Richard Bonynge as researcher and collector, 1800s - 2015

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Component identifier:
Class 3
Content Summary:

This class reflects Richard's Bonynge's lifelong collecting interests and research into theatre and the performing arts, visual arts, and history.

Research files and special collections are organised according to individual performers and artists, and comprise a mix of theatre programmes, sheet music, letters, news cuttings, costume designs, orignal artworks, and research notes.

Additionally, this class includes eighteenth and nineteenth-century engravings of the London stage, miscellaneous theatre programmes and ephemera, publications by and about Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, portfolio editions of the late nineteenth-century theatrical broadside The Stage and its Stars, and a complete set of custom bound Opera (UK) magazines from 1948 to the present.

Also of note are five unframed paintings by Hungarian-Australian artist Tibor Weiner.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was acquired from Richard Bonynge in five instalments, from 2009 to 2016.

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Parent Restrictions:
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information: (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6807518).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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