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Show Appearance Set For Ute Opera By COLLEN WRIGHT Chronicle Staff Writer Opera, absent from the University's Uni-versity's major season for four years, will return to campus Friday and Saturday evening with 'Puccini's merry "Gianni Schicchi," and '"Gavalleria Rust-icana," Rust-icana," Mascagni's dynamic tragedy. tra-gedy. The double performance will open at 8:30 p.m. in Kingsbury Kings-bury Hall. TENOR KEITH WYATT arrived arri-ved Monday morning to begin final rehearsals with Utah choruses chor-uses and musicians. Mr. Wyatt, frequent star of west coast opera op-era companies and festivals, and an international soloist with the Robert Shaw and Roger Wagner chorales, will sing the lead role of ill-fated Turiddu in "Gavall- ena. A dozen leading Utah artists, a 75 voice chorus, and 35 Utah Symphony members will combine com-bine to make the evening a musical mus-ical delight. "Cavalleria", when It premiered prem-iered in Rome in 1890, created creat-ed a 40 curtain call sensation. Within a year, major opera houses In Europe and America had either booked or billed it The majestic choral passages of the opera epic require more voices than the Kingsbury stage can hold, said Arden Watts, conductor. Only a 25 voice chorus chor-us will appear on stage, while the University's 50 voice a capp-ella capp-ella choir, directed by Newel B. Weight, will sing from behind a church set. L I-L A KITCHIN MARTIN DALE, recent winner of an audition aud-ition at the Metropolitan Opera, will sing the role of Santuzza, Tudiddu's jealous lover. William Birk will appear as suspicious Alfio. Soprano Flora Nielsen will sing Lola, Alfio's wife and Turddu's former sweetheart, and Beryl 'Smiley will sing Mamma Lucia, Turiddu's mother. "Schicchi", the opening opera, is as gay as "Cavalleria" is tragic. Marvin Sorensen will sing the title role. Val Stuart and Lynne Sanders will appear as the young lovers, and Joanne Ottley, Ron Ross, and Pymm Chartrand have other key roles. |