Royal Opera House Covent Garden 19th October 1960 Gala Performance programme in honour of their Majesties the King and Queen of Nepal and in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh; together with approximately 54 1950's Covent Garden Ballet and Opera Season programmes featuring artists such Margot Fonteyn and Beryl Grey and Alicia Markova amongst others and two Covent Garden programmes featuring The American National Ballet.
Music hall and classical sheet music (some with guitar scores) to include Johann Strauss The Gypsy Baron (operetta in three acts), vocal score Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, News Chronicle Song book listing various plantation songs, sea shanties, children's songs, hymns and carols. A Boosey Hawkes Baritone songs 75 songs for radio, film and stage by Lawrence Wright, Campbell Connelly's 3rd book for Buskers and the Big Book of Waltzes together with a large number of various sheet music approximately 100 covering classical, waltzes, musical theatre and ragtime and a copy of 'When I'm Cleaning Windows' written and composed by Harry Gifford, Fred E. Cliffe and George Formby and many others.
This lot includes BBC Opera Libretto programs dating between 1927 and 1930, the list is as follows:
The Blue Forest by Aubert; Le Roi L'a Dit by Delibes, Werther by Massenet, Orpheus by von Gluck, The Bohemian Girl by Michael William Barte, Pelleas & Melisande by Debussy, Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, Gianni Schicchi by Puccini, La Boheme by Messages, The Swallow by Giacomo, Coq d Or by Rimsky-Korsakov, a collection of 12 opera librettos dating from 1926, 1927, 1929,1930 comprising Les Cloches de Corneville by Robert Planquette, Faust by Faust, Romeo and Juliet by Gounod, Martha by Friedrich von Flotow, The Magic Flute by Mozart, Philemon and Baucus by Gounod, Fidelio by Beethoven, La Boheme by Puccini, The Bartered Bride by Smetana, The Barber of Seville by Rossini, Shamus o' Brien by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, further twelve programmes comprising (1927, 1928), Marion Lescant by Puccini, Rigoletto by Verdi, Joseph and his Brethren by Mehul, The Girl of the Golden West by Puccini, Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, Tannhauser by Richard Wagner, Il Trovatore be Verdi, Armida by Gluck, The Return of Ulysses by Montereidi, The Merry Wives of Windsor by Nicolai, and further programmes dated 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930. The Daughter of the Regiment by Donizetti, Penelope by Ferrers, a further Roi d' Ys by Lalo, Thais by Massenet, many broadcast by the BBC for the first time.
