Finding Aid for Lyric Theatre @ Illinois Production Records, 1969-2016 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

By Rania Adamczyk, Rachel Johannigmeier, Thornton Miller, and Nolan Vallier.

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Biographical Note

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 2: Publicity and Concert Programs

Sub-Series 1: Publicity and Concert Programs

Box 6

Folder 26: Guest Artist - Reference Folder, 2014

Contains contact and reference information (as of 9/8/14), map, Champaign County Official Visitors Guide 2014-2015, and Illinois Theatre season flyer.

Folder 27: Krannert Center Programs (1/3), 1995-2015

"La Calisto", School of Music Opera Program, April 28-May 1, 2011; "The Corronation of Poppea", School of Music Opera Program, April 28-May 1, 2005; "Don Giovanni", Illinois Opera Theatre, February 23-24 and March 2-3, 1996; "The Elixir of Love", Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, November 6-9, 2014; "Die Fledermaus", School of Music Opera Program, November 3-4 and 11-12, 2000; "Into the Woods", Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, April 23-26, 2015; "Madama Butterfly", School of Music Opera Program, February 22-25, 2007, note: Acknowledgement of Voice and Acompanying faculty is missing.

Folder 28: Krannert Center Programs (2/3), 2009-2015

"The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro)", School of Music Opera Program, November 12-15, 2009; "The Merry Widow", Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, February 26-March 1, 2015; "Paradises Lost" (World premiere), School of Music Opera Program, April 26-29, 2012; "Rappaccini's Daughter", School of Music Opera Program, February 19-22, 2009 (duplicate); "Guest Artist Recital - Renee Fleming Masterclass", February 13, 2015 (duplicate).

Folder 29: Krannert Center Programs (3/3), 2004-2010

"Romeo et Juliet", School of Music Opera Program, November 13-16, 2008; "South Pacific", School of Music Opera Program, February 25-28, 2010; "My Three Angels", "Last of the Red Hot Lovers", and "Broadway", Summer Studio Theatre Company 2005, June 17-July 31, 2005.

Folder 30: Lyric Theatre Flyers, 2016-2017

Listing 2016-2017 season: "Poppea", November 10-13; "Viva Verdi!", February 23-26; and "The Light in the Piazza", April 27-30. Featuring photos from the 2015-2016 season: "Beatrice and Benedict", November; "A Midsummer Night's Dream", February; and "Kiss Me, Kate", April. Duplicates.

Folder 31: Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers - Newspaper Review, 2006

John Frayne for the News-Gazette, October 24. Review of University performance of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers".

Folder 32: Opera 1969-1980 Archives - Publicity, Programs, Photographs, News Clippings (1 of 2), 1969-1977

This folder contains Illinois Opera Season History (1969-1989), programs, newspaper reviews, publicity releases, flyers, praiseful correspondence from professional academics and ameteur enthusiasts, and production photographs. Including: flyer and program for the world premiere of "50 Cubits" by Alan Stein; cordial letter from Artistic Director of Indiana University Opera Theatre, 1974.

Folder 33: Opera 1969-1980 Archives - Publicity, Programs, Photographs, News Clippings (2 of 2), 1977-1980

This folder contains programs, correspondence, student and newspaper reviews, and publicity releases. Production photograph accompanying 1979 review of "La Traviata".

Folder 34: Opera 1980-1988 Archives - Photographs, Programs, News Clippings (1 of 3), 1980-1984

This folder contains programs, an information/interest form about the Illinois Opera Theatre Guild, season brocheurs, student and newspaper reviews, correspondence both praiseful and complaining, and publicity releases.

Folder 35: Opera 1980-1988 Archives - Photographs, Programs, News Clippings (2 of 3), 1984-1988

This folder includes programs, correspondence, season brocheurs, student and newspaper reviews, publicity releases, a poster, and a postcard designed for "Postcard from Morocco".

Folder 36: Opera 1980-1988 Archives - Photographs, Programs, News Clippings (3 of 3), 1986-1990

This folder contains programs, season brocheurs, student and newspaper reviews, and production photographs. One program from 1989-1990 season interfiled.

Folder 37: School of Music - Card, undated

Card front is a detail of Lorado Taft's "Alma Mater", with description on reverse. Blank inside.

Folder 38: Signs for Audience, undated

Unadorned paper sign reading "Please sit in the front of the Theatre  Thank you!!" Duplicate.

Box 8

Folder 4: Assorted Productions - Posters and Signs (1/2), 2007-2012

This folder contains foamboard posters, some bearing International Galleries (118 Lincoln Square) labels: "Don Giovanni", School of Music Opera Program, November 11-14, season includes "Candide" and "The Corronation of Poppea"; "The Barber of Seville", 2011-2012 Opera Season / School of Music Opera Program, March 1-4; "Romeo et Juliet", School of Music 2008-2009 Opera Series, November 13-15; "Sweeney Todd", School of Music Opera Series / School of Music Opera Program, February 20-29, season includes "The Fairy-Queen"; "La Boheme", School of Music 2007-2008 Opera Series, November 8-11.

Folder 5: Assorted Productions - Posters and Signs (2/2), 1991-2015

This folder contains foamboard posters, some bearing International Galleries (118 Lincoln Square) labels: "La Traviata", 2005-2006 School of Music Opera Series, November 10-13; "The Threepenny Opera", 2012-2013 Opera Season, April 25-28; "Rigoletto", School of Music 2010-2011 Opera Series, November 11-14. Brocheur: "Treemonisha", Illinois Opera Theatre, February 15-24, 1991. Paper posters: "La Boheme", Illinois Opera Theatre 1991-1992, February 14-23; "The Merry Widow", Lyric Theatre @ Illinois 2014-2015, February 26-March 1.

Folder 6: University of Illinois Opera Group - List of Productions, 1948-1968, undated

Box 9

Folder 2: Krannert Center - Watercolor - A. Barbara Firth, 1982

Folder 3: Das Rheingold performance photograph and program, Nov. 20 and 22, 1970

Acquired from the Music and Performing Arts Library on October 31, 2018

Oversize Portfolio Case 1

Item 1: A Midsummer Night's Dream, poster, February 18-21, 2016

Oversized poster. Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, 2015-2016 season, at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Music by Benjamin Britten; Libretto adapted from Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears; Filippo Ciabatti, Conductor; Christopher Gillett, Director.