Herbert Graf (1903-1973) was an Austrian-American opera producer. Born in Vienna in 1903, he was the son of Max Graf (1873-1958), the Austrian author, critic, musicologist and member of Freud's circle. It is now known that the young Herbert Graf was the Little Hans discussed in Freud's 1909 study Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy.
In 1930, in Frankfurt, Herbert Graf directed the world premiere of Schönberg's Von heute auf morgen. In 193...
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Herbert Graf (1903-1973) was an Austrian-American opera producer. Born in Vienna in 1903, he was the son of Max Graf (1873-1958), the Austrian author, critic, musicologist and member of Freud's circle. It is now known that the young Herbert Graf was the Little Hans discussed in Freud's 1909 study Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy.
In 1930, in Frankfurt, Herbert Graf directed the world premiere of Schönberg's Von heute auf morgen. In 1936, after holding operatic posts in Münster, Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), Frankfurt (where he was director of the Opera School at the Hoch Conservatory, 1930-1933; when the Nazis came to power he was released of his duties) and Salzburg, the 33-year-old Graf emigrated to the United States, where he became a successful and popular opera producer at New York's Metropolitan Opera (1936-1960, debuting with Samson et Dalila). He staged new famous productions in the french (Les Contes D'Hoffman 1937), italian (Otello 1937, Forza 1943), then German ...
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