Rimsky-Korsakov's much-played Flight of the Bumble Bee comes from an opera, Tsar Saltan, little played outside of Russia. At the opera's climax the son of Tsar Saltan turns into a bumblebee, stings two wicked women, eludes pursuing courtiers. Last week a Manhattan audience screamed and yowled with delight at this tale. The opera, retitled The Bumble Bee Prince, was put on by a non-commercial organization called Junior Programs, Inc. The audience: 1,600 school children, aged 5 to 15 (700 more were turned away). Admission: 25ยข.
Junior Programs was started, and is still run, at no salary, by a...
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