Found 2 collections related to Opera -- Production and direction

Richard Waslav Rychtarik was an American set and costume designer of major productions at the Metropolitan Opera and other companies. Photographs, marked scores and librettos, letters, sketches, and clippings pertaining to productions, and some non-theater related designs. less

Collection consists of Belmont's letter books, 1853-1858, as United States Chargé d'Affaires and Minister to the Netherlands; correspondence as a director and president of the New York Academy of Music; visiting list, 1853-1854, at the Hague; several letters to his wife, Catherine Slidell Perry Belmont, from European figures; and family memorabilia. Correspondents include Charles R. Fowler, D. Kingslund Macy, J.H. Mapleson, Levi P. Morton, Royal Phelps, C.A. Seward, and B. Ullman. Also, personal and household papers, photograph of Belmont, and copper plates for invitations, calling cards and admission cards. less