Title:
Mr. Light Opera: a cavalcade of forty years in musical theater : oral history transcript
Civic Light Opera
Creator/Contributor:
Lester, Edwin, 1898-, creator
Creator/Contributor:
Richardson, Betty L.
Creator/Contributor:
University of California, Los Angeles, Oral History Program.
Abstract:
Role as founder, producer and artistic manager of the Los Angeles and the San Francisco Civic Light Opera Associations; comments
on seasons, productions, stars, composers, negotiations, etc.
Appended: chronological listing of productions through 1976.
Lester recalls casts, writers, composers, conductors, and staging of forty years' productions, including the original Song
of Norway and Kismet.
Date:
©1982 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Theater -- Production and direction -- California -- Los Angeles
Theater -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
Théâtre -- Production et mise en scène -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Théâtre -- Californie -- Los Angeles -- Histoire
Theater
Theater -- Production and direction
California -- Los Angeles
Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association.
Music Center of Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association.
Music Center of Los Angeles County.
Lester, Edwin -- 1898-
Friml, Rudolf -- 1879-1972
Friml, Rudolf -- 1879-1972
Note:
Edwin Lester ; interviewed by Betty Richardson, [1976 and 1977].
Transcript of a 30-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program.
Appendix: Civic Light Opera: a chronological listing of productions, stars, and performers through 1976: leaves 639-52.
Audiotape recordings also may be accessed in the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections by special arrangement.
Duplicate transcript.
Vol. 2 includes indexes.
The UCLA Oral History Program : catalog of the collection / compiled by Constance S. Bullock (Los Angeles : Oral History Program,
University of Los Angeles, 1982) is available in the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections.
Original and related material in the University of California, Los Angeles, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections,
University Research Library, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575.
Forms part of: Oral History collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
No quotation, publication or reproduction without written permission of interviewee.
Los Angeles Civic Light Opera director.
Type:
History.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
2 volumes (xii, 671 leaves) : portraits ; 28 cm
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 83/19 cLOCAL
Publisher:
California unknown place Los Angeles] : Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles
Copyright Note:
No quotation, publication or reproduction without written permission of interviewee.