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...backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House knew that a surprise was in the making. Only a few -not including the Met's new General Manager Rudolf Bing-had been told the details. Last week, with a gala New Year's Eve audience settled in their seats for Fledermaus, the Met's bubbliest new production in years (TIME, Jan. 1), Mezzo Rise Stevens uncorked the surprise...
Waving a ludicrous 18-in. cigarette holder in her role of Fledermaus' bored, bemonocled Prince Orlofsky, Mezzo Stevens strutted center stage, put one foot on the prompter's box and waggled the holder at Box 23 of the Met's Diamond Horseshoe. Then, as Manager Bing winced in his box, she sang a switch on her song, Chacun a Son Gout...
...night when members of the audience spotted the Duke & Duchess of Windsor during intermission and swarmed around them thrusting out pencils and scraps of paper. Not all audiences were that boisterous. New Yorkers crowded Manhattan's begrimed Old Metropolitan Opera House to hear a new production of Die Fledermaus. Across the nation millions observed the holidays by going to church...
...already livened up the staid old Metropolitan Opera with an infusion of vitamins, last week gave the Met a shot of champagne-and one of the greatest triumphs of its 67 years. For his third new production of the season, he resurrected that bubbly old favorite, Die Fledermaus, of Johann Strauss (the Younger), which had not been heard at the Met since 1905. As he had with Verdi's Don Carlo (TIME, Nov. 13), Bing rechristened it with just the right flourish by enlisting some bright new help imported from Broadway for the occasion...
Whirling through Strauss's waltz-time score, the Met orchestra never sounded better. As Dr. Falke (Fledermaus), the source of the operetta's intrigues, suave Baritone John Brownlee sang and acted with aplomb. Dressed to the teeth in a scarlet and white uniform and waving an 18-in. cigarette holder, Mezzo Soprano Risë Stevens brought the house down in her entrance as the bored host, Prince Orlofsky...