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Orpheus in der Unterwelt : burleske Oper in 2 Aufzügen [promptbook]

Item Information

Creator

Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Contributor

Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943

Date

1900s

Rights

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Collection

Max Reinhardt Promptbooks

Description

All text in German, pages loose throughout the book, some pages tattered. Markings in black pencil, black pen, pink pen, red pencil, blue pencil, and green pencil, all unspecified.
Included are stage sketches/directions/instructions, dialogue rewrites and sketch of "Bed with Canopy." Most markings in black pencil, stage directions in black pen.
Most notes are crosses out of dialogue, rewrites of dialogue, or stage directions. Repeated references to other page numbers throughout Act IV, possible reordering. Includes a number of loose pages throughout the promptbook as well as two brown graphing paper note sheets which seem to include music list for play, broken down by act.
Also includes small envelope, which seems to include music list for play, broken down by act, with songs numbered (25 total), in black pen. Typewritten section from Act I contains markings in black pencil.

Dimensions

Pages 1-155
28.25cm x 21cm

Production(s)

Possibly produced in Sweden
-Supporting materials: Box 4A Folder 15: Photographs

Notes

Located in Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections
PT2635.E548P75 v.13

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Who is Max Reinhardt? The celebrated Austrian theater director Max Reinhardt, recognized in America primarily for his elaborate productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Franz Werfel’s The Eternal Road, and Karl Vollmoeller’s The Miracle, was born in 1873 at Baden near Vienna, Austria and died in New York City in… More

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Citation

Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880, “Orpheus in der Unterwelt : burleske Oper in 2 Aufzügen [promptbook],” Digital Collections, accessed April 24, 2024, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1684.