Guide to the Merrill Opera Video Collection ARS.0034

Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst

Archive of Recorded Sound

Braun Music Center

541 Lasuen Mall

Stanford University

Stanford, California, 94305-3076

650-723-9312

soundarchive@stanford.edu

Descriptive Summary

Title: Merrill Opera Video Collection

Dates: 1946-1994

Collection number: ARS.0034

Collection size: 6 boxes : 221 videocassettes (199 VHS ; 22 Betamax)

Repository: Archive of Recorded Sound

Abstract: Unpublished opera productions on videocassette, from the collection of Greg Merrill Fe de Montreve.

Language of Material: Multiple languages

Access

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Preferred Citation

Merrill Opera Video Collection, ARS-0034. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Source

The Merill Opera Video Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by by the estate of Greg Merrill Fe de Montreve in 2004.

Sponsor

This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Scope and Contents

Unpublished opera productions on videocassette, from the collection of aficionado Greg Merrill Fe de Montreve. Featuring both live performances and filmed versions, the operas generally fall within the established canon; there are multiple works by Massenet, Offenbach, Verdi, Donizetti, Mozart, and Wagner. Several are from the Metropolitan Opera, but there are productions from around the world, with many familiar names in starring roles. In general, personnel and location are listed on cassettes. Some performances are in English translation. Few productions are dated precisely, although the majority are from the 1970s and 80s. Given the printed labels, most tapes were probably bought or traded from dealers, especially those assigned numbers. The Betamax cassettes all have handwritten labels, which suggest home recording. Titles are transcribed as on the labels.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Operas

1. Numbered VHS tapes

Box 5

1. Yellow label

Scope and Contents

Vagabond King ; Monte Carlo ; Love Me Tonight ; Jeanette on TV

Box 5

2. ODV prefix

Box 5

1229. Rossini - Semiramade 1983

Box 5

1486. McCormack documentary 1984

Box 5

1861. Handel - Rodelinda 1973

Box 5

1864. Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor 1982

Box 5

1989. Life of Alfredo Kraus 1994

3. Sony brand

Box 5

1241. Il Trovatore

Box 5

1612. Il Grillo Del Focolare

Box 5

1629. Orlando Furioso

Box 5

1630. Agnese Di Hohenstaufen

Box 5

1631. L'Italiana in Algeri pt.1

4. Black and white printed labels

Box 5

1344. Donizetti - Anna Bolena

Box 5

1528. Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia

Box 5

1637. Flotow - Martha

Box 5

1802. Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor

Box 5

1820. Verdi - Nabucco

Box 5

1882. Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia

Box 5

1955. Verdi - Nabucco

Box 5

8055. Gigli Collection

Box 5

8119. Verdi - Nabucco

Box 5

8309. Verdi, Gigli

Box 5

8335. 2 Gigli Documentaries 1984, 1990

Box 5

8340. Bellini - I Puritani

Box 5

8441. Offenbach - Les Contes

Box 5

8455. Carlo Bergonzi Recital 1987

Box 5

8465. Centenary of the Gramophone 1989

Box 6

8576. Trois Hommes En Habit

Box 6

8682. Verdi - Nabucco

Box 6

8713. Verdi - Nabucco

Box 6

8776. Bergonzi Recital

Box 6

8803. Handel - Alcina

Box 6

8879. Verdi - Nabucco

Box 6

8894. Auber - Fra Diavolo

Box 6

8908. Mozart - Die Zauberflote

Box 6

8910. Puccini - Madame Butterfly

Box 6

8917. Verdi - Rigoletto

Box 6

8923. La Scala Re-Building 50th Anniversary

2. Unnumbered VHS tapes (printed labels)

Box 1

Auber - Fra Diavolo 1980

Box 1

Bellini - Norma 1/18/1977, 5/7/1981

Box 1

Bellini - I Puritani 1986

Box 1

Bellini - La Somnabula

Box 1

Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini 9/25/1982, 1987

Box 1

Bizet - Carmen 1980, 8/1/1981

Box 1

Boito - Mefistofele 1987

Box 1

Borodin - Prince Igor 1970

Box 1

Cavalli - L'Egisto 1981

Box 1

Chabrier - L'Etoile 1987

Box 1

Cherubin - Demophoon 1986

Box 1

Cherubin - Medea 1976

Box 1

Cimarosa - Den Gifte Stackar'n

Box 1

Cimarosa - Il Fanatico Burlato

Box 1

Cimarosa - Il Matrimonio Segreto 1983

Box 1

Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande 1987

Box 2

Donizetti - Anna Bolena 1984-06

Box 1

Donizetti - Don Pasquale 1978

Box 2

Donizetti - L'Eliser d'Amore 1983-07-10

Box 1

Donizetti - La Favorita 1973

Box 1

Donizetti - La Fille Du Regiment 1973

Box 1

Donizetti - Lucia Di Lammermoor 1982-08-21

Box 2

Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia 2/29/1980, 1984

Box 1

Donizetti - Maria Di Rohan 1988

Box 1

Donizetti - Maria Di Rudenz 1980

Box 1

Donizetti - Roberto Devereux 1977

Box 1

Donizetti - Sancia Di Castiglia 1984

Box 2

Gounod - Faust 9/9/1973, 1985

Box 2

Gounod - Mireille 1981

Box 2

Gounod - Romeo and Juliet 1983

Box 2

Handel - Giulio Casare 1985

Box 2

Haydn - Lo Speziale 1982

Box 2

Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel 1981

Box 2

Janacek - Cunning Little Vixen 1983

Box 2

Janacek - Jenufa 1980

Box 2

Janacek - Katya Kabanova

Box 2

Joplin - Treemonisha 1982

Box 2

Kalman - Czardasfurstin 1984-01-02

Box 2

Lehar - Die Lustige Witwe 1977

Box 2

Leoncavallo - Pagliacci 1976

Box 2

Lortzing - Zar und Zimmermann 1976

Box 2

Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana 1976

Box 2

Mascagni - Iris 1985

Box 2

Massenet - Cendrillon 1979

Box 2

Massenet - Don Quichotte 1980-06-29

Box 2

Massenet - Herodiade 1985

Box 2

Massenet - Manon 1983

Box 2

Massenet - Thais 1981

Box 2

Massenet - Werther 1979, 1984

Box 2

Meyerbeer - Robert Le Diable

Box 2

Milhaud - Cristofe Coulombe

Box 3

Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte 1983

Box 3

Mozart - Don Giovanni 1977-01-16

Box 3

Mozart - Die Entfuhrung Aus dem Serail 1980

Box 3

Mozart - Idomeneo 1983

Box 3

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro 1980

Box 3

Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov 1980

Box 3

Mussorgsky - Khovanschina 1979, 1985

Box 3

Offenbach - La Belle Helene 1983

Box 3

Offenbach - Les Contes D'Hoffmann 1981-01-02

Box 3

Offenbach - La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein 1981

Box 3

Offenbach - La Perichole 1983

Box 3

Offenbach - Robinson Crusoe 1987

Box 3

Ponchielli - La Gioconda 1979

Box 3

Poulenc - Dialogues of the Carmelites 1987

Box 3

Puccini - La Boheme 1982

Box 3

Puccini - La Rondine

Box 3

Puccini - Tosca 1982

Box 3

Puccini - Turandot 6/1981, 1983

Box 3

Rimsky-Korsakov - Sadko 1980

Box 3

Rossini - Barber of Seville 1946

Box 3

Rossini - La Gazza Ladra 1984

Box 3

Rossini - Semiramide

Box 4

Saint-Saens - Samson et Dalila 1980

Box 4

Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Minsk 1987

Box 4

Smetana - The Bartered Bride 1957

Box 4

Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos 1988

Box 4

Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin 1982

Box 4

Tchaikovsky - Iolanthe

Box 4

Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame

Box 4

Verdi - Aida 1982

Box 4

Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera 1978-01-12

Box 4

Verdi - Don Carlo 1978-01-08

Box 4

Verdi - Macbeth 1975

Box 4

Verdi - Otello 1976-12-07

Box 4

Verdi - Rigoletto 1987

Box 4

Verdi - Simon Boccanegra 1979

Box 4

Verdi - La Traviata 1971, 1973

Box 4

Wagner - Der Fliegende Hollander 1980

Box 4

Wagner - Die Meistersinger

Box 4

Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Gotterdamerung

Box 4

Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Das Rheingold

Box 4

Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Siegfried

Box 4

Wagner - Das Ring Des Nibelungen. Die Walkure

Box 4

Wagner - Parsifal 1982

Box 5

Wagner - Tristan und Isolde 1985, 1986

Box 5

Weber - Der Freischutz 1983-07-24

Box 5

Zandonai - Francesca da Rimini 1980

Box 6

3. Sutherland, Pavarotti tapes

Scope and Contents

An Evening With Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti ; Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti Concert in Sydney ; Joan Sutherland, La Stupenda BBC 1991

Box 6

4. Beta tapes (handwritten labels)

Scope and Contents

Song O' My Heart, Concert Sequence ; CA Zephyr ; Verdi - Falstaff BBC 72 ; Ernani, Met 12/17/83 ; Ludwig Brahms Concert/Old Met Shorts ; Fortz - Caballe ; La Giaconda ; Broslovsky, Berlin Philharmonic ; Trains/Great Caruso ; Gayarre ; Moonlight Sonata/Paderewski ; I Sing For You Alone, Tito Schipa ; Don Carlo, Met Pt.2 1983 ; Centennial Met Gala 1983 ; Fidelio 1/78 ; Don Pasquale