Lida Brodenova Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, awards, travel accounts, opera and recital programs, clippings, photographs, diaries, postcards, reviews, scrapbooks, photo albums, tape and phono recordings. Much of the collection is in Czech, and is separated into personal and professional categories.
Dates
- Creation: 1917-1992
Creator
- Brodenova, Lida (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
The diaries of Boris Brodenov, in the collection of papers of Lida Brodenova, housed in the SDSU Library, may contain sensitive references to the personal lives of Lida Brodenova and Boris Brodenov. Researchers must agree that discretion will be used in the research and publication of such passages. Embarrassing or defamatory work will be avoided.
Conditions Governing Use
The copyright interests in some or all of these materials have not been transferred to San Diego State University. Copyright resides with the creator(s) of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. The nature of archival collections is such that multiple creators are often applicable and copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. In any case, the user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, obtaining publication rights and copyright infringement. When requesting images from Special Collections & University Archives for publication, we require a signed agreement waiving San Diego State University of any liability in the event of a copyright violation.
Biographical Note
Lida Brodenova, born in Czechoslovakia in 1902, was a performer and producer of Czech operas. Early on she began playing the piano and taking singing lessons, with the Czech soprano Emma Destinnova as her inspiration. She studied under Leos Janacek, with her principal voice teacher Sigmund Auspitzer at the Music Conservatory in Brno, Czechoslovakia. She began her career in the French theatre in Brno, and spent most of the 1930s performing operettas in various German and Czech troupes.
In 1940 Lida and her husband Boris, who was Jewish, emigrated to America to avoid persecution. Once in America Lida began performing on the radio in New York. It was the beginning of a long career in the theatre in which she performed, wrote, and taught Czech repertory. She died at the age of eighty-eight in 1990.
Extent
12.50 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
I. Biographies, Writings, Etc.
II. Correspondence, ca. 1930s-1988
III. Personal
IV. Performance and Production Material
V. Scrapbooks of Performances
VI. Photographs
VII. Unsorted, Unclassified Miscellany
VIII. Audio Recordings
IX. Boris Brodenov Personal
Source of Acquisition
Sokol Washington and Dr. Judith Fiehler
Accruals and Additions
1992-001
Subject
- Brodenova, Lida (Person)
- Brodenová, Lida--Archives (Person)
- Brodenov, Boris--Diaries (Person)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Lida Brodenova Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 06/01/1994
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections & University Archives Repository