Gilbert Hemsley Papers, 1948-1980

Container Title
Series: Opera
American National Opera Company - Fall , 1967
Box   38
Folder   1
Hook-ups, light plots and sections, 1967
Box   38
Folder   2
Production notebook, including schedules, hook-ups, equipment lists, plans, designs, plus sections on Falstaff and Lulu, 1967
Box   38
Folder   3
Technical questionnaire, forms, notes, undated
Bolshoi Opera (NY, Metropolitan Opera House, 1971)
Box   38
Folder   4
Schedules, 1971
Groundplans in Russian, 1975?: See the Oversize File
Boston Opera Company (a.k.a. The Opera Company of Boston)
Box   38
Folder   5
1973 Season, technical production file, , 1973
Aida (NY, Metropolitan Opera House, 1976)
Box   38
Folder   6
Pre-set sheets, cues, notes, 1976
The Barber of Seville (Boston, Orpheum, 1 June 1974)
Box   38
Folder   7
Vocal score, music by Giacchino Rossini, libretto by Cesara Sterbini, annotated with lighting cues, 1974
Box   38
Folder   8
Technical production file, including reviews, 1974
Box   38
Folder   9
Notebook of lighting cues, for Paul and David, 1974
Box   38
Folder   10
Light plots, sections, and plans, 1974
Plots, plans, and designs, 1 June 1974: See the Oversize File
The Bartered Bride (Boston, Aquarius Theatre, January 1973?)
Box   39
Folder   1
Cues, plot analysis, fragment of musical score, plans, notes, and other technical production information, circa 1972-1973
La Boheme (Boston, Orpheum, 19 March 1977)
Box   39
Folder   2
Playbill, 1977
Cosi Fan Tutte (Boston, Orpheum Theatre, 18 March 1975 and spring tour, , March-April 1975 with Fisherman and His Wife)
Box   39
Folder   3
Vocal score, libretto-by Lorenzo Da Ponte, music by W. A. Mozart, annotated with lighting cues, 1975
Box   39
Folder   4
Technical production file, including playbill, 1975
Box   39
Folder   5
Cardboards, light plots and plans, 1975
Plots, plans, and designs, undated: See the Oversize File
The Damnation of Faust (Boston, Orpheum Theatre, 21 March 1978)
Box   39
Folder   6
Vocal score, by Josef Holbrooke, undated
Box   39
Folder   7
Technical production file, including reviews and playbill, 1978
Box   40
Folder   1
Cues, 1978
Box   40
Folder   2
Plans, 1978
The Daughter of the Regiment (Boston, Aquarius Theatre, 16 February 1973)
Box   40
Folder   3
Cues, hook-ups, plans, playbill, 1973
Box   40
Folder   4
Notebook of cues, 1973
Don Carlos (Production information unknown, 1973)
Box   40
Folder   5
Cues, cheat sheet, 1973
Box   40
Folder   6
Light plot, plans, miscellany, 1973
Falstaff (Boston, Orpheum, 3 February 1975)
Box   40
Folder   7
Technical production file, including reviews, 1975
Box   40
Folder   8
Cardboards, 1975
Box   40
Folder   9
Plots, plans, and sections, 1975
Plots, plans, and designs, February 1975: See the Oversize File
Fidelio (Boston, Orpheum, February 1976)
Box   41
Folder   1
Vocal score, libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner, music by Ludwig van Beethoven, annotated with lighting cues, 1976
Box   41
Folder   2
Technical production file, including playbill, 1976
Box   41
Folder   3
Ground plan, section, track sheets, 1976
The Flying Dutchman (Boston, Orpheum,? Spring l980)
Box   41
Folder   4
Libretto, in German with English translation, by Richard Wagner, undated
Girl of the Golden West (Boston, Orpheum, 12 May 1976 and 'spring tour by Opera Company of New England)
Box   41
Folder   5
Playbills, 1976
Montezuma (Boston, theater unknown, March 1976)
Box   41
Folder   6
Technical production file and miscellany, 1976
Box   41
Folder   7
Cues, script plot, 1976
Box   41
Folder   8
Costume sketch and fabric swatches, 1976
Rigoletto (Boston, Orpheum Theatre, 24 April 1977 and Opera New England, regional development program of the Opera Company 9f Boston, tour, , April-May 1977)
Box   41
Folder   9
Musical score, music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, annotated, circa 1957
Box   42
Folder   1
Technical production file, including playbills, 1977
Box   42
Folder   2
Cues, 1977
Box   42
Folder   3
Plans for several theaters, 1977
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Boston, Orpheum, 13 April 1973)
Box   42
Folder   4
Cues, cheat sheet, plans, playbill, 1973
Stiffelio (Boston, Orpheum Theatre, 15 February 1978)
Box   42
Folder   5
Technical production file, including playbill, 1978
Box   42
Folder   6
Cardboards, plans, and sections, 1977-1978
Tosca (Production information unknown)
Box   43
Folder   1
Notes, focus charts, hook-ups, cues, set designs, ground plans, undated
La Traviata (Boston, Aquarius Theatre, May 1972)
Box   43
Folder   2
Vocal score, annotated with lighting cues, 1972
Box   43
Folder   2
Technical production file, including review, 1972
Box   43
Folder   3
Cues, 1972
Box   43
Folder   4-5
Notebooks of cues, 1972
Box   43
Folder   6
Ground and lighting plots, 1972
The Trojans (Boston, Aquarius Theatre, 3 February 1972)
Box   43
Folder   7
Notes on dress rehearsal, hook-ups, notes, reviews, 1972
Box   43
Folder   8-9
Cues, 1972
Box   43
Folder   10
Plots, plans, and sections, 1972
Plots, plans, and designs, 1971-1972: See the Oversize File
War and Peace (Vienna, Va., Wolf Trap, Filene Center, 29 August 1974)
Vocal score, libretto by S. Prokofieff and M. Mendelssohn-Prokofieff, annotated, 1974
Box   43
Folder   11
Scenes 1-4
Box   44
Folder   1-3
Scenes 5-13
Box   44
Folder   4
Cardboards, correspondence, reviews, program, color cutting list, patching sheet, 1974
Box   44
Folder   5-6
Cues, Act I-II, 1974
Box   44
Folder   7
Cues, hook-ups, 1974
Box   44
Folder   8-9
Technical production file and miscellany
Plots, plans, and designs, circa July-August 1974: See the Oversize File
Canadian Opera Company (Toronto, O'Keefe Center, 1973)
Box   45
Folder   1
Hanging plot draft for Tosca, Geroldstein, La Boheme, Die Walkware, 1973
Dallas Civic Opera Company
Box   45
Folder   2
General file, 1967-1968
Box   45
Folder   3
Unidentified hook-up, undated
Anna Bolena (Dallas,? theater unknown, 1968)
Box   45
Folder   4
Running order, hook-up, cues, focus chart, ground plans, light plot (also for Orpheus and Otello), review, 1968
La Boheme (Dallas, Music Hall, 12 November 1966)
Box   45
Folder   5
Review, focus chart, 1965-1966
Gala 3 (Dallas?, theater unknown, 23 November 1967 consisting of Maestro di Cappella, Faerie Queen, and Sour Angelica)
Box   45
Folder   6
Review and light plot (also for Medea and Figaro, 1967)
Orpheus in the Underworld (Dallas, Music Hall, 8 November 1968)
Box   45
Folder   7
Review, November 1968
Otello (Dallas,? theater unknown, 15 November 1968)
Box   45
Folder   8
Reviews, 1968
Rigoletto (Dallas, Music Hall, 1970 season?)
Box   45
Folder   9
Stage plan, equipment list, hook-ups, 1970
La Traviata (Dallas,? theater unknown, 1965 season)
Box   45
Folder   10
Technical production file, including light plot which includes Tosca and Julius Caesar, 1965
Florida Symphony Society
Faust (Opera Gala Guild of Florida Symphony Society, Orlando, Municipal Auditorium, 9 February 1968)
Box   45
Folder   11
Correspondence, contract, set designs, hook-ups, notes, circa 1967-1968
The Tales of Hoffman (Opera Gala Guild of Florida Symphony Society, Orlando, Municipal Auditorium, 6 February 1970)
Box   45
Folder   12
Program, review, cues, hook-up, correspondence, contract, 1969-1970
Tosca (Opera Gala Guild of Florida Symphony Society, Orlando, Municipal Auditorium, 7 February 1969)
Box   45
Folder   13
Light plot, hook-up, program, reviews, contract, 1969
Greater Miami Opera
Box   45
Folder   14
General file, 1979-1980
Die Fledermaus (Production information unknown)
Script and music, “Rosalinda,” music by Johann Strauss with a new book by Gottfried Reinhardt and John Meehan, Jr. annotated including lighting cues, 1980
Box   45
Folder   15
Act I
Box   46
Folder   1-2
Acts II-III
Group 20
Girl of the Golden West (Production information unknown)
Box   46
Folder   3
Script, libretto by C. Zangarini and G. Civinini, music by Giacomo Puccini, undated
Box   46
Folder   3
Notes and cues, undated
Box   46
Folder   4
Technical production file, 1976
Houston Grand Opera
General, ground plan, 21 December 1973: See the Oversize File
Aida (Houston, Jones Hall, February 1978)
Box   46
Folder   5
Libretto, music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, circa 1963
Box   46
Folder   5
Synopsis, undated
Box   46
Folder   6
Technical production file, including review and playbill, 1978
Box   46
Folder   7
Cardboards, 1978
Box   46
Folder   8
Plots and plans, 1978
Plots, plane and designs, January 1978: See the Oversize File
Lucrezia Borgia (Houston, Jones Hall, 8 April 1975)
Box   46
Folder   9
Vocal score, by Gaetano Donizetti, annotated with lighting cues, 1975
Box   47
Folder   1
Cardboards, 1975
Box   47
Folder   2
Staff and cast lists, schedules, correspondence, fabric swatches, hook-ups, cues, miscellany, 1975
Box   47
Folder   3
Ground plan, track sheets, 1975
Plots, plans, and designs, 27 March 1975: See the Oversize File
MacBeth (Houston,? Jones Hall,? October 1973)
Box   48
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1973
Madame Butterfly (Houston, Jones Hall, 17 October 1972)
Box   48
Folder   2
Technical production file, including review, 1972
Box   48
Folder   3
Cardboards, 1972
Box   48
Folder   4
Plots, plans, and sections, 1972
The Marriage of Figaro (Production information unknown)
, 13 November 1973: See the Oversize File
Porgy and Bess (Houston, Music Hall, 1 July 1976 plus tour)
Box   48
Folder   5
Vocal score, by George. Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, annotated with lighting cues, 1976
Box   48
Folder   6
Libretto, undated
Plots, plans, and designs, August 1976-December 1977: See the Oversize File
Los Angeles, Civic Light Opera
Box   48
Folder   7
Plans and elevations, undated
Houston, Music Hall ( 1-9 July 1976)
Box   48
Folder   8
Technical production file, including playbill and review, 1976
Box   49
Folder   1
Ground plan, pieces, miscellany, and notes, 1976
Box   49
Folder   2
Plots, sections, 1976
Box   49
Folder   3
Cues, 1976
Philadelphia, Academy of Music ( 12 July-21 August 1976)
Box   49
Folder   4
Technical production file, including reviews and playbill, 1976
Vienna, Va., Wolf Trap, Filene Center ( 24-28 August 1976)
Box   49
Folder   5-6
Technical production file, including reviews and playbill, 1976
Box   49
Folder   7
Cardboards, 1976
Box   49
Folder   8
Plots, plans, and sections, 1976
Canadian Tour (, 30 August-18 September 1976)
Box   49
Folder   9
General file, 1976
Toronto, O'Keefe Center ( 30 August-11 September 1976)
Box   49
Folder   10
Technical production file, 1976
Box   50
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1976
Ottawa, National Arts Centre ( 13-18 September 1976)
Box   50
Folder   2-3
Technical production files, 1976
New York, Uris Theatre ( 25 September 1976)
Box   50
Folder   4-5
Technical production files, including reviews and playbills, 1976
Box   50
Folder   6
Cues, 1976
Tour (, March 1977)
Box   51
Folder   1-2
Technical production files, 1977
Box   51
Folder   3
European Tour, including Miami, Florida materials ( December 1977)
Dear Rosenkavalier (Houston,? theater unknown, January 1975)
Box   51
Folder   4
Vocal score, music by Richard Strauss, annotated with lighting cues, 1975
Box   51
Folder   4
Vocal score, annotated with lighting cues, 1975
Box   51
Folder   5
Script, undated
Box   52
Folder   1-2
Technical production files, 1975
The Seagull (Production information unknown)
Box   52
Folder   3
Vocal score, by Thomas Pasatieri, libretto by Kenward Elmslie, annotated with lighting cues, undated
La Traviata (Production information unknown)
Box   52
Folder   4
Cues, cardboards, 1974
Box   52
Folder   5
Lists, hook-ups, specials, cheat sheets, 1974
Box   52
Folder   6
Track sheets, ground plans, and plots, 1974
Il Trovatore (LA, Mark Taper Forum, November,? 1974)
Box   52
Folder   7
Vocal score, music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by S. Cammarano, annotated with lighting cues, 1974
Box   53
Folder   1
Technical production file, including complaint letter, 1974
Box   53
Folder   2-3
Plans and plots, 1974
Plots, plans, and designs, September 1974, undated: See the Oversize File
Kennedy Center [?]
Atilla (Production information unknown)
Box   53
Folder   4
Technical production file, undated
Box   53
Folder   4
Cardboards, undated
Lyric Opera Company
Bluebeard's Castle (Chicago, theater unknown, 27 February 1970)
Box   53
Folder   5
Schedule, miscellany, 1970
Don Juan (Chicago, theater unknown, 1977)
Box   53
Folder   6
Technical production file, 1977
I Domeneo (Chicago, theater unknown, August,? 1977)
Box   53
Folder   7
Technical production tile, 1977
Orfeo ed Euridice (Chicago, Opera House, 1975)
Box   53
Folder   8
Technical production file, 1975
Orfeo ed Euridice (Chicago, Opera House, 26 October 1977)
Box   53
Folder   9-10
Technical production files, including correspondence and reviews, 1977
Madison Civic Opera
Manon (Madison, Wisconsin Union Theatre, 1976)
Box   54
Folder   1
Clipping, 1976
La Traviata (Madison, Wisconsin Union Theatre, 8 February 1975)
Box   54
Folder   2
Technical production file, 1975
Box   54
Folder   3
Cues, 1975
Box   54
Folder   4
Cardboards, 1975
Metropolitan Opera Company
Einstein on the Beach (NY, Metropolitan Opera House, 21 November 1976)
Box   54
Folder   5
Program, edited by Vicky Alliata and reviews, 1976
Box   54
Folder   6
Technical production file, 1976
Hansel and Gretel (NY, Metropolitan Opera House, date unknown)
Box   54
Folder   7
Vocal score, by Engelbert Humperdinck, annotated with lighting cues, undated
Box   54
Folder   8
Stage manager's cues, plans, 1967, undated
Plots, plans, and designs, April-September 1967: See the Oversize File
Hansel and Gretel (Vienna, Va., Wolf Trap, Filene Center, 3-17 July 1977)
Box   54
Folder   9
Technical production file, 1977
Box   54
Folder   10
Plots and plans, 1977
Box   55
Folder   1
Cues, 1977
Lohengrin (NY, Metropolitan Opera House, October,? 1976)
Box   55
Folder   2
Vocal score, by Richard Wagner, annotated with lighting cues, 1976
Box   55
Folder   3
Technical production file, 1976
Orpheus (Production information unknown)
Box   55
Folder   4
Technical production file, undated
New York City Opera
Box   55
Folder   5
General file, 1966, 1979
New York State Theatre, basic light plot, 13 September 1966: See the Oversize File
Tours
Box   55
Folder   6
Los Angeles, 1968
Box   55
Folder   7
Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center, 1971
Andrea Chenier (NY, New York State Theatre, 14 September 1978)
Box   55
Folder   8
Vocal score, by Luigi Illica, annotated with lighting cues, September 1978
Box   55
Folder   8
Vocal score, annotated with lighting cues, 1978
Box   55
Folder   9
Ground plan, set designs, 1978
Box   55
Folder   9
Script, by Umperto Giordano, annotated with lighting notes, 1978
Box   56
Folder   1
Technical production file, including playbill, 1978
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Production information unknown)
Box   56
Folder   2
Miscellany, undated
Der Burger als Edelmann (NY, New York State Theatre, 1979)
Box   56
Folder   3
Piano score, fragment, annotated with lighting cues, April 1979
Dido and Aeneas (Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center, 1 May 1979)
Box   56
Folder   4
Vocal score, by Henry Purcell, annotated with lighting cues, playbill; miscellany, 1979
Havisham
Box   56
Folder   5
Miscellany, undated
Box   56
Folder   5
Vocal score, Acts I and II, libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour, music by Dominick Argento, annotated with lighting cues, 1979
Street Scene (NY, New York State Theatre, 28 October 1978)
Box   56
Folder   6
Musical score, music by Kurt Weill, book by Elmer Rice, lyrics by Langston Hughes, annotated with lighting cues, 1978
Box   56
Folder   7
Technical production file, including playbill and reviews, 1978
The Turk in Italy (NY, New York State Theatre, 24 September 1978)
Box   56
Folder   8-9
Vocal score, by Giochino Rossini, annotated with lighting cues, 1978
Box   57
Folder   1-2
Technical production files, 1978
Box   57
Folder   3
Ground plans and scene breakdowns, 1978
Opera League of New Hampshire in cooperation with the Syracuse Symphony
Madame Butterfly (Syracuse, Regent Theatre, 6-15 April 1967 and tour Manchester, New Hampshire, , 17 April 1967)
Box   57
Folder   4
Light plots, set designs, reviews, correspondence, cues, hook-ups, 1967-1968
Opera New England (a regional development program of the Opera Company of Boston): See Boston Opera Company files
Opera Society of Washington, D.C.
Box   57
Folder   5
Program for 1974/1975 season, 1974
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center, 15 December 1972 and Milwaukee, PAC Uihlein Theatre, , 7 March 1973)
Box   57
Folder   6
Vocal score, in German and English, undated
Box   57
Folder   6
Playbill, reviews, cardboards, hook-ups, cues, 1973 (Milwaukee)
Box   57
Folder   7
Cues, production unidentified, undated
Box   58
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1972 (Washington, D.C.)
Box   58
Folder   2
Cue sheets, undated
Box   58
Folder   3-4
Cardboards and electrics, undated
Box   58
Folder   5
General sections and light plots, undated
San Francisco Opera
Esclarmonde
San Francisco, San Francisco Opera House, 1974
Box   58
Folder   6
Synopsis and script fragments, plans and designs, technical miscellany, circa 1974
New York, Metropolitan Opera House, 19 November 1976
Box   58
Folder   7
Technical production file, including playbill and reviews, 1976
Stuttgart Opera
The Merry Widow (Production information unknown)
Box   58
Folder   8
Ground plans, by act, undated
Symphony Society of San Antonio
Don Carlos (Production information unknown)
Box   58
Folder   9
Light plot, 1968
Syracuse Symphony
Barber of Seville (Syracuse, theater unknown, January 1969)
Box   58
Folder   10
Cues, ground plan, set designs, reviews, 1969
University of Wisconsin Opera
Breasts of Tiresias and Spanish Hour (Madison, Old Music Hall, 1975?)
Box   58
Folder   11
Technical production file, September 1975
Madame Butterfly (Madison, Union Theatre, March 1974)
Box   58
Folder   12
Miscellany, 1974
The Tales of Hoffman (Madison, Union Theatre, 27 April 1978)
Box   59
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1978
Box   59
Folder   2
Notebooks, 1978
Box   59
Folder   3
Cardboards, 1978
Box   59
Folder   4
Plans, plots, and set designs, 1978
Washington Opera
The Seagull (Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center, Opera House, 8 February 1978)
Box   59
Folder   5
Playbill, 1978
Wolf Trap Company
The Crucible (Vienna, Va., Wolf Trap, Filene Center, 15 August 1975)
Box   59
Folder   6
Synopsis, critique, and reviews of other productions, circa 1961
Box   59
Folder   7
Vocal score, based on the play by Arthur Miller, libretto by Bernard Stambler, music by Robert Ward, annotated with lighting cues, 1975
Box   59
Folder   8-9
Technical production file, including a playbill, 1975
Box   60
Folder   1-2
Cardboards, 1975
Box   60
Folder   3
Plots and plans, 1975
Plots, plans and designs, August 1975: See the Oversize File
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Vienna, Va., Wolf Trap, Filene Center, 30 July 1976)
Box   60
Folder   4
Technical production file, 1976
Box   60
Folder   5
Plots and plans, 1976
Opera company unknown
The Crucible (Philadelphia, Temple University, Tomlinson Theatre, 1967?)
Box   60
Folder   6
Ground and section plans, equipment inventory, circa 1967-1976
Mass
Box   61
Folder   1
Cue sheets, fabric swatches, contract, and miscellany, 1971
Box   61
Folder   2
Hook-ups, undated
Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center, Opera House, 9 September 1971
Box   61
Folder   3
Script with revisions, additional texts by Stephen Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein, annotated with lighting cues, 18 August 1971
Box   61
Folder   4-5
Cues, undated
Box   61
Folder   6
Notebook of hook ups and focus charts, 1971
Box   61
Folder   7-8
Technical production file, including playbill, 1971
Box   61
Folder   9
Plots and plans, 1971
Philadelphia, Academy of Music, 19 June 1972
Box   62
Folder   1
Technical production file, 1972
Box   62
Folder   2
Cues, 1972
Box   62
Folder   3
Cardboards, 1972
Box   62
Folder   4
Light plots, 1972
New York, Metropolitan Opera House, 29 [?] June 1972
Box   62
Folder   5
Pre-set sheets, 1972
Box   62
Folder   6-7
Technical production files, 1972
Box   62
Folder   8
Cardboards, 1972
Box   62
Folder   9
Running cue sheets, 1972
Box   62
Folder   10
Plots and plans, 1972
Los Angeles, Mark Taper Forum, 4 January 1973
Box   63
Folder   1
Preset and cue sheets, undated
Box   63
Folder   2
Cues notebook, undated
Box   63
Folder   3
Technical production file, 1972-1973
Box   63
Folder   4
Plots and plans, 1972-1973