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Collection name
Wiener Staatsoper und Volksoper Wein
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Mus. 325 d.4
Description
A small collection of Opera programmes containing 6 different Vienna Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera) programmes and 4 different Vienna Volksoper (Vienna People's Opera) programmes. Each programme has an identical front cover with just the text of the different theatres printed on the front and the Austrian coat of arms.
Every programme (unless otherwise stated) contains a detailed description regarding the background of each opera and an insert which briefly states the performers and staff involved in that day’s performance.
The listing is as follows:
Vienna Volksoper:
1971, 28th September - Gluck - Orpheus und Eurydike. Musical direction by Dietfried Bernet.
1971, 29th Septermber - Verdi - Nabucco. Musical direction by Argeo Quadri.
1974, 3rd October - Wolf-Ferrari - Die vier Grobiane. Music Direction by Paul Walter
1977, 17th Novermber - Offenbach - Hoffmanns Erzahlungen. Musical direction by Dietfried Bernet
1980, 1st January - Strauss - Die Fledermaus - Musical direction by Herbert Prikopa.
Vienna Staatsoper:
1974, 7th April - Strauss - Salome - Musical direction by Janos Kulka. (an identical copy without a performance insert is included).
1974. Janacek - Katja Kabanowa. [No performance insert] production first premiered on 19th April 1974.
1979, 26th December - Rossini - Der Barbier von Sevilla. Conducted by Alberto Erede
1979, 27th December - Puccini - Tosca - Conducted by Miguel Gomez Martinez.
1979, 28th December - Tschaikowski - Der Nussknacker - Conducted by Gerhard Deckert
1979, 29th December - Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier. Conducted by Gustav Kuhn.
1979, 30th December - Beethoven - Fidelio. Conducted by Alfred Walter.
1982, 6th January - Mossorgski - Boris Godunow. Conducted by Berislav Klobucar.
1982 - Verdi - Macbeth. [No performance insert]. production first premiered on 7th February 1982
1991, 7th December. Saint-Saens - Samson und Dalila. Musical direction by Jan Latham-Konig.
2007, 30th April. Strauss - Daphne. Under the direction of Semyon Bychkov.
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Associated People and Organisations
Vienna State Opera -
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Staatsoper, Vienna
Volksoper, Vienna
Associated Times
20th century - late 1971-1999
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Opera
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Mus. 325 d.4
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Bodleian Library, Music Library
Broad Street,Music Library Oxford OX1 3BG Open Map
DOMUS
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http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk
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The collection has very strong holdings of British music and related material acquired in part by legal deposit. Many collected editions and scholarly series. Very strong periodical coverage, including major 19thC European journals. Largest collection of American song material in UK.
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