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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.

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.

Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

File consists of an annotated score with Herman Geiger-Torel's lighting cue notes and stage design sketches. The score includes annotations for two productions directed by Herman Geiger-Torel.

  1. 1970 production by the Canadian Opera Company (COC) with Victor Feldbrill and Alfred Strombergs, conductors; Lawrence Schäfer, set designer; abd Suzanne Mess, constume designer;
  2. 1974 production by the University of Toronto Opera Department with James Craig, conductor; Brian H. Jackson, set designer; Suzanne Mess, costume designer; Douglas Holder, lighting designer; and Michael Evans, assistant conductor.

Performers (1970): Jan Rubes, Eileen Schauler, Justino Diaz, Don McManus, GarnetBrooks, Heather Thomson, Gwen Little, Claude Corbeil.

Performers (1974): Robert Vigod, Douglas McEachen, Deborah Jeans, James Anderson, Jonas Vaskevicius, José Hernandez, Stephen Young, Marion Harvey, Carol Ann Looman, Constance Adorno, Barbara Carter, Guillermo Silva, Robert Mang.

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.

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.

Cosi fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

File consists of an annotated score from a production for the 1973-1974 Canadian Opera Company tour. 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 ; Arab ; Bermingham ; [Jan] Rubes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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