What's online?
The online collection is composed of photographs documenting the Martins’ careers in opera. The collection includes portraits of Ruth and Thomas Martin, headshots signed by artists who worked with them, publicity photographs, images of rehearsals, and backstage photographs from the 1930s into the 1990s.
What's in the entire collection?
In addition to photographs, the Ruth and Thomas Martin Archive contains correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, musical scores with handwritten markings and translations, drafts of the Martins’ translations, annotated scores and scripts used in performances, clippings, and reviews.
About Ruth and Thomas Martin.
Ruth Martin (1914-2000) and Thomas Martin (1909-1984) were a husband-and-wife team who translated over 40 opera librettos from European languages into English. In the years before the projection of translations as supertitles above opera stages, their translated librettos were regularly performed in opera houses throughout the English-speaking world and featured in numerous television and radio broadcasts. As a conductor, Thomas was affiliated with the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City Opera, St. Louis Opera, Central City Opera, Lake George Opera, and many other companies.
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