- Additional Authors
- Terry, Walter
- Description
- One streaming audio file (approximately 45 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 45 minutes). Violette Verdy speaks with Walter Terry about her position as artistic director of the Opéra de Paris ballet including the company's repertoire; planning the company's upcoming programs; problems with the company; the need for greater corporate support for the dancers; her goal of what she calls relative autonomy for the company; her relationship with [Rolf] LIebermann; the relationship of the ballet company with the opera company; the circumstances leading to her appointment as artistic director; her training including her brief period as a student at the Opéra de Paris ballet; Claude Bessy; the challenges Verdy faces; the relationship of the government with the opera company including Jacques Chirac's role in preventing its closure by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Walter Terry.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Violette Verdy conducted by Walter Terry on November 17, 1976 in Paris, France.
- Sound quality is very good.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Funding (note)
- The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-841
- OCLC
- 957776955
- Author
Verdy, Violette, 1933-2016, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Violette Verdy, 1976
- Production
1976
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Event
Recorded by Walter Terry 1976 Paris (France)
- Funding
The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound cassette (approximately 45 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3841_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-841
- Source
Gift Walter Terry
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Terry, Walter, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-841