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...scheduling the first performance of Alcestis in eleven years, General Manager Rudolf Bing had two ideas: !) he wanted to hear Gluck's somberly magnificent music again and 2) he cannily thought that the challenge of the big name part might be enough to induce Kirsten Flagstad to postpone her retirement one more year. He was right. Though she was tired after 23 years of singing Wagnerian roles, she was intrigued with the idea of learning a difficult new role at 56-and singing in English for the first time on the U.S. opera stage...
...Indeed? It was a good question. Why does the U.S. public like him better than Betty Grable, Bing Crosby or Martin & Lewis? His legs are not as pretty as Betty's; his voice is not as sweet as Bing's; he is nowhere near as funny as Martin & Lewis. And he is not the best of Hollywood's actors. In fact, it is an open question whether he can act at all. "How often do I gotta tell you (thus Wayne to a persistent interviewer) that...
...Back in Rudolph Bing's good graces after nine ignominious months of exile from the Met was singer...
...been scheduled for months to make her debut as the doomed Desdemona in the matinee of Verdi's Otello. When she told General Manager Rudolf Bing that she also would sing her new hit role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte the same night, Bing's eyebrows went up. "You must be crazy," he said...
Death by the Window. When General Manager Rudolf Bing decided to overhaul Carmen last spring, he handed the staging job to Tyrone Guthrie, topnotch director of London's Old Vic, and Designer Rolf Gerard. From the start, they decided on "naturalism," e.g., the workers in a Seville cigarette factory ought to look, for a change, a bit like factory workers...