[Thanks to Project Music Cataloger Christina Linklater for contributing this post] Several sets of Russian postcards on ballet and operatic themes were recently added to the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection. These tiny cards, numbering 217 in all, were produced between 1905 and 1982. Their subjects are specific performers (a set of 18…
19th-Century Showstoppers
[Thanks to Andrea Cawelti, Ward Project Music Cataloger, for contributing this post.] Cadenzas can be one of the most thrilling parts of an opera performance. Sometimes added by the composer, but more often created by singers (or their advisors) to showcase their particular talents, cadenzas today are rarely improvised on the spot, but carefully practiced…
New on OASIS in January
Finding aids for six newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including the papers of Love Story author Erich Segal and 18th-century paintings of actors in the Comédie-Française….