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Material relating to grant funding and touring arrangements between the Welsh National Opera and the Arts Council of England, including letters and correspondence, financial reports, funding scheme applications and guidelines, consultation papers, and minutes from Joint Annual Review and Opera Education Officers meetings.

Material relating to grant funding arrangements between the Welsh National Opera and the Arts Council of Great Britain (the predecessor body to the Arts Council of England) including letters and correspondence, grant applications and supporting papers and material related to Annual Review meetings.

Material relating to grant funding arrangements between the Welsh National Opera and the Arts Council of Wales (and its predecessor body the Welsh Arts Council) in support of WNO's Cardiff subscription season productions and regular tours in Wales, including letters of support by various Members of Parliament to assist the WNO in securing additional funding. Material may include letters and correspondence, reports and studies, funding applications and supporting papers, financial reports, minutes of Annual Review (1998) and Arts Council of Wales Lottery Unit (1997) meetings and press releases.

Material relating to the proposed Cardiff Bay Opera House (and later, the Wales Millennium Centre), reflecting the Welsh National Opera's involvement in various aspects of the planning process and initial architectural design competition. Material includes news cuttings; professional newsletters; feasibility studies; project speculations and reports; architectural drawings; competition briefs and guidelines; Trustee letters and correspondence with WNO, development partners (Cardiff Bay Development Corporation), architects (Office of Zaha Hadid), solicitors and members of the public; committee material including correspondence and minutes of Board of Trustees (1994-1996), Joint Fundraising Liaison Committee (1995), Client Group (1995), Finance Committee (1995), Access and Participation Committee (1995), Building Sub-committee (1995), Chairman's Committee (1995), Opera House Steering Group (1986-1990), Design Team (1994-1995) and Public Relations Committee (1995) meetings.

Stage management and technical information, as well as more general information, relating to past opera productions that will not be revived in future. Files may consist of bound Staff Producers' scores, which record the stage movements, translations and music cuts of each production (including any revivals), and usually contain set plans and designs; bound Stage Managers' prompt scores which record the cues (lighting, curtain, electrical, crew and singers') used for 'calling' the show from the side of the stage. Material may also include stage lists and instructions, cast and chorus lists, props lists, weapons lists, wing running lists, set and costume designs, small-scale plans and stage diagrams, production photographs, librettos, call sheets, smoke plots, cue plots, fly plots, scene breakdowns, letters and internal memoranda regarding production meetings and details of production, playbills, programmes, and opening night/good luck cards.

Material related to the organisation, management and marketing of various WNO productions, special projects, recordings and tours. Material may include letters and correspondence between the General Director and other WNO departmental directors; with artists, directors, designers, and with colleagues at other opera houses; memoranda; stage directors' reports; project and production reports; draft scripts and librettos; programmes and playbills; production meeting notes; newscuttings; artists' CVs; contracts and commissioning agreements; broadcasting arrangements; co-production agreements; budget outlines; cast lists and plot synopses.