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Show SUMMER FESTIVAL READIEDAT U OF U Robert Rounseville, currently the toast of the motion picture world for his brilliant performance perform-ance in J. Arthur Rank's "Tales of Hoffmann", will re-create the same title role for the University of Utah's fourth annual Summer Festival on July 19, 20 and 21. The tenor star, lead male voice with the New York City Center Opera Co., also will sing the lead role of Jolidon in "The Merry Widow," which opens the festival-, from July 9 to 14, said Maurice Abravanel, music director, and Gail Plummer, manager of the summer classic. "Patrons who remember 'Carmen' 'Car-men' and 'The Great Waltz' from two years ago will remember that Mr. Rounseville is a brilliant brill-iant actor as well as a gifted singer, said C. Lowell Lees, dramatic director. Since his appearance in Salt Lake City two years ago, when he was hailed as the finest male voice yet to appear in Stadium Bowl, Mr. Rounseville has added to his reputation by singing the tenor lead in Prokofieff's colorful color-ful "Love for Three Oranges" and getting the Hoffmann plum for the English motion picture. In college Mr. Rounseville led his own dance band and did the crooning until his big tenor voice demanded additional serious training. While he studied voice, languages and dramatics he appeared ap-peared in night clubs, vaudeville and radio work all of which culminated cul-minated in a two-week engagement engage-ment at Manhattan's brassy Leon and Eddie's an engagement which finally ran 35 weeks! This polished tenor paradoxically introduced in-troduced the wartime hit, "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition," Ammu-nition," under the name Robert Field his middle name. Widely heralded by New York, London and Chicago critics, Mr. Rounseville has added oratorio, recitals, symphonic appearances and now motion pictures to his concert and operatic careers during dur-ing the past 18 months. Other stars for the festival, imported and local, will be announced an-nounced during the next two weeks, Mr. Plummer said. Tickets Tick-ets at the lowest prices in festival fes-tival history will toe sold in several sev-eral Utah communities to enable patrons outside Salt Lake City to obtain the best seats in advance. |