Herbert Graf (10 April 1903, Vienna – 5 April 1973, Geneva) 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 Sigmund Freud's circle of friends. Herbert Graf was the Little Hans discussed in Freud's 1909 study Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy.
Graf was famously the subject of Freud's 1909 "Little Hans" study.
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American director and administrator, son of the critic Max Graf; became a naturalized American citizen. He worked with the Philadelphia Opera and the Metropolitan in the 1930s; taught in the opera department at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, in the 1950s; and was director of the Zürich Opera and the Grand Théâtre, Geneva, in the 1960s. Author of three books: The Opera and its Future in America (1941), Opera for the People (1951), and Producing Opera for America (1961).
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Metropolitan Opera Presents
TV Series staged by - 1 episode, 1980 directed for stage - 1 episode, 1978
Aida
1966
TV Movie staged by
Falstaff
1956
TV Movie production: staged by
Producers' Showcase
1956
TV Series stage director - 1 episode
Mozart's Don Giovanni
1955
directed for stage
Der Rosenkavalier
1949
TV Movie staged by
Otello
1948
TV Movie stage director
This Time for Keeps
1947
assistant to director: operatic sequence - uncredited