Records of the Cambridge University Opera Society and its precursor, Cambridge University Opera Group, 1954 - 2006
Scope and Contents
All aspects of the society's activities are reflected in the surviving records. Significant quantities of productions records are held for performances from 1972 onwards.
Dates
- Creation: 1954 - 2006
Creator
- Cambridge University Opera Society (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Conditions Governing Use
Contact Dr N. J. Yandell (Fellow and Senior Researcher in Music, Corpus Christi College) Senior Treasurer, with enquiries concerning permission to reproduce any part of the society's archive.
Biographical / Historical
Its first incarnation was as Cambridge University Opera Group 1954-63. It was reestablished as Cambridge University Opera Society in 1966. It exists to promote the enjoyment of opera through lectures, discussions, recitals, master-classes and the staging of operatic productions. For further background information on the society, see http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/opera/
Extent
5 linear metre(s) (5 metres) : paper, photographic print, disc, audio tape
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The bulk of the records of the Opera Society were transferred to the University by P. Tregear, Pendelbury Librarian, Faculty of Music, on 3 September 1997. Records of the Opera Group were transferred from among the Tranchell Papers (classmark: Mss. Tranchell) in the Manuscripts Section of the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives in 2003. Further Opera Society records were transferred by Rowland Moseley, King's College, on 19 October 2005, as follows:- 1; A3-4 (addnl); E10 (addnl); G3A; L41-6; P19-21 and on 17 March 2006 as follows:- A6; E2 (addnl); L46 (addnl)-47; P22.
General
The catalogue of the Opera Society records was completed in 1997 and expanded to include the Opera Group material in January 2005. The online version was completed in January 2005 and emended in June 2005, January 2006, August 2006 and November 2008.
Originator(s)
Cambridge University Opera Society
Finding aid date
1997-12-03 16:24:18+00:00
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository
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