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Jan Peerce collection of sound recordings, 1932-1983

Title: Jan Peerce collection of sound recordings 1932-1983

The collection contains non-commercial recordings of live and recorded performances and interviews of Jan Peerce spanning the years 1938-1983. The collection also features performers such as: singers Zinka Milanov, Roberta Peters, Leonard Warren, Cesare Siepi, Robert Merrill, Lawrence Tibbett, Virginia Raye and Viola Philo ; conductors Arturo Toscanini, Fausto Cleva, Harry Horlick and David Rubinoff ; and interviewers Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson and Mike Douglas. Radio and television (audio only) programs included are: The A & P Gypsies, Radio City Music Hall On the Air, Carnegie Hall, The Chevrolet Hour, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and The Tonight Show. Works featured are selections from operas such as "La boheme," "I pagliacci," "Don Giovanni," "Cavalleria Rusticana," "La traviata," "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Rigoletto" ; musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof" ; and songs by Handel and Schubert, among others.

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http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20483 View

Photographs of the Metropolitan Opera [graphic] / Harry G. Schumer, ca. 1945-1965

Title: Photographs of the Metropolitan Opera [graphic] / Harry G. Schumer ca. 1945-1965

Harry G. Schumer (1893-1971) was Orchestra Librarian of the Metropolitan Opera from 1938 to 1968. Chiefly informal backstage photographs of artists in costume taken during opera productions between 1945 and 1965. Some sight-seeing slides taken on tour are also included. About 500 persons have been identified as subjects, associated with productions of more than 60 different operas.

ArchivalResource: 6920 slides; col; 132 transparencies; col; 10 x 6 cm; ca. 4000 negatives

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20189 View

Greenway, Lauder. Opera and recital collection [sound recording], 1901-1972.

Title: Opera and recital collection [sound recording], 1901-1972.

The collection contains both commercial and noncommercial discs of opera from the beginning of this century to the mid-1970's on acetate air-check discs, 78 rpm shellacs, cylinders, and a scattering of LP's.

ArchivalResource: 9770 sound recordings.8892 sound discs : analog, mono, 78 rpm.682 sound discs : analog, mono, 33 rpm, acetate.196 sound cylinders : mono.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122682570 View

Bodanya, Natalie. Let's go to the opera [sound recording], 1946.

Title: Let's go to the opera [sound recording], 1946.

The collection consists of excerpts of twenty-five consecutive programs, broadcast weekly from April 28, 1946 to September 13, 1946.

ArchivalResource: 77 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm ; 12 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122378683 View

Let's go to the opera radio broadcast collection [sound recording]

Title: Let's go to the opera radio broadcast collection [sound recording]

Let's Go to the Opera was a 1946 radio series that featured Metropolitan Opera principals and other well known singers of the time in selections from popular operas and operettas. All selections are sung in English.

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http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20498 View

Bodanya, Natalie. Let's go to the opera radio broadcast collection [sound recording]

Title: Let's go to the opera radio broadcast collection [sound recording]

The collection consists of excerpts of twenty-five consecutive programs, broadcast weekly from April 28, 1946 to September 13, 1946.

ArchivalResource: 77 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm ; 12 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79469675 View

Manhattan School of Music (New York, N.Y.). Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1958-1965.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1958-1965.

Comprises 6 items, 6 leaves correspondence with John Brownlee.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (6 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63559782 View