Search

Browse items

–

Current results range from 1948 to 1965

View distribution

Search Constraints

You searched for: Location California--Santa Monica ✖Remove constraint Location: California--Santa Monica Subject Operas & operettas--California--Santa Monica ✖Remove constraint Subject: Operas & operettas--California--Santa Monica
Start Over

319 Catalog Results

Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Created with Sketch. List View List Gallery Created with Sketch. Gallery View Gallery

Search Results

"Rigoletto" production with Enrico Porta, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, circa 1950

Description:
Scene in a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "Rigoletto" with Enrico Porta as Rigoletto kneeling in the center. Other identifiable singers are Ray Gagan, standing behind the table, June Moss (to the left of Porta), and Jean Kortlander (3rd from the right). The orchestra is visible in the foreground.
Date:
[circa 1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Rigoletto" production with Enrico Porta, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, circa 1950

"Lucia di Lammermoor" curtain call, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, circa 1950-1951

Description:
Curtain call for a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "Lucia di Lammermoor" with (L to R): an unidentified woman as Alice, Kay Marshall as Lucia, an unidentified man, Richard Kissler (probably) as Raimondo, Enrico Porta as Enrico, and an unidentified man.
Date:
[circa 1950-1951]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Lucia di Lammermoor" curtain call, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, circa 1950-1951

"Traviata" production act 2, scene 2 gypsy dance scene, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949

Description:
Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "La Traviata" with about 4 women in skirts and peasant blouses, center stage, dancing, with about 14 other cast members, in formal dress, seated and standing at stage edges, with a few orchestra members visible below straight edge of stage.
Date:
1949
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Traviata" production act 2, scene 2 gypsy dance scene, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949

"Student Prince" curtain call, Barnum Hall, Santa Monica, 1952

Description:
Photograph of the curtain call after a performance of "The Student Prince" in costume on stage at Barnum Hall with the orchestra in the orchestra pit in the foreground. Cast members in the front row include: Irma Caron (Grand Duchess Anastasia, 5th from left), Donna Phillips (Princess Margaret, 7th from left), George Tule (Prince Karl Franz, 8th from left), Shirley O. Mills (Kathy, 9th from left), Paul Keast (Dr. Engel, 9th from left), Bobbie King (Countess Leyden, 10th frm left), and Thomas Glynn (Herr Ruder, 11th from left).
Date:
January 18, 1952 or January 19, 1952
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Student Prince" curtain call, Barnum Hall, Santa Monica, 1952

Cast of "The Student Prince" in constume on stage for a group portrait, Barnum Hall, Santa Monica, 1952

Description:
Group portrait of the cast of "The Student Prince" in costume on stage at Barnum Hall with the orchestra pit in the foreground. Among the case are, in the front row: Donna Phillips (Princess Margaret, 5th from left), George Tule (Prince Karl Franz, 7th from left), Shirley O. Mills (Kathy, 8th from left), Irma Caron (Grand Duchess Anastasia, 10th from left), Bobbie King (Countess Leyden, 11th from left) and Paul Keast (Dr. Engel, 12 from left).
Date:
January 18, 1952 or January 19, 1952
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Cast of "The Student Prince" in constume on stage for a group portrait, Barnum Hall, Santa Monica, 1952

“Rigoletto” production with Kay Marshall, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949

Description:
Kay Marshall performing as Gilda in a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of “Rigoletto.” Marshall wears a dress with a lace neckline and gold embroidery at the collar, cuffs, and waist. She also wears an embroidered velvet headpiece. She sits on a bench in the middle of a walled garden and mimes knitting with needles and an embroidery hoop. Background flats are painted to mimic stone walls- one with an open door, another with an open archway. Two performers can be seen from behind the scenery at left.
Date:
November 26, 1949-December 4, 1949
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
“Rigoletto” production with Kay Marshall, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949

"Rigoletto" production with Enrico Porta, Ray Gagan and others performing, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949

Description:
Enrico Porta, as Rigoletto, and Ray Gagan, as the Duke of Mantua, performing with other cast members in “Rigoletto" The singers wear costumes evoking 16th century attire - the female singers wear long gowns with full skirts and full, round sleeves. The men wear stockings, doublet-inspired tunics, ruff collars, and baldrics (for holding a sword) around the waist. Porta (L) and Gagan stand at center stage and sing with cast members standing behind them. The stage set represents a room in the Duke’s palace complete with a throne (an ornate wooden chair covered with a canopy, placed on an elevated platform). The walls are built with faux columns and crests mounted on them. Musicians are viewed in the orchestra pit at foreground.
Date:
November 26, 1949-December 4, 1949
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Rigoletto" production with Enrico Porta, Ray Gagan and others performing, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949

"Barber of Seville" production with Natalie Garrotto, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1955

Description:
Santa Monica Civic Opera singers performing in "The Barber of Seville." The singers, wearing 18th century Spanish clothing, portray Count Almavida (dressed as a soldier), Bartolo, and Rosina (portrayed by Natalie Garrotto). The players are surrounded by a stage set recreating a room in Bartolo’s home. The set, painted with decorative paneled walls and a faux fireplace, is also decorated with end tables, chairs, a curtained window and candelabras. A pianist is visible from the orchestra pit. Performed at John Adams Junior High School, Santa Monica.
Date:
December 1955
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Barber of Seville" production with Natalie Garrotto, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1955

"Traviata" production with Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1951

Description:
View of Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan toasting in a scene in "La Traviata" in front of a banquet table beneath a chandelier. Twelve cast members are behind the table. Florence Timmerhoff is to the left of Gagan and Giovanni Zavatti is in the background, just behind the chair on the right.
Date:
[between 1949-1951]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Traviata" production with Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1951

"Traviata" production with Barbara Gholson at John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1952

Description:
View of 9 cast members onstage during a performance of "La Traviata." They are gathered at 2 banquet tables beneath a chandelier with Barbara Ghloson in front in the role of Violetta. Roger Hansen is singing, standing behind the main table on the left. And Florence Timmerhoff is in the background, 4th from left. A member of the orchestra, in the orchestra pit, is visible on the lower right corner.
Date:
[between 1949-1952]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Traviata" production with Barbara Gholson at John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1952

"Traviata" production with Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1951

Description:
Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, performing in "La Traviata." Marshall is seated to the left of a banquet table, set with 2 candelabras and with a chandelier suspended above, as Gagan stands singing beside her. An illuminated music score and the shadow of the conductor are visible in the orchestra pit in the foreground.
Date:
[between 1949-1951]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Traviata" production with Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1951