War Memorial Opera House
Not the actual site of the Archive
Earlier this year, San Francisco Opera's performance archive went back on line after an upgrade to modern technology. An anonymous donor provided funding for the upgrade.
San Francisco Opera provided some addition information to me. The donor's gift, of $1 million, came in the middle of 2024, and provides support in multiple areas:
- The new Performance Archive Database.
- The migration/digitization of at-risk legacy A/V formats that date from the 1970s-1990s/early 2000s.
- The Oral History Program, done in collaboration with the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley.
- The Archive more generally given that it takes a chunk of archivist Barbara Rominski's time to make the above happen.
Of the gift and the donor, Barbara Rominski said "I can’t begin to express just how grateful I am for this donor and their commitment to the Company, and particularly the Archives. Through our conversations over the past years, they have really listened and understood how urgent it is to care for the items already in the archival collections, but that we also have a responsibility/role to play in creating content that captures the people of the Company and their stories, not just the artifacts left behind."
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