Walther R. Volbach Papers 1897-1996

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Walther R. Volbach Papers 1897-1996

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Born in Mainz, Germany on December 24, 1897, the theatre historian and stage director Walther R. Volbach began directing operas and plays at the age of 17. After his immigration to the United States in 1936, he worked for several colleges, coming to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for five years as a visiting professor following his retirement in 1965. Noted as a director of operas and plays and for his set design, Volbach was author of three books: (1953), (1968), and (1972). The Volbach collection includes personal and professional correspondence in English and German, mostly from Volbach's later years, regarding family, publishing, lectures, and employment. The collection also includes photographs of set designs, an image of Volbach teaching a class, publications, and lecture and research notes on theatre history. The Problems of Opera Production Adolphe Appia : The Prophet of The Modern Theatre Memoirs of Max Reinhardt's Theaters

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University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Theater.

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VOLBACH, WALTHER R.

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Walther R. Volbach The theatre historian and stage director Walther R. Volbach began a distinguished career in the performing arts at a remarkably early age. Born in Mainz, Germany on December 24, 1897, he conducted his first opera at the age of 17, and within a few years had built a resume that included work as assistant to Max Reinhardt, the great Austrian director and innovative set designer, and as theatre and opera critic for the Berliner Morgenpost . A...

Volbach, Walther R. (Walther Richard), 1897-1996

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Appia, Adolphe, 1862-1928

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Adolphe Appia was born on September 1, 1862 in Geneva, Switzerland. Regarded as the father of modern stage lighting and design, his reforms of stage design emphasized the significance of time and space, the relation of stage and auditorium, and the contrast of light and shadow. Appia's major works include La Mise en scène du drame Wagnérien (1895), Die Musik und die Inszenierung (1899), and L'Oeuvre d'art vivant (1921). Appia died in Nyon, Switzerland on February 29, 1928. From the...

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