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Salome / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with notes from a 1965 performance by the Canadian Opera Company, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Wolfgang Martin, conductor; Brian Jackson, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: 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.

Elektra / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with production notes from the September-October 1969 production by the Canadian Opera Company (COC), including stage plans and a photograph of the set. The COC production was directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Heinrich Bender, conductor; Lawrence Schäfer, set design; and Marie Day, costume design.

Performers: Joan Maxwell, Kathryn Newman, Leah Werman, Dodi Protero, Elsie Sawchuk, Stephanie Gerson, Astrid Varnay, Eileen Schauler, Mignon Dunn, Sonia Rohozynsky, Lorna Hearst, Paul Trépanier, Steven Henrikson, Richard Mundt, Heran Rombouts, Phil Stark.

Ariadne auf Naxos / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with lighting cue notes and a stage plan for a production of Ariadne auf Naxos. English translation handwritten into the score. Herman Geiger-Torel directed the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School's English-language production in March 1969 with Ernesto Barbini, conductor and Murray Laufer, designer.

Performers: Steven Henrikson, James Bradford, Avo Kittask, George Reinke, Lorna Hearst, Elizabeth Douglas, Wilmer Neufeld, Peter Barcza, Stephanie Gerson, Mary Lou Fallis, Nancy Gottschalk, Margaret Zeidman, Paul Trepanier, Gerard Boyd, Steven Henrikson, Frederick Donaldson, Ralph Oostwoud, Igor Saika-Voivod, Ricki Turofsky, Helen Grant, Sonia Rohozynsky, Silvia Buchanan, Clare Bewley, Michele Dowsett.

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.

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