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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.

Parsifal / Richard Wagner

File consists of an annotated score that previously belonged to Herman Geiger-Torel's mother Rosy Geiger-Kullman. The score is annotated for an unspecified production and includes pages of loose notes by Herman Geiger-Torel. Performers names are handwritten on the cast page.

Heloise and Abelard / Charles Wilson

File consists of an annotated copy of the manuscript score, autographed by the composer to Herman Geiger-Torel with four loose pages of Geiger-Torel's notes. Geiger-Torel was the general director of the Canadian Opera Company when this opera was commissioned premiered in September 1973. Leon Major directed the production with Victor Feldbrill, conductor; Murray Laufer, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Heather Thomson, Allan Monk, Don McManus, Emile Belcourt, Patricia Rideout, Phil Stark, Ronald Bermingham, Garnet Brooks, Jacques Lareau, Alan Crofoot, Donald Oddie, Peter Barcza, John Arab, James Anderson, Bruce Kelly, John Dodington, Kathleen Ruddell, Richard Braun, and Jill Pert.

Die vier Grobiane = I Quattro rusteghi / Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

File consists of an annotated score with a handwritten English libretto and photographs of the actors on stage with the set from a February-March 1954 Canadian Opera Company (COC) production that Herman Geiger-Torel directed with Ernesto Barbini, conductor; Hans Berends, set designer; and Suzanne Mess, costume designer.

Performers: Evelyn Gould, Joanne Ivey, Andrew MacMillan, Bernard Turgeon, Sylvia Grant, Patricia Rideout, Phyllis Mailing, Jon Vickers, Glenn Gardiner, Mary Morrison, James Milligan, Ernest Adams, Lesia Zubrack, Alexander Gray, William Copeland, Robert Goulet, Dolores Huck.

Oberon / Carl Maria von Weber

File consists of an annotated score with a new German dialogue and essay by Herman Geiger-Torel for a 1936 production, possibly in Magdeburg, Germany (score stamped "Intendanz der Sudtischen Theater, Magdeberg"). Performers are handwritten on the first page Geiger-Torel's dialogue, includings Lotte Lehmann.

Down in the valley / Kurt Weill

File consists of an annotated copy of the score for a production at the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in May 1953, directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor.

Performers: Jon Vickers, Jacqueline Smith, Jeannine Perron, Charles Couture, Don Garrard, Ralph Roose, Alexander Gray, Bernard Turgeon, Sheila Craig, Patricia Rideout.

Der Heilige / Max Wolff

File consists of an autographed score from the composer Max Wolff to the pianist and composer Rosy Geiger-Kullmann (dated Ferbaury 12, 1935), Herman Geiger-Torel's mother. Item includes parts for "Gesang der Priester" from Der Heilige for soprano and tenor. The score has not been annotated.

Die Walküre / Richard Wagner

File consists of an annotated score with loose notes by Herman Geiger-Torel for a Vancouver Opera Association (VOA) production in Vancouver in 1975. Herman Geiger-Torel directed the production with Henry Holt, music director.

Performers: Noel Tyl, Rod MacWherter, Gunilla af Malmborg, Doris Jung, Dori Cole.

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.

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.

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.

Der Rosenkavalier / Richard Strauss

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes from a Canadian Opera Company (COC) production of Rosenkavalier in September-October 1963. Herman Geiger-Torel directed the production with Walter Susskind, conductor and Horst Dantz, set and costume designer.

Performers: Helen Vanni, Marguerite Willauer, Wallace Williamson, Howell Glynne, Maurice Brown, Carol Anne Curry, Roxolana Roslak, Danny Tait, Bernard Fitch, Phil Stark, Patricia Rideout, Eleanor Calbes, Kathryn Newman, Naomi Alexandroff, Alan Crofoot, Ron Hastings, Bernard Turgeon, Marjorie Hays, Elizabeth Elliott, Garnet Brooks, Thomas Clerke, Peter Van Ginkel, Cathy Ball, Ernest Atkinson, Tito Dean, David Geary, and William Perry.

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.

Aida / Giuseppe Verdi

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's notes for lighting cues and curtain calls for a Canadian Opera Company (COC) production in September-October 1964. Geiger-Torel directed the production with Ernesto Barbini, conductor; Murray Laufer, set designer; and Marie Day, costume designer.

Performers: Jan Rubes, Richard Cassilly, Jon Vickers, Marilyn Horne, Elizabeth Fretwell, Osyp Hashuliak, Wallace Williamson, Jeannette Zarou, Napoléon Bisson.

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