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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Title
Thomas G. Neumiller Collection
Collection 330
Description
Opera research collection.
51 cubic ft.
Introduction
Thomas G. Neumiller, professor of Theatre Arts at Stony Brook University, was born
on January 5, 1937 to Harry J. Neumiller and Grace Gridley Neumiller in Peoria, Illinois.
He received his B.A. degree from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and a M.F.A.
from the Yale Drama School, where he studied stage direction.
Upon graduation from college in 1959, he was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship and
attended the Free University of West Berlin, Germany, where he studied theatre history.
As an officer in the United States Army Military Intelligence, he was stationed in
Stuttgart, Germany and was officer-in-charge of the Soviet Orientation Team. He was
later discharged with the rank of captain. In the summer of 1966, he was a member
of the Bayreuth Festival Master Classes in Bayreuth, Germany, where he studied opera
production.
Mr. Neumiller taught theatre at Wheelock College in Boston for four years before coming
to Stony Brook University in 1970. At Stony Brook, he taught acting and directing.
He staged plays and operas for twenty-eight years before retiring in 1997 as Professor
Emeritus. In affiliation with Stony Brook University, he started the Stony Brook Summer
Playhouse, for which he served as Artistic Director for ten years.
In 1997, the Thomas G. Neumiller Opera Research Collection was established from material
he donated to Stony Brook University's Libraries. He was also a collector of posters;
this collection is housed at the Lakeview Museum in Peoria, Illinios.
Thomas G. Neumiller died on April 22, 1998 at his residence in Stony Brook, New York.
Scope and Content
The Thomas G. Neumiller Opera Research Collection contains information pertaining
to opera companies and venues, festival programs, and memorabilia. It also includes
files relating to Mr. Neumiller's career, including working scripts, production notes,
correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia.
Items housed in acidic or metal housings have been removed from these housings for
preservation reasons. These materials have been placed in acid free folders and containers
in accordance with accepted archival standards of preservation.
Series Outline
Subgroup I: Opera History
Series 1: Operas
Series 2: Opera Companies
Subseries 1: Metropolitan Opera House
Subseries 2: Other Opera Companies
Series 3: Opera Festival Programs
Series 4: Venues
Series 5: Memorabilia
Subgroup II: Thomas G. Neumiller
Series 1: Scripts and Productions, 1964 - 1968
Series 2: Career at Stony Brook University, 1970 - 1995
Rights and Permissions
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent as the physical owner of the collection
does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole
responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials
to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission
where needed prior to publication.
INVENTORY
Box 1
Subgroup I: Opera History
Series 1: Operas
Aida
Abigail Adams
Acis & Galatea
Actéon
Adriana
Box 2
L' Africaine
Agrippina
Agyptische Helena
Akhnaten
Albert Herring
Alcestis
Alcina
Alessandro
Alkestiade
Alzira
Amahl & the Night Visitors
Americana
L' Amico Fritz
L' Amore Dei Tre Re
Andrea Chénier
Aniara
Anima Allegra
Box 3
Animalen
Anna Bolena
Antony & Cleopatra
Arabella
Ariadne
Ariodante
Arlecchino
Arme Konrad
Armida
Aroldo
As a Conductor dreams
Ashmedai
Aspern Papers
Assassino Nella Cattedrale
Atlantida
Attila
Atys
Aufstieg v. Fall Der Stadt Mahagonny
Box 4
Ballad Baby Doe
Un Ballo in Maschera
El Barbero de Sevilla
Barbiere (Paisiello)
Box 5
Bartered Bride
Bassarids
Battaglin di Legnano
Les Bauards
Beatrice & Benedick
Beatrice di Tenda
Beauty & the Beast
Begger's Opera
Belle Helene
Belsazar
Benvenuto Cellini
Bianca e Falliero
Billy Budd
Black Mask
Blut Hoch Zeit
Boccaccio
Box 6
La Bohéme
Bohéme (Leon Cavallo)
Boheme Papp
Bohemian Girl
Box 7
Bomarzo
Boris
Buona Figluola (Piccinni)
Burning Bright
Burning Fiery Furnace
Cambiale di Matrimonio
Candide
Capriccio
Capuletti Montecchi
Box 8
Carmen
Carmen, Peter Brook
Carry Nation
Casanova's Homecoming
Castor et Pollux
Box 9
Cau and Pag
The Cave
La Cena delle Beffe
Cendrillon
Cenerentola
Chérubin
Chinchilla
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Sly
Le Cid
Clarissa
Clemenza di Tito
Le Comte Ory
Le Contes d' Hoffmann
Box 10
Le Convenienze ed Inconvenienze Teatrali
Le Coq d'Or
Il Corsaro
Cosi Fan Tuttle
Crucible
Una Cosa Rara
Die Csardas Furstin
Cunning Little Vixen
Curlew River
Cyrano
Box 11
D' Alibor
Dame Blanche
Damnation de Faust
Dantons Tod
Daphne
Dead Souls
Death in the Family
Death in Venice
Death of Klinghofer
Desert of Roses
Desert Song
Desire (Thomas)
Les Deux Journées
Devil & Katie
Dialogue des Carmelites
Dido and Aeneas
Dimitri
Dinorah
Djamileh
Doktor Faust
Dom Sebastien
Don Carlos
Box 12
Don Giovanni
Don Paquale
Don Quichotte
Donna de Lago
Le Donne Curiose
La Dori
Box 13
Down in the Valley
Dream of Valentino
Dreigroschen Opera
Dreyfus (Cotel) Opera
Due Foscari
Duke Bluebeard. s Castle
Edgar
L' Egisto
Einstein on the Beach
L' Elisir d' Amore
Box 14
Elektra
Emmeline
L' Enfant et les Sortileges
English Cut
Ent Fuhrnng aus dem Serail
Ermione
Ernani
Esclarmonde
Esther
Eugene Onegin
Evangeline
Excursions of Mr. Broucek
Box 15
Fairy Queen
Fall House Usher
Falstaff
Fanciulla del West
Faust
Faust (Schumann)
La Favorita
Box 16
Fedora
Die Feen
Fenersnot
Fennimore & Gerda
La Fiamma
Fidelio
Fiery Angel
La Fille de Madame Angot
Fille du Rég Ment
Box 17
Finta Giardiniera
Finta Semplice
Fledermaus
Der Fliegende Hollander
La Forza del Destino
Four Saints in 3 Acts
Fra Diavolo
Frai Due Litiganti il Terzo Gode Frai
Francesca da Rimini
Box 18
Franklin's Tale
Frauohne Schatter
Frederick Douglass
Der Freischutz
Frida
Friedenstag
From the House of the Dead
Gambler
Gawain
Gazza Ladra
Gemma di Vergy
Germania
Ghosts of Versailles
Giasone
Box 19
Gioconda
I Gioielli della Madonna
Giovanna d. Arco
Giovanni Gallurese
Gipsy Love
Giuditta
Giulio Cesare
Giustino
Gotterdammerung
Box 20
Goya
Grande Duchesse
El Greco
Guglielmo Tell
Hamlet
Hansel und Gretel
Harriet, Woman called Moses
Harvey Mik
Haunted Castle
Hell's Angels
Herodiade
L' Heure Espagnole
Hin und Zuruck
Hippolyteet Aricie
House Afire
House Hugenots
Hugh the Dover
Idomeneo
Ilombardi
Imeneo
Immortal Hour
Impressario
L' Incoronazione di Poppea
Box 21
Les Indes Galantes
L' Infedelta Delusa
Intermezzo
Iolanthe
Iphigénie en Aulide
Iphigénie en Tauride
Iris
Italiana in Algeri
Italian Straw Hat
Jacob Lenz
Jenufa
Joan of Arc at the Stake
Johny Spielt auf
Jolie Parfumeuse
Jongleur de Notre Dame
Joruri
Judith
La Juive
Junge Lord
Katerina Ismailowa
Katja Kabanowa
The King goes forth to France
King's Henchman
Kleines Mahagony
Box 22
Die Kluge
Knot Garden
Konigs Kinder
Der Kreidekreis
Kullervo
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Lakme
Last Temptations
Legend of Invisible City of Kitezh
Legend of the Piper
Lélio
Leonora (Fry)
Libuse
Licht aus Donnerstag
Liebe der Danae
Life and Times of Malcolm X
A Life of the Czar
Life with an Idiot
Light House
Linda di Chamouniy
La Loca
Loda-Letta
Box 23
Lohengrin
Lord Byron
Lord Byron's Love Letter
Loreley
Lost in the Stars
Love 3 Oranges
Love Life
The Love of Don Perlimplin
Lucia
Box 24
Lucio Silla
Lucrezia Borgia
Luisa Miller
Lulu
Lurline
Lustige Witwe
Lustigen Weiber
Macbeth
McTeague
Box 25
Madama Butterfly
Madame Sans-Gene
Madrigals of Love & War
The Making of the Representive for Planet 8
Mamelles de Tiresius
The Man who Mistook his Wife
Manon
Manon Lescaat
The Manson Family
Maometto II
Box 26
Margot la Rouge
Maria Padilla
Maria Stuarda
Marilyn
Mario the Magician
Maritana
Martha
Mary, Queen of Scots
Le Maschere
Masnadieri
Mask of Orpheus
Mathis der Mahler
Matrimonio seqreto
Mazeppa
Medea
Medium
Mefistofele
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Box 27
Messa di Requiem Verdi
Messiah
Midnight Angel
Midsummer Marriage
Midsummer Night's Dream
The Mighty Casey
Mignon
Mikado
Mireille
Miss Havishem's Fire
Mitridate, Redi Ponto
Moisé
Mona Lisa
Der Mond
Monna Vanna (Fevrier)
Monna Vanna (Rachmaninoff)
Montezuma
Montezuma (Graun)
Mosé
Moses und Aron
Most Happy Fella
Mother of Three Sons
Mother of Us All
Nabucco
Nacht in Venedig
Naughty Marietta
Nerone
A Night at the Chinese Opera
Nikola Subic Zrinski
Nixon in China
Box 28
Norma
The Nose
Notte di Zoraima
Nozze di Figaro
Box 29
Oberon
Oberto
L' oca del Cairo (Mozart)
Oedipus Rex (Enesau)
Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky)
Of Mice and Men
L' Oiseau Bleu
L' Oracolo
Die Orestie des Aischylos
Orfée aux Enfers
Orfeo Monteverdi
Orfeo ed Euridice
Orlando
Orleanskaya Deva
Orpheé (Gilass)
Orpheus
Otello (Rossini)
Otello (Verdi)
Box 30
Palestrina
Parade
Parsifal
Partenope
Passion Jonathan Wade
Paul Bunyan
Pecheurs de Perles
Pelleas
Pericole
Peter Grimes
Box 31
Peter Ibbetson
Pikovaya Dama
Il Pirata
Pirates Penzance
Platée
Porgy & Bess
Portrait de Manon
Postcard from Morocco
Prince Igor
Prinz von Hamburg
Prophete
Puritan's Daughter
Puritani
Pygmalion
A Quiet Place
Box 32
Radimisto
Rake's Progress
Raleigh's Dream
Rape of Lucretia
Rasputin
Regina
Requiem (Verdi)
Re Pastore
Resurrection
Revisor
Rheingold
Ricciardo e Zoraide
Rienzi
Rigoletto
Box 33
Rinaldo
Chicago Rina
Ring
SFO Ring - June 1985
Seattle Ring - 1985/86
Ritorno D' Ulisse in Patria
Le Rivali Concordi
Robert Devereuy
Robert le Diable
Box 34
Robin Hood
Le Roi de Lahore
Roi d' ys
Roi Malgré Lui
Romeo et Juliette
La Rondine
Rosamund Floris
Rosen Kavalier
Le Rossignol
Rothchild's Violin
Box 35
Rusalka
Ruslan and Ludmilla
Rustic Secret
Ruy Blas
Sadko
Saint Bleecker St.
Saint Francois d' Assise
Salome
Samson (Handel)
Box 36
Samson et Delila
Il Sant Alessio Satyagraha
Savage Land
La Schiava Liberata
Lo Schiaro (Gomes)
Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer
Schwartzer Peter
Schweig Same Frau
Sermiramide
Semele
La Serva Padrone
Shining Brow
Siege of Corinth
Siegfried
Silver Lake
Simone Boccanegra
Box 37
Sir John in Love
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Die Soldaten
Soldiers Tale
Song of Majnum
La Sonnambula
Sorochinskaya Yarmarka
Sposo Deluso Mozart
Stiffelio
Stone Guest
Stradella
La Straniera
Straszny Dwor (Haunted Manor)
Stravinsky
Street Scene
Student Prince
Suor Angelica
Susannah
Il Talismano
Tamerlano
Taming of the Shrew
Tancredi
Tania (Davis)
Tannhauser
Taverner
Box 38
Tell-Tale Heart
The Tempest (Eatoh)
Tempest (Hoibu)
Temple de la Gloire (Rameau)
Tender Land
Teufels Lustschloss
Theodora
Thomas and Sally
Three Sisters
Three Times Offenbach
Tolomeo
Tonkin
Tosca
Tote Stadt
Box 39
Traviata
Treemonisha
Trionfi
Tristan und Isolde
Trittico
Troades
Trouble in Tahiti
Box 40
Trovature
Les Troyens
Tsar's Bride
Tsar Sultan (Rimsky)
Turandot
Turandot Busoni
Turco in Italiana
Turn of the Screw
Two Widows
Ubu Re
Ube Rex Penderecki
Unicorn, Gorgon & Manticore
Vanessa
Vanishing Bridegroom (Weir)
Venus & Adonis
Verlobungim Kloster
Verratene Meer
Verurteilung des Lukullus
Box 41
Vespri Siciliani
La Vestale
Il Viaggio a Reims
Victory over Sun
Vida Breve
La Vie Parisienne
Village Romeo and Juliet
Villi
Vin Herbé
Violanta
Voice of Ariadne
Voix Humaine
Voyage
Voyage Edgar Allen Poe
Waffenschmied
Walkure
Wally
War and Peace
Water Bird Talk
We Come to the River
Box 42
Die Weise von Liebe
Welt auf dem Monde
Werther
Where the Wild Things Are
White Rose
Wildshutz
Woodlanders
Woyzeck
Wuthering Heights
Xerxes
Zaide
Zar und Zimmermann
Die Zauberflote
Zauber flote
Zaza
Zelmira
Zelmire et Azor
Series 2 - Opera Companies
Subseries 1- Metropolitan Opera
Box 43
1902 Invitation
1950-1951, 1966 Opening
Box 44
1966-1967, 1972-1973
Box 45
1973-1974, 1974-1975
Box 46
1975-1976, 1976-1977
Box 47
1977-1978, 1978-1979
Box 48
1979-1980, 1980-1981
Box 49
1981-1982, 1982-1983
Box 50
1982-1983, 1983-1984
Box 51
1983-1984, 1984-1985
Box 52
1985-1986, 1986-1987
Box 53
1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989
Box 54
1988-1989, 1989-1990
Box 55
1990-1991, 1991-1992
Box 56
1992-1993, 1993-1994
Box 57
1994-1995, 1995-1996
Box 58
1995-1996, 1996-1997
no date
Box 59
Metropolitan Opera Managers, Executives, and Directors
Rudolf Bing
Anthony Bliss
Schuyler G. Chapin
Bruce Crawford
Goeran Gentele
Rafael Kubelik
Joseph Volpe
Photographs
Metropolitan Record Club
Subseries 2 - Other Opera Companies
Box 60
American National Opera Company
Baltimore Opera's 1950-1975-25th Anniversary Commemorative Book
Bolshoi Opera
Programs from the Metropolitan Opera, featuring the Bolshoi Opera
Reviews from the Bolshoi Opera
Boston Opera Group, Inc. program
Sarah Caldwell
Newspaper clippings
Rough draft document of criticism for Caldwell's Figaro Jones
Canadian Opera Group
Casino in the Park
Central City Opera House, programs 1977, 1978
Chicago Opera
The Auditorium Theater, re-opening 1967, newspaper article clippings
The Auditorium Theater, re-opening 1967, booklets
The Auditorium Theater, documents of proposal for the renovation of the Auditorium
Theater
Connecticut Opera Association
Paper by Frank Pandolfi, "30 Years of Opera"
English National Opera
1984 performance of Rigoletto, newspaper clippings
Box 61
Glimmerglass Opera
1987 performance of Eugene Onegin, newspaper article clippings
Festival programs: 1985, 1987, 1988
Glyndebourne1992
Restoration, newspaper article clippings
Erté Costumes & Sets for Der Rosen Kavalier in full color (1980 Glyndebourne Festival
Production)
La Gran Scena Opera program, 1987
Komische Opera
Felsenstein
newspaper article clippings
1971 Felsenstein Lecture at Stony Brook
Komische Opera Calendar
Opera programs
Miscellaneous
Los Angeles Grand Opera Association
The Lyric Opera
"The Lyric Opera of Chicago:1954-1963, 20 years"
Programs 1956-1958, 1960-1961
Box 62
The Lyric Opera (continued)
Publicity 1953-1965
Reviews, newspaper clippings 1954-1965
NBC Opera Program
New York City Opera
Newspaper clippings
Miscellaneous
The Opera Company of Boston
Paris Opera
Newspaper clippings about the performances
Newspaper clippings about the controversy surrounding the opening of the Bastille
Opera
Newspaper clippings about the Palais Gardiner
The Royal Opera
Program from their 1984 performance in LA
Newspaper clippings from their 1984 performance in LA
Salzburg Opera
Program
Newspaper clippings
Box 63
The San Francisco Opera
Programs 1955, 1958
Fact sheet/pictorial brochure
Newspaper clippings, 1952
The Santa Fe Opera
"The First Twenty Years of the Santa Fe Opera"
La Scala Opera
Tulsa Opera
Programs, 1993, 1994
Vienna Volksoper (German text)
Programs, newspaper clippings
Wiener Staatsoper: "Vienna State Opera" (German text)
Mini picture foilo, post card, miscellaneous
Programs
Miscellaneous Theater Companies
American
European
Series 3 - Opera Festival Programs
Box 64
Bayreuth (German Text)
Wegweifer fur Befucher der Bayreuther Feftfpiele
Bayreuther Feftfpielfubrer
Bayreuther Feftfpielfubrer
Bayreuther Festspielbuch
Bayreuther Festspiele: Die Mitwirkenden
Bayreuther Festspiele: Die Mitwirkenden
Bayreuther Festspiele: Die Mitwirkenden
1960-1969 Bound Editions
Box 65
Bayreuth (German/English Text), 1955, 1957
1966 Bayreuther Festspiele: Die Mitwirkenden (bound text)
1967 Bayreuther Festspiele: Die Mitwirkenden (bound text)
1970-1982
Box 66
Bayreuth (German/English Text), 1983-1993
Central City Opera House, 1977-1978
Glimmerglass, 1985, 1987, 1988
European Festivals
Box 67
Glyndebourne, 1952, 1963
Box 68
Glyndebourne, 1964-1976
Box 69
Glyndebourne, 1977-1986
Box 70
Glyndebourne, 1987-1992
Glyndebourne Touring Opera
Miscellaneous
Mozart Festival, 1935
Lake George Opera Festival, 1967, 1973, 1975
Box 71
Opera Theatre of St. Louis
May 24-June 2, 1980
May 23-June 21, 1981
May 29-June 26, 1982
May 28-June 26, 1983
May 26-June 24, 1984
May 25-June 23, 1985
May 24-June 22, 1986
May 23-June 21, 1987
May 21-June 19, 1988
May 27-June 25, 1989
May 26-June 24, 1990
May 25-June 23, 1991
Box 72
Opera Theatre of St. Louis
May 22-June 21, 1992
May 21-June 20, 1993
May 21-June 26, 1994
May 20-June 24, 1995
May 25-June 29, 1996
Box 73
The Santa Fe Opera
July 2-August 23, 1975
July 5-August 26, 1978
June 28-August 23, 1980
July 3-August 23, 1981
July 3-August 28, 1982
July 1-August 27, 1983
June 30-August 25, 1984
June 29-August 24, 1985
June 28- August 24, 1986
July 1-August 29, 1987
July1-August 27, 1988
June 30-August 26, 1989
Box 74
The Santa Fe Opera
June 29-August 25, 1990
June 28-August 24, 1991
July 3-August 29, 1992 (c.1, c.2)
July 2-August 28, 1993
July1-August 27, 1994
June 30-August 26, 1995
June 28-August 24, 1996
June 27-August 23, 1987
The Williamstown Theatre
Series 4 - Venues
Box 75
Boston Theatre
Carnegie Hall
Casino Theatre
Earl Carroll
Fulton Opera House
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Music Center of Los Angeles
New Orleans Opera House
Trement Theater
Tulane
Series 5 - Memorabilia
Boxes 76-78
Opera China
Commemorative Tins
Box 79
Commemorative Scarves and Banners
English National Opera
1977 Royal Opera Performance in honor of Queen Elizabeth II
1978 Gala Performance of Opera and Ballet in the presence of their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Kent
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1929 (Gucci)
Metropolitan Opera House 1966
Box 79.1
Scrapbooks
4 Black Marble Scrapbooks containing Opera Clippings from 1945-46
Metropolitan Opera Programs
Cigarette cards
Box 79.2
Photographs
Autographed
Un-autographed
Ticket stubs
Subgroup II - Thomas G. Neumiller
Series 1- Scripts and Productions, 1964-1968
Box 80
Yale University Drama Production of Urfaust by Neumiller, 1964
Working scripts and translations
Final Production analysis of Urfaust
Historical Research
Costume design
Program
Pictures
Reviews
Box 81
I am a Camera: Neumiller's working script
One Hundred Years of Opera in Chicago
Paper written by Neumiller
Replika: Jozef Szajna
Essays and translations by Neumiller
Programs
Pictures
Correspondence
The Chesire Academy Dramatic Club's production of Mr. Roberts
program
reviews
Theater in the Rink
Trotwood
programs
reviews
Wheelock College Theatre
Programs
Pictures
Correspondence
Theatre 1967
Programs
Advertisements
Theatre 1968
Programs
Advertisements
Correspondence
Series 2 -Career at Stony Brook University, 1970-1995
Box 82
Stony Brook Theatre Productions directed by Thomas Neumiller: 1970-1979. Includes
production notes, programs, pictures, reviews, and personal correspondence concerning
the production
The Empire Builders
Waiting for Godot
The Bacchae
Tartuffe ou l' Imposteur
Peer Gynt
The Cherry Orchard
The Castle of Perserverance
The Contrast
A Midsummer's Night Dream
An Evening of Mime
Stony Brook Theatre Productions directed by Thomas Neumiller: 1980-1989. Includes
production notes, programs, pictures, reviews, and personal correspondence concerning
the production.
The Scarecrow
Under Milkwood
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Bus Stop
Light up the Sky
Our Town
Three Sisters
Terra Nova
Tartuffe
Madwoman of Chaillot
Talley's Folly On the Verge
Stony Brook Theatre Productions directed by Thomas Neumiller: 1990-1995. Includes
production notes, programs, pictures, reviews, and personal correspondence concerning
the production.
Eastern Standard
The Illusion
The Tempest
Brezhnev's Children
Burn This
Raft of the Medusa
Working Scripts and Production Notes
Miscellaneous Congratulations
Box 83
Stony Brook Opera Productions under the stage direction of Thomas Neumiller. Includes
programs, pictures, and reviews.
The Marriage Contract
Cosi Fan Tutte
Ipigenia in Tavris
La Finta Giardiniera
The Marriage of Figaro
Beatrice & Benedick
Don Pasquale
Tamerlano
The Magic Flute
The Wandering Scholar
Three Sisters who are not Sisters
Postcard from Morocco
Miscellaneous
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