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Toronto music life collection

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  • Collection
  • 1877-2013

Collection consists of materials relating to musical life in Toronto, Ontario. The collection includes photographs of various Canadian and European musicians, including various photographs of Canadian Opera Company productions from the late 1980s and early 1990s, autographs from various opera singers and musicians from the late-nineteenth century, three scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and programs, and a collection of songs published in the Toronto Evening Telegram at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Photographs of musicians

Series consists of photographs of Canadian and European musicians from the early 1900s, as well as Giuliana Gattoni's collection of publicity photographs from the late 1980s and early 1990s, which predominantly consists of photographs of Canadian Opera Company productions.

Eric Hull

Item includes Eric Hull's business card with a handwritten note on the reverse side, addressed to "Giulianna."

Janet Stubbs, Irena Welhasch, and Maureen Forrester in Dialogues of the Carmelites

Item is a publicity photograph of Toronto mezzo-soprano Janet Stubbs (standing) as Mother Marie; former Canadian Opera Company (COC) Ensemble member Irena Welhasch as Blanche de la Force (kneeling); and internationally-renowned Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as Madame de Croissy in the COC's 1985-1986 season production of Francois Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto (April 11, 15, 17, 20, 23, and 26, 1986).

Robert Milne, Gabrielle Prata, Christopher Coyea, and Keith Boldt in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Item is a publicity photograph of baritone Robert Milne as Antinoo, mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Prata as Penelope, baritone Christopher Coyea as Iro and tenor Keith Boldt as Pisandro in the Canadian Opera Company's 1989 production of Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Texaco Opera Theatre and The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre (February 25, 27, March 1, 3, and 5, 1989).

Photographs of non-Canadian musicians

File contains autographed photographs of the following non-Canadian musicians: Malwine Brée, Franz Léhar, Theodor Leschetizky, Isolde Menges (dedicated to Dorothy Denison, Kelowna, [British Columbia], September 29, 1918), I. J. Paderewski, Hans Pfitzner, Ravi Shankar (2 photos by Eric Hayes), and Victoria de los Angeles. File also includes press photographs by B. Azarov for "forthcoming stage tour of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra in the USA and Canada" of Emil Gillels (pianist), Valery Klimov (violinist), Kirill Kondrashin (conductor), and members of the State Symphony Orchestra in the Big Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow.

Stephanie Sundine as Salome

Item is a publicity photograph of the American soprano Stephanie Sundine in her Canadian Opera Company debut in the title role of the Company's 1985-1986 season production of Salome at the O'Keefe Centre (January 24, 27, 30, February 1, 4, 6, 9, 1986). The photograph was taken by BDS Studios, Toronto.

Laurence Dale, Kimberley Barber, Theodore Baerg, and Rebecca Russel in The Magic Flute

Item is a publicity photograph of tenor Laurence Dale as Tamino, mezzo-soprano Kimberly Barber as an attendant to the Queen of the Night, baritone Theodore Baerg as Papageno, and mezzo-soprano Rebecca Russel as an attendant to the Queen of the Night, in the 1989 Canadian Opera Company production of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto (April 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19, 20, 22, 23, 1989).

Stefka Evstatieva and John Cheek in La Forza del Destino

Item is a publicity photograph of Stefka Evstatieva as Leonora and John Cheek as Padre Guardiano with the gentlemen of the Canadian Opera Company Chorus in a new production of Verdi's La Forza del Destino at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto (September 17, 20, 22, 25, 28, 30, and October 3, 1987).

Margaret Marshall and Richard Margison in La Clemenza di Tito

Item is a publicity photograph of soprano Margaret Marshall as Vitellia and tenor Richard Margison as Tito Vespasiano, with members of the Canadian Opera Company Chorus in the 1991 Canadian Opera Company production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto (June 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 18, and 21, 1991).

Yoko Watanabe and Stephanie Applin in Madama Butterfly

Item is a publicity photograph of soprano Yoko Watanabe as Cio-Cio-San and Stephanie Applin as Trouble, Cio-Cio-San's child, in the 1990 Canadian Opera Company production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto (September 20, 21, 28, October 1, 3, 6, 11, 13, and 14, 1990).

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