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Elsa Baklor scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0055
Overview
Elsa Baklor was a coloratura soprano and music educator who taught at the Peabody Conservatory and privately in the mid-twentieth century. Her collection of five scrapbooks contain clippings, photographs, and concert programs related to her career as a performer and teacher.
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Enrico Caruso papers
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0072
Overview
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) was one of the most popular operatic tenors of his era. After beginning his career in his native Italy, Caruso immigrated to the United States and became a star at the Metropolitan Opera. His papers include manuscript and published scores belonging to Caruso, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks and clippings about his career, caricatures and other artwork, recordings, and ephemera.
Found in:
Peabody Archives
John Charles Thomas papers
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0074
Overview
John Charles Thomas was an internationally known baritone who attended Peabody Institute from 1909 to 1912. His papers include scores, personal and business papers, concert programs, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and recordings.
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Lester Dequaine collection on Rosa Ponselle
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0004
Overview
The most sought-after soprano of the 1920s and 1930s, Rosa Ponselle (née Rosa Ponzillo, 1897–1981) began her musical career in a vaudeville act with her sister Carmela Ponselle. Upon hearing Rosa Ponselle for the first time, Enrico Caruso took her under his wing and they appeared on the Metropolitan Opera stage together in La Forza del Destino and La Juive. She would go on to sing the title role in the Metropolitan's revival of...
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Peabody Institute Anne Brown collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PIMS-0099
Overview
Anne Wiggins Brown was a soprano who is best known for creating the role of Bess in George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess and starring in its initial stage run in 1935. The Peabody Institute Anne Brown collection contains press clippings about Brown, photographs, an autographed 78-rpm album jacket of Porgy and Bess highlights, and a videotape of highlights from her visit to the Peabody Institute in 1998 to receive the...
Found in:
Peabody Archives
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- Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921 2
- Baklor, Armand 1
- Baklor, Elsa, 1896-1989 1
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