Music: Rochester Opera

Last week the Rochester American Opera Company trouped into the Guild Theatre, Manhattan. At home it performs in Kilbourn Hall (seating capacity, 600), under the supervision of Rochester University. Its personnel is made up of students of music at the University, brought together through a competition for scholarships that pay, in addition to tuition, $50 a week. After four years' study and practice, under the guidance of Conductor Eugene Goossens, one-time conductor at Covent Garden, onetime guest conductor of the

New York Symphony Orchestra, and Producing Director Vladimir Rosing, these students...

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