Opera

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Opern-Typen: opera meets the comics | January 12, 2016
Cavalleria rusticana: Mascagni's smash hit | October 28, 2015
IPA Source, new music database | October 6, 2015
Rachmaninoff complete works on 32 CDs | April 22, 2015
New music scores and facsimiles, April 2015 | April 9, 2015

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Opera

Notable collections

  • Mario Ancona

    Mario Ancona Collection

    The Mario Ancona Collection includes photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings, and more related to Ancona's career.

  • Richard Bonelli

    Richard Bonelli Collection

    The Bonelli Collection includes letters, programs, scores, scrapbooks, recordings, posters, and news clippings.
  • Ruth and Mario Chamlee in Manon

    Ruth and Mario Chamlee Collection

    Tenor Mario Chamlee sang at the leading opera houses in the United States and abroad. His wife Ruth was a soprano and noted singing teacher.

  • Richard Crooks as Pinkerton

    Richard Crooks Collection

    Richard Crooks was a tenor with the Metropolitan Opera Company.

  • Ted Fagan

    Theodore Fagan Collection

    This is the personal collection of Theodore Fagan, United Nations translator, author, and music collector.

  • Kirsten Flagstad

    Kirsten Flagstad Collection

    Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) was known as the premier Wagnerian soprano of her time.

  • Lehmann as the Marshallin

    Gary Hickling Collection on Lotte Lehmann

    Includes correspondence and research notes related to Hickling's discography of Lehmann's performances.

  • Donald Pippin

    Donald Pippin Collection

    The Donald Pippin Collection consists primarily of Pippin's English translations of opera librettos available as pdf files.

  • Blanche Thebom as Laura, in La Gioconda

    Blanche Thebom Collection

    The Blanche Thebom Collection consists of scores, correspondence, publicity, production notes, and media from the mezzo-soprano's post-Met career as teacher and director.

  • James Schwabacher

    James Schwabacher Collection

    The James Schwabacher Collection consists of sound recordings, correspondence, scores, scrapbooks, clippings, programs, teaching material and other papers from San Francisco philanthropist and lyric tenor James Schwabacher.

  • Detail from Lind's vocal exercise book used at the Royal Conservatory.

    Jenny Lind papers, 1835-1917

    The collection includes correspondence (1835-1897), financial papers, musical compositions, and other papers.