Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest triumphs of its 67 years. For his third new production of the season, he resurrected that bubbly old favorite, Die Fledermaus, of Johann Strauss (the Younger), which had not been heard at the Met since 1905. As he had with Verdi's Don Carlo (TIME, Nov. 13), Bing rechristened it with just the right flourish by enlisting some bright new help imported from Broadway for the occasion...
Cinemactress Yvonne de Carlo, 28, had a few thoughts for reporters who greeted her arrival in London. Said she: "I collect jewelry, furniture and men. It's so hard to find a husband earning more money than I do. The world is suffering from a shortage of serious bachelors...
...teens in his native Russia, he was a fine classical dancer. By the time he left Russia in 1924 as a member of the touring "Soviet State Dancers"* and joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in Paris, he was just as good a dancer of character roles. At 20, he became Diaghilev's ballet master...
Rudi Bing himself had some matters that would bear sleeping on. He had done a bang-up job on his two new productions of Don Carlo and The Flying Dutchman (TIME, Nov. 20). But after a sleepwalking Don Giovanni (and a ragged Traviata two weeks ago), it was clear that some of the Met's old productions needed tuning...
...second opera was also a completely rebuilt production: Wagner's romantic The Flying Dutchman, which had not been staged at the Met in ten years. As he had for Verdi's Don Carlo, Bing went to Broadway for his designer, commissioned new sets sketched by Robert Edmond (The Iceman Cometh) Jones. Conductor Fritz Reiner polished cast and orchestra until they shone. If The Dutchman was less of a triumph than Don Carlo, it was mainly because Wagner had given the Met less of a grand opera to work with than Verdi...