Keywords: document text writing plaque monochrome Flier programme is an arrangement of text, some ornate, with a simple decorative border. Various personnel are named: Mr W S Lyster (director), Mr George Musgrove (acting manager), Signor Alberto Zelman (musical director and conductor), Mr Arthur Howell (stage manager). Performers were: Mr G Verdi, Signor Leandro Coy, Mr C H Templeton, Mr G A Johnson, Miss Bessie Royal, Signora Margherita Venosta. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on flier, 215 x 147 mm. New Zealand Times Company Ltd. Theatre Royal (Wellington) :Lyster's Royal Italian & English Opera, under the patronage of His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, K.C.M.G, and the Hon Lady Robinson ... this evening (Thursday) 26th Feb ... Donizetti's grand opera "La Favorita". Friday evening 27th February "La traviata". Printed at the office of "The New Zealand Times" [1880]. [Ephemera and theatre programmes for performances of opera and light musicals in New Zealand in the 1880s].. Ref: Eph-A-OPERA-1880-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/22888314 Flier programme is an arrangement of text, some ornate, with a simple decorative border. Various personnel are named: Mr W S Lyster (director), Mr George Musgrove (acting manager), Signor Alberto Zelman (musical director and conductor), Mr Arthur Howell (stage manager). Performers were: Mr G Verdi, Signor Leandro Coy, Mr C H Templeton, Mr G A Johnson, Miss Bessie Royal, Signora Margherita Venosta. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on flier, 215 x 147 mm. New Zealand Times Company Ltd. Theatre Royal (Wellington) :Lyster's Royal Italian & English Opera, under the patronage of His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, K.C.M.G, and the Hon Lady Robinson ... this evening (Thursday) 26th Feb ... Donizetti's grand opera "La Favorita". Friday evening 27th February "La traviata". Printed at the office of "The New Zealand Times" [1880]. [Ephemera and theatre programmes for performances of opera and light musicals in New Zealand in the 1880s].. Ref: Eph-A-OPERA-1880-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/22888314 |