Janus: Records of the Cambridge University Opera Society and its precursor, Cambridge University Opera Group

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Records of the Cambridge University Opera Society and its precursor, Cambridge University Opera Group

Title	Records of the Cambridge University Opera Society and its precursor, Cambridge University Opera Group
Reference	GBR/0265/SOC.XI
Creator	Cambridge University Opera Society
Covering Dates	1954–2006
Extent and Medium	5 metres; paper, photographic print, disc, audio tape
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

Its first incarnation was as Cambridge University Opera Group 1954-63. It was reestablished as Cambridge University Opera Society in 1966. It exists to promote the enjoyment of opera through lectures, discussions, recitals, master-classes and the staging of operatic productions.

For further background information on the society, see http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/opera/

All aspects of the society's activities are reflected in the surviving records. Significant quantities of productions records are held for performances from 1972 onwards.

The bulk of the records of the Opera Society were transferred to the University by P. Tregear, Pendelbury Librarian, Faculty of Music, on 3 September 1997. Records of the Opera Group were transferred from among the Tranchell Papers (classmark: Mss. Tranchell) in the Manuscripts Section of the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives in 2003. Further Opera Society records were transferred by Rowland Moseley, King's College, on 19 October 2005, as follows:- 1; A3-4 (addnl); E10 (addnl); G3A; L41-6; P19-21 and on 17 March 2006 as follows:- A6; E2 (addnl); L46 (addnl)-47; P22.

Access and Use

Contact Dr N. J. Yandell (Fellow and Senior Researcher in Music, Corpus Christi College) Senior Treasurer, with enquiries concerning permission to reproduce any part of the society's archive.

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Records of the Cambridge University Opera Society and its precursor, Cambridge University Opera Group, SOC.XI

Further information

The catalogue of the Opera Society records was completed in 1997 and expanded to include the Opera Group material in January 2005. The online version for Janus was completed in January 2005 and emended in June 2005, January 2006, August 2006 and November 2008.

Index Terms

Clubs

Opera

Cambridge University Opera Society

University/SOC.XI contains:

Successive versions of the Society's constitution.
2 items.

1980–2005

Committee and Annual General Meeting minutes; occasionally with other papers.
6 folders.

1960–2006

Chairman's papers.
3 folders.

1986–1995

Chairman's correspondence: general.
3 folders.

1975–1995

Chairman's correspondence: particular.
5 folders.

1972–1985

Administrative records.
13 folders.

1959–2004

External organisations papers.
2 folders.

1984–1985

Financial papers.
15 folders.

1954–2005

Correspondence, accounts and related papers for the Edinburgh Festival.
1 folder.

1983–1984

Notices, correspondence and related papers for master classes.
1 folder.

1978–1983

Opera competitions papers.
3 folders.

1988–1990

Performances records.
47 folders; paper; digital video disc.

1972–2006

Photographs.
9 folders of photographic prints; photograph.

1975–1990

Proposals for productions papers.
2 folders; paper, audio tape.

1979–1992

Posters.
23 items.

1979–2006