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Herman Geiger-Torel collection

  • OTUFM 05
  • Collection
  • 1934-1976

Collection consists of Herman Geiger-Torel's library of piano-vocal scores, including his markings and notes for various opera productions, including performances that he directed in Troppau, Czechoslovakia; Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; Montevideo, Uruguay; Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janiero; Canadian Opera Company; and the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School.

Geiger-Torel, Herman

Fidelio / Ludwig van Beethoven

File consists of an annotated score, which includes additional typescript dialogue for a production by the Canadian Opera Company (COC). Carlos Alexander directed the first production of Beethoven's Fidelio in Toronto in 1970 with conductor Heinrich Bender. The production featured Anja Silja, soprano as Leonore and Glade Peterson, tenor as Florestan. Herman Geiger-Torel was general director of the COC at the time.

Norma / Vincenzo Bellini

File consists of an annotated score from a production with the Vancouver Opera Association (VOA) in October 1963 with [Joan] Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, John Alexander, Richard Cross, Karl Norman, and Betty Phillips, according to the inscription on the title page.

Rape of Lucretia / Benjamin Britten

File consists of an annotated score for a 1956 production in at the Stratford Festival with Jon Vickers, Jennie Tourel, Jan Rubes, Bernard Turgeon, Harry Mossfield, Regina Resnik, Patricia Rideout, and Adelaide Bishop. The production was conducted by Thomas Mayer with Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director.

Loreley / Alfredo Catalani

File consists of an annotated score for a production directed by Herman Geiger-Torel at Teatro Colón in 1934 with Giacomo Vaghi, bass as Rudolfo; Carlos Tagliabue, baritone as Hermann; Claudio Muzio as Loreley; Sara Menkes as Anna di Rehberg; and Pedro Mirassou as Walter.

Carmen / Georges Bizet

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.

The medium / Gian Carlo Menotti

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes for a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in April 1955, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Nicholas Goldschmidt, musical director and Mario Bernardi and Paul McIntyre, piano.

Cast: Patricia Rideout, Claudette LeBlanc, Joey Harris, Joan Augus, Marguerite Desjardins, James Whicher, Seweryn Weingort, Andrée Thériault, Suzette Nadon.

The old maid and the thief / Gian Carlo Menotti

File consists of an annotated score, possibly from a production by the Royal Conservatory Opera School in April 1952, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Nicholas Goldschmidt, musical director.

Performers: Joanne Ivey, Jean Edwards, Joan Hall, Andrew MacMillan.

Cosi fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

File consists of an annotated score with reviews of a Canadian Opera Company (COC) performance at the Shaw Festival Theatre in the St. Catherines Standard (December 10, 1973) and the rehearsal schedule for the COC's 1973-1974 tour. Rehearsals took place in the MacMillan Theatre. The production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

Performers (Cast A): Peter Milne as Don Alfonso ; Garnet Brooks as Ferrando ; Peter Barcza as Guglielmo ; Barbara Collier as Fiordiligi ; Carrol Anne Currey as Dorabella ; and Ann Cooper as Despina.

Performers (Cast B): Dagger ; Kathleen Ruddell ; [Janis] Orenstein ; John Arab ; Ronald Bermingham ; Jan Rubes.

The Abduction from the Seraglio = Die Entführung aus dem Serail / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

File consists of an annotated score and typescript copy of an adapted portion of the libretto for a production with the Opera Festival Association of Toronto in February-March 1957. The production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor; Hans Berends, set designer; Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Léopold Simoneau, Jan Rubes, Ernest Adams, Joseph Fürst, Edita Symonek, Pierette Alarie, Donald Bartle, Don McManus.

Lucia di Lammermoor / Gaetano Donizetti

File consists of an annotated score. The cast list is annotated with two sets of performers for productions directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

Cast A [likely at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires]: Carlo Tagliabue, baritone as Lord Enrico Asthon ; Lily Pons, soprano as Miss. Lucia di lui sorella ; Koloman von Pataky, tenor as Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood ; Alessio De Paolis, tenor as Lord Arturo Bucklaw ; Giacomo Vaghi, bass as Raimondo Bidebent ; Gabrielle Ritter, soprano as Alisa ; Gilbert, tenor as Normanno.

Cast B [names illegible].

The Merry Widow = Die lustige Witwe / Franz Lehár

File consists of an annotated score for two productions (October 1957 and September-October 1971) by the Canadian Opera Company (COC). The 1957 production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Ernesto Barbini, conductor; John Engel, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer. The 1971 production was directed by Leon Major with Victor Feldbrill, conductor; Murray Laufer, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

1957 Cast: Alan Crofoot, Andrew MacMillan, Marie Gauley, Karl Norman, Alexander Gray, Don McManus, Joanne Ivey, Harold Mossfield, Constance FIsher, Patricia Snell, Bernard Turgeon, Sylvia Grant, Elizabeth Mawson, Ernest Adams, Lesia Zubrack, Lillian Bozinoff, Joyce Hill, Igor Gavon, James Whicher.

1971 Cast: Alan Crofoot, Jan Rubes, Gwenlynn Little, John Arab, Alexander Gray, Don McManus, Sheila Piercey, Peter Milne, Sonia Rohozynsky, Allen Coates, Lynne Cantlon, John Reardon, Judith Lebane, Kathleen Ruddell,Herman Rombouts, Richard Braun, Clare Bewley.

The consul / Gian Carlo Menotti

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes, lighting cues, and stage designs for a production at the Guelph Spring Festival in 1973 and earlier productions in 1953 and 1954 with the Canadian Opera Company.

1973 production: Herman Geiger-Torel, director ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor ; William Lord, designer ; Jan Rubes, Milla Andrew, Allan Monk, Patricia Rideout, Judith Forst, Roxolana Roslak, Elizabeth Straus, Phil Stark, Ruth Ann Archibald, Don McManus, Allen Coates, cast.

1953 and 1954 productions: Herman Geiger-Torel, director ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor ; Hans Berends, set designer ; Suzanne Mess, costume designer ; Glenn Gardiner, Theresa Gray, Nellie Smith, Don Garrard, Andrew MacMillan, Joanne Ivey, Ernest Adams, Jan Rubes, Catherin Akos, Suzette Nadon, Louise Roy, Milla Andrew, Doreen Vogel, Andrée Thériault, Roma Butler, Ralph Roose, Bernard Turgeon, William Copland, Charles Couture, Clarence Fleiger, cast.

Cosi fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

File consists of an annotated score from a production for the 1973-1974 Canadian Opera Company tour. The production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

Performers (Cast A): Peter Milne as Don Alfonso ; Garnet Brooks as Ferrando ; Peter Barcza as Guglielmo ; Barbara Collier as Fiordiligi ; Carrol Anne Currey as Dorabella ; and Ann Cooper as Despina.

Performers (Cast B): Dagger ; [Kathleen] Ruddell ; [Janis] Orenstein ; Arab ; Bermingham ; [Jan] Rubes.

Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's lighting cue notes and stage design sketches. The score includes annotations for two productions directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

  1. 1970 production by the Canadian Opera Company (COC) with Victor Feldbrill and Alfred Strombergs, conductors; Lawrence Schäfer, set designer; abd Suzanne Mess, constume designer;
  2. 1974 production by the University of Toronto Opera Department with James Craig, conductor; Brian H. Jackson, set designer; Suzanne Mess, costume designer; Douglas Holder, lighting designer; and Michael Evans, assistant conductor.

Performers (1970): Jan Rubes, Eileen Schauler, Justino Diaz, Don McManus, GarnetBrooks, Heather Thomson, Gwen Little, Claude Corbeil.

Performers (1974): Robert Vigod, Douglas McEachen, Deborah Jeans, James Anderson, Jonas Vaskevicius, José Hernandez, Stephen Young, Marion Harvey, Carol Ann Looman, Constance Adorno, Barbara Carter, Guillermo Silva, Robert Mang.

Gianni Schicchi / Giacomo Puccini

File consists of an annotated score from a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in April 1957, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor and Mario Bernardi and Paul Timan, pianos.

Performers: Bernard Turgeon, Anne Stephenson, Teresa Stratas, Kathryn Buchanan, Margaret Briggs, Donald Bartle, Brian Beaton, Sheila Piercey, Lucie Dombrowski, James St. Lawrence, Ted Moskal, Victor Braun, Kenneth Brown, Lillian Bozinoff, Carolyn Leonard, Alan Crofoot, William Bourns, Glyndon Bowie, and Ossyp Hoshulak.

Salome / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes from a 1965 performance and three photographs of the set and one of the opera singers. Annotations include a handwritten cast list from another, likely earlier, performance. The 1965 production for the Canadian Opera Company (COC) was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Wolfgang Martin, conductor; Brian Jackson, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers (1965): Garnet Brooks, Darlene Hirst, Donald Young, Maurice Brown, David Geary, Margaret Tynes, Roxolana Roslak, Joanna Myhal, Royce Reaves, Phil Stark, Arlene Meadows, Thomas Park, Danny Tait, Ian Garratt, Wallace Williamson, Tito Dean, Oskar Raulfs, Ermanno Mauro, Abbot Anderson.

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