Boxes 81-90

BOX 81: THE AUSTRALIAN OPERA PROGRAMS (1977-1979)

  1. 1977: Australian Opera Programs
    • Fidelio
    • Carmen
    • Lakmé
    • Lucretia Borgia
    • Fra Diavolo (includes newspaper clipping)
    • The Marriage of Figaro
  2. 1978: The Australian Opera Programs (envelope 1)
    • 1978/79 Australian Opera & Victorian State Opera Season Details
    • Fra Diavolo
    • Macbeth
    • Don Giovanni
    • Nabucco
  3. 1978: The Australian Opera Programs (envelope 2)
    • Albert Herring
    • The Yeoman of the Guard
    • The Gondoliers
    • The Flying Dutchman
  4. 1979: The Australian Opera Programs (envelope 1)
    • La Traviata
    • Cavalleria Rusticanna / Pagliacci
    • Madama Butterfly
    • The Triumph of Honour
  5. 1979: The Australian Opera Programs (envelope 2)
  • Idomeno
  • Don Giovanni
  • The Merry Widow
  • The Mastersingers of Nuremberg

BOX 82: THE AUSTRALIAN OPERA PROGRAMS (1980-1983)

  1. 1980: The Australian Opera Programs (Envelope 1)
    • Boris Godunov
    • La Traviata
    • The Magic Flute
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  2. 1980: The Australian Opera Programs (envelope 2)
    • The Abduction from the Seraglio
    • Patience (Melbourne)
    • Patience (Sydney, Canberra)
    • Falstaff
  3. 1981: The Australian Opera Programs (Envelope 1)
    • La Boheme
    • The Marriage of Figaro
    • La Buona Figliuol
    • The Bartered Bride
    • Katya Kabanova
    • Puccini Gala (includes revised Melbourne program)
    • Manon Lescault
    • Les Huguenots
  4. 1981: The Australian Opera Programs (envelope 2)
    • The Barber of Seville
    • Norma
    • The Beggar's Opera
    • Otello (includes newspaper clipping)
    • Die Walküre
  5. 1982: The Australian Opera Programs (Envelope 1)
    • Macbeth (includes tickets)
    • Hamlet
    • Tristan und Isolde
    • Comedies of Three Centuries (Rosina, Ba-ta-clan, The Bear) (includes ticket)
    • Die Fledermaus (includes ticket and newspaper clipping)
  6. 1982: The Australian Opera Programs (envelope 2)
    • 1982 Season Details
    • Il Trittico
    • La Traviata
    • The Bartered Bride
    • Manon
    • Cast Lists: Madama Butterfly / La Boheme / Cavalleria Rusticanna / Pagliacci
  7. 1983: The Australian Opera Programs (Envelope 1)
    • Otello
    • Tosca
    • Manon
    • Lucia di Lammermoor
  8. 1983: The Australian Opera Programs (envelope 2)
  • Instrumental and Vocal Concert
  • Il Trovatore (includes newspaper clipping)
  • Semiramide
  • Patience
  • Don Giovanni
  • Newspaper bio of Racahel Gettler's debut with Australia Opera in Norma
  • La Funciulla del West

BOX 83: THE AUSTRALIAN OPERA PROGRAMS (1984-1989)

  1. 1984: The Australian Opera Programs (Envelope 1)
    • Adriana Lecouvreur (includes ticket and program for Sunday Serenades 1984) Sydney and Melbourne programs
    • Siegfried (includes ticket)
    • Der Rosenkavalier (cast list)
    • Lucia di Lammermoor
  2. 1984: The Australian Opera Programs (Envelope 2)
    • Aida
    • Il Trovatore (cast list)
    • Die Walküre
    • Fiddler on the Roof
    • Vocal Concert
    • Romeo & Juliette
  3. 1985: The Australian Opera Programs
    • Grand Opera Season with performer biographies
    • Fiddler on the Roof
    • Richard Strauss/Richard Wagner Gala Concert (includes ticket)
    • Roméo et Juliette
    • Dialogues of the Carmelites
    • Elektra
    • I Puritani (signed by Joan Sutherland)
    • Die Walküre
    • Tosca
    • Aida
  4. 1986: The Australian Opera Programs
    • Il Trovatore
    • Boris Godunov (x 2)
    • Salome
    • Lucia di Lammermoor (signed by Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge (?), includes ticket and newspaper clipping)
    • Falstaff
  5. 1986: The Australian Opera Programs
    • 30th Anniversary Opera Season
    • The Mikado
    • 30 Years Mozart Exhbition
    • The Magic Flute
    • Un Ballo in Maschera
    • Don Pasquale
    • Macbeth
    • La Fille du Régiment
  6. 1987: The Australian Opera Programs
    • National Productions Booklet
    • Opera News
    • Alcina
    • Voss
    • Manon Lescaut
    • Patience
    • La Fille du Régiment
    • Peter Grimes
  7. 1988: The Australian Opera Programs
    • Bicentennial National productions booklet
    • Opera News
    • La Cenerentola
    • La  Forza del Destino
    • The Magic Flute
    • Manon (x 2)
    • L'Incoronazione di Poppea
  8. 1989: The Australian Opera Programs
  • The Gondoliers
  • Les Contes d'Hoffmann
  • Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
  • Otello
  • The Turn of the Screw

BOX 84: THE AUSTRALIAN OPERA PROGRAMS (1990-1999)

  1. 1990: The Australian Opera Programs
    • Werther
    • The Gypsy Princess (includes ticket)
    • Tristan und Isolde (includes ticket)
  2. 1991: The Australian Opera Programs
    • Death in Venice
    • Roméo et Juliette
    • La Clemenza di Tito
    • Turandot (includes newspaper clipping)
    • The Australian Opera Broadsheet Issue 9, April/May 1991
  3. 1992: The Australian Opera Programs
    • Fidelio
    • Adriana Lecouvreur
    • Der Rosenkavalier
    • The Australian Opera Broadsheet Issue 16, March 1992
  4. 1993: The Australian Opera Programs
    • Hansel and Gretel
    • Salome
    • Tristan und Isolde
    • Un ballo in maschera
    • The Australian Opera News Issue 22, March 1993
    • The Australian Opera News Issue 23, May 1993
  5. 1994: The Australian Opera Programs
    • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
    • Orphée et Eurydice (includes newspaper clipping)
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  6. 1995: Opera Australia Programs
    • Julius Caesar (includes flyer for 65 Roses recital for Cystic Fibrosis)
  7. 1996: Opera Australia Programs
    • Nabucco
    • The Makropulos Secret
  8. 1997:  Opera Australia Programs
    • Fledermaus
    • Falstaff
    • Der fliegende Holländer
  9. 1998: Opera Australia Programs
    • Pelleas et Melisande
    • Cosi fan Tutte (cast list)
    • Jenafu (cast list)
    • Tannhäuser
    • Dialogues of the Carmelites
    • Beatrice and Benedict
    • Iphigénie en Tauride
  10. 1999: Opera Australia Programs
  • Fidelio
  • Roméo et Juliette

BOX 85:  BURLESQUE, CABARET, TIVOLI  REVUES (190-1970)

  1. 1930s & 1940s
    • Fast and Furious with Mike Connors and Paul’s Queenie (Tivoli Theatre: commencing 10th February 1933)
    • Americana Tivoli Circuit Theatre (1947) damaged
    • Take a Bow Tivoli Circuit Theatre 1948)
    • Present Laughter Daphne Rye (Dir.) Princess Theatre (1949)
  2. 1950-1955
    • The Love Racket – Arthur Askey Tivoli Theatre (1950)
    • Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp  - Pantomime with Jenny Howard - Princess Theatre ( from 22nd December 1951)
    • Folies Bergère Revue – Tivoli Theatre (1953)
    • "La Vie Parisienne" - Jean Sablon Princess Theatre (1954)
    • Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp – Pantomime – Princess Theatre (from 27th December 1954)
    • Colored Rhapsody – David Hughs & the Norma Miller Dancers – Tivoli Theatre  (from 1st Feb 1955)
    • The Big Show – Betty Hutton promo – (1955)
  3. 1956-1959
    • Katherine Dunham and her Company – Tivoli Theatre (1956)
    • Katherine Dunham and her Company  - Princess Theatre (1956)
    • Winifred Atwell – "Rocking The Town"  - Tivoli Theatre (1958)
    • Anniversary Waltz – Richard Arlen – Princess Theatre (15th August 1958)
    • Lee Gordon presents Sal Mineo, Everly Bros and Tab Hunter (1959)
    • Lee Gordon presents Sammy Davis Jr., The Australian Jazz Quintet and Diana Trask (1959)
    • Oriental Cavalcade – Tivoli Theatre (1959)
    • Pleasures of Paris with Sabrina – Tivoli Theatre (1959)
  4. 1960
    • Artists and Models with Nat Jacklery – Tivoli Theatre (1960)
    • The Merry Widow with June Bronhill and The Sadler's Wells Opera Company – Tivoli Theatre (from July 16th 1960) with newspaper article "Everyone Loves the Widow"
    • The Lord Mayor's Tivoli Command Performance Melbourne (25th September, 1960) with ticket.
  5. 1961-1962
    • The Lord Mayor's Tivoli Command Performance Melbourne (24th September, 1961) with ticket.
    • The Lord Mayor's Tivoli Command Performance Melbourne (30th September 1962)
    • The Black and White Minstrel Show – Tivoli Theatre (October 5th 1962)
  6. 1963-1965
  • Show Boat – Tivoli Theatre (from 15th May 1963)
  • The Lord Mayor's Tivoli Command Performance Melbourne (17th November 1963) with ticket
  • The Black and White Minstrel Show  - Tivoli Theatre (from 28th October 1964)
  • Boeing Boeing – Tivoli Theatre (Melbourne season from 21st July 1964)
  • Stop The World I Want to Get Off – Tivoli Theatre (Melbourne Season from 7th February 1964) two slightly different copies.
  • The Lord Mayor's Tivoli Command Performance Melbourne (18th October 1964) with ticket.
  • Is Australia Really Necessary?  -  with Miriam Karlin – Tivoli Theatre (from 18th february 1965)
  • The Lord mayor's Tivoli Command Performance Melbourne (31st October 1965) with ticket
  • Windmill Revue  - with Sheila Van Damm - Tivoli Theatre (Melbourne season from November 4th 1965)

BOX 86: CONCERTS IN REGIONAL VICTORIA

  1. Ballarat (1927 – 2013)
    • Joseph Hislop (tenor), the University Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Heinze (cond.), Alberto Sciarretti (piano) "Grand Opening Demonstration – Smith Street Competitions" (The Coliseum, Ballarat: 26th Sept 1927)
    • Miss Elise Steele (violin) 2nd recital in Victoria, John Simons (piano) (City Hall, Ballarat: 29th July 1929)
    • Lyric Orchestral Concert, Walter Gude (cond.) (A.N.A. Hall, Ballarat:  10th June 1935)
    • Colin Horsley (piano) (Odeon Theatre: 4th Aug 1955) ABC (Direction).
    • Lance Dossor (piano) (Odeon Theatre: 7th May; Town Hall, Horsham 8th May 1956) ABC (Direction).
    • Jacob Lateiner (piano) (Odeon Theatre: 1st Oct 1956) ABC (Direction).
    • Ballarat Opera Festival Program (29th March to 7th April 1996)
    • Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields - 15th Annual Festival, Sergio de Pieri OAM (Art. Dir.) A festival of fine music in historic venues.(8 – 17th January 2010)
    • Ballarat Cabaret, Graeme and Sean (Art. Dir.) (Various Venues: October 2012)
    • Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields - 18th Annual Festival, Sergio de Pieri OAM (Art. Dir.) A festival of fine music in historic venues.(11th – 20thJanuary 2013)
  2. Concerts in Regional Victoria: Bendigo (1947 – 1952)
    • Thomas White (clarinet), Edgar Richmond (oboe), Kenneth Norton (French Horn), Frederick Morgan (bassoon), Else Haas (soprano), Peter Langer (piano) (Bendigo Town Hall: 23rd August 1947)
    • Leon Goossens (oboist) with Henri Penn (piano) (Bendigo Town Hall 1st June [?]) Direction.
    • Richard Farrell (piano) Victorian Country Tour (Albury, Bendigo, Ballarat, Horsham, Mildura: 24th April to 26th May 1951)ABC Direction.
    • Michael Rabin (violin) with Raymond Lambert (piano) (BTH: 26th August 1952) ABC Direction.
    • Paul McDermott Quartet, Merlyn Todd & Margaret Bourne (Argus Lieder Prize Winners) 4th concert (BTH: 20th Sept 1952) The Music Advancement Society of Bendigo.
    • “The Late Edwina Black” Bendigo Drama School Players [2nd program of the 1952 October Arts festival] (BTH: 13th October 1952)
    • “Love’s Labour Lost” Bendigo Drama School Players [3rd program of the 1952 October Arts festival] (BTH: 15th October 1952)
    • “Saint Joan” with June Bronhill and the National Theatre Cast (Bendigo Capital Theatre: 9-10th July [?]) Program & poster
    • “The Chocolate Soldier” Bendigo Operatic Society (Capital Theatre: 17th – 19th March 1953)
    • Victorian Symphony Orchestra, Juan Jose Castro (cond.), Isador Goodman (piano) (Royal Princes Theatre, Bendigo: 1st May; Star Theatre, Shepparton: 2nd May 195 [3]) ABC (Direction).
    • “Floradora” Bendigo Operatic Society (Capital Theatre: 16th – 19th March 1954)
    • “The Maid of the Mountains” Bendigo Operatic Society (Capital Theatre: 16th – 20th August 1954)
    • John Brownlee (baritone) and Raymond Lambert (piano) (Shepparton, Bendigo & Horsham: 24th March, 5th June & 27th June [?])
    • Ernst & Marie Friedlander (cello & piano) (BTH: 16th July 1955)
    • Woodwind Trio with Nancy Weir (piano) (BTH: 15th August 1955)
    • Jascha Spivakovsky (piano) (BTH: 4th October 1955)
    • VSO with Walter Susskind (piano) (Star theatre, Shepparton: 9th Nov; Capital Theatre, Bendigo: 10th Nov 1955)
    • “The Desert Song” Bendigo Operatic Society (Capital Theatre, Bendigo: 18th - 23rd October 1957)
  3. Concerts in Regional Victoria: Geelong
    • Victorian Symphony Orchestra with Walter Susskind (cond.) and John Cameron (baritone) (Warrnambool Town Hall: 10th August; Plaza Theatre, Geelong: 11th August 1955)
    • The Geelong Association of Music & Art (GAMA) “An evening of Opera” (YWCA Hall: 29th June 1962)
    • GAMA Orchestra “A Symphony Concert” Allan Woodend (cond.) (GAMA Theatre: 21st July 1967)
    • Australian Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Keith Humble (Mus. Dir.) (Morrison Hall, The Geelong College: 29th July 1978)
  4. Horsham, Maryborough, Nhill
    • Anna Russell (Horsham TH: 13th July 1955)
    • VSO with Clive Douglas (cond.) and Alan Eddy (bass baritone) (Maryborough TH: 23rd Nov 1955)
    • Schools Orchestral Concert  (Memorial Hall, Nhill: 28th August; Horsham TH: 29th Aug 1956)
    • VSO with Kurt Woess (cond.) William Hebrert [sic] ?Herbert (tenor) (Memorial Hall, Nhill: 28th August 1956)
  5. Wodonga, Yallorn
    • "Soiree" (St John's Anglican Church, Wodonga: May 31st 1977)
    • "Iolanthe" Not Another Theatre Company Incorporated (Tower Theatre, Wodonga: June-July 1995) with press reviews and photos
    • Albury-Wodonga Choral Festival (St. John's Anglican Church, Wodonga: 31st May, 1997)
    • Victorian Symphony Orchestra with Joseph Post and Cavell Armstrong, soprano.  (Yallourn Theatre: 8 March, 1955),
    • Anna Russell (IYallourn Theatre: 24 May, 1955
    • Victorian Symphony Orchestra, with Kurt Woers, conductor and William Herbert, tenor.  (Yallourn Theatre, 14 August, 1956).
  6. Regional tours and Mornington Peninsula
  • Victorian Symphony Orchestra with Kurt Woess (cond.) William Hebrert [sic] ?Herbert (tenor) (Regional Tour: 10-12 July, 1958)
  • Castlemaine State Festival 1992 'Nancye with an E' (Theatre Royal: 7-8 November, 1992)
  • "La Traviata", with Warwick Stengards, conductor. (Ansett Hall, Peninsular Grammar School: 21-22 October, [?])
  • Mornington Peninsular Chorale "Christmas Concert". (Peninsular Community Theatre: 14 December, 2006)

BOX 87: MELBOURNE BALLET AND DANCE PERFORMANCES (1940S-1980S)

  1. Ballet/Dance performances 1940s
    • Ballet Rambert  1948
  2. Ballet/Dance performances 1950s
    • National Theatre Ballet Group [1952]
    • Luisillo and his Spanish Dance Theatre 1958
  3. Ballet/Dance performances 1960s
    • Margot Fonteyn and David Blair with stars of the Royal Ballet - Australian and New Zealand Tour 1962 (includes individual programme insert)
    • Georgian State Dance Company 1963
    • The Australian Ballet International Tour 1965
    • Les Ballets Africains 1965
    • The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre 1964 (includes newspaper clippings)
  4. Ballet/Dance performances 1970s
    • Georgian State Dance Company 1970
    • The National Folk Ballet of Korea - The Little Angels 1971
  5. Ballet/Dance performances 1980s
    • Dance Theatre of Harlem 1980 (special edition of Theatre Australia, Vol. 5, no. 1 Aug 1980, includes programme insert)
    • Grupo de Teatro Macunaima - Macunaima 1984 (includes ticket)
  6. Ballet/Dance performances (oversized)
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 1985 (includes newspaper clippings and programme insert)

BOX 88: MELBOURNE MUSICAL THEATRE PROGRAMS (1960S-1990S)

  1. 1960s
    • The Fantastics – The Council of Adult Education presents The Union Theatre Repertory Company (Union Theatre" October 30th 1962)
    • Oklahoma - Essendon Society of Arts 1962 (includes proposed Arts Theatre flyer)
    • The Gondoliers – The Savoyards 1962
    • The Mikado – Council of Adult Education (?)
    • The Gondoliers  - Council of Adult Education (?)
    • The King and I – (Princess Theatre: 22nd December 1962)
    • Girls of Gottenberg - Essendon Society of Arts 1963 (includes baby photograph contest flyer)
    • The Desert Song - Essendon Society of Arts 1963
    • Backstage – Journal of The Essendon Society of Arts (vol.2, No.6 March 1963
    • La Belle Helene - Essendon Society of Arts 1965
    • Nothing Sacred - Star Theatre 1960
    • Iolanthe - Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria 1963
    • H.M.S. Pinafore - Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria 1963
    • Calamity Jane - Samaritan Theatre 1964
    • Porgy and Bess - Princess Theatre 1965/66
    • Robert and Elizabeth with June Bronhill and Denis Quilley (Princess Theatre: 21st May 1966)
    • Tea and Symphony with Dulcie Gray (Princess Theatre?)
    • Bells are Ringing with Shani Wallis (Princess Theatre?)
    • The Yeomen of the Guard – The Babirra Players 1969
  2. 1970s
    • Oh, Sir Henry! – Australian Premiere, Athenaeun Theatre (12th September 1970)
    • Jesus Christ Superstar – Harry M. Miller & Robert Stigwood. (Palais Theatre: 197?)
    • Oklahoma – Nova Theatre, Nunawadding. Ron Shade (MD) (1974)
    • Tenderloin - Festival Theatre Company [1978]
  3. 1980s
    • Pirates of Penzance – Melbourne Music Theatre (Alexander Theatre: August 1981)
    • Anyone Can Whistle - MUMCO [1985]
    • Merrily We Roll Along - Carousel Theatre Company 1983
    • Mack and Mabel - Festival Theatre Company 1985
    • Sugar - Festival Theatre Company 1986
    • Seesaw - Festival Theatre Company [1981?]
    • Little Me - Festival Theatre Company 1983
    • Secrets - Handspan Theatre [1985?]
    • Company - Festival Theatre Company [1980s?]
  4. 1980s
    • On the Twentieth Century - Whitehorse Musical Theatre 1987
    • Mack and Mabel - Altona city Theatre [1981?]
    • Sweeney Todd - CLOC 1983
    • La Belle Helene - CLOC [1980]
    • Follies - CLOC Musical Theatre 1986
    • The Dancing Years - Heritage Musical Theatre 1983
    • A Little Night Music - Doncaster Templestowe Musical Society 1981
    • Dames at Sea - Pumpkin Players [1980]
    • The Gondoliers – The G&S Society of Victoria Golden Jubilee Season (National Theatre, St Kilda, August 1985)
    • Les Misérables – Cameron Mackinstosh (Theatre Royal, Sydney: 27th November 1987.
    • Starlight Express – Australian Tour January 1988
  5. 1990s
    • Recital - Chamber Made Opera 1995
    • Phantom - Altona City Theatre 1996
    • Oliver - Altona City Theatre 1998
    • City of Angels - Whitehorse Musical Theatre 1996
    • Fiddler on the Roof - Altona City Theatre 1994
    • Pacific Overtures - Monash students of Drama and Theatre Studies 1998
    • Kiss Me Kate - CLOC Musical Theatre 1991
    • Sunday in the Park with George - CLOC Musical Theatre 1992
    • Into the Woods - CLOC Musical Theatre 1994
    • The Secret Garden – Opera Queensland (State Theatre Melbourne: 20th December 1995) [in separate mylar sleeve]
  6. 2000s
    • Jekyll and Hyde The Musical (Banyule Theatre: 6-14th July 2012)
  7. 1940-1950
  • Maritana  - Melbourne Repertory Theatre, (Middle Park: 5th  - 26th June 1948)
  • Free As Air – Princess Theatre (195?)
  • Salad Days – Princess Theatre (1958?)

BOX 89:  VICTORIAN STATE OPERA (1970S-1990S)

  1. Victorian State Opera (1970s)
    • The Italian Girl in Algiers (National Theatre: July/Aug. 1976)
    • Orpheus & Eurydice (National Theatre: July/Aug. 1976)
    • The Italian Girl in Algiers (State Performances; Shepparton, Traralgon, Ballarat, Portland, Mildura: 1977)
    • St Cecilia Concert (Dallas Brookes Hall: October 1977)
    • The Pearl Fishers (Princess Theatre: Feb. 1979)
  2. Victorian State Opera (1980 - 1982)
    • The Pearl Fishers (Princess Theatre: June/July 1980)
    • Rigoletto (Ballarat: August 1980)
    • Joint Season with The Australian Opera (Princess & Palais Theatre: 1981)
    • Pelleas & Melisande (Princess Theatre: June  1981)
    • Die Fledermaus (Princess Theatre & Geelong Performing Arts Centre: July/Aug. 1981)
    • Faust (Princess Theatre: October 1981)
    • 1982 Subscription Brochure
    • Idomeneo (Princess Theatre:  1982)
    • Carmen (Princess Theatre: July/Aug. 1982)
    • Iolanthe (Princess Theatre & Geelong Performing Arts Centre: Oct/Nov. 1982)
    • Aida (Melbourne Concert Hall:  November 1982
  3. Victorian State Opera (1983)
    • 1983 Subscription Brochure
    • Eugene Onegin (Palais Theatre: July 1983)
    • Die Fledermaus (Palais Theatre: August 1983)
    • Rigoletto (Palais Theatre: 1983)
    • Metamorphosis (St Martin’s Theatre: Sept/Oct 1983) with newspaper review by Kenneth Hince
    • Samson & Delilah (Melbourne Concert Hall:  Nov/Dec. 1983) with newspaper article “The Tale of Two Delilahs”
  4. Victorian State Opera (1984)
    • The Pirates of Penzance (Melbourne Concert Hall: January 1984)
    • Cosi Fan Tutte (State Tour Performances: June/Nov. 1984)
    • Faust (State Theatre: August 1984)
    • Don Carlos (State Theatre: August 1984)
    • Julius Caesar (State Theatre: September 1984)
    • The Trojans (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1984)
    • The Magic Flute (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1984)
  5. Victorian State Opera (1985)
    • 1985 Subscription Brochure
    • The VSO News (Vollume 1, no.1, 1985)
    • La Boheme (State Theatre: July/Aug. 1985)
    • The Barber of Seville (State Theatre: July/Aug. 1985)
    • The Barry Skelton Memorial Concert (State Theatre: August 9 1985)
    • Rigoletto (State Theatre: Sept/Oct. 1985)
    • The Consul (State Theatre: Sept/Oct. 1985)
    • Lohengrin (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1985) newspaper review
  6. Victorian State Opera (1986)
    • 1986 Subscription Brochure
    • Preview of Operas and Artists
    • Carmen (Myer Music Bowl: Febuary 1, 1986)
    • Eugene Onegin (State Theatre: July/Aug. 1986)
    • Don Giovanni (State Theatre: July/Aug. 1986) newspaper review and ticket stubs.
    • I Puritani (State Theatre: November 1986)
    • Countess Maritza (State Theatre: Sept/Oct. 1985) review and ticket stubs.
  7. Victorian State Opera (1987)
    • 1987 Subscription Brochure
    • HMS Pinafore (State Theatre: January. 1987) starring Paul Eddington
    • La Traviata (Sidney Myer Music Bowl: 31st January, 1987)
    • Turandot (State Theatre: August, 1987) reviews and tickets
    • The Marriage of Figaro (State Theatre: August, 1987)
    • The Barry Skelton Concert: 'A Night in Vienna' (Melbourne Concert Hall: 4th September, 1987) Richard Divall (conductor)
    • Der Fliegende Holländer (State Theatre: November 1987)
    • La Belle Helene (State Theatre: December, 1987) newspaper critique
  8. Victorian State Opera (1988 - 1989)
    • 1988 Subscription Brochure
    • Rigoletto (Sidney Myer Music Bowl: 30th January, 1988)
    • My Fair Lady (State Theatre: January, 1988)
    • Madama Butterfly (State Theatre: August, 1988) plus tickets
    • Andre Chenier (State Theatre: July/Aug. 1988)
    • The Pearl Fishers (State Theatre: November 1988)
    • 1988 Subscription Brochure
  9. Victorian State Opera (1990 - 1921)  Envelope 1
    • Norma (State Theatre: July, 1990)
    • Faust (State Theatre: September, 1990)
    • Samson et Dalila (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1990)
    • Iolanthe (State Theatre: August, 1991)
    • The Magic Flute (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1991)
    • The Italian Girl in Algiers (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1991)
  10. Victorian State Opera (1990 - 1921)  Envelope 2
    • The King and I (State Theatre: Januart, 1992)
    • Don Carlos (State Theatre: July/Aug. 1992)
    • The Tales of Hoffmann (State Theatre: Aug/Sept. 1992)
    • Cosi fan tutte (State Theatre: Aug/Sept. 1992)
    • Lohengrin (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1992)
  11. Victorian State Opera (1993)
    • The Barber of Seville (State Theatre: July/Aug. 1993)
    • Otello (State Theatre: Aug/Sept. 1993)
    • Maria Stuarda (State Theatre: November, 1993)
    • My Fair Lady (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1993)
    • The Magic Flute (State Theatre: Nov/Dec. 1991)
  12. Victorian State Opera (1994 - 1996
  • South Pacific (State Theatre: January, 1994)
  • Semele (State Theatre: August, 1994) reviewed by Jim Davidson
  • Don Quixote (State Theatre: July/Aug, 1995)
  • Xerxes (State Theatre: July/Aug, 1996)
  • The Puccini Spectacular: La Boheme, Tosca, Madam Butterfly, Turandot Melbourne Park: May, 1996)

BOX 90: INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' CONCERTS IN MELBOURNE (1950S-2001)

  1. 1950s
    • Manfred Clynes, piano. (Melbolurne Town Hall: 13 May, 1952) includes critique from patron!
    • Vienna Boys' Choir (1954 Australian Tour)
    • Lee Gordon presents: The Big Show, Louis Armstrong (1954 Australian Tour)
    • Lee Gordon presents: The Big Show, Nat King Cole (1955 Australian Tour)
    • Lee Gordon presents: The Big Show, Bob Hope (2nd Australian Tour 1955)
    • Lee Gordon presents: The Big Show, Nat King Cole (2nd Australian Tour 1956)
    • Lee Gordon presents: The Big Show, Frankie Lane (2nd Australian Tour 1956)
    • Witald Malcuzynski, piano (Australia and New Zealand Tour 1956)
    • Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano (Australia and New Zealand Tour 1956)
    • Lee Gordon presents: The Big Show, Bill Hales and his Comets, The Platters, Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, La Vern Baker Joe Turner (1st Australian Tour 1957)
    • Headliners presents: The Most Show, Johnny Mathis (Australian Tour 1958)
    • Winifred Atwell, Star Night at the Stadium [undated]
    • Danny Kaye and his All-Star International Show (with Senor Wences, The Dunhills, and Francis Brunn) (Princess Theatre 1959)
  2. 1960s
    • Lonnie Donegan and his Group (1st Australian TOur 1960)
    • Fine Arts Quartet of Chicago Chamber Music recital.  (National Gallery of Victoria: 24 August 1961)
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.  (World Tour 1962)
    • Marian Anderson, with Franz Rupp, piano. (Melbourne Town Hall 1962)
    • Margot Fonteyne and David Blair, with stars of the Royal Ballet.  (Australian and New Zealand TOur: April-May, 1962)
    • The Sadler's Wells Opera Company, Orpheus in the Underworld (Princess Theatre, Gala Premiere: 26 September 1962)
    • Lee Gordon presents: All American Rock Spectacular (1963)
    • Ray Charles and his Orchestra (Australian Tour: September,  1964)
    • Gracie Fields, with Isador Goodman, piano.  (Australia / New Zealand Tour 1965)
    • Marlene Dietrich (Princess Theatre, Gala Premiere: 7 October, 1965) includes promotional photograph
    • The Band of the Fiji Military Forces (1st Australian Tour, Moomba Festival appearance: 1966)
    • Nina and Frederik.  (1st Australian Concert Tour: 1967)
    • Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass.  (Australian Tour: 1967)
  3. 1970s
    • Vienna Boys' Choir, Uwe Theimer, conductor. (Australian Tour: 9 June - 1 July, 1970)
    • Carol Channing and her Gentlemen Who Prefer Blondes. (Australian Premiere, Princess Theatre: 17 May, 1972)
    • Val Doonican (Australasian TOur:  1972)
    • James Last (Australian leg of Tour: July 1972)
    • Burt Bacharach (Australian Tour: May, 1973)
    • D'Oyly Carte Opera The World of Gilbert and Sullivan (Australian and New Zealand Tour: 1974) with ticket stubs
    • NZBC Schola Musicum Chamber Orchestra, Ashley Heenan, conductor. (Tour of Australia: Coppin Hall, 313 Punt Road, Prahran: 13 August, 1974)
    • Ivan Rebroff with his Balalaika Ensemble (Canberra Theatre: 17 August, 1974)
    • Shanghai Philharmonic SOciety (Australian Tour: November, 1975)
    • The Russian Spectacular (Palais Theatre: March, 1976) with ticket stubs [oversized]
    • Cleo Laine and John Dankworth (Dallas Brooks Hall: February, 1975) includes newspaper clippings
    • Charles Aznavour (1976)
    • Sammy Davis, Jr. (Australian Tour: 1977) [oversized]
    • Berioska Dance Company of Russia Nadezhda Nadezhina, artistic director. (Australasia Tour: July - August, 1977) [oversized]
  4. 1980s
    • Dr. Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket, Stackton Tressel Favourites (Princess Theatre: June - September, 1980)
    • Halle Orchestra, James Loughran, conductor. Australian Tour: 1981 (Victorian Arts Centre: 13 February, 1981)
    • London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor.  (Sydney Opera House: 9 - 10 May, Melbourne Concert Hall: 11 - 12 May, 1983)
    • The Choir of Kings College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, director. (Australian Tour: 1983)
    • Nelly Miricioiu  in Concert (State Theatre: August, 1984) includes ticket)
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra (Australian Tour: 1985)
    • Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, director and conductor. (Australian Tour: 1988) newspaper review
    • Mistislav Rostropovich, cello with Lambert Orkis, piano. (Sydney Opera House: 20 March, Melbourne Concert Hall: 24 March, 1988) with newspaper concert critique and several articles
    • Ivo Pogorelich, piano. (Australian recitals: 19 June - 1 July, 1988) newspaper review
    • USSR State Symphony Orchestra (Australian and New Zealand Tour: 1988) [oversized]
  5. 1990s
    • Les Ballets Africains (Palais Theatre: 28 October, 1991)
    • Evelyn Glennie, percussion with Philip Smith, piano. (Melbourne Concert Hall: 10 March, 1992)
    • Katia Ricciarelli in Concert (Melbourne: 25 - 30 August, Canberra: 8 September, Sydney 10 September, 1993
    • Dmitri Hvorostovsky, vocalist with Mikhail Arkadiev, piano. (Victorian Arts Centre: 23 February, Sydney Town Hall: 28 February, 1997)
    • Gavin Bryars Ensemble - A Man in a Room Gambling (1997) includes two flyers for MLC Music Academy Artist in Residence Program
    • Thomas Allen, bariton with Sharolyn Kimmorleyn, piano. (1998)
    • Sumi Jo in concert and recital with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Markus Stenz, conductor,  and David McSkimming, piano. (Melbourne Concert Hall: 15, 17 October, 1988) (program signed by the artist, includes newspaper clippings)
  6. Oversized programs
    • Neil Diamond (1976)
    • Sky (Souvenir programme: 1982)
    • Liza Minelli (Palais Theatre: 1981) includes newspaper clippings
    • Placido Domingo with Julia Migenes (Australian Tour: 1990)
    • Jose Carreras with Deborah Riedel, The Australian Philharmonic Orchestra includes Ballarat Opera Festival flyer and Nissan promotional material
  7. 2000 -
    • Barbara Cook in Mostly Sondheim (Australian Tour: March, 2002)
  8. International Artists' Concerts (1900 - 1913)
    • J & N Tait present: Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford with Harold Craxton, accompanist. 5th Concert, Australian Tour (The Auditorium: 27 May, 1913)
    • Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford 9th Concert, Australian Tour (The Auditorium: 5 June, 1913)
    • Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford's Book of Words 1913 Australian Tour
    • J & N Tair present: John McCormack, tenor with May Huxley, soprano, Donald McBeath, violin and Vincent O'Brien, accompanist. (The Auditorium: 28 October, 1913)
    • John McCormack, tenor with Muriel Cheek, soprano, Donald McBeath, violin and Vincent O'Brien, accompanist. Final Concert (The Auditorium: 29  November, 1913)
  9. International Artists' Concerts (1920 - 1929)
    • J & N Tait present: Miscah Levitzi, piano.  (7th Recital - Melbourne Town Hall: 9 July, 1921 ; 8th Recital - 12 July, 1921)
    • Amelita Galli-Curci - Souvenir Book of Words (The Auditorium: 28 April, 1925)
    • E.J. Carroll presents: Kreisler Concerts, violin with Carl Lamson, piano. 1st Concert (The Auditorium: 27 June, 1925)
    • Kreisler Concerts, violin with Carl Lamson, piano. 2nd Concert (The Auditorium: 30 June, 1925)
    • Kreisler Concerts, violin with Carl Lamson, piano. 4th Concert (The Auditorium: 4 July, 1925)
    • Kreisler Concerts, violin with Carl Lamson, piano. 5th Concert (The Auditorium: 7 July, 1925)
    • J & N Tait present: The Althouse - Middleton Season: Paul Althouse, tenor, Arthur Middleton, bass-baritone, with Edward Harris, piano. 2nd Concert (The Auditorium: 21 July, 1925)
    • The Althouse - Middleton Concerts 8th Concert (The Auditorium: 4 August, 1925)
    • E.J. Carroll presents: Ignaz Friedman, piano. 3rd Program, Australian & New Zealand Tour (Sydney venue?: 1927)
    • Ignaz Friedman, piano. 9th Program, 1927 Tour
    • E.J. Gravestock presents: Shura Cherkassky, boy pianist. (Melbourne Town Hall: 10, 13, 15, 17 November, 1928)
  10. International Artists' Concerts (1930 - 1939)
    • J & N Tait present: Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano. 2nd Concert (The Auditorium: 27 April, 1932)
    • Waiata Maori Choir (Melbourne Town Hall: 20, 22, 23 April, 1935)
    • Yehudi Menuhin Concerts, violin with Marcel Gazelle, piano. (Melbourne Town Hall: 7th Concert, 13 June ; 8th Concert, 15 June ; 9th Concert, 18 June ; Farewell Concert, 20 June, 1935)
    • Yehudi Menuhin in a Three-Concerto Concert with Orchestra, Bernard Heinze, conductor. (Melbourne Town Hall: 22 August, 1935)
    • Viennese Boys' Choir (Melbourne Town Hall?: 31 August, 1935)
    • Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo (Australia and New Zealand Tour: 1936-1937)
    • Kirsten Flagstad, with Edwin McArthur, piano. (Melbourne Town Hall: commencing 16 July, 1938) J & N Tait [direction]
  11. International Artists' Concerts (1940 - 1949)
  • Hephzibah Menuhin, piano. Recital in aid of the Red Cross (Melbourne Town Hall: 15 September, 1943)
  • Hephzibah Menuhin, with the Queensland State String Quartet. (Melbourne Town Hall: 21 September, 1946)
  • The Boyd Neel string Orchestra (Tour Promotional Material)
  • The Boyd Neel string Orchestra Program no.3: Tour of Australia and New Zealand(May, 1947)
  • The Boyd Neel string Orchestra (Melbourne Town Hall: 15 June, 1947)