ipfac leadership and opera seasons, 1950 -...

IPFAC Leadership and Opera Seasons, 1950 - 2017

Year Season Operational Leadership

Organizational

Leadership/Governance Artistic Director Opera 1 Opera 2 Opera 3 Opera 4

1950

1951 [2nd?]

Henry Hobart, General

Director

The Sweet-Sixteen Opera

Company at Opera Workshop

at Inspiration Point Fine Arts

Colony (Federated Music Clubs

of Arkansas and Oklahoma)

Music and Artistic Director

Constance Eberhart

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

1952

1. [3rd?] ["1952"

handwritten on Music

Festival program]. 2.

["1952" handwritten

on Sweet-Sixteen

Opera Company

Hansel and Gretel

program]

1. Dr. Henry Hobart, Exec.

Dir. 2. Henry Hobart,

General Director

1. Inspiration Point Fine Arts

Colony Music Festival (Five

Nights). 2. The Sweet-Sixteen

Opera Company at Opera

Workshop at Inspiration Point

Fine Arts Colony (Federated

Music Clubs of Arkansas and

Oklahoma)

1. Opera Conductor Dr. Louis

May. 2. Music and Artistic

Director Constance Eberhart

1. Martha (von

Flotow). 2.

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

1. Marriage by

Lantern Light

(Offenbach)

1. Trial by Jury

(Gilbert and

Sullivan)

1. Hansel and

Gretel

(Humperdinck)

1953

[4th?] ["1953"

handwritten on

photocopy] (no

program found yet

3/1/16)

Prof. Henry Hobart,

Director of the Inspiration

Point Fine Arts Colony

KAN-ARK-OMA Youth Opera

Company (Federated Music

Clubs of Arkansas, Kansas, and

Oklahoma)

Summer Opera Workshop

directed by Constance

Eberhart

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

Martha (von

Flotow) [shown in

compiled 1951-

1964 repertory list

in 1965 program]

Trial by Jury

(Gilbert and

Sullivan) [shown

in compiled 1951-

1964 repertory list

in 1965 program]

Bartered Bride

(Smetana) [shown

in compiled 1951-

1964 repertory list

in 1965 program]

1954 [5th?]

Dr. Henry Hobart, Exec.

Dir.; Roland Earsom,

Business Manager

Opera Workshop Director

Constance Eberhart

Prodigal Son

(Debussy)

The Maid as

Mistress [The

Wilful Wench? La

Serva Padrona?]

(Pergolesi)

Game of Love

(Petit)

The Willow Tree

(Cadman)

1955 [6th?]



Business Manager

Opera Workshop Director

Constance Eberhart

Prodigal Son

(Debussy)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

Game of Love

(Petit)

Riders to the Sea

(Vaughan

Williams)

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Year

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

Opera 5 Opera 6 Opera 7 Opera 8 Opera 9 Opera 10 Opera 11 Opera 12 Opera 13

The Gooseherd

and the Goblin (J.

Smith) [shown in

compiled 1951-

1964 repertory list

in 1965 program]

Don Pasquale

(Donizetti)

Martha Act II (von

Flotow)

Tales of Hoffman

Act IV (Offenbach)

The Lantern

Marriage

[Marriage by

Lantern Light]

(Offenbach)

Bastien and

Bastienne

(Mozart)

Shanewis

(Cadman)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

Coffee is King (J.S.

Bach)

Solomon and

Balkis (Thompson)

Old Maid and the

Thief (Menotti)

The Frantic

Physician

(Gounod)

Shanewis

(Cadman)

Tales of Hoffman

(Offenbach)

Elixir of Love

(Donizetti)




Organizational


1956 7th



Business Manager

Constance Eberhart, Opera

Workshop Director)

Bastien and

Bastienne

(Mozart)

Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)

Amahl and the

Night Visitors

(Menotti)

The Medium

(Menotti)

1957 8th



Business Manager


Workshop Director; Guest

Director and Artistic Counselor

Isaac Van Grove

The Wilful Wench

(La Serva Padrona,

by Pergolesi)

The Tales of

Hoffman

(Offenbach)

Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)

What Men Live By

(Martinu)

1958 9th



Business Manager

Board of Directors President

Dr. Eugene S. Briggs


Workshop Director; Artistic

Counselor and Director Isaac

Van Grove

Bastien and

Bastienne

(Mozart)

Robin and Marion

(de la Halle)

The Proposal

([Gerald Humel?];

lists Debussy)

Love Is a Game

(Petit)

1959 10th Dr. Henry Hobart, Exec. Dir.

Board of Directors Exec.

Comm. President Dr. Eugene S.

Briggs

Artistic Director Isaac Van

Grove

Martha (von

Flotow)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

Love Is a Game

(Game of Love,

Petit)

The Lantern

Marriage

(Offenbach)

1960 11th


Dir.; Hazel Post Gillette,

Business Manager

Inspiration Point Board of

Directors Exec. Comm.

President Dr. Eugene S. Briggs


Grove

Smoky Mountain

(Hunkins)

The Other Wise

Man (Van Grove)

The Magic Flute

(Mozart)

The Frantic

Physician (Moliere-

Gounod)

1961 12th


Dir.; Business Manager Dr.

Hazel Post Gillette


Directors Exec. Comm.

President Dr. Eugene S. Briggs

Artistic Director Dr. Isaac Van

Grove

Draagenfoot Girl

(World Premiere,

Kupferman / Van

Grove)

Love Is a Game

(Game of Love,

Petit)

The Village

Sorceress (Mozart

/ Bair) Faust (Gounod)

1962 13th


Dir.; Edwin Earsom,

Business Manager


Directors President Dr. Eugene

S. Briggs


Grove

The Other Wise

Man (Van Grove)

Bartered Bride

(Smetana)

The Beautiful

Galatea (von

Suppe)

Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)



Year

1950

1956

1957

1958

1959

1960

1961

1962


Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

Riders to the Sea

(Vaughan

Williams)

Pickwick (Burnand

and Solomon)

The Prodigal Son

(Debussy)

Sunday Costs Five

Pesos (Haubiel)

Smoky Mountain

(Hunkins)

The Play of Robin

and Marion (de la

Halle / Van Grove)

The Prodigal Son

(Debussy)

Bastien and

Bastienne

(Mozart)

Amahl and the

Night Visitors

(Menotti) Carmen (Bizet)

Smoky Mountain

(Hunkins)

Shanewis

(Cadman)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

I Pagliacci

(Leoncavallo)

What Men Live By

(Martinu)

The Proposal

([Gerald Humel?];

lists Debussy)

The Witch of

Salem (Cadman)

The Lantern

Marriage

(Marriage by

Lantern Light,

Offenbach)

The Prodigal Son

(Debussy)

The Headless

Horseman

(Moore) Gallantry (Moore)

The Prodigal Son

(Debussy)

The Proposal

(Gerald Humel?)

Robin and Marion

(de la Halle / Van

Grove)

The Other Wise

Man (World

premiere, Van

Grove)

The Impressario

(Mozart / Bair)

Bastien and

Bastienne (Mozart

/ Bair)

Sunday Costs Five

Pesos (Haubiel)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck) Bluebeard (Foster)

The Gondoliers

(Gilbert and

Sullivan)

The Impressario

(Mozart / Bair)

Barber of Seville

(Rossini)

The Beautiful

Galatea (von

Suppe)

The Impressario

(Mozart / Bair)

The Medium

(Menotti) Bluebeard (Foster)

Laundry Romance

(Carl Ditters von

Dittersdorf / Bair)

The Prodigal Son

(Debussy)

Robin and Marion

(de la Halle / Van

Grove)




Organizational


1963 14th


Dir.; Wenonah Williams,

Camp Manager


Directors President Mrs. Hal H.

McHaney

Director of the Opera

Workshop Dr. Clifford Bair

Solomon and

Balkis (Thompson)

Amahl and the

Night Visitors

(Menotti)

Ten Maidens and

No Man (von

Suppe; English

version by Nagy)

Smoky Mountain

(Hunkins)

1964 15th



Camp Manager


Directors President Beulah

Hale McHaney

Artistic Supervisor of the

Opera Workshop Dr. Isaac Van

Grove; Director of the Opera

Workshop Dr. Clifford Bair Cindy (Reiners)

Ten Maidens and

No Man (von

Suppe)

Sister Angelica

(Puccini; English

version by

Withers)

Trial by Jury

(Gilbert and

Sullivan)

1965

[16th] (brochure with

tentative repertory,

and typewritten

photocopy)



Camp Manager

Artistic Supervisor Opera

Workshop Dr. Isaac Van Grove Mignon (Thomas)

Juggler of Notre

Dame (Our Lady's

Juggler, Massenet)

The Gondoliers

(Gilbert and

Sullivan)

The Chocolate

Soldier (Oskar

Straus)

1966

[17th] typewritten

photocopy

Duane Cline, Executive

Director

Artistic Director of Opera

Workshop Dr. Isaac Van Grove

Madama Butterfly

(Puccini)

Down in the Valley

(Weill)

Marriage of Figaro

(Mozart)

1967 18th

Hazel Post Gillette,

Business Manager;

Wenonah Williams, Camp

Manager

Inspiration Point Fine Arts

Colony Board of Directors

President Mrs. Hal H.

McHaney

Artistic Administrator,

Director, and Conductor Isaac

Van Grove

The Other Wise

Man (Van Grove) Ruth (Van Grove)

The Elixir of Love

(Donizetti; English

version by Ruth

and Thomas

Martin)

Ten Maidens and

No Man (von

Suppe)

1968 19th

Hazel Post Gillette,

Business Manager-Camp

Director




McHaney

Artistic Director and

Conductor Isaac Van Grove La Traviata (Verdi)

Ten Maidens and

No Man (von

Suppe)

Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)

Down in the Valley

(Weill)

1969 20th

Dewey F. Curry, Exec. Dir.;

Eva E. Curry, Business

Manager


Conductor Isaac Van Grove

Don Giovanni

(Mozart)

The Gondoliers

(Gilbert and

Sullivan)

Ten Maidens and

No Man (von

Suppe / Van

Grove)

Ruth (Isaac Van

Grove)

1970 21st

G.F. Alcott, Business

Manager




McHaney


Grove

The Shining

Chalice (Van

Grove)

The Impressario

(Mozart)

Robin and Marion

(de la Halle; Van

Grove)

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Year

1950

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970


The Old Maid and

the Thief

(Menotti)

The Music Master

(Pergolesi; English

version by Bair)

The Frantic

Physician

(Gounod)

Martha (von

Flotow)

Antigone

(Sophocles,

Drama)

Madama Butterfly

(Belasco, Drama)

I Pagliacci

(Leoncavallo)

The Shining

Chalice (World

premiere, by Isaac

Van Grove)

Gypsy Baron (J.

Strauss, Jr.)

Robin and Marion

(de la Halle / Van

Grove)

The Shining

Chalice (Van

Grove)

Sister Angelica

(Puccini)

Child of Promise

(Hunkins,

Ballet/Drama)

Dido and Aeneas

(Purcell; concert

form) Falstaff (Verdi)

Elijah

(Mendelssohn)

concert

The Proposal

(Gerald Humel)

Don Quixote de la

Mancha

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Organizational


1971 22nd


Manager



President Mrs. Dean Stewart


Grove Carmen (Bizet)

Ten Maidens and

No Man (von

Suppe / Van

Grove)

The Lovely Galatea

(von Suppe / Van

Grove)

The Other Wise

Man (Van Grove)

1972 23rd


Manager





Conductor Isaac Van Grove

Don Giovanni

(Mozart) Rigoletto (Verdi)

The Miracles of

Our Lady (Van

Grove)

Down in the Valley

(Weill)

1973 24th


Manager





Grove

The Magic Flute

(Mozart)

La Bohème

(Puccini)

Noe's Fludde

(Anonymous / Van

Grove)

Ruth (Isaac Van

Grove)

1974 25th

Thomas K. Wright, Exec.

Dir.



President Mrs. Dean H.

Stewart


Conductor Isaac Van Grove Faust (Gounod)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

La Serva Padrona

(The Maid as

Mistress)

(Pergolesi)

Noe's Fludde

(Anonymous / Van

Grove)

1975 26th

Thomas K. Wright, Exec.

Dir.



President Major Louie E. Dunn


Grove

Robin and Marion

(de la Halle / Van

Grove) Ruth (Van Grove)

The Marriage of

Figaro (Mozart) La Traviata (Verdi)

1976 27th George McDow, Exec. Dir.



President Major Louie E. Dunn


Grove Ruth (Van Grove)

The Impresario

(Mozart)

The Prodigal -- His

Wander-Years

(world premiere,

Van Grove /

Lovoos)

Manon

(Massenet)

1977 28th Maurine George, Exec. Dir.



President Louie E. Dunn


Grove

The Prodigal -- His

Wander-Years

(Van Grove)

The Shining

Chalice (Van

Grove) Carmen (Bizet) Lakmé (Delibes)

1978 29th Jean Trusty, Exec. Dir.



President Dr. Vernon Baker


Grove

Don Giovanni

(Mozart)

Bastien and

Bastienna (Mozart

/ English version

O. Paul)

Miracles of Our

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Year

1950

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978


Merry Wives of

Windsor (Nicolai)

The Green Tint

(McDaniel)

Madama Butterfly

(Puccini)




Organizational


1979 30th Jean Trusty, Exec. Dir.




Acting Artistic Director Jeanice

Hobart; Opera Director and

Conductor Roger Cantrell

Albert Herring

(Britten)

La Serva Padrona

(The Maid

Mistress)

(Pergolesi)

Don Pasquale

(Donizetti)

Trial by Jury

(Gilbert and

Sullivan)

1980 [31st] Jean Trusty, Exec. Dir.




Artistic Director Wenonah

Williams Ruth (Van Grove)

The Marriage of

Figaro (Mozart) Faust (Gounod)

The Old Maid and

the Thief

(Menotti)

1981 [32nd] `



President Col. Paul S. Cullen

General Director Wenonah

Williams Susannah (Floyd)

A Hand of Bridge

(Barber)

The Medium

(Menotti)

Gianni Schicchi

(Puccini)

1982 33rd

Dick Borland, Business

Manager

IPFAC Governing Board

President John Murphy

General Director Wenonah

Williams Carmen (Bizet)

The Magic Flute

(Mozart)

The Face on the

Barroom Floor

(Mollicone)

The Telephone

(Menotti)

1983 [34th]

Wenonah Williams,

General Director



Opera Director and Conductor

Roger Cantrell

Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)

Suor Angelica

(Puccini) Ruth (Van Grove)

The Impresario

(Mozart)

1984 [35th]

John M. Murphy, Interim

General Director



Artist[ic?] Director Wenonah

Williams

Die Fledermaus (J.

Strauss, Jr.) La Traviata (Verdi)

Don Giovanni

(Mozart)

Captain Lovelock

(J. Duke) [Eureka

Springs Opera

Guild

presentation?]

1985 [36th]

John M. Murphy, Interim

General Director



Artistic Director Wenonah

Williams

La Périchole

(Offenbach)

The Marriage of

Figaro (Mozart)

Dido and Aeneas

(Purcell)

Un Ballo in

Maschera (Verdi)

1986 [37th]

General Director John M.

Murphy


President John Murphy Music Director Mark Graf

Elixir of Love

(Donizetti)

Madama Butterfly

(Puccini)

Manon

(Massenet)

The Shining

Chalice (Van

Grove)

1987

1988 37th [actually 38th?]

John M. Murphy, General

Director



Stage Director Carroll

Freeman; Music Director Mark

T. Ferrell

Tales of Hoffmann

(Offenbach)

Cavalleria

Rusticana

(Mascagni)

The Old Maid and

the Thief

(Menotti)

Albert Herring

(Britten)

Opera season cancelled due to tort liability legal issue



Year

1950

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988


La Bohème

(Puccini)

Sunday Excursion

(Wilder)

Lucia di

Lammermoor

(Donizetti)




Organizational


1989 [39th]

James H. Swiggart, General

Director


President Mrs. Edward P.

(Vivian Menees) Nelson

Artistic Director Carroll

Freeman

The Magic Flute

(Mozart)

Werther

(Massenet)

The Village Singer

(Paulus)

Gianni Schicchi

(Puccini)

1990 40th


Director





Freeman

La Bohème

(Puccini)

Dialogues of the

Carmelites

(Poulenc)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck) Carmen (Bizet)

1991 41st


Director





Freeman

The Pirates of

Penzance (Gilbert

and Sullivan)

The Turn of the

Screw (Britten)

Le Nozze di Figaro

(Mozart)

1992 42nd


Director





Freeman

I Pagliacci

(Leoncavallo)

Signor Deluso

(Pasatieri)

La Cenerentola

(Rossini)

The Crucible

(Stambler/Ward/

Miller)

1993 43rd


Director





Freeman

Madama Butterfly

(Puccini)

The Merry Widow

(Lehár)

The Medium

(Menotti)

The Old Maid and

the Thief

(Menotti)

1994 44th


Director





Freeman La Traviata (Verdi)

A Little Night

Music (Sondheim)

Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)

1995 45th


Director





Freeman

The Barber of

Seville (Rossini) Lakmé (Delibes)

Street Scene

(Weill)

1996 46th


Director


President Mary Prudie Brown


Freeman

La Bohème

(Puccini)

Die Fledermaus (J.

Strauss, Jr.)

Don Giovanni

(Mozart)

1997 47th


Director



Artistic Director / Principal

Stage Director Carroll Freeman

Les Contes

d'Hoffman

(Offenbach)

Suor Angelica

(Puccini)

Gianni Schicchi

(Puccini)

The Mikado

(Gilbert and

Sullivan)

1998 48th


Director



Artistic Director / Stage

Director Carroll Freeman Carmen (Bizet)

Albert Herring

(Britten)

Die Zauberflöte

(Mozart)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

1999 49th


Director




Stage Director / Conductor /

Costume Designer Carroll

Freeman

Cinderella

(Rossini)

Dialogues of the

Carmelites

(Poulenc)

Cavalleria

Rusticana

(Mascagni)

Pagliacci

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Year

1950

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999


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Organizational


2000 50th


Director




Stage Director / Costume and

Set Designer Carroll Freeman La Traviata (Verdi)

The Marriage of

Figaro (Mozart)

A Midsummer

Night's Dream

(Britten) The Little Flute

2001 51st


Director



Artistic Director / Stage

Director / Choreographer

Carroll Freeman

Madama Butterfly

(Puccini)

Ariadne auf Naxos

(R. Strauss)

The Merry Widow

(Lehár)

The Toy Story

(Ravel)

2002 52nd


Director



Producer and Artistic Director

Vern Sutton

La Bohème

(Puccini)

Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)

Little Women

(Adamo)

Green Eggs and

Ham (Kapilow)

2003 53rd


Director




Vern Sutton

Die Fledermaus (J.

Strauss, Jr.)

Don Giovanni

(Mozart)

Postcard from

Morocco

(Argento)

Hansel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

2004 54th


Director




Vern Sutton Carmen (Bizet)

Orpheus in the

Underworld

(Offenbach)

House of the Sun

(Rautavaara)

Little Cinderella

(adapted from

Massenet's

Cendrillon)

2005 55th


Director




Vern Sutton

Die Zauberflöte

(Mozart)

L'Elisir d'Amore

(Donizetti)

Into the Woods

(Sondheim)

Little Flute

(adapted from

Mozart's Die

Zauberflöte)

2006 56th


Director


Colony Governing Board of

Directors President Carole

Langley Artistic Director Roger Cantrell La Traviata (Verdi)

Il Barbiere di

Siviglia (Rossini)

Suor Angelica

(Puccini)

Gianni Schicchi

(Puccini)

2007 57th


Director




Langley Artistic Director Roger Cantrell

Madama Butterfly

(Puccini) Susannah (Floyd)

Le Nozze di Figaro

(Mozart)

Figaro's Crazy

Wedding Day

(Children's

Program)



Year

1950

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007


The Old Man Who

Loved Cheese

(Barnes)

Who's Afraid of

Opera? (Children's

Program -- Roger

Cantrell et al.)




Organizational


2008 58th


Director





Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)

The Mikado

(Gilbert and

Sullivan)

La Bohème

(Puccini)

The Mighty

Mikado (Children's

Program

adaptation by

Roger Cantrell)

2009 59th


Director





Pagliacci

(Leoncavallo)

Hänsel and Gretel

(Humperdinck)

Manon

(Massenet)

Albert Herring

(Britten)

2010 60th


Director




Langley Artistic Director Roger Cantrell Tosca (Puccini) Carmen (Bizet)

Don Giovanni

(Mozart)

Ruth (Isaac Van

Grove)

2011 61st


Director




Langley

Artistic Director Thomas

Cockrell

Die Fledermaus (J.

Strauss, Jr.)

Le Nozze di Figaro

(Mozart)

Little Women

(Adamo)

The Pirates of

Penzance (Gilbert

and Sullivan)

2012 62nd


Director




Langley


Cockrell

The Magic Flute

(Mozart)

A Little Night

Music (Sondheim)

La Bohème

(Puccini)

When Toys Talk

(L'Enfant et les

Sortilèges; Ravel)

2013 63rd


Director




Langley


Cockrell

Madama Butterfly

(Puccini)

The Pirates of

Penzance (Gilbert

and Sullivan)

L'Elisir d'Amore

(The Elixir of Love;

Donizetti)

Cinderella

(composers who

have been

charmed by this

tale)



Year

1950

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013





Organizational


2014 64th

Stephen Rushing, General

Director




Langley

Artistic Director / Music

Director Thomas Cockrell

Così Fan Tutte

(Mozart)

Suor Angelica

(Puccini)

Gianni Schicchi

(Puccini)

Into the Woods

(Sondheim)

2015 65th

Nancy Preis, General

Director




Langley


Cockrell La Traviata (Verdi)

La Cenerentola

(Cinderella;

Rossini)

Les Contes

d"Hoffmann

(Offenbach)

Cinderella (D.

Ward)

2016 66th


Director




Langley

Artistic Director / Conductor

Thomas Cockrell

Don Giovanni

(Mozart)

Pagliacci

(Leoncavallo) Il Tabarro (Puccini)

Albert Herring

(Britten)

2017 67th


Director

Opera in the Ozarks at IPFAC

Governing Board of Directors

President Carole Langley

Artistic Director / Conductor

Thomas Cockrell

Marriage of Figaro

(Mozart) Carmen (Bizet) Susannah (Floyd)

Jack and the

Beanstalk

(Sullivan/Davies)



Year

1950

2014

2015

2016

2017


Opera Games

(Conceived by D.

Ward; music by

Mozart, Wagner,

Bizet, Verdi,

Strauss, Donizetti,

Offenbach, and

Rossini)

Pinocchio (Davies)


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