Herman Geiger-Torel

Herman Geiger- Torel ( born July 13, 1907 in Frankfurt am Main, † October 6, 1976 in Toronto ) was a Canadian opera director and music teacher of German origin.

The son of pianist and composer Rosy Geiger- Kullmann studied under private lessons in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory Opera line with Lothar Wallerstein. From 1928 to 1930 he was assistant director of the Frankfurt Opera, 1930 he was Wallerstein's assistant at the Salzburg Festival. In the 1930s he was an opera director in Usti nad Labem, Bremerhaven and Opava.

Since 1934, Geiger- Torel worked in Latin America. At the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, he produced six operas, including La Traviata and Manon Lescaut with Claudia Muzio and 1938 Siegfried Lorenz with Max and Herbert Janssen led by Erich Kleiber. Until 1943 he worked as a director and actor at the German outdoor theater in Buenos Aires, then he went as chief director for the opera production of Sodré to Montevideo. From 1945 to 1948 he was chief director of the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro.

At the invitation of Nicholas Goldschmidt taught Geiger Torel from 1948 at the Royal Cons Opera School at the University of Toronto. In 1949 he founded the Opera Backstage, a group of musicians with singers Mary Morrison, Patricia Snell, Joanne Ivey, Ernest Adams and Andrew MacMillan, pianist and conductor George Crum and the manager Walter Homburger, with the he performed excerpts from operas in Western Canada. In 1950 he was director of the Opera Festival Association ( later Canadian Opera Association, COC ), 1956 and 1959, the artistic director General. He ran until his retirement year of his death and produced with her more than thirty operas, including Deirdre of Healey Willan and Louis Riel by Harry Somers.

Geiger- Torel was also Artistic Advisor of the CBC Opera Company ( 1948-56 ), produced thirteen operas for the CBC television and directed performances at the Montreal festival, at the Théâtre lyrique de Nouvelle -France, the Guelph Spring Festival, the Manitoba Opera Winnipeg, the Southern Alberta Opera, Edmonton Opera, the Vancouver International Festival and the Vancouver Opera. In 1969 he was awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada.

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  • Opera director
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