WHRV Gives Italian Opera This Evening

The Harvard Radio Network enters the producing ring tonight with a performance of the second act of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in Italian.

The production starts at 8:30 p.m. in Paine Hall and since it is being broadcast no one will be seated after 8:25 p.m. There is no admission charge.

"Don Giovanni" will feature an all-professional cast, many of whom have been recruited from the ranks of Boris Goldovsky's New England Opera Company.

The performance, directed for the Network by Norman Foster and Frederic Davis, will wind up the Network's annual Mozart orgy. It is also a direct continuation of the opera series produced for WHRV during the past year by Davis and Foster. The specially prepared Paine Hall performance marks the beginning of a projected series of programs, open to the public, to be offered by the Network during the coming year.

The cast, all of which has appeared in opera, radio, and concert performances, includes: Don Giovanni, Foster; Leporello, Matthew Lockhart; Masetto and II Commendatore, Edmund Hurshell; Don Ottavio, Eugene Cox; Donna Anna, Louise Scarbino; Zerlina, Joan Moynagh; and Donna Elvira, Louise Edson.