The Rokahr Family Archive
The Rokahr Family Archive, donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln by Jack Rokahr, houses an eclectic collection of over 4,500 scores of operas, operettas, and musicals dating from 1764 to current issues. All major opera composers from this period, and many minor ones, are represented in the collection.
The archive includes:
- A major collection of French and Italian composers, with the complete works of Auber, Audran, Bruneau, Hervé, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Massenet, Messager, Offenbach, Puccini, Respighi, Varney, Verdi, and Zandonai, as a few examples
- A major section of 19th and 20th century German and Austrian composers
- A fine collection of 18th century full scores by Grétry, Gluck, Monsigny, Philidor, Piccini, Rousseau, and Sacchini, many of which are first or early editions
- Scores from Danish, Polish, Brazilian, Czech, Swedish, Finnish, American, English and other composers
- A significant section containing librettos and French livrets, including several volumes of the works of Eugène Scribe
- French opera posters of Cheret and Chaix from the 1860s through the 1880s
- A major collection of André Gill caricatures of theater and musical personalities of Paris of the 1860s and 1870s
- LP opera recordings from 1950 to 1985, as well as CDs, videocassettes, and tape recordings of live opera performances
See a current list of the Rokahr Family Archive through the UNL Libraries online catalog.
