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Show Song of Norway First Event of University of Utah Summer Festival rfmwywtffw ...... ' V . i ! ill A -iwinnn i'i , - s - Hr t. J: j r- A ELAINE MALBIN will sing the title role of Salome in Summer Festival. Foremost star of the NBC Opora Company, she has played the same role in a nationwide nation-wide telecast of Salome. The Summer Festival production produc-tion of Song of Norway also will star Theodor Uppman, Metropolitan Metropoli-tan Opera star who already i3 a summer festival favorite, and Ewan Harbrccht, West Coast opera, radio and concert star, who soloed with the Salt Lake Tabernacle Taber-nacle choir in its memorable tour of Europe. . Mr. Uppman will be making his third Summer Festival appearance in the role of Grieg. Miss Har-brecht Har-brecht will play Nina, the girl Grieg marries. In the second production, Elaine Malbin will play the role. She made entertainment history in the same role in television. Star of the NBC Opera Company, Com-pany, Miss Malbin played Salome in the only nationwide telecast (Continued on Tage 2) IRRA PETINA will- sing the Countess in Song of Norway at Summer Festival. She scored a memorable personal triumph in the same role in her Broadway debut. Two roles that made entertainment entertain-ment history and the stars who played them are coming to the stage of the University of Utah's starlit stadium bowl in July. The University of Utah Summer Festival will present two ambitious ambit-ious productions starring Broadway, Broad-way, Metropolitan Opera and television artists. Song of Norway, popular musical musi-cal drawn from the life and music of composer Edward Grieg will run July 6 and 8 through 13. Salome, Sa-lome, a powerful Richard Strauss' opera, will play July 17, 19 and 20. In the first production, Irra Petina will star as the Countess. It is the same role in which she scored a smashing personal triumph in her Broadway debut. Now a star of both Broadway and Metropolitan Opera as well as the concert stage, Mis3 Petina is coming to Utah from . another personal triumph in the recent Broadway production of Candide. The show ended a popular three-month three-month run in March. (Continued from Page 1) opera." Salome will be her second Summer Sum-mer Festival role. She starred in Madame Butterfly in the stadium bowl last year. Charles Kullman, internationally popular concert tenor and Metropolitan Metro-politan Opera star, will play King Herod in the opera, and Theodor Uppman, who is a baritone, will sing the role of John the Baptist. Dr. C. Lowell Lees, production director of Summer Festival and director of the University Theater and Maestro Abravanel said the University has gathered the finest chorus in Summer Festival history for Song of Norway. "Every member of the chorus is a soloist in his or her own right," Dr. Lees said. Although its members mem-bers are mostly Utahns, the chorus has drawn singers from as far as California and North Carolina Caro-lina for this production, he said. The chorus comprises seventeen men and sixteen women. The University Theater Ballet Company, directed by William F. Christensen, will dance the difficult dif-ficult and colorful ballets of Song of Norway. At the same time, the company will dance a special ballet bal-let number preluding Salome, the Summer Festival directors said. By tradition, the Utah Symphony Sym-phony Orchestra will perfom the music for both shows. Two popular Utah artists, both Summer Festival veterans have been cast as supporting stars of Song of Norway. They are Marvin Sorensen and Keith Engar. Tickets already are on sale for both shows. Orders are invited by mail to this address f Summer Festival, Einar Nielsen Field-house, Field-house, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 12, Utah. . Single reserved seats are priced at $3.50 (with back rests, center section) and $2.00. The season price-a seat for both shows-is $5.50 (the $3.50 seats) and $3.00 (the $2.00 seats). General admission seats are priced at $1.25 for a single show or $2.00 for both shows. For Song of Norway only, general' admission seats will be sold at 75 cents, that has been done of this modern and challenging Strauss opera. Maurice Abravanel, musical director di-rector of Summer Festival and conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra, said Miss Malbin "now is the foremost star of television |