Show METROPOLITAN OPERA STAGES THREE DEBUTS NEW V YORK Jan 24 AP AP The The usually staid Metropolitan opera is cramming three debuts this afternoon into a minUte 45 premiere of In the Pashas Pasha's Garden i For the California composer John Laurence Seymour it is his first production production and and the American opera opera opera-at at the Met For Helen Jepson tall blonde native na na- na tive five of Pa it il is her debut as leading soprano For Frederick J. J Kiesler scenic designer designer de de- de signer it is his first ch chance to sweep the he conventional papier mache grand opera settings Instead h he is using a ahu hu huge e white cyclorama on which lights will throw the background Seymours Seymour's short ironic opera deals with an affair between n the pashas pasha's bored young French wife and Etienne young and handsome Frenchman The couple meet at t a kiosk in the garden garden gasden gar gas den and are overheard by a eunuch whereupon Etienne Etienn-c hides in irs a heavy chest The pasha arrives laughs at al the eunuchs eunuch's suspicions and has dinner served upon the chest The wife remains remains remains re re- re- re mains calm As she leaves she hands the pasha the key to the chest chesL The latter orders the chest buried and tosses the key into a pond The nightingales sing Lawrence Tibbett has the role of or the pasha Frederick Jagel that of Etienne and Marck Marek WIndheim the eunuch eunuchs |