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METROPOLITAN OPERA, at Newport, R.I. The Verdi Festival opens Aug. 17 with Macbeth, starring Soprano Grace Bumbry. Rigoletto with Roberta Peters, La Traviata and Il Trovatore with Gabriella Tucci, I Vespri Siciliani, Otello, starring Renata Tebaldi, and A'ida are scheduled between Aug. 18 and 26.
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra has scheduled sixteen concerts from Aug. 3 through Aug. 27. Guest conductors include Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Charles Munch, Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, and Julius Rudel. Pianist Van Cliburn and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are among the performers.
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, Daytona Beach. Conductors Istvan Kertesz, Jascha Horenstein and Szymon Goldberg lead the London Symphony Orchestra; guest stars include Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and Singer Judith Raskin. Until Aug. 6.
SANTA FE OPERA FESTIVAL, N. Mex., has scheduled two American premieres. Car-dillac, by Paul Hindemith, will be sung July 26 and 28, and Hans Werner Henze's Boulevard Solitude is scheduled for Aug. 2 and 4. La Boheme, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro and Salome will be sung Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Aug. 26.
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL, Aspen, Colo. The Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Walter Susskind, performs weekends until Aug. 27. The Marriage of Figaro will be produced July 27, 29 and 30. Georges Bizet's Le Docteur Miracle and Humphrey Searle's The Diary of a Madman will be given Aug. 17 and 19. Among the guests: India's master of the sitar, Ravi Shankar, in a program of Indian raga music, Aug. 12.
STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont. On July 30, the National Festival Orchestra will play Bach's Partita in E Minor and Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto. On Aug. 6, there will be chamber music, and on Aug. 18, Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist. The Bach Mass in B Minor will conclude the program on Aug. 27.
CINEMA
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds are brave enough to appear unattractive and unsympathetic as well as funny in this slick, cynical film about a marital split.
THE FAMILY WAY. From the raw material of a young couple (Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett) unable to consummate their marriage, the producer-director team of Roy and John Boulting has fashioned a delicate comedy.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. The latest James Bond effort, with Sean Connery back in his harness, unfortunately comes to only 006¾.
THE DIRTY DOZEN. This is the definitive enlisted man's picture of World War II, in which all officers are hypocritical or stupid, and only Lee Marvin is tough enough to win respect.
TO SIR, WITH LOVE. A British expedition into the blackboard jungle, with Sidney Poitier investing a fine and subtle warmth into the role of a starchy teacher in a slum school.
A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau creates a high triumph of taste in a difficult role that could easily have turned out merely leering and low down in this film about a husband bent on an adulterous bender.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A happy transition to the screen of Neil Simon's comic Broadway hit with Original Cast Members Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick and the crafty addition of Jane Fonda.
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