Veredon, Gray, 1943-

Date: 1980 - 1997

By: National Opera of Wellington (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-OPERA-WCO

Description: Posters include: 1985: [Kent, David Robinson], 1946-2013 :The Wellington City Opera Trust presents the Caltex season at the Opera. Rossini's The Barber of Seville. Director Raymond Boyce. State Opera House, June 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th. [1985] (2 copies) 1986: The Wellington City Opera Trust presents the Caltex season at the Opera. "The Pearl fishers", by Georges Bizet. State Opera House, April 22, 23, 24, 26, 28. Director Raymond Boyce; musical director William Southgate. Poster design Wellington Media Collective [1986] (2 copies) The Wellington City Opera Trust presents the Caltex season at the Opera. Verdi's "Rigoletto", starring Malvina Major, Patrick Power, Paul Neal, Richard Green, Flora Edwards, Roger Wilson. Director Raymond Boyce; musical director William Southgate. State Opera House, 31 July, 2, 5, 7, 9 August [1986] [Designer Dave Kent, Wellington Media Collective] 1987: Wellington City Opera presents the 1987 Caltex season at the Opera. The daughter of the regiment, by Gaetano Donizetti. Conductor Alan Foster. Director / designer Raymond Boyce. State Opera House 8 pm July 23/25/28/30, August 1 [1987]. Poster design, Wellington Media Collective (2 copies, one boardmounted) The Wellington City Opera presents the 1987 Caltex season at the Opera. La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi. Director Richard Campion, Conductor Anthony Ferner. State Opera House, April 11, 13, 15, 18, 21 [1987] (2 copies) 1988: The Wellington City Opera presents ... Malvina Major is "Lucia di Lammermoor", with Australian opera star Richard Greager as Edgardo. State Opera House, 15-26 October [1988] [Design Dave Kent, Wellington Media Collective (2 copies) For the 1988 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Wellington City Opera presents ... "Il Seraglio" / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Malvina Major, Patrick Power, Grant Dickson. Director /designer Raymond Boyce; conductor Patrick Thomas. State Opera House 1-11 March [1988] Design Wellington Media Collective (Boardmounted) 1989: Wellington City Opera, 1989 Caltex season at the Opera. Gounod's "Faust". Conductor Patrick Thomas, director Gray Veredon; designer Kristian Fredrikson, choereographer Gray Veredon. State Opera House, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17 October [1989] 1992: Wellington City Opera presents "Tosca". Design Philip Markham. State Opera House Wellington, 17-29 October 1992 (3 copies, one of which is autographed by designer and performers) 1997: "Don Giovanni", by Mozart. With Malvina Major and Per Hoyer from the Royal Danish Opera. The 1997 Caltex season at the Opera. 11-23 October [1997] (2 copies) Wellington City Opera became National Opera of Wellington in 1998, then was amalgamated with Auckland's Opera New Zealand in 1999, becoming New Zealand Opera in 2000. Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screen prints and photolithographs, sizes varying

Date: 1989

By: Wellington City Opera Trust

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-WCO-1989

Description: Includes: Wellington City Opera presents the 1989 Caltex season at the opera. "Carmen", by Georges Bizet. (Conductor Patrick Thomas, director Richard Campion, musical director Alan Foster, vocal coach Bruce Greenfield, choreographer Dolores Thomas, lighting designer Ian Nicholls; with Marion Olsen, Michael Burch, Roger Creagh, Elizabeth Biggs, Valerie Wycoff, Frances Green, Roger Wilson, Peter Gardner, David Skinner, Howard Chamberlain, Peter Coates, Jolyon Stewart). State Opera House, Wellington, 11 April 1989. Programme (2 copies) and study guide (2 copies) Wellington City Opera presents the 1989 Caltex season at the opera. "Faust", by Charles Gounod. (Conductor Patrick Thomas, director Gray Veredon, designer Kristian Fredrikson, choreographer Gray Veredon, chorus mistress Emily Mair, lighting designer Ian Nicholls. State Opera House Wellington, 7 October 1989. Programme (2 copies) and study guide by Diana Cable (2 copies) Quantity: 4 programmes and fliers. Physical Description: Offset prints on booklets and fliers, sizes varying beneath 350 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Loretta Lander, Wellington, in 2014

Date: 1991

By: Wellington City Opera Trust

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-WCO-1991

Description: Includes: 2-sided flyer listing personnel, performers, designers, etc of wellington City Opera. The 1991 Caltex season at the Opera. Special subscription offer. Pamphlet Wellington City Opera presents "La boheme", by Giacomo Puccini. The 1991 Caltex season at the opera. Conductor John Matheson, director Bernd Benthaak, designer Allan Lees, lighting designer Ian Nicholls, chorus master Michael Vinten (With David Lemke, Christopher Doig, Derek Miller, Richard Mark-Weston, Roger Gill, Suzanne Prain, Leslie Dorizac, Anne Cheng, Ron Thrush, Greg Mildenhall). Wellington, 1991. Programme (2 copies) and study guide Wellington City Opera presents "The magic flute", by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The 1991 Caltex season at the opera. Conductor Patrick Thomas, director Gray Veredon, designer Kristian Fredrikson, lighitng designer Ian Nicholls, chorus master Stephen Matthews (With Jeffrey Reynolds, Anne Cheng, Sally Barratt-Boyes, Mary Toye, Margaret Medlyn, Stewart Cameron, Andrea Garing, Marion Ewen, Peter Baillie). Wellington, 1991. Programme (2 copies) Wellington City Opera presents "Il trovatore", by Giuseppe Verdi. The 1991 Caltex season at the opera. Conductor Patrick Thomas, director Andreas Homoki, designer Uwe Muller-Veith, lighting designer Ian Nicholls, assistant conductor Stephen Matthews, chorus director Emily Mair, repetiteur Philippa Ward (With Barry Mora, Nicola Ferner-Waite, Flora Edwards, Kenneth Collins, Bruce Carson, Joan Moran, Peter Baillie, Ron Thrush). Wellington, 1991. Programme (2 copies) and study guide Quantity: 7 programmes and fliers. Physical Description: Offset prints on booklets and fliers, sizes varying beneath 350 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Loretta Lander, Wellington, in 2014

Date: 1993

Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-1993-1

Description: Includes: Auckland Opera presents 'Carmen'. Directed by Gray Veredon. Conducted by Brian Stacey and Stephen Matthews. Aotea Centre, Auckland, 15 May-4 June 1993. Programme (3 copies). Hawke's Bay Opera presents 'Carmen'. Directed by Richard Campion. Conducted by Alan Foster. Hastings Municipal Theatre. 25 April-1 May 1993. Programme. Auckland Opera presents 'The magic flute'. Directed by Simon Phillips. Conducted by Roderick Brydon. Aotea Centre, Auckland. 25 September-10 October 1993. Programme (2 copies). Stewart & Tricia Macpherson present 'Phantom of the Opera'. Directed by Ken Hill. Musical Director Michael Williams. Bogdan Kominowski as 'The Phantom'. New Zealand tour, 1993. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on booklets and fliers, sizes varying beneath 350 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources, including Dennis McEldowney (2003), Roger Swanson (2006), Averil Callisen (2007), Catherine Syme (2010)

Date: 1990-1992

From: Body, John Stanley (Jack), 1944-2015: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12210-228

Description: - Correspondence, programmes and notes related to 'Carmen Carmen' and Royal New Zealand Ballet (1990-1992). - Parts of music scores (undated, unattributed). - Copies of letters from Carmen Rupe (1992). - Magazine 'Stamp', issue 29, March 1992. Source of title - title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter, including photocopies with annotations

Date: 1981-1982

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8050-43

Description: Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company's productions of Witchboy (1981), The Ragtime Dance Company (1981), Giselle (1981-1982), and the Stravinsky Celebration productions Orpheus and The Firebird (1982). Accompanying material - Business card for Donna Waldman of Thermalair, New Zealand's first weekly tourist newspaper, and telephone number and address for Stuart Glenfield of the Tourist Times, Auckland Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1976-1993

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet: Records

Reference: 2002-092-05/2

Description: Includes correspondence, financial records, contract agreements, biographical notes, a synopsis for the television dance drama `Aotearoa', memos and newspaper cuttings Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1996

By: Royal New Zealand Ballet

Reference: Eph-G-DANCE-RNZB-1996-03

Description: Poster advertising the tour of "1001 Nights" to Palmerston North, Hastings, Hamilton, Christchurch and Dunedin, March - April 1996. Shows a photograph of the head and shoulders of a male dancer, seen from the back, and wearing a turban and earring. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 840 x 1180 mm.

Date: 1981

From: Royal New Zealand Ballet :Photographs

By: Ashton, John Hammond, 1917-2010

Reference: PAColl-8050-19

Description: Photographs of the New Zealand Ballet Company's 1981 performances of Clowns, Giselle, Huapango, The Ragtime Dance Company, La Ventana, and Witchboy; and the Company's tour to Queensland in September 1981. Also includes a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II meeting Jon Trimmer, taken by a New Zealand Herald photographer. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 17 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 14 colour original photographic print(s). 18 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1953, ca 1962

From: Grant, Alexander Marshall, 1925-2011 : Papers relating to his career as a dancer

Reference: MS-Papers-11225-19

Description: Comprises newpaper articles relating to Garry Grant's dancing career. Includes review of Jeane Horne's pupils' recital (21 May 1953) and a printed photograph of New Zealand dancers training at the Royal Ballet School (undated, probably early 1960s). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter