Thomas Schleis Papers

Overview

Scope and Contents

Biographical Note

Subject Terms

Administrative Information

Detailed Description

Opera Theater Department Administrative Records

Class Instruction and Presentations

Research, Publications, and Program Notes

Personal Papers



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Collection Overview

Title: Thomas Schleis Papers, 1972-2012Add to your cart.

ID: 12/5/62

Primary Creator: Schleis, Thomas H. (1949-2012)

Extent: 10.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: Organized into four series. Series 1: Opera Theater Department Administrative Records, 1981-2012, Series 2: Class Instruction and Presentations, 1974-2012, Series 3: Research, Publications, and Program Notes, 1972-2012, Series 4: Personal Papers, 1972-2007.

Date Acquired: 10/21/2012

Subjects: Music, School of, Music - Instruction and study, Opera, Theater orchestra music

Languages: English, German, French, Italian

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of class lecture notes, research and publications, event programs and program notes, correspondence, photographs, Opera Theatre production records, and personal papers documenting Schleis' career as a student, vocal coach, accompanist, and manager of the School of Music Opera Theater program between 1972 and 2012. In addition the collection also includes program notes written for Sinfonia da Camera and Champaign-Urbana Symphony concerts.

Biographical Note

Thomas H. Schleis (December 13, 1949 - July 19, 2012) was raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin by Samuel and Jeanette (Hall) Schleis.  He earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin, and spent a year studying German opera as a Fullbright Scholar.  In 1981 he joined the University of Illinois as an adjunct faculty member for the School of Music and taught music history and performance for the Opera Theatre Program.  He remained with the University until his death in 2012, and also served as a vocal coach and accompanist for the Opera Department as well as manager of the Opera Theatre program.  In addition he served as principal organist for the University's St. John's Chapel between 1979 and 2012, and taught non-credit classes for the University's Senior Scholars and the Elderhostel programs for over ten years.

Subject/Index Terms

Music, School of
Music - Instruction and study
Opera
Theater orchestra music

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Acquisition Source: School of Music

Acquisition Method: Transfer


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Series 1: Opera Theater Department Administrative Records, 1981-2012Add to your cart.
Consists of records, scores, programs, program notes, and photographs. Arranged chronologically and alphabetically thereafter. Boxes 4-5 Oversize Materials, Box 6 Audio-Visual Materials.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: IOT Production History/Research, 1949-1971Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Excerpt from Ricci, L : "Puccini His Own Interpreter", 1954Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Opera Degree, 1958-1980Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Hoddinott, Alan: A  Roman Dream, for Soprano & Instrumental Ensemble, 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Illinois Opera Theater Look-in, Director's Copy, 1978Add to your cart.
Folder 6: IOT Presentations & Scheduling, 1980-1996Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Ariadne auf Naxos Program, 1982Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Audition Correspondence, 1982Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Audition & Production Schedule, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Cast Lists, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 11: IOT Season, 1983-1984Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Various Programs & Clippings, 1984-1986Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Fox: Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing, 1985Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Fox: Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing, 1985Add to your cart.
Duplicate, with different stage directions.
Folder 15: Promotion & Tenure Policies, 1985Add to your cart.
Folder 16: IOT Programs, 1986-1990Add to your cart.
Folder 17: A Little Night Music Libretto, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Damn Yankees Libretto, BFH Musical Theater, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Programs, 1988-1989Add to your cart.
Folder 20: IOT Administrative Documents, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 21: IOT Administration, 1989-1990Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Budget, 1989-1990Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Old Budgets, before 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Correspondence, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Performance Division Bylaws, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Auditions, 1990-1991Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Budget, 1990-1991Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Budget, 1990-1991Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1990-1992Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Box Office Reports, 1990-1993Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Graduate Contracts, 1990-1993Add to your cart.
Folder 32: IOT Newslines, 1990-2000Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Treemonisha, 1990-2000Add to your cart.
Folder 34: "Afroamericanist" Newsletter and Correspondence, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Stage Director Search, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 36: U of I Department of Dance, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Virginia School of the Arts Summer Program Brochures, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Visiting Artist Agreements, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Auditions, 1991-1992Add to your cart.
Folder 40: IOT Program Notes, CU Symphony, 1991-1992Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Budget: Box Office Reports, 1991-1996Add to your cart.
Folder 42: Production Proofs and Programs, 1991-2005Add to your cart.
Folder 43: Publicity/Royalty Agreements, 1991-2007Add to your cart.
Folder 44: La Boheme, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 45: "Orpheus in the Underworld" (UI Opera) Program Notes, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 46: "Orpheus in the Underworld" Program, Notes, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 47: Auditions, 1992-1993Add to your cart.
Folder 48: The Barber of Seville, IOT, 1993Add to your cart.
Score
Folder 49: IOT Enthusiasts, 1993Add to your cart.
Folder 50: Auditions, 1993-1994Add to your cart.
Folder 51: Grad Contracts, 1993-1994Add to your cart.
Folder 52: IOT Season, 1993-1994Add to your cart.
Folder 53: IOT Season, 1993-1994Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Silver Jubilee, 1994Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Carmen, 1994Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Correspondence, Cosmopolitan Club Dinner, 1994Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Budget, 1994-1995Add to your cart.
Folder 5: IOT Season, 1994-1995Add to your cart.
Folder 6: "Simply Broadway" Score, 1995Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Hansel and Gretel - Sketches & Photos, 1995Add to your cart.
Folder 8: IOT Program Notes & Lectures, 1995-1998Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Don Giovanni, 1996Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Productions, 1996Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Illinois Opera Theater, 1996-1998Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Assistantships, 1996-2003Add to your cart.
Folder 13: La Traviata Production Proofs, 1997Add to your cart.
Folder 14: The Magic Flute Production Proofs, 1997Add to your cart.
Folder 15: SOM San Diego Opera Reception, 1997Add to your cart.
Folder 16: IOT The Elixir of Love Program Notes & Press, 1998Add to your cart.
Folder 17: IOT The Merry Widow Notes, 1998Add to your cart.
Folder 18: La Boheme Production Proofs, 1998Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Elixer of Love Production Proofs and Orders, 1998Add to your cart.
Folder 20: The Merry Widow Production Proofs, 1998Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Audition Forms, 1998-1999Add to your cart.
Folder 22: I.O.T.E. Account, 1999Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Dialogues of the Carmelites Programs and Notes, 1999Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Dialogue of the Carmelites Production Proofs, 1999Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Illinois Opera Theater, 1999-2000Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Board of Producers, 2000Add to your cart.
Folder 27: CHP, SOM, Street Scene, Figaro cuts, 2000-2001Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Krannert & Opera Administrative Records, 2000-2004Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Complimentary Ticket Request Forms, 2001Add to your cart.
Folder 30: "Cosi fan tutte" Press Materials, 2001Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Marriage of Figaro Biographies and Program, 2001Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Figaro Press Materials, 2001Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Hedlund/Hadley Music, 2001Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Street Scene Press Materials, 2001Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Assistants & Auditions, 2001-2002Add to your cart.
Folder 36: Opera Division Audition Notes, 2001-2002Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Opera Budget, 2001-2002Add to your cart.
Folder 38: IOT Auditions, 2002Add to your cart.
Folder 39: "Romeo et Juliette" Press Materials, 2002Add to your cart.
Folder 40: "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Press Materials, 2002Add to your cart.
Folder 41: "Tales of Hoffman" Press Materials, 2002Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Various Opera Reviews, 2002-2005Add to your cart.
Folder 2: "Hansel and Gretel" Press Materials, 2003Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Opera Season Press Materials, 2003Add to your cart.
Folder 4: "Suor Angelica" Supertitles, 2003Add to your cart.
Folder 5: "The Impresario" and "Unicorn in the Garden", 2003Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan, 2004Add to your cart.
Folder 7: "The Fairy Queen", 2004Add to your cart.
Folder 8: IOT Don Giovanni Set Design, 2004Add to your cart.

Aaron Benson, designer

Jacque Trussel, director

Eduardo Diazmunoz, conductor.

Folder 9: Production Director Search Committee, 2004Add to your cart.
Folder 10: "Sweeney Todd", 2004Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Letters of Recommendation, 2004-2008Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Cecilia Bartoli Concert Program & Notes, 2005Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Ethics Training Certificate, 2005Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Ground plan, La Vida Breve & L'Heure Espagnole, 2005Add to your cart.
Folder 15: IOT Audition and Production Information, 2005Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Letters of Recommendation, 2005Add to your cart.
Folder 17: School of Music Faculty Memos, 2005-2006Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Strike, 2005-2006Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Programs & "Illinois" Magazine, 2005-2007Add to your cart.
Folder 20: IOT Course Outline, 2006Add to your cart.
Folder 21: ISYM Musical Theatre, 2006Add to your cart.
Folder 22: La Vida Breve, 2006Add to your cart.
Folder 23: "The Soldier's Tale" and "Mahogonny Songspiel", 2006Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Hal Leonard Vocal Music Catalog, 2006-2007Add to your cart.
Folder 25: PR Material for Opera/Show, 2006-2008Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Miscellaneous Opera Correspondence, 2006Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Correspondence and Planning, 2007Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Crafts: From a Distant Mesa, 2007Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Literatures, Cultures, & Linguistics Convocation Music, 2007Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Tom Schleis/Jerry Herman, 2007Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Letters of Recommendation, 2007-2008Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Audition Complaint Letter, 2008Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Opera Division Handbook, 2010-2011Add to your cart.
Folder 34: IOT The Magic Flute Revisions & Guide, 2011Add to your cart.
Folder 35: An Actor's Revenge Libretto, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 36: Audition and Welcome Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 37: Audition Materials : Poulenc, "Vers le sud" from Calligrammes - Bizet, "Agnus Dei", undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 38: Company Script, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 39: Erie Mills Photographs, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 40: Eugene Onegin Excerpt, Piano-Vocal Score, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 41: Festival Theatre, 1997Add to your cart.
Folder 42: Illinois Kabuki Performances, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 43: Illinois Opera Theater Opera Look-in, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 44: J & J Lubrano Catalog, Library of Josef Marx, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 45: King & I Production Photos, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 46: The Magic Flute Photo Orders, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 47: Man of La Mancha and Various Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 48: The Merry Widow Piano-Vocal Score, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 49: A Midsummer Night's Dream Notes & Drafts, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 50: Mikado Photos, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 51: Photograph: Unknown Production, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 52: Supertitles Drafts, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 53: "Talking to the Reporter" Presentation, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Baksa "Red Carnations" and Ravel "L'Heure Espagnole" Vocal Scores, 1981 and undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Performance Posters, 1984-1985Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Orpheus in the Underworld Script, Manuscript Scores of "Music, You're My Lover" and "I Guess This Must Be Music", c. 1991Add to your cart.
Box 5Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Miscellaneous Production Photos, c. 1994Add to your cart.
Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, Oklahoma, Fledermaus, Carmen, Don Giovanni, The Wise Woman, Elixer of Love.
Folder 2: Agreement of License with G. Schirmer, Inc., 2000Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Subtitles, 2002Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Champaign-Urbana News Gazette Review of La Boheme, 2007Add to your cart.
Folder 5: The King and I Production Photos, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Mozart: Figaro - Production Photos and Slides, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Program Notes Drafts & Subtitles, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 6Add to your cart.
Audio-Visual Recording 1: Three-Penny Opera, April 21, 1988Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Open Dress Rehearsal. Recording location: U of I Krannert Center.
Audio-Visual Recording 2: The William Olsen Farewell Concert, April 27, 1996Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Performer: The Varsity Men's Glee Club.
Audio-Visual Recording 3: La Boheme, February 1998Add to your cart.
VHS Tape.
Audio-Visual Recording 4: The Elixer of Love, November 6, 1998Add to your cart.
VHS Tape.
Audio-Visual Recording 5: Dialogues of the Carmelites, February 27, 1999Add to your cart.
VHS Tape.
Audio-Visual Recording 6: "Figaro", February 16, 2001Add to your cart.
VHS Tape.
Audio-Visual Recording 7: Street Scene, Part 1, April 20, 2001Add to your cart.
Audio-Visual Recording 8: Street Scene, Part II, April 20, 2001Add to your cart.
Audio-Visual Recording 9: Cosi Fan Tutte, November 2, 2001Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Recording location: Krannert Center. Tape 1.
Audio-Visual Recording 10: Cosi Fan Tutte, November 2, 2001Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Recording location: Krannert Center. Tape 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 11: Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart/DaPonte), November 3, 2001Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. UI Opera. Recording location: KCPA FT. Tape 1 of 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 12: Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart/DaPonte), November 3, 2001Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. UI Opera. Recording location: KCPA - FT. Tape 2 of 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 13: "Tales of Hoffman", February 15, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Prologue, Act I, Act II. UI Opera. Recording location: KCPA-FT. Tape 1 of 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 14: "Tales of Hoffman", February 15, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act III, Epilogue. UI Opera. Recording location: KCPA-FT. Tape 2 of 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 15: "Six Characters in Search of An Author", April 5, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. UI Opera. Acts I and II. Recording location: KCPA-FT. Tape 1 of 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 16: "Six Characters in Search of An Author", April 5, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act III. UI Opera. Recording location: KCPA-FT. Tape 2 of 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 17: "Six Characters in Search of an Author", April 6, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Acts I and II. UI Opera. Recording location: KCPA-FT. Tape 1 of 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 18: "Six Characters in Search of an Author", April 6, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act III. UI Opera. Recording location: KCPA-FT. Tape 2 of 2.
Audio-Visual Recording 19: Romeo and Juliet, November 8, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Acts I and II. U of I Opera.
Audio-Visual Recording 20: Romeo and Juliet, November 8, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act III.
Audio-Visual Recording 21: Romeo and Juliet, November 9, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Acts I and II.
Audio-Visual Recording 22: Romeo and Juliet, November 9, 2002Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act III.
Audio-Visual Recording 23: "The Impresario" and "The Unicorn in the Garden", April 25, 2003Add to your cart.
VHS Tape.
Audio-Visual Recording 24: "The Impresario" and "The Unicorn in the Garden", April 26, 2003Add to your cart.
VHS Tape.
Audio-Visual Recording 25: Suor Angelica, November 6, 2003Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. 1st rehearsal. "Master has problems."
Audio-Visual Recording 26: Suor Angelica, November 6, 2003Add to your cart.
VHS Tape.
Audio-Visual Recording 27: "Schicchi", November 8, 2003Add to your cart.
VHS Tape.
Audio-Visual Recording 29: The Fairy Queen, April 23, 2004Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act I.
Audio-Visual Recording 30: The Fairy Queen, April 23, 2004Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act II.
Audio-Visual Recording 31: The Fairy Queen, April 24, 2004Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act I.
Audio-Visual Recording 32: The Fairy Queen, April 24, 2004Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act II.
Audio-Visual Recording 33: Don Giovanni, November 11, 2004Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act I. Master. Recording location: Krannert Center.
Audio-Visual Recording 34: Don Giovanni, November 11, 2004Add to your cart.
VHS Tape. Act II. Master. Recording location: Krannert Center.

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