Language of Material: English.

Correspondence includes letters with colleagues, fan mail (adults and children), Columbia Artists Management, Inc., known as CAMI, and lastly business communications that span from 1971 to 2012.

Language of Material: English.

Project files in this series span from 1954 to 2017 and include Neblett's typewritten biographical note, curriculum vitae (resume), season schedules, business contracts, and repertoire notes about songs, operas, and orchestral pieces. It also contains business papers regarding her recordings for La Bohème, Die Tote Stadt, and La Fanciulla del West.

This series notably includes material about her appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and in the Follies musical.

Language of Material: A majority of the programs in this series are in English. Exceptions are some items in Spanish, German, French, or Italian and several items with English-translated opera texts also printed in their original German or Italian.

This series contains ephemera related to Neblett's performances from her high school and college years in the 1960s and throughout her international career until 2016. Ephemera includes performance review and feature article clippings, as well as performance programs. Many programs are printed in official publications of orchestras or opera companies that Neblett performed with. A few are for performances only attended by Neblett. Some of the programs have marginalia or post-it note annotations written by Neblett or her children. Annotations typically mark where Neblett is listed in the program, describe a production, note performance dates, or note additional career information.

The following are organizations, venues, events, and/or publication titles listed on the programs:

• Torrance Junior Youth Symphony
• Redondo Union High School Fine Arts Festival
• University of Southern California, Idyllwild Arts Foundation
• The Southern California Choral Music Association, Pavilion
• Los Angeles Master Chorale
• Southern California Symphony-Hollywood Bowl Association, Hollywood Bowl Magazine
• Young Musicians Foundation
• The Roger Wagner Chorale
• Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, The Civicgoer edition of Symphony Magazine
• Euterpe Opera Club of Los Angeles
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bing Concert
• Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Performing Arts
• San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
• California State College, Los Angeles
• Victoria Symphony Orchestra
• New York City Opera, Lincoln Center, New York State Theater Magazine
• The Redlands Winter Concert Association
• Baltimore Opera Company, Inc.
• The Claremont College Artist Course
• New Orleans Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
• Performing Arts, The Music Center Monthly
• Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company
• Florentine Opera Company
• Performing Arts, The Music and Theater Magazine
• El Camino College
• University of Southern California, School of Music
• San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
• Fort Worth Opera Association
• New Orleans Opera
• Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
• Philadelphia Grand Opera Company
• The Washington Opera
• Metropolitan Opera, Stagebill
• San Francisco Symphony Magazine
• San Francisco Opera Magazine
• Greater Miami Opera
• Seattle Opera, Encore
• The Cincinnati Opera
• Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Pittsburgh Opera
• Dallas Civic Music Association
• Edmonton Opera
• Community Concerts Association of Baton Rouge
• Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Barcelona
• Southern California's Tribute to the Governor
• Music Teachers National Convention
• Greater Miami Opera
• Denver Symphony Orchestra
• The Jane Hardester Singers Gala Concert
• Metropolitan Opera National Council Western Regional Auditions
• National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc.
• Concert Opera Association
• Opera/Columbus
• First Presbyterian Church Concert Series
• Lotte Lehmann Centennial Symposium
• Orange County Performing Arts Center, Performing Arts
• Temporada de Opera
• Opera de Nice
• Opera Hamilton
• Chamber Music/LA Festival, A Tribute to Jascha Heifetz
• San Diego Opera
• Opera Pacific
• Opera Peninsula
• Lamb's Players Theatre
• Santa Barbara Grand Opera
• Segerstrom Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center
• Indiana University School of Music, Guest Recital
• Garden State Arts Center
• The French Foundation for Alzheimer Research
• Chatauqua Symphony Orchestra
• Festival International de Lanaudière
• Funeral Liturgy for Dr. Roger Wagner, St. Charles Borromeo Church
• San Diego Opera Association, San Diego Symphony Association
• Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston
• Charleston Symphony Orchestra
• DGOS Opera Ireland, Dublin Grand Opera Society
• Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church, Coronado, CA
• San Diego Men's Chorus
• Niedersächsische Staatsoper Hannover, Hanover State Theatre of Lower Saxony, Germany
• Los Angeles Music Center Opera
• 54 degrees Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
• Long Beach Symphony Orchestra
• Music Center of Los Angeles County, Performing Arts
• Opera Guild of Southern California
• Palm Springs Opera Guild
• Santa Barbara Grand Opera
• Casa Del Prado Theater
• Loren L. Zachary Society for the Performing Arts
• Funeral service for Dr. H. E. Chevalier Hans von Leden
• The Artist Series at L'Elegance, Sarasota, Florida
• Toscano Opera Festival, San Gimignano, Italy
• Chapman University School of Music Faculty in recital
• Center Theater Group, LA's Theater Company, Ahmanson Theatre Performances
• San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Vienna: City of Dreams
• Shumei Arts Council of America, Inc., Pasadena, CA
• Peninsula Symphony Orchestra

Language of Material: The items in this series are recordings of Italian, German, or French operas and are likely sung in those languages.

Users may listen to and access audio cassette tapes in the Reading Room of Special Collections & Archives. Please contact Special Collections & Archives for more information regarding access.

This series contains unofficial recordings on 26 cassette tapes of whole performances or excerpts of operas featuring Neblett from 1972 to 1995. Most recordings are no longer publicly available.

Cassette tapes inventory:

• 1) Tosca - Lyric Opera of Chicago - 11/26/76 - with Neblett, Pavarotti, MacNeil, Lopez-Cobos - 2 cassettes
• 2) Tosca - cassette 1: Metropolitan Opera - 3/25/80 - with Giacomini, Neblett, Manuguerra, Santi; cassette 2: Acts I, III - 5/23/? - with Neblett, Domingo, Carolli? - 2 cassettes
• 3) Tosca - Metropolitan Opera - 12/5/81 - with Neblett, Carreras, Milnes, Santi - 2 cassettes
• 4) Tosca - Nice Opera - 3/24/94, 3/26/94 - Neblett - 3 cassettes
• 5) Tosca - San Carlo, Naples - 6/18/87 - with Neblett, Bartolini, Carroli - 1 cassette
• 6) Mefistofele - Royal Festival Hall, London Symphony - 5/25/72 - with Siepi, Carreras, Neblett, Guadagno - 1 cassette
• 7) Thais - New Orleans Opera – Act II - 4/14/73 - with Neblett, Robert Johnson, Julian Patrick, Knud Anderson - 1 cassette
• 8) Mefistofele - New York City Opera - 5/2/72 - Act III, IV on side A - with Siepi, Carreras, Neblett, Guadagno; side B - Thais - Act I - New Orleans Opera - 4/14/73 - with Neblett, Johnson, Patrick - 1 cassette
• 9) La Fanciulla del West - Houston Grand Opera - 4/9/76 - with Neblett, MacNeil, Buckley - 1 cassette
• 10) La Fanciulla del West - Metropolitan Opera - 3/15/93 - with Neblett, Martinucci, Milnes, Badea - 2 cassettes
• 11) La Fanciulla del West - BBC 3 - 1/1978 - with Neblett, Domingo, Mehta - 2 cassettes
• 12) La Fanciulla del West - Lyric Opera of Chicago - 9/22/78 - Neblett - 2 cassettes
• 13) Rigoletto - LA Master Chorale - 9/9/72 - with Neblett, Carreras, Quilico, Levine – also Rigoletto excerpts - Minnesota Opera - 4/28/95 - Philip Kraus – 1 cassette
• 14) Die Tote Stadt - New York City Opera - 4/4/75 - with Neblett, D. Cossa, J. Alexander, Imre Palló - also Das Wunder der Heliane Act III – Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra – no date – John Mauceri - 1 cassette
• 15) cassette 1: case labeled Un Ballo in Maschera Act I - tape labeled Tosca/Opera Pacific Act I, II; cassette 2: Un Ballo in Maschera - Metropolitan Opera - 2/19/83 – with Neblett, Bergonzi, Nucci, Peters, Serini, Guadagno - also has Mefistofele excerpts - San Francisco Opera - 12/6/94 - with Neblett, Racette, R. Margison, Ramey, Rudel - 2 cassettes
• 16) Falstaff - Metropolitan Opera Broadcast - 3/8/86 – with Taddei, Neblett, Cossotto, Levine - 2 cassettes

Copyright likely belongs to the production companies that put on the opera performances. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.