Production files relating to "The Mines of Sulphur" by Richard Rodney Bennett with set and costume design by Joe Vaněk. Produced at the Wexford Festival Opera in 2008, directed by Michael Barker-Caven and conducted by Stewart Robinson.
File 1 contains printed emails between Vaněk and Michael Barker-Caven (February - April 2008) and which include discussions regarding design for set and costumes by Vaněk for the opera, also includes images sourced by Vaněk in his research and design for the opera. Discussion detail how the design develops, how the opera will be directed and how the design can reflect the aim of the production. The email print-outs also include images of set model boxes and costume designs for "The Mines of Sulphur" originally as email attachments, by Vaněk and sent to Barker-Caven.
File 2 includes outsize technical drawings of the set design, drawn by Vaněk for "The Mines of Sulphur". Other assorted drawings include manuscript pencil and ink drawings of the set by Vaněk; print-outs of colour photographs of the set design and model box by Vaněk; and also a printed technical schedule for the week-by-week production of "The Mines of Sulphur" at Wexford Festival Opera.
File 3 includes further research documents retained by Vaněk in his design of "The Mines of Sulphur", includes colour photographs of characters from literature/film/theatre; images of furniture and artefacts such as at the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, images of historical plague doctors, internet biographies of Richard Rodney Bennett, and other related research documents.
