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University of Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: PE 27 Title: Buchan Theatre Programmes

Scope: A collection of programmes from theatrical and musical productions, mostly in , 1989-2008 Dates: 1989-2008 Level: Fonds Extent: 3 boxes Name of creator: Marion Buchan

Administrative / biographical history: The collection was donated to the Library by Mrs. Marion Buchan of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, who had collected the programmes over 20 years. The majority relate to plays (especially Royal Shakespeare Company productions) and (mostly English National and Royal Opera Company productions).

Related collections: Theatre Archive Project Collection Source: Marion Buchan System of arrangement: By category, and chronologically

Subjects: Theatre – ; Opera – Great Britain

Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: None Copyright: By document Finding aids: Listed PE27 Buchan Theatre Programmes

Itemised listing

Concerts 1. (Handel). 250th anniversary performance. Choir and Orchestra. Barbican Hall, London. 13 Apr 1992

2. The Beethoven Gala. John Lill & the Philharmonic at UH. Prince , University of Hertfordshire. 8 Jun 1997

3. Sacred Sounds: the music of John Tavener. St. James Church, and the . 22 Apr 1998. (A concert featuring the music of John Tavener organised to accompany the Royal Academy’s exhibition The Art of Holy Russia: icons from Moscow 1400-1660)

4. A Summer Gala. & the Philharmonic at UH. Prince Edward Hall, University of Hertfordshire. 7 Jun 1998

5. An Evening with . Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. 22 Aug 1998

Dance 1. Perfumes de Tango. Tango por dos. , London. Apr-May 1998

2. Una Noche de Tango. Tango por dos. Peacock Theatre, London. Feb-Apr 2000

3. Swan Lake. Adventures in Motion Pictures. , London. 2000

Opera 1. Così fan tutte (Mozart/da Ponte). Royal Opera. Royal , , London. 23 Mar 1989

2. Die Zauberflöte (Mozart/Schikaneder). Royal Opera. , Covent Garden, London. 17 Jul 1989

3. The Gambler (Prokofiev). . . 1989/1990 season

4. The Flute (Mozart/Schikaneder). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1989/1990 season

5. (Mozart). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1989/1990 season

6. Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mozart/Cigna-Santi). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 14 Dec 1991

7. Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart/da Ponte). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 28 Dec 1991

8. (Mozart/da Ponte). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1991/1992 season

9. Xerxes (Handel/Minato). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1991/1992 season

10. (Handel/Ariosto). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Dec 1992-Jan 1993

11. (Handel/Salvi). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1992/1993 season

12. (Rossini/Sterbini). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1992/1993 season

13. The Magic Flute (Mozart/Schikaneder). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1992/1993 season

14. (Verdi/Piave & Boito). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1993/1994 season

15. La Traviata (Verdi) & The Magic Flute (Mozart). Travelling Opera. , London. August, 1994

16. Figaro’s Wedding (Mozart/da Ponte). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1994/1995 season

17. Tosca (Puccini/Giacosa & Illica). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1994/1995 season

18. (Handel/Congreve). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 19 Feb 1996

19. Ariodante (Handel/Salvi). English National Opera. London Coliseum. Spring/Summer 1996

20. Nabucco (Verdi/Solera). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 13 Jun 1996

21. La Traviata (Verdi/Piave). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 19 Jul 1996

22. Xerxes (Handel/Minato). . Mackerye End, Hertfordshire, and Steiner Theatre, London. July 1996

23. (Verdi/Piave). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1996/97 season

24. Manon Lescaut (Puccini) & (Britten) & Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) & The Makropulos Case (Janacek) & Le Comte Ory (Rossini) & (Handel). Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Glyndebourne, East Sussex. May to August, 1997

25. Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart/da Ponte). Opera Mozart. Estates Theatre, Prague. 28 Jul to 24 Aug 1997

26. Booklet about Opera Mozart, to accompany no. 25

27. Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart/da Ponte). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Jan 1998

28. (Handel/Haym). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 21 Feb 1998

29. Così fan tutte (Mozart/da Ponte). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. March 1998

30. The Fairy Queen (Purcell). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1997/1998 season

31. (Verdi/Boito after Shakespeare). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1997/1998 season

32. The Magic Flute (Mozart/Schikaneder). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1997/1998 season

33. The Barber of Seville (Rossini/Sterbini after Beaumarchais). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1998/1999 season

34. (Bizet/Meilhac & Halévy after Mérimée). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1998/1999 season

35. Semele (Handel/Congreve after Ovid). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1998/1999 season

36. L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Handel/Milton, Harris and Jennens). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1999/2000 37. La Bohème (Puccini/Giacosa & Illica after Murger). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1999/2000 season

38. (Verdi/Piave after Hugo). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1999/2000 season

39. Four Saints in Three Acts (Thomson/Stein) & (Purcell/). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1999/2000 season

40. Magic Flute (Mozart/Schikaneder). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1999/2000 season

41. Orfeo (Monteverdi/Striggio after Ovid and Virgil). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1999/2000 season

42. The Pearl Fishers (Bizet/Carré & Cormon). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1999/2000 season

43. St. John Passion (J.S. Bach). English National Opera. London Coliseum. 1999/2000 season

44. (Mozart/Mazzolà after Metastasio). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 28 Jan 2000

45. The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi). English National Opera. London Coliseum. Autumn 2000

46. Tosca (Puccini/Giacosa & Illica). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 9 Feb 2001

47. Nabucco (Verdi). English National Opera. London Coliseum. Spring 2001

48. Fidelio (Beethoven) & Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) & (Handel). Glyndebourne Touring Opera. 2001

49. Attila (Verdi/Solera). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 9 Feb 2002

50. Ariodante (Handel). English National Opera. London Coliseum. Spring 2002

51. Don Giovanni (Mozart) & La Traviata (Verdi). . Spring Tour, 2002

52. Carmen (Bizet) & (Tchaikovsky) & Albert Herring (Britten). Glyndebourne Touring Opera. 2002

53. La Bohème (Puccini) & The Magic Flute (Mozart) & Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy). Glyndebourne on Tour. 2004

54. La Traviata (Verdi). /Opéra de Lausanne. Feb-Apr 2005

55. Così fan tutte (Mozart/da Ponte). Stowe Opera. Roxburgh Theatre, Stowe. August, 2005

56. Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) & La Cenerentola (Rossini) & Tangier Tattoo (Lunn). Glyndebourne on Tour. 2005

57. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini/Sterbini). Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 1 Jan 2006

58. Così fan tutte (Mozart) & (Johann Strauss II) & The Turn of the Screw (Britten). Glyndebourne on Tour. 2006

Theatre 1. Carmen Jones (Oscar Hammerstein II). . 1991

2. The Rose Tattoo (). Company. Playhouse, London. 1991

3. An Inspector Calls (J.B. Priestley). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre, London. 1992

4. The Changeling (Thomas Middleton & William Rowley). Royal Shakespeare Company. The Pit, London. 1993

5. The Venetian Twins (Carlo Goldoni). Royal Shakespeare Company. Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Barbican Theatre, London. 1993-1994

6. La Gran Sultana (Miguel de Cervantes). Compañia Nacional de Teatro Clasico. Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. 23-26 Mar 1994

7. The Complete Works of (abridged) (Long/Singer/Winfield). Reduced Shakespeare Company. , London. 1996

8. Amy’s View (). National Theatre Company. Theatre, London. 1997

9. The Herbal Bed (Peter Whelan). Royal Shakespeare Company. The . 1997

10. (William Shakespeare). Royal Shakespeare Company. Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Barbican Theatre, London. 1997-1998

11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark/Jay Presson Allen). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre, London. 1998

12. (/Voltaire/Hugh Wheeler). National Theatre Ensemble. Olivier Theatre, London. 1999

13. Plenty (David Hare). Company. Albery Theatre, London. Spring 1999

14. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton). National Theatre Ensemble. Olivier Theatre, London. 1999

15. (Noel Coward). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre, London. 1999

16. Baby Doll (Tennessee Williams). Birmingham Repertory Theatre/National Theatre Company. Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Lyttleton Theatre, London. 1999-2000

17. (Julian Mitchell). , London. 2000

18. (). . Comedy Theatre, London. 2000

19. God Only Knows (). Cambridge Arts Theatre. 2000

20. The Mystery of (Peter Ackroyd). Ambassador Theatre Group. Albery Theatre, London. 2000

21. Noises Off (). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre. 2000

22. Orpheus Descending (Tennessee Williams). . 2000

23. Richard II and Coriolanus (William Shakespeare). Almeida Theatre Company. Gainsborough Studios, London. 2000

24. Stones in his Pockets (Marie Jones). Ambassador Theatre Group. Duke of York’s Theatre, London. 2000

25. All my sons (Arthur Miller). National Theatre Company. Cottesloe and Lyttleton Theatres, London. 2000-2001

26. (William Shakespeare). National Theatre on Tour. 2000-2001 27. Boston Marriage (). Donmar Warehouse. New Ambassadors Theatre, London. 2001

28. A Servant to Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni). Royal Shakespeare Company/. Albery Theatre, London. [2001]

29. She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith) & A Laughing Matter (April de Angelis). National Theatre Company & Out of Joint. Lyttleton Theatre, London. 2002

30. Via Dolorosa (David Hare). Duchess Theatre, London. 2002

31. Mnemonic (Simon McBurney). Complicite. , London. 2003

32. Three Sisters (). Ambassador Theatre Group. , London. 2003

33. Aristocrats (Brian Friel). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre. 2005

34. The House of Bernarda Alba (Federico García Lorca/David Hare). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre, London. 2005

35. Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare). Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris/Teatro Español, Madrid/Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg. Barbican Theatre, London. 2005

36. (William Shakespeare). Almeida Theatre, London. 2005

37. (/Peter Oswald). Donmar Warehouse. , London. 2005

38. A Minute Too Late (Houben/McBurney/Magni/Arden). Complicite. Lyttleton Theatre, London. 2005

39. Eh Joe (). Ambassador Theatre Group. Duke of York’s Theatre, London. 2006

40. (Noel Coward). Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London. 2006

41. The Lover and the Collection (Harold Pinter). Ambassador Theatre Group. Comedy Theatre, London. 2006

42. Waves ( after Virginia Woolf). National Theatre Company. Cottesloe Theatre, London. 2006

43. Attempts on her life (). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre. 2007

44. Cloud Nine (). Almeida Theatre Company. Almedia Theatre, London. 2007

45. The Enchantment (Victoria Benedictsson). National Theatre Company. Cottesloe Theatre, London. 2007

46. Happy Days (Samuel Beckett). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre, London. 2007

47. The Hothouse (Harold Pinter). National Theatre Company. Lyttleton Theatre, London. 2007

48. The Reporter (Nicholas Wright). National Theatre Company. Cottesloe Theatre, London. 2007

49. Venus and Adonis: a masque for puppets (William Shakespeare). Royal Shakespeare Company. , , London. 2007

50. Happy Now? (Lucinda Coxon). National Theatre Company. Cottesloe Theatre, London. 2008