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184 ZnstltZZimt Fri.Mar.21.1969-?t1IV 15 MARTIN BERNHEBIER Ubiquitous Elvira Via San Francisco Say this for Kurt Herbert Adler: he has an eye (and ear) for rising talents. In recent years, the San Francisco Opera almost has made it a habit of beating the Metropolitan and other major U.S. companies at the e( lilfllllilHflleki i 41' vlB 2 WINNER-3 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS! fe. i Judy a Hit in Stockholm STOCKHOLM (LTD Judy Garland opened her first Scandinavian tour in the Stockholm Concert Hall Wednesday and received a 10-minute standing ovation. She concluded her 50-minute performance with 'Over the Rainbow" and the audience of more than 1,000 roared and applauded its approval.

She costarred in the show with singer Johnny Ray. Miss Garland and Ray will give two more perfor-fances in the south of Sweden and one in Copenhagen before returning to London. Import game. This season, for instance, San Francisco has discovered at least four extraordinary singers who deserve places amid the elite. Ludovic Spiess, the Romanian tenor who helped illuminate an otherwise murky opening-night "Turandot," turned out to be blessed with exceptional musicality as well as vocal swagger.

In Pietro Bottazzo, the company found a "tenore di grazia" who could sing mAMotTVT inert Ri Franco Zefhrelu Romeo JULIET -Si 4 Teresa Zylis-Gara ONLY L.A. SH0WIN8 New York, on the other hand, can look forward to Zylis-Gara in two new assignments, both Mozartean and both to be broadcast: Pamina in "Die Zauberfloete" and the Countess in "Figaro." Rudolf Bing also offered her the role of Agathe in "Der Freischuetz," but the soprano, who has refreshingly definite ideas about her affinities and limitations, said no thank you. "Agathe," she explains, "is simply too one sided. I do not regard myself as the insipid, Germanic virgin type." Similar reservations have prevented her from taking on some of the lighter Wagnerian roles, but she does confess a love for Richard Strauss. She may be heard as the Composer on Angel's lovely new "Ariadne auf Naxos" recording, and she enjoyed considerable success in Glyndebourne a few years ago as Oktavian in "Rosenkavalier." At the moment, however, she is more involved in an unhurried flirtation with different roles in the same operas: Ariadne and the Marschallin.

Anti-type Casting "I am afraid I have become too obviously feminine," she declares, "for the masculine parts." The Zylis-Gara soprano, lustrous, even in color, and capable of extraordinary flexibility, is difficult to classify, even for the lady herself. She sings lyrically, but applies herself on occasion to such relatively dramatic challenges as "Trovatore" and "Butterfly." She has no difficulty with an E-flat above the so-called "high" yet feels comfortable in the descending lines of Giulietta in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann." Coloratura does not faze her, but she avoids strict "chirping." "The important thing," she says, "is being careful not to move too fast, and to be able to refuse offers that might be hazardous." Coming from an established star who started singing at 16, and who purposely chose a provincial company for her first German engagement (Oberhausen), such observations take on special significance. Zylis-Gara claims to have found the past eight years of activity in German repertory houses "carefully paced years" the foundation for her present position. But not everything has been easy. She misses her husband, an engineer, and their 13-year-old son, who still live in Poland.

She complains, justifiably, that success has robbed her of free time: her last real vacation took place three years ago. And she worries about the fact that she has been unable to find a good teacher while "at home" in Duesseldorf. That is what makes Teresa Zylis-Gara so remarkable. How many other prima donnas admit publicly that, perhaps just perhaps they don't know all there is to OWER HORROR Ti mSSSi THRILLERS EDGAR ALLAN POE'S ordinary love EDGAR ALLAN POE'S EVIL "HOUSE USHER" COLOR Rossini with equal degrees of finesse and focus. Margarita Lilova, the Bulgarian mezzo who inherited Azucena in "Trovatore," revealed a bright mezzo-soprano and a becoming sense of restraint.

And in Sunday's "Don Giovanni," there was a most attractive newcomer named Teresa Zylis-Gara. She sang a Donna Elvira that easily withstood comparison with the finest recent exponents of that difficult role: Sena Jurinac and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Zylis-Gara, who was born in Poland and trained, for the most part, in Germany, regards Mozart's hapless quasi-heroine as her "destiny role." Elvira served her debut at the Met last December two months after it had introduced her to San Francisco. Before that, Zylis-Gara sang Elvira one summer in Glyndebourne and another in Herbert von Karajan's celebrated Salzburg Festival production (where she replaced Montserrat Caballe). Not Favorite Role Since the role has opened so many doors for Zylis-Gara, it would surprise no one to find the soprano labeling it her favorite.

But this ebullient, self-confident lady is full of surprises. She likes singing Elvira, of course. But she prefers at least three other assignments: Fiordiligi in "Cosi fan tutte," the title role in Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" I have sung it only in and Monteverdi's "Poppea." She also admits to being tempted by the other, vastly different, dramatic-soprano role in "Don Giovanni," Donna Anna. "I shall never give up Elvira, but I am preparing Anna. It might be interesting to alternate the two." Los Angeles' immediate prospects for witnessing such a demonstration of versatility are slim.

Zylis-Gara has no plans for returning to San Francisco next season the only role that really might have interested her is Violetta, which Adler has promised another soprano. Beyond 1970? "We shall see." AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 1 TKEjiaSQUEoFTHE 1 REDDEaTH xPaiHECOLOIt KJGHHMd NOW PLAYING nmwm mmmmwm mm I know? mm ANTHONYHAVELBCIC-ALIAN amlJOHN BRABQURNfisRICHARD B000W1N1 Kin Two film masterpieces from the pen of Yasunori Kawabata, Japan's 1968 Nobel Prize Novelist SNOW COUNTRY and REGULAR CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCES NOW At 2 Theatres CO HHPUTIGKiT HOUSE OF GLENDON AVf. GR 7-0097 12:30 DAILY AT: 12:30,3:00, 5:30,8:00,10.30 SLEEPING Tn 9-9077 5:30 8:00 10:30 GIRLS One Waf Block From Bullock's (321 HOLLYWOOD BLVD. near VIME 463-6819 KABUKI Theatre, 734-0362 ADAMS at CRENSHAW ACADEMY MEMBERS: Your card admits you and a guest to any performance. Also at TITAN, Fullerton CINEMA, Newport Beach TOWNE, long Beach STUDIO, San Bernardino The convenient new way to get great seats to great events.

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