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Guide to the Merrill Opera Video Collection ARS.0034
Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst Archive of Recorded Sound Braun Music Center 541 Lasuen Mall Stanford University Stanford, California, 94305-3076 650-723-9312 [email protected] © 2012 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 1 Collection ARS.0034 Descriptive Summary Title: Merrill Opera Video Collection Dates: 1946-1994 Collection number: ARS.0034 Collection size: 6 boxes: 221 videocassettes (199 VHS ; 22 Betamax) Repository: Archive of Recorded Sound Abstract: Unpublished opera productions on videocassette, from the collection of Greg Merrill Fe de Montreve. Language of Material: Multiple languages Access Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for assistance. Publication Rights Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound. Preferred Citation Merrill Opera Video Collection, ARS-0034. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Source The Merill Opera Video Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by by the estate of Greg Merrill Fe de Montreve in 2004. Sponsor This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Scope and Contents Unpublished opera productions on videocassette, from the collection of aficionado Greg Merrill Fe de Montreve. Featuring both live performances and filmed versions, the operas generally fall within the established canon; there are multiple works by Massenet, Offenbach, Verdi, Donizetti, Mozart, and Wagner. Several are from the Metropolitan Opera, but there are productions from around the world, with many familiar names in starring roles. In general, personnel and location are listed on cassettes. Some performances are in English translation. Few productions are dated precisely, although the majority are from the 1970s and 80s. Given the printed labels, most tapes were probably bought or traded from dealers, especially those assigned numbers. The Betamax cassettes all have handwritten labels, which suggest home recording. Titles are transcribed as on the labels. Subjects and Indexing Terms Operas
1. Numbered VHS tapes
Box 5 1. Yellow label Scope and Contents Vagabond King ; Monte Carlo ; Love Me Tonight ; Jeanette on TV
Box 5 2. ODV prefix
Box 5 1229. Rossini - Semiramade 1983 Box 5 1486. McCormack documentary 1984 Box 5 1861. Handel - Rodelinda 1973 Box 5 1864. Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor 1982 Box 5 1989. Life of Alfredo Kraus 1994
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 2 Collection ARS.0034 1. Numbered VHS tapes 3. Sony brand
3. Sony brand
Box 5 1241. Il Trovatore Box 5 1612. Il Grillo Del Focolare Box 5 1629. Orlando Furioso Box 5 1630. Agnese Di Hohenstaufen Box 5 1631. L'Italiana in Algeri pt.1
4. Black and white printed labels
Box 5 1344. Donizetti - Anna Bolena Box 5 1528. Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia Box 5 1637. Flotow - Martha Box 5 1802. Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor Box 5 1820. Verdi - Nabucco Box 5 1882. Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia Box 5 1955. Verdi - Nabucco Box 5 8055. Gigli Collection Box 5 8119. Verdi - Nabucco Box 5 8309. Verdi, Gigli Box 5 8335. 2 Gigli Documentaries 1984, 1990 Box 5 8340. Bellini - I Puritani Box 5 8441. Offenbach - Les Contes Box 5 8455. Carlo Bergonzi Recital 1987 Box 5 8465. Centenary of the Gramophone 1989 Box 6 8576. Trois Hommes En Habit Box 6 8682. Verdi - Nabucco Box 6 8713. Verdi - Nabucco Box 6 8776. Bergonzi Recital Box 6 8803. Handel - Alcina Box 6 8879. Verdi - Nabucco Box 6 8894. Auber - Fra Diavolo Box 6 8908. Mozart - Die Zauberflote Box 6 8910. Puccini - Madame Butterfly Box 6 8917. Verdi - Rigoletto Box 6 8923. La Scala Re-Building 50th Anniversary 2. Unnumbered VHS tapes (printed labels)
Box 1 Auber - Fra Diavolo 1980
Box 1 Bellini - Norma 1/18/1977, 5/7/1981
Box 1 Bellini - I Puritani 1986
Box 1 Bellini - La Somnabula
Box 1 Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini 9/25/1982, 1987
Box 1 Bizet - Carmen 1980, 8/1/1981
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 3 Collection ARS.0034 2. Unnumbered VHS tapes (printed labels) Bizet - Carmen 1980, 8/1/1981
Box 1 Boito - Mefistofele 1987
Box 1 Borodin - Prince Igor 1970
Box 1 Cavalli - L'Egisto 1981
Box 1 Chabrier - L'Etoile 1987
Box 1 Cherubin - Demophoon 1986
Box 1 Cherubin - Medea 1976
Box 1 Cimarosa - Den Gifte Stackar'n
Box 1 Cimarosa - Il Fanatico Burlato
Box 1 Cimarosa - Il Matrimonio Segreto 1983
Box 1 Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande 1987
Box 2 Donizetti - Anna Bolena 1984-06
Box 1 Donizetti - Don Pasquale 1978
Box 2 Donizetti - L'Eliser d'Amore 1983-07-10
Box 1 Donizetti - La Favorita 1973
Box 1 Donizetti - La Fille Du Regiment 1973
Box 1 Donizetti - Lucia Di Lammermoor 1982-08-21
Box 2 Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia 2/29/1980, 1984
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 4 Collection ARS.0034 2. Unnumbered VHS tapes (printed labels) Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia 2/29/1980, 1984
Box 1 Donizetti - Maria Di Rohan 1988
Box 1 Donizetti - Maria Di Rudenz 1980
Box 1 Donizetti - Roberto Devereux 1977
Box 1 Donizetti - Sancia Di Castiglia 1984
Box 2 Gounod - Faust 9/9/1973, 1985
Box 2 Gounod - Mireille 1981
Box 2 Gounod - Romeo and Juliet 1983
Box 2 Handel - Giulio Casare 1985
Box 2 Haydn - Lo Speziale 1982
Box 2 Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel 1981
Box 2 Janacek - Cunning Little Vixen 1983
Box 2 Janacek - Jenufa 1980
Box 2 Janacek - Katya Kabanova
Box 2 Joplin - Treemonisha 1982
Box 2 Kalman - Czardasfurstin 1984-01-02
Box 2 Lehar - Die Lustige Witwe 1977
Box 2 Leoncavallo - Pagliacci 1976
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 5 Collection ARS.0034 2. Unnumbered VHS tapes (printed labels) Leoncavallo - Pagliacci 1976
Box 2 Lortzing - Zar und Zimmermann 1976
Box 2 Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana 1976
Box 2 Mascagni - Iris 1985
Box 2 Massenet - Cendrillon 1979
Box 2 Massenet - Don Quichotte 1980-06-29
Box 2 Massenet - Herodiade 1985
Box 2 Massenet - Manon 1983
Box 2 Massenet - Thais 1981
Box 2 Massenet - Werther 1979, 1984
Box 2 Meyerbeer - Robert Le Diable
Box 2 Milhaud - Cristofe Coulombe
Box 3 Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte 1983
Box 3 Mozart - Don Giovanni 1977-01-16
Box 3 Mozart - Die Entfuhrung Aus dem Serail 1980
Box 3 Mozart - Idomeneo 1983
Box 3 Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro 1980
Box 3 Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov 1980
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 6 Collection ARS.0034 2. Unnumbered VHS tapes (printed labels) Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov 1980
Box 3 Mussorgsky - Khovanschina 1979, 1985
Box 3 Offenbach - La Belle Helene 1983
Box 3 Offenbach - Les Contes D'Hoffmann 1981-01-02
Box 3 Offenbach - La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein 1981
Box 3 Offenbach - La Perichole 1983
Box 3 Offenbach - Robinson Crusoe 1987
Box 3 Ponchielli - La Gioconda 1979
Box 3 Poulenc - Dialogues of the Carmelites 1987
Box 3 Puccini - La Boheme 1982
Box 3 Puccini - La Rondine
Box 3 Puccini - Tosca 1982
Box 3 Puccini - Turandot 6/1981, 1983
Box 3 Rimsky-Korsakov - Sadko 1980
Box 3 Rossini - Barber of Seville 1946
Box 3 Rossini - La Gazza Ladra 1984
Box 3 Rossini - Semiramide
Box 4 Saint-Saens - Samson et Dalila 1980
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 7 Collection ARS.0034 2. Unnumbered VHS tapes (printed labels) Saint-Saens - Samson et Dalila 1980
Box 4 Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Minsk 1987
Box 4 Smetana - The Bartered Bride 1957
Box 4 Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos 1988
Box 4 Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin 1982
Box 4 Tchaikovsky - Iolanthe
Box 4 Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame
Box 4 Verdi - Aida 1982
Box 4 Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera 1978-01-12
Box 4 Verdi - Don Carlo 1978-01-08
Box 4 Verdi - Macbeth 1975
Box 4 Verdi - Otello 1976-12-07
Box 4 Verdi - Rigoletto 1987
Box 4 Verdi - Simon Boccanegra 1979
Box 4 Verdi - La Traviata 1971, 1973
Box 4 Wagner - Der Fliegende Hollander 1980
Box 4 Wagner - Die Meistersinger
Box 4 Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Gotterdamerung
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 8 Collection ARS.0034 2. Unnumbered VHS tapes (printed labels) Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Gotterdamerung
Box 4 Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Das Rheingold
Box 4 Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Siegfried
Box 4 Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Die Walkure
Box 4 Wagner - Parsifal 1982
Box 5 Wagner - Tristan und Isolde 1985, 1986
Box 5 Weber - Der Freischutz 1983-07-24
Box 5 Zandonai - Francesca da Rimini 1980
Box 6 3. Sutherland, Pavarotti tapes Scope and Contents An Evening With Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti ; Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti Concert in Sydney ; Joan Sutherland, La Stupenda BBC 1991
Box 6 4. Beta tapes (handwritten labels) Scope and Contents Song O' My Heart, Concert Sequence ; CA Zephyr ; Verdi - Falstaff BBC 72 ; Ernani, Met 12/17/83 ; Ludwig Brahms Concert/Old Met Shorts ; Fortz - Caballe ; La Giaconda ; Broslovsky, Berlin Philharmonic ; Trains/Great Caruso ; Gayarre ; Moonlight Sonata/Paderewski ; I Sing For You Alone, Tito Schipa ; Don Carlo, Met Pt.2 1983 ; Centennial Met Gala 1983 ; Fidelio 1/78 ; Don Pasquale
Guide to the Merrill Opera Video ARS.0034 9 Collection ARS.0034