Herbert Graf(1904-1973)

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).