Gift of Luryier Diamond

The Luryier Diamond Collection contains 1850 reel-to-reel tapes of broadcast and live performances of classical music and opera dating from the 1930s through the 1990s that are unavailable as published recordings. Performances of the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and the Teatro la Fenice are among the organizations found in the Collection which includes many unusual and rarely performed operas. All of the most important opera singers from the golden age of opera are represented in this collection resulting from a life-long interest in the world's greatest music and operas.