Panels & Committees

In the USA 1984-1995 included Arts International; Dancing in the Streets; Houston Grand Opera: Opera New World; ISPA [International Society of Performing Arts]; KTCA-TV “Alive from off Center”; Meet The Composer, Inc.; Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions; NEA Inter-Arts/Presenting Program 1986-88; New York Library for the Performing Arts; Opera Quarterly magazine editorial Board; Smithsonian Institution US-USSR 20th Century Project; Southern Arts Federation 1995 Annual Conference keynote speaker; OPERA America Annual Conference 1995 keynote speaker; NJPAC (New Jersey Performing Arts Center) inaugural planning committee

Radio & TV

KQED-TV San Francisco 1981-85: script-writer, musical adviser, producer including numerous national broadcasts, and KQED's celebration of the 1985 tercentenary of the births of Handel, Bach, and Scarlatti

KQED-Radio San Francisco 1981-85:script writer for various programs; writer-introducer 13-week series for De Bellis Collection on the growth and development of Italian opera in the 19th century.

KTCA-TV Alive from off Center: programming consultant 1992-93

ABC/ZDF TV Three Weeks in March TV documentary on the 1980 Adelaide Festival

Public Interviews

Live for a paying public or on radio & TV (mainly 1980-85 in San Francisco) including John Adams, Josephine Barstow, Kathleen Battle, Cathy Berberian, Walter Berry, Richard Bonynge, Peter Brook, Sesto Bruscantini, Régine Crespin, Peter Maxwell Davies, Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, James Galway, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Reri Grist, John Harbison, David Hockney, Marilyn Horne, Gwyneth Jones, Evelyn Lear, Charles Mackerras, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey, Leontine Price, Aribert Reimann, Regina Resnik, Julius Rudel, Martha Schlamme, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anya Silja, Joan Sutherland, Virginia Zeani.

Writing

Several hundred essays, book & record reviews, program-notes, and other articles for San Francisco Opera, Adelaide Festival, Wolf Trap, San Diego Opera, Salt Lake City Opera, PepsiCo Summerfare, Spoleto USA Festival, Lincoln Center, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Kirckman Concert Society, Opera Quarterly, Opera magazine, The Advertiser (Adelaide), etc

Two unpublished opera libretti for Canadian Opera Company

Translations from French for French Embassy Concerts London (Messiaen and other program-notes), from German (Autobiography of soprano Ileana Cotrubas), from Russian (via French!) for San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (Khovanshchina libretto), from Italian for San Francisco Spring Opera (A. Scarlatti Trionfo libretto amendments)