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Collection name
Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre: Box 1 (1883-1935)
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Mus.Box.250
Description
Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre: Box 1 (1883-1935)
Collection of ca. 200 playbills from the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, divided into 3 folders: 1883-1922, 1923-30, and 1931-35. Performances of musicals, opera, operetta, ballet, plays with music (many where the programme of music with titles and composers of pieces are noted, some played by the Lyceum Orchestra), and comedy and musical variety shows.
Companies represented:
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Royal Carl Rosa Grand Opera Company
Moody-Manners Opera Company
Wilson Barrett Company
Imperial Russian Ballet
The Macdona Players
Leith Amateur Opera Company
The Masque Theatre
Daniel Mayer Company
Brandon-Thomas Repertory Company
Edinburgh Opera Company
St. Martin's Players
Approximately half of the programmes are from plays performed by the Wilson Barrett Company, with piano accompanists who are named in each programme. Many contain newspaper clippings about the particular performance. The rest of the programmes are from performances of recitals, ballet, dance, pantomine, musicals, musical revues, folk music, and plays with music, some from the Edinburgh International Festival.
Date range
1883 - 1935
Associated People and Organisations
Moody Manners Company -
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 1879 -
Royal Carl Rosa Grand Opera Company -
Wilson Barrett Company -
Imperial Russian Ballet -
Macdona Players -
Leith Amateur Opera Company -
Masque Theatre -
Daniel Mayer Company -
Brandon-Thomas Repertory Company -
Edinburgh Opera Company -
St. Martin's Players -
Lyceum Orchestra -
Associated Places
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Associated Times
19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
20th century - early 1900-1930
20th century - mid 1931-1970
Associated Content
Opera
Ballet
Playbills
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National Library of Scotland, Music Collections
George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW United Kingdom Open Map
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http://www.nls.uk/collections/music/
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Large reference collection of printed, manuscript and audio-visual music material, including books, scores, periodicals, audio, video and multi-media formats. Legal deposit library.
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