Genre: acetate film / Names: Santa Monica Civic Opera Association - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Woman dressed as a page, in a hallway at John Adams Auditorium.
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Scene in a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "Rigoletto" with Enrico Porta as Rigoletto kneeling before Laurin Malcolm as Count Monterone. Supporting cast include Victor Terzo (left of Malcolm), Natalie Garrotto (1st woman on left), and Jean Kortlander (4th from right).
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Santa Monica Civic Opera performance of “Pagliacci.” The stage is filled with cast members in peasant costumes, as performers portraying Canio/ Pagliacci (in clown costume) and Canio’s wife Nedda ride onstage on a horse drawn wagon. The setting is a 19th century Calabrian village. With rolling hills and trees painted on a backdrop. To the fore stands a secondary stage resembling a Greek temple. Drawn curtains shield the interior from view. A banner painted with “I Pagliacci” is attached to the pediment. Beyond the stage, two musicians can be viewed in the orchestra pit. Opera performed at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica.
Date:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of a scene in the opera "Martha" with Roger Hansen facing a female character, with Dorothy Lewis visible behind her, and men and women next to a building with a wooded landscape in the background. The orchestra is visible in the foreground.
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of the spinning wheel scene in the opera "Martha" with Lady Harriet or Nancy and one of the farmers, Plunkett or Lyonel.
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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