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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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