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Welsh National Opera Records Series
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Posters

Printed posters promoting various Welsh National Opera stage productions and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera concert performances. Performance venues include Beaufort, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Harlech, Liverpool, London, Merthyr Tydfil, Southampton, Swansea.

Management Files

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.

Dead Shows

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.

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