[Ephemera and theatre programmes for performances of opera and light musicals in New Zealand in 1978].

Includes:

De La Tour Opera presents "Rita" by Gaetano Donizetti (With Anne Langston, Les Dorizac, Roger Wilson, Peter Lockwood); "The old maid and the thief", by Menotti (With Marion Gray, Peggy Roberts, Frances Green, Patrick Barry, Philippa Ward). Producer designer Peter Coates; musical director Geoffrey de Lautour. Wellington College Little Theatre; Dowse Gallery Lower Hutt 24-28 May 1978. Programme

"Macbeth", an opera in four acts by Guiseppe Verdi, with Donald McIntyre, Elizabeth Fretwell, Anthony Benfell, Bruce Carson, Bruce Chandler, Flora Edwards, Timothy Hawley, the Orpheus Choir, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vanco Cavdarski. State Opera House Wellington, 7 December 1978. Programme (2 copies)

St Patrick's Operatic Society Paraparaumu. "The new moon". Producer Sister M Vianney; musical director Ruth Brunoro. 7-9 September 1978. Programme

Mana Arts Festival. "Pilgrim"; a rock musical based on John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's progress", [written and composed by pupils and staff of Tawa College in 1977]. Producer Kennard Edgecombe; musical direction Shona Murray & Roy Tankersley. 12, 14,15 April [1978?]. Programme

New Zealand Opera Society, Wellington Branch. Flier / membership application form

"Susanna's secret", presented by Opera Technique and a concert version of "HMS Pinafore", presented by the Wellington Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Wellington Boys College Theatrette, 1-4 November 1978. Programme

Rathkeale College and St Matthew's Collegiate School present "Trial by jury", by Gilbert & Sullivan. Musical director Mr M C G Ryman [1978]. Programme

Radio New Zealand Shoestring Opera. "The little sweep" (Benjamin Britten). Director Dorothy Hitch; musical director Philip Norman; producer Shirley Caddick. State Trinity Centre, 11-15 December [1978]. Programme (2 copies)

Gillian Whitehead's "Tristan and Iseult". Mozart's "Impresario". Director Rosalind Clark; musical director William Southgate (With Wendy Dixon, Halina Nieckarz, Robert Oliver, Roger Wilson, Sef Townsend. Designer Priscilla Pitts). Auckland Festival Society, 4-8 April 1978. Programme

Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Physical Description: Programmes, sizes ranging under 250 mm.

Provenance: One item from the papers of Raymond Hedges, 2002; one donated by Radio New Zealand, Wellington, in 2012; one from the collection of Robert T Burch 2015.