Word: operation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost more than an ambitious impresario could resist, but Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born boss of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, loyally resisted. In Salzburg, Austria, he confirmed reports that he had been asked to take over Berlin's Staedtische Oper. "The offer was very tempting," he said, "because the Berlin Opera has a subsidy of more than $1,000,000 yearly, which makes the work there much easier than under the sad situation at the Metropolitan, where, from year to year, we must live from donations...
...Trial will have another day in the critics' court: performances are scheduled for Berlin's Staedtische Oper and Manhattan's City Center this fall...