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...Kirsten Flagstad at 55 felt that the strain of rehearsals and acting was just too much. After a London performance next fall of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, she plans to close out her 38-year operatic career to follow the life of the concert stage. Met Manager Rudolf Bing still hoped to change her mind...
...scholars. Twenty-six had been fired, 37 had resigned, 47 from other schools had declined invitations to teach or lecture. Among the 47: Harvard's Howard Mumford Jones, Minnesota's Robert Penn (All the King's Men) Warren, Chicago's Philosopher Rudolf Carnap...
...weeks before its opener last fall, the Metropolitan Opera found itself in a jam. Boris Christoff, the Bulgarian basso who was scheduled to sing King Philip in the opening-night Don Carlo, had been turned down for a visa. Met Manager Rudolf Bing had to gamble, and gamble fast. He staked his show on a 28-year-old singer named Cesare Siepi, who was almost unknown outside Italy. Handsome young Basso Siepi has turned out to be one of the best bets any opera manager ever made...
Last week, back she was, for the first time in 19 years, to sing Rosalinda in a benefit performance of Rudolf Bing's restyled Fledermaus. She first sang the role more than 30 years ago in Vienna. Tall, straight and blue-eyed as ever at 63, Maria gave the mid-century Met a course in the grand old style...
...overhaul job, General Manager Rudolf Bing had turned to the Met's own staff of directors and set designers. Staff Director Hans Busch planned to give "Cav," a turbulent little tragedy of Sicilian chivalry, a thoroughly realistic treatment. He slipped up on some details. Sample: when cuckolded Alfio challenged swaggering Seducer Turiddu, Alfio stood well back, out of all possible harm's way, looking considerably more foolish than furious. But despite such incongruities, and the fussy set and cluttered stage that offended Critic Downes, the singing (notably by Tenor Richard Tucker and Soprano Zinka Milanov) almost turned Cavalleria...