Research Catalog

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Description

1. 56.13 linear feet (48 boxes, 37 volumes, 2 oversized folders, 6 tubes), 368.3 mb (267 computer files)

Summary

1. Regina Resnik (1922-2013) was an American soprano and mezzo-soprano vocalist, as well as an opera director. The Regina Resnik papers, dating from 1934 to 2013, document Resnik's life and career through correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, annotated scores, fan club magazines, awards, posters, yearbooks, school files, art, and artifacts. The collection also illustrates in part the career of Resnik's second husband, the designer Arbit Blatas, with whom she collaborated. Its strongest features are its visual documentation of Resnik and the scrapbooks and professional files illustrating the course of her career.

Subject

1. Blatas, Arbit.
2. Hamburgische Staatsoper.
3. Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
4. San Francisco Opera.
5. Wiener Staatsoper.
6. Bayreuther Festspiele.
7. Opera -- Production and direction.
8. Opera -- 20th century.
9. Singers -- United States.

Genre/Form

1. Artifacts.
2. Awards.
3. Clippings (information artifacts)
4. Correspondence.
5. Drawings.
6. Fliers (printed matter)
7. Lithographs.
8. Photographs.
9. Posters.
10. Programs (documents)
11. Scores.
12. Scrapbooks.
13. Sketches.

Call number

1. JPB 15-65

Language

1. English

Access (note)

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying and photography will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Terms of use (note)

1. For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Source (note)

1. Donated by Regina Resnik, Michael Philip Davis, and Amy Sperling, 2011-2014.

Author

1. Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding Aid
3. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Occupation

1. Directors (performing arts)
2. Opera singers.