Glyndebourne Production Correspondence, The Beggar’s Opera, 1939 - 1940, M Correspondents

Reference code
G/CC/9/1/11
Level
File
Title
Glyndebourne Production Correspondence, The Beggar’s Opera, 1939 - 1940, M Correspondents
Date
1939 - 1940
Quantity & Format
110 letters, 09 documents
Repository
Glyndebourne Archive
Creator(s)
Bing, Rudolf KBE (Sir)
McBean, Angus
Motley
Gielgud, John (Sir)
Scope and content
Contains correspondence with -
Rita Mackay (06 letters, including copy contract)

Suria Magito (10 letters)

Juliette Magny, Wardrobe Mistress and Head Dresser (20 letters, 06 documents)
Documents = Handwritten list of ladies & men’s costumes for The Beggar’s Opera; Typed list
of ladies costumes; Typed list of men’s costumes; Typed list of props; typed list of scenery; Typed list of electrical equipment missing or broken

Jose Malone (01 letter)

Christopher Martin, Arts Department Dartington Hall (06 letters)

Arthur Mason, Australian Broadcasting Commission (03 letters)

Julia Mayo (01 letter)

Angus McBean, Photographer (01 letter, 01 document)
[Document = Invoice]

Rosemary Michael (01 letter, copy contract)

Aubrey St. John Mildmay (03 letters)

Martin Miller, The Viennese Theatre Club (02 letters)

Alison Moat (02 letter)

Appleton Moore (01 letter)

Audrey Moore (01 letter)

Motley Ltd (35 letters, 02 documents)
[Documents = Estimates 07 December 1939; Additions to Original Estimate 30 December 1939]

Rudolf Bing writes, 07 November 1939, “You agree to provide all designs for scenery and costume for our Production of the “Beggar’s Opera”, with Mr. John Gielgud as Producer.”

Eileen Culshaw, the Motley Ltd Secretary, writes, 17 November 1939, “May I assure you of my complete co-operation in order that the first agreement between Glyndebourne and the Motleys may be to your complete satisfaction and the beginning of many others.”

Martin Mudie (09 letters)

Musicians Union (08 letters)
Content event
Opera: GTO 1940 The Beggar's Opera (1940)
Content other
The Beggar's Opera (New production)
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