Word: fledermaus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High among his other qualifications for the job of general manager of the Met, Rudolf Bing is a businessman. When his bubbly new production of Fledermaus became a box-office hit last winter (TIME, Jan. 15), he made up his mind to take a businessman's risk. The scheme: to set up the first "auxiliary" opera troupe in Met history, and send it across the U.S. and Canada to sing nothing but Fledermaus. The troupe would bring live Met music to cities that never hear it and, Bing hoped, make a tidy profit. Cut the pauper-poor Met could...
...Frank Stanton, president of CBS (owner of Columbia Records). In a matter of minutes, he had a $70,000 loan. "Of course," says Bing, "it wasn't just because of my pretty blue eyes." The tour will be a high-class plug for Columbia's new Fledermaus album...
Summer in St. Louis (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS). Music from Die Fledermaus by the cast and orchestra of the St. Louis Municipal Opera...
...Fledermaus...
...same bill is "Die Fledermaus," a 1948 version of Strauss' opera. In it most of the virtues and vices of "The Marriage of Figaro" are reversed. There is little of Strauss' music and a lot of good acting. The orange-tinted film is the most unusual part of the movie. If it's Germany's answer to glorious Technicolor, Hollywood has nothing to worry about in that department...