Location: California--Santa Monica / Names: Santa Monica Civic Opera Association - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Scene in a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "Lucia di Lammermoor" with Kay Marshall as Lucia (center), and Ray Gagan, Enrico Porta and Natalie Garrotto (all on the right).
Date:: [circa 1950-1951]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "La Traviata" with about 4 women in skirts and peasant blouses, center stage, dancing, with about 14 other cast members, in formal dress, seated and standing at stage edges, with a few orchestra members visible below straight edge of stage.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Kay Marshall performing as Gilda in a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of “Rigoletto.” Marshall wears a dress with a lace neckline and gold embroidery at the collar, cuffs, and waist. She also wears an embroidered velvet headpiece. She sits on a bench in the middle of a walled garden and mimes knitting with needles and an embroidery hoop. Background flats are painted to mimic stone walls- one with an open door, another with an open archway. Two performers can be seen from behind the scenery at left.
Date:: November 26, 1949-December 4, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View of June Moss (left) and 15 members of the ensemble cast at the opening of "La Traviata" with members of the orchestra in the foreground orchestra pit.
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Enrico Porta, as Rigoletto, and Ray Gagan, as the Duke of Mantua, performing with other cast members in “Rigoletto" The singers wear costumes evoking 16th century attire - the female singers wear long gowns with full skirts and full, round sleeves. The men wear stockings, doublet-inspired tunics, ruff collars, and baldrics (for holding a sword) around the waist. Porta (L) and Gagan stand at center stage and sing with cast members standing behind them. The stage set represents a room in the Duke’s palace complete with a throne (an ornate wooden chair covered with a canopy, placed on an elevated platform). The walls are built with faux columns and crests mounted on them. Musicians are viewed in the orchestra pit at foreground.
Date:: November 26, 1949-December 4, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Opera singer Enrico Porta in costume as Rigoletto. Porta wears an embroidered velvet tunic with stockings. Perhaps photographed at John Adams Auditorium.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of Santa Monica Civic Opera singer Laurin Malcolm, in costume as Count Monterone from a production of “Rigoletto.” He wears an embellished tunic with ruff collar and cuffs, belt and stockings.
Date:: November 26, 1949-December 4, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Santa Monica Civic Opera singers performing in "The Barber of Seville." The singers, wearing 18th century Spanish clothing, portray Count Almavida (dressed as a soldier), Bartolo, and Rosina (portrayed by Natalie Garrotto). The players are surrounded by a stage set recreating a room in Bartolo’s home. The set, painted with decorative paneled walls and a faux fireplace, is also decorated with end tables, chairs, a curtained window and candelabras. A pianist is visible from the orchestra pit. Performed at John Adams Junior High School, Santa Monica.
Date:: December 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of Santa Monica Civic Opera singer Laurin Malcolm, in costume as Count Monterone from a production of “Rigoletto.” He wears an embellished tunic with ruff collar and cuffs, belt and stockings.
Date:: November 26, 1949-December 4, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of Santa Monica Civic Opera singer Laurin Malcolm, in costume as Count Monterone from a production of “Rigoletto.” He wears an embellished tunic with ruff collar and cuffs, belt and stockings.
Date:: November 26, 1949-December 4, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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