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Papa Schoeffler himself is in for a good deal more of it next season at the Met. Thus far, he is scheduled to sing a Ring cycle, The Flying Dutchman and the " wicked Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelia, with Kirsten Flagstad...
...last week from the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 323,661). The censored column was an open letter to the Metropolitan Opera's general manager-elect, Rudolf Bing, which most of Rose's 350 U.S. papers printed. In it, after noting that Bing had hired Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who "entertained ... the Nazis," Rose sarcastically nominated Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as Met budget director and Frau Use Koch of Buchenwald as wardrobe mistress. The Trib's lawyers thought the Rose column smelled of libel, and the editors killed it. Miffed, Billy notified the Trib that he would not renew...
...with Flowers. He had two telephone conversations with Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, and gratefully learned that she had changed her mind about quitting the Met (TIME, Feb. 6). Instead, Bing announced, Traubel would sing one Wagnerian cycle next season, Kirsten Flagstad the other. Lily Pons, who is as famed for temperament as for her coloratura, telephoned from a hospital, trilled that she would come by for a chat about her contract as soon as the doctors would let her. Not at all, said Rudi Bing. He dashed off to the hospital himself "with my arms full of flowers...
...Well-Done 18 or 20. When Bing did get down to his own plans, he had some good news. In addition to signing Flagstad, he was cutting the repertory of the Met. Instead of a haphazardly done 26 operas or so, Bing wanted a well-done...
...innovation for the pit: Bruno Walter would conduct performances of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, with Flagstad as Leonore...