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...regime of Rudolf Bing, Metropolitan Opera fans have come to take handsome new productions for granted. Last week, determined not to disappoint, Bing & Co. were putting the last loving touches to one of their most ambitious projects yet: a completely restyled version of Verdi's 90-year-old La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny...
...whole opera runs for 3½ hours. Yet it has one of Verdi's fieriest scores, some of his most memorable arias, e.g., the soprano's Pace, Pace and the old Caruso-De Luca specialty, Solenne in Quest' Ora (Swear in This Hour). Director Bing, who has already restyled Verdi's Don Carlo, Aida and Rigoletto-and who wants "very much to have in this house a complete Verdi cycle" -settled on Forza for his 1952 opener...
...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...
Died. Dixie Lee Crosby, 40, Tennessee-born cinemactress (Fox Follies of 1929, Love in Bloom, Redheads on Parade) who in 1930 married fen obscure singer at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove named Harry ("Bing") Crosby; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. At the time she married Bing, newspapers headlined, DIXIE LEE MARRIES BAND SINGER, and a Hollywood producer warned: "You will have to support him for the rest of your life." As her husband's success grew (he is long since a multimillionaire), she retired from the theatrical limelight, bore four sons. Following an abdominal operation...
...Bing Crosby Show (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Guest: Connee Boswell...