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La Bohème / Giacomo Puccini

Item is an annotated copy of the piano-vocal score for the English version of the opera by William Grist and Percy Pinkerton. The score is autographed by Andrew MacMillan and annotated for a performance by Jean Patterson, Mary Hayes, Glen Burns, Selma Bial, Jean Brown, Annabel Lister, and others. Item includes a list of props and curtain calls.

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.

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.

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.

Götterdämmerung / Richard Wagner

File consists of an annotated score and annotated stage plans for a Canadian Opera Company (COC) production. Herman Geiger-Torel directed a COC production of Götterdämmerung in September 1973 with Heinrich Bender, conductor; Murray Laufer, set designer; and Marie Day, costume designer.

Performers: Jean Cox, Ingrid Bjoner, William Wildermann, Lili Chookasian, Janos Tessenyi, Barbara Collier, Eleanor James, Barbara Collier, Jeannette Zarou, Roxolana Roslak, Severin Weingort.

Deirdre / Healey Willan

File consists of an annotated copy of the manuscript score. Herman Geiger-Torel directed the Canadian Opera Company (COC) production in September-October 1966 and a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in April 1965. Both productions were conducted by Ettore Mazzoleni with Lawrence Schäfer, set designer (for COC), set and costume designer (for Opera School); and William Lord, costume designer (for COC).

Opera School performers (1965): Oskar Raulfs, Donald Young, David Geary, Genevieve Perreault, Jeannette Zarou, Lilian Sukis, Ermanno Mauro, Paul Brown, Thomas Park, Ian Garratt, Herman Rombouts, Lloyd Dean, Maida Rogerson, Nancy Greenwood, Asdghig Shakarian, Marcelle Zonta.

COC performers (1966): Howell Glynne, Bernard Turgeon, Oskar Raulfs, Patricia Rideout, Jeannette Zarou, Gianni Savelli, Richard Braun, Thomas Park, Howard Mawson, Maurice Brown, Nancy Greenwood, Nancy Gottschalk, Maida Rogerson.

La Gioconda / Amilcare Ponchielli

Item is an annotated copy of the piano-vocal score for the English version of the opera, translated and adapted by Henry Hersee and Waldo Lyman, arranged for voice and piano by Michele Saladino. The score is autographed by Andrew MacMillan and excerpts are annotated for a performance.

Tosca / Gioacomo Puccini

Item is an annotated copy of the piano-vocal score for the English version of the opera, translated and adapted by W. Beatty-Kingston and arranged for voice and pianoforte by Carlo Carignani. The score is autographed by Andrew MacMillan and annotated for a performance with Connie as Floria Tosca, Clarke Alkins as Mario Cavaradossi, Ross as Cesare Angelotti, [Russell] Braun as A Sacristan, Robb as Spoletta, Boon as Sciarrone, Calandrillo as A Gaoler, and Blahewan as A Shepherd-Boy.

The Bartered Bride / Bedrich Smetana

Item is an annotated copy of the piano-vocal score for the English version of the opera, translated by Rosa Newmarch. The score is autographed by Andrew MacMillan and annotated for a performance. The score includes sketches of set designs on the flyleaves.

Orchestrations

Subseries consists of parts from dance band orchestrations used by Harry Culley during his time as conductor of the Royal York Orchestra (1929-1930) and as Music Director at the Royal Alexandra Theatre (1948-1955). Many of the parts are annotated for performance, and some files include manuscript parts copied by Harry Culley.

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