Content Description

The Marie Blanchard papers consist of correspondence, greeting cards, performance programs, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting Marie’s involvement in Boise’s performing arts organizations including Boise Music Week, Boise Little Theatre, and Boise Civic Opera.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records documenting the history of Opera Idaho including the evolution of the organization through name changes, its production and event history, and early activities of the organization’s supporting body, Boise Opera Guild. Materials are largely textual, comprising organizing documents, correspondence, meeting notes and minutes, financial material, clippings, brochures, mailers, posters, and programs. The collection contains other formats including photographs,...

Scope and Contents

This collection contains several pages from a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings about Boise Civic Opera productions from 1971-1976, a program for Cavalleria Rusticana (1971) and The Marriage of Figaro (1976), two photographs of Patricia Wilcomb in costume for Madame Butterfly (1949), one photograph of her in costume for The Marriage of Figaro (1976), and one photograph of her in costume for Cavalleria Rusticana (1971).