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ReferenceCRS/17/1/1

Title

Album of photographs of Joan Cross: early life and career

Date1900s to 1945

DescriptionThis album includes photographs of Sadler's Wells Theatre, of Cross as a child, with colleagues and in some of her roles.
The photographs of her in some of her roles are mostly in chronological order;
Mercedes in Carmen 1924; Elsa in Lohengrin 1928; Desdemona in Othello 1929; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni 1929; Marguerite in Faust 1930; Madame Butterfly 1929; Lady Macbeth; Rosalinda in die Fledermaus; Mimi in La Bohème; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni 1932; Gilda in Rigoletto; The Countess in The Marriage of Figaro; The Travelling Companion; Tannhäuser; the Marschallin in der Rosenkavalier; La Traviata; Cosi fan tutte.
There are typewritten labels for many photos, some naming friends or fellow performers, including Lawrance Collingwood, Florence Austral, Edith Coates, Anne Wigley, Harry Lloyd and Peter Pears.
There is a small pencil drawing of a "shoe for the Countess drawn by Whistler" for The Marriage of Figaro.
Press cuttings are included about Cross in Figaro; an article from the Tatler about The Beggar's Opera, 1941; from The Queen about Cross, 1945 ('Portrait of a Prima Donna').

Extent1 volume

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