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University of Toronto Opera Division fonds

  • OTUFM 84
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  • 1945-2022

Fonds consists of the records of the University of Toronto Opera Division, including promotional materials, production files, costume designs, and photographs.

University of Toronto. Opera Division

Two evenings of opera excerpts

File consists of a program from a performance by the Opera School of the Royal Conservatory of Music with Nicholas Goldschmidt, musical director and Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director at Hart House Theatre.

Program, March 30, 1949:

  • Manon. Act III / Jules Massenet
  • Fidelio. Dungeon scene from Act II / Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Gianni Schicchi / Giacomo Puccini

Program, April 4, 1949:

  • Madama Butterfly. Act II / Giacomo Puccini
  • Gianni Schicchi / Giacomo Puccini.

Torel concert 100th birthday

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Performers: University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra ; Raffi Armenian, conductor ; John Leberg, narrator ; Russlee Braun ; Michael Colvin ; Mary Lou Fallis ; Susan Platts ; Gary Relyea ; Monica Whicher ; Jean Edwards ; Joan Hall.

Program:

  • Overture to Die Meistersinger / Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
  • The count's Aria, Le Nozze di Figaro / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Dies bildnis ist bezaubernd schon. Die Zauberflote / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  • Sylvio and Nedda duet, I Pagliacci / Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 1858-1919
  • Il lacerato spirito, Simon Boccanegra / Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901
  • Prayer. Hansel und Gretel / Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921
  • Wesendonck-Lieder / Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
  • Overture to Die Fledermaus / Strauss, Johann,1825-1899
  • Don Giovanni. La ci darem la mano / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,1756-1791
  • Running the Gamut / Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,1756-1791 ; Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921
  • Lullaby, Louis Riel / Somers, Harry,1925-1999
  • Die Fledermaus. Finale / Strauss, Johann,1825-1899

Third evening of opera excerpts

File consists of a program from a University of Toronto Royal Conservatory Opera School concert in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Dido and Aeneas. Excerpts / Purcell
  • La Cenerentola. Excerpts / Rossini
  • The Marriage of Figaro. Excerpts / Mozart
  • Cosi fan tutte. Excerpts / Mozart
  • Falstaff. Excerpts / Verdi
  • Tosca. Excerpts / Puccini
  • La Boheme. Act III / Puccini
  • Susannah. Excerpts / C. Floyd
  • Mahoganny (Moon of Alabama) / Brecht, Weill
  • The Telephone / Menotti.

The World of the moon / Giovanni Paisiello ; A Dinner engagement / Lennox Berkeley

File consists of a program and pamphlet from a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School at Hart House Theatre.

Performers, The World of the Moon: Arthur Apy, Maurice Brown, Muriel James, Diane Gibson, William Nahr, Jacques Lareau, Ernest Atkinson, Daniel Pociernicki, cast ; Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Andrew MacMillan, stage director ; Horst Dantz, designer ; Suzanne Mess, costumes.

Performers, A Dinner Engagement: Ronald Nelsen, Elizabeth Elliott, Heather Thomson, Mona Kelly, Jean MacPhail, Garnet Brooks, Ernest Atkinson, cast ; Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director ; Horst Dantz, designer ; Suzanne Mess, costumes.

The old maid and the thief / Gian-Carlo Menotti

File consists of a program from a production by the Royal Conservatory Opera School in St. Denis Hall.

Performers: Joanne Ivey, Jean Edwards, Joan Hall, Andrew MacMillan, cast ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, musical director ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director and commentator ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, June McBride, piano accompaniment.

The old maid and the thief / Gian-Carlo Menotti

File consists of a program from a production by the Royal Conservatory Opera School in Grand Theatre, London, Ontario.

Performers: Joanne Ivey, Jean Edwards, Joan Hall, Andrew MacMillan, cast ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, musical director ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director and commentator ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, June McBride, piano accompaniment.

The Mother / Stanley Hollingsworth ; Maria Egiziaca / Ottorino Respighi

File consists of a program from a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School at Hart House Theatre.

Performers, The Mother [in English]: Lise Joanisse, Merla Jackman, Ronald Nelsen, Maurice Brown, Peggy Anne McMurray, Wallace Williamson, Thomas Clerke, Muriel James, Diane Gibson, Mona Kelly, Eva Szilard, Ronald Nelsen, Maurice Brown, cast ; Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor ; Leon Major, stage director ; Les Lawrence, designer.

Performers, Maria Egiziaca [in Italian]: Gwen Little, Franki Pannell, Thomas Clerke, Ernest Atkinson, Tito Dean, Jacques Lareau, Dan Pociernick, Joanna Myhal, Roberta Ging, Arthur Apy, Joseph Lloyd, Ruth Hircock, Jean MacPhail, Maria Pellegrini, Carrol Anne Curry, Ronald Nelsen, Marlene Vance, Maurice Brown, cast ; Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, Andrew MacMillan, stage directors ; William Lord, designer.

The mines of sulphur / Bennett

File consists of a recording and a program from the University of Toronto Opera Division production of The mines of sulpher by Richard Rodney Bennett, which took place in MacMillan Theatre. The performance was the Canadian premiere.

Performers: Stefan Gyarto, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, director ; Elsie Sawchuk, designer ; Ron Snippe, lighting designer ; Derek Bate, assistant conductor ; Thomas Schweitzer, assistant director ; Douglas McEachen, Susan Gudgeon, Stephen Young, James Shafer, Douglas McEachen, Nancy Hermiston, Patricia Harton, Richard Brunner, Mark Pedrotti, Mark DuBois, cast.

The mines of sulphur / Bennett

File consists of a recording of the University of Toronto Opera Division production of The mines of sulpher by Richard Rodney Bennett, which took place in MacMillan Theatre. The performance was the Canadian premiere.

Performers: Stefan Gyarto, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, director ; Elsie Sawchuk, designer ; Ron Snippe, lighting designer ; Derek Bate, assistant conductor ; Thomas Schweitzer, assistant director ; John Nieboer, Susan Pautz, John Keane, Joel Katz, Rosemarie Landry, Jean MacPhail, Richard Brunner, Jonas Vaskevicius, Mark DuBois, cast

The marriage of Figaro

File consists of the program from a production of The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (English translation) by the Opera Department at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and a newspaper clipping of a review. The production celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the Opera Department and performances took place in the MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, director ; Martha Mann, stage design ; Suzane Mess, costume design ; David Grinstead, lighting design ; Lloyd Bradshaw, chorus master ; Lois Smith, choreographer ; Ernesto Barbini, recitative accompanist ; Donald Oddie, Bruce Kelly, Ann Cooper, Veronica Kalfman, John Dodington, Nancy Greenwood, Jane O'Brien, Michele Dowsett, Lynda Culham, Peter Barcza, Cornelis Verlaan, Edward Matthiessen, Barney Ingram, Jr., Stephanie Bogle, Jean Ann Gooch, Bruce Kelly, Donald Oddie, Glyn Evans, Daniel Shalanko, Penny Speedie, Young-Ae Kim, Jane O'Brien, Stephanie Norton.

The marriage of Figaro

File consists of a program from a production of The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in English by the Royal Conservatory Opera School. Performances took place in the Eaton Auditorium.

Performers: Andrew MacMillan, Marguerite Gignac, Harry Felton, Virginia Lippert, Mary Alice Rogers, Glenn Burns, Earl Dick, Louis Roy, Glenn Gardiner, Douglas Scott, Jean Patterson, Selma Bialuski, Barbara King, cast ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director ; Eduard Loeffler, set design ; John Coster, George Clark, set construction ; Stewart Bagnani, costume design ; Mel Keay, Mallabar, costumes ; John Rockwood, stage manager ; Victor Feldbrill, concertmaster and assistant conductor ; Irving Guttman, assistant stage manager ; Willes Chitty, wardrobe assistant.

The Marriage contract / Gioacchino Rossini ; Gallantry / Douglas Moore ; Riders to the sea / Ralph Vaughan Williams

File consists of a program from a production by the Royal Cosnervatory of Music Opera School at Hart House Theatre.

Performers, The Marriage Contract: Cornelis Opthof, Barbara Strathdee, Kathryn Newman, Donald Young, Ronald Nelsen, Robert Briggs, Joseph Lloyd, Peggy McMurray, Mona Kelly, Ernie Atkinson, Danny Tait, Slava Ziemelyte, cast ; Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Andrew MacMillan, stage director.

Performers, Gallantry: Genevieve Grabowski, Darlene Hirst, Joseph Macko, Daphne Drake, Danny Tait, Ernie Atkinson, Maurice Brown, Diane Gibson, Joanna Myhal, cast ; Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor ; Leon Major, stage director.

Performers, Riders to the Sea: Patricia Rideout, Hugh Phin, Ronald Nelsen, Margarita Kuznetsov, Gwen Little, Peggy McMurray, Ghislaine Beaudet, Diane Gibson, Jean MacPhail, Peggy McMurray, Marlene Vance, cast ; Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director.

The magic of opera

File consists of a recording and a program from a production by the Opera Department at the Faculty of Music of opera excerpts.

Program:

  • Der Freischutz / Carl Maria von Weber (Alfred Strombergs, conductor ; Georg Philipp, director)
  • Les Contes d'Hoffman / Jacques Offenbach (Eugene Plawutsky, conductor ; Roland Laroche, director)
  • Falstaff / Giuseppe Verdi (Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, director).

The Collegium Musicum of the Faculty of Music

File consists of a program from a concert in the Recital Hall, Royal Conservatory of Music.

Performers: Collegium Musicum ; Ernesto Barbini, director.

Program:

  • Chaconne in G minor / Purcell
  • Concerto grosso in C minor / Geminiani
  • Ecce quomodo / Palestrina
  • Ahi! Che quest'occhi mei / Palestrina
  • Cor mio / Monteverdi
  • Combattimento di Tancredi et Clorinda / Monteverdi

The Bulletin, Royal Conservatory of Music

Item is an issue of the Royal Conservatory of Music's newsletter "The Bulletin," which includes a photograph of Healey Willan with John Coulter, Herman Geiger-Torel, and Ettore Mazzoleni discussing the Opera School production and Canadian premiere of "Deirdre" (April 2-3, 1965).

Silent night / Nino Rota ; Aria da capo / Raymond Pannell

File consists of a program from a University of Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School production in Hart House Theatre.

Performers, Silent Night: Maurice Brown, David Geary, Dan Pociernicki, Carrol Anne Curry, Bernard Fitch, Jean Bonhomme, Thomas Park, cast ; Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Andrew MacMillan, stage director ; Sally Ness, designer ; Suzanne Mess, costumes.

Performers, Aria da capo: Eleanor Calbes, Garnet Brooks, Maurice Brown, Thomas Clerke, Tito Dean, cast ; Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director ; Sally Ness, designer ; Suzanne Mess, costumes.

Second evening of opera excerpts

File consists of a program from a University of Toronto Royal Conservatory Opera School concert in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Madama Butterfly. Scenes from Act II / Puccini
  • Fidelio. Scenes from Act I / Beethoven
  • Die Kluge = The Wise woman / Orff
  • The Medium. Act I / Menotti
  • Un Ballo in maschera = A Masked ball. Scene from Act III / Verdi
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor. Scene from Act I / Nicolai
  • Riders to the sea / Vaughan Williams.

Royal Alexandra Theatre opera festival

File consists of a program from the fifth annual Opera Festival at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, presented by the Royal Conservatory Opera Company. The latter performed The Consul by Gian-Carlo Menotti.

Performers: Glenn Gardiner, Theresa Gray, Nellie Smith, Andrew MacMillan, William Copeland, Charles Couture, Joanne Ivey, Jan Rubes, Suzette Nadon, Milla Andrew, Andree Theriault, Roma Butler, Catherine Akos, Ernest Adams, Bernard Turgeon, cast ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director.

Royal Alexandra Theatre opera festival

File consists of a program from the Opera Festival at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, presented by the Royal Conservatory Opera Company, and a production of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Arnold M. Walter, conducted by Nicholas Goldschmidt, and staged by Herman Geiger-Torel.

Performers (cast): Roger Doucet, Frank Crane, Ernest Adams, Patricia Snell, Gilles Lamontagne, Andrew MacMillan, William Blaine Williams, Jan Rubes, June Kowalchuk, Margaret Hitchcock, Margaret DesJardins, Glenn Gardiner, Margaret Kerr, Joan Hall.

Royal Alexandra Theatre opera festival

File consists of a program from a production at the second annual Opera Festival at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in collaboration with the Royal Conservatory Opera Company. The latter performed an English translation of Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Performers: Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director ; George Crum, assistant conductor and chorus master ; Weneth Lloyd, choreographer ; John Coveart, accompanist ; Andrew MacMillan, Marguerite Gignac, Ernest Adams, Louis Roy, Marjorie Hays, Virginia Lippert, John Asher, Victor White, Douglas Scott, Glenn Gardiner, Barbara Franklin, Roma Butler, Yolanda Di Paolo.

Photographs of Canadian musicians

File contains photographs of Canadian musicians, many of which are signed, and most of which are not dated: John Beckwith (photo by Robert Lansdale); S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté with string quartet including Peggie Sampson and Victor Feldbrill; Herman Geiger-Torel; Irene Jessner; Greta Kraus; Sir Ernest MacMillan (2 photographs); Lois Marshall (2 photographs); Oskar Morawetz; Charles Peaker; Redferne Hollinshead; Hart House String Quartet (left to right, Milton Blackstone, Geza de Kresz, Boris Hambourg, Harry Adaskin; dedicated "To Lou Taube, 1937").

Photographs

Subseries consists of photographs and contact sheets of most major Opera School productions between 1946 and 2016; headshots of performers and administrators (Kathryn Knapp, John Beckwith, Ettore Mazzoleni, Tyrsa Gawrachynsky, Jacqui Lynn Fidlar, Tania Perrish, Eve-Rachel McLeod, Herman Geiger-Torel, Virginia Lippert, Marion Parsons, Ernesto Barbini, Ermanno Mauro, Alpar the fencing master); and photographs from various Opera School events, including the Opera Department's 25th anniversary, the commemoration of the Herman Geiger-Torel room, and Lofti Mansouri's visit. Subseries also includes photographs of MacMillan Theatre, Walter Hall, the construction of the Edward Johnson Building, opera student scholarship winners, and Helen May's lesson with Dr. Ernesto Vinci, with Emelie Rubleu at the piano (June 25, 1952).

Subseries includes photographs from the following productions:

  • Opera excerpts (December 1946)
  • The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana (April 1947)
  • Orfeo and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (February 1948)
  • Rosalinda by Johann Strauss (May 1948)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1948)
  • Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1949)
  • La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini (May 1949)
  • Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (November 1950)
  • Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi (February 1950)
  • Opera School film by the National Film Board (1951)
  • The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1952)
  • Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (February 1953)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (February 1953)
  • Angelique by Jacques Ibert (May 1953)
  • The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1955)
  • Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti (April 1959)
  • The Marriage contract by Gioachino Rossini (April 1960)
  • Die Kluge by Carl Orff (April 1961)
  • The Mother by Alois Hába (April 1961)
  • Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi (April 1961)
  • A Dinner Engagement by Lennox Berkeley (April 1962)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1963)
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1964)
  • Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (March 1964) [opening of MacMillan Theatre]
  • Angélique by Jacques Ibert and Le Pauvre Matelot by Darius Milhaud (April 1964)
  • The Secret Marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (February 1965)
  • Deirdre by Healey Willan (April 1965)
  • The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev (December 1965)
  • L'Oca del Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1966)
  • Die Kluge by Carl Orff (February 1966)
  • The Portuguese Inn by Luigi Cherubini and The Wandering Scholar by Gustav Holst (March 1966)
  • Deirdre by Healey Willan (September 1966)
  • Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck (December 1966)
  • The Impressario by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet (January 1967)
  • The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (February 1967)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (April 1967)
  • Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky (November 1967)
  • Le Portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet and There and Back by Paul Hindemith (December 1967)
  • The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 1967)
  • The Unwilling Physician by Salvatore Allegra and Il Combattimento di Tancredi by Claudio Monteverdi (January 1968)
  • Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy (March 1968)
  • The Turk in Italy by Gioachino Rossini (November 1968)
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti (December 1968)
  • Hamlet by Humphrey Searle (February 1969)
  • Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss (March 1969)
  • "A School for Opera" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, and GIacomo Puccini (March 1970)
  • Iphigenie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck (November 1970)
  • The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten (December 1970)
  • "The Magic of Opera" by Carl Maria von Weber, Giuseppe Verdi, and Jacques Offenbach (March 1971)
  • The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky (December 1971)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1972)
  • Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (January 1973)
  • L'Ormindo by Francesco Cavalli (April 1973)
  • The Prisoner's Play by John Rea (May 1973)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 1974)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1974)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (April 1974)
  • The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (January 1975)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (April 1975)
  • The Crucible by Robert Ward (January-February 1976)
  • The Mines of Sulphur by Richard Rodney Bennett (April 1976)
  • The Four Ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (January 1977)
  • Katya Kabanova by Leoš Janáček (March 1977)
  • Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten (December 1977)
  • Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (December 1977)
  • Don Giovanni by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1978)
  • Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (November 1978)
  • Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach (March 1979)
  • L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy and Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (November 1979)
  • Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1980)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1980)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1981)
  • La Perichole by Jacques Offenbach (November 1981)
  • Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti and Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1982)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1982)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel (March 1983)
  • Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1983)
  • Opera excerpts (1983)
  • Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi and Prima Donna by Arthur Benjamin (November-December 1983)
  • Sir John in Love by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1984)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1985)
  • Mamelles de Tiresias by Francis Poulenc (March 1986)
  • The Goose of Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1987)
  • Angelique by Jacques Ibert (March 1987)
  • Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (March 1988)
  • The Marriage Contract by Gioachino Rossini (March 1988)
  • La Caterina by Joseph Haydn (March 1989)
  • Iolanta by Arthur Sullivan (March 1989)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (March 1990)
  • "French Trilogy": L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy, Le portrait de Manon by Jules Massenet, and M. Choufleuri by Jacques Offenbach (February 1991)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 1992)
  • Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (March 1993)
  • Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini (March 1993)
  • The Goose of Cairo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and The Breasts of Tiresias by Francis Poulenc (March 1994)
  • Iolanthe by Arthur Sullivan (March 1995)
  • L'étoile by Emmanuel Chabrier [March 1997]
  • La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (November 1997)
  • Paul Bunyan, op. 17 by Benjamin Britten (March 1998)
  • Threepenny opera by Bertolt Brecht (November 1998)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (March 1999)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 64 by Benjamin Britten (November 1999)
  • La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini (February 2000)
  • Die Fledermaus by Richard Strauss (November 2006)
  • L'Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel [March 2009]
  • The Secret marriage by Domenico Cimarosa (2010)
  • Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (March 2011)
  • Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (November 2013)
  • The Machine Stops by Patrick McGraw, Robert Taylor and Stephen Webb, libretto by Michael Albano, based on the short story by E.M. Forster (January 2016)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss (n.d.)
  • The Four ruffians by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (n.d.)
  • Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini (n.d.)
  • Orpheus (n.d.)
  • Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc (n.d.)
  • Riders to the sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams (n.d.)
  • Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten (n.d.)
  • L'Enfant Prodigue by Claude Debussy (n.d.)
  • Iolanta by Arthur Sullivan (n.d.)
  • M. Choufleri by Jacques Offenbach (n.d.)
  • Manon by Jules Massenet (n.d.)
  • Patience by Arthur Sullivan (n.d.)
  • Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti (n.d.)
  • The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n.d.)
  • Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (n.d.)

Orpheus

File consists of a program from a production of Orpheus by Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck in English, sponsored by the Women's Musical Club of Toronto in co-operation with the Opera and Concert Committee of the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. The production took place in the Eaton Auditorium.

Performers: Felix Brentano, stage director ; Herman Geiger-Torel, choreography ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, conductor ; Stewart Bagnani, costumes ; Louise Roy, Beths Corrigan, Mary Morrison.

Operatic excerpts

File consists of a program from a concert by students of the Opera School, staged by Herman Geiger-Torel, with musical direction by Nicholas Goldschmidt and Mario Bernardi, and pianists Bernardi and June McBride.

Program:

  • Madame Butterfly. Scene from Act II / Puccini
  • Hansel and Gretel. Scene from Act I / Humperdinck
  • Falstaff. Scene from Act I / Verdi
  • Falstaff. Aria from Act II / Verdi
  • Aida. Duet from Act III / Verdi
  • Porgy and Bess. Aria / Gershwin
  • La Boheme. Quartet from Act III / Puccini

Operatic excerpts

File consists of a program from a concert by students of the Opera School, staged by Herman Geiger-Torel, with musical direction by Nicholas Goldschmidt and Mario Bernardi, and pianists Bernardi and June McBride.

Program:

  • Der Freischutz. Aria / Weber
  • Rigoletto. Scene from Act II / Verdi
  • Falstaff. Scene from Act I / Verdi
  • Magic Flute. Scene from Act II / Mozart
  • Tosca. Scene from Act II / Puccini
  • Hansel and Gretel. Scene from Act II / Humperdinck.

Opera school

Series consists of materials from the Opera School or Opera Division at the University of Toronto. Materials include correspondence, press clippings, notes on performances, tour schedules, role assignments, rehearsal schedules, notes on props and furniture, budgets, and internal memorandums.

Opera excerpts

File consists of a program from a concert presented by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Gloria / Vivaldi
  • Magic flute. Excerpts / Mozart
  • Carmen. Excerpts / Bizet
  • Manon. Excerpts / Massenet
  • Il trovatore. Excerpts / Verdi
  • La Boheme. Excerpts / Puccini
  • Eugene Onegin. Excerpts / Tchaikovsky
  • Aida. Excerpts / Verdi.

Opera excerpts

File consists of a program from a concert by students of the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School with Nicholas Goldschmidt, musical director and Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director, at Hart House Theatre.

Program:

  • Boris Godunoff / Mussorgsky
  • The Flying Dutchman / Wagner
  • Don Carlos / Verdi
  • La Forza del destino / Verdi.

Opera backstage

File consists of a program from a production by the Royal Conservatory Opera School, produced and directed by Herman Geiger-Torel, in Capitol Theatre, Lethbridge, Alberta.

Opera backstage

File consists of a program from a production by the Royal Conservatory Opera School, produced and directed by Herman Geiger-Torel, at the Empress Theatre in Medicine Hat.

Memorial tribute to Dr. Herman Geiger-Torel

File consists of a program and recording of the concert.

Program:

  • Quartet in G minor, K. 516 / Mozart (Lorand Fenyves, David Zafer, violins ; Victor Martin, Victor Feldbrill, violas ; Vladimir Orloff, cello)
  • Tributes by Ezra Schabas and Walter Homberger
  • Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550. Molto allegro / Mozart (members of the Toronto Symphony)
  • Tribute by Robert L.T. Baillie, Canadian Opera Company
  • Ingemisco. Requiem / Verdi (Ermanno Mauro, tenor ; George Brough, piano).

Mariage by lantern ; There and back ; Riders to the sea

File consists of a program from performances of Marriage by Lantern by Jacques Offenbach; There and Back by Paul Hindemith (new English adaptation by Herman Geiger-Torel with lyrics translated by Andrew MacMillan); and Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams, by the University of Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School. Performances took place at Hart House Theatre.

Marriage by lantern cast : Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director ; Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Arch McDonell, narrator ; Brian Beaton, Kathryn Newman, John Purdy, Sheila Piercey, Arlene Meadows.

There and back cast: Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Andrew MacMillan, stage director ; Elsie Sawchuk, Sheila Piercey, Donald Bartle, Anne Harrington, John Purdy, Joseph Macko, Walter Dinoff, Leonard Bilodeau.

Riders to the sea
Performers: Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director ; Teresa Stratas, Arlene Meadows, Patricia Rideout, Joseph Macko, Helen Hajnik, Elizabeth Harris, Connie Francis.

Le pauvre matelot ; Angelique

File consists of a program from a production by the University of Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School of Le Pauvre Matelot by Darius Milhaud and Angelique by Jacques Ibert. The performances took place in the MacMillan Theatre of the Edward Johnson Building. Le Pauvre Matelot
Performers: Jean Bonhomme, Helly Sapinski, Maurice Brown, Robert Carley, cast ; Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director ; Lillian Sarafinchan, set and costume designer. Angelique
Performers: Eleanor Calbes, Richard Braun, Herman Rombouts, Bernard Fitch, Thomas Park, David Geary, Garnet Brooks, Jeannette Zarou, Genevieve Perrault, cast ; Ernesto Barbini, conductor ; Andrew MacMillan, stage director ; Elsie Sawchuk, set and costume designer.

Hansel and Gretel / Humperdinck

File consists of a program from a production by the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School for the Galt-Preston Concert Association.

Performers: Joan Hall, Jean Edwards, Margaret Desjardins, Andrew MacMillan, Mary Alice Rogers, Marjorie Hays, Louise Roy, cast ; Nicholas Goldschmidt, musical director Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director.

First evening of opera excerpts

File consists of a program from a University of Toronto Royal Conservatory Opera School concert in MacMillan Theatre.

Program:

  • Idomeneo. Scene from Act I / Mozart
  • La Forza del destino. Scene from Act II / Verdi
  • Don Giovanni. Scenes from Act I / Mozart
  • The Medium. Act I / Menotti
  • La Boheme. Act III / Puccini
  • The Bartered bride. Scenes from Act II / Smetana
  • Eugene Onegin. Scene from Act I / Tchaikovksy
  • Un Ballo in maschera = A masked ball. Scene from Act III / Verdi.

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada : contributions

File consists of Carl Morey's research notes and contract with the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada to write articles for: Istvan Anhalt, Francesco D'Auria, The Fisherman and his Soul [ballet by Harry Somers and Grant Strate], House of Atreus [ballet by Grant Strate, music by Harry Somers], Red Ear of Corn [ballet by Boris Volkoff, music by John Weinzweig], Rose Latulippe [ballet by Brian Macdonald, music by Harry Freedman], Deirdre [by Healey Willan], H.M.S. Parliament [or, the Lady who Loved a Government Clerk, with libretto by William H.], The Luck of Ginger Coffey [by Raymond Pannell], Loving (Toi) [by R. Murray Schafer], Ten Centuries Concerts, Canadian Opera Company (Toronto), Herman Geiger-Torel, [R.S.] Williams (Individual and Company), and Mason & Risch.

Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

File consists of a recording and a program from the University of Toronto Opera Department production of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performances took place in the MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: James Craig, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, director ; Douglas McEachen, Leporello ; Deborah Jeans, Donna Anna ; James Anderson, Don Giovanni ; Jonas Vaskevicius, Il Commendatore ; Stephen Young, Don Otta Vio ; Carol Ann Looman, Donna Elvira ; Barbara Carter, Zerlina ; Robert Mang, Masetto ; Opera Department Chorus ; University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

File consists of a recording of the University of Toronto Opera Department production of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performances took place in the MacMillan Theatre.

Performers: Robert Vigod, Leporello ; Deborah Jeans, Donna Anna ; James Anderson, Don Giovanni ; Jonas Vaskevicius, Il Commendatore ; Jose Hernandez, Don Otta Vio ; Marion Harvey, Donna Elvira ; Constance Adorno, Zerlina ; Guillermo Silva, Masetto ; James Craig, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, director ; Opera Department Chorus ; University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Die Kluge

File consists of a program from a production by the University of Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School, Die Kluge (The King and the Clever Girl) by Carl Orff at the MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building.

Performers: Ettore Mazzoleni, music director ; Herman Geiger-Torel, stage director ; Lawrence Schafer, set and costume design ; Wallace A. Russell, lighting design ; Stephen Ford, film realization ; Richard Braun, Maurice Brown, Nancy Gottschalk, Marilyn Brewer, Lloyd Dean, Ernest Atinkson, Paul Frederics, Robert Jeffrey, Robert Carley, Herman Rombouts, Joseph Balint, Angelo Calendrello, Ronald Graner, Igor Saika-Voivod, Gioacchino Gitto, Peter Milne.

Deirdre / Healey Willan

File consists of a program from a University of Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School production in MacMillan Theatre. This was the first stage performance of Deirdre by Healey Willan, with libretto by John Coulter.

Performers: Ettore Mazzoleni, conductor ; Herman Geiger-Torel, director ; Lawrence Schafer, set and costume designer ; W.A. Russell, lighting designer.

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