Word: gattis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rudolf Bing, 61, and the Metropolitan renewed his contract as general manager for another four years, giving him 17 seasons at the Met, a tenure second only to that of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Italian-born maestro who ruled from 1908 to 1935. "I thought it was a big job when I came, and it has grown even bigger," said Bing, looking forward to the Met's 1965 move into sumptuous new quarters in Lincoln Center: "It's going to be beautiful, absolutely beautiful, and acoustically perfect. These next few years are going to be unbelievably busy...
...staging well-designed new productions, building an impressive roster of singers, and boldly doubling ticket prices for choice locations, Bing has boosted Met income higher than it has been since the days of Italian-born Impresario Gatti-Casazza's reign in the 1920s. But costs have soared even higher: last season the Met spent $6,950,000. Opera, said Bing last week, is "an art form never designed for the economics of the 20th century." The era has passed, he might have added, when men such as the late Banker Otto Kahn, the Met's perennial chairman...
...Mezzo Belleri (who was married to Tenor Lamberto Belleri, also a longtime member of the Met chorus until his death in 1945) has appeared in more than 100 different operas, often in as many as eight performances a week. And she has witnessed three management changes - Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Edward Johnson and Rudolf Bing...