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THOMAS A. REINER Swarthmore...
...fast. Roberta had memorized the role and, at 5 ft. 2 in., was a neat fit in Conner's costume. After an afternoon of cramming sessions with Stage Director Herbert Graf, Assistant Manager Max Rudolf and some final tips just an hour before curtain time from Conductor Fritz Reiner, Roberta was waved onstage. She turned out to be just about the only bright light in an otherwise lusterless performance...
Conductor Reiner's tempos were fast enough, but even so, it was a Don done in slow motion. Roberta had to take her first note against a Don (Baritone Paul Schoeffler) singing off-key; she hit it on the nose. Acting with confidence and pinpointing her coloratura targets in a clear, clean little voice, Roberta managed to win the biggest hand of the evening...
...rebuilt production: Wagner's romantic The Flying Dutchman, which had not been staged at the Met in ten years. As he had for Verdi's Don Carlo, Bing went to Broadway for his designer, commissioned new sets sketched by Robert Edmond (The Iceman Cometh) Jones. Conductor Fritz Reiner polished cast and orchestra until they shone. If The Dutchman was less of a triumph than Don Carlo, it was mainly because Wagner had given the Met less of a grand opera to work with than Verdi...
...announcement from NBC stated simply that "the return of Arturo Toscanini to the podium . . . has been postponed by the maestro." A year ago he had slipped in his bathtub and hurt his knee; this season, said the announcement, there had been a recurrence of the ailment. Fritz Reiner would conduct the first three concerts, beginning this week, and Toscanini's plans for the new season would be announced "at a later date...