University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, December 9, 1975
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Operas take to the stage tonight
University of Kansas students in the Opera Workshop will perform two operas tonight culminating an entire semester of practicing and polishing the productions.
The two operas, Olegus Pergola's one-and-a-half, and W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's one-a-tri comic opera "Trial by Jury," will be available at 8 p.m. in the University Theater.
The Opera Workshop consists of students interested in the operatic field. Students are cast at the beginning of the semester for the ballet and for the public at the end of the semester.
Ferenz Gaal, assistant professor of voice and stage director for the Maid as
Mistress," said yesterday that Pergesta's interspecies was first performed in the 18th century.
At that time, he said, large and long operatic productions were staged, and the intermezzo, during internession periods, provided relief from the usually tragic operas.
Gaal said the plot of "The Maid as Mistress" was simple: a young maid wants to change her status from maid to mistress and she has to do so. But she wins the master over and they are married.
The maid Sergina is played by Nancy Atkins, Lawrence graduate student, and master Uberto is played by Carl Packard, also a Lawrence graduate student.
A third part, that of a mate male servant,
is played by Alan Scherfgeertz. Kinsley
played by Daniel McCarthy.
The director, John Bush Jones, associate professor of English, said this year was the centennial of the successful 25-year collaboration of Richard D'OylyCarte and Gilbert and Sullivan, which began in 1876 with "Trial by Jurv."
Jones has specialized in the study, direction and production of Gilbert and Sullivan's works. He and his wife, Sandra Carson Jones, previously co-directed the Mount Oread Gilbert and Sullivan Company at KU.
The groom, or defendant in the case, is played by James Frost, El Paso, Tex., special student, and the court judge is played by William Glinsky, Lawrence graduate student. The bride's, or plaintiff's, groom is played by John Spicer sophomore. Jurors, bridesmaids and the public fill most of the rest of the 24-member cast.
"Trial by Jury" is a satire on the British courts of justice, Jones said, and centers on a breach of promise of marriage. The illusorized bride to be, played by Baryl Billey Jr., is named, in senior, ends up in court in full bridal regalia trailed by six bridesmaids.
"Trial by Jury" is choreographed by Sandra Carson Jones. The assistant director is Liz Green, Palm Beach, Fla., graduate student; the stage manager is Stuart McKinney, Palm Beach, Fla., and the rehearsal pianist is Teri Harris, Fredonia graduate student.
The orchestra conductor for "The Maid at Mistress" is Lynn Schornick, Yates Center graduate student; and Antonio Molina, a graduate student conducting the orchestra in "Trial by Jury."
Drink Free Beer & Help the K.U. Band Go to the Sun Bowl Tuesday and Wednesday Nights 8:00 p.m.'til Midnight only at
PAUL GRAY'S JAZZ PLACE & Student Senate Above Jenkins Music Co. 926 Mass. Donations to help send the K.U. Band to El Paso accepted!
Cliff McDonald, Budweiser distributor, played football on the 1948 K.U. Orange Bowl team. Cliff says: "In 1948 the band helped us all season and the whole state raised the money for them to join us at Miami. This year, as always, we have a great band
and we want to send them to El Paso. So we're giving away Free Bud at Paul Gray's in hopes that everyone who supports the K.U. Band will join us and make a donation of their choice to the band.
"Keep playing that Bud Song!"
Paul Gray, dixieland band leader and past president of the K.U. Band, says:
"We want to help send our great K.U. Band to the Sun Bowl, so we're giving you Free Bud and some great dixieland music to get everyone fired up!
All you have to do is come down to the Jazz Place,have a great time,and give a donation of your choice so the Band can go to the Sun Bowl!"