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...well as give them off. After signing up to play three performances for the Met's youthful rival, the New York City Opera, Bing explained how he was chosen for a nonsinging, nonspeaking role in a new production of Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord: "Julius Rudel [the director] called me and said, 'In the opera, there is an old lord who is elegant, arrogant and distinguished. I think you are just right for the part.' " Mused Bing: "The only other time, I appeared onstage were to announce in front of the curtain that...
...days. She is in the midst of performing a trilogy by Donizetti that began last season when she sang Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux, and will be rounded off next year when she sings Elizabeth's mother in Anna Bolena. The whole project, as City Opera Director Julius Rudel says, amounts to a sort of Elizabethan Ring...
Where this really shows up is in her ability to cope when things go wrong onstage. Last month, while singing under the baton of City Opera Director Julius Rudel, she inadvertently skipped a few bars and hit a high A too soon. "I held up my hand, and she knew immediately what the problem was," recalls Rudel. "So she held the note until I lowered my hand eight bars later. To make anything clear to her, a finger, an eyebrow, is enough...
From New York, Julius Rudel tried to coax Beverly back to work with chatty "Dear Bubbela" letters. Finally he wrote more formally, pointing out that she still had a contract. "I told her to go back," says Peter. "I said it would be good therapy." Reluctantly, Beverly complied. Muffy was making progress anyway, learning to lip-read and talk. Bucky, however, was a hopeless case. When he was six, Beverly made the excruciating decision to put him in the same institution in Massachusetts where Peter's retarded daughter was already lodged. On the same day, she sang all three heroines...
...Bigger Gamble. Although Rudel lacks the fame of such maestros as Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, he seems an ideal choice to head the Kennedy Center. Along with his high standards, he has always had a remarkable sense of what the public will accept, and his experience with the City Opera has taught him how to provide quality on limited budgets. "I have never found that purely financial limitations need to limit you artistically," he says. "Sometimes it is an advantage to have limited funds but unlimited imagination. At City Opera, we have long ago learned to turn every...