New Opera Company 1962-68/1970/1972

Scope and Content

Correspondence and other papers relating to various performances of the New Opera Company between 1962 and 1972. Other papers include financial records, publicity material, notes of meeting on 12 January 1970, press releases, agreement, script for ‘Time Off? Not A Ghost of A Chance!’, press cuttings. A letter dated 20 September 1968 refers to the end of the ‘special relationship’ between Sadler’s Wells and the New Opera Company ‘in view of Sadler’s Wells Opera’s transfer to the London Coliseum and the financial situation prevailing at Sadler’s Wells Theatre’.