Opera
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
File
Henry Erskine Allon: Annie of Lochroyan, Op. 20.
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5337
Scope and Contents
Full score. It was produced at the Philharmonic, 1893.
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
James Robinson Planché: The Vampire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6371
Scope and Contents
Libretto of 'The Vampire: A Grand Romantic Opera freely translated from the German of Wilhelm Aug. Wohlbrück and adapted to the music of Heinrich Marschner....by J. R. Planché', 68 folios. The volume appears to be the original working copy for the production which opened on 25 August 1829 at the English Opera House, London. There are many corrections to the translation. Sketches of positions of cast and additional stage directions have been inserted in pencil. The names of the cast are on p....
Dates:
1829
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Records of the Cambridge University Opera Society and its precursor, Cambridge University Opera Group, 1954 - 2006
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XI
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:
1954 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
Fonds
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Notes on first Bayreuth Festival
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8649
Scope and Contents
Pencil notes on the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876.
Dates:
1920 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Souvenir programme for screening of 'The Tales of Hoffman', 195110
Item
Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/279/1/D/iv/a
Scope and Contents
This screening was shown for 2 weeks from 8th October 1951. The comic-opera film was written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and the cast included Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, and Leonide Massine. The programme includes photographs of the actors and a synopsis of the plot.
Dates:
195110