Show Begins Summer Festival Season Glade Lee Venora Headline Bowl Performance of French Opera A combination of shows and stars that have helped make each other famous is the hallmark of the University's annual Summer Opening the 1963 Summer Jules Manon will be sung June and 29 in English in the Stadium Maestro Abravanel and Professor William Christensen will team with C. Lowell Lees to direct the Students will be admitted free with their activity Faculty and full-time employees can buy two season tickets for the price of New York City Opera Company soprano Lee Venora will sing the title role in This exciting young soprano is one of the few artists to appear with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra twice in the same season at Carnegie It takes more than a splendid soprano voice to sing the title role of An ideal also has youth and dramatic Lee Venora meets all the requirements European critics acclaimed her as itself as In her performance in just a season she repeated her triumph on the San Francisco Opera Company Utah's own Glade now a star of the Zurich Opera Company In will sing the other major A native of Sanpete and a record-breaking sprinter in his prep days at North Sanpete High Peterson studied voice under the prominent Utah teachers Emma Lucy Gates Bowen and Carlos In he won a summer scholarship with the Pittsburgh Opera auditions in the Mountain States He will be coming to the University production directly from a triumphant Zurich season which was punctuated by an equally 1 triumphant appearance with the Philadelphia Peter- J son has sung in two earlier Summer j the last time in j in 1959 as a guest This year he will sing the role of Manon's l Chevalier des j Adapted to opera a century ago from the Abbe Provost story of star-crossed young Is a popular French Its lyrical style Is distinctively French and so characteristic of its com- poser that critics have described it as Act I of opens in the courtyard of an inn at where De tax three and Guillot old are demanding No sooner does the Innkeeper calm than the coach from Arras Among the travellers is a maiden of bound for a She is met by her Lescout a While he is getting her luggage Guillot tries to get Manon to go to Paris with Interrupted by Lescaut's return he whispers to her that he will send A his carriage for As Lescaut leaves with other guardsmen to the Chevalier Des He intends to catch the next I but at first sight of he falls In love with In his i she happily abandons her plans to enter the When j Guillot's carriage Manon and Des use it to run away to Lescaut returns to find Guillot mourning the loss of his j j Act n finds Des and Manon together in a Paris Des is completing a letter to his I father asking his consent to marry Continued Page Four Musical Spectacular Festival Begins Tonight j Continued from page 1 when they are surprised by Lescaut and De who have tracked them Lescaut reads the letter as disguised as a warns Manon that her beloved is to be abducted by his father's When Des returns from mailing his he joyously tells Manon about his dream of their life In an idyllic cottage far Against Manon's he answers a knock at the and abductors seize Act in opens at the festival of Cours la where Manon is Her escorts are and a throng of admiring Since her thoughts are all for Des she is indifferent to their encounters the Count Des father of the and Manon overhears the news that the Chevalier is now at St. Sulpice ready to enter holy When she tries to learn from the Count whether his son still loves he tells her that Des has forgotten Entertainment is brought to amuse but she is unmoved by the per- She asks Lescaut to take her to St. We are then shown the reception room of St. Sulpice Des has just delivered his thesis with great He emphatically rejects his father's pleas that he leave the Manon arrives as the Count Des tries in vain to resist her but Manon wins heart and they leave the seminary Act IV finds Manon and Des are in the gambling room of the Transylvania Reluctant to but jealous of Manon and desperate for Des agrees to try his luck against He wins so that Guillot angrily stops the He accuses Des of cheating and revenge as he later the police arrive and Manon and Des As police lead them Des is assured by his the that his release will be arranged 1 Act V finds Manon sentenced Broken in health and she is with other prisoners and an armed guard till the port of As the act Des is lying in ambush id liberate The ambush takes at the the soldier of tl whom Lescaut had bribed M delivers Manon to Des Tin reunion is short lived for Manoi dies in his i |