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Show Ballet Company, directed by Mr. Christensen, will dance the colorful ballets of Song of Norway. Mr. Christensen is the choreographer of Summer Festival. Miss Petina, coming to Summer Festival after a popular Broadway Broad-way triumph in Candide, will play the Countess, the Song of Norway role which carried her to her first Broadway triumph. Mr. Upperman will portray Grieg. He is popularly remembered remember-ed by intermountain audiences for his Summer Festival performances in Faust and Carmen. Mr. Sorensen will play Nik and Miss Harbrecht will play Nina, Mr. Engar will take the part of Peppi. In the opera, Miss Malbin will take the title role. She played Salome in the nationwide telecast Mr. Kullman, an American-born, Yale-educated tenor starred by the Metropolitan Opera in many roles, including the title role of Tann-hauser Tann-hauser last winter, will play Herod, and Mr. Upperman will play John the Baptist. Rehearsals Begin For U. Of U. Summer Festivals Set The University of Utah this week started rehearsals for Summer Sum-mer Festival, which will present five of the World's foremost concert con-cert and opera artists in two colorful shows in July. The directors of Summer Festival Festi-val Dr. C. Lowell Lees, Maurice Abravanel and William F. Christensen Christ-ensen said they have started the singing rehearsals this week for the first production, Song of Norway. Nor-way. Irra Petina, Broadway and Metropolitan Opera performer; Theodor Uppman, Metropolitan Opera star making his third Summer Sum-mer Festival appearance, and Ewan Harbrecht, West Coast opera, op-era, concert and radio soprano, will star in Song of Norway; the 'directors said. The musical,, adapted from the life and music of composer Ed-vard Ed-vard Grieg, will be performed July 6 and 8 through 13 in the University Uni-versity Stadium Bowl. The second production, Richard Strauss' powerful and unusual opera op-era Salome, will be presented July 17, 19 and 20 in the Stadium Bowl, the directors said. Mr. Upperman and two other internationally famous opera stars, Charles Kullman and Elaine Malbin, Mal-bin, will take the leads in the opera, Mr. Abravanel said. An array of intermountain artists art-ists and University singers and Theater Ballet-are beng assembled assem-bled to complete the casts of the dancers including the University two productions. Two popular Utah artists, Marvin Mar-vin Sorensen and Keith Engar, will be the supporting stars of Song of Norway. Both have starred star-red in earlier Summer Festivals. By tradition, the Utah Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Abravanel, will perform the music of the two shows. Mr. Abravanel is musical director of the Summer Festival. |