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Elsa Baklor scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0055
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1924-1977
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Lester Dequaine collection on Rosa Ponselle
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0004
Abstract
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...
Dates:
1907 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1918-1938
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Peabody Institute Anne Brown collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PIMS-0099
Abstract
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...
Dates:
1940 - 2002
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Rosa Ponselle Museum records
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0005
Abstract
A large collection of artifacts related to the twentieth-century soprano Rosa Ponselle was maintained at the Rosa Ponselle Museum in her hometown of Meriden, Connecticut, from 1999 to 2007. The Rosa Ponselle Museum records contain primarily administrative files created or collected by the museum's director, Lester Dequaine. These include files related to the administration of the Rosa Ponselle Fund, files on the annual Ponselle vocal scholarship, files about the museum's collecting and...
Dates:
1930-2009; Majority of material found within 1983-2009
Found in:
Peabody Archives
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- Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981 2
- Baklor, Armand 1
- Baklor, Elsa, 1896-1989 1
- Brown, Anne, 1912-2009 1
- Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921 1
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