Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home. The Met survived the Depression on the box-office pull of Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior. Now doing better business than ever under General Manager Rudolf Bing, the yellow brewery ranks with La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper as one of the Big Three of the operatic world. The Met is hampered by a physical plant that was antiquated in 1910 (to be abandoned in three years for the Met's new home in Lincoln Center) and by the difficulties of competing for top talent with the state-supported European houses. But in addition to its European stars...
...memory of her dear, dead days as a student star in Much Ado About Nothing, Bing Crosby's dark-eyed spouse Kathy Grant, 24 (who used to be Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), established a scholarship for drama hopefuls at the University of Texas, which awarded her the degree of bachelor of fine arts at its 1956 summer session commencement...
...There is no opera in America worth speaking of outside New York City," Met Manager Rudolf Bing was quoted as saying in an interview last week. The only exceptions he conceded: Chicago and San Francisco. But even they, he felt, do not have long enough seasons or sufficient facilities to bring them up to the level of the Met or the best European houses...
Such fighting words propelled Bing into the kind of operatic hassle usually reserved for prima donnas. San Francisco's Vienna-born Kurt Herbert Adler tore into Vienna-born Rudi Bing, pointed out that the San Francisco company has welcomed such artists as Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Christoff, Siminonato, Valletti, Gobbi, Schwarzkopf and Rysanek for their U.S. debuts, can boast a list of U.S. premieres that puts the Met to shame. Last week San Francisco gave the first U.S. stage performances of two short works by German Composer Carl Orff-Die Kluge and Carmina Burana. Other noted San Francisco firsts: Walton...
...trouble, according to Bing, is that "the American public has been completely ruined by the press, radio, television and the movies; they have been so educated to the star cult that even the smallest little provincial city will take opera only if it has a star. I see no desire of the public in the country to build opera from young companies." What about Santa Fe, which has recently formed a successful summer opera company? "Where," said Rudi Bing, "is Santa Fe?" In a rare, ruffled moment, he added: "Perhaps I am too much of a European...