mus.Dir., Hartford3/4/89 Carmina Burana

Hartt Opera/Music Theatre, A. Bishop, Dir., University of Hartford (see also Vol.29 #1)1/17,18/89 A Chorus Line at Manchester H.S.3/20/89 Puccini scenes4/20-23/89 Hair c: Ames; d: Grabarkewitz

Yale University, Yale Opera Theatre, D. Yarick-Cross, Dir., New Haven10/13 12/10/88 Scenes3/9,11/89 Cos! fan tuttet (coprod. Drama Dept.)

DELAWAREUniversity of Delaware, Music Dept., Newark

4/26/89 Orff 's Catulli CarminaDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Ford's Theatre, F. Hewitt, Exec.Prod., Washington (see also Vol.29 #1)1-2/89 King's God's Trombones d: King

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Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington3/8/89 Hoiby's Bon Appetit! prem.; Stapleton

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Imagination Celebration, Washington (4/7-23/89)4/7,8,9/89 Osborn's Pinocchio: A Real Boy Philadelphia Theatre Caravan; 6 pfs.4/14,15,16/89 Jack and the Beanstalk California Theater Center; 6 pfs.4/21,22,23/89 Still/Roberts' The Velveteen Rabbit Theatreworks/USA; 6 pfs.

Mount Vernon College, Washington3/8,11,12,14/89 Mahagonny Songspiel

No-Neck Monsters Theatre Co., H. Patton & G. Wynne, Dirs., Washington12/3/88-1/29/89 Brown's Sanctuary Am.prem.

Summer Opera Theater, E. Walter, Gen.Mgr., Washington7/5,7,9,11/89 Maria Stuarda Bickers, Muller, McConnell; Zhang, Corteggiano; c: Lawton;

d: Lehmeyer7/24,26,28,30 8/1/89 La Fille du regiment Eng.; A. Johnson, Palmour; Bologna, Baker; c:

Highfill; d: Lehmeyer; ds: Highfill/LehmeyerWashington Concert Opera, S. Crout, Gen.Dir, Washington (see also Vol.28 #4)

10-11/88 La Serva padrona Eng. Roberts/Von Villas; 22 school pfs.>5/13/89 Ariadne auf Naxost conc.pf.; Dahl, Marc, Ka. Ciesinski; West, Byrne; c: Crout

FLORIDACaldwell Theatre Company, M. Hall, Prod.Dir., Boca Raton

12/31/88-2/22/89 Sherman/Sherman/Holt's Over Here!4/14-5/21/89 Gershwin/Porter/Berlin's "Gold Diggers Revue" Caldwell Cabaret prod.4/17-5/20/89 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living In Paris

Florida Keys Community College, Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, Key West12/8,9,10,11,15,16,17/88 Working 2/16,17,18,19,23,24,25/89 Oh Coward!

Florida West Center for the Performing Arts, Cape Coral5/5,6,7/89 Kismet c: Prasser; d: Bernhard; at Cape Coral H.S.

Greater Miami Opera, R. Heuer, Gen.Mgr., Miami (see also Vol.29 #1)4/21,22/89 Transformations Apprentice Artists; New World School of the Arts Orchestra;

c: Crawford; d: BernhardNew Music America, J. Celli & M. Luft, Dirs., Miami

12/10/88 Dresher/Eckert's Power Failure wksp.pf.; Friedman; DuykersSeaside Music Theater, J. Davidson, Assoc.Prod., Daytona Beach

6/2-8/13/89 Man of La Mancha; The Pirates of Penzance; The Robber Bridegroom; Nine;1776; children's musical TBA

Stetson University Opera/Music Theater Wksp., C. Maddox, Dir., DeLand12/88 Martin Avdeich: A Christmas Miracle 4/29/89 Scenes2/9-11/89 Brigadoon

Tampa Bay Chamber Orchestra, Tampa4/7,9/89 Noye's Fludde

Treasure Coast Opera, C. Barrena, Gen.Dir., Fort Pierce (see also Vol.29, #1)6/22,23,24/89 South Pacific

University of Miami Opera Theater, W.F. Summers, Dir., Coral Gables11/18-20/88 4/21,22/89 Scenes3/30,31 4/1/89 The Boor & Toch's Egon und Emilie <5c Mangold's Bleah!

GEORGIAAgnes Scott College, Centennial, Decatur

4/25/89 Musgrave's Echoes Through Time prem.; c: Musgrave; d: La. BrovskyAlliance Theatre Co., R. Farley, Art.Dir, Atlanta (see also Vol.29 #1)

6/21-7/30/89 Cotton Patch Gospel and tourArts-On-The-River Festival, Savannah Arts Commission, Savannah

5/14/89 Pump Boys and Dinettes Savannah Theatre Co.Atlanta Opera, A. Kennedy, Gen.Dir., Alliance Theatre, Atlanta

6/8,10,13,15/89 La Traviatat Patterson; Cortez, Noble; c: Scott; d: W. Lloyd8/10,12,15,17,19/89 The Barber of Seville Eng.; Hauman; Siebert, Nimnicht, Fleck,

Stephens; c: Scott; d: Foldi8/31 9/2,4/89 Madama Butterflyt Hartliep, Redmon; Glassman, McGuire; c: Scott; d: W.

Lloyd; at Symphony Hall1988-89 Le Docteur Miracle d: Lesenger, Atlanta Opera Studio tour; 3/29/89 "Opera

Magic" Scenes & Le Docteur Miracle at Symphony HallAtlanta Repertory Opera, M. Dietrichs, Gen.Mgr. & Art.Dir., Atlanta

Spring '89 Don Giovanni c: Naskiewicz; 3 pfs. & tour w.p.

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ILLINOISCenter Theater, D. LaMorte, Art.Dir., Chicago

12/88-4/89 D. Coates/LaMorte's Too Many BossesColumbia College Contemporary American Music Program, W. Russo, Dir., Chicago

3/5,9,10,11,12111,16,17,18,19111/89 Russo's Talking to the Sun prem.; d: Sanders; ds: James;2/28-3/4 previews; at E. & O. Getz Theater

DePaul University Opera Theater, A. Voketaitis, Dir., Chicago6/2,3,4/89 A Game of Chance w.o. & Herbert's Madeleine w.p.; c: Tham; d: Voketaitis

Grant Park Concerts, Z. Macal, Mus.Dir., Chicago (6/24-8/27/89)6/24,25/89 Carmen conc.pf.; Esham, Redmon; Ashbaker, Robbins; c: Cleve7/29,30/89 Kern's Sunny conc.pf.; c: McGlinn8/13/89 Scenes; Lyric Opera Center for American Artists

Illinois Theatre Center, S. Billig, Art.Dir., Park Forest (see also Vol.29 #1)12/2-18/88 The Mystery of Edwin Drood

niinois Wesleyan University, Music Dept., Bloomington12/3,4/88 Caldwell's A Gift of Song

Light Opera Works, P. Kraus, Art.Dir., Evanston6/23/89 Wiener Blut 8/25/89 Patience

Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, L. Schaenen, Dir., Chicago2/2/89 Gala concert6/17/89 Goldstein/Kondek's The Fan prem.; c: Schaenen; d: Kondek; ds: Morgan; at

the Blackstone TheaterNortheastern Illinois University, Opera Dept., R. Combs, Dir., Chicago

11/14/88 Zarzuela scenes; Northeastern Chamber Music Series3/1,2,4/89 Le Nozze di Figaro Eng. Combs; c: Lamb

Northlight Theatre, S. Medak, Mng.Dir., Evanston4/4-5/89 Berkson/Fleming's Pastel Refugees prem.; d: Finlayson

Ravinia Festival, J. Levine, Mus.Dir., Chicago Symphony Orchestra in residence, HighlandPark (6/23-9/3/89)6/30/89 Concert incl. Carmina Burana c: Levine7/9/89 Gershwin cone. incl. Porgy and Bess exepts.

Rockford Symphony Orchestra, C. Bornstein, Mus.Dir., Rockford4/15/89 Siegfried cone.exepts.; Shearer; Sooter; c: Bornstein

University of Chicago, Court Theatre, Chicago3/9-4/9/89 Happy End

INDIANAButler University Opera Theatre, J. Wiley, Dir., Indianapolis

9/88-6/89 The Merry Widow; Cos\ fan tutte; Girl Crazy6/89 Sehelle's Soap Opera wksp.rdgs.; 8 pfs.

Firefly Festival for the Performing Arts, C. Rosenberg, A dm., South Bend6/17-8/5/89 Festival incl. The Pirates of Penzance

Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, R. Ondrejka, Mus.Dir., Fort Wayne2/4/89 Tosca conc.pf.; Calleo, Patrick; c: Ondrejka

Indiana University, Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Bloomington3/3/89 Ligeti's Aventures et Nouvelles Aventures & vocal selections

Indiana University Opera Studio, Bloomington (see also Vol.28 #4)4/20,21/89 Floyd's Slow Dusk & The Old Maid and the Thief

Indiana University Opera Theater, Summer Festival, J. Lucas, Art.Dir., Bloomington6/16-8/11/89 Kismet; La Boheme

Vincennes University Summer Theater, J. Spurrier, Dir., Vincennes5/29-7/30/89 Annie Get Your Gun; The Mystery of Edwin Drood

IOWAQuad City Mozart Festival, D. Rayl, Mus.Dir., Davenport (6/16-25/89)

6/17,18,24,25/89 Cosl fan tutte in Rock IslandKENTUCKY

Kentucky Opera, T. Smillie, Gen.Dir., Louisville (see also Vol.28 #4)1/10/89 Dutton's The Stone Man 2 wksp. rdgs., at Speed Museum

LOUISIANABaton Rouge Opera, H. Holt, Art.Dir., Baton Rouge (see also Vol.28 #4)

7/7,8,9/89 Die Dreigroschenoper Eng.Louisiana Tech University, Opera Wksp., S. Yang, Dir., Ruston

3/15,16,17/89 Utter's It Happened in Hamelin

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Nicholls State University Opera Theater, C. Pipes, Dir., Thibodaux1/28,29/89 Cos* fan tutte

MARYLANDPrince George's Opera, M. Von Villas, Art.Dir., Prince George's Community College, Largo

4/30/89 Guild's gala concert5/22-24/89 The Face on the Barroom Floor tour to area schools6/9,10,llm/89 Le Nozze di Figaro Eng.; c: Roberts; d: Von Villas

University of Maryland Opera Program, L. Major, Dir., College Park11/30/88 Excpts. incl. Susa's The Love of Don Perimplin & Ames's Amarantha <5c Moss's

The Queen and the Rebels rev.vers.3/30,31/89 Scenes

Washington Savoyards Ltd., R. Fazio, Dir., West Bethesda1/89 Ruddigore 6/89 Cox and Box & H.M.S. Pinafore

Young Victorians Theater Company, B. Goodman, Dir., Baltimore7/7,8,14,15,21,22/89 The Gondoliers 7/13,20/89 Trial by Jury <5c Cox and Box

MASSACHUSETTSBanchetto Musicale, Boston

5/5,6/89 Die Zauberflote Eckhoff; c: PearlmanBerkshire Opera Co., R. Hearn, Gen.Dir., Lee

7/19,21,22,26,28,29/89 II Barbiere di Siviglia8/9,11,12,16,18,19/89 Die EntfUhrung aus dem Serail

Boston College Music/Theater, J.P. Marcoux, Dir., Chestnut Hill4/20,21,22,23,27,28,29/89 The King and I

Boston Early Music Festival, J. Broome, Exec.Dir., Boston (5/28-6/4/89)5/29,30/89 Steffani's Enrico Leone conc.pf.; Am.prem.; Capella Agostino Steffani

(Hannover), c: Rovatkay; at Jordan Hall6/2,3/89 Idomeneo conc.pfs.; Saffer, Ommerle\ L. Hunt; J. Thomas; c: Norrington;

Converse HallBoston University School of Music Opera, J. Haber & W. Graham, Co-Dirs., Boston

2/14/89 Don Giovanni Neue Mozart-Ausgabe ed.Brookline Opera Theater, H. Myers, Dir., Brookline

1/26,27/89 Down in the ValleyCharles River Creative Arts Program, P. Dewey, Dir., Dover

Spring '89 Cameron/Dewey's Chanticleer prem. and tourCollege Light Opera Co., R. Haslun, Prod. & Gen.Mgr., Falmouth

6/27-7/1/89 The Gondoliers 6 pfs. 7/25-29/89 Camelot 6 pfs.7/4-8/89 Brigadoon 6 pfs. 8/1-5/89 H.M.S. Pinafore 6 pfs.7/11-15/89 The Pajama Game 6 pfs. 8/8-12/89 La P6richole Eng.; 6 pfs.7/18-22/89 Hello Dolly! 6 pfs.8/15-19/89 Mitlar/Grainer's Robert and Elizabeth 6 pfs.8/22-26/89 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 6 pfs.

Five College Symphony Orchestra, D. Burkh, Dir., Amherst3/10,12/89 Die Walkiire conc.excpts.; Sooter; c: Burkh

Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, B. Montgomery, Gen.Mgr., PittsburghSymphony Orchestra in residence, Mansfield (6-9/89)7/16/89 "An Evening in Vienna" Peters7/23/89 Anything Goes conc.pf.

Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Cambridge4/6-8/89 Princess Ida

Harvard/Radcliffe Drama Society, Cambridge4/27-30/89 Die Dreigroschenoper

Lowell House Opera, Harvard University, Cambridge3/9,11,12,15,17,19/89 Le Nozze di Figaro Eng. Porter

Mohawk Trail Concerts, A. Black, Mus.Dir., Charlemont (7/14-8/19/89)8/18,19/89 Barab's Let's Not Talk About Lenny Anymore prem.

Music-Theatre Group, L. Austin, Prod.Dir., Lenox Arts Center, Stockbridge (see also Vol.29#1, under New York City)7/5-8,11-15,18-22,25-29/89 Silverman/Anderson/Foreman's Paradise for the Worried prem.

Opera Company of Boston, S. Caldwell, Art.Dir., Boston (see also Vol.29 #1)3/2,5m,12m/89 Aida Verrett, Hatziano; Lamberti, E. Davis; c/d: Caldwell; ds: Pond/Senn/

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4/13,16m,23m/89 Der Rosenkavalier G. Jones/Griffel, Wallace, Ommerle; DiPaolo, Ludgin,Wildermann; c/d: Caldwell; ds: Pond & Senn/Diffen

6/1,4,11/89 La Boheme Stratas; Di Paolo; c/d: Caldwell; ds: HeinrichOpera New England, touring company of Opera Company of Boston, H. Haffenreffer, Mgr.

5/89 La TraviataOpera Theater of the Boston and New England Conservatories, J. Moriarty, Dir., Boston

10/18 11/1,15,29 12/6/88 Scenes1/27,28,29 2/5/89 Chabrier's L'Etoile Eng. Ackart/Boucher4/6,7,8,9/89 Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery (The Duenna) Eng. Karsavina

Project Opera, R. Rescia, Art.Dir., Northamptonll/18m,18,19m,20m/88 Hansel and Gretel Eng.; abrgd.4/28,30m/89 La Boheme Eng. Rescia

Smith College, Music Dept., Northampton5/17,19/89 Perera/Congdon's The Yellow Wallpaper prem.; Bryden, Emerson; Ripley,

Opalach; c: Burkh; d: HarrisonTanglewood Music Festival, S. Ozawa, Mus.Dir., Boston Symphony in residence, Lenox (6/30-

8/27/89)8/12/89 Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bOeher semi-stgd.; narr: M. Keller; c: Ozawa8/19/89 Carmen conc.pf.; J. Norman; Shicoff, Fu; c: Ozawa

MICHIGANAnn Arbor Civic Theatre, Ann Arbor

12/88 Wonderful Town c: KriegerBirmingham Theatre, Birmingham

2/15-3/19/89 CompanyComic Opera Guild, T. Petiet, Mng.Dir., Ann Arbor

2/9-11,18/89 Eine Nacht in Venedig Eng./ed. Petiet5/3-5/89 L'Elisir d'amore Eng. Martin

Meadow Brook Music Festival, Detroit Symphony Orchestra in residence, G. Herbig,Mus.Dir., Rochester (6/15-8/13/89)7/7,9/89 Operatic highlights; Rolandi; Di Paolo; c: A. Davis

University of Michigan, Musical Theatre Program, Ann Arbor10/88 A Chorus Line ds: Billings 4/13-16/89 Harnick's Dragons

MINNESOTAIllusion Theater, M. Robins & B. Morris, Prod.Dirs., Minneapolis

5/19-6/17/89 Rue/Robins' Mensing prem.Minnesota Composers Forum, L. Larsen, Dir., Minneapolis

1/28/89 McKeel's The Constant Cannibal Maiden prem.; c: Kett lewell ; d: Krywosz; ds:Bakkom

Minnesota Opera, New Music-Theater Ensemble, B. Krywosz, Art.Dir., Minneapolis TheaterGarage (see also Vol.29 #1)3/23-4/2/89 Sherman/Selig's Red Tide; Shiflett/Wellman's Without Colors; company

developed The Newest Little Opera in the World stgd.pfs.3-5/89 Subotnik's Jacob's Room; Harper's Snow Leopard wksp.pfs.

Plymouth Music Series, P. Brunelle, Dir., Minneapolis/Saint Paul2/3/89 Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden abrgd.; semi-stgd. w. narr.; c: Brunelle

Saint Olaf College, Dept. of Speech & Theatre, P. Quade, Dir., Northfield11/16,17,18/88 Gypsy 4/13,14,15,16/89 The Mikado

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, C. Hogwood, Mus.Dir., Saint Paul2/3/89 Concert incl. Nixon in China excpts.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune, E. Stevens, Bus.Dir., Minneapolis5/12-6/25/89 All New Musical Cabaret Burlesque company developed

MISSISSIPPIArrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, M. Bolinger, Art.Dir., Arrow Rock

5/23-8/20/89 South Pacific; Animal Crackers; The Mystery of Edwin DroodMISSOURI

Missouri Repertory Theatre/Kansas City Symphony, J . Costin, Exec.Dir., Kansas City5/6-14/89 Shakespeare/Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Saint Louis Conservatory Opera Wksp., S. Stunkel, Dir., St. Louis4/22,23/89 Dialogues des Carmelites Eng. Machlis11/6/88 4/29/89 Scenes

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Theatre Project Company, W. Solomon, Int.Art.Dir., St. Louis5/3-14/89 The Fantasticks

MONTANAIntermountain Opera, P. Elvira, Art.Dir., Bozeman

5/19,21/89 Carmen RichardsNEBRASKA

Nebraska Wesleyan University Opera Theater, W. Wyman, Dir., Lincoln3/8-12/89 The Medium & The Telephone

Omaha Magic Theatre, J. Schmidman, Prod.Art.Dir., Omaha2/17-27/89 various/Terry's Headlights in Omaha and tour3-4/89 Dinner's in the Blender; Babes Unchained; Sea of Forms; Walking Through Walls;

The Return of Astro*Bride Midwest toursOpera/Omaha Ensemble, R. Jamison, Dir., Omaha (see also Vol.28 #4)

12/5/88-5/25/89 Opera & musical scenes; community and school toursNEW HAMPSHIRE

American Stage Festival, L. Carpenter, Art.Dir., New Milford6/5-17/89 West Side Story

Monadnock Music Festival, J. Bolle, Dir., Peterborough (7/20-8/27/89)8/5/89 Un Ballo in maschera conc.pf.; Burgess, Thames, Young; Glassman, Fu; c: Bolle

NEW JERSEYCentenary Stage Company, S. Lazarus, Dir., Hackettstown

4/20-29/89 Starting Here, Starting NowCreative Theater Inc., A. Gordon, Exec.Dir. & Prod., Englewood

4/6-16/89 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 15 pfs.Hollybush Festival, V. Zuponcic, Exec. & Art.Dir., Glassboro State College, Glassboro (5/6-

6/19/89) (revised listing)5/6,7m,14m/89 The Merry Widow Eng.; c: Sutej; d: Ferkai (replaces Gianni Schicchi &

Pagliacci)5/13,20/89 Carmina Burana <5c Die Kluge Eng.; c: Sutej; d: Ferkai6/17,18m/89 "Stars of the Bolshoi" ballet

June Opera Festival of New Jersey, M. Pratt, Art.Dir., Lawrenceville6/16,18m,23,25m 7/1/89 Le Nozze di Figaro Eng. Westergaard; w. period instruments; c:

Pratt; d: Jackson6/24,27,30 7/8,9m/89 The Mikado c: Macatsoris; d: Kuhn; ds: Jensen/Corey6/29/89 "Madness, Mischief and Romance" at Lawrenceville School

McCarter Theatre, R. Altman, Mng.Dir., Princeton (see also Vol.29 #1)6/16-18/89 Promises, Promises

Monmouth Conservatory of Music Opera Ensemble, F. Molzer, Art.Dir., Little Silver (seealso Vol.28 #4)2/89 Williamson's The Snow Wolf wksp. <5c pf. in public school5/7m/89 Concert incl. Dido and Aeneas Rossi, Graves; Bologna; c: Weidner

Paper Mill Playhouse, A. Del Rossi, Exec.Prod., Millburn (see also Vol.29 #1)5/17-6/25/89 Show Boat

Roche Players, E. Young, Prod.Mgr., Nutley5/4/89 Sweet Charity

Silesian Opera Co of Katowice (Poland), Felician College Aud., Lodi10/23/88 Moniuszko's Halka c: Wicherek

NEW YORKArtpark, D. Midland, Exec.Dir., Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in residence, Lewiston

6/21,23,25/89 Carment New York City Opera6/22,24/89 The Merry Widowt New York City Opera7/5-16/89 My One and Only 8/9-20/89 The Sound of Music

Bach Aria Festival and Institute, S. Baron, Mus.Dir., Stony Brook (6/12-26/89)6/24,25/89 Dido and Aeneas conc.pfs.; Fortunato, Webber; Britton, Sharp; c: Baron; at

SUNY Stony Brook & Nassau County Fine Arts Center, Muttontown, NYBaldwinsville Theatre Guild, Syracuse

4/28,29,30m/89 Guys and DollsBuffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo

4/28,29/89 Carmina Burana G. BradleyCaramoor Festival of Music <5c Arts, J. Nelson, Mus.Dir., Katonah (6/24-8/20/89)

7/2/89 Le Roman de Fauvel Ensemble for Early Music7/22/89 Beethoven's Leonore conc.pf.; Seitz, Ringo; Sylvester, Langan; narr: Bookspan;

Greenwich Chorale, Orchestra of Saint Luke; c: Nelson

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7/4/89 "Celebrate America" Apprentice Artists; c: Silverstein7/7,10 8/4,7/89 The Gondoliers Malas; c: P. Schwartz; d: Schifter7/14,17/89 Rigoletto Eng.; Zhu; L. Alexander; c: Salemno; d: Alley7/21,24/89 The Turn of the Screw Hill; Busse; c: DeMain; d: Cazan8/11,14/89 La Cenerentola Eng.; Cowdriek; M. Davis, J. Davies, Orth7/30 8/3*,12/89 Apprentice Artists concerts/Stars of Tomorrow; *c: Keene7/29,31 8/15/89 Meanwhile, Back at Cinderella's <5c original musical revue; Apprentices8/19/89 Aida conc.pf.; Neblett, Curry; Sylvester, Ellis, Wells; Chautauqua Symphony; c:

SilversteinChildren's Theater of Lynbrook, Lynbrook

Spring '89 Heidi; Snow White; The Elves and the ShoemakerThe Company, Y. Parente, Dir., Oyster Bay

6/23,24/89 I Do! I Do!CRC Youtheatre, Syracuse

3/18/89 The Brambleberry Witches prem.; VNI Productions; 2 pfs.Dobbs Ferry Opera, P. Ruisi, Mus.Dir., Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry

6/3/89 Norma conc.pf.in costume; Beaudreau, Faye; D. Smith, Nichol; c: RuisiEastman Opera Theater, R. Pearlman, Dir., University of Rochester

11/4,5,6/88 Albert Herring3/31-4/4/89 L'Incoronazione di Poppea Eng. Pearlman12/14,16/88 Weill/Blitzstein/Bernstein scenes 5/11/89 Rossini scenes

Glimmerglass Opera, Young Artists Program, Cooperstown (see also Vol.29 #1)6/23 8/6/89 Albert Herring 7/1,29 8/4/89 Operatic concerts8/19-9/3/89 Ford/Greenbank's Mr. Jericho Am.prem. & H.M.S. Pinafore 8 pfs.

Lake George Opera Festival, J. Balme, Gen.Dir., Glens Falls7/15,19,23,27,31 8/4,9,12,18/89 Madama Butterfly Eng. Gutman; c: Balme; d: Ewers7/16,20,24,28 8/2,5,9,13,17/89 Don Giovanni Eng. Martin; c: Rutishauser; d: Poulliott7/17,21,26,29 8/2,6,10,14,16/89 The Pirates of Penzance c: Balme; d: Eddleman7/19,22,26,30 8/3,7,11,15/89 La Vie parisienne Eng. Balme; c: Rutishauser; d: Poulliott8/19/89 Fidelio eonc.pf.; c: Balme8/20,22/89 Der Rosenkavalier abrgd.; w.p.; Apprentice Artists7-8/89 Trouble in Tahiti <5c The Devil and Daniel Webster; "Opera-on-the-Lake";

Apprentice Artists ProgramLong Island Opera, S. Hart, Mus.Dir., Franklin Square/Roslyn

3/11,18/89 Rigoletto; 4/1 in Floral Park 5/13,20/89 La TraviataLong Island Philharmonic Orchestra, C. Keene, Mus.Dir., Melville

5/13,14/89 Porgy and Bess conc.excpts.; Hinds; Albert; c: KeeneLong Island Stage, C. Atkinson, Art.Dir., Rockville Centre

1/17-2/5/89 Billy Bishop Goes to WarMac-Haydn Theatre, L. Haydn & L. MacNish, Art.Dirs., Chatham

5/24-9/17/89 Jerry's Girls; Naughty Marietta; The Sound of Music; La Cage aux Folles;Brigadoon; Gypsy; Little Shop of Horrors

Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, E. Sayles & V. Telesco, Dirs., Auburn6/1-8/19/89 Red, Hot and Cole; La Cage aux Folles; Annie; Baby

Music Theatre North, C. North, Art.Dir., Potsdam6/29-8/19/89 Shenandoah; Brigadoon; Annie Get Your Gun

Nassau Symphony Orchestra, A. Schenck, Mus.Dir., Hempstead4/15/89 Concert incl. Deak's The Wind in the Willows excpts.

Opera on the Go, J. Rose, Art.Dir., Jamaica Estates1988-89 Little Red Riding Hood; Chanticleer; Fair Means or Foul; Hemenway's The

Twilight of Magic; The Telephone; Sweet Betsy from PikeOpera Options, L. Santore, Art.Dir., Long Island

1/19/89 The Magic Flute abrgd.; 2 pfs. in AlbertsonWinter '89 Little Red Riding Hood tour to schools

Plaza Productions, Morgan Memorial Park, Glen Cove7/9/89 Hello Dolly! 7/30/89 Man of La Mancha

Port Singers, F. Harman, Dir., Port Washington4/8,9,15,16/89 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Rockland Opera Society, H. Elisha, Gen.Mgr. & Art.Dir., Suffern4/16/89 The Telephone & The Medium1988-89 Puccini concerts; Weill concerts; "Shakespeare in the Opera"; tours

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Rockville Centre Guild for the Arts, Rockville Centre2/3,4,5m,ll,12m/89 The Music Man

Saratoga Performing Arts Festival, H. Chesbrough, Exec.Dir., Saratoga Springs6/14,16,19/89 La Traviatat Mims; New York City Opera6/15,17/89 II Barbiere di Sivigliat S. Woods; New York City Opera

A Small Company in America, P. Herdt, Dir., Sea Cliff School Aud., Glen Cove3/3,4,5,10,11,12,17,18,19/89 Schmidt/Jones' Celebration

Studio Arena Theatre, D. Frank, Art.Dir., Buffalo1/20-2/18/89 The Boy Friend

SUNY College at Potsdam, Crane Opera Theater, L. Vaccariello, Coord., Potsdam11/8,9/88 Scenes3/16-19/89 Le Nozze di Figaro Eng. Martin

Syracuse Musical Theatre, Syracuse (see also Vol.29 #1)5/18,19,20,26,27/89 Anything Goes 7/12,13,14,15,16m/89 The Boy Friend

Syracuse Stage, A. Storch, Prod.Art.Dir., Syracuse6/27-7/23/89 Hardwick/Monk's Oil City Symphony

Syracuse Talent Company, Syracuse (see also Vol.29 #1)3/9,10,11,17,18/89 Annie Get Your Gun 7/26,27,28,29,30m/89 42nd Street

Theatre II of Glen Cove Ltd., Glen Cove3/89 Kiss Me, Kate

NEW YORK CITYAlice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

5/29,30/89 Shanghai Shaohing Opera Theater6/17/89 Cost fan tutte conc.pf.; Emille Opera Co.

All Souls' Church, Lexington Ave.4/15-5/14/89 Porter's Out of This World

AMAS Repertory Theatre, R. LeNoire, Art.Dir., East 104th St. (see also Vol.29 #1)2/16-3/19/89 Grant's Step Into My World revue; prem. (replaces Bricktop)

American Jewish Theatre, S. Brecher, Art.Dir., West 26th St.4/4-5/21/89 Brand/Nassau's The Education of H*y«m*a»n K«a*p*l*a*n6/8-7/2/89 Powich/various Call Me Ethel prem.

American Opera Projects, Inc., G.B. Holby, Art.Dir., Stage 61/Broome St.4/7,8/89 Scafide's Convergence & Cameo <Sc Contours5/23,24/89 Works in progress by Currie, Beckley, Earnest, Giobbi

Apollo Opera, N. Moraitis, Gen.Dir., St. Peter's Church6/4/89 Saint-Saens concert

Barbara Spiegel Theatre Wksp., New School for Social Research1/25/89 Working 9 pfs.

Barnard College, Centennial Arts Festival3/21/89 The Fantasticks (Minor Latham Playhouse prod.) 30th anniversary of the musical

Billie Holiday Theater, M. Moon, Prod., Brooklyn3-5/28/89 Weldon/Walker's Over Forty prem.

Blue Hill Troupe, C. Bell, Adm., Hunter College4/4-7/89 The Gondoliers 5 pfs.

Brooklyn College, Opera Theatre, R. Barrett, Art.Dir., Brooklyn (see also Vol.29 #1)2/10,11/89 The Turn of the Screw 4/9m/89 Le Nozze di Figaro

Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, L. Foss, Mus.Dir., in the Brooklyn parks8/11,13,15,17/89 Tosca conc.pfs.; Vanelli; Fazah; c: Coppola; 8/19 in Yonkers

Carnegie Hall Presents, J. Arron, Gen.Mgr.& Art.Dir., Weill Recital Hall4/13,14,15m,15,16/89 Kern/Wodehouse/Bolton's Sitting Pretty McGlinn ed.; conc.pfs.;

Criswell, O'Hara; Nichols; New Princess Ensemble Orch.; c: McGlinnChoral Symphony Society, D. Labovitz, Cond., Merkin Hall

5/15/89 Semele conc.pf.; Christopher, Pelton, Evans; Farrell, Bleeke, BurrowsCircle in the Square, T. Mann, Art.Dir.

4/30/89 Epstein/Friedman/Sobol's Ghetto Eng. Ian; d: BesserComposers Showcase, C. Schwartz, Dir., Alice Tully Hall

4/3/89 Peaslee's The Garden of Earthly Delights, Marat/Sade, Animal Farm, Miracolod'A more conc.excpts.

Cooper OperaWorks, E. Clark & P. Stephen, Dirs., 18th Street Playhouse1/15-18,22-25/89 La Cenerentola set in 1920s

CSC Repertory, C. Perloff, Art.Dir., West 13th St.3/21-4/30/89 Swados/Alvarez' The Scoundrel of Seville prem.; d: Perloff (coprod. 1NTAR)

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Davidson Singers, V. Davidson, Mus.Dir., St. Peter & Paul Church4/30m/89 Trial by Jury Sc Purcell's The Masque in Dioclesian semi-stgd.; 6/11 at

International HouseDUO Theatre/Teatro DUO, M. Alasa, Art.Dir., East 4th St.

4/20-5/20/89 Trio incl. Cruz/Eisenstein's The Touch of an Angel & Gomez/Pennington'sAdios, Tropicana & Mufioz/Jones's The Limit prems.

5/8,15,22,30/89 Welch/Alasa's Peggy and Jackson prem.Equity Library Theatre, G. Wojtasik, Mng. & Art.Dir., 103rd St. (see also Vol.29 #1)

3/9-4/2/89 Leave It to Jane (replaces Tomfoolery)5/11-6/4/89 Gigi

Evans Haile Productions, Avery Fisher Hall6/5/89 Babes in Arms conc.pf.; c: Haile; Starlight Foundation Benefit

Golden Fleece Ltd., The Composers Chamber Theatre, L. Rodgers, Art.Dir., MeisnerTheater (see also Vol.29 #1)4/6,7,8111,8,9111,9/89 MacBride's Permit Me Voyage <5c Baksa's Red Carnations & Rodgers'

The Warrior Saint stgd. pfs.; c: M. Waldman; d: Rodgers/Manzari6/26/89 Works in progress6/27,29/89 McKay/Ljungquist's The Yellow Wallpaper & Snow's Heilbaddame aus H611e &

Leeds/Cotter's The Last Leaf & Shield's Wraecca prem.Great Jones Repertory Co., La MaMa E.T.C., E. Stewart, Art.Dir.

3/1/89 Swados/Stewart's Mythos Oedipus & Dionysus Filius DeiThe Jewish Museum, Fifth Ave.

3/14/89 Concert incl. Teitelbaum's Golems work in progressJoseph Papp Yiddish Theater/YIVO Institute, Public Theater

1/22-5/21/89 Gerut/Hoffman/Borow's Songs of Paradise prem.Juilliard School/Lincoln Center Institute, Gould Hall (see also Vol.28 #4)

2/25,26m/89 L'Histoire du soldat Eng./adapt. Feingold; c: Rubardt; d: Bundy; ds: MoonLehman College, City University of New York, The Bronx

6/10/89 Ulysses Kay concert incl. Jubilee abrgd.; H. HarrisLight Opera of Manhattan, S. Levy, Exec.Dir., Playhouse 91 (see also Vol.28 #4)

4/2/89 "Pop's Favorites" revue (coprod. Sarabande Productions)4/20-5/28/89 The New Moon 6/28-8/6/89 Give My Regards to Broadway5/31-6/25/89 The Mikado 8/9-9/3/89 The Pirates of Penzance

Manhattan Opera Ass'n., B. Norcia, Art.Dir., O'Shea H.S. (see also Vol.29, #1)6/21,23/89 Die Walkure Act 1; Norcia; Broms, Thornhill; c: Buchalter; d: Thornhill

Manhattan School of Music, C. Auerbach Children's Opera Theater (see also Vol.29 #1)4/2m/89 Owen's Tom Sawyer prem.; c/d: Landolfi

Mannes College of Music, Mannes Opera Ensemble, P. Echols, Dir. (see also Vol.29 # 1)3/10,11/89 Rossini's L'Occasione fa il ladro Eng. Echols k Rita c: Ryvkin; d: Echols2/19/89 Scenes c: Ryvkin; d: C. Alden 4/23/89 Opera I recital

Marymount-Manhattan College, Drama Dept., East 71st St.5/3-14/89 The Robber Bridegroom

Metropolitan Opera, J. Levine, Art.Dir., in NYC & New Jersey parks (see also Vol.28 #4)6/19*,23,28 7/1,5,8/89 II Trovatore conc.pfs.; S. Dunn*/Esperian, Toczyska*/M. Dunn;

Bartolini*/Bonanome, MilnesVClark, Plishka/Cook; c: Fulton; * in Central Park; VanCortlandt Park; Snug Harbor; Eisenhower Park, Nassau County; Waterloo Village,Stanhope, NJ; Cooper River Park, Pennsauken, NJ

6/21,24,26*,30 7/3,7/89 Lucia di Lammermoor conc.pfs.; DeviaVMims/Swenson; Kraus,Raftery/Elvira*, Plishka/Dworehak*; c: Miiller; in Bronx Botanical Gardens; ProspectPark; *Central Park; Cunningham Park; Brookdale Park, Bloomfield/Montclair, NJ;Wood Lawn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Education Dept., Davis Hall3/13-17/89 Gianni Schicchi 3/21-23 in Somerville, NJ; 3/28,30 in Stamford, CT

Mostly Mozart Festival, G. Schwarz, Mus.Dir., Avery Fisher Hall (7/11-8/26/89)8/11,12/89 Thamos, Konig in Aegypten incidental music <5c Apollo et Hyacinthus Gardner

& Mills, Matthews, Rice, Taylor; Blake; c: SchwarzMusical Theatre Works, A. Stimac, Exec. & Art.Dir., St. Peter's (see also Vol.29 #1)

3/15-4/12/89 Mullaney/Phillips' Cradle SongNational Music Theater Network, T. Jerome, Exec.Dir., Donnell Library (see also Vol.29 #1)

2/6/89 Nassif s Opal wksp.rdg.4/27*,28* 5/1/89 Floyd's Bilby's Doll abrgd.; d: Corsaro (coprod. Opera/Music Theatre

Institute of NJ); *at Newark Public Library

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New Federal Theater, W. King, Jr., Prod., Henry Street Settlement5/7/89 Mickey/Stevenson's A Thrill a Moment prem.

The New Theatre/Gunther Funn Prods., East 4th St.3/31 4/1/89 "Silent Treatment" concert inch Jost's Opera Under Glass: A i-Act Opera

prem.New York City Opera, C. Keene, Gen.Dir., NY State Theater (see also "First Performance

Listing, 1989-90 Season")7/6,11,26 8/4,20m#,25#/89 Don Giovannit* Holleque/N. Thomast, Ginsberg/Cusack#, Mills/

Golden#; Garrison/Kelly#, Cheek/Shaw*, Opalach/J. McKee#, Peterson, Storojev/Peo#;c: Comissiona; d: Prince; ds: Langenfass

7/7,12 8/8#,26#/89 n Barbiere di Sivigliat Bunnell/Spence#; Eisler/Cousins*, Woodman/Peo#, J. McKee/Opalach#, Doss/Peterson#; c: Comissiona; d: Mansouri/Smith

7/8m,14,29m 8/5#,13m#/89 Rigolettot O'Flynn/Gibbonsi, Marsee/Eckart#; Hartfield/Garrison#, Elvira/Rucker#, Peterson/Doss#; c: Bergeson; d: Capobianco/Furlong

7/8,15m,27# 8/l#/89 The Merry Widowt Eng.; McBride, Golden/Bunnell#; Kelly/Thomsen#, Muenz/Otey#, R. McKee, Billings; c: Pallo; d: Bentley/Edwards

7/9m,13 8/ll#,19m#/89 Madama Butterflyt Lamy/Jonason#, Rose/Shaulis#; Absalom/O'Mara*, Shaw/Parcher#; c: Pallo; d: Corsaro

7/15,28 8/3/89 Die Zauberflbtet Hynes, Carter; W. MacNeil, Dickson, Godshall, Dworchak;c: Bergeson; d: Mansouri/Sherman

7/18,19#,20,21#,22m,22#,23m/89 Candide Sieden/Saffer#, Darr/Clement#, Costa-Greenspon/Almy#; Beudert/Tate#, Lankston/J. McKee#, R. McKee, Billings; c:Silverman; d: Prince/Masella

7/25 8/2,12,17#,26m#/89 Carment Cusack/Park#, W. White; Absalom, Shaw; c: France; d:Corsaro

7/29 8/5m,10#,18#/89 The Mikado Donahue, Shaulis/Costa-Greenspon#; Kelly/Beudert#,Parcher/Cossa#, J. McKee, R. McKee; c: Howard; d: Mansouri/Smith

8/9,15,24/89 Anna Bolenat Minns, Lerner, Bunnell; Hartfield, Dworchak; c: Bergeson; d:Lesenger

8/12m,19,23/89 Mefistofelet Ginsberg; Grayson, Cheek; c: Comissiona; d: Capobianco8/16,22,27m/89 La Bohemet Fleming, Dobish; Garrison, Woodman, Opalach, Wexler; c:

Nance; d: Auerbaeh/Alley8/29,30#,31 9/l#,2m,2#,3m,3/89 The Desert Song McBride/Thorngren#, Graff, Hickey,

Campana; Cousins/M.R. Davis#, R. White/Parcher#, McKinley, Bazemore, Kantor; c:Gahres; d: Johanson

New York Grand Opera, V. LaSelva, Mus.Dir., Central Park Bandshell6/29/89 Nabucco c: LaSelva7/6/89 Madama Butterfly Zeldin; c: LaSelva7/13/89 H Trittico Tucci; c: LaSelva7/20/89 La Boheme Ojima; T. Jacobs; c: LaSelva

New York University, Music & Music Education Dept., J. Gilbert, Dir. (see also Vol.29 #1)4/24-30/89 Pippin Musical Theater Program; d: Ventura6/29,30 7/1/89 The Saint of Bleecker Street Reimann Opera Theater; c: Wallace; d:

HeuermannOpera Francais de New York, Y. Abel, Mus.Dir., East 76th St.

4/14,15,16m/89 Romeo et Juliette w.p.Opera Stage. 11 Oth St.

l/14,15m/89 La TraviataPark Avenue Christian Church, 85th St.

2/3-12/89 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 6 pfs.PBS/WNET, Great Performances, telecast nationally (see also Vol.29 #1)

4/26/89 "Richard Tucker Foundation All-Star Gala" B. Nilsson, host (taped 11/13/88)6/2/89 La Cenerentola A. Murray; Araiza, G. Quilico, Berry; Vienna Philharmonic, c: R.

Chailly; d: Hampe; ds: Pagano; Salzburg Festival (taped 7/28/88)6/9/89 Argento's The Aspern Papers prem.prod.; Soderstrom, Von Stade, Ka. Ciesinski;

Rosenshein, Stilwell; Dallas Opera, c: N. Rescigno; d: Lamos; ds: Conklin (taped 11/88)Philharmonia Orchestra of New York, Trinity School

l/20,21,22m/89 La Clemenza di Tito conc.pf.Playwrights Horizons, A. Bishop, Art.Dir., West 42nd St.

6/89 Drobny's Lucy's Lapses wksp.prod.Producers Circle

2/89 Davis/Wright/Forrest's The Grand wksp.pfs.; d: Tune

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1988-89 SEASONQi Shufang Beijing Opera Troupe of Shanghai, national tour

1/21/89 The Chest & At the Crossroads & Green-Stone Mountain at Symphony SpaceRachyel Theater-Studio, Eighth Ave.

1/5-21/89 Die DreigroschenoperRapp Theater Company, R. Cohen, Art.Dir., East 4th St.

5/22/89 Gordon/Disch's Ben-Hur! stgd. rdg.; summer '89 prem. at Peabody Conservatory,Baltimore, MD

Repertorio Espaflol, R. Bueh, Gen.Dir., Gramerey Theater (see also Vol.29 #1)3/20/89 Granada prem.; adapt, from Falla & Lorca

Richmond Theatre Collection, Staten Island5/26,27 6/2,3/89 Pagliacci

Saint Bart's Playhouse, Park Ave.1/26-2/5/89 110 in the Shade 5/11-21/89 Sugar

Savory Singers/New York Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Educational Alliance3/30/89 The Gondoliers

Second Stage Theater, R. Goodman & C. Rothman, Art.Dirs., West 76th St.1-2/89 Darnell/Overmyer's In a Pig's Valise rev.vers.; prem.

Serious Fun, J . Wheeler, Prod., Alice Tully Hall (7/14-8/4/89)7/14/89 Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher d: Foreman (International Production

Associates Prod.)Shoestring Follies Prods., New Ziegfeld Theater, Waverly PI.

1/23-2/8/89 Berg/Tinsley/Judson/Proft's The Ziegfeld Girl prem.The Singers Forum Foundation, A. Anselmo & J. Harris, Dirs., Fifth Ave.

3/5-19/89 The Most Happy FellaSpeculum Musicae, Miller Theater, Columbia University

2/9/89 L'Histoire du soldatSundays at JASA, G. Samuels, Coord., West 68th St.

2/26m/89 Weisberg/Joplin/Pflanzer's A Guest of Honor: Scott Joplin conc.excpts.TADA!, J . Trevens & J. Learned, Art.Dirs., West 28th St. (see also Vol.29 #1)

6/8-18/89 A. Cohen's Book of Truth, Book of LiesThalia Spanish Theatre, Sunnyside, Queens

1/6,13/89 Der Sehauspieldirektor in Spanish3/30-6/25/89 Sorozabal/Ramos de Castro/Carreno's La Del Manojo de Rosas zarzuela

Theater for the New City, C. Field & G. Bartenieff, Art.Dirs., First Ave.1/8-2/5/89 Maddow's Betty Bends the Blues4-5/7/89 Field's One Director Against His Cast5/11-28/89 Irwin/Skipitares' Empires and Appetites prem.

Triangle, East 88th St.4/22-5/7/89 Shire/Maltby's Starting Here, Starting Now

Village Light Opera Group, R. Noll, Mus.Dir., Fashion Inst. of Tech. (see also Vol.29 #1)4/22,23m,27,28,29,30m/89 The Most Happy Fella

Vineyard Theater, J . LoSchiavo, Art.Dir. (revised listing)3/4m,18m/89 Die Zauberflote Eng./adapt. LoSchiavo; abrgd.; 4 pfs.Spring '89 La Cenerentola abrgd.; NYC tour (Salieri's Falstaff <5c II Matrimonio segreto

cancelled)Wagner College, Staten Island

4/26-5/13/89 Fiddler on the RoofThe Western Wind, Merkin Hall

5/21/89 Concert inch Glass's Madrigal OperaWooster Group, E. LeCompte, Art.Dir., Performing Garage (see also Vol.29 #1)

5/20-6/4/89 Tiles/Williams/Roth's Broken Cups prem.5/23-6/4/89 The Road to Immortality: Part III at Festival of the Americas, Montreal

NORTH CAROLINAAn Appalachian Summer, R. Chumbley Art.Dir, Boone

6-8/89 Festival incl. Stevens' BanjermanBrevard Music Center Festival, Opera Wksp., R. Magoulas, Gen.Mgr., Brevard (6/28-

8/13/89)7/1/89 n Barbiere di Siviglia W. McDonald; c: Janiec; d: Patacchi7/7/89 Der Sehauspieldirektor 5c Pagliacci Stern; c: Dawson; d: Magoulas7/14/89 La Traviata c: Janiec; d: Patacchi7/28/89 The Sound of Music c: Janiec; d: Magoulas8/4/89 The Mikado Magoulas; c: Saunders; d: Ferguson8/5/89 Lerner <5c Loewe Pops Concert c: Janiec

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Brevard Music Center Festival (continued)8/12/89 La Perichole Eng.; c: Dawson; d: Patacchi

Central Piedmont Community College Music Theatre Wksp., T. Vance, Coord., Charlotte1/10-14/89 The All Night Strut 6/28-7/8/89 Sweet Charity3/10-15/89 Grease 7/10-22/89 Cinderella6/8-24/89 My Fair Lady 7/26-8/5/89 Sweeney Todd

North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, L. Rackoff, Art.Dir, High Point7/6-16/89 Billy Bishop Goes to War at NCSA Arena, Winston-Salem

North Carolina Theatre, Raleigh4/5-9/89 Funny Girl

OHIOBlossom Music Festival, C. von Dohna'nyi, Mus.Dir., Cleveland Orchestra, Cuyahoga Falls

6/19-9/3/89 Concerts incl. Lloyd Webber's Requiem; Previn/Stoppard's Every Good BoyDeserves Favour

Bluffton College, Opera Wksp., S. Jacoby, Dir., Bluffton5/25,26,27/89 Bixel's Dance of the Kobzar prem; 8/4,5 in Normal, IL

Cincinnati May Festival, J. Conlon, Mus.Dir., Cincinnati (5/19-28/89)5/20/89 Concert incl. Khovanshchina excpts.; Cheek; c: Conlon5/27/89 Opera Gala, c: Conlon

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, J. L<5pez Cobos, Mus.Dir., Cincinnati5/27/89 Jenufa Act 2; conc.pf.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra, C. Badea, Mus.Dir., Columbus4/89 Elektra semi-stgd.; Danner; Roloff; c: Badea; 2 pfs.

Fine Arts Assn., J. Savage, Exec.Dir., Willoughby (see also Vol.29 #1)4/13,14,15m,16m/89 The Mikado adapt. McMahon; Children's Theatre; Yarnell Players6/9,10,11,15,16,18,22,23,24,25/89 Grease

Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute & Festival, N. McGegan, Art.Dir., Oberlin7/7-9/89 Festival incl. Handel's L'Allegro ed il penseroso c: McGegan

Ohio Light Opera, B. Havholm, Mgr., Wooster (6/7-8/6/89)6/7,10,16,28m 7/8m,11,22m,26,27,30m 8/6/89 Der Zigeunerbaron Eng.6/8,10m,llm,15,17,20 7/2m,5m,7,15m, 19m,23,30 8/2/89 Naughty Marietta6/9,14m,18m,24m,27 7/1,13,19 8/4,6m/89 Cox and Box & The Pirates of Penzance6/13,17m,21,22,24,30 7/16m,22,28 8/3/89 Grafin Mariza Eng.6/23,25m,29 7/lm,4,8,12m 8/1,5/89 La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein Eng.7/6,9m,15,21,25,29m 8/2m/89 LeCoq's La fille de Mme. Angot (as Clairette) Eng.7/14,18,20,23m,26,29 8/5m/89 The Sorcerer <3c Trial by Jury

Ohio State Univ. Opera/Music Theatre, R. Stephens, Dir., Columbus (see also Vol.29 #1)1/25-28 2/1-4,8-11/89 Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris2/27/89 Scenes d: Stephens

Players TheaterColumbus, E. Grazyck, Prod.Dir., Columbus (see also Vol.28 #4)3/9-4/2/89 Cole

University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati (see also Vol.29 #1)3/19m/89 Rogers/King's Phil A. Telic's Review Revue Mini-Mummers; 3 pfs.4/15,16/89 Verdi Requiem c: Samuel

University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, Opera Dept., M. Fraser, Dir.,Cincinnati (see also Vol.29 #1)3/3/89 Handel's Rodelinda excpts.; d: Eaton <5c Blumenfeld/Kondek's Fourscore: An Opera

of Opposites excpts; studio pf.; d: Fraser4/26/89 Scenes d: Eaton5/15/89 Le Nozze di Figaro Eng.; excpts. & Hisell's A Midsummer Night's Dream excpts.;

wksp.pfs.5/24,26/89 Hisell's A Midsummer Night's Dream prem.; w. Drama Dept.; c: Hisell; d:

Wainstein5/24/89 Gianni Schicchi Eng.; c: Hale; d: Eaton; 5/26 in Covington, KY

University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, Hot Summer Nights, A. Berg,Art.Dir., Corbett Theater, Cincinnati (7/6-8/27/89)7/6/89 Pippin in repertory 7/20/89 Once Upon a Mattress in repertory7/12/89 Levy/LaBolt's The Wonder Years in repertory

University of Toledo Opera Theater, T. East, Dir., Toledo4/29,30/89 Suor Angelica Eng. Withers <5c Scenes

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OREGONOregon Bach Festival, H. Rilling, Art.Dir., Eugene (6/24-7/9/89)

7/9/89 Mefistofele conc.pf.; c: RillingPeter Britt Gardens Music and Arts Festival, J. DePriest, Mus.Dir., Jacksonville

6/30-9/3/89 Festival incl. Man of La ManchaPortland Opera Players, touring company of Portland Opera, R. Bailey, Gen.Dir., Portland

(see also Vol.28 #4)1988-89 The Three Little Pigs; Let Us Serenade You tour to schools

Rogue Valley Opera, P. Cooper, Mgr., Ashland9/8,10/88 La Traviata 5/16/89 Concert12/12-15/88 La Cenerentola 7 student pfs.

University of Portland Opera, R. Doyle, Dir., Portland11/4-6,11-13/88 Evita2/16-19/89 Trouble in Tahiti &. The Old Maid and the Thief

PENNSYLVANIAChestnut Hill College Opera, Sister B. Glennon, Dir., Philadelphia

4/9,11,16/89 The MikadoCivic Light Opera, C. Gray, Exec.Dir. & Gen.Mgr ., Benedum Center, Pittsburgh

6/20-25 8/8-13/89 The King and I 7/11-16/89 My Fair Lady6/27-7/2/89 Annie 7/18-23/89 A Chorus Line7/4-9/89 Grease8/1-6/89 The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Nat'l. Alliance of Music Theatre Producers prod.)1988-89 Young Tom Jefferson; Freedom Train; Young Mark Twain; Annie school tours

Curtis Institute of Music, Opera Dept., R. Brunyate, Dir., Philadelphia (see also Vol.29 #1)2/18,19/89 Morrill's Perlimplin prem.

Duquesne University Opera Wksp., M. Novich, Dir., Pittsburgh4/8/89 La Finta Giardiniera Neue Mozart-Ausgabe ed.

Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Music Theatre, S. Mantel, Dir., Indiana (see also Vol.28 #4)2/22,24,26/89 Jesus Christ Superstar (replaces The Mystery of Edwin Drood)

Library Theatre, S. Pickover, Mus.Dir., Warren6/5-7/24/89 Camelot; The Music Man; The Fantasticks

Philomena Baroque Orchestra, Philadelphia2/11,12/89 La Serva padrona Ostendorf; c: Bekker

Pittsburgh Opera Center, T. Capobianco, Gen.Dir., Pittsburgh (see also Vol.28 #4)6/5-10/89 Die Dreigroschenoper at Metropol6/4m,18*/89 Scenes at Three Rivers Arts Festival; *at Hartwood Acres

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, L. Maazel, Mus.Dir., Pittsburgh1/26,27,28/89 Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada Acts 1 & 2; cone.pfs.; Kasrashvili, Shaulis,

Gayer; Gray, Szkafarowsky, White; Mendelssohn Choir; c: Tilson ThomasShawnee Playhouse, M. Farnen, Art.Dir., Shawnee

Summer '89 Anything Goes; The Pirates of Penzance; 42nd StreetTemple University Opera Theater, D. McDonough, Prod.Dir., Philadelphia

3/17,18/89 The Makropulos Affair Eng. (replaces Vanessa)Walnut Street Theater, B. Havard, Exec.Dir., Philadelphia

3/29/89 Fame—The MusicalWest Chester University, School of Music, West Chester

3/2,3,4/89 Offenbach's Genevieve de Brabant adapt./Eng. Fellner (as Ziggi); prem.PUERTO RFCO

Opera da Cdmara, L. Pereira, Gen. & Art.Dir., San Juan (see also Vol.28 #4)3/18,19m,19/89 The Toy Shop c: Sueiras; d: Marrero; ds: Llompart7/14,15,16/89 The Impresario

RHODE ISLANDTrinity Repertory Co., A. Hall, Art.Dir., Providence

12/88 Cumming/Hall's A Christmas CarolSOUTH CAROLINA

Spoleto Festival U.S.A., G.C. Menotti, Art.Dir., Gaillard Municipal Aud., Charleston (5/26-6/11/89)5/26,29 6/3,9/89 Bellini's La Stranierat* Neblett, Lerner; Giordani, Robertson, Short;

Westminster Choir; c: Moretti; d/ds: Halmen5/27,29m 6/l,3m,5,7,10m/89 Le Nozze di Figaro* Fleming, Shin, Bunnell; Parce, Trakas;

Westminster Choir; c: Argiris; d: Menotti; ds: Carcano/Gastine; at Dock Street Theater(continued)

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1988-89 SEASONSpoleto Festival U.S.A. (continued)

5/27,28,29/89 Piazzolla/Daniele's Dangerous Games (form. Tango/Orfeo) (eoprod. AmericanMusic Theater Festival)

6/8,10,11/89 L. Anderson's Empty Places prem.; AndersonTENNESSEE

Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Ass'n., V. Jordania, Art.Dir., Chattanooga4/15/89 The Mikado c: Rice; d: Pennebaker

Knoxville Opera, R. Lyall, Gen. & Art.Dir., Knoxville (see also Vol.28 #4)7/14,15,16/89 My Fair Lady

Playhouse on the Square, J. Nichols, Exec.Dir., Memphis (see also Vol.29 #1)4/89 Muldowney/Mitchell's The Pied Piper

TEXASCasa Maflana Musicals, B. Franks, Exec.Prod. & Gen.Mgr., Fort Worjth

5/29-6/10/89 Oliver! 7/24-8/5/89 Sugar Babies6/15-24/89 Peter Pan 8/7-19/89 The King and I6/26-7/8/89 My One and Only 8/21-9/2/89 Baby7/10-22/89 Oklahoma!

Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston7/89 The Sorcerer at Houston Baptist University

Houston Grand Opera, D. Gockley, Gen.Dir., Houston (see also Vol.29 #1)2/28 3/1,2,3m,3,4,5/89 Show Boat c: DeMain; at the new Cairo Opera House, Egypt2-4/89 America Sings!; Hansel and Gretel Texas Opera Theater; c: Holmquist; d:

Galterio; ds: Romero; tour to 37 Southern citiesLone Star Historical Drama Assn., D. Yockey & G. Cox, Prods., Galveston

6/10-8/13/89 South Pacific; Oklahoma!; The Lone Star in repertoryLyric Opera of Dallas, J. Burrows, Art.Dir., Dallas

5/14,16,17,19,20/89 II Barbiere di Siviglia Meadows; Wilson, Velta, E. Johnson; c:Burrows/Reed; d: Sherman

6/11,13,14,16,17/89 Candide Elledge; Harger, Lankston; c: Burrows; d: LuchsingerOpera in the Schools, E. Troxler, Gen.Mgr., San Antonio

10/88-5/89 Hansel and Gretel Eng. Troxler; abrgd.; 154 school pfs.San Antonio Festival, D. Lipton, Art.Dir., San Antonio (6/4-17/89)

6/4/89 Gala Operatic Concert, c: Lipton; at Scottish Rite Auditorium6/17/89 Die Walklire conc.pf.; Armstrong, Kelm; Ellsworth, Hale, Rundgren; Deutsche

Oper Berlin; San Antonio Festival Orchestra; c: L<5pez Cobos; at Cockrell TheatreSouthern Methodist University, Div. of Music, J. Ode, Chmn., Dallas

4/28,29/89 Haydn's Lo Speziale Eng. SchermanUniversity of Houston Opera Theatre, B. Ross, Dir., Houston (see also Vol.28 #4)

3/3,5/89 The Seven Deadly Sins & Der Zar lfisst sich photographieren Eng.; c: Wyss; d:Ross (replaces Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)

University of Texas Opera Theatre, R. DeSimone, Dir., Austin2/23,25 3/2,4/89 Graham's The Boor & Bizet's La Maison du Docteur prem.; Eng./ed.

Girard; c: GirardVERMONT

Brattleboro Opera Theatre, N. Nail, Art.Dir., Brattleboro1/89 Hansel und Gretel tour of VT

Vermont Music Festival, M. Kaplan, Art.Dir., Burlington (7/16-8/5/89)7/27/89 The Gondoliers

VIRGINIAAsh Lawn-Highland Summer Festival, S. Crout, Art.Dir., Charlottesville

6/25 7/1,2,26,29 8/5,9,13/89 Cosi fan tutte 8/16 on tour7/8,9,15,16,28 8/2,6,12/89 II Turco in Italia 8/18 on tour7/22,23,30 8/4,11/89 L'Ormindo 8/20 on tour

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg2/89 Purcell's King Arthur Rickards

James River Chamber Opera, K. Tracy, Mng.Dir., Richmond3/24-26/89 Dressler's An Evening with Mr. Jefferson and Friends w.hpschd.7/28,29,30/89 Tartuffe c: Commanday; d: Cathes; ds: Boynton

Southwest Virginia Opera Society, M. Granger, Art.Dir., Roanoke (see also Vol.29 #1)5/11,12,13/89 The Yeomen of the Guard c: Walton; in Salem

Theatre IV, B. Miller, Art.Dir., Richmond (see also Vol.29 #1)4-5/89 Barnett/Jones' Town Mouse and Country Mouse; Strong/Strong/Flanagan's Golden

Goose; Giersch/Miller/Bliss' Hugs and Kisses national tour

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1988-89 SEASONVirginia Commonwealth University Opera Studio, L.W. Batty, Dir., Richmond

12/10,12/88 Pasatieri's The Women <5c La Divina &. Padrevia4/15,16/89 Cosi fan tutte 12/4/88 4/30/89 Scenes

Virginia Opera, "Buffa!" touring program, P. Marie, Gen.Dir., NorfolkFall '88, 3-5/89 "Prima Donna" company developed; tour to schools; 108 pfs.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, P. Russell, Adm.Dir., Vienna (6/1-9/17/89)8/29,30,31 9/1,2,3/89 Fiddler on the Roof Topol (national tour)

Wolf Trap Opera Company, P. Russell, Adm.Dir., The Barns, Vienna7/7,8,9m/89 Dido and Aeneas Daniel Wester Dancers; Jubilate Choir; c: Echols; d/chor:

West; ds: Moyer7/21,23m,25/89 La Cenerentola c: Sutej; d: Mattaliano; d: Moyer8/17,19/89 Le Nozze di Figarot Upshaw; c: Pappano; d: Cazan; ds: Brown (San Francisco

Opera prod.); at Filene Center8/6/89 Showcase concert at Filene Center

WASHINGTONThe Empty Space Theatre, M.B. Walker, Prod.Dir., Seattle

Spring '89 Grant/Marshall/Duxbury's Whadda 'Bout My Legal Rights? tour to WA schoolsShoreline Community College Opera/Music Theatre, S. Dolacky, Dir., Seattle

2/16,17,18/89 Opera scenes 6/1-4/89 Anything GoesUniversity of Washington Opera Music Theater, V. Liotta, Dir., Seattle (see also Vol.28 #4)

3/13,14/89 Kuss's My Fellow Traveler exepts. <5c Monroe's The Insanity of Mary Girardexepts.; New Opera Wksp.

WISCONSINMadison Repertory Theatre, Madison

2/21-4/9/89 Pump Boys and DinettesMarquette University, Music Dept., Milwaukee

4/12-15,19-23/89 Happy End Feingold ed.Skylight Comic Opera, S. Wadsworth/F. Zambello, Art.Dirs., Milwaukee (see also Vol.29 #1)

7/13,14,15m,15,16m,16,20,21/89 Edith Piaf on Stage 7/22 in Madison8/3,4,5/89 The Mikado cone.pfs.; Milwaukee Symphony; at Performing Arts Center

University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Music, E. Meske, Dir., Madison10/7,8/88 Mahagonny Songspiel

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Music Theater, D. Wadsworth, Dir., Whitewater2/89 Jesus Christ Superstar 8 pfs.

CANADAAmici Ensemble, St. Andrew's Church, Toronto, Ont.

2/17/89 Pierrot lunaire semi-stgd.; L. Marshall; c: A. DavisBanff Centre School of Fine Arts, Music Theatre Program, J. Metcalf, Art.Dir., Banff,

Alta. (see also Vol.28 #4)2/22,23,24/89 Die Dreigroschenoper Eng. Manheim; ed. Willett (coprod. Canadian Stage

Co.)Banff Festival Opera, C. Graham, Head, Banff, Alta. (6/3-8/26/89) (revised listing)

8/3-11/89 Cendrillon e: Lord; d: Graham; ds: Jampolis8/3-11/89 Fra Diavolo e: Uyeda; d: Bachman

Canadian Opera Co. Ensemble, I. Wronski, Admin., Toronto, Ont. (see also Vol.29 #1)5/8,9,10/89 Offenbach <5c Sondheim cone; Toronto Symphony Orchestra, c: Kunzel5/16,17,18/89 Gougeon/T. Anderson's An Expensive Embarassment prem. <5c Koprowski/R.

Anderson's Dulcitius: Demise of Innocence prem. & MacDonald/Keobke's TheUnbelievable Glory of Mr. Sharp prem.; c: Krywolt/Larkin/Mitchell

Canadian Stage Company, Toronto, Ont.3/6-4/1/89 Die Dreigroschenoper Eng. Manheim; ed. Willett (coprod. Banff Centre School

of Fine Arts)CBC-TV, Canadian Opera Co./Primedia Communications, N. Campbell, Dir., nat'l. telecast

6/1/89 Tosca (taped 1/89) 9/7/89 La Boheme (taped 6/89)7/13/89 The Makropulos Case (taped 2/89)

Citadel Teen Festival of the Arts, Edmonton, Alta.5/2-6/89 Festival incl. Ross/Massing's My Face on Mars; Donald/McKinley's Lady of the

Blade; Lloyd/Lemoine's Teens in TogasClassical Cabaret, M. Morawetz, Mus.Dir., Toronto, Ont.

9/22/88 Arden's The Saga of Rosie Brown prem.; c: Morawetz; at the Fall Festival ofFun, Kirkland Lake, Ont.; 11/6 run at the Ignatieff Theatre, Toronto

Les Eve'nements du neuf, Montreal, P.Q.3/11/89 Vivier's Kopernikus conc.pf.

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1988-89 SEASONGuelph Spring Festival, L. Applebaum, Art.Adv., Guelph, Ont. (see also Vol.29 #1)

5/14,15m/89 Hawkins/Findley's The First Fable Toronto Young People's TheatreInternational Choral Festival, N. Goldschmidt, Mus.Dir., Toronto, Ont. (5/31-6/30/89) (see

also Vol.28 #4)6/1/89 Concert incl. Boris Godunov exepts.6/6,28,29/89 Schafer's Apocalypsis prem.; BBC Singers; c: Poole; at the Univ. of Toronto6/20/89 La Damnation de Faust Carlson; Cole, Plishka c: Dutoit

International Opera Festival, G. Raffa, Art.Dir., Place Stadium, Vancouver, B.C.4/27,29/89 Aida Troitskaya, Baldani; Sebastian, Dupont; c: Raffa; d: Bolognini; ds:

Variseo/Spinatelli (Bari/Giza/Montreal prod.)National Arts Centre Orchestra, G. Chmura, Mus.Dir., Ottawa, Ont. (see also Vol.29 #1)

7/20,22,25,27,29/89 Don Giovannit Wiens, Dahl, Forst; Cole, Braun, Corbeil, Ens; c:Chmura; d: Uzan

L'Opera de Montreal/Atelier lyrique, B. Uzan, Gen.Dir., Montreal, P.Q. (see also Vol.29 #1)4/3m,3/89 L'Enfant et les sortileges c: Armenian; d: Rouleau4/7,14/89 Scenes; also tour4/21,28 5/5,12/89 Die Fledermaus exepts.; tour

Opera East, Halifax, N.S4/89 The Impresario & Suor Angelica

Prairie Opera Inc., M. Moats, Art.Dir., Saskatoon, Sask.10/14,15/88 The Consul 10/29 in Regina2/26/89 Le Pauvre Matelot 3/4 in Regina4-5/89 La Cenerentola abrgd.; 15 pfs. on tour

Shaw Festival, P. Reynolds, Prod., Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.5/17-10/15/89 De Sylva/Brown/Henderson's Good News

Soci6te national de production et de diffusion des arts lyriques, Chicoutimi, P.Q.2/4/89 Offenbach's Barbe-Bleue

Stratford Shakespeare Festival, G. Thomas, Gen.Dir., Stratford, Ont.5/6-10/29/89 Kiss Me, Kate

Symphony Orchestra of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Chicoutimi, P.Q.4/9/89 Concert incl. Prince Igor exepts.; Charbonneau; c: Clement; 4/8 in Jonquiere

Tafelmusik, Trinity-St. Paul United Church, Toronto, Ont.2/18/89 n Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Sprott; van Altena, Pepper

Theatre d'art lyrique de Laval, G. Patenaude, Art.Dir., Laval, P.Q.4/15,16,29,30/89 Patenaude's Pour ces quelques arpents de neige

Thefitre lyrique de Boucherville, Boucherville, P.Q.4/21,22,28,29 5/5,6/89 Masse's La Perle rare; c: Renaud; 5/19,20 at Theatre du Nouveau-

Monde, MontrealToronto Symphony Orchestra, J. Armstrong, Mng.Dir., Toronto, Ont.

5/17,18,20/89 Die Walkiire Act 1; conc.pfs.; Doese; Frey, Schenk; c: DeckerToronto Young People's Theatre, Toronto, Ont.

12/88 Hawkins/Findley's The First Fable prem. (coprod. Musical Mondays Ensemble);5/14,15m/89 at Guelph Spring Festival

6/25m,26/89 Somers's A Midwinter Night's Dream Canadian Children's Opera ChorusTouchstone Theater, Vancouver, B.C.

2/11-3/5/89 Die DreigroschenoperUniversity of Alberta Opera Wksp., H. Wiens, Dir., Edmonton, Alta.

2/8,10/89 Die FledermausWilfrid Laurier University Opera Wksp., D. Falk, Dir., Kitchener-Waterloo area, Ont.

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All performances are staged unless marked "conc.pf." (concert performance) and are given withan orchestra unless marked "w.p." (with piano). An * following a title indicates a new production;a t indicates that projected English captions are used. A single date appearing for a seriesof several performances indicates the opening night. Performances and news items listed inan issue of the Bulletin are not repeated in later issues.

ALABAMAMobile Opera, P. Pearce, Gen.Mgr., H. France, Mus.Dir., Mobile

10/19,21/89 The Ballad of Baby Doe Grissom, Munzer; Stilwell; c: France; d: Gately; ds:Beck/Malabar

3/15,17/90 La Traviata Zoghby; Riberi, Steele; c: France; d: Cazan; ds: Stevens/MalabarALASKA

Alaska Light Opera Theatre, N. & S. Denison, Mng.Dirs., Anchorage12/6-10,13-17,20-23/89 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat2/90 Man of La Mancha7/90 The King and I

Anchorage Opera, W. Russell, Gen.Dir., Anchorage9/22,24111,26,28,30/89 Rigolettot Stevens; c: Agler1/26,28,30 2/1,3/90 Die Fledermaus Eng.; c: Sulich

ARIZONAArizona Opera Co., G. Ross, Gen.Dir., Tucson/Phoenix

10/19,21/89 Faustt Cummings, Ames; Bologna, Julian, Tyl; c: van der Merwe; d: More-lock; 10/26,28,29m in Phoenix

1/11,13/90 La Forza del destinot Voss/Kucenic#, Ames; West, Dolter, Mangin, Sullivan;c: Holt; d: Lucas; l/18,20,21m# in Phoenix

2/1,3/90 Madama Butterflyt Kim/Lim#, Ames; Wolverton, Majoros; c: Holt; d: Morelock;2/8,10,llm# in Phoenix

3/15,17/90 Lucia di Lammermoort Goetz; Serbo, Ledbetter; c: Colacioppo; d: Field;3/22,24,25m in Phoenix

ARKANSASArkansas Opera Theatre, A. Chotard, Gen. & Art.Dir., Little Rock

4/ll,13,15m/90 Die Zauberflote Eng.6/8,10,16m/90 Cos1* fan tutte6/9,15,17/90 The Impresario & Gianni Schicchi3-5/90 "Mozart and All That Jazz" tour

CALIFORNIACalifornia Music Theatre, G. Davis, Art.Dir., Pasadena

10/4-22/89 The Pajama Game 18 pfs.11/29-12/17/89 Iolanthe 18 pfs.

California Opera Ensemble, D. Elliott, Art.Dir., Sacramento12/89 Gala4/90 Wargo's Seduction of a Lady & The Music Shop Jc TBA prem.; company developed

Fullerton Civic Light Opera, R. Duncan, Gen.Mgr., Fullerton10-11/89 Shenandoah2-3/90 42nd Street5-6/90 Zorba

The Lamplighters, A. Harvey, Gen.Dir., San Francisco9/16/89 Die Fledermaus Rng.; 15 pfs.12/7,8,9,10/89 Champagne Gala3/3-4/8/90 The Mikado 15 pfs.6/16-7/29/90 Something's Afoot 15 pfs.

Long Beach Civic Light Opera, H. Waggoner, Exec.Dir., Long Beach10/5-22/89 Sophisticated Ladies3/1-18/90 Follies5/3-20/90 Jesus Christ Superstar7/12-29/90 1776

Los Angeles Music Center Opera, P. Hemmings, Gen.Dir., Los Angeles9/6,9,12,15,18/89 Tosca* Ewing; Shicoff, Diaz; c: Domingo; d: Moshinsky; ds: Gunter/

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Los Angeles Music Center Opera (continued)9/10,13,14,16,17/89 Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny* Eng.; Cariaga, Steiger;

Bachlund; c: Nagano; d: J. Miller; ds: Israel1/19,21,24,27/90 Le Nozze di Figaro Blasi, Auger, von Stade; Gilfry, Allen; c: Foster; d:

Hall; ds: Bury2/16,20,25,27/90 Falstaff Sublett, Bower; Wixell; c: Foster; d: Aster; ds: Griffin/Stennett4/20,22,25,28/90 The Queen of Spades* Troitskaya, Lear; Domingo, Stewart; c: Simonov;

d: Konchalovsky; ds: Frigerio/Squarciapino (eoprod. La Scala)6/7-17/90 Where the Wild Things Are & Higglety, Pigglety, Pop! c: Knussen/Behr; d:

Corsaro; ds: Sendak; 12 pfs.6/22-7/1/90 Oklahoma! 12 pfs.

Marin Opera, I. Martinez, Gen.Dir., Larkspur12/9/89 Gala Concert1/5,7/90 Carmen3/9,11/90 Getty's Plump Jack stg.prem. (postponed from 1988)5/9,11/90 Camelot

Opera Pacific, D. DiChiera, Gen.Dir., Costa Mesal/13,14m,18,19,20/90 La Traviata (eoprod. Michigan Opera Theatre)2/16,22,24 3/2,4m/90 Turandot2/21,23,25 3/1,3/90 Don Giovanni (eoprod. Michigan Opera Theatre & Dayton Opera)7/6-15/90 Show Boat 12 pfs.

Opera San Jos6, I. Dalis, Art.Dir., San Jose10/14-22/89 La Traviatat* c: Rohrbaugh; d: Helfgot; ds: Murray/Rathman; 7 pfs.11/25-12/3/89 Mollicone/Fein's Hotel Eden* prem.; c: Turner; d: Helfgot; ds: Holamon/

DuBois; 7 pfs.2/10-18/90 Les PScheurs de perlest* c: Rohrbaugh; d: Helfgot; ds: Holamon/Poindexter; 7

pfs.5/12-20/90 Cos"! fan tuttet* c: Turner; d: Helfgot; ds: Manchester; 7 pfs.

Riverside Opera, L. Freedman, Gen.Dir., Riverside12/89 Hansel and Gretel Eng.2/24,27/90 The Merry Widow Eng.

Sacramento Music Circus, Sacramento11/8-19/89 La Cage aux Folles

Sacramento Opera, M. Oaks, Gen.Dir., Sacramento9/15,17/89 La Fanciulla del Westt11/17,19/89 L'Elisir d'amoret2/23,25/90 Faustt

San Bernardino Civic Light Opera, CD. Jenks, Gen.Mgr., San Bernardino11/8-19/89 La Cage aux Folles

San Diego Opera, I. Campbell, Gen.Dir., San Diego10/21,24,27,29m,31/89 Boris Godunovt Bogacheva, Wen; Glassman, Morozov, Khoperia; c:

Kakhidze; d: Merrill; ds: W. Skalicki (Canadian Opera Co. prod.)1/20,23,26,28m/90 La Bohemet* Tokody, Welhasch; O'Neill, Baerg, Langan, Tajo; e:

Miiller; d: Copley; ds: Conklin2/10,13,16,18m/90 Dialogues des Carmelitest* N. Thomas, Neblett, Parrish, Forrester; c:

Bonynge; d: Hebert; ds: Schneider-Siemssen (eoprod. Houston Grand Opera)3/3,6,9,llm/90 La Fille du r^gimentt N. Thomas, Begg; Hartfield, Del Carlo; c: Bonynge;

d: Galterio; ds: Montresor3/20/90 Wagner concert incl. Die Walkiire Act I; Hass; Lakes, Korn; c: Fricke4/14,17,20,22m,25/90 Die ZauberflStet Hong, Sublett, Wen; Gulyas, Malis, Cox; c:

Keltner; d: Levine; ds: Sendak (Houston Grand Opera prod.)10/1/89 Carol Neblett in recital10/89 Rockwell/Montgomery's Rip Van Winkle prem.; Hansel and Gretel abrgd.; Education

Dept.; school residencies and toursSan Diego Repertory Theatre, S. Woodhouse, Prod.Dir., San Diego

9/6-10/1/89 Bleasdale's Are You Lonesome Tonight? Am.prem.San Francisco Children's Opera, N. Gingold, Dir., San Francisco

11/11/89 Sleeping Beauty12/16/89 A Date with Santa2/3/90 Snow White and Rose Red3/24/90 The Magic Lamp4/28/90 Little Red Riding Hood

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San Francisco Opera, L. Mansouri, Gen.Dir., San Francisco9/8,13,17m,17,21,23,26,29/89 Falstafff Lorengar, Swenson, Cowdrick, Home; De Haan,

Se'ne'ehal, Raftery, Stewart/Noble; c: Kord; d: Ponnelle/Calabria; ds: Ponnelle9/9,12,15,20,23m 10/lm/89 Lulut* Panagulias, Lear, Harris; MeCauley, Braun, Myers,

Hotter; c: Mauceri; d: Mansouri; ds: Schneider-Siemssen/Mackie9/16,19,22,24m,28 10/4,8m,10/89 Mefistofelet* Benackova", Christin; D. O'Neill, Ramey; c:

Arena; d: Carsen; ds: M. Levine (coprod. w. Geneva)9/30 10/3,6,12,15m,20,24/89 Otellot Ricciarelli; Mauro, De Haan, Ellis; e: Kord; d:

Ponnelle/Asagaroff; ds: Ponnelle10/7,11,14m,17,22m,25,27/89 Idomeneot* Manila, Gustafson; Ochman, Alexander,

Bloehwitz; c: Pritchard; d: Copley; ds: Conklin/Stennett10/21,26,29m 11/1,4,7,12m,14/89 Aidat Sweet, Zajick; Popov, Noble, Langan; c: Kellogg;

d: Donnell; ds: Schmidt/Casey10/28,31 11/3,5m,10,15,18 12/3/89 Madama Butterflyt Hartliep/Gauci, Redmon/Manhart;

Polozov/Aragall, Laperriere/Schexnayder, J. Green/Li, Skinner; c: Pritchard; d:Farruggio; ds: Businger; <5c 9 student mats.

11/11,17,21,26m,29 12/2,8/89 Lohengrint Haggander, Randovd; Frey, Leiferkus, Vogel,Baerg; c: Mackerras; d: Weber; ds: Montresor

ll/19m,24,30 12/3,6,9/89 Vivaldi's Orlando furiosot* Patterson, Kuhlmann, Home; Gall,Matteuzzi, Langan; c: Pritchard; d/ds: Pizzi

11/25,28 12/1,4,7,10m/89 Die Frau ohne Schattent M.J. Johnson, G. Jones, Silja; Johns,Muff; c: Dohna'nyi; d: Asagaroff; ds: Zimmermann/J. Skalicki

9/10/89 "Opera in the Park" concert9/24/89 Jessye Norman Recital

Sierra Chamber Opera, A. Rea, Gen.Dir., Fresno9/89-6/90 Rea/Monson's The Witch's Broom; Sarkisian's The Waiting Room school tour

Townsend Opera Players, E. Townsend, Art.Dir., Modesto10/89 Gala12/89 Hansel and Gretel Eng.2/90 Toscat4/90 Die ZauberflSte Eng.

University of California Opera Theatre, M. Ingham, Dir., Santa Barbara2/10,11,12/90 La Boheme Eng. Martin3/9,10,11/90 Idomeneo5/11,12,13/90 The Turn of the Screw

University of the Pacific, Conservatory of Music, M.R. Clark, Dir. of Opera, Stockton12/2,3/89 Die Zauberflote 4/20,21/90 The Merry Widow

COLORADOOpera Colorado, Nathaniel Merrill, Gen. & Art.Dir., Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver

4/28 5/l,4m/90 Faustt5/5,8,11,13m/90 Macbetht

University of Colorado, College of Music, D. Jackson, Dir. of Opera, Boulder10/20,21,22/89 Brigadoon2/15,16,17,18/90 Gianni Schicchi Eng.4/12,13,14,15/90 Die Dreigroschenoper Eng.7/6-29/90 The Mikado 9 pfs.7/7-28/90 Kismet 9 pfs.

University of Northern Colorado Opera Theatre, C. Gerbrandt, Dir., Greeley11/6/89 Scenes11/14/89 Le Docteur Miracle Eng. Gerbrandt; 11/16 at NOA Convention, Albuquerque11/13-18/89 Quilters12/7,8,9/89 Hansel und Gretel Eng. Bache3/1,2,3/90 Cabaret4/19,21/90 The Ballad of Baby Doe

CONNECTICUTConnecticut Grand Opera & Stamford State Opera, J. Hiddlestone, Gen.Mgr., Stamford/

Bridgeport*9/16,23#/89 Madama Butterfly Zseller; Riberi, Wroblewski; c: Bellini; d: Gentilesca11/11,18#/89 Le Nozze di Figaro Gamberoni, Page; Peterson; c: Gilgore; d: de Blasis3/16#,17/90 Verdi Requiem Spacagna, Greenfield; Pita, Paychinov; c: Gilgore4/21 #,28/90 Carmen Ciurca; Barasorda, Dietsch; c: Gilgore; d: Uzan

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Connecticut Opera, G. Osborne, Gen.Dir., Hartford10/19,20,21/89 La Bohemet Conte; Ashbaker, Damsel, Honeysucker11/16,17,18/89 Nabuccot A. Smith2/15,16,17/90 Die Zauberflotet Christman; Thomson, Deutch4/19,20,21/90 Lucia di Lammermoort Weidinger1989-90 Amahl and the Night Visitors; Hansel and Gretel; n Barbiere di Siviglia tours

Goodspeed Opera House, M. Price, Exec.Dir., East Haddam9/27-12/17/89 Oh, Kay!

New England Lyric Operetta, W. Edgerton, Art.Dir., Stamford9/22,23/89 El Capitan3/2,3/90 The Chocolate Soldier Eng. Kraus/Opelka5/4,5/90 Operetta Pops

DELAWAREOperaDelaware, E. Kjellmark, Gen.Dir., Wilmington

11/25 12/1,2/89 Madama Butterflyt*3/9,10m/90 McCabe/Larner's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe* Am.prem.5/5,11,12/90 Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail Eng.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAWashington Concert Opera, S. Crout, Gen.Dir., Washington

9/24/89 Lakme't conc.pf.; Dahl; Thomsen, Dworchak; c: CroutWashington Opera, M. Feinstein, Gen.Dir., Opera House, Kennedy Center, Washington

10/28,31 ll/3,6,9,12m/89 Lucia di Lammermoort Swenson; Hadley, Coni, Halfvarson; c:Bernardi; d: Terleckyj; ds: O'Hearn/Mess (Greater Miami Opera prod.)

11/4,7,10,13,16,19m/89 Cosi fan tuttet Holleque, Dahl, Palmour; Croft, Raftery, Loup; c:Fleisher; d/ds: Ponnelle/Kaegi (coprod. L'Orchestre de Paris)

12/30,31/89 1/5,7m,9,11,13,15,21m,26/90 Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor* Eng.; Woods,Hoeh, Cowdrick; Croft, Pedrotti, Cox; c: Mechetti; d: Major; at the EisenhowerTheater

1/6,8,10,12,14m,19,22,28m,30 2/1/90 Werthert* Langton, Palmour; Thomsen, Nimnicht; c:Kellogg; d: Terleckyj; ds: Brown; at the Eisenhower Theater

1/20,23,25,27,29,31 2/2,4m/90 Argento's The Aspern Papers South, Ka. Ciesinski, Graham;Orth, Kuebler, Halfvarson; c: Mauldin; d: Lamos; ds: Conklin (Dallas Opera prod.); atthe Eisenhower Theater

2/17,20,23,26 3/1,4m, 10/90 Aidat Millo, Toczyska; Popov, Albert, Halfvarson, Eckhoff; c:Kellogg; d: Joel; ds: Halmen (Lyric Opera of Chicago prod.)

2/24,27 3/2,5,8,llm/90 Die Fledermaus* Eng.; Dahl, Coburn, Palmour; Kuebler, Lorca,Orth, Hamilton, Eckhoff; c: Lanchbery; d: Saddler; ds: Brown

FLORIDAFlorida Keys Community College, Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, W.L. Bell,

Gen.Mgr., Key West11/16,17,18,19,23,24,25/89 Nefertiti2/22,23,24 3/2,3/90 Little Shop of Horrors

Gold Coast Opera, T. Cavendish, Gen.Dir., Pompano Beach12/3m,5,8,10m/89 The Chocolate Soldier2/4m,6,9,llm/90 Rigoletto3/25,27,30 4/1/90 Naughty Marietta

Greater Miami Opera, R. Heuer, Gen.Mgr., Miami11/27,28,29 12/2,3/89 n Trovatoret Mosca, Conrad; Kudriavchenko, McFarland; c:

Waters; d: Lata; ds: Benois/Caine; 11/5 in Fort Lauderdale1/15,16,17,20,21/90 Idomeneot* M. Martin, Brown, Quittmeyer; Rayam; c: Waters; d:

Hampe; ds: Rupprecht; 1/23 in Fort Lauderdale2/12,13,14,17,18/90 II Barbiere di Sivigliat Kuhlman; Gardner, Feller; c: R. Buckley; d:

Bernhard; 2/20 in Fort Lauderdale3/12,13,14,17,18/90 Normat Neblett; Wells; d: Hebert; ds: Klein; 3/20 in Fort Lauderdale4/23,24,25,28,29/90 Madama Butterflyt Spacagna, Hegierski; Polozov, Otey; d: Scotto; ds:

Klein; 5/1 in Fort Lauderdale9/23/89 Renata Scotto in recital

North Miami Beach Opera Co., L. Siegel, Gen.Dir., Miami Beach4/1/90 La Traviata

Orlando Opera Co., R. Owens, Gen.Dir., Orlandoll/17,19m,21/89 II Trovatore Copley, Collins; Dominguez, Elvira; c: Guadagno; d: Igesz;

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1989-90 SEASONOrlando Opera Co. (continued)

2/16,18m,20/90 La Boheme Holleque, Tyree; Ashbaker, Cossa, Hogan; c: Jean; d:Lesenger

3/23,25m,27/90 L'ltaliana in Algeri Firestone; Daniecki, R. McKee5/90 Andrea Che'nier (Ope>a de Toulon, France, prod.); 3 pfs.

Palm Beach Opera, A. Guadagno, Art.Dir., Palm Beach12/8,10/89 Macbetht* Dimitrova; c: Guadagno1/26,28/90 Toscat M.J. Johnson; c: Guadagno3/9,11/90 La Cenerentolat* Jovanovic; c: Guadagno

Sarasota Opera, D. Allyn, Mng.Dir., Sarasota2/3,6,8,11111,16,23 3/3/90 La Boheme2/9/90 Artists Concert2/10,13,15,18m,21,25/90 Cosft fan tutte2/17,20,22,25m/90 Werther2/24,27 3/l,4m/90 Verdi's Aroldo2/26 3/2/90 Apprentice Scenes

Stetson University Opera/Music Theater Wksp., C. Maddox, Dir., DeLand11/7/89 5/1/90 Scenes1/8-26/90 The Proposal tour2/8-10/90 Le Nozze di Figaro Eng. Addison

Treasure Coast Opera Soc, C. Barrena, Gen.Dir., Fort Pierce1/13/90 Cavalleria rusticanat <5c Pagliaccif2/24/90 The Student Prince3/24/90 La Bohemet

GEORGIAAugusta Opera, E. Bradberry, Gen.Dir., Augusta

9/6,8,9,10,12,14,15,16/89 Oklahoma!* c: Biaggi11/15,17,18/89 Faust Eng.12/3/89 Christmas Concert at St. Paul's Church2/14,16,17/90 Cole Porter Gala5/2,4,5/90 Carmen Eng.

Savannah Symphony Orchestra, P. Greenberg, Mus.Dir, Savannah4/21/90 Carmina Burana c: Greenberg

HAWAIIHawaii Opera Theatre, M. Turkin, Gen.Dir., Honolulu

2/2,4m,6/90 Otellot Holleque; Paglialunga, Bernardini, Fazah; c: Coppola; d: Farruggio;ds:

Kotcher2/16,18m,20/90 Cosi fan tuttet Eng.; set in Hawaii; Vazquez, EUege, Livengood; Eisler,

Byrne, West; c: M. Fischer-Dieskau; d: Knapp; ds: Dodd/Finney3/2,4m,6/90 The Bartered Bridet Eng.; Donahue, Moore; Naldi, Livingston, Voketaitis; c:

Nance; d: Bakman; ds: BeckILLINOIS

Chamber Opera Chicago, L. Rapehak, Adm.Dir., Chicago4/21,27,28 5/4,6,12/90 Rapchak/Bradbury's The Life Work of Juan Diaz prem. & Gianni

Schicchi5/5,11,13,18,19,25,26/90 Le Nozze di Figaro

Chicago Opera Theater, M. Scorca, Gen.Mgr., Chicago2/7,10,11,16,18,21,24/90 Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Eng.3/21,24,25,30 4/1,4,7/90 Davies1 The Lighthouse5/9,12,13,18,20,23,26/90 Lakme" Eng.6/9,10,13,16,17,20,22/90 Carousel

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, G. Solti, Mus.Dir., D. Barenboim, Mus.Dir.Designate, Chicago3/1,2,3,6/90 Parsifal Act 2; conc.pf.; W. Meier; Gray, von Kannen; c: Barenboim

Lyric Opera of Chicago, A. Krainik, Gen.Dir., Chicago9/16,19,22,25,28 10/2,6,11/89 Toscat Marton; Pavarotti/Johannsson, Nimsgern; e:

Bartoletti; d: De Tomasi; ds: Pizzi9/26,30 10/4,7m, 10,13,16,20/89 Der Rosenkavaliert Tomowa-Sintow, Battle, von Otter;

Andreolli, Patrick, Moll; c: Kout; d: Decker; ds: Schneider-Siemssen10/14,18,21m,24,27,30 11/4,8/89 La Clemenza di Titot Vaness, Upshaw, Troyanos/Mentzer,

Graham; Doss; c: Davis; d: Rochaix; ds: Toffolutti (Grand Theatre de Geneve prod.)(continued)

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Lyric Opera of Chicago (continued)10/28,31 11/3,6,9,12m,15/89 Samson et Dalilat Baltsa; Domingo, Fondary; c: Bartoletti; d:

Joel; ds: Schmidt/Robbins (coprod. San Francisco Opera)11/10,14,17,20,25,29 12/3/89 Don Carlot* Te Kanawa, Troyanos; Dvorsky", Hynninen,

Ramey, Ryhanen; c: Conlon; d: Frisell; ds: Quaranta/Saligeri11/24,27 12/1,4,7,10m,13,16,19/89 n Barbiere di Sivigliat* von Stade; Lopardo, Allen,

Desderi, Ghiuselev; c: Pinzauti; d: Copley; ds: Conklin/Stennett12/9,12,15,30/89 l/3,6,9,12,15,21m/90 Die Fledermaus* Eng.; Daniels, Bonney, Howells;

Rosenshein, Hagegard, Nolen, Adams; c: Rudel; d: Chazalettes; ds: Santicchi1/13,17,20,23,26,29,31 2/3/90 Hamlett Welting, Palmer; Kunde, Milnes, Pederson; e:

Rudel; d: Melano; ds: Toms (San Diego Opera prod.)INDIANA

Indiana University Opera Theater, C. Webb, Dean, Bloomington9/23,30 10/7/89 Cos! fan tutte10/14,21,28 11/4/89 Otello J. King11/11,18,19m/89 Hgnsel und Gretel1/27 2/3,9,10/90 Faust2/17,24 3/3/90 La Rondine3/31 4/7,14,21/90 Raehmaninov's Francesca da Rimini & Eaton's The Cry of Clytaem-

nestra w. students from Moscow Conservatory; also pfs. in U.S.S.RIndianapolis Opera, R. Driver, Art.Dir., Indianapolis

9/15,17m/89 Die Zauberflote Eng.; Burton; Eisler, Davies (coprod. Opera Memphis)11/10,12m/89 Anna Bolenat N. Thomas (coprod. Opera Memphis)3/23,25m/90 Don Carlot Baskerville; Shaw, Cox (coprod. Opera Memphis)5/90 Man of La Mancha (coprod. Opera Memphis)

Whitewater Opera, C. Combopiano, Gen.Dir., Richmond10/6,7/89 Rigolettot12/2m/89 Little Red Riding Hood 2 pfs.2/9,10/90 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng.4/13,14/90 L'Elisir d'amoret 5/5 in Middletown1989-90 tour Hansel and Gretel; Amahl and the Night Visitors

KENTUCKYKentucky Opera, T. Smillie, Gen.Dir., Kentucky Center for the Arts, Louisville

9/8,10m,ll,12/89 Classics in Context Festival incl. L'Histoire du soldat* Eng.; at theBomhard Theater

10/21,24,27/89 La Traviatat* Mims; Cortez, F.verette; d: Smillie; ds: Spain; at WhitneyHall

1/6,8,9,10,11,12,13/90 Dutton's The Stone Man* prem.; c: Berger; d: Muni; ds: Dutton; atthe Bomhard Theater; 1/15 two-week tour through KY

3/3,6,8,9/90 Die Zauberflote Eng.; Taylor; W. MacNeil, Rebilas; c: Bernhardt; d: Smillie;at the Macauley Theatre; 3/7m student pf.

4/20,21,23/90 Donizeti's L'Ajo nel imbarazzo Eng. (as The Embarrassed Tutor); d: Muni;at the Macauley Theatre

10/89-5/90 Opera-Go-Round tours incl. The Toy Shop; Little Red Riding Hood; Hanseland Gretel*

LOUISIANABaton Rouge Opera, H. Holt, Mus.Dir., Baton Rouge

10/18,21/89 Gianni Schicchi Eng. <5c Pagliacci3/21,24/90 Les Contes d'Hoffmann

New Orleans Opera, A. Cosenza, Gen.Dir., New Orleans10/4,7/89 Aidat Rom, Lerner; Lakes, Opthof, Hines, Roy; c: Coppola; d: Morelock11/1,4/89 La Fille du regiment Eng.; Mills, Bonazzi; Wilson, Fiorito; c: Manahan; d:

Danner; ds: Beck (Opera Carolina prod.)12/6,9/89 La Bohemet Spacagna, Woods; Farina, Malis, Wells; c: Coppola; d: Gately3/14,17/90 Der fliegende Hollander!* Hass; Booth, Brunner, J. Johnson, Korn; c: Peters;

d: Morelock; ds: KritikosShreveport Opera, R. Murray, Gen.Dir., Shreveport

10/20/89 Die Fledermaus Eng.1/12/90 Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions Winners Concert2/9/90 Romeo et Juliette Eng.; Texas Opera Theater tour3/10/90 La Bohemet New York City Opera National Co. tour

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MAINEUniversity of Maine Opera Wksp., N. Ogle, Dir., Orono

12/9/89 4/27/90 Scenes2/22-25/90 West Side Story

MARYLANDBaltimore Opera Co., M. Harrison, Gen.Dir., Baltimore

10/20,22m,25,28/89 Faustt* Daniels; Giordani, Hines; c: Coppola; d: Lehmeyer; ds:Deegan/Conly

12/1,3m,6,8/89 Salomet* Kr. Ciesinski, Elias; Lewis, Crafts; c: Sandor; d/ds: Oswald2/16,18m,21,24/90 n Barbiere di Sivigliat Graham; Freeman, Elvira, Gregor, Tozzi; d:

Elias (Houston Grand Opera prod.)4/20,22m,25,29/90 Otellot* Neblett; Gray, Ellis; c: N. Rescigno; d: Hebert

Peabody Conservatory Opera Theatre <5c Wksp., R. Brunyate, Dir., Baltimore10/14/89 Crozier/Brunyate's The Reunion prem.11/17,18/89 The Cunning Little Vixen Eng.3/16,17/90 Cosi fan tutte

University of Maryland Opera Program, L. Major, Dir., College Park11/29-12/15/89 Ames's Amarantha; Susa's The Loves of Don Perimplin & Moss's The

Queen and the Rebels rev.vers.; in repertorySpring '90 Scenes

MASSACHUSETTSBoston College Music/Theater Dept., J.P. Marcoux, Dir., Chestnut Hill

4/25-29/90 PippinBoston Lyric Opera, A. Ewers, Gen.Dir., Emerson Majestic Theatre, Boston

9/15,17m/89 Toscat Craig; Atkinsl/12,14m/90 Der fliegende Hollander conc.pfs.; Springsteen; Roloff, Samuelsen3/30 4/lm/90 La Traviatat Zhu; Locke, Honeysucker

Bradford College Music Theater Wksp., F. Schuetze, Dir., Bradford10/13/89 Musical Cabaret12/89 Amahl and the Night Visitors5/90 Manilow's The Drunkard

Project Opera, R. Rescia, Art.Dir., Northampton11/18,19,20/89 Bastien und Bastienne <Jc Amahl and the Night Visitors4/27,28,29/90 Don Giovanni

MICHIGANMichigan Opera Theatre, D. DiChiera, Gen.Dir., Masonic Temple, Detroit

9/8,13,15,16,17,22,23/89 Les Mis6rables (Nederlander Prods, tour); at the Fisher Theatre11/25,29 12/1,2,3/89 Hansel und Gretel Eng.; Hegierski/Kesling (coprod. Dayton Opera)3/9,10,11/90 Swan Lake Cleveland Ballet; 4 pfs.4/21,25,28/90 Don Giovannit Cowan; c: Donath (coprod. Dayton Opera <5c Opera Pacific)5/5,6m#,9,12/90 La Traviatat Miricioiu/Friede#; Di Paolo, Noble; ds: Conklin (San

Francisco Opera prod.)5/19,23,26/90 Rome ) et Juliettet Swenson, Graham; Hadley, Berberian; c: Stahl; d: Uzan

(L'Ope>a de Montreal prod.)Michigan State University Opera Theatre, H. Jennings, Dir., E. Lansing

1/19,20,21/90 H.M.S. Pinafore 5/4,6/90 L'Elisir d'amore Eng. MartinOpera Grand Rapids, R. Peterson, Art.Dir., Grand Rapids

11/2,4/89 Der fliegende Hollander Arroyo; Cumberland; c: Nance; d: Mattaliano4/26,27,28/90 Carousel

MINNESOTAMinnesota Opera Co., K. Smith, Gen.Dir., Saint Paul

10/13,15m,17,19,21/89 La Bohemet Mazzaria, South; di Paolo; c: Manahan12/16-23/89 Where the Wild Things Are1/26,28m 2/1,3/90 A Midsummer Night's Dream Gamberoni, Zambalis; Hardesty, McGuire,

Stephens; c: Manahan; d: Takazaukas (Los Angeles Music Center Opera prod.)4/20,22m,26,28/90 Rom&> et Juliettet* Friede c: Gibson; d: Major (coprod. Opera/Omaha)5/25,26,31 6/l,2,3m/90 Larsen's Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus* prem.; d: Masella;

ds: Schuller9-11/89 Madama Butterfly Eng.; Gottsehall; Touring Division; tour to 8 upper Midwest

states <5c Canada7/90 My Fair Lady 32 pfs.

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Minnesota Opera Co., New Music-Theatre Ensemble, B. Krywosz, Art.Dir., Saint Paul11/9,10,11,12,16,17,18,19/89 Harper/Neiboer's Snow Leopard prem. (coprod. American

Ritual Theater Co.)1989-90 Subotniek/Israel's Jacob's Room; Ames/Harrington's Angel Face; Vandervelder/

McGuire's Seven Sevens wksps.Minnesota Orchestra, E. de Waart, Mus.Dir., Minneapolis

3/28,29,30/90 Concert incl. Capriccio final scene; R. Alexander; c: de WaartPlymouth Music Series, P. Brunelle, Dir., Minneapolis

9/26/89 The Tender Land semi-stgd.; c: Brunelle; d: SuttonMISSISSIPPI

Mississippi Opera, F. Choset, Gen. & Art.Dir., Jackson10/6/89 Gala2/3/90 Die Fledermaus Eng. Dietz/Kanin; De la Rosa, Kucenic; Freeman, Alexander,

Owen, Clower; e: Choset; d: Igesz1989-90 "March to the Opera Pops/El Capitan"; The Threepenny Opera abrgd.;

Mississippi Opera Ensemble tour; 6 pfs.University of Mississippi, Faulkner Conference, University

8/90 McKay/Menicles As I Lay Dying prem.MISSOURI

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, R. Patterson, Gen.Art.Dir., Kansas City9/16,18,20,22/89 Regina Hinchman, Elias; Foss; c: Patterson; d: Cullinan9/23,25,27,29/89 La Boheme Eng.; Johansen, Keller; Bortnick, Velta; c: Patterson; d:

Cullinan; 8/89 & 10/89 tour9/30 10/2,4,6/89 Don Pasquale Eng.; Wasson; Daniecki, McGuire, Sullivan; c: Patterson;

d: Gately4/6,7,9,11/90 Les Contes d'Hoffmann Eng.; Beardsley, Saalbach, Livengood; Hux, J.

Davies; c: Patterson4/23,24,25,27,28/90 The Yeomen of the Guard c: Patterson

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, C. Graham, Art.Dir., Loretto Hilton Ctr., Saint Louis5/26,30 6/1,7,10,16,23/90 Peter Grimes Brewer, Bonazzi; Myers, Stewart; d: Graham5/31 6/2,6,8,12,17,23/90 Le Nozze di Figaro Abram, B. Harris, Hunt; Oilman; d:

Wadsworth6/9,13,15,19,21/90 La Fille du regiment Dahl, Lear; Olsen; c: Lord; d: Weisman6/14,16,20,22,24/90 Dvorak's The Devil and Kate Pancella, Tsoku; Evans; c: R. Buckley;

d: ZambelloNEBRASKA

Opera/Omaha, M. Robert, Gen.Dir., Orpheum Theatre, Omaha9/3/89 Pldcido Domingo in concert9/15,16,17,22,23,24/89 Show Boat1/30 2/2,4/90 Madama Butterflyt Hines; Drews; c: Holmquist; 2/9 at Lincoln3/28,30 4/1/90 Romeo et Juliettet Comeaux; De Haan, Hogan; c: DeMain; d: Holmquist

NEVADANevada Opera, T. Puffer, Gen. & Art.Dir., Pioneer Theatre, Reno

10/20,21,22m/89 The Merry Widow Eng. Puffer2/15,17/90 Lucia di Lammermoort De la Rosa; Rudat4/19,21/90 Aidat Zajick; Nimnicht

NEW JERSEYCreative Theater, Inc., A. Gordon, Exec.Dir. & Prod., Englewood

10/26-11/4/89 Annie2/1-11/90 The Apple Tree4/26-5/5/90 K. Thompson/Gordon/Gamakas's Wishes revue; prem.

Hoboken Chamber Orchestra, A. Suss, Gen.Mgr., Hoboken3/25/90 Candide semi-stgd.; c: Schneider (coprod. Manticore Theater, NYC)

Monmouth Conservatory of Music, F. Molzer, Art.Dir., Little Silver12/7-9/89 Hansel and Gretel in Red Bank1989-90 Peaslee's Tanglewood Tales & The Telephone

New Jersey State Opera, A. Silipigni, Gen.Dir., Symphony Hall, Newark10/7/89 Gala; Millo; Estes; c: Silipigni2/25 3/3/90 Madama Butterflyt* Malaponte; c: Silipigni3/18,24/90 Nabuccot

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1989-90 SEASONOpera at Florham, C. Del Rosso, Gen.Mgr. & Art.Dir., Madison

11/17-19/89 Le Hozze di Figaro5/11-13/90 Usandizaga's Las Golondrinas10/21 12/9/89 3/17 4/14/90 Recitals

Opera Classics of New Jersey, G. Consiglio, Exec.Dir., Hackensack11/4/89 Tosea 3/31/90 Rigoletto1/27/90 Nabucco conc.pf. 5/5/90 Gala concert

Opera-Music Theatre Institute of New Jersey, J. Hines, Gen.Mgr. & Art.Dir., Montclair1989-90 La Boheme Neves

NEW MEXICOAlbuquerque Civic Light Opera, P. Elliott, Exec.Dir., Albuquerque

9/1,2,3,8,9,10,15,16/89 Little Shop of Horrors12/22,23,24,26,27,28,30,31/89 Rodgers/Hammerstein's Cinderella

Opera Southwest, J. Tate-Opel, Prod.Mgr., Albuquerque11/89 Le Nozze di Figaro

NEW YORKHofstra University Opera Theater, E. Dittemore, Dir., Hempstead

4/20,21,22/90 Dialogues des CarmelitesRockland Opera Society, H. Elisha, Gen.Mgr. 4 Art.Dir., Suffern

2/24/90 Rossini's La Scala di seta Eng. HessA Small Company in America, P. Herdt, Dir., Glen Cove

9/8,9,10,15,16,17,22,23,24/89 A Little Night MusicSUNY-Buffalo, Music Dept., Buffalo

2/1/90 Mahagonny SongspielSyracuse Opera Co., R. Swedberg, Gen.Dir., Syracuse

10/20,22m/89 Fidelio d: Cazan; in the Crouse-Hinds Theater12/8,9,10,15,16,17,22,23m/89 Babes in Toyland Syracuse Opera Studio; d: Swedberg; at

the Carrier Theater3/9,llm/90 La Fille du regiment c: Koslov; d: Danner; in the Crouse-Hinds Theater4/27,29m/90 Gianni Schicchi & Pagliacci; in the Crouse-Hinds Theater

Tri-Cities Opera, P. Hibbitt <5t C. Savoca, Art.Dirs., Binghamton10/28,29m 11/3,4/89 Madama Butterfly Clarey2/3,4m,9,10/90 Romeo et Juliette Leech4/21,22m,27,28/90 The New Moon

NEW YORK CITYA ma to Opera Theatre, A. Amato, Gen.Dir.

9/16,17m,22,23,24m 10/7,8m,13,13,14/89 Don Giovanni10/28,29m 11/4,5m,11,12m,17,18m,25,26/89 n Trovatore12/9,10m,15,16,29,30,31/89 1/5,6,7/90 II Barbiere di Siviglia3/10,llm,17,18m124,25m,30,31 4/7,8m/90 Un Ballo in maschera4/21,22m,28,29m 5/4,5,6m,ll,12,13m/90 La Bohfeme

Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, L. Foss, Art.Dir., Brooklyn Academy of Music4/6,7/90 Concert incl. L'Enfant et les sortileges II Piccolo Teatro dell'Opera; c: Nagano5/4,5,6/90 Verdi Requiem Balthrop, Hinds; Manno, Ray; c: Foss

Center for Contemporary Opera, R. Marshall, Gen.Dir.11/2,3,4/89 Britten's The Prodigal Son at St. Peter's Church, Citicorp1/90 T. Sullivan's A Dream Play Am.prem. it The Imaginary Couple prem.6/90 Postcard from Morocco

Concert Royal, J. Richman, Art.Dir., Merkin Hall11/29/89 Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie conc.pf.

Juilliard Opera Center, A. Yarosh, Adm.Dir., Lincoln Center11/17,19m,21/89 Cosi fan tutte2/23,25m,27/90 Fleischman/Shostakovich's Rothschild's Violint Am.prem. & Weill's The

Seven Deadly Sinst4/25,27,29m/90 Vaughan Williams's Hugh the Drover

Manhattan School of Music, L. Galterio, Dir. of Opera, Claremont Ave.12/6,8,10/89 The Rake's Progress

Metropolitan Opera, J. Levine, Art.Dir., Lincoln Center9/25#,28 10/2,7m>ll,14m)18,23,23,26 11/30 12/4,8#,13,16,20/89 Aida Millo/Marc/Mitchell,

Zajick/Toczyska; Domingo/Merighi/Lamberti/Mauro, Milnes/Pons/Smith, Burchuladze/Dupont/Plishka, De Grandis/Cook/Kavrakos; c: Levine/Badea; d: Frisell; ds: Quaranta/Saligeri

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Metropolitan Opera (continued)9/26,29 10/5,10,14 12/7,12,16m,19/89 II Trittico Stratas/Stapp; Merighi/Domingo/Lima,

Pons/C. MacNeil & Stratas/Soviero, Quivar/M. Dunn & Stratas/Hong; Cole, Pola/Pons;c: Levine; d: Melano; ds: Reppa

9/27,30 10/3,6,9,13,17,21/89 1/18,22,24,27m/90 Porgy and Bess Baskerville/M. Merritt/Mitchell, M. Martin/Bradley; Marshall/Holt, Smartt/Smith/Estes, G. Baker/Cook; c:Levine/Duerr; d: Merrill; ds: O'Hearn

9/30m 10/4,7,12,28m# 11/1,4,9/89 3/28,31m 4/3,6,9,14#/90 La Boheme Izzo D'Amico/Miricioiu/Te Kanawa, Ghazarian/Merritt/Baskerville; Leech/Araiza, Schexnayder/Malis/Elvira, Hamilton/Noble, Cheek/Dupont/Langan, Capecchi; c: Renzetti/Weikert; d/ds:Zeffirelli

10/16#,20,25,28,31 ll/4m,8,ll,16/89 1/29 2/2,7,10m/90 La Traviata* GruberovaVHuffstodt;Shicoff/W. MacNeil/Kraus, TBA/Milnes/Schexnayder/Coni; c: Kleiber/TBA; d/ds:Zeffirelli (Teatro La Fenice prod.)

10/21m,24,27#,30 11/2,6,10,14,17/89 4/18,21,25,28m#/90 n Barbiere di Siviglia Home/Battle; Olsen/Lopardo, G. Quilico/Pola, L. Quilico/Dara/Feller, Burchuladze/Giaiotti/Rootering/Ramey; c: Rudel; d: Cox; ds: Wagner/Zipprodt

ll/3#,7,llm,15,18,22,25,28/89 2/2m,20,24m/90 Rigoletto* Anderson/Hong, Svende"n;Pavarotti/O'Neill, Nucci/Burchinal, Koptchak/Kavrakos/Furlanetto; c:. Panni/Nadler; d:Schenk; ds: Brown

11/13,18m,21,24,27 12/l,5,9m/89 Die Frau ohne Schatten Marton/Gessendorf, Zschau/J.Martin, Dernesch/Curry; Schunk, Weikl, Mazura; c: Perick; d: Merrill; ds: O'Hearn

ll/20,25m,29 12/2,6,9,14,19,25m/89 Les Contes d'Hoffmann Welting/Mills, Neblett/Forst,Blegen, Montague; Lima/Kraus, Van Dam; c: Cambreling; d: Schenk; ds: Schneider-Siemssen/Frey

12/ll#,15,18,22,27,30m/89 1/4,11,17,20,25/90 Der fliegende Hollander* Marton/Gessendorf;Lakes/M. Baker, Morris/Hale, Gambill/Booth, Plishka/Salminen; c: Levine/Runnicles; d:Everding; ds: Schavernoch/Haas

12/21,26,29/89 l/2,6m/90 Wozzeck Behrens; King/Cassilly, Clark, Haugland, Mclntyre; c:Levine; d: D. Alden; ds: Neher

12/25,28,30/89 1/3,6,10,13 4/4,7#,10,12,16,19/90 Die Fledermaus Eng. dialogue Prawy;Vaness/Huffstodt/Daniels, Kilduff/Blackwell, Fassbaender/Boozer/Dernesch; Shicoff/Drews/Rendall, Prey/Allen, Hornik/Hampson, Boesch/Mazura, Schenk; c: Michael; d:Schenk; ds: Schneider-Siemssen/Hall

l/l,5,9,13m/90 Turandot G. Jones, Millo; Popov, Macurdy; c: Santi; d/ds: Zeffirelli1/8,12,16,20m,26,31 2/3/90 Cos* fan tutte M. Price, Upshaw, Troyanos/Kesling; Hadley/

Olsen, Hampson, Van Allan/Courtney; c: Levine/Woitach; d: Graham; ds: Griffin/Clancy1/15,19,23,27,30 2/3m,8/90 La Gioconda Dimitrova, Toczyska, Milcheva; Pavarotti,

Fondary/Smith, Plishka/De Grandis; c: Santi; d: Donnell; ds: Montresor2/l#,6,10,13,16,22,27 3/3m,7,10m, 14,17,20,24/90 Faust* Vaness/Daniels/Putnam, Ziegler/

Harris; Shicoff/Araiza/Glassman, Schexnayder/Hampson/G. Quilico, Morris/Devlin; c:Dutoit; d: Prince; ds: Langenfass

2/5,9,12,15 4/27 5/2,5m/90 II Trovatore S. Dunn/Millo, Zajick; Mauro/Bonisolli, Miller/Pons, De Grandis; c: Saccani/Veltri; d: Melano; ds: Frigerio

2/14,17m,21,24,28 3/3/90 Samson et Dalila Verrett; Domingo/Lakes, Estes/G. Baker; c:Dutoit; d: Merrill; ds: O'Hearn

2/19,23 3/1,6,10,13,17m,23/90 Manon Lescaut Freni; Dvorsk^, Raftery/Schexnayder, Tajo;c: Fulton; d: Menotti; ds: Heeley

2/26 3/2,8,15,21,24m,27,30/90 Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail Devia/Mims, Kilduff/Mills;Winbergh, Magnusson/Laciura, Moll; c: Levine; d: Dexter; ds: Herbert

3/5,9,12,16,19/90 Otello Riceiarelli; Domingo, McCauley, D1az, Plishka; c: Kleiber; d/ds:Zeffirelli

3/22#,26,29 4/2,5,11,14m,17,20/90 Don Giovanni* Vaness/Mims, Mattila/Putnam, Upshaw/Erickson; Hadley/Winbergh, Ramey/Furlanetto, Furlanetto/Ramey, Robbins/Cokorinos,Moll/Salminen; c: Levine; d/ds: Zeffirelli

3/31# 4/23#,30#/90 Das Rheingold c: Levine; d: Schenk; ds: Schneider-Siemssen/Langenfass

4/7m#,24# 5/l#/90 Die Walkiire c: Levine; d: Schenk; ds: Schneider-Siemssen/Langenfass4/13#,26# 5/3#/90 Siegfried c: Levine; d: Schenk; ds: Schneider-Siemssen/Langenfass4/21m#,28# 5/5#/90 GStterdammerung c: Levine; d: Schenk; ds: Schneider-Siemssen/

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Music-Theatre Group, L. Austin, Prod.Dir., St. Clement's Church12/26/89-3/3/90 Goldenthal/Taymor's Juan Darien3/10-4/10/90 Silverman/Anderson's Paradise for the Worried

New Music America/Brooklyn Academy of Music, various locations (11/10-18/89)11/12,13/89 Holcomb's Angels at the Four Corners prem.; at the Bessie Schonberg

Theater11/12,13/89 Goebbels/Muller's Der Mann im Fahrstuhl Eng.; Am.prem.; at The Kitchen11/16,17,18/89 Wallace/Korie/Wolf/Carlson 's The Kabbalah prem.; at the Bessie

Schonberg TheaterNew York City Opera, C. Keene, Gen.Dir., NY State Theater (see also "Performance

Listing, 1988-89 Season")9/1,2m,2,3m,3/89 The Desert Song9/5,6,7,8,9m,9,10m/89 Candide c: Silverman9/13,21,30m/89 n Barbiere di Sivigliat9/14,24m 10/3 ll/5m/89 The Mikado9/15,23m 10/lm/89 Die ZauberflStet9/16m,23,26/89 Madama Butterflyt9/16,19 10/1,5,11/89 Moses und Aront* T. Young, Cross; c: Comissiona; d: Neugebauer;

ds: Freyer9/17m,28/89 Mefistofelet9/17,22,27/89 Rigolettot9/24,30 10/4,14m,17/89 Korngold's Die tote Stadtt Ginsberg/Lamy, Shaulis/Brigitta;

Absalom, Dickson; c; Weise; d: Corsaro; ds: Larkey10/6,10,21,28m/89 Street Scenet10/7m,15,19,25/89 Don Giovannit* c: Comissiona; d: Prince; ds: Langenfass10/7,29m 11/3/89 La Bohemet10/8m,13,18,24 11/4/89 La Traviatat10/14,21m,26/89 Anna Bolenat N. Thomas, Lerner; Reed, Dworchak; c: Bergeson; d:Lesenger; ds: Lee10/15m,20,28,31/89 The Cunning Little Vixent Eng. Jones/Graff; Parrish, Bunnell, Castle;

Lankston, Roloff; c: Weise; d: Corsaro; ds: Sendak10/22m,27 11/5/89 Carmentll/l,4m/89 The Merry Widow Eng.11/8,9,10,llm,11,12m,12,14/89 The Desert Song11/15,16,17,18m, 18,19m/89 L'Heure espagnole & L'Enfant et les sortilegest* Gamberoni;

K. Anderson, Parcher, Green & Hynes, Parrish; c: Comissiona; d: Corsaro; ds: SendakNew York City Opera National Company, N. Kelly, Adm.Dir.

1/19-3/31/90 La Bohemet 57 pfs. on tourNew York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, A. Bergeret, Art.Dir.

11/11/89-1/20/90 The Pirates of Penzance 8 pfs.11/17 12/1/89 The Mikado12/21/89-1/20/90 The Gondoliers 19 pfs.3/30-4/22/90 Of Thee I Sing 18 pfs.

New York Opera Repertory Theatre, L. Gibbs Gore, Gen. & Art.Dir.9/89 Trefousse/Overmeyer's The Composing of the Heliotrope Bouquet rdgs.

New York Philharmonic, Z. Mehta, Mus.Dir., Avery Fisher Hall1/18,19,20/90 Concert incl. Oedipus Rex Quivar; Cole, Garrison, Cheek, Howell; narr:

Klemperer; Westminster Symphonic Choir; c: MehtaNext Wave Festival, H. Lichtenstein, Exec.Prod., Brooklyn Academy of Music (10/3-12/3/89)

10/3,4,5,6,7,8m,8,15m,15/89 L. Anderson's Empty Places at the Opera Housell/l,3,4,5m/89 Marin's Hey, what's all this to me? Am.prem.; Compagnie Maguy Marin11/29,30 12/l,2,3m/89 Reed/Cale's Songs for 'Drella—A Fiction prem.

Opera Orchestra of New York, E. Queler, Mus.Dir., Carnegie Hall1/16/90 I Vespri siciliani conc.pf.; S. Dunn; Brubaker, Coni, Plishka; c: Queler2/28/90 Tchaikowsky's The Maid of Orleans conc.pf.; M. Martin, Zajick; Hyninnen,

Koptchak; c: Queler4/17/90 Catalani's La Wally conc.pf.; Millo; Johannsson, Rawnsley; c: Queler

PALA Opera, E. Falk, Prod. & Art.Dir., Town Hall1/27/90 Rossini's La Gazza ladra Zedda ed.; conc.pf.; c: Lindberg

PBS/WNET, The Metropolitan Opera Presents, telecast nationallyP' 18-21/90 Der Ring des Nibelungen c: Levine; d: Schenk; ds: Schneider-Siemssen/

Langenfass (taped 4/89 & 4-5/90)

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Waverly Consort, M. Jaffee, Art.Dir., Miller Theatre11/10,11,12m/89 n Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Jaffee ed.; Montano; Rowe; d: Minor3/23,24,25m/90 Le Roman de Fauvel d: Minor

NORTH CAROLINAEast Carolina University Opera Theatre, C. Hiss, Dir., Greenville

10/6,7/89 Scenes2/15,16,17,18/90 Princess Ida w. synth.

Greensboro Opera Co., P. Fuchs, Art.Dir., Greensboro11/3/89 La Boheme Munro, Sparrow; Garrison, Overman; c: Fuchs; d: Ventura3/23/90 Thomas Allen in recital

Opera Carolina, J. Wright, Gen.Dir., Charlotte10/5,7/89 Carment Firestone, Telese; Haas, Karousatos; c: Rosekrans; d: Elias11/9,11/89 "Opera Pops. . .and Sizzles!" Telese, Livengood; Fowler, Trakas2/1,3/90 Rigolettot Paschal, Eckhart; R. Estes, Opthof; c: Rosekrans; d: Ewers3/29,31/90 Madama Butterflyt Cho, Guo; Fowler, Mackintosh; c: France; d: Toland9/89-6/90 Outreach Program tours incl. Liebl's The Ransom of Red Chief; Hansel and

Gretel abrgd.Piedmont Opera Theatre, N. Johnson, Gen.Dir., Winston-Salem

9/15,17m,19/89 Romeo et Juliettet Yen, Nagorska; R. Estes, Locke, Eckhoff; c: Johnson;d: Missimi; ds: Ryan

3/30 4/lm,3/90 Falstaff Eng.; Nickel, Jennings, Hegierski; Wilborn, Galbraith, Powers; c:Johnson; d: Gately; ds: Shortt

NORTH DAKOTAFargo-Moorhead Civic Opera Co., D. Martin, Art.Dir., West Fargo

10/27,28/89 Cavalleria rusticana1/19,20/90 The Ballad of Baby Doe5/4,5,6/90 The Pirates of Penzance

OHIOCleveland Opera, D. Bamberger, Gen.Dir., Cleveland

10/10,llm,12,13,14,15m/89 Copeland's Holy Blood and Crescent Moon prem.12/l,2,3m/89 The Pirates of Penzance Reeder, Stephens2/9,10,llm/90 Madama Butterflyt Lamy; J. Evans4/4,6,8m/90 II Trovatoret Holleque; Milnes5/ll,12,13m/90 Show Boat

Dayton Opera, D. Hanthorn, Mng.Dir., Dayton10/21,27,29m/89 La Bohemet Spacagna; c: Wendelken-Wilson12/15,16m,16,17m,17/89 Hansel and Gretel Eng.; Kesling (coprod. Michigan Opera

Theatre)3/17,23,25m/90 Don Giovannit c: Donath (coprod. Michigan Opera Theatre)

Great Lakes Theater Festival, G. Freedman, Art.Dir., ClevelandFall '89 Die Dreigroschenoper d: Freedman

Opera/Columbus, J. Gage, Gen.Dir., Columbus10/12,13,14#/89 Carmen Graham/Firestone*, Balthrop; Kalt, McFarland; c: Fournet; d:

Uzan11/16,17,18/89 Don Giovanni Thomson, Haywood; Gonzaga, Johnson, Corbeil, Royal; c:

Armenian; d: Gately3/22,23,24/90 Boris Godunov Hines; c: Vekshtein4/26,27,28/90 II Trovatore N. Thomas, Rakusin; Johannsson, Fortune; c: Silipigni

Toledo Opera, J. Meena, Art.Dir., Toledo11/18/89 Tosca2/22,24/90 The Merry Widow5/12/90 Macbeth

University of Akron Opera/Musical Theater, A. Anderson, Dir., Akron11/20,21/89 4/23,24/90 Scenes4/3/90 La Traviata

OKLAHOMAOklahoma City University, Oklahoma Opera and Music Theater Co., C. Zrnid, Dir.

10/6,7,8/89 The Desert Song11/17,18,19/89 Werther Eng. Proctor-Gregg2/10,11,12/90 La Boheme Eng. Martin4/6,7,8/90 West Side Story1989-90 "Operascope" scenes; tour to schools

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Tulsa Opera, N. Muni, Art.Dir., Tulsa11/4,9,11/89 La Bohemet Christos, K. Hunt; Grayson, Sutliffe; c: Sutej; d: Gentilesca

(New Orleans Opera prod.)1/26,28 2/1,2,3/90 Glass/Moran's The Juniper Tree at the Williams Theatre3/3,8,10/90 La Traviatat* contemp. setting; Ginsberg; De Haan, Galbraith; c: Gilgore; d:

Muni; ds: Conklin5/5,10,12/90 La Cenerentolat Forst; Freeman, Charboneau, Corbeil; c: De Renzi; d: Uzan

(L'Ope>a de Montreal prod.)1989-90 The Night Harry Stopped Smoking school tour

University of Oklahoma, School of Music, R. Mathis, Music Theater Dir., Norman10/13/89 Sweeney Todd 7 pfs.2/23,24/90 3 one-act works TBA4/6/90 Nunsense 7 pfs.

OREGONEugene Opera, J. Toland, Gen.Dir., Eugene

ll/3,5m/89 Gianni Schicchit Ac Pagliaccit Blalock; M. Thompson, Heimann A: K.Anderson; Hilt, Karasatos; c: Sheldon; d: Toland

12/30,31/89 La Cenerentolat Spence; Burgin, Koch; c: Graffeo; d: Toland4/27,29m/90 Rigolettot Blalock; Kalt, Lambrinos; c: TBA; d: Toland

The Musical Company, S. Smith, Exec.Dir., Portland9-10/89 Camelot11-12/89 The Wizard of Oz4-5/90 My Fair Lady

Portland Opera, R. Bailey, Gen.Dir., Portland10/2,4,7/89 Aidat Szendrenyi, Paunova; Giacomini, Rucker; c: J. Rescigno; d: Bailey11/11,15,18/89 Faustt South; Giordani, Hines; c: Robertson; d: Uzan3/24,28,31/90 Don Pasqualet Swenson; D. Johnson, Gregor; c: Pal; d: Tannenbaum; ds:

Conklin4/27-29 5/1-5/90 Drobny/Harrington's Lucy's Lapses prem.; c: Haupt; d: Warren; 10 pfs.6/16-23/90 Show Boat 6 pfs.1989-90 Berkson/Kelsey's Figaro! Figaro! Portland Opera Players; tour to schools

Rogue Valley Opera, P. Cooper, Mgr., Ashland9/12,14,16/89 Madama Butterfly Eng. Martin12/11-15/89 Hansel and Gretel Eng.; also 7 student pfs.

PENNSYLVANIAAmerican Music Theater Festival, M. Samoff, Exec.Dir., Philadelphia

Fall '89 Cutler/Youmans' Sitting on the Edge of the Future prem.Chestnut Hill College Opera, B. Glennon, Dir., Philadelphia

4/20,22,27,29/90 The Merry Widow Eng. HarnickIndiana University of Pennsylvania Music Theatre, S. Mantel, Dir., Indiana

11/10,11,12/89 Gilbert <5c Sullivan scenes2/28 3/1,4/90 The Fantasticks4/20,21/90 Chauls/Robinette's The Trial of Goldilocks

Mercyhurst College, D'Angelo School of Music, P. MacPhail, Dir. Vocal Studies, Erie2/1,2,3/90 La Boheme1989-90 Cosi fan tutte excpts.

Opera Company of Philadelphia, M. Everitt, Gen.Dir., Philadelphia10/23,27/89 Lucia di Lammermoort Studer; c: Campori; d: Alberti11/20,24/89 The Saint of Bleecker Street Migenes, Vergara; c: Mercurio; d: Menotti2/12,16/90 Handel's Ariodantet Valente, Troyanos; c: Korn; ds: Conklin4/16,20/90 Rossini's La Gazza ladrat Antonacci; Plishka; c: Mercurio; ds: Colavecchia

Pennsylvania Opera Theater, B. Silverstein, Art.Dir., Shubert Theater, Philadelphiall/9m,ll,15,17,18/89 La Traviata* Eng.2/28m 3/2,3,7,9,10/90 L'Incoronazione di Poppea* Eng.; at Port of History Theater5/10m, 12,16,18,19/90 La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein* Eng.

Pittsburgh Opera, T. Capobianco, Gen.Dir., Pittsburgh10/21,24,27,29m/89 Madama Butterfly! Watanabe; Farina, Elvira; c: Shaindlin; d: Aragon11/4,7,10/89 Elektrat Vinzing, J. Meier, Forrester; Fox; c: Alcantara; d: Capobianco3/3,6,9,llm/90 La Traviatat Murphy; A. Martin, Milnes; c: Alcantara; d: Capobianco3/17,20,23,25m/90 Die Zauberflotet Panagulias, Liebeck; Myers, Malis, Pittsinger; c:

Alcantara; d: Lesenger3/31 4/3,6,8m/90 Mefistofelet Ginsberg; Leech, Cheek; c: Alcantara; d: Capobianco

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PUERTO RICOOpera da Ctfmara, L. Pereira, Gen. & Art.Dir., San Juan

l l/29m,30m 12/lm,2,3m/89 The Toy ShopSOUTH CAROLINA

Columbia Lyric Opera, D. Gray, Art.Dir., Columbia11/3,4,5/89 Cendrillon2/11,12/90 Carmina Burana3/2,4/90 CcwA fan tutte5/5 7/4/90 Outdoor concerts

TENNESSEEChattanooga Symphony & Opera Assn., V. Jordania, Art.Dir., Chattanooga

10/14/89 Tosca Cook; Duykers, Serrano; c: Jordania; d: Gratale2/17/90 n Barbiere di Siviglia Eng. Margin; Meadows; Thorn, Rensink, Groth, Powell; c:

Jordania; d: GelmanKnoxville Opera, R. Lyall, Gen.Dir., Rnoxville

10/27,29m/89 Die Zauberfl8te Eng. Porter1/13/90 Porgy and Bess4/6,8m/90 Aida

Opera Memphis, R. Driver, Gen. & Art.Dir., Memphis9/23,28/89 Die ZauberflSte Eng.; Burton; Eisler (coprod. Indianapolis Opera)11/30 12/2/89 Anna Bolenat N. Thomas (coprod. Indianapolis Opera)3/3,8/90 Don Carlot Baskerville (coprod. Indianapolis Opera)4/26,28,29m/90 Man of La Mancha (coprod. Indianapolis Opera)

TEXASAustin Lyric Opera, W. Ducloux, Art. & Mus.Dir., Austin

11/17,18/89 Carmen1/12,13/90 Madama Butterfly3/29,30,31m,31 4/1/90 La Cenerentola

Dallas Opera, P. Karayanis, Gen.Dir., N. Rescigno, Art.Dir., Dallas11/2,5m,8,11/89 The Merry Widow Eng.; Sutherland; Otey; c: Bonyngell/18,21,24,26m/89 Cavalleria rusticanat & PagliacciT Casolla; Mauro & Soviero; Mauro;

c: Rescigno12/7,10m,13,16/89 Don Pasquale Gimenez, Montarsolo; c: Rescigno; d: Montarsolo; ds:

Conklin (San Francisco Opera prod.)1/5,7m,9,12/90 Madama Butterflyt Watanabe; Tieppo; c: Rescigno

Fort Worth Opera, J.M. Ramos, Gen.Dir., Ft. Worth11/17,19m/89 Copeland's Holy Blood and Crescent Moon (Cleveland Opera prod.)l/12,14m,17,19,21m/90 L'Elisir d'amore3/2,4m/90 Tosca

Houston Grand Opera, D. Gockley, Gen.Dir., Brown Theater, Houston10/20,22m,25,28,31 11/4/89 Giulio Cesaret Zschoch ed.; Masterson, Ka. Ciesinski, James;

Visse, Kowalski, Robson; c: McGegan; d: Hytner/Cappoen; ds: Fielding (Paris Operaprod.)

10/27,29m ll/2,5,7,10,12m/89 Tippett's New Year* prem.; Field, Manager, Palmer;Kazaras, Tharp, St. Hil l , Maddalena; c: DeMain; d: Hall (coprod. GlyndebourneFestival); at the Cullen Theater

11/3,5m,8,9,llm,11,12,14,16,17/89 The Mikado Woods, Palmer; Grey, Eisler, Stephens,Roy; c: DeMain; d: J. Miller; ds: Lazaridis/Blane (coprod. English National Opera &Los Angeles Music Center Opera)

11/30 12/1,3m,6,7,9,10m, 13,14,16,17m, 19,20,22,23m/89 Hansel und Gretel Eng. Bache; ds:Montresor; also student mats.

l/19,21m,24,27,30 2/2/90 Der Rosenkavalierf Barstow, Grissom, Mentzer; Hart f ield, Korn;c: DeMain; d: Cox; ds: Dalton

1/26,28m,31 2/3,6,9/90 Rigolettot O'Flynn, Firestone; Giordani, Nucci, Wells; c:Tchakarov

4/6,8(11,11,14,17,20/90 Samson et Dalilahf* Toczyska; Popov, McFarland; c: DeMain; ds:Montresor

4/12,15m,18,21,24,27,29(11/90 Madama Butterflyt Soviero, Graves; Giordani, Laperriere,Frank; c: Badea; d: Prince/Liotta (Lyric Opera of Chicago prod.)

6/15,16,17m,19,20,21,22,23,24m,26,27,28,29,30m 7/lm/90 Carousel c: DeMain; d: O'Brien;at Miller Outdoor Theatre

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Houston Opera Studio, Houston Opera Center, A. Tomfohrde, Dir., Houstonl l /3,5m/89 Blow's Venus and Adonis* & Dido and Aeneas

Stages Repertory Theatre, T. Swindley, Art.Dir., Houston11/2/89 Sunday in the Park with George 6-week run

Texas Opera Theatre, Houston Opera Center, A. Tomfohrde, Gen.Mgr., Houston10/16-11/19/89 Thomas' The Music Theatre Machine tour2-3/90 Romeo et Juliette; H.M.S. Pinafore tour

Wayland Baptist University Opera Theater, C. Moman, Dir., Plainview11/30 12/1/89 Amahl and the Night Visitors

UTAHUtah Opera, G. Peterson, Gen.Dir., Salt Lake City

10/12,14,16,19,22m/89 Les Contes d'Hoffmannt Thigpen; Johnson; c: Ryan; d: Ventural/18,20,22,25,28m/90 Rigolettot Luna, Bruno; Ashbaker, Dietsch; d: Morelock5/17,19,21,24,27m/90 Don Giovanni! Paschal, Esperian; D. Peterson; c: Holt

VERMONTBrattleboro Opera Theatre, N. Nail, Art.Dir., Brattleboro

11/18/89 Scenes w. Windham Orch.1/4,5,6,7,8/90 Amahl and the Night Visitors1/12,14/90 Die Fledermaus

VIRGINIAJames Madison University Opera Theatre, R. Prindle, Dir., Harrisonburg

10/27-29/89 The Merry Widow Eng. Ross1989-90 Scenes; 6-8 pfs. on tour

Southwest Virginia Opera Soc, M. Granger, Art.Dir., Roanoke10/5,6,7/89 Die Zauberflote c: Bond; d: Granger; at Mill Mountain Theatre

Virginia Opera, P. Mark, Gen.Dir., Norfolk10/20,22m,27,29m/89 n Trovatoret Dever; O'Mara; 11/1,3 in Richmondll/24,26m 12/l,3m/89 Les Contes d'Hoffmannt Mims; Stevens; d: Ehrman; 12/6,8 in

Richmondl/19,21m,26,28m/90 The Turn of the Screw Brotdo; Combopiano; 1/31 2/2 in Richmond3/2,4m,9,llm/90 II Barbiere di Sivigliat d: Gately; ds: Sicangco; 3/14,16 in Richmond;

3/22-31 tour, 4 pfs.WASHINGTON

Central Washington University Opera Wksp., L. Marra & S. Nesselroad, Dirs., EllensburgFall '89 The Pirates of Penzance

Seattle Opera, S. Jenkins, Gen.Dir., Seattle9/23,24,27,29#,30 10/4/89 II Trovatoret* Vaness/N. Thomas*, Richards/Harnedt;

Cortes/Ashbaker*, Gavanelli/May#, Garcia; c: Bradshaw; d: Muni; ds: Conklin10/28,29 11/1,3,4,8/89 Le Nozze di Figarot* Greenawald, Haymon, Kesling; Parce,

Duesing; c: Schwarz; d: Bakman; ds: Wong/Olich1/19,21,24,26,28,31/90 Dialogues des Carmelitest* Schuman, Haggander, Gorr, Castle;

Outland, J. McKee; c: Fournet; d: Rochaix; ds: Dahlstrom3/17,18,21,23#,24,28/90 La Fille du regimentt Blackwell/Laurence#, Kraft ; Wilson/

Bernardini#, Loup; c: Salemno; d: Brovsky4/28,29# 5/2,4,5,9/90 Les Contes d'Hoffmannt Sieden, Gustafson, Bouleyn, Harris;

McCauley/Kazarast, Pederson/West#; c: Ferden; d: Larsen; ds: Schneider-Siemssen(Greater Miami Opera prod.)

7/22-8/4/90 Prokofiev's War and Peace in Russian; 7 pfs. at Goodwill Games ArtsFestival; c: Ermler; d: Zambello; ds: Conklin

University of Washington, School of Music, V. Liotta, Dir. of Opera, Seattle11/2-5/89 Cos! fan tutte Eng. Martin; 4 pfs.1/9-13/90 Dames at Sea 5 pfs. 3/12,13/90 New Opera Wksp.5/17-20/90 Vanessa 12/5/89 6/4/90 Scenes

WISCONSINFlorentine Opera Co., J. Rescigno, Art.Adv., Milwaukee

11/16,18,19#/89 Porgy and Bess Moore/McMil l iant, Harrison-Davis; Brown, Albert/Hawkins*; c: Nance; d: Lehmeyer

3/22,24,25#/90 Un Ballo in maschera Eng.; Popova/Pierson#, Park, Ayers; Kelen/DiPaolo#, Dietsch; c: Rescigno

5/3,5,6/90 Die ZauberflSte Thorngren, Christman, Gamberoni; W. MacNeil, Ulfung,Opalach, Halfvarson; c: Fagen; d: Ulfung

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Madison Opera, A. Stanke, Mgr., Madison11/10,12m/89 Paulus' The Village Singer & Gianni Schiechi c: R. Johnson; d: Tucker4/6,8m/90 Die Fledermaus Eng.; c: R. Johnson

Pamiro Opera Co., M. Panslcy, Gen. & Art.Dir., Green Bay9/15m, 16/89 The Merry Widow e: Pansky; d: Kraus; ds: Entwistle/Kline

Skylight Comic Opera, S. Wadsworth & F. Zambello, Co-Art.Dirs., Milwaukee9/6-10/1/89 Cabaret 20 pfs.10/18-11/5/89 La Voix humaine & The Telephone 17 pfs.12/6-31/89 Higgins/Wadsworth's Close Harmony Holidays revue; prem.; 14 pfs. at Vogel

Hall1/24-2/11/90 Verdi/Zambello's Camille : Traviata prem.; adapt, from Dumas; d: Zambello;

20 pfs.3/14-4/8/90 Sondheim's Pacific Overtures 23 pfs.5/2-27/90 Round and Round with Cole Porter revue; prem.; 20 pfs.

CANADABanff Centre School of Fine Arts, Music Theatre Program, J. Metcalf, Art.Dir., Banff,

Alta.8/14-10/7/89 Doolittle/Deverell's Boiler Room Suite prem.; also at Canadian Music

Festival, London, England2/22/90 Metcalf/Wilcox Tornrak No.Am.prem.3/15-18/90 Kagel's La Trahison orale No.Am.prem.

Calgary Opera, D. Speers, Gen. & Art.Dir., Calgary, Alta.10/19,21m,21,23/89 Rigolettot Thorngren; Myers, Sardinero; c: J. Rescigno; d: Thomas11/89 Amahl and the Night Visitors tour (coprod. Edmonton Opera)1/18,20,22/90 La Fille du regimentt Dahl, Forrester; Estep, Corbeil; c: Speers; d: Frisell3/22,24,26/90 Salomef M.J. Johnson, Castle; Neill, Albert; c: BernardiSpring '90 Les P§cheurs de perlest conc.pf.; Calgary Philharmonic OrchestraSummer '90 Candide 8-week run (coprod. Alberta Theatre Projects)

Canadian Opera Co., B. Dickie, Gen.Dir., Toronto, Ont.9/22,27 10/2,5,8,11,14/89 Un Ballo in mascherat set in Boston; Mitchell, Blackwell;

Ichihara, Fondary; c: Fiore; d: Warner; ds: W. Skalicki/Mess9/29,30 10/3,4,7,10,12,13,15/89 II Barbiere di Sivigliat Schuman/Maguire; Kasch/Gimenez,

Baerg/Orth, Opalach/Strummer, Corbeil; c: Rigacci (San Francisco Opera prod.)1/18,19,26,29,30 2/3,4,7,9,10/90 Carment Gustafson/Riel, Powell; McCauley/Raffalli,

McFarland/Fox; c: Jenkins1/27,31 2/2,6,8,11/90 Wozzeckt* Forst; Kale, Boutet, Heppner, Monk; d: Mansouri; ds: W.

Levine (coprod. San Francisco Opera)4/7,11,16,19,22,24,27/90 Otellot Evstatieva; Mauro, Monk, Patterson; c: Arena; d:

Mansouri4/14,17,18,20,23,26,28,29/90 La Rondinet Greenawald; de la Mora, Opthof; c: Jenkins; d:

Mansouri/Ewers; ds: Funicello (New York City Opera prod.)6/20,22,24,26,28,30/90 Der Rosenkavaliert* Vaness, Ziegler, Parrish; Korn; c: Rudel; d:

MansouriCanadian Opera Co. Ensemble, Irene Wronski, A dm., Toronto, Ont.

11/89 Le Nozze di Figaro tour of southwest OntarioCosmopolitan Opera, M. Strano, Art.Dir., Toronto, Ont.

11/16,17,18/89 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci 12/1,2,9* in Hamilton & *OrilliaEdmonton Opera, R. Hallam, Gen.Mgr., Edmonton, Alta.

9/28,30 10/lm,2/89 La Boheme Friede, Terrell; Farina, Brandstetter; c: De Renzi; d:Mattaliano

11/23,25,27/89 Dialogues des Carmelites Welhasch, Kolomyjec; c: Agler; d: Ewers12/13-17/89 Amahl and the Night Visitors 6 pfs.1/25,27,28m,29/90 Die Fledermaus Malis; c: Vernon; d: Danner3/22,24,26/90 Der fliegende Hollander E. Davis; Heppner, Halfvarson; c: U. Meyer

Manitoba Opera, I. Guttman, Art.Dir., Winnipeg, Man.11/4,7,10/89 Macbeth Stapp; Tumagian; d: Guttman1/27,30 2/2/90 Cos! fan tutte Kolomyjec, Graham; Margison, Laperriere, Strummer; c:

Agler; d: Macdonald3/31 4/3,6/90 La Boheme Zseller, Terrell; Farina, Baerg; c: Vernon

L'Opera de Montreal, B. Uzan, Gen.Dir., Montreal, P.Q.9/12,16,21,23,27,30/89 Faustt Spacagna, Beaupre"; Gulya"s, G. Quilico, Kavrakos; c:

DelacSte; d: Uzan; ds: Skalicki (all captions in Eng. <5c Fr.)(continued)

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L'Ope>a de Montreal (continued)11/14,18,23,25,29 12/2/89 Le Comte Oryt Weidinger, Beaupne, Lavigne; Blake, Hamilton,

Charbonneau; c: Campanella; d: Millaire; ds: Negin1/30 2/3,8,10,14,17/90 Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serailt Cuccaro, Mills; Fitch, Power; c:

J. Rescigno; d: Uzan; ds: Girard4/3,7,12,14,18,21/90 Un Ballo in mascherat Tokody, Meszoly, Dahl; Dominguez, Miller; c:

Boncompagni; d: Mattaliano; ds: BrownL'Ope'ra de Quebec, G. Belanger, Art. & Mus.Dir., Quebec, P.Q.

10/21,24,26,28/89 Rigoletto5/15,17,19/90 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci

Opera Hamilton, D. Lipton, Art.Dir., Hamilton, Ont.9/21,23/89 Verdi's I Due Foscarit Can.prem.; Roark-Strummer; Giordani, L. Quilico,

Rouleau; c: Lipton11/30 12/2/89 II Barbiere di Sivigliat Fleming; Kuebler, Rinaldi, Montarsolo; c: Lipton;

d: Montarsolo2/1,3/90 "The Best of Popera" c: Lipton4/5,7/90 Le Nozze di Figarot Fleming, Chipman; B. Stilwell, Corbeil; c: Lipton

Opera Lyra, J. Aster, Art.Dir., Ottawa, Ont.9/7,9,11,13,15/89 Carmen* Fortin, J. Stilwell; Fiacco, Legendre; c: H6tu; d: Aster; ds:

Horn11/28,29,30 12/1,2,3/89 Amahl and the Night Visitors school pfs.11/2/89 1/25 3/8 4/26/90 Drawing Room Concerts

Pacific Opera Victoria, T. Vernon, Art.Dir., Victoria, B.C.9/21,23,26,28,30/89 La Cenerentolat Milsom; Serbo, Pedrotti; d: Robinson2/15,17,20,22,24/90 Eugene Onegint Jeans; Margison, Fanning; c: Vernon4/19,21,24,26,28/90 The Pirates of Penzance Gregory; Blanchet, Fanning; c: Gormley; d:

LeyshonPrairie Opera, M. Moats, Art.Dir., Saskatoon, Sask.

11/4/89 L'Elisir d'amore Eng.; set in western Canada; 10/28 in Regina2-3/90 Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing school tour

Saskatoon Opera, M. Harrison, Gen.Mgr., Saskatoon, Sask.10/13,14/89 Gianni Schicchi

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ont.1989-90 Handel's Floridante conc.pf.; No.Am.prem.; Robbin

University of British Columbia Opera Theatre, F. Tickner, Dir., Vancouver, B.C.1/17-2/3/90 Sweeney Todd 12 pfs.3/30,31/90 Scenes

University of Toronto Opera Division, J. Fraser Craig, Mus.Dir., Toronto, Ont.3/2,3,7,10/90 Patience c: Fraser Craig; d: Albano5/1,2,5/90 Scenes

Vancouver Opera, G. Mostart, Art.Dir., Vancouver, B.C.10/21,24,26,28/89 The Rake's Progresst Patterson; Boutet, Monk, Rouleau; c: Barlow; d:

Cox; ds: Hockney (Glyndebourne Festival <5c San Francisco Opera prod.)1/27,30 2/1,3/90 Normat Murphy, Piland; Donaldson, Will; d: Serban; ds: Yeargan (Welsh

National Opera prod.)3/10,13,15,17/90 Werthert Forst; Margison, Pedrotti, Warner (English National Opera

prod.)4/28 5/1,3,5,7,9/90 The Merry Widowt* Eng. Sachs/Mandel; M.J. Johnson, Maguire;

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INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP $20.00*COS Bulletins, Information Service, Conference Registration Discount

INDIVIDUAL SERVICE MEMBERSHIP $38.00*As above with Position Assistance Service (U.S. & Canada only)

MUSIC LIBRARIES $15.00*COS Bulletins, Conference Announcements

•Add $15 for overseas postage; $8 to Canada. A check or money order payable to CentralOpera Service must be drawn in U.S. funds on an American bank or U.S. correspondent branch.

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