Manuscripts

Opera Librettos: American Opera Co

Description: Volume of bound sheet music pertaining to operas. Theatres include: Academy of Music (New York, N.Y.); Hazard's Pavilion (Los Angeles, California); Heuck's Opera House (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1877
Call number: mssBehymer
Creator: Behymer, Lynden Ellsworth(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Lynden E. Behymer (Minetta Sparks), December 1948.; Gift of Mrs. Lynden E. Behymer (Minetta Sparks), June 1952.; Gift of California State University, Northridge, May 1976.; Gift of Music Center Operating Company, September 1993.

Chicago Theatres: Minstrels and Vaudeville

Manuscripts

Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, and newspaper clippings, photographs and letters of actors and actresses. Includes Chicago theatres: Olympic Theatre, Grand Opera House, Hooley's Theatre, Haverly's Minstrel Theatre, Madison Street Theatre, Haverly's Theatre, and Myer's Opera House. Also includes Los Angeles theatres: Grand Opera House, Imperial Music Hall, Los Angeles Theatre, Academy of Music, and Hazard's Pavilion.

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Opera Librettos: the Merry Monarch

Manuscripts

Volume with a souvenir booklet of lithographed images of opera houses and performers; programs John Robinson's King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, (1892), "The Merry Monarch Operatta" sheet music (1890), "The Lion Tamer comic opera" sheet music (1892), and sheet music for the opera "Paul Jones," and the February 1892 issue of the Engraver and Printer.

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Opera Librettos: Chicago and Metropolitan Opera Co

Manuscripts

Volume of bound translatted librettos. Includes: Oliver Ditson & Co.; Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.); and Chicago Civic Opera Company.

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Grand Opera House, Los Angeles Theatre, Burbank Theatre, and Hazard's Pavilion

Manuscripts

Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, and newspaper clippings; six pieces of correspondence. Theatres include: Grand Opera House, Los Angeles Theatre, Burbank Theatre, and Hazard's Pavilion.

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Opera Librettos: National Grand Opera Co

Manuscripts

Volume of bound translated librettos. Companies include: Oliver Ditson & Co.; National Grand Opera Company (New York, N.Y.).

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Grand Opera House, Los Angeles Theatre, and Hazard's Pavilion

Manuscripts

Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, and newspaper clippings. Includes many photos of actors and actresses, a few full page photos taken presumably during plays, and a few pieces of correspondence. Theatres include: Grand Opera House, Los Angeles Theatre, and Hazard's Pavilion.

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