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KURT HERBERT ADLER (1905-1988), opera administrator and musician, recalls life in Vienna, 1905-1928, and training at the Vienna Music Academy and Conservatory; the years from 1925-1938: with Max Reinhardt in Vienna, in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia, and working with the Chicago Opera; serving as general director of the San Francisco Opera, 1943-1981: staging traditional and contemporary operas, standards of opera production, training young American artists, fund raising and budgeting, opera design, musical preparation in the opera house, opera conductors, theater lighting, opera translation, opera broadcasts, opera labor negotiations,
touring, dealing with artists, and commissioning new works.