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Opera

Specialists

Blogs

Databases of the week: streaming audio and video | October 8, 2019
Maria Callas materials come to Stanford | November 13, 2018
The Archive of Recorded Sound welcomes Gurudarshan Khalsa | December 13, 2017
The Jenny Lind paper doll set | November 22, 2017
Significant music acquisitions 2016-2017 | October 23, 2017

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 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 Marschallin

    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 Collection

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

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