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Bizet and Bach. The notion of a tour came from Kazuko Hillyer, a Japanese-born concert manager based in New York. When she put the idea to General Manager Schuyler Chapin two years ago, he replied: "Go away and don't bother me. That will cost millions." It did cost that, $2.5 million to be precise, but Hillyer found someone to pick up the tab: the Nagoya-based Chubu Nippon Broadcasting Co., which decided to sponsor the tour in honor of its 25th anniversary...
...York, the Met was gearing up for a major change in its management. Just before the Japan tour, the company announced that Principal Conductor James Levine, 31, would be elevated to the post of music director with "primary responsibility for artistic matters." Last week TIME learned that General Manager Chapin will step down after a stormy two-year tenure. The Met's executive committee has decided to entrust the immediate future of the company to a troika headed by Anthony A. Bliss, who was named executive director last November. Reporting to him will be Levine and John Dexter, formerly...
...Chapin came to the leadership of the Met after serving as assistant to his predecessor Göran Gentele. After Gentele died in a car crash in Sardinia three years ago, Chapin functioned for an entire season as acting general manager before he was granted the full title and authority. Despite some triumphs, like Boris Godunov and The Siege of Corinth, he has never had the full support of the Met's faction-ridden board...
Sills is contracted at the Met through 1977. Diaz will probably be there as long as he chooses to stay. Diaz's career is proof that the Met system has been basically a meritocracy in the past; Sills's debut now demonstrates that general manager Schuyler Chapin has made it a more perfect...
...there"). She is also loyal to Sarah Caldwell, Kurt Herbert Adler in San Francisco and others who have meant much to her and her career. Her second opera for the Met next year (she will open the season in Siege) will be La Traviata. Sills has persuaded Schuyler Chapin to let the talented Caldwell conduct. No woman has ever conducted a performance at the Met. Says Sills delightedly: "That's a tremendous barrier to break down. And my friend Sarah...