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...Take Me." Invited to join a bigger agency, Bing went to Berlin on his 25th birthday. There he had to supply artists for some 80 German opera houses-"75 of which were terrible...
...give his career its most important and lasting twist walked in the agency door. Famed (in Germany) Actor-Director Carl Ebert-(TIME, Sept. 4) had just been appointed artistic director of the Darmstadt State Theater. Among other things, he wanted a bright young man for his assistant. Rudi Bing told him brightly: "I know an excellent man. Take...
Under Ebert, Bing got most of the experience that makes him a valuable boss for the Met today-the tedious and complicated work of engaging artists, scheduling rehearsals, programming, and overseeing ticket sales. He also met two of the men who are now his right and left hands at the Met: Artistic Administrator Max Rudolf, 48, and General Assistant John Gutman, 48, who in the old days used to drop into the Darmstadt theater as music critic for the Berlin Börsen-Courier. Rudolf, then a conductor, recalls Bing and wife Nina as "a handsome couple," Bing himself...
...Turn. Bing's future turned dark before it brightened much. After two years in Darmstadt, he went back to Ber lin as artistic administrator of the Municipal Theater. Ebert arrived the next year. The following year, 1933, all hands were summarily dismissed by the Nazis. Bing went home to Vienna, then to a tiny theater near Prague, where he helped produce "absurd" things, such as Figaro in modern dress...
Back in Vienna, he got word from Carl Ebert in England to round up singers for a wealthy British landowner and music lover named John Christie, who wanted to start a Mozart festival at his Sussex estate, Glyndebourne. Bing did, later dropped around to see how the singers were doing. He fell in love with England, and with green Glyndebourne in particular...