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...worked in Berlin for two years when the man who was to 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...
...Musical Convent." A onetime Max Reinhardt student, German-born, 63-year-old Carl Ebert is one operatic director who insists that his "singing actors" know "the exact meaning of what they are singing and . . . strive to make it sound believable by their actions and expressions...
...musical convent" at Glyndebourne, the Sussex estate of British Millionaire John Christie, Ebert puts even the most experienced star through four or five weeks of rehearsals before they ever get on the boards. He is likely to step out in rehearsal and say in a mild, pleasant voice, "Now in my opinion, what the composer wanted to show here was . . ." and then leap through the action himself. A perfectionist, he rehearsed one scene in Ariadne 50 times. Even after the opera is onstage, Artistic Director Ebert still finds work to do. At Ariadne's opening he perched...
When the festival is over, Ebert will board ship for the U.S. Since 1948, he has spent his winters teaching opera at the University of Southern California. He has already brought one of his American students to help him out of Glyndebourne and Edinburgh. Bob Herman, 25, son of onetime Brooklyn Daffy Dodger Babe Herman, is now his year-round assistant producer. Says Ebert: "Opera has a long way to go in America . . . There is too much accent on voices, not enough on stage presence. Nobody spends nearly nough time rehearsing...