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...retire after opening night, and he left on a high note. At opera's end, the audience enthusiastically applauded Native Son Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang Don Giovanni brilliantly, but the wildest cheers of its 15-minute ovation were for Ebert. The following night new Director Gustav Rudolf Sellner was not so lucky. He bowed in with avant-garde Composer Giselher Klebe's new opera, Alkmene, an academic, humorless scoring of the ribald Amphitryon legend, in which that incorrigible old satyr Jupiter turns himself into Amphitryon's double to woo Amphitryon's handsome wife...
Last month, at the request of President Kennedy, Goldberg intervened in the complex, personality-ridden battle between the musicians and management of the Metropolitan Opera that had led General Manager Rudolf Bing to throw up his hands and cancel the 1961-62 season. Both sides agreed to go on with the season and leave their differences up to an arbitrator-but only if the arbitrator was Goldberg...
...Shadows. Overshadowed by its better known rival from Moscow, the Kirov itself had never made it across the Atlantic. Now, after a six-week success in Paris (where one dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, bolted from guards and won political asylum) and London, the Kirov is making its North American debut with a twelveweek, eight-city, cross-continent tour...
...moves during the weeks of dramatic wrangling were equally confused. In midsummer, its labor problems still unresolved, management's top men were pointedly out of town-autocratic General Manager Rudolf Bing in Europe and Opera Association President Anthony Bliss in Montana. And while Bing was in Italy, contemptuously dismissing Goldberg's offer to intervene (it would not help, he said, "a bit"), Bliss graciously accepted...
...both sides prepared their briefs for a mid-month meeting with Secretary Goldberg, it was clear that General Manager Rudolf Bing's image of authority had been weakened. But the Met had survived the crisis, had lost only one singer and the season would open on schedule on Oct. 23 with Leontyne Price in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. It was unlikely that either management or musicians, whatever the possible payoff, would ever walk so near the brink of a canceled season again...