Subseries 1 - Photographs

Subseries consists of photographs and contact sheets of most major Opera School productions between 1946 and 2016; headshots of performers and administrators (Kathryn Knapp, John Beckwith, Ettore Mazzoleni, Tyrsa Gawrachynsky, Jacqui Lynn Fidlar, Tania Perrish, Eve-Rachel McLeod, Herman Geiger-Torel, Virginia Lippert, Marion Parsons, Ernesto Barbini, Ermanno Mauro, Alpar the fencing master); and photographs from various Opera School events, including the Opera Department's 25th anniversary, the commemoration of the Herman Geiger-Torel room, and Lofti Mansouri's visit. Subseries also includes photographs of MacMillan Theatre, Walter Hall, the construction of the Edward Johnson Building, opera student scholarship winners, and Helen May's lesson with Dr. Ernesto Vinci, with Emelie Rubleu at the piano (June 25, 1952).

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 (May 1953)
• The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1955)
• Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1959)
• The Marriage contract by Gioachino Rossini (April 1960)
• Die Kluge by Carl Orff (April 1961)
• The Mother by Alois Hába (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]
• Angélique by Jacques Ibert and Le Pauvre Matelot by Darius Milhaud (April 1964)
• 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)
• Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (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)
• Iolanta by Arthur Sullivan (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)
• L'étoile by Emmanuel Chabrier [March 1997]
• La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1997)
• Paul Bunyan, op. 17 by Benjamin Britten (March 1998)
• Threepenny opera by Bertolt Brecht (November 1998)
• Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1999)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 64 by Benjamin Britten (November 1999)
• La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini (February 2000)
• Die Fledermaus by Richard Strauss (November 2006)
• L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel [March 2009]
• The Secret marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (2010)
• Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 2011)
• Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (November 2013)
• The Machine Stops by Patrick McGraw, Robert Taylor and Stephen Webb, libretto by Michael Albano, based on the short story by E.M. Forster (January 2016)
• Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss (n.d.)
• The Four ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (n.d.)
• Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini (n.d.)
• Orpheus (n.d.)
• Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (n.d.)
• Riders to the sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (n.d.)
• Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (n.d.)
• L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy (n.d.)
• Iolanta by Arthur Sullivan (n.d.)
• M. Choufleri by Jacques Offenbach (n.d.)
• Manon by Jules Massenet (n.d.)
• Patience by Arthur Sullivan (n.d.)
• Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (n.d.)
• The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n.d.)
• Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n.d.)