Opera Libretti and Stage Sets
Essex - contains a total of 903 libretti, mainly of nineteenth-century
European operas. A few American items such as Bristow's Rip van Winkle and Damrosch's The Scarlet Letter are included. Most of the
libretti are American imprints.
Tollefsen - contains 351 libretti and a substantial number of opera scores.
Mohr - unique to the Mohr collection are over two hundred original sketches of stage settings
and costumes for European opera productions of the works of contemporary composers.
E-mail comments and inquiries about the Cinema Music to Therese Dickman at
tdickma@siue.edu or call 618-650-2695.
http://www.siue.edu/~tdickma
Library and Information Services
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Updated by Kristin Walker
March 2005