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...Bing brought it off beautifully," reported the society editor of the New York Daily News. She was referring to the social glitter of the Metropolitan Opera's opening night, but the judgment was just as applicable to the business onstage. With Don Carlo for an opener (TIME, Nov. 13), new General Manager Rudolf Bing had handsomely kept his promise to bring operatic productions up to date. Furthermore, he had made money doing it. An audience of 4,000 had packed the big house (paying a $36 top) to give him the biggest opening-night gross (after taxes...
...second opera was also a completely rebuilt production: Wagner's romantic The Flying Dutchman, which had not been staged at the Met in ten years. As he had for Verdi's Don Carlo, Bing went to Broadway for his designer, commissioned new sets sketched by Robert Edmond (The Iceman Cometh) Jones. Conductor Fritz Reiner polished cast and orchestra until they shone. If The Dutchman was less of a triumph than Don Carlo, it was mainly because Wagner had given the Met less of a grand opera to work with than Verdi...
...chorus master shifting on his feet, surreptitiously looking at his watch; the head stagehand; the chief electrician . . ." She learned to compute the cost of 15 minutes overtime in a flash; it could run into hundreds of dollars. But whenever she felt she had to have overtime drill, Rudi Bing, even though he was starting his first season with the biggest deficit in Met history ($430,502), usually gave...
...Atlantic early last year; a 25-year-old raven-haired, camelia-skinned lyric soprano named Victoria de los Angeles, singing in opera and recital, had taken London and Paris by storm. Sharp-eared U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok investigated and joined the cheering section. Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sailed for Europe last spring rather certain that his roster of leading sopranos was complete, changed his mind when he heard her. By last week, Soprano de los Angeles' first U.S. concert performance was just about (as Hurok's billing put it) the most "eagerly awaited" debut...
...Rudi Bing's Metropolitan Operagoers will have to wait until March to hear her in Faust, Bohème and her first Madame Butterfly...