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Opera

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Scope Note: Here are entered general works about opera. Musical compositions in this form are entered under the heading|aOperas.

Found in 5447 Collections and/or Records:

Schwisow, James Lauren, 1980-1981

 File
Identifier: M123.03.0194.0039
Abstract

Folder contains biographical material and resume of CCOHA tenor, James Lauren Schwisow, who performed with the associtaion during the 1980 festival season as Edguardo in the production of 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' and during the 1981 festival season as Lt. B.F. Pinkerton in the production of 'Madame Butterfly.'

Dates: 1980-1981
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Photographs / Box 194: People, Patrick Raftery-Barbara Shuttleworth

Score for Act One 'The Hanging Judge'

 Item
Identifier: M123.05.0020.0006.00001
Abstract Score for Act One (133 pages) of the opera 'The hanging Judge' with music composed by Normand Lockwood and libretto by Russell Porter. Synopsis of act one typed on first page of score in black ink ' It is about noon on a Saturday morning in May 1861. A 'sociable' is about to begin out under the trees now in near leaf. There are trestle tables with food. The women scurry about, putting the final items on the tables and wory ing about those things woman worry about at such times. The men are...
Dates: 1850-2008
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Scores, Manuscripts, and Production Notes / Box 20: Scores / "The Hanging Judge" Scores

Score for Act Three 'The Hanging Judge'

 Item
Identifier: M123.05.0020.0006.00003
Abstract Score for Act three (131 pages) of the opera 'The Hanging Judge' with music composed by Normand Lockwood and libretto by Russell Porter. Synopsis of act one typed on first page of score in black ink ' It is an evening in late fall. A square dance is in progress in one of the barn like store buildings that squat and there on the village streets. The dance lively, gay, but not rowdy. Among the dancers may be seen the blue coats of two army officers. No proviate soldiers are in the crowd. On...
Dates: 1850-2008
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Scores, Manuscripts, and Production Notes / Box 20: Scores / "The Hanging Judge" Scores

Score for Act Two 'The Hanging Judge'

 Item
Identifier: M123.05.0020.0006.00002
Abstract Score for Act two (112 pages) of the opera 'The Hanging Judge' with music composed by Normand Lockwood and libretto by Russell Porter. Synopsis of act one typed on first page of score in black ink ' It is a rough frontier courtroom. A table will serve as the bar of justice. Behind it, a chiar. Before the table two other chairs, in one of which sits the prisoner, handcuffed and beside him, his lawyer. A burly cheriff stands just behind the prisoner. The few other chairs in the room are filed...
Dates: 1850-2008
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Scores, Manuscripts, and Production Notes / Box 20: Scores / "The Hanging Judge" Scores

Score for 'The Lady From Colorado'

 Item
Identifier: M123.05.0020.0007.00001
Abstract

Bound score (175 pages) with red cover for the opera 'The Lady From Colorado' with music by Robert Ward and libretto by Bernard Stambler. the opera had it's primere performance during the 1964 festival season at the Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1850-2008
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Scores, Manuscripts, and Production Notes / Box 20: Scores / "The Lady from Colorado" Score

Score for Theme Song for 'And Perhaps Happiness', 1958

 Item
Identifier: M123.05.0020.0005.00001
Abstract

Score ( one original, one carbon copy, and 15 copies) for the theme song for 'And Perhaps Happiness' composed by Daniel Moe and lyrics by Thomas Ferrill for the 1958 festival production of the same name. Instrumentation for the piece includes voice, violin I & II, viola, cello, bass and english horn (written as oboe part).

Dates: 1958
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Scores, Manuscripts, and Production Notes / Box 20: Scores / "And Perhaps Happiness" Theme Song

Scott Elliott in 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0071.0003.00024
Abstract

Photograph actor Scott Elliott who performed as Lt (Jr. Grade) Willis Seward Keith in a dressing room for the 1954 Central City production of 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.'

Dates: 1954
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Photographs / Box 71: Productions and Events, Cactus Flower-Caine Mutinty / Caine Mutinty (1 of 2), 1954

Scott, Norman

 File
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0011
Abstract

Photographs and biographical information about Norman Scott, a performer with the Central City Opera

Dates: 1930-1969
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Photographs / Box 61: People, Kurt Saffir-John Sloper

Scovotti, Jeanette, 1959

 File
Identifier: M123.03.0061.0012
Abstract

Photographs and biographical information about Jeanette Scovotti, a performer with the Central City Opera

Dates: 1959
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M123, Central City Opera House Association Records / Photographs / Box 61: People, Kurt Saffir-John Sloper

Scrapbook, 1936-1944

 Series
Identifier: D022.08
Scope and Contents

This series contains a scrapbook compiled by Lillian Covillo's mother, Mrs. John Covillo. It covers Lillian Covillo's early dance work with photos, programs, notes, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1936-1944
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / D022, Lillian Covillo Papers

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