Touring and wartime opera

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 1111 CRS/4/8/7
  • Dates of Creation
      1939-1945
  • Physical Description
      1 folder

Scope and Content

Material relating to Sadler's Wells during the war years. It includes:

- Correspondence with Tyrone Guthrie and others.

- Contracts between Cross and Guthrie, Annual Reports for 1943 and 1944, with a report from Cross as Director of Opera.

- Lists of the management team, with proposed changes.

- Payments to singers.

- Press cuttings about the operas on tour.

- 2 standard equity contracts from 1941.

- Lists of receipts from the Grand Theatre and Opera House in Leeds and the Royal Hippodrome, Preston.

- A programme for the Marriage of Figaro and La Traviata performed at Buxton Opera Festival 14-19 October 1940.

This file also includes material concerning the return to Sadler's Wells in 1945.

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