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Collection Title: Lida Brodenova Papers
Dates: 1917-1992
Identification: MS-0002
Creator:
Brodenova, Lida, 1902-1990
Physical Description: 12.50 linear ft
Language of Materials:
English
Czech
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: scref@rohan.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
Lida Brodenova, born in Czechoslovakia in 1902, was a performer and producer of Czech operas. Early on she began playing the
piano and taking singing lessons, with the Czech soprano Emma Destinnova as her inspiration. She studied under Leos Janacek,
with her principal voice teacher Sigmund Auspitzer at the Music Conservatory in Brno, Czechoslovakia. She began her career
in the French theatre in Brno, and spent most of the 1930s performing operettas in various German and Czech troupes.
In 1940 Lida and her husband Boris, who was Jewish, emigrated to America to avoid persecution. Once in America Lida began
performing on the radio in New York. It was the beginning of a long career in the theatre in which she performed, wrote,
and taught Czech repertory. She died at the age of eighty-eight in 1990.
This collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Audio Recordings
Personal Papers
Brodenov, Boris -- Diaries
Brodenova, Lida
Brodenová, Lida -- Archives
Opera -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Opera -- Czechoslovakia -- Sources
Opera -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Opera -- United States -- Sources
Singers -- Biography -- Sources
Singers -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography -- Sources
Singers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources
1992
The copyright interests in these materials have not been transferred to San Diego State University. Copyright resides with
the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. The nature of historical archival and manuscript collections
is such that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Requests for permission to publish must be
submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted, permission
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
This collection is open for research.
The diaries of Boris Brodenov, in the collection of papers of Lida Brodenova, housed in the SDSU Library, may contain sensitive
references to the personal lives of Lida Brodenova and Boris Brodenov. Researchers must agree that discretion will be used
in the research and publication of such passages. Embarrassing or defamatory work will be avoided.
Identification of item, folder title, box number, Lida Brodenova Collection, Special Collections and University Archives,
Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
I. Biographies, Writings, Etc.
II. Correspondence, ca. 1930s-1988
III. Personal
IV. Performance and Production Material
V. Scrapbooks of Performances
VI. Photographs
VII. Unsorted, Unclassified Miscellany
VIII. Audio Recordings
IX. Boris Brodenov Personal
The collection includes correspondence, awards, travel accounts, opera and recital programs, clippings, photographs, diaries,
postcards, reviews, scrapbooks, photo albums, tape and phono recordings. Much of the collection is in Czech, and is separated
into personal and professional categories.