Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, the Met was in good form all week. Furthermore, Director Bing proved to have some scenic surprises up his well-tailored sleeve when it came to the Met's 300th performance of Lohengrin. That good old standby, he modestly announced, had been somewhat restyled for the occasion. However, the only perceptible resemblance between the new Lohengrin and the old was in Wagner's four-hour score. Met Stage Director Dino Yannopoulos, 32, working with Designer Charles Elson of the company staff, took Josef Urban's rich old sets apart, reset the best of the gloomy...
...Director Bing chose opening week to announce another bold venture. Early in December, said he, a performance of Carmen will be televised from the stage of the Met, piped on a closed circuit to some 30 motion-picture houses in cities from coast to coast. If people will pay (sometimes) to see televised prizefights, perhaps they will pay to see televised opera. In any case, Bing means to find...
...Bing's next step was to call in Painter Eugene Berman, who went to work on a notable array of sets and costumes (see ART). Then Bing was ready for a cast. He chose a starry one: Soprano Zinka Milanov, Tenor Richard Tucker, Baritone Leonard Warren and Basso Cesare Siepi. Said Bing: "The finest vocal ensemble you can hear anywhere in the world." With those singers, and Verdi's music, Rudolf Bing sat back and hoped for another success. Last week, more than 72 hours before the curtain would rise on Forza, the standing-room queue was already...
Assets & Liabilities. The Met needs queues: new productions cost money. In addition to Forza this season, Bing is restyling Puccini's La Boheme, to be sung in two versions-Italian and English-and staging the U.S. premiere of Stravinsky's new opera, The Rake's Progress, also in English (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). These will bring to twelve the number of new productions Bing has staged in his first three seasons at the Met. Almost all of them have been cheered by the critics (exceptions: 1951's Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci). But even after forgiveness...
...bright side: most of Bing's new productions will count as capital assets for seasons to come...