Word: metropolitanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Carl Ebert, 93, German-born opera manager and stage director; in Santa Monica, Calif. Originally an actor, Ebert moved into the then relatively new field of opera management in Darmstadt in 1927, with as his assistant Rudolf Bing, who later went on to run New York City's Metropolitan Opera for 22 years. Later, Ebert helped found the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and led the Berlin Municipal Opera before and after the Hitler era (which he spent in Britain and the U.S.) until his retirement...
Surprisingly, the Metropolitan Opera, whose $43 million annual budget is four times as large as that of any other U.S. company, has a relatively paltry endowment of $2.2 million. In a press conference last week, Met President Frank Taplin and Executive Director Anthony Bliss announced plans to remedy that situation in a big way. By its 100th anniversary season in 1983-84, they said, the Met aims to raise its endowment to $100 million. Its nationwide campaign has already gathered $33 million in pledges, including a single gift of $5 million from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation...
DIED. Francis Robinson, 70, nationally known voice of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera as its press spokesman, radio and TV guide and all-round almanac of operatic history for three decades; of cancer; in New York City. Robinson, who joined the Met as tour manager in 1948, when the company did its traveling in two trains with 18 sleeping and 22 baggage cars, once confessed a desire to be onstage. But in his managerial role, he said, "I came as close as I could without singing, and I've probably lasted longer...
There was a more traditional celebration across Lincoln Center, at the Metropolitan Opera House, where the American Ballet Theater put on a 40th anniversary gala evening. A.B.T. does this sort of thing every five years or so for fun and fund raising, but this gathering had special meaning: it marked the 35th year that Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith have directed the troupe; in September Mikhail Baryshnikov will replace them...
...immediate White House problem turned out to be finding Muskie to ask him to take the job. The Senator was on his way to Nashville to deliver a speech to the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies. Eventually the President located him in Nashville on Sunday and asked him to become Secretary of State. "You really like to deal in blockbusters, Mr. President," said Muskie. Replied Carter: "You're my first choice, and the only one I've talked...