Musical and Drama Society (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: 1983

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1983

Description: Includes programmes or fliers for: Shoestring Theatre presents two new rock musicals by C Harter. "For whom the road tolls", and "Roundabout". BATS Theatre, 16-19, 22-26 February [1983]. Flyer (2 copies) Christchurch Gilbert & Sullivan & Light Opera Society (Inc). Johann Strauss II "The gipsy baron". Director Bryan Aitken; conductor Tony Ryan. James Hay Theatre, 14-24 September 1983. Programme Tauranga Operatic Society proudly presents "The great waltz". Directed and designed by Duncan Whiting; musical direction John Hambling; choreography Yvonne Parnell. Baycourt Theatre Tauranga, 28 September - 15 October [1983]. Programme Musical and Drama Society (Inc) in association with Silvio Famularo presents "Guys & dolls". Director Silvio Famularo; musical director Ross Gandar; choreography Yvonne Sanders; set design Stephen Fearnley. Silvio's Place (221 Clyde Street Island Bay), 11-22 October [1983]. Flyer / programme (2 copies) "Guys & dolls", a musical Wellington Teachers' College production. WTC Hall, Donald St, Karori, 29 June - 3 July [1983]. Flyer (2 copies) The Christchurch Operatic Society Inc presents Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The king and I"; directed and choreographed by Robert Young; musical director Thomas Brown (With Lewis Brown, Angela Shaw, Dorothy Hart-Brown, Graeme Ward, Hope Parkinson, etc). James Hay Theatre, 15-30 April 1983. Programme National Opera / Mercury Theatre presents "Madama Butterfly", by Giacomo Puccini. Director Jonathan Hardy; musical director Juan Matteucci. With the Auckland Regional Orchestra. Mercury Theatre, 15 June 1983. Programme Perkel Opera presents NZ premiere of Nicolai's comic opera "The merry wives of Windsor" (With Donald Trott, Vivienne Hollier, Sally Sloman, Camille Mercep, Geoffrey Carney, Alan Patterson, Anthony Blasschke, Cyrill Kelleway, Martin Thomas, Earl Wood, Michael Hatfield, Mary Aston - photographs og all, and biographical notes and photograph of Jack Figgins, set painter). State Opera House Wellington, 10-11 June [1983]. Programme (2 copies) and flyer Shoestring Theatre proudly present Charles Harter's "Sometime Sunday"; a one act sweet rock opera. BATS Theatre 2-3, 9-10 September [1983]. Flyer only (2 copies) Auckland Operatic Society Inc presents "Song of Norway" an operetta based on the life and music of Edvard Grieg. Directed by Robert Alderton; musical direction by Joe Isbister; choreography by Val Wadsworth. His Majesty's Theatre, June 1983. Programme Christchurch Operatic Society Inc presents ... "West side story"; directed and choreographed by Robert Young; music director Gerald Oliver. Theatre Royal Christchurch [1983]. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 11 programmes and fliers. Physical Description: Photolithographs on booklets and fliers, sizes varying beneath 350 mm.

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1980

Description: Includes: ca 1980?: De La Tour Opera. "If the cap fits", "Rita", "The old maid and the thief", "Il campanello". [Programme / booklet ca 1979/1980] (2 copies) "O! Temperance"; a musical drama by Mervyn Thompson. producer Jenny Whatman; musical director Paul Bryce. [School production, 24-26 July, date unknown, 1980s?] "Arahui; where pathways meet". Te Whanau o Ako Pai, [ca 1980?]. Programme 1980s?: Manawatu Theatre presents the smash hit musical "Cabaret", directed and designed by Robert Rimmer; musical director Stephen Fisher; choreography Gaylene Sciascia. [1980s?]. Programme 1980: Victoria University of Wellington. Department of Music and Music Society. Edward Harper's opera "Fanny Robin", starring British soprano Jane Manning with Roger Wilson. Music director David Farquhar; [and] "The soldier's tale". Musical director Ross Harris. Director Adrian Kiernander. VUW Memorial Theatre, 23-26 April [1980]. Flier (2 copies) Perkel Opera. "La traviata", by Guiseppe Verdi. North Island tour, March-May 1980. Programme "The man in the street"; a New Zealand musical by John Densem. Produced and directed by Yvonne Martin. Preview excerpts performed for the New Zealand Planning Institute Annual Conference, Christchurch, 10 May 1980 (Premiere season to be performed by Methven Choral Society, Methven, 2 August 1980, directed by Margaret Sadler Watson) "Maranga mai". Lower Hutt Town Hall, 25 September 1980. Free ticket / flier "The mikado, by W S Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan. [Performed by Green Lane Hospital staff]. Producer Maria Harris; musical director Desma Hudson. [1980]. Programme and review clipping The Musical and Drama Society in association with Silvio's Record Shop presents its premiere production "Oliver!". Directed by John Callen; musical director Peter Marshall. 8-17 May 1980. Programme (2 copies) Maidment Summer Theatre presents "Songs to the judges", by Mervyn Thompson; music by William Dart. [1980]. Flier with song list. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes and fliers, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources, including Constance Kirkcaldie, Averil Pears, Marie de Joux, Dennis McEldowney, Beverley Thomson.

Date: 1988

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1988

Description: Includes: "Aire de Mar"; ecological media opera. Darcy Lange and Mirian Snijders-Lange. Artspace, First Floor, Quay Buildings, 6-8 Quay Street, Auckland, 9-10 July [1988]. Flyer only Perkel Opera Inc in association with R & W Hellaby Ltd presents "La boheme", Puccini's best-loved opera in four acts. One night only. New Plymouth Opera House, 13 August [1988?]. Photocopied flyer only "Captain Stirrick", a ballad opera by David Scott and Jeremy James Taylor with music, based on the ballads of Old London, by Richard Brett. Director Jeremy James Taylor; musical director Tim Bridgewater. New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, March 1988. Lower Hutt Town Hall Wellington, 6-9 March 1988. Programme (2 copies) Lower Hutt Operatic Society Inc presents "Carousel". Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Produced and directed by Richard Dyer; musical director Peter Latimer; choreography Elly-Ann Pritchard. Lower Hutt Little Theatre, 16-25 June 1988. Programme Canterbury Opera and Bank of New Zealand present "Die Fledermaus". Conductor William Southgate; director Elric Hooper. Theatre Royal Christchurch, 19 October - 1 November 1988. Programme Pocket Opera Company Nurnberg. "La Gioconda", opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli. New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, March 1988. Wellington Town Hall, 12-19 March 1988. Programme (2 copies) Musical and Drama Society (Inc) in association with Silvio Famularo presents "Guys & dolls", the big hit musical fable of Broadway. Director Silvio Famularo; musical director Ross Gandar; choreographer Yvonne Sanders. Silvio's Place, 221 Clyde Street, Island Bay, 11-22 October [1988]. Yellow flyer Upper Hutt Operatic Society Inc presents "Hello, Dolly!", produced by Peter Dye. Heretaunga College Hall, 27 August - 3 September 1988. Blue flyer Wilton Morley in association with Entertainment Incorporated present Simon Westaway in "The Rocky Horror Show", by Richard O'Brien, with John Banas or Billy T James as the Narrator and Greg Parke as Riff Raff. Directed by Terry O'Donnell. [1988]. Programme Hawkes Bay Regional Opera Trust presents "La traviata", by Giuseppe Verdi. Director Richard Campion; musical director Bruce Greenfield; choreographer Leigh Jones. Hastings Municipal Theatre, 30 July, 2, 4, 6 August 1988. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 9 programmes and fliers. Physical Description: Photolithographs on booklets and fliers, sizes varying beneath 350 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.