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Subseries consists of various brochures, syllabi, and histories of the Opera School, later renamed the Opera Department and now known as the Opera Division. Items include the constitution and by-laws of the Royal Conservatory Faculty Association (1971); Royal Conservatory of Music and Faculty of Music Summer School syllabus (1958, 1971, 1974); Royal Conservatory of Music Year Book (1963-1964); Royal Conservatory of Music Senior School syllabus (1948-1949); histories and overviews of the Opera School (1947, 1971); Directory of Opera Companies and Workshops in the United States and Canada (1971); The Bulletin from the Royal Conservatory of Music (1965).

Series consists of records relating to opera productions, including correspondence, budgets, alterations to scripts and scores, rehearsal schedules, technical drawings, set and costume designs, set and prop lists, programs, reviews, press releases, and performer agreements.

Productions included in the series are:

• The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana (April 1947)
• Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (December 1947)
• Orfeo and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (February 1948)
• Opera excerpts (April 1948)
• La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (April 1948)
• Rosalinda by Johann Strauss (May 1948)
• Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (November 1948)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1948) [includes three previously framed original costume designs by Stewart Bagnani, also used in the 1951 production]
• La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini (May 1949)
• Opera excerpts (March-April 1949)
• Rigoletti by Giuseppe Verdi (February 1950) [includes previously framed original costume design for Sparafucile by Stewart Bagnani]
• Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (February 1950) [includes two previously framed original costume designs by Stewart Bagnani]
• Opera excerpts (June 1952)
• The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti (June 1952)
• Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1955)
• Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1956)
• Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti and Prima Donna by Arthur Benjamin (April 1959)
• Cambiale di matrimonio by Gioachino Rossini, Gallantry by Douglas Moore, and Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (April 1960)
• Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi (April 1961)
• The World of the Moon by Giovanni Paisiello and A Dinner Engagement by Lennox Berkeley (April 1962)
• Silent night by Nino Rota and Aria da Capo by Raymond Pannell (April 1963)
• Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (April 1964) [opening of MacMillan Theatre]
• Angelique by Jacques Ibert and Le Pauvre Matelot by Darius Milhaud (April 1964)
• Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1964)
• The Secret Marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (February 1965)
• Deirdre of Sorrows by Healey Willan (April 1965)
• The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev (December 1965)
• L'Oca del Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti (January 1966)
• Die Kluge by Carl Orff (February 1966)
• The Portuguese Inn by Luigi Cherubini (March 1966)
• The Wandering Scholar by Gustav Holst (March 1966)
• Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (December 1966)
• The Impressario by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1967)
• The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (February 1967)
• Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (April 1967)
• Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet (December 1967)
• The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten (December 1970)
• The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky (December 1971) and The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1972)
• Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (January 1973)
• Opera excerpts (May 1973)
• Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (April 1974)
• Opera excerpts (December 1974)
• The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (January 1975)
• Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (April 1975)
• The Crucible by Robert Ward (January-February 1976)
• The Mines of Sulphur by Richard Rodney Bennett (April 1976)
• Opera excerpts (May 1976)
• The Four Ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (January 1977)
• *Katya Kabanova by Leoš Janáček (March 1977)
• Opera excerpts (May 1977)
• Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (December 1977)
• Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1978)
• Opera excerpts (May 1978)
• The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (December 1978)
• Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (March 1979)
• Opera excerpts (May-June 1979)
• L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (November 1979)
• Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1980)
• Opera excerpts (May 1980)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1980)
• Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1981)
• Opera excerpts (May 1981)
• La Perichole by Jacques Offenbach (November 1981)
• Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti and Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1982)
• Opera excerpts (May 1982)
• Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1982)
• Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel (March 1983)
• Opera excerpts (April-May 1983)
• Sir John in Love by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1984)
• Opera excerpts (April-May 1984)
• The Crucible by Robert Ward (November 1984)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1985)
• Opera excerpts (April 1985)
• Opera excerpts (November 1985)
• Les Mamelles de Tiresias by Francis Poulenc and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1986)
• Opera excerpts (April-May 1986)
• Opera excerpts (November 1986)
• The Goose from Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Angelique by Jacques Ibert (March 1987)
• Opera excerpts (April-May 1987)
• Opera excerpts (November 1987)
• The Marriage Contract by Gioachino Rossini and Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1988)
• Opera excerpts (May 1988)
• Opera excerpts (November 1988)
• Iolanthe by Arthur Sullivan (March 1989)
• Opera excerpts (May 1989)
• Opera excerpts (November 1989)
• Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1990)
• Opera excerpts (May 1990)
• Opera excerpts (November 1990)
• "French trilogy": L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy, Le portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet, and M. Choufleuri by Jacques Offenbach (February 1991)
• Opera excerpts (March 1991)
• Opera excerpts (April 1991)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1992)
• Opera excerpts (May 1992)
• A Concert of Operatic Ensembles (December 1992)
• Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini and Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (March 1993)
• A Concert of Operatic Ensembles (November 1993)
• Opera excerpts (April-May 1994)
• A Concert of Operatic Ensembles (December 1994)
• Iolanthe by Arthur Sullivan (March 1995)
• Opera excerpts (April-May 1995)
• A Concert of Operatic Ensembles (December 1995)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1996)
• Spring opera scenes (April-May 1996)
• Opera scenes (November 1996)
• 50th anniversary gala concert (December 1996)
• L'Etoile by Emmanuel Chabrier (March 1997)
• Gino Qulico reception (November 1997)
• Operatic scenes by twentieth-century composers (February 1998)
• Paul Bunyan by Benjamin Britten (March 1998)
• Les Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1999)
• Operatic scenes by twentieth-century composers (February 2000)
• La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini (March 2000)
• The Last Duel by Gary Kulesha and Michael Patrick Albano (November 2000)
• Prologue to Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau and L'Enfant et les Sortileges by Maurice Ravel (March 2001)
• Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (November 2001)
• Bluebeard by Jacques Offenbach (March 2002)
• Alcina by George Frideric Handel (November 2002)
• Taptoo! by John Beckwith (March 2003)
• Opera gala (October 2003)
• Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 2003)
• The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten (March 2004)
• Savitri by Gustav Holst and Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini (November 2004)
• Semele by George Frideric Handel (March 2005)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai (November 2005)
• Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 2006)
• Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II (November 2006)
• The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (March 2007).

Series consists of records pertaining to Opera School students, including student lists and opera assignments (1949-1992); press clippings and correspondence from students and alumni; and individual files, including correspondence, press clippings, and other records, for notable alumni (Russell Braun, Paul Frey, Nancy Hermiston, Sister Barbara Ianni, Martin Isepp (hired alumni), Joanne Kolomyjec, Suzanne Kompass, Maria Kowan, John Kriter, Peter McGillivray, Anitasha Pakaliniskis, and Adrianne Pieczonka).

Subseries consists of copies of minutes for meetings of the Opera Department.

Subseries consists of records pertaining to community partnerships and scholarships of the Opera School (later the Opera Department and now the Opera Division). Files include correspondence, programs, meeting minutes, newsletters, and lists of scholarship recipients.

Subseries includes files on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Opera Company (1948-1951); Canadian Opera Company (COC) (1977-1984); Canadian Opera Women's Committee (COWC), later the Canadian Opera Volunteer Committee (COVC) (1969-2006), which administered various scholarships, including the COWC Junior Scholarship and the Herman Geiger-Torel Scholarship; Canadian-Scottish Philharmonic Association (1982-1998); Halifax Opera Company (1946-1951); Harold A. Kopas Opera Scholarship (1985-1997); Josephine Harper Scholarship (1972-1975); Mary A. and John Yaremko Scholarship (1994-2003); Mozart Society (1988-1999); Oakville Guild Scholarship (1979-2004); Rotary Club of Toronto (Armour Heights) Scholarship (1975-1985); Scottish Opera (1987); Unitarian Church (1986-1995); Wagner Society (2003-2004); and the Women's Art Association of Canada, Luella McCleary Award (1982-1993).

Subseries consists of programs from productions by the Opera School, later named the Opera Department, and now known as the Opera Division.

Subseries consists of various postcards and flyers used to advertise upcoming productions by the Opera School, later named the Opera Department, and now known as the Opera Division.

Subseries consists of various budgets, agreements, and related correspondence for productions by the Opera School.

Subseries consists of general administrative records for the Opera School (later the Opera Department, now the Opera Division), including correspondence, budgets, procedural documents, programming records, and theatre information.

Series consists of promotional materials created for Opera Division productions to promote performances, including programs, posters, and brochures, as well as photographs from Opera Division performances, and newspaper clippings of reviews and press releases.

Subseries consists of photographs and contact sheets of most major Opera School productions between 1946 and 1995; headshots of performers and administrators (Kathryn Knapp, John Beckwith, Ettore Mazzoleni, Tyrsa Gawrachynsky, Jacqui Lynn Fidlar, Tania Perrish, Eve-Rachel McLeod); and photographs from various Opera School events.

Subseries includes photographs from the following productions:

• Opera excerpts (December 1946)
• The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana (April 1947)
• Orfeo and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (February 1948)
• Rosalinda by Johann Strauss (May 1948)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1948)
• Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1949)
• La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini (May 1949)
• Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (November 1950)
• Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi (February 1950)
• Opera School film by the National Film Board (1951)
• The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1952)
• Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (February 1953)
• Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (February 1953)
• Angelique by Jacques Ibert (1953)
• The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1955)
• Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1959)
• Die Kluge by Carl Orff (April 1961)
• Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi (April 1961)
• A Dinner Engagement by Lennox Berkeley (April 1962)
• Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1963)
• Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1964)
• Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (March 1964) [opening of MacMillan Theatre]
• The Secret Marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (February 1965)
• Deirdre by Healey Willan (April 1965)
• The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev (December 1965)
• L'Oca del Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1966)
• Die Kluge by Carl Orff (February 1966)
• The Portuguese Inn by Luigi Cherubini and The Wandering Scholar by Gustav Holst (March 1966)
• Deirdre by Healey Willan (September 1966)
• Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (December 1966)
• The Impressario by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet (January 1967)
• The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (February 1967)
• Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (April 1967)
• Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky (November 1967)
• Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet and There and Back by Paul Hindemith (December 1967)
• The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1967)
• The Unwilling Physician by Salvatore Allegra and Il Combattimento di Tancredi by Claudio Monteverdi (January 1968)
• Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy (March 1968)
• The Turk in Italy by Gioachino Rossini (November 1968)
• Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1968)
• Hamlet by Humphrey Searle (February 1969)
• Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss (March 1969)
• "A School for Opera" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, and GIacomo Puccini (March 1970)
• Iphigenie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck (November 1970)
• The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten (December 1970)
• "The Magic of Opera" by Carl Maria von Weber, Giuseppe Verdi, and Jacques Offenbach (March 1971)
• The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky (December 1971)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1972)
• Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (January 1973)
• L'Ormindo by Francesco Cavalli (April 1973)
• The Prisoner's Play by John Rea (May 1973)
• Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1974)
• Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (April 1974)
• The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (January 1975)
• Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (April 1975)
• The Crucible by Robert Ward (January-February 1976)
• The Mines of Sulphur by Richard Rodney Bennett (April 1976)
• The Four Ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (January 1977)
• Katya Kabanova by Leoš Janáček (March 1977)
• Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (December 1977)
• Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (December 1977)
• Don Giovanni by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1978)
• Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (November 1978)
• Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (March 1979)
• L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (November 1979)
• Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1980)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1980)
• Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1981)
• La Perichole by Jacques Offenbach (November 1981)
• Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti and Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1982)
• Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1982)
• Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel (March 1983)
• Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1983)
• Opera excerpts (1983)
• Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi and Prima Donna by Arthur Benjamin (November-December 1983)
• Sir John in Love by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1984)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1985)
• Mamelles de Tiresias by Francis Poulenc (March 1986)
• The Goose of Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1987)
• Angelique by Jacques Ibert (March 1987)
• Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1988)
• The Marriage Contract by Gioachino Rossini (March 1988)
• La Caterina by Joseph Haydn (March 1989)
• Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1990)
• "French Trilogy": L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy, Le portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet, and M. Choufleuri by Jacques Offenbach (February 1991)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1992)
• Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (March 1993)
• Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1993)
• The Goose of Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and The Breasts of Tiresias by Francis Poulenc (March 1994)
• Iolanthe by Arthur Sullivan (March 1995).

Subseries consists of various posters from productions by the University of Toronto Opera Division.

Subseries consists of copies and clippings of reviews and press releases for performances by the Opera School and by Opera School alumni.

Series consists of general information and descriptions of the Opera School program and its history; lists of past productions; descriptions of courses; biographies; theatre equipment lists and inventories; and scrapbook binders compiled by the Opera School of their archives. The latter contain programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, budgets, and other records, and cover the following years: 1950-1959, 1960-1966, 1970, 1974, and 1979.

Fonds consists of the records of the University of Toronto Opera Division, including promotional materials, production files, costume designs, and photographs.

Series consists of the administrative and financial records of the Opera School (later the Opera Department and now the Opera Division). Records include correspondence, budgets, and meeting minutes, pertaining to the operations of the Opera School.

Subseries consists of general correspondence and correspondence regarding teachers of the Opera School, later the Opera Department, and now the Opera Division. Correspondence relates to the operations of the Opera School, including budgets, hiring of teachers, particular productions, and the Opera School film project with the National Film Board. Subseries includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence.

Contains printed material related to the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) task force of First Nations Canadians, including meeting announcements and agendas; a small amount of material related to the Earth Spirit Festival held in Toronto in 1991; plus related correspondence. Also includes biographical and genealogical booklets on the Kabayama family, with photographs.

This fonds contains comprehensive documentation on all aspects of Richard Lee’s work as a well-known anthropologist. Correspondence, found within Series 1 but also throughout the fonds, is multifaceted and includes both incoming and outgoing letters with colleagues, students, university administrators and publishers. His teaching lectures and numerous papers, talks and drafts of publications represent a full body of work that synthesis his research from his early work with the the Ju/'hoansi-!Kung San of Botswana and Namibia to his evolving interest in indigenous human rights and the impact of Aids/HIV in southern Africa. This fonds is rich in original research including original collated data, field notebooks, grants requests and general notes. Much of this is supplemented with photographs and sound recordings related to his research and publications. Finally, files relating to professional meetings and groups document the overall field of anthropology, Lee’s role within it and the changing nature of the discipline and the role of anthropologists in society.

This collection contains manuscripts for McKone’s book-length works: Moose Factory Indian Hospital, Eastern Arctic Medical and X-Ray Survey 1955, Dr. Barclay McKone - Life as a Medical Doctor since Graduation from U of T. Also included are drafts and published versions of the articles: A post sanatorium institution for rehabilitation in Tuberculosis (1946) and Rehabilitation of the Tuberculosis veteran western counties veterans' lodge, London, Ontario (1948). Further material is also included pertaining to McKone’s activities after retirement, such as architectural model building and the preservation of park land in Peterborough, Ontario.

Sound recording done by anthropologist Prof. Richard Lee while on a field trip among the !Kung San, bushmen of the Kalahari.

This is a lecture on Bushmen given by anthropologist Richard Lee intended to accompany a slide presentation.

Videotaped discussion group on women within a hunter gatherer society within the context of the !Kung San. Group includes several anthropologists including Patricia Draper, Meagan Biesele, Polly Wiessner and Marjorie Shostak.

Sampling of music sent to Prof. Richard Lee. Includes Stinkane music form Lake Ngami, Suroro form Shorobe, two pieces from the Chopi Timbela orchestra P.E.A. and African noises.

Sound recording done by anthropologist Prof. Richard Lee while on a field trip among the !Kung San, bushmen of the Kalahari.

Interview of Dr. Lee of Harvard and Dr. William Boyd of Boston University Medical Centre on "The Origins - the races of man".

Sound recording done by anthropologist Prof. Richard Lee while on a field trip among the !Kung San, bushmen of the Kalahari.

This is an in-class lecture discussing the !Hung Bushmen social units.

Sound recording done by anthropologist Prof. Richard Lee while on a field trip among the !Kung San, bushmen of the Kalahari. Text recorded at Dobe on Dec. 18 1964. Informant is Kuma.

This is possibly a taped class lecture by anthropologist Prof. Richard Lee intended for transcription.

Sound recording done by anthropologist Prof. Richard Lee while on a field trip among the !Kung San, bushmen of the Kalahari.

Sound recording done by anthropologist Prof. Richard Lee while on a field trip among the !Kung San, bushmen of the Kalahari.

Partial sound recording of sessions of the Political Struggles of Native Peoples held in Toronto in Dec. 1972 following the meeting of the American Association of Anthropologist meeting.

Paul Coe then leader of the Australian aboriginal Black Panther Party speaks about the Australian government policy toward aborigines and his groups demands for change and compensation.