The technical files include the following items:
- technical schedules; rehearsal schedules;
- electrics setting, cues and running plots; electrics layouts; master electric board plots;
- sound operators plots; sound cues; stage and sound running plots;
- lighting layouts; lighting plots; lighting cues and running plots; spot settings;
- flying plots; hanging plots; cueing plots;
- stage and set plans; ground plans; orchestra pit layouts and furniture marks plans;
- prop lists; props running plots; property setting lists and plots; prop and set designs;
- property, scenery, wardrobe and electrical inventories; property packing plot; tour inventories;
- chorus and costume breakdowns; costume running orders; wardrobe lists; make up requirements;
- stage management running lists; cast lists; curtain calls and dressing room lists;
- correspondence
Each work file contains some, but usually not all, of the items listed above.
There are files for Britten and non-Britten works as follows;
Mozart: La finta giardiniera 1976
Mozart: La finta giardiniera 1979
Mozart: Idomeneo 1970, 1973 (including programme book material)
Mozart: Magic Flute 1977
Monteverdi: Return of Ulysses 1970 (production not done)
Britten: Curlew River from 1964
Britten: The Prodigal Son 1968
Britten: The Prodigal Son 1968, 1969, 1970 Orford
Britten: Curlew River 1975
Britten: Church Operas 1965, 1969, 1979 Tours, France
Britten: The Burning Fiery Furnace 1979 Tours, France
Britten: Church Operas (ground plans)
Britten: Church Operas (tracing and prints)
Britten: Church Operas (general)
Britten: Church Operas 1967-1970
Britten: Church Operas 1979 Orford
Britten: Curlew River 1975
Britten: The Burning Fiery Furnace 1979
Britten: Curlew River 1979
Britten: Church Operas Tour 1979
Britten: The Beggar’s Opera, The Prodigal Son, A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1967
Britten: Albert Herring 1977
Britten: Death in Venice 1973 (including Edinburgh and Brussels), Death in Venice 1975 (Venice, Brussels, New York, UK), Royal Opera House 1973-1978, 1978
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1971
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1980
Britten: Paul Bunyan, 1976 (including correspondence with publisher and corrections to vocal score)
Britten: Paul Bunyan, 1976
Britten: Let’s Make an Opera 1965
Britten: Noye’s Fludde 1971
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1961-1964 (Aldeburgh, Rosehill, Russia)
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1972 Snape
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1972-1973
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1971 Sadler’s Wells
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1973 Sadler’s Wells
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1973 Geneva
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1973 UK Tour
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1976, Snape
Britten: The Turn of the Screw 1976
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 1969-1970 Sadler’s Wells, Snape Maltings
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 1960-1966 (Aldeburgh, Zurich, Edinburgh, Russia, UK Tour)
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 1963-1969
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia 1963, 1968-1970
Britten: Albert Herring and Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, 1962
Berkeley: Castaway and Walton: The Bear 1967
Minoru Miki: An Actor’s Revenge 1979
Henze: La Cubana 1978
Rossini: Cinderella: 1976, Snape
Gardener: The Visitors, 1972
Williamson: English Eccentrics, 1964
Conrad Susa: Transformations 1978
Weill: Threepenny opera, 1976
Holst: Savitri and The Wandering Scholar 1974
Sullivan: Trial by Jury and Tchaikovsky: Iolanta (as Yolande) 1973
Handel: Acis and Galatea and Mozart: The Impressario 1966
Sadler’s Wells Season 1976
Tour 1977
Purcell: The Fairy Queen 1977-1978
Purcell: King Arthur, 1971
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1977-1978 (including Colin Graham’s edited script – typescript with manuscripts edits, 1977)
Puccini: La Rondine
Oliver: Tom Jones 1976 (includes prop designs and drawings, and set plans)
Musgrave: The Voice of Ariadne, 1974 (including correspondence concerning redesigns for Act II)