"Madama Butterfly" breathes her last for the last time today, in Utah Opera's sold-out production. The 2 p.m. matinee will be in the Capitol Theatre, with only standing room and turn-back tickets available.

Christiane Riel sings the pathetic Puccini heroine, supported by Robert Galbraith as Pinkerton, Eric Allen Hanson as Sharpless, and Jennifer Lane as Suzuki. Joseph Rescigno conducts the Utah Symphony, with stage direction by Pam Berlin.- WINNERS IN THE 1992 Composers Guild composition contest will be presented in the organization's annual "Composers' Spectacular" Tuesday, Jan. 26, at Westminster College's Jewett Center for the Performing Arts.

Featured on the free 7:30 p.m. program will be music of Ruth Gatrell ("What Would He Find?"), Lloyd Miller ("Blue Rue") and Jeff Manookian (Piano Sonata No. 3 and English Horn Concerto).

Other Utah winners included Charlene Newell, Diana Jeppeson, JoAnne P. Smith, Larry R. Smith, Cori Connors, Paul Gates, Susan Jeffrey and young composers Julie Pratt, Abe Kaelin and Sarah Connors. Other winning entries came from as far away as England, Germany and the People's Republic of China.

Among the performers will be the Ruth Gatrell Singers, Amber LePrey, violinist Monica Yardley and pianists Jared Strebel, Jeremy Anderson and Shane Bowles.

Deadline for this year's competition is Aug. 31. For information write Contest, Box 586, Farmington UT or call 451-2275.

- MUSIC OF BENNY GOODMAN, McCoy Tyner, Charlie Parker, Michel Camillo, Eric Marienthal and Tom Garvin will be played by the Brigham Young University Faculty Jazz Quintet Thursday, Jan. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall of BYU's Harris Fine Arts Center.

Featured will be saxophonist Ray Smith, trumpeter Bob Taylor, pianist Craig Larson, Lars Yorgason on bass and Ron Brough on percussion. Admission is free, and the public is invited.

- RAYMOND HARVEY makes his debut with the Utah Symphony this week, guest conducting concerts Thursday, Jan. 28, at Weber State University's Browning Center for the Performing Arts and Friday and Saturday, Jan. 29 and 30, in Abravanel Hall.

Starting time for each is 8 p.m., with tickets to the Jan. 29-30 concerts priced from $10 to $30 ($5 students), available at the hall or all Smith'sTix outlets; for information call 533-NOTE. For tickets to the Ogden concert call 399-9214.

Featured soloist each night will be the orchestra's concertmaster, Ralph Matson, performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto. In addition the orchestra will be heard in Barber's Essay No. 2 and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7.

Currently music director of Massachusetts' Springfield Symphony, Harvey is a native New Yorker with degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a doctorate from Yale University. He was formerly associate conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Exxon/Arts Endowment conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony.

- THE MUIR STRING QUARTET - violinists Peter Zazofsky and Bayla Keyes, violist Steven Ansell and cellist Michael Reynolds - returns to Utah for a concert Thursday, Jan. 28, in the Eccles Conference Center on the Utah State University campus in Logan.

Presented by the Chamber Music Society of Logan, the 8 p.m. program will feature the group in music of Webern (the Six Bagatelles) and Schubert (the "Death and the Maiden" Quartet). They will then be joined by pianist Frederick Moyer in a performance of the Elgar Piano Quintet.

Tickets are priced at $10 ($4 students) and are available at Sunrise Cyclery, the USU ticket office and at the door. For information call 752-2667.

- SOPRANO DANA SLABAUGH will perform Friday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Square Assembly Hall.

A member of the Utah Opera Chorus, she will be heard in excerpts from Cantaloube's "Songs of the Auvergne," Delibes' "Lakme" and Mozart's "The Abduction From the Seraglio," as well as songs of Brahms, Mahler and Franckenstein. She and baritone Robert Prosch will also sing a medley from "The Phantom of the Opera," accompanied by pianist Shelly Astle. Admission is free.

- MICHAEL A. PALUMBO will lead the New American Symphony Orchestra in a pair of concerts next weekend, the first Friday, Jan. 29, in Weber State University's Browning Center for the Performing Arts and the second Saturday, Jan. 30, in the Woods Cross High School auditorium.

Included on the program will be Weber's "Oberon" Overture and the Sibelius Second Symphony.

Starting time for each is 7:30 p.m., with admission $3 ($2 students and senior citizens).

- PIANISTS MARJORIE JANOVE and Ricklen Nobis will appear in recital Friday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Weber State University's Browning Center, in advance of a piano festival at the Ogden School on Saturday, Jan. 30.

Janove holds a doctorate from Indiana University and is pianist-in-residence at Westminster College. Nobis is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and serves as principal keyboardist for the Utah Symphony.

Friday's program will feature the two in both solo and piano-duo pieces. They will also coach and instruct at the festival Saturday, which begins with student adjudication at 9 a.m. and concludes with a 3:30 p.m. honors recital. In between will come a 10 a.m. master class and an ensemble repertoire class at 1:30 p.m.

Admission to all workshops and recitals is $10, or $4 for single events. (Students will be admitted free.) Registration for teachers will be from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday. For information call 626-6437.

- VISITING CHOREOGRAPHERS from Utah's renowned modern dance companies have worked with Utah State University's Danceworks to produce a program Friday and Saturday, Jan. 29-30, in the Logan school's Chase Fine Arts Center. Tickets for the 8 p.m concerts are $6 ($3 students, $1.50 children), and may be purchased in advance at the Taggart Center information desk or at the door.

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Guest choreographers are Keith Johnson of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company; Tina Misaka of the Repertory Dance Theatre; Susan McLain, formerly of the Martha Graham Dance Company; Pat Debenham, founder of Contemporary Danceworks; and Loa Clawson of the University of Utah dance faculty.

USU choreographers are Danceworks director Donna Gordon, Sue Cherry, Ann Suzuki and Amy Price.

- UTAH METROPOLITAN OPERA AUDITION finals will take place in the Temple Square Assembly Hall on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. Finalists appearing are Heidi Bloyer, Martha Glissmeyer, Diane Thueson, William T. Weaver, Sarah Asplund, Marie-Adele McArthur and James Shumway.

Winners will be announced at a reception following, in the North Visitors Center. Admission is free, but limited to those 8 and older.

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