File 5 - Carmen / Georges Bizet

Identity area

Reference code

OTUFM 05-5

Title

Carmen / Georges Bizet

Date(s)

1966 (Creation)
1958 (Publication)

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File

Extent and medium

1 vocal score (391 pages)

Context area

Name of creator

Geiger-Torel, Herman

(1907-1976)

Repository

University of Toronto Music Library

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File consists of an annotated score for a Canadian Opera Company production. Herman Geiger-Torel directed a touring COC production of Carmen in January-April 1966 with George Brough, conductor; William Lord, set designer; Warren Hartman, costume designer.

Performers: Sheila Piercey, Jeannette Zarou, Guy Lavoie, Jean Louis Pellerin, Oskar Raulfs, Marija Kova, June Genovese, Geneviève Perrault, Constance Fisher, Kathryn Newman, Elsie Sawchuk, Roland Richard, Donald Young, Thomas Park, and Wallace Williamson.

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Language of material

French
English

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Uploaded finding aid

otufm05-herman-geiger-torel.pdf

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Publication note

Schirmer, 1958. Ed. 421. Pl.no. 12117

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Note

Herman Geiger-Torel also directed a production of Carmen at the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in February-March 1956 with Ernesto Barbini, conductor; Robert Prévost, set designer; Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Alexander Gray, Marguerite Lavergne, Jon Vickers, Andrew MacMillan, Regina Resnik, Joanne Ivey, Patricia Snell, Patricia Rideout, Robert Savoie, Bernard Turgeon, Ernest Adams.