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...from the Metropolitan Opera was more than Baritone Robert Merrill, 33, could stand. He had made big money in the Siberia of the movie and TV studios, but after all, he was a singer and the Met was "my life." He penned a chastened apology to General Manager Rudolf Bing, who had sacked him last spring (TIME, April 16) for dashing off before season's end to make a movie called Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick: "I ... appreciate that you had no other alternative . . . Should you be willing to consider my reinstatement . . . your trust in me will...
...Easy Lessons. When General Manager Rudolf Bing first asked Actor Lunt to direct Così, he told him that all he had to do was to make it "light, gay and elegant." Protested Lunt: "You cannot get those opera singers up on their points with six lessons from Madame LaZonga."* But once he had listened to Mozart's elegantly subtle score (unheard at the Met since 1928), Lunt accepted the challenge...
...Bing Crosby...
...Good? Rudolf Bing is in the business of producing electrifying experiences. And that requires "singers who can perform in the modern theater." In the old days, a fine voice was usually enough. The Tetrazzinis and Rethbergs took a solid stance, opened their golden throats, and sang. Operagoers still demand, and get, fine voices, but most of them have now been conditioned by Broadway and Hollywood to demand something more: good-looking, cleanly directed and well-rehearsed casts. So the Met scouts keep hunting for all-round performers. Some of their latest diva-debutantes...
...Patrice herself, the future could hardly look brighter. Says Boss Bing: "If Munsel accepts the fact that she has a specific role to fill at the Metropolitan, and fills it as brilliantly as I have every belief she will, I would think about reviving operas that have good roles for her." And Europe still presents a challenge. Four years ago she went on a concert tour of Scandinavia, but she has yet to sing opera abroad. Europe will not think her a beauty. One European musician describes her thus: "Fairly tall, slender, and has a pleasant horse face, like...