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...Strauss: Fledermaus (Lily Pons, soprano; Ljuba Welitch, soprano; Richard Tucker, tenor; Charles Kullman, tenor; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; John Brownlee, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). The Met's hit of the season, minus Patrice Munsel (who has a Victor contract). Recording: good...
Last week, back she was, for the first time in 19 years, to sing Rosalinda in a benefit performance of Rudolf Bing's restyled Fledermaus. She first sang the role more than 30 years ago in Vienna. Tall, straight and blue-eyed as ever at 63, Maria gave the mid-century Met a course in the grand old style...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Die Fledermaus, with Marguerite Piazza, Risë Stevens, Patrice Munsel...
...standard repertory (and the warehouse) for operas he had had neither time nor money to rebuild, e.g., Tristan, Faust, Trovatore, Traviata. But except for Traviata and Faust, which most critics panned, even the old productions came through with some grace. Finally came the success of the brilliant new Fledermaus, restaged by Broadway's and Hollywood's Garson Kanin. Said one beaming and relaxed Met director last week: "We all have our fingers uncrossed...
...Fans for Fledermaus. Now, running the world's No. 1 opera house, Rudi Bing is in his plain, southwest-corner office on the ground floor every morning by 10. He walks to work down Seventh Avenue from his apartment in fashionable Essex House, on the edge of Central Park. He travels home for dinner by subway, returns to the Met and seldom gets home again before midnight. The strain of twelve-hour days has already made Bing look a little more drawn and grey than when he took over last summer...