PROGRAM: Bravo 1967 Opera

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DETROIT GRAND

OPERA

ASSOCIATION with Oakland University and University Center for Adult Education presents OVERTURE TO OPERA VI

1967 Season

CALENDAR

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FEBRUARY 3, 3:30 p.m.

Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Fries Auditorium (students)

FEBRUARY 5, 8:15 p.m.

Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Fries Auditorium. Admission: $1.50

Ticket infonnation: Mrs. John Lesesne

Mrs. Stanley Day

Tickets available: 530 Oxford Road, Grosse Pointe

FEBRUARY 7, 8:15 p.m.

886-2848

TU 1-1151

Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Lake Shore Road

Ferndale High School. Admission: $1.50 adults

Ticket infonnation: Mrs. Jose j. Calvillo

Tickets available: Pleasant Ridge Recreation Center

FEBRUARY 9, 1:30 p.m.

Southfidd High School (students)

FEBRUARY 12, 8:00 p.m.

Marygrove College. Liberal Arts Auditorium

Admission: $1.50 adults. $.75 students

Ticket information: Mrs. Thomas Lo Cicero

Alumni Office

FEBRUARY 14, 9:15 a.m.

Oak Park High School (students)

398-9288

TU 5-6693

UN 2-5442

FEBRUARY 16, 8:00 p.m.

Sisters of Mercy High School, Livonia. Admission: $1.50

Ticket information : Mrs. Raymond Zelch GR 6-1646

Tickets available: Grinnell Brothers. Livonia Mall

FEBRUARY 21, 1:30 p.m.

Lincoln Park High School (students)

FEBRUARY 24, 8:15 p.m.

Cleary Auditorium, Windsor, Ontario

Admission: $2.00, $1.50, $1.00

Ticket information: Heintzman's Miss M. FitzPatrick

FEBRUARY 26, 3:00 p.m.

Mount Clemens High School. Admission: $1.50

Ticket information: Mrs. Samuel Malbin Mrs. Harold Stubbs

Tickets available: Mount Clemens Public Library

2!»-3181

254-3157 HO 3-0924

H08-6040 HO 3-0831

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MARCH 2, 10:45 un. 1:00 p.m.

Pontiac Northern High School (students)

Students

CALENDAR Continued

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MARCH 3, 1:00 p.m.

Pontiac Northern High School (students) 8:30 p.m.

Admission: $1.50 for 8:30 p.m. performance

Ticket information: Mrs. Ralph R. Curtis (students) Mrs. Arnold Brown (evening performance)

Tickets available: Grinnell's-Pontiac Mall

MARCH 5, 3:00 p.m.

Trenton High School. Admission: $1.50 adults

Ticket information: Mrs. Grace F. Hoerle

Tickets available: Grinnell Brothen Lincoln Park

Grinnell Brothers Wyandotte

MARCH 7, 8:30 p.m.

Copernicus Junior High School, Hamtramck. Admission: $1.50

Ticket information: Mrs. Arthur Rooks

Tickets available: Hamtramck Public Library TU 3-2660

MARCH 8, 1:30 p.m.

MARCH 12, 3:00 p.m.

Copernicus Junior High School, Hamtramck (students)

Edsel Ford High School, Dearborn

Admission: $1.50 adults

Ticket information: Mn. John F. Wagner LO 1-7949 Mrs. Michael Orlovich LO 3-2981

Tickets available: Sally's Beauty and Gift Studio, Westborn LO 5-4777

Grinnell Brothen. Dearborn LV 1-8130

MARCH 14, 1:10 p.m.

Dondero High School, Royal Oak (students)

MARCH 17, 8:15 p.m.

Fitzgerald High School, Warren (Sponsored by Macomb Community College)

Admission: $1.50 adults, $.50 students

Ticket information: Mrs. Adolph Rossetti 264-4591

MARCH 29, 8:15 p.m.

Tickets available: Eugene S. Guswiler, Office of Student Activities, Macomb Community College, South Campus, Detroit Institute of Arts. Admission: $1.50

Ticket information: Mrs. Abraham Cooper UN 1-1532 Mrs. Horace Holloway TO 6-3483

Tickets available: Rackham Building, Adult Education Department, Wayne State University 831-4310

ext. 1145

Detroit Institute of Arts, Mr. Deeds

TE 2-2130

PROGRAM

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THE PORTUGUESE INN-Luigi Cherubini· (Michigan Premiere)

GABRIELA: Ward of Roselbo

INES: Maid to Gabriela. . .

RODRIGO: !:fost of the Portuguese Inn

ROSELBO: An old Spanish nobleman

DON CARLOS: Gabriela's lover .

PEDRILLO: Don Carlos' servant

INIGO: Rodrigo's servant .

Edited by Guilio Confalonieri

English translation by John Gutman

By special arrangement with Lorenzo Alvary

DORALENE DAVIS

CAROLYN GRIMES

ERNESTINE NIMMONS

FAYE TURNER

RUSSELL SKITCH

J. MICHAEL BLOOM

PHILLIP ZAUGG

J. MICHAEL BLOOM

EOWARO KINGINS

JOSEPH RYAN

KENNETH YOUNG

MACK PERRY (understudy)

ROBERT PEPPLE

Cherubini (1760-1842) was one of the most influential compoeere of the early nineteenth century. Beethoven greatly admired his operas and wrote, "I love and honor you, and of all my contemporaries I place you the highest." Today Cherubini is unjustly neglected.

The one act opera TM Parlu,uueInn (L'Osteria Portogeae).was firet performed in Paris in 1789. The American premiere was performed by the San Francisco Opera Company in 1954. Overture to Opera VI is pleased to present the Michigan premiere of TM Portusuue Inn.

A MASKED BALL-Giuseppe Verdi

Act III, Scene I

RENATO AMELIA OSCAR SAM

TOM.

ROBERT TAYLOR

ERNESTINE NIMMONS

SUE YOUNG

JANE PURDY

PHILLIP ZAUGG

DANIEL JACKSON

THE CONSUL-Gian Carlo Menotti

Act II, Scene 2

By

MAGDA

SECRETARY ..

ANNA .....

VERA BORONEL

FOREIGN WOMAN .

MAGICIAN ..

MR. KOFNER ...

ROMA RIDDELL

LESLIE EITZEN

SUE YOUNG

ELSIE INSELMAN

PHYLLIS GAIDE

JOSEPH RYAN

KENNETH YOUNG

arranaement with G. Sc:hinner. Inc.

Overture to Opera VI will feature the ingenious multiacreen _g projection system developed by Dr. Elemer Nagy, Head of the Department of lbeatre Arta and Opera at the University of Hartford in Connecticut

STAFF

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Producer. Music Director and Overture Chainnan . . . . .

DR. DAVID DI CHIERA

Acting Chairman. Music Dept. Oakland Unil!ersity

Overture Co-Chairman. .

Assistant to the Producer Personnel Manager

Stage Director and Scenic Design for

The Consul and A Masked Ball.

Stage Director for The Portuguese Inn

Assistant Music Director and Accompanist . . . Musical Coach and Accompanist

MRS . ROBERT ANDERSON

DONALD M. REID

j. MICHAEL BLOOM

JOHN BROOME

MOl!ement Director. John Fernald Company at Meadow Brook

LAWRENCE LA GORE

Director. Michigan ConscrlJatory of Music

NAOMI AMOS

Scenic Design for The Portuguese Inn. TOM A. ASTON

Costume Design

Stage Manager .

j. MICHAEL BLOOM

LANTRY VAUGHN

DR . DAVID DI CHIERA

J. MICHAEL BLOOM

JOHN BROOME

LAWRENCE LA GORE

FEATURED ARTISTS

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PHYLLIS CAIDE

CAROLYN CRIMES ELSIE INSELMAN DANIEL JACKSON

ROMA RIDDELL JOSEPH RYAN

RUSSELL SKITCH ROBERT TAYLOR

EDWARD KINGINS

ERNESTINE NIMMONS

FAYE TURNER KENNETH YOUNG

DORALENE DAVIS

ROBERT PEPPLE

SUE YOUNG

LESLIE EITZEN

JANE PURDY

PHILLIP ZAUGG

1967 METROPOLITAN OPERA SEASON IN DETROIT

at Masonic Temple

Monday, May 22-A MASKED BALL-Verdi (Benefit performance for Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

Tuesday, May 23-TURANDOT-Puccini

Wednesday, May 24-LOHENGRIN-Wagner

Thursday, May 25--01£ FLEDERMAUS-Strauss

Friday, May 26-LA GIOCONDA-Ponchielli

Saturday, May 27 (Matinee)-LA TRAVIATA-Verdi

Saturday, May 27 (Evening)-OTELLO-Verdi

TICKETS for METROPOLITAN OPERA PERFORMANCES:

Mail Orders

Detroit Grand Opera Association

20 East Jefferson Avenue

Detroit. Michigan 48226

Window Ticket Sales: Approximately April I

Box Office Ford Auditorium

Detroit. Michigan