Elemer Nagy collection
Scope and Contents
The majority of the collection consists of materials pertaining to the creation of opera sets and costumes designed by Elemer Nagy throughout his career as an opera director and stage designer. These materials include colorful drawings, sketches, and tracings of set and costume designs, as well as production notes and large lantern slides he created to project scenery.
The collection also includes photographs of his opera productions, as well as of Nagy, his colleagues, and photographs used for his work. The collection also consists of publicity materials, correspondence and other papers, as well as opera programs and in some cases the designs for the program artwork. There are also two costumes designed by Nagy in the collection.
Dates
- 1923-2002
- undated
- Majority of material found within 1935-1971
Creator
- Nagy, Elemer, 1906-1971 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to all researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
The materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (U.S. Code: Title 17). Any use of the material which exceeds fair use requires permission from the copyright holder. Researchers are solely responsible for obtaining the proper permission(s) for their use of the material.
Biographical Note
Elemer Nagy was born in 1906 in Kezdivasarhely, Hungary. He was a multitalented member of the Hartt faculty. As director, set designer, and costume designer, Nagy was the main creative talent behind Hartt Opera productions from 1942-1971.
Extent
42.9 Linear Feet (132 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains the works and papers of Elemer Nagy throughout his career as an opera director from 1923-1971. The materials include his set and costume designs, production notes, correspondence and various subject files, as well as a collection of large scenery slides he designed and created for his multi-screen projection system.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in nine series: I. Set and Costume Designs, II. Scenery Slides, III. Production Notes, IV. Photographs, V. Subject Files, VI. Publicity and Scrapbooks, VII. Opera Programs, Printed Ephemera, and Their Designs, VIII. Artifacts, and IX. Duplicates.
Existence and Location of Copies
A small portion of the collection has been digitized and is available at http://hdl.handle.net/11134/550002:arch125
Processing Information
Processed by Unknown [likely Ethel Bacon and Margaret Mair] by 2007; Reprocessed by Amanda Talbot (2018), Sean Parke (2018-2019), and Joseph Spence (2018-2019).
The title of this collection in the original finding aid was unclear, so it was given the title "Elemer Nagy papers and opera collection" in 2015 when it was transcribed to ArchivesSpace because it described the two series of the collection at the time. During the 2018 reprocessing the original title was found to be the "Elemer Nagy Collection," and the name was changed back.
- Correspondence
- Costume design
- Costume designers
- Hartt College of Music
- Hartt Opera-Theater Guild
- Opera
- Opera -- Production and direction
- Opera -- Stage-setting and scenery
- Photographs
- Set designers
- blueprints (reprographic copies)
- costumes (character dress)
- design drawings
- lantern slides
- slides (photographs)
Creator
- Nagy, Elemer, 1906-1971 (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Elemer Nagy collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Ethel Bacon and Margaret Mair, 2007; Transcribed to ArchivesSpace from Word document by Tiffany Crawford, 2016; Joseph Spence and Sean Parke, 2018-2019.
- Date
- 2016-01-05
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Hartford Archives & Special Collections Repository
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford CT 06117 United States
860-768-4143
archives@hartford.edu