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Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864. Documents (2), dated : Paris, 17 May 1859, 1859 May 17.

Title: Documents (2), dated : Paris, 17 May 1859, 1859 May 17.

Being contracts between Brandus and Boosey, granting Boosey the rights to performances in England of Meyerbeer's opera Le pardon de Ploërmel, signed "Boosey & Sons"; and between M. Gye (director of Covent Garden), MM. Carré and Barbier, librettists of Ploërmel, and M. Levy, publisher of the libretto, for performances at Covent Garden, signed by (or in the name of) Jules Barbier, Michel Carré, Michel Levy frères, and Frederick Gye.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (4 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270582400 View

Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Title: Miscellaneous theatrical papers

Letters, photographs, and other documents by individuals associated with the theater.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

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Yarborough, Kristen. An evening at the opera [sound recording].

Title: An evening at the opera [sound recording]. 2004.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound discs (114:55) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70714390 View

Wright, Norman. Ah! Les cloches / [words by] P.J. Barbier ; [music by] Norman Söreng Wright.

Title: Ah! Les cloches / [words by] P.J. Barbier ; [music by] Norman Söreng Wright. [1940?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (5 p.) ; 32 cm.

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Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, n.d., ca. 1860], to M. [Emile] Perrin, [n.d., ca. 1860].

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, n.d., ca. 1860], to M. [Emile] Perrin, [n.d., ca. 1860].

Saying that he has left a manuscript of [his libretto for Gounod's opéra comique] La colombe, in which he will find some minor changes marked for [Victor] Massé, reminding Perrin how important it is for Barbier to have his name on a playbill from time to time, suggesting a revival of [Ernst-Henri-Alexandre Boulanger's] Sabots [de la marquise], mentioning Dumanoir, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Roméo et Juliette [collection] : grand opéra en 5 actes / de J. Barbier et M. Carré ; musique de Ch. Gounod.

Title: Roméo et Juliette [collection] : grand opéra en 5 actes / de J. Barbier et M. Carré ; musique de Ch. Gounod. between 1867 and 1897.

Arranged in two groups: I. Vocal scores (50). II. Orchestra parts (51). Vocal scores include 28 copies in English and French by Schirmer (New York, c1897, pl. no. 13203), two of which are arranged as stage manager's guides; one copy in English and French by Chappell (London, 187-?, pl. no. 22805); two copies in French by Choudens (Paris, 1885?, pl. no. A.C. 1411); one copy in French by Choudens (1888?); one copy in Italian by Choudens (1867?, pl. no. A.C. 1410); five copies in Italian by Choudens (187-?), one of which is in three volumes; and twelve copies in French and English (London?, s.n., 1890?). The orchestra parts are manuscript, in two sets.

ArchivalResource: 101 items.

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Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Récit et invocation à Vesta : fragment de Polyeucte.

Title: Récit et invocation à Vesta : fragment de Polyeucte. 1878 April 2.

Score, holograph, signed at end.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([4] p.) ; 35 cm.

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Massé, Victor, 1822-1884. Paul et Virginie [collection] opéra en 3 actes et 6 tableaux / poéme de Jules Barbier & Michel Carré ; musique de Victor Massé.

Title: Paul et Virginie [collection] opéra en 3 actes et 6 tableaux / poéme de Jules Barbier & Michel Carré ; musique de Victor Massé. 1878.

Arranged in three groups: I. Vocal scores (11). II. Vocal parts (1). III. Promptbooks (4). All vocal scores were published by T. Michaelis, Paris. Eight copies are in English (1878?); one copy is in Italian (1878?); and two copies are in French (188-?), of the second and fourth editions. The second edition French score carries the signature of Emma Abbott. The vocal part is manuscript, in English, and carries the stamp of Emma Abbott, 1879-80, Grand English Opera Co. It is for the role of Paul and includes piano accompaniment. The promptbooks are in English and include two manuscript books, one incomplete typescript book, and one book consisting of the printed libretto, published by the Theatre Ticket Office, New York (1879), cut and pasted into a ledger. It includes extensive annotations and ornate scene plots as well as a playbill pasted in for a performance by Emma Abbott and the Hess Grand Opera Co., Feb. 7th, 1879, at the Ladies' Theatre of New Orleans. The English translation is by Caryl Florio.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

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Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Les contes d'Hoffmann [collection] : opéra fantastique en 4 actes / de Jules Barbier et Michel Carré ; musique de J. Offenbach.

Title: Les contes d'Hoffmann [collection] : opéra fantastique en 4 actes / de Jules Barbier et Michel Carré ; musique de J. Offenbach. between 1885 and 1911.

Arranged in six groups: I. Vocal scores (31). II. Orchestra parts (61). III. Vocal parts (24). IV. Chorus parts (34). V. Promptbooks (7). VI. Dialogue parts (28). The vocal scores include one copy in French for the three-act version of the opera, by Choudens, Paris (nouvelle éd., 1885?, pl. no. A.C. 5100); four copies in French of the four-act version by Choudens (5e ed., c1907, pl. no. A.C. 5100, A.C. 5301); two copies in German and Italian by Choudens bearing the German title "Hoffmann's Erzählüngen" (c1907, pl. no. A.C. 5100, A.C. 5301); and 24 copies in English by Schirmer, New York, carrying the title "Tales of Hoffmann" (c1911, pl. no. 24030). The orchestra parts are manuscript, in three sets. A fourth set of parts is for the "Mirror song" only. The vocal parts are manuscript, many carrying performers' names. Nine parts are in Italian and 15 are in English. Eight of the English parts are marked "grand opera version." The chorus parts are English holographs marked "Meltzer version." Many bear performers' names. There are also two packages of interpolations in English. The promptbooks are typescript in English. Four bear the title "The love tales of Hoffmann," in a translation by Charles Swickard, and three are marked "Meltzer version." The dialogue parts are typescript, in English, in two sets. Performers' names appear on several parts.

ArchivalResource: 185 items.

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Wichmann, Paul Victor, 1829-1907. Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers : Schauspiel in 5 Akten und 1 Vorspiel, ca. 1865, 1881-1889.

Title: Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers : Schauspiel in 5 Akten und 1 Vorspiel, ca. 1865, 1881-1889.

The German play is an adaptation of the French play Cora, ou: L'esclavage, by Jules Barbier, which premiered in Paris in 1861; according to the German version, the action is set in 1860. The file contains materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, L. Lassar's Buchhandlung, n.d.), which has been annotated as a prompt-book; a handwritten scenario; and 13 handwritten role books, for all the main parts: Georg Holm; Davis, Pflanzer und Advokat; Gérard, Pflanzer und Handelsherr; William Johnson; Henry Clarence; Mrs. Staling, Kaufmannswittwe; Elise; Cora, Gérards Tochter; Jim Bell; Toby, Mulatte; Méala, Quadrone; Power, Schiffs-Capitain; and Buterfly, Matrose. Pasted to the inside front cover and front fly-leaf of the published copy are playbills (featuring a synopsis of the play, with no cast listing) for a performance of the play at Germania Theater, Philadelphia, on 6 March 1889 (see also folder 684 for that playbill, as well as a different one, and see folder 723 for an oversized playbill, all related to the same performance). The performance, which was given under the title "Cora, die Tochter des Pflanzers," was a benefit for Theodor Bloch, the prompter. The published copy bears a label of Bloch, and the role books are labeled by hand as his property. Bloch was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia from 1873 until at least the mid 1890s, and he also ran a theater lending library. Names of actors and actresses noted on the covers of role books generally reflect 3 casts in Philadelphia over time: one of 17-18 March 1881, as documented in a theater newspaper (see folder 694); the one from the performance of March 1889 cited above (in addition to the playbills, see also 2 issues of a theater newspaper, in folder 707), and at least one additional cast, probably in the 1880s (some names could not be placed).

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155866419 View

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. [Fugue à quatre voix; Le printemps, choeur à quatre voix, paroles de Jules Barnier; L'enfant prodigue] [microform].

Title: [Fugue à quatre voix; Le printemps, choeur à quatre voix, paroles de Jules Barnier; L'enfant prodigue] [microform]. 1884.

ArchivalResource: Ms. score (8, 20, 88 leaves)

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Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Faust [music] : opera in five acts / by Gounod ; with Italian and English words, the latter by H. F. Chorley ; edited by A. Sullivan.

Title: Faust [music] : opera in five acts / by Gounod ; with Italian and English words, the latter by H. F. Chorley ; edited by A. Sullivan. [1902]

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (124 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/223018598 View

Heugel (Firm). Contract : between Ambroise Thomas, Jules Barbier (representing Michel Carré) and Heugel & Cie. : manuscript, 1876 June 15.

Title: Contract : between Ambroise Thomas, Jules Barbier (representing Michel Carré) and Heugel & Cie. : manuscript, 1876 June 15.

Contract, with tax stamp, setting out the terms of publication for Thomas's Françoise de Rimini.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. on 1 bifolium ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190870502 View

Massé, Victor, 1822-1884. Galathée : manuscript, [1852?]

Title: Galathée : manuscript, [1852?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (9, 32, 8, 15-17, 9, 41, [2], 26, 26bis-26ter, 27-66, 31, [34], [9], 20, 27 p.) ; 28 x 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748115094 View