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...four years Bing had been looking forward to the day when he could replace his creaking old Giovanni sets and spring the opera's boiling action loose from the Met's antiquated stage. Painter Eugene Berman, in many ways the star of the evening, brilliantly solved the problem with a second curtain halfway back on the stage which could be drawn and closed to let the scenes change at nervous speed. His solid 17th century Seville glowed with rust-brown and gold under hot blue skies, unfolded to reveal a succession of magnificent purple-and-crimson interiors...
...Berman's graveyard was bathed in a running, watery green light, and the Commendatore (no longer cumbrously on horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...
Repeated reports of release of prisoners and abolition of concentration camps have come up this year, but no estimates of totals such as Berman obtained. He quoted Kudryavtsev as saying that two-thirds of the concentration, or labor, camps have already been liquidated...
Most of the political prisoners released were accused of wartime treason and collaborating with the Germans, Berman was told. These steps are all part of the general Soviet program of liberalizing in some degree the harsh Stalinist penal system...
...Berman is in Europe on a sabbatical leave to continue work he has been doing for several years on the structure of Soviet and East European trade. From his home base at Geneva, Switzerland, he has taken trips to Yugoslavia and France, before going to Russia several weeks ago. In Moscow, Berman has conferred with several Ministry of Justice officials...